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OKAY.[1. Call Meeting to Order and Announce that a Quorum is Present.]
IT IS 6:03 PM ON APRIL, APRIL 20TH, 30TH.AND I'LL CALL TO ORDER THIS, UH, MEETING OF THE ADDISON CITY COUNCIL.
CALL TO ORDER THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION WITH A QUORUM.
AND WE DO HAVE A QUORUM PRESENT OF THE COUNCIL.
AND THEN WE HAVE DARREN GARDNER ONLINE.
AND, UM, AS ALWAYS, WE'D LIKE TO START A MEETING WITH THE PLEDGES TO BOTH OF OUR FLAGS.
PLEASE THESE WORDS, ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
HONOR THE FLAG, ONE INDIVIDUAL.
[3. Present and discuss the Administrative Procedures section and Districts & Uses section of the Unified Development Code (UDC).]
AGENDA ITEM TONIGHT.ITEM NUMBER THREE, PRESENT AND DISCUSS THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE SECTION AND DISTRICTS AND USES SECTION OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE UDC.
AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO CITY MANAGER DAVID GAINES.
I AM GOING TO INTRODUCE LESLIE, BUT I DO HAVE ONE ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE BEFORE I INTRODUCE LESLIE.
A FEW WEEKS AGO, LESLIE, UH, STEPPED INTO THE INTERIM ROLE WHEN WE HAD A VACANCY WITH OUR, UH, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, AND WE KNEW SHE WOULD DO A GREAT JOB.
AND SHE HAS FAR EXCEEDED, UM, EVERY EXPECTATION WE HAD OF HER.
AND WE, AS OF TODAY, LESLIE, IS STEPPING INTO THE PERMANENT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AS WELL.
WE KNOW LESLIE WILL DO AN OUTSTANDING JOB, AND WE HAVE FULL FAITH IN HER.
SO CONGRATULATIONS, LESLIE AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.
UH, LESLIE AND I, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
UM, SO JUST WANTED TO GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW, KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT, UM, WITH THIS PROCESS.
OBVIOUSLY, IT'S, UM, BEEN A LONG JOURNEY, BUT WE'RE NEARING THE FINISH LINE.
SO THIS EVENING, UH, WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT TWO OF THE FOUR PARTS, AND IT WAS, UH, METHODICALLY SPLIT INTO THESE FOUR PARTS.
AND WE WILL REVIEW, UM, PART OF, OR EXCUSE ME, ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES, WHICH IS PART FOUR.
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE REVISITING SOME OF PART ONE, WHICH IS THE ZONING DISTRICTS AND USES.
IT'S BEEN, UH, MANY YEARS SINCE WE LOOKED AT THAT.
SO JUST TOUCHING BACK ON THAT AND SEEING WHAT WE MAY NEED TO CHANGE OR, OR REEVALUATE.
SO AT THIS STAGE, THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK, AND WE'RE GONNA GIVE A PRESENTATION ON THOSE ITEMS. AND THEN, UH, MOVING FORWARD, WE ARE GOING TO WORK TO CONSOLIDATE ALL OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE RECEIVED.
SO DURING MEETINGS, UH, ONLINE THROUGH CONVEY O UM, FROM, UM, UH, LEGAL AND FROM STAFF.
AND WE'RE GONNA MOVE FORWARD INTO A CONSOLIDATED DRAFT OF ALL FOUR PARTS.
UM, AND SO THEN THAT WILL BE A, THERE WILL BE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU ALL TO REVIEW AND PROVIDE COMMENTS.
UM, AND THAT WILL BE LATER THIS SUMMER, EARLY FALL.
SO THERE WILL BE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO PROVIDE INPUT, BUT WE'RE TAKING INPUT AND STAGES.
WE'RE GONNA CONSOLIDATE EVERYTHING, AND WE'RE GONNA GET INPUT AGAIN.
UH, WE UNDERSTAND IT'S A LAR A LARGE AMOUNT OF CONTENT, SO THAT'S KIND OF WHY IT WAS, WAS SPLIT UP THAT WAY.
SO QUICKLY BEFORE I TURN IT OVER, THERE'S A COUPLE OF ITEMS AT YOUR, UM, YOUR SEATS.
SO YOU'LL HAVE THE AGENDA FOR TONIGHT, UH, THE COMMENTARY AND FROM THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT OCCURRED THIS AFTERNOON.
SO YOU'LL HAVE A, A SUMMARY OF THAT AT YOUR TABLE AS WELL.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO A, UM, THE SUMMARY OF REVIEW PROCEDURES, CURRENT AND PROPOSED.
AND THIS SHOWS KIND OF A, THE SUMMARIZED TABLE OF ALL OF OUR REVIEW PROCEDURES THAT ARE PROPOSED WITHIN THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE.
AND THE GREEN ITEMS ARE NEW OR CLARIFIED PROCESSES.
AND THEN THE RED ITEMS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED ARE THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN EITHER REMOVED OR MODIFIED, AND THEN THE GREEN CORRESPONDS TELLS YOU WHAT THOSE CHANGES WERE.
SO YOU'LL SEE THROUGHOUT THE DIFFERENT PROCESSES THAT ARE IDENTIFIED, THERE HASN'T BEEN A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF CHANGES.
IT'S JUST BEEN A LOT OF CLARIFICATION OF WHAT OUR CURRENT PROCESSES ARE, BECAUSE A LOT OF THEM ARE NOT CURRENTLY
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CODIFIED.SO, UM, JUST WANTED TO GIVE THAT BRIEF OVERVIEW BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO, UM, OUR CONSULTANT TEAM, UM, CLARION AND ASSOCIATES.
ALRIGHT, WELCOME, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS AND COMMISSION MEMBERS.
AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR ATTENTION TO THE PROJECT, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ADDISON.
UM, AS LESLIE MENTIONED, CONGRATULATIONS, LESLIE, BY THE WAY.
UM, WE ARE GONNA GO THROUGH A LOT OF MATERIAL TONIGHT, SO WE'RE GONNA WALK THROUGH QUICKLY.
UH, AND PLEASE AS ALWAYS, JUST LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
BUT, UM, WE'RE GONNA TRY TO GET THROUGH EACH BUNDLE OF MATERIAL FIRST AND THEN STOP AT SOME REGULAR INTERVALS FOR QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION, UH, WHERE WE THINK IT MAKES THE MOST SENSE.
I WONDER IF THE, UH, USING THE MOUSE, UH, WAS AN ISSUE.
YEAH, WE ADDED THE MOUSE SO THAT WE COULD USE A CLICKER.
UM, AS A REMINDER, UH, MY NAME IS MATT GOBEL.
I'M WITH CL AND ASSOCIATES, THE LAND USE CONSULTING FIRM, WORKING WITH YOU ALL HERE WITH MY COLLEAGUE GABBY HART.
AND ONE IMPORTANT MEMBER OF THE TEAM WHO'S NOT HERE IS JIM DOUGHERTY.
HE'S A, A TEXAS STATE LAND USE ATTORNEY.
SO, JUST REST ASSURED THAT AS WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON A LOT OF THINGS LIKE THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES THAT ARE HEAVILY IMPACTED BY CHANGES TO STATE LAW, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT JIM'S PERSPECTIVE TO HELP US, UH, WITH THAT, UH, PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.
UH, I'M NOT SURE IF I'M DOING THAT, OR, UH, I'LL JUST KEEP TALKING.
THIS IS SUMMARIZING SOME OF WHAT YOU JUST HEARD FROM LESLIE.
UM, AS A REMINDER, YOU KNOW, WE STARTED BACK IN 2018.
THE PROJECT HAS BEEN, UH, UH, MOVING FORWARD AT A, A SLOW PACE SOMETIMES AND A FAST PACED AT OTHER TIMES.
NOW WE'RE, WE REALLY HAVE REESTABLISHED MOMENTUM, AND WE'RE GONNA BE FOCUSING ON COLUMN THREE THERE, WHICH IS THE ROLLING OUT OF THE DRAFT OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE.
Y'ALL HAVE SEEN US HERE BEFORE WITH PARTS OF THIS.
WE STARTED BACK IN 2019 WITH THE ZONING DISTRICTS AND LAND USES.
WE CAME BACK WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS, THINGS LIKE PARKING AND LANDSCAPING.
THEN WE ROLLED OUT SIGNS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FACILITIES.
AND THEN AT OUR LAST MEETING WITH YOU, WE STARTED TO TALK ABOUT ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES.
AND WE GOT THROUGH JUST A FEW SLIDES OF THAT.
AND SO TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA FINISH THAT PRESENTATION ON ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES.
THAT'S, THAT'S PART ONE OF, OF OUR DISCUSSION.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA ROLL BACK INTO ALL THE WAY BACK TO 2019, ALL THE WAY BACK TO PART ONE WITH THE ZONING DISTRICTS AND LAND USES, TALKING WITH THE STAFF.
IT'S JUST BEEN A WHILE, AND WE WANTED TO GET THOSE IDEAS BACK IN FRONT OF YOU SO THAT YOU HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT ON THOSE ISSUES.
AS YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR FINAL COMMENTS BEFORE WE PREPARE THE CONSOLIDATED DRAFT, YOU'VE ALSO NOW GOT THE BENEFIT, MANY OF YOU, OF WORKING ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE OF SEEING HOW THOSE IDEAS ARE STARTING TO EVOLVE.
THE STAFF HAS MADE SOME EDITS TO THE DISTRICTS AND USES TO HELP ENSURE CONSISTENCY BETWEEN THOSE TWO DOCUMENTS AS THEY MOVE FORWARD.
AND, AND THAT'S PART OF THE, THE THINKING ABOUT BRINGING THAT BACK IN FRONT OF YOU AS WELL.
SO THAT'S THE SECOND HALF OF OUR MEETING IS GOING BACK OVER DISTRICTS AND USES.
UM, AFTER THIS MEETING, WE'RE GONNA PUT THESE BACK UP ONLINE FOR YOU TO COMMENT AGAIN ON CONVEO.
UH, WE HAVE BEEN CAPTURING ALL YOUR COMMENTS, EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE GOT.
WE'VE, WE'VE GOT HUNDREDS OF COMMENTS FROM, FROM THE COUNCIL, FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS, FROM OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
THOSE ARE ALL GOING TO BE REFLECTED, UH, THROUGH EDITS IN THE CONSOLIDATED DRAFT THAT IS GONNA COME BACK DURING THE SUMMER.
WE DON'T HAVE AN EXACT DATE FOR THAT YET.
WE THINK IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE, UH, SOMETIME IN THE AUGUST, MAYBE EARLY SEPTEMBER TIMEFRAME.
WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE INTERIM STEPS THERE, BUT, UM, UH, THOSE ARE GONNA BE COMING OUT FOR YOU WHEN WE PUT THE DISTRICT'S PIECE UP ONLINE.
AND ALSO THE, THE, UH, PROCEDURES PIECE WE'RE GONNA ADD BACK IN ALL THE COMMENTS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN ALREADY.
SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GO BACK AND SEE THE COMMENTS THAT YOU'VE MADE ALREADY, IF YOU WANT TO ADD TO THOSE OR CHANGE THOSE AND ALSO ADD NEW COMMENTS.
AND SO IT, IT'S GONNA TAKE US A FEW DAYS TO GET THOSE OLD COMMENTS BACK IN, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S THE PLAN.
THE COMMENTS THAT WE'VE HAD DURING THESE OPEN DIALOGUE, ARE YOU COVERING ALL THOSE OR ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE THEN GOING AND INPUTTING THOSE AS WELL? UM, I HAVE CONSOLIDATED EVERY COMMENT THAT'S BEEN REFLECTED IN ANY MEETING, UM, RELATED TO THIS.
SO THOSE WILL BE ADDED TO CONVEO, SO YOU CAN SEE THEM WITH THE RED LINE DRAFT.
UM, THE CONSOLIDATED DRAFT WILL BE, AGAIN, SUBJECT FOR, FOR MEETINGS LIKE THIS.
WE'LL COME BACK OUT, WE'LL DO PRESENTATIONS AND WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL GIVE YOU A TRACK CHANGE VERSION AT THAT POINT.
SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S CHANGED IN RED LINE FORM FROM EARLIER DRAFTS.
UM, DO ROUND OF MEETINGS, AGAIN, THERE'S GONNA BEO TO COMMENT ON THAT.
THEN WE'LL TURN AROUND A FINAL VERSION, WHICH HOPE HOPEFULLY WILL BE THE ADOPTION DRAFT TO GO INTO ADOPTION
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HEARINGS.THERE STILL WILL BE CHANGES TO THAT, BUT IT'S HOPEFULLY GONNA BE A, A CLOSE TO FINAL DOCUMENT, UH, THAT CAN GO INTO THE, THE HEARING PROCESS, UH, LATER IN THE YEAR.
UH, THE GOAL IS STILL TO HAVE ADOPTION BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
SO THAT IS, THAT'S STILL, UH, THE, THE, THE CITY'S GOAL.
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THIS PROCESS? I, I KNOW WE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE ASK US TO COVER THIS IN SOME MORE DETAIL.
SO ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD? OKAY, KEEP GOING.
YEAH, THIS DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE.
SO, DID I DO THAT OR DID YOU DO THAT? YOU OKAY, THANKS.
UM, SO AGAIN, I'VE, I'VE SAID THIS, BUT WHAT WE'RE GONNA COVER IS THE THOSE, UH, UH, LET'S JUST MOVE ON.
SO THE ARTICLES OF THE OVERALL UDC ARE SUMMARIZED ON THIS SLIDE.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THERE, WE'RE GONNA BE COVERING THE BLUE, UH, MARKED ARTICLES, THE ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES, ZONING AND USES.
UM, THE OVERALL ORGANIZATION OF THE ADMINISTRATION ARTICLE IS SUMMARIZED HERE.
AND JUST A SIMPLE, YOU KNOW, UH, GENERAL COMMENT ABOUT HOW IT'S PUT TOGETHER IS THAT WE START OFF WITH THE PURPOSE OF THE ARTICLE.
YOU KNOW, WHY DOES ADDISON NEED TO HAVE PROCEDURES FOR REVIEWING LAND USE DECISIONS? HOW IS THE ARTICLE ORGANIZED? THERE'S A SUMMARY TABLE THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT.
WE INTRODUCED THAT TO YOU LAST TIME.
AND THEN THERE'S THESE COMMON REVIEW PROCEDURES THAT PROVIDE A FOUNDATION FOR EVERYTHING IN THE, IN THE DOCUMENT.
WE DRAFTED THOSE TO HELP MINIMIZE REPETITION.
RIGHT NOW, Y'ALL HAVE COMMON PROCEDURES THAT ARE COVERED IN 15 PLUS PLACES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF YOUR ORDINANCES, AND THEY'RE WRITTEN WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SPECIFICITY.
SOMETIMES THEY'RE DIFFERENTLY DESCRIBED.
AND SO THIS IS A TOOL TO ELIMINATE REPETITION AND ENSURE CONSISTENCY.
AND THEN WHEN WE GET INTO SECTIONS FIVE THROUGH 10, THOSE ARE ALL GOING TO BUILD ON THE COMMON PROCEDURES.
AND SO, WE'LL, WE'LL SHOW YOU HOW THAT'S DONE, BUT THEY'RE ALL BUILDING ON THE COMMON REVIEW PROCEDURES FRAMEWORK ESTABLISHED IN FOUR.
LOOKING BACK, THIS IS THE ASSESSMENT REPORT FROM WAY BACK IN 2019.
REMEMBER, WE TALKED WITH COUNCIL AT THE TIME, WE TALKED WITH COMMISSION AT THE TIME.
UM, WE TALKED WITH A LOT OF STAKEHOLDERS ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE NEEDED TO THE ORDINANCES.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE KEY THEMES THAT CAME OUT OF THAT DOCUMENT RELATED TO ADMINISTRATION.
ONE WAS DELEGATE MORE DECISION POWER TO STAFF, WHERE APPROPRIATE.
UM, MANY COMMUNITIES IN TEXAS AND AROUND THE COUNTRY TRY TO IDENTIFY MAJOR PROCEDURES VERSUS, UH, MORE MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD MINOR PROCEDURES.
AND THEY GIVE THE SMALL STUFF TO STAFF SO THAT THE P AND Z AND THE COUNCIL CAN FOCUS ON BIGGER, UH, PROJECTS WITH BIGGER COMMUNITY IMPACTS.
SO WE'VE MADE A FEW TARGETED EDITS IN THAT DIRECTION.
NOT A LOT, UM, BUT WE CAN WE'LL IDENTIFY SPECIFICALLY WHERE THAT'S BEEN DONE.
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMON REVIEW PROCEDURES, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT, WAS ONE OF THE BIG GOALS HERE.
UH, THAT'S SOMETHING REALLY MISSING IN YOUR CURRENT ORDINANCES.
CODIFY AND UPDATE SITE PLAN REVIEW.
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE ADDISON IS DOING SITE PLAN REVIEW.
Y'ALL ARE REQUIRING SITE PLANS FOR A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS, BUT IT'S NOT CODIFIED.
THERE'S NOT A CLEAR PROCESS IN THE CODE.
YOU HAVE SEPARATE HANDOUTS THAT ARE ON THE WEBSITE, AND YOU'RE, YOU'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO SUBMIT SITE PLANS, BUT THAT PROCESS IS NOT CODIFIED.
AND SO THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO JUST, UH, MEMORIALIZE, UH, GOOD PRACTICE THAT'S ALREADY DEVELOPED INTERNALLY.
ESTABLISH A PROCESS TO ALLOW MINOR MODIFICATIONS, YOU KNOW, FOR A SMALL PROJECT, UH, UH, MAYBE A PROJECT THAT NEEDS TO HAVE A, A, A DECREASE IN PARKING SPACES OF ONE OR TWO OUT OF 50.
UM, A LOT OF COMMUNITIES ESTABLISH A PROCESS TO ALLOW THAT TYPE OF MINOR MODIFICATION TO A NUMERIC STANDARD, AND WE'VE ADDED THAT IN THIS DRAFT.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE BIG GOALS, JUST TO REMIND YOU OF WHAT OUR MARCHING ORDERS WERE.
UM, THIS IS WHERE WE GOT TO LAST TIME IN OUR MEETING WITH YOU ALL LAST TIME.
AND, UH, WE HAD A COUPLE OF PAGES OF THIS, AND WE SHOWED YOU HOW THE TABLE WAS ORGANIZED TO, UH, UH, HAVE CATEGORIES OF TOPICS.
AND SO WE'VE GOT A CATEGORY HERE OF THE BIG POLICY CHANGES, REZONINGS ZONING, TEXT AMENDMENTS, UH, CONFERENCE AND PLAN AMENDMENTS.
AND THAT INCLUDES THINGS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, MAJOR POLICY DECISIONS, UH, BY THE COUNCIL, UH, WITH RECOMMENDATION BY THE COMMISSION, SPECIAL USE PERMITS, REZONINGS, ET CETERA.
UH, SITE PLANNING AND MISCELLANEOUS PERMITS, ET CETERA.
AND SO, UH, WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION AND, AND Y'ALL SAID, HEY, IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE REALLY HELPFUL TO GET A, A, A VERSION OF THIS TABLE THAT SHOWS OUR CURRENT PROCEDURES THAT WE CAN COMPARE TO THIS NEW ONE.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT LESLIE INDICATED THAT YOU HAVE ON YOUR TABLE.
YOU'VE GOT A, UM, YOU'VE GOT A, A MARKED UP VERSION OF THE TABLE THAT USES GREEN FONT AND RED FONT TO SHOW WHERE THERE'S CHANGES FROM THE CURRENT PROCEDURES.
AND SO, JUST, JUST TO LOOK AT THAT WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT.
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UH, TEMPORARY USE PERMIT DOWN THERE, MIDWAY DOWN THE PAGE THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED.UH, THERE'S A, THERE WAS A DECISION BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON TEMPORARY USE PERMITS.
UH, BUT THAT'S PROPOSED TO BE A STAFF DECISION WITH THAT GREEN D THERE WITH APPEAL TO THE BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THE FEW EXAMPLES WHERE WE WERE PROPOSING A CHANGE FROM, UH, TO INCREASE MORE STAFF AUTHORITY.
AND THAT'S PRETTY CONSISTENT WITH PLANNING PRACTICE AROUND THE STATE IS, IS YOU HAVE CRITERIA FOR TEMPORARY USE PERMITS, AND YOU LET YOUR PLANNING STAFF MAKE THAT DECISION.
BUT THAT'S HOW THIS TABLE IS FORMATTED.
JUST LOOK FOR THE GREEN FONT AND THE RED FONT, AND YOU'LL SEE ON BOTH SIDES, THERE'S, THERE'S NOT A LOT.
UM, SO IT'S REALLY, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT A LOT OF CHANGES.
UH, BUT WE WANTED YOU TO HAVE THAT, THAT CLEAR RECORD.
UM, THE TABLE IS MEANT TO BE ONE-STOP SHOP TO SHOW YOU WHERE, UH, AT A GLANCE, YOU KNOW, WHICH, WHICH APPLICATIONS REQUIRE A PRE-APPLICATION CONFERENCE, UH, WHICH WHO THE DECISION MAKERS ARE ON, ON DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS.
SO THAT MEANS STAFF MAKES A RECOMMENDATION ON A SPECIAL USE PERMIT.
UM, THE, UH, THE, UH, PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION IS R UH, AND THEY'VE GOT A, THEY'VE GOT AN ASTERISK, WHICH MEANS A PUBLIC HEARING IS REQUIRED FOR THAT REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION.
AND THEN THE CITY COUNCIL MAKES THE DECISION THERE, WHICH IS A D WITH AN ASTERISK.
SO THAT REQUIRES A PUBLIC HEARING AS WELL.
SO WE'RE GONNA WALK THROUGH A LOT OF THE MORE SIGNIFICANT PROCEDURES IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, UH, TO, TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE MAIN ISSUES HERE.
SO THE, THE TABLE IS ONE IMPORTANT FOUNDATION DEVICE HERE.
THE OTHER IMPORTANT FOUNDATION DEVICE IS THESE COMMON PROCEDURES.
AND THIS IS WHERE WE STOPPED LAST TIME.
UM, WE ESTABLISHED A SET OF SIX GENERAL CATEGORIES OF ACTIVITY THAT APPLY ACROSS THE BOARD TO MOST TYPES OF, OF, OF, UH, DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS IN ADDISON.
AND THESE ARE COMMON TO MOST, BUT NOT ALL.
AND SO WHAT WE DO IN THESE TABLES IS WE, WE, UH, WE CALL OUT, UH, WHERE THEY'RE APPLICABLE OR NOT AND, AND, AND IF THERE'S ANY MODIFICATIONS.
AND SO, UH, PRE-APPLICATION ACTIVITIES, IS THERE A PRE-APPLICATION CONFERENCE? UH, THAT'S ALL DESCRIBED HOW THAT WOULD HAPPEN.
AND, AND WE'VE GOT SOME CHANGES TO THE PRE-SUBMIT CONFERENCE THAT ARE PROPOSED.
AND SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE USING A NEW NAME PRE-APPLICATION, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING.
THAT IS PROPOSED TO BE OPTIONAL FOR BIGGER PROJECTS TO GET INPUT FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO THAT'S EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS BEFORE THE APPLICATION OVER ON THE LEFT.
THEN WE MOVE INTO THE ACTUAL APPLICATION SUBMITTAL AND PROCESSING.
THIS IS THE MATERIAL THAT COVERS, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS A COMPLETE APPLICATION.
AND THIS IS WHERE WE SAY THAT THE, THE CITY SHALL NOT PROCESS AN APPLICATION THAT'S INCOMPLETE.
AND THIS IS WHERE THE APPLICANT IS GIVEN A TIMEFRAME WITH, UH, WITHIN WHICH THEY CAN CURE AN INCOMPLETE APPLICATION.
ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF IS HERE.
THEN WE MOVE INTO STAFF REVIEW.
SO STAFF HAS A, A RESPONSIBILITY NOW TO, UH, TO ANALYZE THE APPLICATION AND TO COMPARE IT AGAINST THE APPLICABLE CRITERIA AND STANDARDS IN THE CODE.
UH, AND THEN WE HAVE A SECTION THAT TALKS ABOUT SCHEDULING OF NOTICE AND PUBLIC HEARINGS.
SO IF IT'S NOT A STAFF DECISION, IT'S GONNA COME UP TO EITHER P AND Z AND OR COUNCIL.
AND SO HERE WE'RE GONNA HAVE PUBLIC HEARINGS AND, AND ALL THOSE MO NOTICE, UH, REQUIREMENTS ARE HERE AND THE, THE, THE, THE GENERAL OUTLINE OF HOW PUBLIC HEARINGS SHALL BE HELD.
THEN WE HAVE REVIEW AND DECISION, YOU KNOW, HOW, WHAT'S THE FORM OF THE DECISION, YOU KNOW, SHALL IT BE IN WRITING, ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA, UH, GENERALLY.
AND THEN FINALLY, THERE'S A SECTION ON POST-DECISION ACTIONS AND LIMITATIONS.
SO AFTER Y'ALL SAY YES OR NO, THERE MIGHT BE SOME, UH, THINGS THAT, THAT STILL HAPPEN.
LIKE AN APPLICATION COULD EXPIRE IF CERTAIN ACTIVITY MIGHT NOT HAPPEN, OR, OR MAYBE YOU, THE APPLICANT MIGHT REQUEST AN EXTENSION OF AN APPROVAL.
UM, SO THAT'S WHERE ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF IS IN THIS FINAL COLUMN.
SO THAT'S THE WAY THIS IS ORGANIZED.
UM, AGAIN, IT'S, IT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT, BUT SAYING IT ONE TIME MEANS YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY IT 15 TIMES, AND IT MEANS YOU CAN SAY IT RIGHT IN THE FIRST WAY.
SO THIS IS REALLY JUST GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, UH, FOR EVERYBODY IN THE CITY.
UM, THESE ARE THE COMMON PROCEDURES.
AGAIN, JUST TO SUMMARIZE WHAT THEY ARE, UH, I'M GONNA JUST HIT SOME OF THE HIGH POINTS ON THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES.
THIS IS A NEW ONE THAT WE WANTED TO CALL TO Y'ALL'S ATTENTION.
UM, BACK WHEN WE DID THE STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS, PEOPLE SAID SOMETIMES THE BIG PROJECTS CAME THROUGH AND THEY JUST KIND OF FELT BLINDSIDED AND THEY FELT LIKE THEY DIDN'T HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT THE, THE DEVELOPER WAS PROPOSING.
YOU KNOW, WHAT THE SCALE OF ACTIVITY WAS THAT MIGHT COME IN NEXT DOOR.
AND SO ONE THING THAT MANY COMMUNITIES HAVE ADOPTED IS THIS NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING, UM, THAT SAYS, BEFORE YOU SUBMIT AN APPLICATION, YOU DEVELOPER SHALL SEND OUT NOTICE TO THE AFFECTED PEOPLE IN THE SURROUNDED AREA AND TELL 'EM GENERALLY WHAT YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THE SCALE OF THE DEVELOPMENT.
YOU KNOW, WHAT'S, WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING, A A BIG BOX RETAIL, YOU'RE PROPOSING SOME SMALL MIXED USE.
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AND THEN GET THEIR FEEDBACK.AND THE INTENT IS THAT THEY'RE THEN GONNA REFINE THEIR APPLICATION AND MAKE IT BETTER, YOU KNOW, BEFORE IT ACTUALLY GETS SUBMITTED AS AN APPLICATION.
SO THE WAY THIS IS DRAFTED IS THAT IT'S RECOMMENDED, IT'S NOT MANDATORY.
IT'S RECOMMENDED FOR ANY APPLICATION SUBJECT TO DISCRETIONARY REVIEW BY THE P AND Z.
AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE EVERYTHING GOING TO COUNCIL.
UM, THERE ALSO IS A PROVISION THAT THE DIRECTOR CAN REQUIRE THE MEETING IF IN THEIR DISCRETION THEY THINK THE PROJECT IS COMPLEX ENOUGH THAT IT REALLY NEEDS TO HAVE THIS LEVEL OF, OF, OF OUTREACH.
THE APPLICANT DOES THE WORK HERE, THE APPLICANT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHEDULING, NOTICING, AND FACILITATING THE MEETING.
UM, ATTENDANCE BY STAFF IS OPTIONAL.
YOU, YOU DON'T WANT THESE TO, TO TURN INTO DEFACTO TOWN RUN EVENTS.
YOU WANT THESE TO BE APPLICANT RUN EVENTS.
YOU DON'T WANT THE THE STAFF TO BE ON THE HOOK FOR HAVING TO BE ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON THE FLY AND POTENTIALLY COMMITTING, UH, OR, OR MAKING SOME REPRESENTATION OF SUPPORT OR LACK OF SUPPORT BY THE, BY THE CITY.
SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S THE WAY THAT REASONS, THAT'S, THAT'S DRAFTED.
THAT WAY THE APPLICANT HAS TO SUBMIT A SUMMARY OF THE MEETING AFTER THEY'VE HAD IT, UH, AS PART OF THE APPLICATION WHEN IT'S SUBMITTED.
SO I HAD THE MEETING, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT CAME, THESE ARE THE COMMENTS THAT WE GOT.
THIS IS HOW I'VE REVISED THE APPLICATION TO RESPOND TO THIS FEEDBACK.
UH, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS WITH THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AT OUR LAST MEETING, GOT GENERALLY GOOD, UH, SUPPORT FOR THE CONCEPT.
ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT THEY MADE THOUGH, WAS THAT MAYBE WE THINK OF A DIFFERENT NAME FOR THIS TOOL.
'CAUSE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPLIES IT'S ALL RESIDENTIAL AND IT'S NOT.
AND ADDISON ALWAYS GONNA BE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY OWNERS THAT ARE IMMEDIATELY AFFECTED.
AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S ONE THING ON, ON OUR, ON OUR, UH, TO-DO LIST, IS TO MAYBE THINK ABOUT ALTERNATIVE NAMES FOR THIS PROCESS.
CAN I ASK A QUICK QUESTION ON OUR CHART HERE? MM-HMM.
AND, AND WHAT I'M SEEING IS, UH, GREEN TEXTS OPTIONAL.
AND I'M, I'M MISSING THE PART WHERE, WHERE IT'S OPTIONAL UNTIL IT'S REQUIRED
IT'S YOUR, IT'S IN THE, I DON'T HAVE MY DRAFT, BUT, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
IT'S IN THE NARRATIVE THAT DESCRIBES THE, UH, PRE-APPLICATION ACTIVITIES, WHICH IS ON PAGE 22, UH, 2, 4 2.
WE'VE GOT IT COVERED, BUT IT, I MAY NOT, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT IN THE, THE TABLE SHORTHAND.
YEAH, BUT IT'S IN THE MAIN BODY.
UH, ANOTHER THING TO CALL OUT IN THE NOTE IN THE COMMON PROCEDURES IS NOTICE, UM, WE HAVE SUMMARIZED AND TRIED TO CLARIFY ALL THE DIFFERENT NOTICE REQUIREMENTS, UH, FOR THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF APPLICATIONS.
UH, AGAIN, THIS IS JUST MORE CLARITY FOR THE PUBLIC, MORE CLARITY FOR STAFF ABOUT WHEN, UH, YOU HAVE TO PUBLISH NOTICE IN A NEWSPAPER OR YOU HAVE TO, TO MAIL NOTICE, UM, WHERE YOU HAVE TO POST NOTICE THROUGH SIGNS ON THE PROPERTY.
UM, UH, I'M NOT GONNA WALK THROUGH ALL THESE JUST, YOU KNOW, AS AN EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, FOR SPECIAL USE PERMIT, YOU ARE GONNA HAVE TO DO PUBLISHED NOTICE IN A NEWSPAPER.
YOU ARE GONNA HAVE TO DO, UH, MAILED NOTICE, YOU WILL HAVE TO DO POSTED NOTICE, ET CETERA.
UM, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF, THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A SECTION WHERE THERE WAS JUST A LOT OF CLEANUP, UH, TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH CURRENT STATE LAW AND, AND ALSO WHAT THE CITY'S PRACTICES HAD EVOLVED TO INCLUDE.
UM, THIS, A LOT OF TEXT ON THIS SLIDE, BUT IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE.
THIS IS THIS NEW POST-DECISION ACTIONS SECTION THAT WE ADDED.
UH, Y'ALL DON'T HAVE ANYTHING REALLY COVERING THESE ISSUES IN YOUR CURRENT ORDINANCE.
SO SOME OF THE KEY THINGS THAT WE ADDED, JUST AS A MATTER OF GOOD PRACTICE, A NOTICE OF THE DECISION ON THE APPLICATION SHALL BE PROVIDED WITHIN 10 DAYS, UH, WHEN AN APPROVAL EXPIRES, IF IT CAN BE EXTENDED, THAT'S, THAT'S COVERED HERE.
AND, AND, AND THE, THE ABILITY FOR APPROVALS TO BE REVOKED, UH, WHEN NECESSARY.
THIS SECTION ALSO COVERS THE ABILITY FOR THE DIRECTOR TO APPROVE MINOR CHANGES TO APPROVED PLANS.
SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES OUT IN THE FIELD YOU MIGHT DISCOVER SOME PHYSICAL ISSUES ABOUT A SITE, UH, THAT MIGHT REQUIRE SOME, SOME MINOR, UH, CHANGES TO HOW THE, THE SITE PLAN WAS TECHNICALLY APPROVED AND THAT, YOU KNOW, CHANGES NECESSARY.
AND IN LIGHT OF TECHNICAL OR ENGINEERING CONSIDERATIONS, MINOR DEVIATIONS IN BUILDING FOOTPRINT, THESE ARE JUST THINGS THAT, THAT CODES COMMONLY ALLOW STAFF TO APPROVE, UH, OUT IN THE FIELD AFTER APPROVALS.
UH, AND BY PUTTING THEM IN WRITING UPFRONT, YOU MINIMIZE THE NEED FOR POTENTIAL WAIVERS OR VARIANCES.
UM, THE LAST, UH, YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S MY LAST SLIDE.
NOW LEMME WALK THROUGH SOME OF THE PARTICULAR PROCEDURES THAT THAT BUILD ON THE COMMON.
SIR, COULD YOU GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SLIDE ON THE, UH, THE NEW POST DECISIONS ACTIONS? UH, YES.
SO COULD YOU TALK ABOUT THIS, THAT SECOND BULLET ABOUT
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THE, UH, DEVELOPMENT WHEN DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS EXPIRE? AND THAT'S, THAT'S A NEW, IT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING NEW THAT WE'RE DOING.IS THAT RIGHT? COULD YOU, COULD YOU SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT? CAN I EXPLAIN THAT? SURE.
AND I'M, I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER A PARTICULAR EXAMPLE, BUT IT, UM, NOT EVERYTHING IN THE CODE IS GOING TO APPLY, IS GOING TO EXPIRE BY A CERTAIN DATE, BUT SOME OF THEM DO HAVE TIME LIMITS.
LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU HAVE A PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL, YOU'VE GOTTA GET YOUR FINAL PLAT APPROVED WITHIN TWO YEARS WHERE THAT PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL EXPIRES.
AND SO THAT'S BASICALLY THIS PART OF THE COMMON PROCEDURES IS JUST SETTING UP THAT, THAT GENERAL AUTHORITY FOR THINGS TO EXPIRE.
UH, IF, IF THEY'RE NOT, IF IT'S, IF THE CODE DOESN'T STATE OTHERWISE, UM, AND THEN SOMETIMES THAT EXPIRATION DATE CAN BE EXTENDED AND THAT'S INCLUDED THERE AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN WOULD THERE, AND WE DO, WE DO WE HAVE THOSE IN PLACE NOW? UH, YOU HAVE SOME AND I MIGHT, YOU GUYS CAN, UH, SO WE CURRENTLY HAVE SOME EXPIRATION DATES THAT WE HAVE.
THEY'RE NOT CODIFIED, HOWEVER, IT, UH, SOME OF THEM ARE NOT CODIFIED, HOWEVER, IT'S OUR COMMON PRACTICE.
SO, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, A COMMON ONE IS CIVIL ENGINEERING PLANS.
UH, THEY AS LONG, IF THERE IS NO ACTIVITY WITHIN TWO YEARS, THOSE EXPIRE AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO REAPPLY.
THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE AN EXTENSION GRANTED, AND THAT WOULD COME FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS AND ENGINEERING.
UM, BUT, AND, AND THE SAME, UH, APPLIES WITH A SITE PLAN.
SO, AND, AND THOSE THINGS EXIST BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT A PROJECT, UM, FOR WHATEVER REASON TO REMAIN DORMANT AND THEN TRY TO COME BACK AND DEVELOP FIVE YEARS LATER.
AND THERE'S A POSSIBILITY THAT OUR STANDARD DETAILS HAVE CHANGED.
UH, LANDSCAPING RE REGULATION, THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT IS WITH, IT WAS DEVELOPED UNDER CURRENT PRACTICES AND REGULATIONS.
UM, SIMILAR, UM, REGULATIONS APPLY IN, ARE CURRENTLY ADOPTED WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL CODES, AND THOSE WOULD APPLY TO THINGS LIKE BUILDING PERMITS AND, AND FIRE PERMITS.
SO, SO I GUESS IF SOMEBODY GOT A PROJECT APPROVED BY PNZ AND THEN BY COUNCIL, AND THEN THEY DECIDE, WELL, THE MARKET'S NOT RIGHT NOW TO DO IT, SO I'M GONNA WAIT THREE OR FOUR YEARS.
THEY JUST LET A LANGUISH OUT THERE.
THEY CAN'T JUST START FROM THAT POINT.
THEY HAVE TO COME BACK, GO THROUGH THE PROCESS, RIGHT? THAT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE.
SO THE, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT PLAN DEVELOPMENTS, AND THE WAY THAT THAT'S PROPOSED IS IT'S A TWO STEP PROCESS, AND YOU HAVE TO GET A PRELIMINARY PD APPROVAL FIRST, THEN YOU HAVE TO GO IN AND GET YOUR FINAL PD APPROVAL, AND THERE'S A TIME LIMIT ON THAT PRELIMINARY PD, AND IT'S TWO YEARS.
AND IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR, IF YOU DON'T MOVE INTO YOUR, YOUR FINAL APPROVAL WITHIN THAT, THAT PRELIMINARY IS GONNA EXPIRE.
AND THE THINKING IS THAT THE MARKET'S CHANGED.
AND, AND YOU, YOU ALL, YOU KNOW, PDS ARE NEGOTIATIONS AND YOU MADE A TIME SPECIFIC, UH, YOU KNOW, AGREEMENT, UH, FOR A CERTAIN TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT.
AND IF THEY DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT WITHIN X PERIOD, THEN YOU WANT THE CHANCE TO REVISIT THAT.
I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION ON, UM, LET'S SEE.
THE SAME AREA, THE MINOR DEVIATIONS IN BUILDING FOOTPRINT.
UM, SO I UNDERSTAND BUILDING FOOTPRINT, BUT WE LIKE, HAVE SOME EXAMPLES OF WHERE, WHAT WOULD BE MINOR VERSUS MAJOR.
I MEAN, HOW DO YOU, HOW, HOW DO YOU, UM, DEFINE THAT CHANGE? LEMME GET THAT.
UH, IT'S ON PAGE 35 OF THE DRAFT.
IT'S IN 2 4 7 E UH, MINOR CHANGES MAY INCLUDE MINOR DEVIATIONS IN THE BUILDING FOOTPRINT OR RELOCATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE, ROADS AND WATER OR SEWAGE LINES.
SO LONG AS THE RELOCATION COMPLIES WITH THE CONDITIONS OF ANY APPROVAL.
AND THIS UDC, SO THEY STILL WOULD HAVE TO MEET THE SETBACKS THAT APPLY.
THEY STILL WOULD HAVE TO MEET ANY CONDITIONS, BUT MAYBE THEY'RE MOVING A BUILDING BY SIX INCHES OR A FOOT.
BUT IT'S, IT'S STILL WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF WHAT THE UDC WOULD ALLOW.
TRY TO NOT THROW MY MOUSE ANYWHERE.
GOT A QUICK QUESTION ON THE, ON THE FINAL APPROVAL FOR LIKE A PD, I KNOW YOU SAID THERE'S GONNA BE SOME TIME LIMITS ON PRELIMINARY BETWEEN PRELIMINARY AND FINAL.
WILL THERE ALSO BE LIMITS ON THE FINAL? UM, I, I HAVE TO LOOK THAT UP JUST TO CONFIRM THIS DRAFT.
UM, IT'S, IF A BUILDING APPROVAL HAS NOT BEEN OBTAINED WITHIN TWO YEARS FOLLOWING APPROVAL OF THE FINAL PD, THE FINAL PD SHALL, SO IT'S ANOTHER TWO YEAR EXTENSION.
UH, BUT YOU, YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO, UH, REQUEST AN EXTENSION HERE.
CAN THEY, CAN YOU PUT A CHART TOGETHER WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT, LIKE JUST,
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I'M ONE YEAR, TWO YEAR, THREE YEAR AND CHECK MARKS OFF TO THE SIDE OF IT.THAT'D BE EASIER TO, UH, NOT MANY PROCEDURES HAVE AN EXPIRATION.
YOU WOULDN'T HAVE MANY THINGS IN THERE.
I, WE'VE, WE'VE PULLED OUT A FEW OF THE EXAMPLES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE ONE, BUT A LOT OF THEM DON'T HAVE IT.
LIKE, LIKE A REZONING DOESN'T EXPIRE.
UM, SO YEAH, WE COULD DO THAT THOUGH.
YEAH, WE COULD, UH, WE, THAT WOULD PROBABLY LIVE IN THE SECTION OF COMMON PROCEDURES DEALING WITH EXPIRATION.
UM, NOW I'M, NOW WE'VE GOT SOME SIX OR SEVEN SLIDES THAT JUST SHOW YOU SOME OF THESE, UH, PARTICULAR APPLICATIONS.
AND I'M JUST GONNA GO THROUGH 'EM QUICKLY.
BUT THEY ILLUSTRATE HOW THIS IS FORMATTED.
UH, SO AGAIN, WE'VE GOT OUR COMMON PROCEDURES ACROSS THE TOP THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM, YOU SEE HOW WE HAVE TAILORED THEM, UH, FOR EACH APPLICATION TYPE.
SO SPECIAL USE PERMIT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHEN Y'ALL ARE LOOKING AT A PARTICULAR USE TO, TO DETERMINE ITS APPROPRIATENESS IN A CERTAIN LOCATION.
SO PRE-APPLICATION ACTIVITIES, YEAH, THERE'S GONNA BE SOME, SOME REQUIREMENTS THERE.
YOU ARE GONNA HAVE A, UH, YOU ARE GONNA HAVE A, A PREM SUBMITTAL CONFERENCE, PRE PRE-APPLICATION MEETING.
YOU DO HAVE TO HAVE AN APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO THE TOWN.
IN THIS CASE, YOU DO HAVE PUBLIC HEARINGS REQUIRED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND THE CITY COUNCIL.
YOU'VE GOT REVIEW RECOMMENDATION BY P AND Z, AND THEN DECISION BY COUNCIL.
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE THERE IS AN EXPIRATION.
YOU'VE GOT ONE AFTER ONE YEAR, AND SO THAT'S FLAGGED THERE.
SO IT'S, IT'S A GRAPHIC THAT'S INTENDED TO BE A PRETTY QUICK VISUAL SUMMARY OF THE KEY PARTS OF THAT.
AND THEN THERE'S A PAGE AND A HALF OF TEXT, YOU KNOW, THAT BUILDS ON THIS, THAT GIVES YOU EVEN MORE DETAILS.
IT'S, IT'S NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU WANNA READ UNLESS YOU'RE TRYING TO FALL ASLEEP, BUT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, HOUSEKEEPING, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, THE RULES OF THE ROAD ARE CLEAR AND OBJECTIVE FOR EVERYONE.
UH, JUST REMEMBERING SPECIAL USE PERMIT.
Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THESE ARE, BUT IT'S THE, IT'S THE NEED TO CONSIDER, UH, THE LOCATION, DESIGN, CONFIGURATION, ET CETERA, OF PARTICULAR, UM, PROPOSED USES AND THEIR APPROPRIATENESS IN A CERTAIN SPOT.
UH, THESE HAVE BEEN A, A MATTER OF A LOT OF CONVERSATION IN ADDISON, YOU KNOW, FOR THINGS LIKE RESTAURANTS AND ALCOHOL USES AND HOTELS.
WE, WE ARE GOING TO, WE ARE NOT PROPOSING CHANGING THE AUTHORITY FOR SPECIAL USE PERMITS.
THAT'S STILL A COUNCIL DECISION, STILL A P AND Z REVIEW.
UH, BUT THERE MAY BE SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT THINGS REQUIRE A SPECIAL USE PERMIT.
AND SO WE'RE GONNA CIRCLE BACK TO THAT IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE CONVERSATION WHEN WE GET IN BACK INTO THE USE TABLE.
SO JUST REMEMBER THAT'S COMING UP.
UH, I CAN'T SEE THAT WORD UP THERE.
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING IS RECOMMENDED.
THIS IS ONE, YOU KNOW, THERE POTENTIALLY COULD BE REAL IMPACTS.
UM, AND SO THE, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING THAT I TALKED ABOUT IS RECOMMENDED.
UH, THIS IS ONE WHERE YOU'VE GOT SOME STATE LAW THAT STEPS IN, YOU KNOW, THE AUTHORIZATION FOR PROTEST PETITION, UH, APPLIES TO REZONINGS.
AND SO THIS IS A PLACE WHERE THAT'S BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE TEXT.
UM, BUT BEYOND THOSE THINGS, OH, THANK YOU,
UH, WE DIDN'T MOVE THE, UH, WE, WE DIDN'T MOVE THE, UH, WE DIDN'T CHANGE THE SUBSTANCE OF THE REZONING PROCEDURE SUBSTANTIALLY AT ALL.
NOW REZONING, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST TO ANOTHER BASE DISTRICT REZONING TO A, NO, THIS DOES NOT WORK, THIS NEW ONE.
OH, HERE'S OUR REZONING CRITERIA.
UM, THESE ARE, THESE ARE A PLACE WHERE WE HAVE BEEFED UP THE LANGUAGE IN THE CURRENT CODE IN A LOT OF PLACES.
Y'ALL DIDN'T HAVE THOROUGH REVIEW CRITERIA FOR THE DIFFERENT APPLICATION TYPES.
SO I'M NOT GONNA READ ALL THESE, BUT YOU KNOW, THE THINGS THAT YOU LOOK AT AS THE COUNCIL, WHEN YOU'RE CONSIDERING THE APPROPRIATENESS OF A REZONING, THEY'RE ALL SPELLED OUT CLEARLY IN ONE SPOT.
YOU KNOW, CONSISTENCY WITH THE COMP PLAN.
HAVE THERE BEEN SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE AREA TO WARRANT A ZONING CHANGE? WAS THERE AN ERROR IN THE CURRENT ZONING, ET CETERA? THESE ARE PRETTY COMMON, YOU KNOW, IN ZONING AROUND THE COUNTRY, AROUND TEXAS.
BUT, UH, UH, THEY'RE NOW CLEARLY, UH, WRITTEN, UH, AND, AND THEY'RE CLEARLY TIED TO THE DECISION THAT SHALL BE MADE.
SO, UM, WHEREAS REZONING ITSELF IS PRETTY CONSISTENT WITH Y'ALL'S CURRENT POLICY, REZONING TO PD IS DIFFERENT.
REZONING TO PD IS A PLACE WHERE WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOME CLEANUP, BECAUSE IF YOU REMEMBER, UM, ONE OF THE HISTORICAL STORIES IN ADDISON IS THAT YOU'VE INNOVATED WELL IN DIFFERENT AREAS AND WITH DIFFERENT ORDINANCES.
LIKE THE BELTLINE ORDINANCE HAS SOME GREAT THINGS, AND THE ADDISON CIRCLE ORDINANCE HAS SOME GREAT THINGS, BUT THEY DO SOME OF THOSE GREAT THINGS IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
AND SO THE UDC PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SYNTHESIZE SOME OF THOSE IDEAS.
Y'ALL HAVE LIKE FOUR DIFFERENT WAYS OF DOING REZONINGS TO PDS IN THOSE DIFFERENT ORDINANCES THAT I MENTIONED.
SOME OF THEM ARE ONE STEP, SOME OF THEM ARE TWO STEP, SOME OF THEM ARE THREE STEP.
AND SO WE'RE NOT GOING BACK AND CHANGING THOSE PDS THAT ARE OUT THERE.
BUT MOVING FORWARD, OUR DIRECTION
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WAS TO TRY TO CLEAN THIS UP AND TO HAVE A SINGLE, UH, CLEAN SYSTEM FOR APPROVING PDS, UM, THAT BUILDS ON THE BEST OF WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY DONE.AND SO I THINK WE LOOKED MOSTLY AT THE, AT THE BELT LINE, UH, PROCESS HERE, BUT IT, IT'S IN THE DRAFT.
IT'S A TWO STEP PROCESS WHERE YOU'VE GOT A PRELIMINARY CONCEPT PLAN WHERE SOMEBODY COMES IN FIRST OF ALL AND PROPOSES THE BIG OUTLINES OF THE SITE.
WHAT ARE THE USES THAT ARE PROPOSED? WHAT IS THE CIRCULATION SYSTEM? WHAT'S THE BIG IDEAS? WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE, THE, THE WEEDS OF THE LANDSCAPING PLAN OR INTO THE REAL SPECIFIC THINGS LIKE THAT, UM, WHERE THAT CAN COST A LOT OF MONEY THROUGH FROM, FROM ENGINEERS AND CONSULTANTS, ET CETERA.
LET US GET OUR APPROVAL UPFRONT ON THE BIG IDEAS OF OUR PROJECT FROM THE COUNCIL, FROM THE COMMISSION, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AFTER THAT TWO YEARS AND WE'LL DO OUR FINAL PLAN, UM, WHERE WE DO OUR DETAILED ENGINEERING AND SITE PLANS, ET CETERA.
SO, I, THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHERE WE'VE TRIED TO COLLECT A LOT OF THE GOOD THINKING FROM DIFFERENT ORDINANCES THAT Y'ALL HAVE OVER TIME AND STANDARDIZE THEM IN ONE SPOT.
I'M, I'M MARCHING YOU THROUGH A LOT OF STUFF 'CAUSE I KNOW IT'S JUST A, WE WANT TO GET DONE BEFORE IT'S SUN UP NEXT TOMORROW.
UM, SITE PLAN REVIEW, UH, I MENTIONED THIS EARLIER.
SITE PLAN REVIEW IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE YOU HAVE DEVELOPED A SITE PLAN REVIEW PROCESS IN ADDISON.
YOU'RE DOING IT, YOU HAVE APPLICATIONS FOR SITE PLAN REVIEW ON YOUR WEBSITE, BUT IT'S NOT IN YOUR CODE.
AND SO WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO WAS DRAFT A PROCEDURE CONSISTENT WITH THIS COMMON FRAMEWORK THAT I'VE INTRODUCED THAT, UM, THAT, UH, UH, UH, UH, CARRIED THAT FORWARD.
THE BIG IDEA HERE IS THAT YOU'VE GOT MAJOR SITE PLANS AND MINOR SITE PLANS, AND WE PROPOSE THESE, UH, MINOR SITE PLAN THRESHOLDS FOR THE SMALL STUFF.
AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE APPLICATION YOU HAVE ONLINE.
NOW, UM, MINOR SITE PLAN THRESHOLDS ARE WHAT WE ARE CONSIDERING FOR THIS DRAFT.
THE SMALL STUFF, SINGLE USE IN AN EXISTING STRUCTURE, LESS THAN 10,000 SQUARE FEET, GFA COMBINATION OF USES LESS THAN 20,000 SQUARE FEET, A NEW STRUCTURE, LESS THAN 5,000 SQUARE FEET, ET CETERA.
AND MINOR REDEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS DEFINED ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
AND AGAIN, THESE ARE, THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT BACK IN THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, BUT THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT WE'VE PROPOSED AS MINOR REDEVELOPMENT.
UM, SO YOU, YOU NEED TO GO IN, YOU NEED TO GET SOME APPROVAL FROM THE CITY THAT YOU'RE COMPLYING WITH THE STANDARDS LIKE LANDSCAPING AND PARKING.
UM, BUT IT DOESN'T RISE TO THE LEVEL OF A MAJOR REDEVELOPMENT AND, YOU KNOW, ALTERATION OR EXPANSION OF A PARKING AREA BY THE GREATER OF SIX BASES OR 50 FEET.
SO AGAIN, THIS, THIS IS COLLECTIVELY JUST ONE MORE TRIGGER FOR WHEN A MINOR SITE PLAN WOULD BE ALLOWED.
EVERYTHING THAT DOESN'T QUALIFY AS MINOR IS GONNA BE MAJOR.
SO LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
THIS IS THE APPROVAL FOR MA MAJOR SITE PLAN.
AND THIS IS A P AND Z DECISION.
UM, AS IS DONE NOW, UM, UH, YOU DO HAVE TO DO A PRE, UH, APPLICATION CONFERENCE.
UM, UH, APPLICATIONS REQUIRED, ET CETERA, PUBLIC MEETINGS REQUIRED, UM, REVIEW AND DECISION BY THE P AND Z EXPIRES AFTER TWO YEARS.
THIS SHOWS YOU WHAT THESE CHARTS LOOK LIKE WHEN A STEP IS NOT REQUIRED.
UM, SO THIS IS THE MINOR SITE PLAN PROCEDURE, AND THIS IS PROPOSED TO BE A, AN ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION.
AGAIN, THESE ARE THE SMALL ONES.
UH, SO YOU CAN SEE THAT 2, 4, 5 IS GRAYED OUT.
UH, THOSE ARE NOT, UH, NOT GONNA HAVE A NOTICE IN PUBLIC HEARING BECAUSE THERE, THERE'RE GONNA BE ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS BY THE DIRECTOR.
SO THAT'S WHAT THAT FORMAT LOOKS LIKE, UH, WHEN THERE'S NOT A, A DECISION BEING MADE.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT APPROVAL CRITERIA, CRITERIA THAT ARE IDENTIFIED FOR BOTH MAJOR AND MINOR.
UM, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOTTA, CAN BE CONSISTENT WITH THE CODE, WITH OTHER APP, APPLICABLE PLANS, ET CETERA.
UM, ALL THESE DECISIONS CAN BE APPEALED TO THE BZA I'LL, I'LL MAKE MY STANDARD COMMENT HERE ABOUT WHENEVER YOU HAVE THRESHOLDS THAT YOU ESTABLISH IN A NEW CODE.
Y'ALL HAVE HEARD ME SAY THIS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE STAFF AND YOU ALL ARE GONNA NEED TO MONITOR THEM ON A REGULAR BASIS AND STEP BACK IN A YEAR AND HAVE A WORKSHOP AND SAY, WELL, HOW MANY APPLICATIONS CAME IN AT THE MINOR LEVEL VERSUS THE MAJOR? UM, AND ARE WE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT? DID, DID WE FEEL LIKE ANYTHING SLIPPED THROUGH AS A MINOR THAT WE REALLY WANTED HERE AT THE COUNCIL LEVEL? SO, UM, I, I JUST REALLY, I PUT THAT IN THE CATEGORY OF THE CODE IS A LIVING DOCUMENT AND YOU NEED TO JUST BE MONITORING THESE THRESHOLDS.
WE THINK THAT THE THRESHOLDS ARE GOOD, UM, AND I THINK IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD STARTING POINT, BUT AGAIN, IT'S JUST SOMETHING YOU WANNA WATCH.
EVERY CITY HAS DIFFERENT OPINIONS ON WHAT THEY CONSIDER MINOR VERSUS MAJOR SLIDE.
UH, THERE'S SEVERAL SLIDES HERE ON SUBDIVISION.
UH, UH, I'M NOT GONNA COVER THEM IN DETAIL.
UH, JUST CLARIFYING, YOU KNOW, WHEN A PRELIMINARY PLAT IS
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REQUIRED ON THIS SLIDE, FOR EXAMPLE, THESE ARE, UH, P AND Z DECISIONS.UH, SAME THING WITH PRELIMINARY RE PLAT.
UH, THESE ARE BOTH, UH, PREDICATES TO A FINAL PLAT, UH, THAT NEED TO BE DONE IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
AND THE, UH, THE FINAL MUST BE SUBMITTED WITHIN TWO YEARS, UH, AFTER THE APPROVAL OF THE PRELIMINARY OR THE PRELIMINARY REPL.
UM, THE FINAL PLAT FOLLOWS THOSE.
UH, THE, THE TEXT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE NEW STATE LAW CHANGES ON THE SHOT CLOCK APPROVALS.
UM, HOWEVER, SOME OF THOSE SPECIFIC TIMEFRAMES ARE NOT IN THE DRAFT ITSELF.
UM, OUR, OUR DIRECTION, YOU KNOW, MOVING THROUGH THE DRAFTING PROCESS WAS THAT SOME OF THOSE SPECIFIC TIMELINES NEEDED TO BE OUTSIDE IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE MANUAL, LIKE THE REVIEW SCHEDULES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, LIKE, LIKE WHEN CERTAIN IF, IF THE CITY SETS DATES FOR WHEN APPLICATIONS COULD BE SUBMITTED, THOSE THINGS CAN BE AUTHORIZED IN THE CODE, BUT THE ACTUAL DATES WOULD BE OUTSIDE THE CODE.
UM, NEXT SLIDE AND MINOR PLAT.
SO SOME THINGS DON'T RISE TO THE LEVEL OF A MAJOR PLAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE GOT FOUR OR FEWER LOTS IF YOU'RE FRONTING ONTO AN EXISTING STREET, IF THERE'S NO DEDICATION OF RIGHT OF WAY, ET CETERA.
UM, THESE ARE, UH, PROPOSED TO BE ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS, WHICH IS AUTHORIZED UNDER STATE LAW, UH, UNLESS THEY'RE REFERRED TO THE P AND Z NEXT SLIDE.
UM, AND THEN BEYOND THOSE, THOSE MAJOR AND MINOR SUBDIVISIONS, THERE'S JUST SUBDIVISION EXEMPTIONS ALTOGETHER.
THINGS THAT ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BE IN THERE.
THE LAST CATEGORY THAT I'LL TALK ABOUT, UH, IS, IS WHEN DO YOU NEED, WHEN DO YOU NEED TO GET OUTTA THE BOX? WHEN DO YOU NEED SOME FLEXIBILITY OR TO GET SOME KIND OF, UH, SPECIAL CONSIDERATION? YOU, YOU DON'T WANT TO PLAY EXACTLY BY THE RULES THAT ARE IN THE CODE.
UM, THERE'S SEVERAL FLAVORS OF THIS.
Y'ALL HAVE THE VARIANCE NOW THAT'S CARRIED FORWARD.
THIS IS WHEN SOMEBODY CAN DEMONSTRATE THERE IS A HARDSHIP AS THAT TERM IS, IS DEFINED.
UM, IN THE CODE, THERE'S THIS PARTICULAR SUBDIVISION VARIANCE AS WELL THAT'S CARRIED FORWARD.
UH, AND THEN HERE'S THIS MINOR MODIFICATION TOOL THAT I MENTIONED.
THIS IS NEW AND THIS IS THE, THIS IS THE, THE VARIANCE LIGHT REALLY.
AND IT DOESN'T REQUIRE DEMONSTRATION OF A HARDSHIP.
UM, BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE SOME CASE THAT THERE'S SOMETHING UNUSUAL ABOUT THAT SITE OR SOMETHING UNUSUAL ABOUT THE PROJECT THAT YOU WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF.
THIS ALLOWED, UH, DEVIATION AND IT'S STRUCTURED AS A PERCENTAGE CHANGE.
SO UP TO 10% DEVIATION ON THE LOT WITH LOT DEPTH, ET CETERA.
SO, UM, AGAIN, THAT'S A PLACE TO WATCH AND SEE, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF THESE APPLICATIONS ARE WE GETTING? DO WE FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF US? UM, YOU, YOU ALWAYS WANT TO BE CAREFUL IN THIS REALM OF, UH, NOT MAKING THE MINOR MODIFICATION THE NEW NORMAL, AND JUST LETTING PEOPLE ASSUME, UH, THAT IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE APPROVED.
AND SO THIS IS A, THIS IS A PLACE WHERE THE PLANNING STAFF REALLY HAS TO, UM, EXERCISE SOME DISCIPLINE AND, AND NOT JUST GIVE THESE THINGS CARTE BLANCHE, BUT ACTUALLY MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE SUBJECT TO STANDARDS.
AND MATT, THOSE WOULD BE, UH, STAFF APPROVED.
WELL, THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD ACCOMPANY A DIFFERENT DECISION.
AND SO IT WOULD DEPEND ON WHO MAKES THE OTHER DECISION.
IF IT'S A MINOR MODIFICATION ON A TEMPORARY USE PERMIT, IT WOULD BE STAFF.
BUT IF IT'S A MINOR MODIFICATION ON A PLAT, IT WOULD BE COUNSEL AND, AND, AND, UM, AND P AND Z.
SO IT, IT KIND OF RIDES ALONG WITH THE UNDERLYING APPLICATION.
COULD I HAVE A, JUST A QUICK CLARIFICATION ON THIS, UH, SUMMARY TABLE? YES.
IT MAY JUST BE, I'M NOT READING IT RIGHT.
UM, UNDER SAT PLAN MINOR, SO WE HAVE THAT IN GREEN AS FAR AS STAFF DECISION, UM, MEANING NEW PROCESS, WHERE WAS, WHERE WAS THAT DECISION BEFORE? I, I WANTED TO CLARIFY.
YEAH, I I, I'M GONNA LET STEPH ANSWER THAT.
YEAH, SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT PROCESS CURRENTLY.
WE JUST HAVE, IT'S JUST A SITE PLAN PROCESS.
WE CURRENTLY OPERATE THAT WAY.
HOWEVER, AS, UH, MATT MENTIONED, OUR ENTIRE SITE PLAN REVIEW PROCESS IS NOT CODIFIED.
IT'S, IT'S AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS.
IT'S BEEN DEVELOPED OVER MANY YEARS AND IT'S BEEN PRACTICED FOR, FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
UH, WE'RE JUST TAKING WHAT WE DO NOW AND CODIFYING IT AND FURTHER CLARIFYING WHAT THOSE THRESHOLDS ARE FOR MAJOR AND MINOR SO EVERYONE IS CLEAR ON MAYBE WHAT, WHAT'S APPROPRIATE AND WHAT THOSE THRESHOLDS ARE.
BET BETWEEN THE TWO, THE, THE MAJOR MINOR IS NEW.
AND I, I DIDN'T MEAN TO MENTION THAT WE'RE OR IMPLIED THAT WE'RE JUST CARRYING FORWARD SOMETHING YOU'RE ENTIRELY DOING NOW.
UM, BUT, BUT NOW THEY'RE ALL ADMINISTRATIVE, SO GIVING THE BIG ONES TO P AND Z WOULD BE NEW.
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I'M ALMOST DONE HERE.YEAH, THERE'S A FEW ALSO ALTERNATIVE EQUIVALENT COMPLIANCE.
SO MINOR MODIFICATION IS, IS FOR NUMERIC STANDARDS, LIKE NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES OR LENGTH OF SETBACK, LENGTH OF THE DRIVEWAY.
UM, BUT THERE'S SOME STANDARDS IN THE CODE THAT ARE MORE QUALITATIVE.
AND ALTERNATIVE COMPLIANCE IS A TOOL WHERE SOMEBODY CAN SAY, HEY, I'VE, I'VE GOT A, A BETTER DESIGN THAT I THINK STILL COMPLIES WITH THE INTENT OF THE CODE, UH, BUT IS NOT, UH, STRICTLY FOLLOWING THE LETTER OF THE CODE.
AND THAT'S WHAT THAT PROCESS ALLOWS APPEAL OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION THAT YOU'VE GOT, THAT THAT'S JUST CARRIED FORWARD.
UM, UM, AND INTERPRETATIONS NEXT SLIDE.
THESE ARE ALL THE ONES I'M NOT REALLY GONNA COVER.
THESE ARE THE, THESE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE, UH, BASICALLY CARRYING FORWARD THINGS THAT YOU HAVE NOW.
UH, TEXT AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING CODE, COMP PLAN AMENDMENTS.
UM, THERE IS A NEW CONCEPT PLAN THAT'S, IT'S JUST A, IT'S A PROCESS THAT WOULD, WOULD ALLOW A APPLICANT FOR A VERY LARGE COMPLEX PROJECT TO COME IN, UH, AND SUBMIT A, A CONCEPT PLAN UPFRONT, UH, BEFORE SUBMITTING MORE DETAILED PLANS THAT THAT WOULD BE COUNCIL APPROVAL.
UM, UH, ZONING VERIFICATION LETTER IS A, IT'S A NEW TOOL THAT ALLOWS THE TOWN TO ISSUE A FORMAL, UH, CONFIRMATION OF A TOWN'S LEGAL STATUS, CONFORMING STATUS THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR LENDING.
OFTENTIMES, UH, THERE IS MORE, UH, LANGUAGE IN HERE ABOUT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS, JUST KIND OF CODIFYING THE PURPOSE OF THEM AND, UH, THE FACT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY SHOULD COVER AND, AND WHAT THEIR, WHAT THE, WHAT THE APPROVAL PROCESS WOULD BE.
SO I, I SHOULDN'T SAY IT'S ALL JUST CARRIED FORWARD.
SOME OF IT IS NEW, BUT I, IT, IT DIDN'T REALLY RISE TO THE LEVEL OF PROMINENCE FOR THIS, FOR THIS PRESENTATION.
UH, WE THINK IT'S ALL PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
I HAVE A QUESTION OF SOMETHING YOU SAID A LITTLE WHILE AGO, WHICH MAY BE JUST MY LACK OF KNOWLEDGE.
MM-HMM,
UH, NO, I, IT, IT MIGHT RESULT IN CODE AMENDMENTS, YOU KNOW, SO, UH, UH, ANOTHER EXAMPLE WOULD BE, UH, THE MINOR MODIFICATIONS, YOU KNOW, AND IF DO, DO YOU THINK THAT PROCESS IS BEING ABUSED? YOU KNOW, MAYBE EVERY YEAR IS OVERKILL.
MAYBE IT'S EVERY COUPLE YEARS.
THAT WAS GIVING MY FOLLOW UP IS WHAT DO YOU TYPICALLY SEE IF THERE ARE MODIFICATIONS HAPPENING? HOW OFTEN ARE THEY REVIEWING THEM MANUALLY, BUT YET IT MIGHT BE A COUPLE YEARS OF REVIEW BEFORE THEY MAKE A DECISION TO, TO MODIFY FORMALLY IN THE DOCUMENT? I THINK BEST PRACTICE IS TO WAIT AT LEAST A YEAR, PROBABLY A COUPLE YEARS, UH, JUST TO LET THINGS SETTLE AND TO LET THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY GET COMFORTABLE WITH THE NEW CODE, GET STAFF COMFORTABLE WITH THE NEW CODE, SEE WHERE THE PRESSURE POINTS ARE.
UM, I, I, I JUST DON'T THINK THAT THE MINDSET SHOULD BE, WE SHOULD WAIT 30 MORE YEARS TO, TO AMEND THE CODE.
I THINK IT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE THINGS, ESPECIALLY THRESHOLDS DEVELOPERS ARE GONNA LEARN HOW TO GAME THE SYSTEM, YOU KNOW, AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, JUST MAINTAINING, UH, VIGILANCE ON THOSE KIND OF THINGS SO THAT THEY DON'T, YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE ABUSE.
THIS MIGHT BE MY LAST SLIDE ON PROCEDURES.
YEAH, SO THAT'S A LOT OF MATERIAL AND, AND I TALKED FAST, BUT, UM, WE, IT, IT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE CODE.
IT'S, IT'S NOT THE SEXY PART OF THE CODE.
UM, BUT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT DISCIPLINE.
UM, DOES IT GENERALLY MAKE SENSE? DO YOU HAVE ANY FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS ON ANYTHING ELSE THAT PEOPLE HAVEN'T ASKED ABOUT? I, YEAH, I HAVE A QUICK FOLLOW UP QUESTION.
I NOTICED, I'M SURE THERE'S PROBABLY A PAGE THAT DESCRIBES THIS, BUT A LOT OF PLACES IT SAYS STAFF, SOME OF IT SAYS DIRECTOR MM-HMM.
AND I'VE SEEN OBVIOUSLY IN OTHER TIMES BEFORE WHERE IT'S LIKE THE CITY MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE MM-HMM.
UM, BUT I, IS THAT THE NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT? IT'S PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, CORRECT.
BUT THAT IT'S, OR THEIR DESIGNEE IS, SO THAT WILL BE THE DEFINITION.
WELL, 'CAUSE LIKE WHERE IT SAYS STAFF, THAT MEANS YOU OR WHOEVER YOU JUST, OR WHOEVER'S IN YOUR PLACE OR
AND WE'RE USING SHORTHAND FOR STAFF IN THIS PRESENTATION.
BUT THE CODE ITSELF ALMOST ALWAYS IS GONNA SAY DIRECTOR, AND WE'LL DO A SEARCH FOR THOSE.
IT SHOULD ALWAYS SAY DIRECTOR.
THAT'S JUST GONNA BE A GLOBAL, UH, REFERENCE TO LESLIE OR HER DESIGNEE.
YEAH, AND I'LL PIGGYBACK ON THAT.
THERE WILL BE SOME AREAS WHERE IT IS STAFF.
LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK IN SOME OF THE PROCESS ONES IT SAYS LIKE, STAFF REVIEW OR REVIEWED BY STAFF, BUT THEN AS FAR AS WHERE THERE'S AUTHORITY GIVEN
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THAT IS WHERE IT'S, YOU KNOW, A DESIGN DESIGNATED AS WHETHER IT'S DIRECTOR OR CITY MANAGER OR COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND SO FORTH.SO AGAIN, WE'RE GONNA PUT THIS UP ON CONVEO.
UM, SOME OF Y'ALL COMMENTED ON THE FIRST VERSION ON COVEO, WHICH IS ONLY HALF THIS MATERIAL.
AND SO, UM, LIKE I SAID EARLIER, WE'RE GONNA COPY Y'ALL'S COMMENTS THAT YOU PUT ON THE FIRST HALF INTO THIS FULL DRAFT.
SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT YOU DID.
THERE'S NOT A LOT OF THEM, UM, BUT WE'RE GONNA PUT THAT UP WITHIN THE WEEK.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA BE ASKING FOR FEEDBACK ON EVERYTHING BY MAY 20TH.
SO MATT, I'VE GOT ONE QUESTION ABOUT THAT FIRST SECTION.
ON PAGE 12, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT COMMON PROCEDURES AND KEY CHANGES AND, AND I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE FOCUSED ON NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS, AND YOU'VE GOT THE SECOND BULLET POINT SAYS, RECOMMENDED FOR ANY APPLICATION SUBJECT TO DISCRETIONARY REVIEW BY THE P AND Z COMMISSION.
AND I WAS JUST TRYING TO SEE IF YOU COULD JUST KIND OF WALK ME THROUGH THAT, WHAT THAT WOULD, WOULD KIND LOOK LIKE OR HOW THAT MIGHT WORK FOR THE APPLICANT.
WELL, THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD HAVE THEIR, THEY'D COME UP WITH THEIR IDEA ON THEIR OWN, UH, WITH THEIR BANK AND, AND THEIR FUNDERS.
AND THEY WOULD THEN COME MEET WITH STAFF TO DO THEIR PRE-APPLICATION CONFERENCE.
AND THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND, OKAY, IS THIS GONNA FIT WITHIN ONE OF THE BASE DISTRICTS? DO I NEED A REZONING? IS IT, IS IT OUTSIDE THE BOX ALTOGETHER AND I NEED TO DO A PLAN DEVELOPMENT? UM, YOU KNOW, IS IT, IS IT GONNA REQUIRE A SPECIAL USE PERMIT? SO THEY WOULD HAVE THAT INFORMATIONAL MEETING WITH STAFF TO DETERMINE WHAT'S REQUIRED.
UH, THEN THEY WOULD START TO, UM, OUTLINE WHAT THEIR APPLICATION WOULD LOOK LIKE.
AND ONCE THEY FEEL LIKE IT'S SOMEWHAT BAKED, THEY WOULD, UM, PUT TOGETHER SOME MATERIALS AND THEY WOULD GET A MAILING LIST FROM THE STAFF.
UH, THE MAILING LIST WOULD BE THE SAME THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY APPLY TO THE APPLICATION.
UH, THEY WOULD SEND OUT A, UH, INVITATION TO A MEETING.
UH, COULD BE AT A CHURCH, AN OFFICE SOMEWHERE, UM, AND WALK THROUGH SOME HIGH LEVEL DRAWINGS PROBABLY AND DESCRIPTIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE THINKING.
UM, THIS HAPPENED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD IN DENVER ALL THE TIME AND THIS'S THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING.
BUT IT'S, BUT IT'S, IT'S INTENDED TO BE INFORMAL.
IT'S NOT A FULL ON APPLICATION BY ANY MEANS.
UM, SO IT'S, IT'S TO TAKE THE TEMPERATURE, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE Y'ALL, WHAT ARE Y'ALL'S REAL CONCERNS, UH, HERE AND ARE YOU PROPOSING SIDEWALKS INTO THE SHOPPING CENTER? IS THAT GONNA BE A BIG HOT BUTTON? ISSUE THAT TO, TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT THOSE BIG ISSUES ARE SO THAT THEN THEY CAN MAYBE FINE TUNE THAT APPLICATION.
DOES, DOES THAT HELP? WELL, OKAY, SO BASICALLY YOU'RE, YOU'RE JUST SAYING THAT, UM, IN THE SECOND BULLET POINT WHERE IT SAYS, RECOMMENDED FOR ANY APPLICATION SUBJECT TO DISCRETIONARY REVIEW BY THE P AND Z.
SO YEAH, DOING THAT, YOU RECOMMENDING THAT BE DONE BEFORE THAT GETS TO, UH, UH, I THINK THE REVIEW BY THE P AND Z WAS THROWING ME OFF.
I WAS THINKING THAT WAS DECISION MAKING PROCESS, BUT IT'S A REVIEW.
I HAD SOME ADDITIONAL CONTEXT FOR THAT.
THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS DISCUSSED HEAVILY WITH THE COMMITTEE AT OUR LAST MEETING IN FEBRUARY.
SO THE PLAN AS OF NOW IS TO PREPARE ESSENTIALLY A CHECKLIST THAT WOULD DETAIL WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING.
WE TALKED ABOUT BOUNDARIES FOR MAILINGS OF THE PROCESS THAT MATT TOUCHED ON BRIEFLY THERE.
WE WOULD DETAIL AND PRESENT AT A PRE-APPLICATION CONFERENCE, SO IT'S A LOT CLEARER FOR THE APPLICANT.
UM, THIS IS TYPICALLY SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T WANNA CODIFY BECAUSE IT'S SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT A MORE FREQUENT, UM, HIGHER FREQUENCY THAN A CODE AMENDMENT WOULD BE.
BUT IT IS A GREAT DOCUMENT TO HAVE AS INTERNAL POLICY.
SHOULD WE MOVE ON? LET'S DO IT PART TWO.
THIS IS WORKING NOW, SO THANK YOU.
UM, SO WE ARE GOING TO, UM, AT A HIGH LEVEL REVISIT THE ZONING DISTRICTS AND USE REGULATIONS CHAPTER.
UM, AGAIN, IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE HAVE ALL SEEN IT, SO WE JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU ALL, UM, ANOTHER OVERVIEW OF THE CONTENT THAT'S IN IT AS WELL AS HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE, UM, KEY CHANGES AND THE KEY IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, SO THIS IS A LITTLE HARD TO READ, BUT THIS IS A LIST OF ALL OF THE CURRENT ZONING DISTRICTS IN ADDISON AND, AND, UM, THE PERCENTAGE OF ADDISON THAT IS ZONED INTO EACH OF THESE DISTRICTS.
AND JUST A FEW THINGS TO HIGHLIGHT HERE.
UM, THERE ARE SEVERAL INSTANCES WHERE THE PERCENTAGE IS ZERO, AND WHENEVER WE SEE THAT ON AN EXISTING ZONING MAP, WE TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THOSE ZONING DISTRICTS THAT ARE AT ZERO AND SEE IF THEY CAN BE REMOVED AND SEE, UM, IF SOME OF THEIR STANDARDS SHOULD BE INCORPORATED INTO A DIFFERENT DISTRICT.
UM, BUT JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT THOSE.
AND THEN THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT IS AT 50%, UM,
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50.5% ACTUALLY.AND, UM, ONE OF THE BIG, UM, THEMES FROM THE ASSESSMENT WAS, WAS TRYING TO MOVE AWAY FROM USING THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT SO HEAVILY AS A TOOL.
UM, BECAUSE WITH PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS, YOU ESSENTIALLY END UP WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINI ZONING ORDINANCES WITH ALL OF THEIR OWN REQUIREMENTS.
AND THEY BECOME MORE AND MORE CHALLENGING OVER THE YEARS FOR STAFF TO TRACK AND STAFF TO ADMINISTER EVEN PROPERTY OWNERS, UM, WHO MAY NOT KNOW IF THEY'RE IN A PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT WHEN THEY COME IN TO MAKE CHANGES, HAVE TO GO THROUGH EXTRA PROCESS.
SO PART OF THE GOAL OF CLEANING UP THE FULL, UM, MENU OF ZONING DISTRICTS WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S A FULL RANGE OF DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS, USE ALLOWANCES, JUST ALL OF THE DIFFERENT TOOLS IN THE BASE ZONING DISTRICTS, SO THAT YOU WOULDN'T NEED, UM, AS MANY PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS TO ADD THAT FLEXIBILITY.
UM, SO I COVERED MOST OF THIS, BUT SOMETHING, UM, TO EMPHASIZE IS THAT, UM, THERE IS NOT ANY SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING ZONING MAP, UM, CONTEMPLATED AS PART OF THIS PROJECT.
UM, SO SOME OF THE DISTRICTS WILL BE RENAMED AND CONVERTED INTO THEIR NEW DISTRICT, UM, BUT FOR INSTANCE, THE EXISTING PLAN DEVELOPMENTS, THERE IS NOT AN INTENTION OF REMAPPING THOSE INTO BASE DISTRICTS AS PART OF THIS PROJECT.
SO WHEN WE GO TO FINE TUNE THE ZONING DISTRICT, WE LOOK AT A COMBINATION OF THINGS.
WE LOOK AT IF SOME DISTRICTS CAN BE CONSOLIDATED BASED ON THE FACT THAT THEY ONLY HAVE MINOR DIFFERENCES IN DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS OR WHAT TYPES OF USES ARE ALLOWED, UM, IF THEY COULD BE FULLY ELIMINATED, LIKE I SAID, THOSE 0% ZONING DISTRICTS, DO WE NEED THEM IF THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN APPLIED? UM, AND THEN ALSO IF THERE'S REASON TO ESTABLISH NEW DISTRICTS.
SO IS THERE A PIECE OF THE ZONING DISTRICT PUZZLE THAT IS MISSING, UM, THAT A NEW DISTRICT WOULD HELP? UM, SO WE DID CONSOLIDATE SIMILAR DISTRICTS.
SOME EXAMPLES OF THAT ARE THE CURRENT C TWO I ONE AND I TWO.
ALL OF THOSE, UM, HAD VERY SIMILAR USE ALLOWANCES AND DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS.
SO WE GOT THREE DISTRICTS DOWN TO ONE.
UM, WE ELIMINATED THE R TWO R THREE PDCC.
UM, AND THEN ANOTHER THING I FORGOT TO MENTION IS THAT SOME OF THE CURRENT DISTRICTS ARE VERY SPECIFIC TO VERY, UM, SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC AREAS, SO SUB-DISTRICTS OF ADDISON CIRCLE OR THE BELTLINE DISTRICT.
AND WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS TAKE THE TOOLS THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN THOSE DISTRICTS AND APPLY THEM AT A TOWN WIDE SCALE SO THAT THAT WAY YOU CAN USE THOSE TOOLS THAT HAVE WORKED WELL IN THOSE AREAS IN ADDITIONAL, UM, PLACES THROUGHOUT TOWN AND IT CAN MAKE IT A MORE CONSISTENT, UM, PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT.
UM, AND THEN WE ESTABLISHED SOME NEW DISTRICTS, ONE OF WHICH IS THE M THREE, WHICH IS A MIXED USE URBAN CORRIDOR.
AND SO THAT IS CONTEMPLATED FOR, UM, PLACES ALONG BELTLINE OR MIDWAY SOME OF THE BIG ARTERIALS.
UM, YOU CURRENTLY HAVE WHAT WE ARE CALLING A MIXED USE SUBURBAN CORRIDOR DISTRICT.
UM, AND WE WANTED TO ADD THE URBAN CORRIDOR TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD THE FULL TRANSITION BETWEEN THOSE TWO TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT.
UM, AND THESE ARE YOUR RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS.
THE CURRENT ARE ON THE LEFT AND THE PROPOSED ARE ON THE RIGHT.
UM, THEY GO FROM, UM, LESSER INTENSITY AND LESSER DENSITY INTO THE HIGHER INTENSITY AND HIGHER DENSITY AREAS.
UM, THAT MXR WAS ABOUT 20% OF YOUR CURRENT, UM, ZONING IN ADDISON.
UM, SO THAT CONSISTS OF LOW, MEDIUM AND HIGH, WHICH ARE NOW R THREE THROUGH R FIVE.
UM, ANOTHER THING TO MENTION, UM, ARE WE HAVE SEVERAL, WHAT WE ARE CALLING LEGACY DISTRICTS AND THAT INCLUDES THE A APARTMENT DISTRICT.
AND WE ARE KEEPING THE STANDARDS IN AN APPENDIX IN THE CODE THAT EXIST CURRENTLY FOR THOSE DISTRICTS.
HOWEVER, NO NEW LAND IN ADDISON WILL BE ABLE TO REQUEST REZONING INTO THOSE DISTRICTS.
SO THEY'RE ESSENTIALLY BEING RETIRED, UM, THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
BUT FOR ANY PROPERTY THAT IS ZONED, FOR INSTANCE, A APARTMENT, IT DOESN'T MAKE THEM NON-CONFORMING BECAUSE WE'RE KEEPING THEIR STANDARDS THERE.
THEY CAN STILL MAKE CHANGES AND STILL HAVE THE SAME ALLOWANCES THAT THEY DO CURRENTLY.
IT'S JUST THAT NO NEW, UM, PROPERTY COULD REQUEST THAT ZONING.
SO WHAT IS OUR GRANDFATHER PERCENTAGE FOR CONTINUED USE IF LIKE IT BURNS DOWN? OH, FOR NONCONFORMITIES? WELL,
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NO, FOR LIKE JUST LEGACY ZONING.WOULD ANYTHING CAUSE THAT DISASTER TO TRIGGER THAT? YEAH, FOR, FOR DISASTER, UM, IT'S 50%.
SO THEN THEY WOULD FROM LEGACY HAVE TO GO INTO ONE OF THESE OTHER CATEGORIES IF OVER 50% NO, NO.
YEAH, SO NOT NECESSARILY, SO IT, SO THIS WOULD NOT CREATE NON-CONFORMITY FOR THE ZONING DISTRICT.
HOWEVER, LET'S SAY THAT, UM, THERE WAS A PROPERTY THAT WAS CONSTRUCTED IN THE SIXTIES AND IT IS NON-CONFORMING TO THE APARTMENT DISTRICT TODAY.
UM, IF IT DID WAS, UM, THERE WAS A DISASTER AND IT WAS DAMAGED BEYOND 50%, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO COME IN TO THE CODE OF THE APARTMENT DISTRICT.
HOWEVER, IF THEY, IF SOMEONE CAME IN AND WANTED TO REDEVELOP THE ENTIRE SITE, THAT DISTRICT WOULD STILL EXIST OR THEY COULD REZONE INTO ONE OF OUR OTHER DISTRICTS, WHICH WOULD BE LIKELY MORE FLEXIBLE THAN THE APARTMENT DISTRICT.
'CAUSE THAT IS FROM THE, THE CURRENT CODE FROM THE EIGHTIES.
SO THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO CON, MAINTAIN LEGACY REQUIRED REGARDLESS OF THE PERCENTAGE OF DESTRUCTION.
AND, AND REGARDING THE PROPOSED R TWO, HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT FROM THE R ONE? YOU MIGHT HAVE ALREADY SAID THAT, BUT I MISSED IT.
I THINK THERE'S PROBABLY SOME SPECIFICS IN DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS.
YEAH, SO THAT'S JUST, I BELIEVE IT JUST HAS TO DO THE, THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCE IS THE MINIMUM LOT AREA.
SO IF YOU THINK OF R ONE THAT'S, UM, MORE TAILORED TO LARGE ESTATE LOTS.
SO THE MINIMUM LOT SIZE IS PROPOSED IS DRAFTED IS 2,500 SQUARE FEET.
AND AS YOU MOVE TO THE HIGHER DISTRICTS, R TWO OR THREE, ET CETERA, THEY GRADUALLY GET SMALLER IN TERMS OF 25,000, SORRY, 25,000.
AND THEY GRADUALLY GET SMALLER.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, R TWO IS 16,000.
SO FOR EACH ZONING DISTRICT, WE HAVE IMPROVED THE PAGE LAYOUT FOR USER FRIENDLINESS.
UM, SO WE'VE TAKEN, UM, A LOT OF WHAT LOOKS LIKE WHAT'S ON THE LEFT, A LOT OF JUST WORDS AND TEXT AND, UM, PUT TOGETHER THESE ONE PAGE SUMMARIES FOR EACH ZONE DISTRICT.
UM, SO THEY WILL HAVE THE PURPOSE STATEMENT OF THE ZONE, AND THEN THEY WILL HAVE A TABLE WITH THE LOT AND BUILDING, UM, STANDARDS IN IT AS WELL AS A REPRESENTATIVE GRAPHIC OF THE ZONING DISTRICT.
UM, AND, UH, THE LABELS ACCOMPANY THE LAWTON BUILDING TABLE, SO IT'LL SHOW YOU FRONT SETBACK, REAR SETBACK, UM, SO ON AND SO FORTH.
AND, UM, SOMETHING THAT I WANNA MENTION IS THAT, UM, THESE GRAPHICS ARE MEANT TO BE EXEMPLARY.
THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE, YOU KNOW, WHAT SHOULD BE BUILT OR WHAT IS CURRENTLY THERE.
UM, IT'S JUST SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF THAT DISTRICT.
SO IF AS YOU'RE READING THROUGH THESE, UM, YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS ABOUT HOW THOSE BUILDINGS ARE SHOWN OR WHAT TYPE OF BUILDING, HOW TALL IT IS, THAT SORT OF THING, WE WELCOME THE, THAT FEEDBACK AS WELL.
UM, SOME, ANOTHER THING TO MENTION, UM, CHANGE FOR THE RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS IS WE HAVE, UM, PROPOSED REMOVING THE MINIMUM DWELLING SIZE EXCEPT, UM, FOR MULTIFAMILY USES.
UM, AND THEN THE MIXED USE ZONING DISTRICTS.
SO THESE ARE FUNDAMENTALLY BASED OFF OF YOUR UC AND BL CURRENT DISTRICTS, WHICH ARE, UM, THE ADDISON CIRCLE AS WELL AS BELTLINE, UM, AREAS.
AND AGAIN, THESE ARE ONES THAT HAVE THESE SPECIFIC SUB-DISTRICTS THAT WE'VE TAKEN AND, UM, CONVERTED INTO JUST BASIC, UM, BASE DISTRICT STANDARDS.
AND SO THERE ARE FOUR TIERS OF MIXED USE DISTRICTS STARTING AT NEIGHBORHOOD, MOVING INTO THAT SUBURBAN CORRIDOR.
UM, THEN THE URBAN CORRIDOR AND THEN MIXED USE CENTER.
WE HAVE REPLACED WHAT IS CURRENTLY A BUILD TO LINE.
AND SO THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM A, A MINIMUM BUILDING SETBACK IS THE MINIMUM.
A BUILDING MUST BE SET BACK ON A SITE VERSUS A BUILD TO LINE MEANS THE BUILDING MUST BE BUILT TO THAT LINE.
SO THEY'RE KIND OF THE OPPOSITE OF EACH OTHER IN A WAY.
ONE IS A MINIMUM, ONE IS A MAXIMUM, ESSENTIALLY.
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TO LINE STANDARDS ARE VERY SPECIFIC.IT SAYS ZERO FEET OR FIVE FEET.
AND SO THAT CAN LIMIT SOME FLEXIBILITY AND CREATIVITY IN DESIGN FOR DEVELOPERS.
SO WE'VE REPLACED IT WITH A BUILD TO RANGE.
SO RATHER THAN SAYING YOUR BUILDING HAS TO BE BUILT AT ZERO FEET, WE SAY IT CAN BE BUILT BETWEEN ZERO AND 10, NO FURTHER BACK THAN 10.
BUT BETWEEN THOSE, UM, THAT WAY, AND THESE ARE IN THE MIXED USE DISTRICTS 'CAUSE IT'S REALLY TRYING TO GET AT PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY, ACTIVE FRONTAGES, BUT STILL ALLOWING SEATING AREAS OR JUST, UM, SOME CREATIVITY IN THE ACTUAL DESIGN OF THE BUILDING.
CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION? HMM.
GO BACK JUST A COUPLE SLIDES YEP.
SO REMOVING THE MINIMUM DWELLING SIZE, IS THAT TO JUST REMOVING THE, THAT MINIMUM SIZE TO THE R ONE AND THE R FOUR AND HOW DOES, HOW, HOW DOES IT, HOW DOES THAT AFFECT A PLAN DEVELOPMENT THAT MIGHT ALREADY HAVE MINIMUM DWELLING SIZES? THE, WE'VE RECOMMENDED REMOVING IT FOR ALL RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS.
IF THERE IS A PD THAT HAS THAT AS PART OF ITS APPROVAL, THAT WILL REMAIN IN PLACE, THAT WILL STILL BE A REQUIREMENT SINCE THEY ESSENTIALLY HAVE THEIR OWN ZONING DISTRICT, THEY'RE NOT IN A RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICT.
AND, UH, SO THE, BECAUSE YOU'RE, YOU'RE ENCOURAGING US TO NOT DO SO MUCH PDS GOING FORWARD, AND THEN LIKELY THINGS WOULD BE R ONE OR R TWO OR SOMETHING.
OKAY, THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.
MM-HMM,
SO ARE YOU SEEING A TREND IN TEXAS DEVELOPMENT MORE ON THE SIDE OF M TWOS WHERE YOU'RE, YOU'RE GIVEN THE SETBACK, LIKE YOU SAID, ZERO TO FIVE FEET VERSUS THE FUTURE IS CALLING FOR THAT VERSUS IT BEING MORE FLEXIBILITY, I GUESS FOR THE DEVELOPER? I'D SAY TWO THINGS.
UM, YEAH, I, I DO THINK WE'RE SEEING AN INTEREST IN, UM, THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY ABOUT WANTING TO BE CREATIVE AND NOT JUST HAVE COOKIE COUNTER DEVELOPMENT THAT'S THE SAME BLOCK FACE ON EVERY SITE.
AND SO THAT BLOCK, UH, RANGE, THAT, THAT FRONTAGE RANGE ALLOWS A, UM, A MORE VARIETY IN THEIR, IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT.
BUT THE OTHER THING IS THAT THE CURRENT CODE, IT, IT'S KIND OF A WEIRD MIXTURE OF SPECIFICITY AND NOT TO NOT, AND, AND AND CONFUSION.
UM, THERE'S PLACES THAT IT SAYS 75% OF THE BLOCK FACE HAS TO BE AT X AND THEN THE REMAINING 20%, 20% HAS TO BE, UM, YOU KNOW, WITHIN FIVE TO 25 FEET, WHICH IS A HUGE RANGE.
AND SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE NEW DRAFT IS TRY TO SIMPLIFY THAT WHOLE SYSTEM AND SAY, YEAH, YOU CAN USE A BUILDING BUILD TWO RANGE, BUT IT'S A SMALLER RANGE, IT'S LIKE FIVE TO 15, SO IT'S NOT FIVE TO 25 LIKE YOU CURRENTLY HAVE.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET, MAINTAIN THAT FLEXIBILITY, WHICH IS A MARKET TREND, BUT ALSO MAKE IT EASIER TO ADMINISTER.
THANK I, I SORT OF LOOK AT THE TWO DEVELOPMENTS.
THE GROVE WHERE YOU LOOK AT THAT NEW THAT TO OPEN WHERE THEIR BUSINESS, I THINK ON THE BOTTOM AND RESIDENTIAL ON THAT TOP, AND THEY'RE LITERALLY ON THE SIDEWALK OF BELTWAY OR BELTLINE.
AND THEN I LOOK AT TREEHOUSE, IT'S COMING AND IT'S NOT ON THE SIDEWALK ON MIDWAY, SO I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF THE TOWN HAD A PREFERENCE OR IS THERE A VIEWING OF THAT IN TERMS OF WHAT THE FUTURE SHOULD LOOK LIKE 20 YEARS FROM NOW VERSUS WHAT THE GROVE LOOKED LIKE IN PLANNING 10 YEARS AGO? I THINK THAT WHAT THEY'RE, WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO IS MAKE IT SO THAT THERE IS MORE FLEXIBILITY.
'CAUSE I KNOW AT ONE TIME A LOT OF THAT STUFF WAS, THEY'RE TRYING TO PUSH STUFF UP ONTO THE ROADS AND THEY SAID, HERE'S OUR LINE, THAT'S WHERE YOU NEED TO BE.
AND SO THESE DEVELOPERS CAME IN AND THEY SAID, OKAY, IT'S PERFECTLY STRAIGHT LINE AND THIS IS WHAT IT IS.
AND IT DOESN'T, IT DOESN'T LEND TO ANY GOOD ARCHITECTURE.
IT DOESN'T LEND TO ANY KIND OF, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T MAKE IT PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY AND INTERESTING WHEN EVERYTHING'S JUST FLAT PLANE ACROSS THERE.
THAT'S WHY THE ONE ON BELTLINE, LITERALLY, I THINK GQ AND I WERE DRIVING ONCE AND I POINTED IT OUT.
I SAID, THAT LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE I COULD HAND YOU THE SPOON ON THE SIDEWALK.
WELL, AND THAT, AND THAT'S WHY A LOT OF THIS STUFF IS WHEN IT WAS LIKE THERE WAS NO BLACK OR WHITE.
IT WAS, I MEAN, IT WAS, IT WAS JUST YOU HAD TO BUILD TO HERE KIND OF THING.
AND THEN IT'S HARD FOR STAFF TO KEEP UP WITH, RIGHT.
WITH 20% AND THEY'RE OUT THERE CALCULATING.
AND HOW MUCH OF A, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH OF THE BUILDING IS, IS IT 20% AND HOW ARE YOU MEASURING THE 20% IS, YOU KNOW, IS THAT THE FUTURE VISION? DAVID, I PROBABLY SHOULD ASK YOU THAT.
IS THAT THE VISION WHERE WE WANT EVERYTHING ON SIDEWALK OR OFF SIDEWALK? LIKE WHAT THE TCC PROJECT THAT'S COMING IS NOT ON SIDEWALK, IT'S OFF.
I'LL, I'LL LET LESLIE GIVE SOME A DETAILED ANSWER.
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IS, I THINK WHAT, WHAT YOU'RE KIND OF GETTING AT TO SOME DEGREE IS A BENEFIT OF THE FACT THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROCESS AT THE SAME TIME.'CAUSE I THINK WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE IN A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROCESS ARE A LOT OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING RIGHT NOW TOO, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT ALL THE DISTRICTS AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA SEE PICTURES OF WHAT IS, WHEN WE SAY MIXED USE, WHEN WE SAY THE, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? AND HERE'S SOME EXAMPLES.
SO I THINK THAT LENDS ITSELF TO HAVE THAT COMMUNITY CONVERSATION OF WHAT DO WE WANT.
SO I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GONNA GET SOME OF THAT ANSWER.
AS FAR AS SPECIFICS, LESLIE, CERTAINLY JUMP IN.
SO I'D ADD THAT THERE'S A LOT OF CONTEXT.
SO THERE COULD BE AREAS OF BELTLINE WHERE IT IS MORE FRIENDLY TO HAVE THAT BUILDING CLOSER, OR EVEN, I MEAN, IN ADDISON CIRCLE, WE DON'T HAVE MANY BUILDINGS THAT HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT SETBACK AND IT PROVIDES A VERY LIKE PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY AND RICH ENVIRONMENT.
SO I THINK IT JUST DEPENDS UPON CONTEXT, WHICH IS WHY WE WANT TO BUILD IN A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBILITY AND THEN WHERE IT MAY BE UNREASONABLE, THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO FURTHER EVALUATE AND, AND GET FEEDBACK FROM COUNCIL AT THAT TIME.
UM, BUT AS FAR AS HAVING THAT KIND OF IN OUR BASE MIXED USE STANDARD, UM, WE WOULD WANT TO ENCOURAGE, UM, FROM, FROM STAFF'S PERSPECTIVE, THE KIND OF BASE REQUIREMENT AS LEANING TOWARDS PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY AND GIVING THEM THAT FLEXIBILITY WHERE IT MAY NOT MAKE AS MUCH SENSE TO BE RIGHT ON THE PROPERTY LINE, OR MAYBE THEY WANNA PULL IT BACK AND HAVE A PATIO.
THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE.
UM, BUT, BUT WE WANNA PROVIDE THAT RANGE TO DETERMINE WHAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE.
AND THEN BEYOND THAT, THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO THE DEEPER ANALYSIS.
YEAH, I JUST THINK AS, AS IF WE, IF WE'RE GONNA BE INTERESTED IN SCHOOLS, LIKE WESTWOOD SCHOOL IS NOW COMING TO ADDISON AND WE WANT FAMILIES MOVING HERE, AND I'M A PARENT AND MY FRONT DOOR IS LITERALLY ON BELTLINE, I DON'T KNOW IF I'D WANNA RENT OR IF THERE'S TOWN HOME CAPABILITIES LIKE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH COBALT OR OTHER DEVELOPERS, I DON'T THINK I'D BE LOOKING FOR THAT AS A VIABLE OPTION VERSUS SOMETHING THAT'S SET BACK IF WE'RE ATTRACTING YOUNG COUPLES TO COME AND WE'RE DOING THESE, I MEAN, YOU'RE MAKING SOME GENERALITIES THERE.
I MEAN, PEOPLE FROM NEW YORK CITY ARE USED TO THAT ALL DAY LONG AND, AND THIS IS SUCH A BIG METROPLEX NOW OF PEOPLE COMING FROM DIFFERENT PLACES THAT THAT'S JUST A PERSONAL CHOICE.
NOT, I DON'T THINK A CITY TAKES A STANCE ON TO THAT LEVEL OF YEAH.
YEAH, I JUST THINK IT DEPENDS UPON CONTEXT.
THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT CONTEXT REGARDLESS OF WHO THE USER IS.
UM, AND, AND OBVIOUSLY WE, THAT'S WHY WE GO THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND SEE AND, AND EVALUATE THE CONTEXT AND, AND THE POSSIBLE IMPACTS AND SEE WHAT'S APPROPRIATE.
I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS A TREND.
IT SEEMS, IT SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD PROVIDE MORE OPTIONS IN THE FUTURE.
UM, BUT I CAN WE GO BACK TO SLIDE 39 IF WE COULD ON THIS, UH, UH, R ONE REMOVED MINIMUM DWELLING SIZE.
AND, AND MY, MY CONCERN IS, AND I DON'T KNOW ALL THE VARIOUS PDS AND THEREFORE I HAVEN'T GOT THAT MEMORIZED, BUT, UM, IF, IF THERE'S A TEAR DOWN IN, IN ONE OF OUR RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS AND WE'VE REMOVED THE MINIMUM DWELLING SIZE, MIGHT THAT CAUSE A PROBLEM? IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUILD A, A HOME THAT'S MAYBE HALF THE SIZE OF, OF, UM, THE OTHERS IN THAT, IN WHATEVER THAT NEIGHBORHOOD IS, RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, TYPICALLY THE OTHER ONE, UM, IS THAT A, IS THAT A, IS THAT IT'S AN EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.
I MEAN, IT COULD BE A MORE, UH, YOU KNOW, AFFORDABLE OPTION, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY WANT AFFORDABLE OPTION THAT THEY WANNA BUILD ON THE SITE.
I, I THINK THIS WHOLE CHANGE WAS PART OF THE PACKAGE OF, UM, HOUSING OPTIONS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AND TRYING TO REMOVE, UH, BARRIERS TO DIFFERENT HOUSING OPTIONS IN THE CODE.
AND THOSE MINIMUM HOUSING SIZES CAN BE EXCLUSIONARY AND THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, LIMIT PREDICTABILITY.
AND A LOT OF TIMES YOU SEE, UH, PLACES WANTING TO GO TO SMALLER DWELLINGS, THEY'RE EASIER TO MAINTAIN.
THEY'RE MM-HMM,
I, YEAH, I COULD SEE IT MAYBE DESIRABLE FOR, FOR THE, THE NEW BUYER, BUT NOT, NOT FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO THE ONE THING I'LL ADD IS WE ARE AS DRAFTED PROPOSING TO MAINTAIN THE MINIMUM LOT SIZE.
SO IN MOST AREAS YOU WOULD STILL MAINTAIN, WHETHER IT'S, IF IT'S NOT WITHIN A PD I SHOULD SAY THAT CURRENTLY HAS THOSE STANDARDS, UM, YOU WOULD MAINTAIN THAT MINIMUM LOT SIZE.
SO SOMEONE COULD POTENTIALLY BUILD A SMALLER HOME IF THEY WISH TO.
UM, HOWEVER, IT'S NOT, THE MARKET WOULD LIKELY NOT SUPPORT SOMETHING LIKE THAT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ADD IN THE FACT THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIND OF, UH, SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF, UM, VACANT,
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UNDEVELOPED LAND WHERE WE WOULD SEE WE WHERE LARGE SINGLE FAMILY SUBDIVISIONS BEING CONSTRUCTED.AND I, I WASN'T, UM, YEAH, I UNDERSTAND.
I WASN'T REALLY THINKING OF LARGE UNDEVELOPED LAND.
I'M, I'M FAMILIAR WITH WHAT WE HAVE, BUT, UM, I AM, UH, VERY FOCUSED ON, UM, JUST WOULDN'T REALLY TAKE THAT MUCH.
I MEAN, AT SOME POINT WE, WE ARE GONNA HAVE REDEVELOPMENT OF, OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
I I KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA SEE THAT, RIGHT? AND THERE'S GONNA BE HOMES THAT ARE GONNA BE SCRAPED AND, AND A NEW HOME, A A BIGGER HOME.
UM, AND SO I WOULD, I THINK WE NEED TO BE, UH, CONCERNED ABOUT THAT IN OUR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREAS THAT, THAT THERE IS, UM, SOME TYPE OF MINIMUMS AND MAYBE IN SOME CASES SOME KIND OF MAXIMUM.
RIGHT? UM, IF I MOVED TO MIDWAY MEADOWS AND WANTED TO BUILD A THREE STORY HOME, I, I DON'T THINK PEOPLE WOULD BE, UH, TOO, TOO THRILLED WITH THAT.
UM, OR IF I WANTED TO BUILD IN, IN, UH, ONE OF OUR, OUR MORE, UH, MOST EXPENSIVE AREAS IF I WANTED TO, TO BUILD A LITTLE 1000, UH, SQUARE FOOT DWELLING, UM, I KNOW WE'VE GOT SOME AREAS THAT WOULD NOT BE HAPPY.
SO THAT, THAT'S JUST A THOUGHT I'M GONNA SHARE WITH EVERYBODY.
SO WE ARE, AND, AND I UNDERSTAND YOUR, YOUR CONCERN.
UM, I WILL SAY THAT WHILE I DON'T THINK YOUR CONCERN IS, UM, YOUR CONCERN IS VALID, THE ONE WAY WE TRY TO REGULATE THOSE, SOME OF THE THINGS YOU MENTIONED IS THE OTHER DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.
SO, UM, WE HAVE SIMILAR HEIGHT, SIMILAR SETBACKS, SO THE, THE FEEL OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD FEELS SIMILAR IN THAT REGARD.
HOWEVER, UM, JUST LIKE WE CURRENTLY HAVE, WE HAVE A VARIETY OF, UM, LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS USED ON, ON MANY OF OUR RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT HOW THEY'RE DEVELOPED IN TERMS OF THE, THE AREA AND ON THE LOT IS SIMILAR.
SO THAT'S ONE WAY TO SOME OF OF THOSE CONCERNS ARE ADDRESSED.
UM, THE OTHER THING I'LL ADD IS IT'S NOT AS COMMON IN PLANNING ANYMORE TO USE MINIMUM DWELLING SIZE.
I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT MEANS IT'S NOT RIGHT FOR ADDISON, I JUST SAY IT'S NOT AS COMMON OF A PRACTICE TO ADD THOSE INTO NEW CODE.
I HAVE A QUESTION THAT'S KIND OF, OOPS, WE GOING, I WOULD JUST SAY MINE, MY THOUGHT IS NOT, NOT ADDING, IT'S, UH, NOT REMOVING.
SO MINE'S KIND OF TWOFOLD, WHICH I THINK LESLIE STARTED TO HIT ON IT.
IS YOUR DEFINITION IN THIS CONTEXT HERE, SQUARE FOOTAGE OR FOOTPRINT OF THE BUILDING, DWELLING SIZE FOOTPRINT OR SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE BUILDING? ARE WE TALKING SIZE WITHIN THE LOT OR HOW MUCH SQUARE FOOTAGE IS ON? I THINK THE CURRENT CODE REGULATES SIZE OF SQUARE FOOTAGE INSIDE THE BUILDING.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE CURRENT CODE, RIGHT? OKAY.
NEXT I GOT A COUPLE THAT ARE TAGGING ONTO THIS.
TOWNHOUSE DEVELOPMENT FALLS INTO SINGLE FAMILY ZONING MORE SO THAN MULTI IF IT'S FEE SIMPLE OWNERSHIP, I GUESS IS WHAT I'M THE FOR SALE STUFF, RIGHT? WE'RE GONNA FALL IN THIS SITUATION.
I THINK WE MAINTAINED MINIMUM SIZES BECAUSE WE WERE CONSIDERING THEM MULTIFAMILY IN THIS CONTEXT.
AND SO YOU ARE CONSIDERING THEM MULTIFAMILY IN THIS CONTEXT? I THINK THAT'S THE WAY IT'S DRAFTED NOW.
THEN MY NEXT QUESTION IS, WELL, MULTI MULTI-UNIT I SHOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S MORE THAN A SINGLE UNIT.
SO THEN THE NEXT QUESTION IS WHY ARE YOU EXCLUDING MULTI FROM THIS CONVERSATION? I MEAN, THE, THE, THE INDUSTRY HAS GONE TO A MUCH SMALLER SIZE IN GENERAL.
I MEAN JUST, AND, AND THE MORE DENSE YOUR AREAS GET AND THE MORE, YOU KNOW, INFILL YOU ARE, YOUR UNITS WILL GET SMALLER YOU TALKING ABOUT.
SO YOU CAN EITHER DO MORE, I MEAN, I'M JUST CURIOUS OF THE LOGIC THAT WENT INTO ALL THE MULTIFAMILY.
I, IT'S A LITTLE SURPRISING TO ME THAT WOULD BE AN EXCEPTION.
I'M TRYING TO RECALL THE EVOLUTION OF THIS CONVERSATION.
UM, I I DON'T THINK WE HAVE, THE QUESTION I'D ADD FOR DENISE IS, AUSTIN'S GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW WITH MICRO HOMES, CORRECT? CORRECT.
WE CAN ALLOW MICRO HOMES IN 20 YEARS, OR 10 YEARS OR TWO YEARS FROM NOW.
THAT TIES INTO MARLIN'S QUESTION.
BUT THE REALITY IS, IS, IS BUT WORLD'S CHANGING.
I MEAN, BUT A LOT OF THAT STUFF THOUGH IS CONTROLLED BY LOT SIZE.
RIGHT? SOMEBODY'S NOT GONNA GO AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN A LOT'S WORTH $200,000, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO PUT $50,000 HOUSE ON IT.
I MEAN, SO A LOT OF IT GETS CONTROLLED JUST BY THE, THE, YOU KNOW, LOT SIZES THAT YOU BUT IN OAKS NORTH, WOULD SOMEBODY WANT TO SEE ED? WOULD YOU WANT TO SEE A MICRO HOME BE PUT IN YOUR, IN A NEIGHBOR'S BACKYARD AND
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THEN SOLD TOTHAT'S KIND OF THE POINT I'M GETTING AT IS IF SOMEONE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SAID, I'M GONNA TAKE A PARCEL IN MY BACKYARD, I'M GONNA PUT A MICRO HOME ON HERE.
'CAUSE THERE IS NO RESTRICTIONS, IS THAT WHERE THE TOWN'S AGREEING TO GO? IS I THINK WHAT MARLA WAS TRYING TO GET AT? I THINK SOME OF THOSE AREAS MIGHT ALSO HAVE DEED RESTRICTIONS, RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT I STARTED TO SAY ON THERE.
RESTRICTIONS THAT GO WITH THAT, WITH THAT LAND CC AND S AND EVERYTHING.
BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN HOA, THAT STUFF'S NEVER ENFORCED.
I MEAN, WE HAVE IT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
THERE IS NO HA I CAN'T GET THOSE PEOPLE TO CHANGE THE FENCE THAT THEY'RE DOING THE WRONG WAY.
I MEAN, THERE'S NO ENFORCEMENT AT THAT POINT.
WELL, IT MIGHT NOT BE ACROSS THE BOARD, BUT I THINK IN A LOT OF AREAS IT IS.
AND THEY ARE EN ENFORCED IN A LOT OF AREAS.
REMEMBER, YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ZONED R TWO RIGHT NOW THOUGH.
UH, BUT YOU DO HAVE STUFF ZONED R ONE, BUT, SO THAT'S, THAT WAS THE NUMBER.
UM, SO JUST REINFORCING WHAT LESLIE SAID, IT IS, UM, INCREASINGLY UNCOMMON TO SPECIFY THAT COMMUNITIES HAVE USED THAT AS A PROXY FOR HOUSE QUALITY AND FOR EXPECTING A CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC TO MOVE INTO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THOSE HAVE JUST BEEN PROVEN TO BE UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS, UH, AND EASILY DISPROVEN, YOU KNOW, OVER TIME IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PLACES.
TEXAS INCLUDED THAT SAID, THERE'S SOME PLACES THAT STILL WANT TO TRY TO USE MINIMUM HOUSE SIZE AS A PROXY FOR THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA MOVE IN OR THE TYPE OF QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT.
BUT WE TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, MOVE AWAY FROM THAT.
IT'S, THERE'S, THERE'S OTHER WAYS THROUGH DESIGN STANDARDS, THROUGH THE OTHER STANDARDS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN THE CODE OF TRYING TO PROTECT THE QUALITY OF A NEIGHBORHOOD OR THE QUALITY OF AN AREA.
UH, THERE'S OTHER TOOLS, DESIGN STANDARDS.
DALLAS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A PLACE THAT HAS GOT A VERY ROBUST, UM, CONSERVATION DISTRICT PROGRAM, AND THEY'VE IDENTIFIED NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE A VERY CONSISTENT FEEL.
THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY HISTORIC, BUT THEY'VE GOT A CONSISTENT FEEL.
AND SO IF YOU'RE GONNA TEAR SOMETHING DOWN AND YOU'RE GONNA REBUILD THERE, YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE TO HAVE A MINIMUM FACADE APPEARANCE IN A CERTAIN WAY OF A MINIMUM HOUSE WIDTH.
SO THEY'VE, THEY'VE, THEY'VE ADOPTED THOSE KIND OF DESIGN TOOLS TO MAINTAIN THAT CONSISTENCY OVER TIME.
UM, BUT IT'S, IT'S JUST, IT'S INCREASINGLY RARE TO SEE THAT MINIMUM HOUSE SIZE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
IT'S NOT, AGAIN, IT'S NOT TO SAY IT'S THE WRONG THING FOR ADDISON, BUT THAT'S SOME OF THE THINKING THAT WENT INTO THIS.
SOMETHING THAT DENISE BROUGHT OUT THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE IS, IS WE SHOULD PROBABLY ADDRESS IN THE MULTIFAMILY REALM, UH, MICRO UNITS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PUSH IS TO, UH, MAKE HOUSING MORE AFFORDABLE.
AND IF WE HAVE A MAXIMUM OR A MINIMUM SIZE FOR MULTIFAMILY, WE'RE GONNA ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, BE HITTING THE WALL IN TERMS OF COST PER FOOT, THAT SORT OF THING.
HAS, HAVE WE ADDRESSED THAT AT ALL? WELL, WE, WE CARRIED FORWARD, I MEAN THIS IS INCON, THIS IS INCONSISTENT.
WE DID CARRY FORWARD MINIMUM UNIT SIZES FOR MULTIFAMILY UNITS.
IT'S, IT'S BACK IN THE USE SPECIFIC STANDARDS.
SO AN EFFICIENCY IS A MINIMUM OF 450 SQUARE FEET.
UH, ONE BEDROOM IS 600 SQUARE FEET, THREE BEDROOM IS A THOUSAND, ET CETERA.
WELL, I CAN GIVE YOU SOME HARD FACTS.
SOME OF OUR COMPETITION, I BOUGHT A DEAL AT LEGACY AND THEIR SMALLEST UNITS ARE 300 OR 350 SQUARE FEET.
AND THIS WAS OVER 10 YEARS AGO.
THEY WERE THE NUMBER ONE MOST POPULAR UNIT IN THAT APARTMENT COMPLEX WITH A WAIT LIST.
SO I THINK THAT IS WAY TOO BIG OF A THRESHOLD WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
THAT, THAT, THAT'S GOOD FEEDBACK.
UM, ACTUALLY IN THE DRAFTING, WE DID TAKE 'EM DOWN ALREADY.
UM, RIGHT NOW YOU'VE GOT AN EFFICIENCY AT 500 SQUARE FEET, BUT WHEN, THIS WAS BACK WHEN MAYBE EVEN WHEN CHARLES WAS HERE, WE LOOKED AT VITRUVIAN AND WE LOOKED AT ADDISON GROVE, AND SO WE TOOK THAT DOWN TO 450 SQUARE FEET TO REFLECT WHAT AT THE TIME, UH, WAS CURRENT.
MAYBE IT NEEDS TO GO DOWN FURTHER.
AND, AND I MEAN, IF YOU GUYS NEED ME TO GET STATS ON SOME OTHER PLACES, I'D BE HAPPY.
YEAH, IF, IF Y'ALL THINK THAT, UM, YES, THAT FEEDBACK WOULD BE HELPFUL.
DENISE, WHAT DO YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE? LIKE I SAID, I THINK LEGACIES WERE THREE OR THREE 50.
IS THAT WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN MUCH? YEAH, LIKE BIG CITY STUFF TOO.
THAT'S, YEAH, I MEAN, THAT'S ABOUT IT, BUT I'LL, I'LL PULL TO SEE IF I CAN FIND SOME MORE AND, AND I'M GONNA COMPARE IT MORE TO SUBURBS THAN I WOULD LIKE UPTOWN.
TO ME, UPTOWN ISN'T, IT'S NOT EXACTLY THE SAME KIND OF COMP AT THIS POINT, BUT I, I'LL FIND OUT SOME NUMBERS.
20 YEARS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT THEY RAN INTO OVER AT, AT UDR TOO, RIGHT? THE, THE LAST TWO PHASES HAVE BEEN ALL THE
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SMALL, A LOT OF SMALLER UNITS, AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT SOLDSO, I MEAN, THAT GOES BACK TO ED'S COMMENT, IT'S AFFORDABILITY AND, YOU KNOW, YOU GET TO WHERE RENTS GET SO EXPENSIVE HERE, AND IT, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU, IF YOU WANNA LIVE BY YOURSELF, YOU GO TO A SMALLER UNIT OR YOU GOTTA STICK WITH ROOMMATES TO BE ABLE AFFORD TO LIVE HERE FOR SOME PEOPLE, I MEAN, IT, IT'S A GREAT CONVERSATION.
THESE ARE THE 2019 NUMBERS, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, SO THE MARKET HAS CHANGED A LOT AS, YOU KNOW, JUST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS ON THESE.
UM, SO I, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT THAT THAT'S A GOOD PLACE WE SHOULD STEP BACK IN AND BE MORE AGGRESSIVE.
YEAH, I THINK THIS DISCUSSION ON MINIMUM DWELLING SIZE IS, IS NEEDS TO GO ON BECAUSE I HAVE THE SAME, SAME CONCERNS IN THAT SCENARIO.
HOUSE BURNS DOWN ON ONE OF THE ESTATE PROPERTIES BIG LOT AND EVERYTHING ELSE KIND OF CONFORMS WITH THAT, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE ALL CUSTOM, THE PERSON THAT THAT OWNS IT DECIDES, WELL, I'M JUST GONNA MOVE AND I'M GONNA RETIRE SOMEWHERE.
I'M GONNA SELL THE LOT AND SOMEBODY HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO GO BUY THE LOT AND THEY GOT A COUPLE, ANOTHER COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
WELL, THEY'RE JUST GONNA GO BUILD A LITTLE 1800 SQUARE FOOT COTTAGE TO FIT THAT MEETS ALL THE OTHER EXTERIOR REQUIREMENTS AND HEIGHT OR WHATEVER.
UM, I CAN PROMISE YOU THE NEIGHBORS THAT LIVE OVER THERE WOULD NOT BE HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
AND THEY WOULD, AND THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD PUSH BACK IN A BIG WAY.
AND IF, IF OUR ROLE IS TO HELP PROTECT PROPERTY VALUES HERE, THAT'S, THAT THAT CONVERSATION NEEDS TO CONTINUE.
SO I'M, I'M NOT REALLY THAT COMFORTABLE WITH THAT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE IS GONNA BE THAT, A SCENARIO LIKE THAT OR A REDEVELOPMENT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT BUILDING NEW SUBDIVISIONS.
SO I THINK WE COULD DEFINITELY, UH, TAKE A STAB AT IT AND THEN HAVE YOU ALL, EVERYONE, UH, COMMENT ON DURING THE CONSOLIDATED DRAFT ON KIND OF AN UPDATED PROPOSAL ON THAT SPECIFIC TOPIC, BUT WE'LL BE SURE TO READDRESS IT MOVING FORWARD.
I'M GONNA MOVE US ALONG INTO OUR NON-RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS.
SO THIS IS ESSENTIALLY EVERYTHING ELSE.
IT INCLUDES THE COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS, THE INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS, AS WELL AS THE AIRPORT DISTRICT.
UM, AND THEN THE NEW DISTRICT HERE IS COMMUNITY FACILITIES.
UM, SO THAT WOULD BE THINGS LIKE, UM, THAT AREN'T PARKS AND OPEN SPACE, BUT THAT ARE TOWN RUN.
SO COMMUNITY CENTERS OR UTILITIES, UM, THOSE SORTS OF PROPERTIES.
SOMETHING TO HIGHLIGHT IN THESE DISTRICTS.
WE HAVE INCLUDED IMPERVIOUS SURFACE COVERAGE STANDARDS, UM, FOR ALL OF THE DISTRICTS.
SO THE MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF LAND THAT CAN BE COVERED BY STRUCTURES, BUILDINGS, ET CETERA.
UM, AND THEN, UM, I MENTIONED A LITTLE BIT OF THIS EARLIER, BUT WE HAVE ADJUSTED THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT STANDARDS, UM, TO CLARIFY THAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A UNIQUE TOOL FOR UNIQUE PROJECTS.
UM, AND SO WITH THAT, THERE IS A REQUIREMENT THAT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT THAT WANTS TO BE REZONED TO PD HAS TO PROVIDE PUBLIC BENEFITS IN EXCHANGE FOR THAT EXTRA FLEXIBILITY IT'S GETTING.
AND WE'VE ALSO ESTABLISHED SOME QUALIFYING CRITERIA TO BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
UM, IT CANNOT BE LOCATED IN THE MIXED USE CENTER DISTRICT.
UM, AND IT CANNOT BE, UM, OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO BE DEVELOPED UNDER ONE OF THE BASE DISTRICTS BECAUSE AGAIN, WE ARE TRYING TO UPDATE THE LINEUP OF BASE ZONING DISTRICTS TO BE AS WIDE OF A RANGE AS POSSIBLE AND TO FIT EACH CONTEXT AS BEST POSSIBLE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO CONTINUE HAVING ALL OF THESE SPECIAL SMALL ZONING ORDINANCES FOR STAFF TO ADMINISTER.
ANY LAST THOUGHTS ON ZONING DISTRICTS BEFORE WE MOVE INTO USE REGULATIONS? OKAY, SO THE USE REGULATIONS RIGHT NOW, AGAIN, SIMILAR TO ZONING DISTRICTS, UM, A LOT OF WORDS ON A LOT OF PAGES.
UM, AND WE HAVE CONSOLIDATED THAT INTO ONE USE TABLE.
UM, AND IF YOU REMEMBER, UM, THIS USE TABLE IS ORGANIZED, UM, BY CATEGORY.
SO IT STARTS WITH THE RESIDENTIAL USES AND THEN MOVED THROUGH THE CIVIC USES AND THE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USES.
AND THEN THE ACCESSORY AND TEMPORARY USES ARE ALSO LISTED IN THEIR OWN CATEGORY.
AND EACH OF THOSE MAJOR CATEGORIES HAS SUBCATEGORIES.
SO JUST A WAY TO MAKE IT MORE ORGANIZED AND USER FRIENDLY FOR ANYONE WHO'S LOOKING TO OPEN A BUSINESS OR BUILD, UM, IN ADDISON.
LESLIE, IS THIS WHERE I SHOULD BRING UP MY POINT? UM, YEAH, I THINK ON THE NEXT LINE.
UM, AND JUST REAL QUICK, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS RIGHT NOW, IT'S VERY COLORFUL AND IT'S A LOT TO LOOK AT, UM, IN THE FINAL VERSION OF THIS AND, YOU KNOW, THE ADOPTED CODE, UM, THERE WILL NOT BE THIS
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GREEN COLORING.WHAT THAT IS, IS A WAY TO TRACK THE CHANGES THAT WE'VE PROPOSED BASED ON CURRENT USE ALLOWANCES.
SO THE RED MEANS THAT IT'S LESS PERMISSIVE THAN THE CURRENT CODE.
THE GREEN MEANS THAT IT'S MORE PERMISSIVE OR THAT WE'VE RECOMMENDED A COMPLETELY NEW USE THAT DOES NOT CURRENTLY EXIST IN, UM, ADDISON'S CODE.
UM, SO SOME OF THOSE NEW USE TYPES ARE LISTED HERE.
I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH EVERY ONE OF THEM, BUT REALLY THESE ARE WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN MODERN ZONING CODES AND, UM, THINGS THAT ADDISON DID NOT HAVE, UM, THAT WE'VE ADDED.
AND EACH OF THESE, IN ADDITION TO ALL THE OTHER USES HAS A SPECIFIC DEFINITION.
UM, AND SO THINGS LIKE COTTAGE DEVELOPMENT IN ADUS, THOSE GO ALONG WITH, UM, WHAT MATT MENTIONED EARLIER OF TRYING TO OFFER SOME MORE CREATIVE AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING, UM, TO INCREASE, UM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFFORDABLE OPTIONS.
AND THEN, UM, SOME OTHER THINGS ON THIS SLIDE, UM, VEHICLE REPAIR THAT'S ON THERE, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, UM, WE'VE, RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST VEHICLE REPAIR, BUT WE HAVE, UM, RECOMMENDED TWO DIFFERENT TIERS.
ONE IS MINOR, ONE IS MAJOR, UM, AND I'VE GOT A FEW SPECIFIC SLIDES RELATED TO RESTAURANTS, LODGING USES AND VEHICLE RELATED USES.
UM, BUT IF ANYONE HAS ANY COMMENTS ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE, WE, WE ARE MISSING RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION CHURCHES BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN THROUGH THAT BATTLE RECENTLY AND, AND IT NEEDS TO GET ADDRESSED.
UM, SO IT'S PAGE 44, IF, IS THAT A NEW ADD-ON, BECAUSE THAT BECAME A BIG DISCUSSION POINT PREVIOUSLY IN SOME ZONING CASES THAT CAME THROUGH.
AND IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE HAD BEEN ADVISED THAT WE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE PROPER CODES FOR IT.
I'M NOT ACCORDING, ACCORDING THAT'S RIGHT.
IT'S, IT WAS ONLY ALLOWED BY SEP.
YEAH, WE HEARD THAT A FEW TIMES IN OUR STANDARD CODE.
BUT IT MAY HAVE BEEN ALLOWED IN BELT LINE.
SORRY, WE'RE RECALLING SOME OF THE, THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD.
SO THIS WAS PREVIOUSLY THE PLACE OF WORSHIP WAS A, A USE THAT WAS DRAFTED ORIGINALLY.
I CAN'T TELL YOU EVERY SINGLE CHANGE THAT HAS OCCURRED AND AT WHAT TIME IT HAS CHANGED.
I CAN SHOW YOU, I CAN TELL YOU WHAT'S CURRENTLY PROPOSED THIS EVENING AND HOW IT IS CHANGED FROM OUR, FROM WHAT THE CURRENT CODE IS.
SO CURRENTLY IT REQUIRES A SPECIAL USE IN EVERY DISTRICT, I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE IT IS ALLOWED IN THE BELTLINE DISTRICT CURRENTLY.
UM, AND SO AS PROPOSED, UM, GENERALLY IT IS ALLOWED IN OUR NON-RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS PERMITTED BY WRIGHT, EXCUSE ME, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE AIRPORT AND OUR, UM, LIKE COMMUNITY FACILITIES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THEN IT IS ALLOWED IN SOME OF OUR MIXED USE DISTRICTS BY WRIGHT AND THEN BY SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN THE M1 DISTRICT.
AND THEN ALLOWED BY SPECIAL USE WITHIN OUR RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS, R ONE THROUGH FIVE, R FIVE, BECAUSE I KNOW IT WAS TOLD, WE WERE TOLD THAT, THAT IT'S AN ALLOWED USE, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY ZONING FOR IT.
SO IT HAS TO HAVE A SPECIAL USE PERMIT EVERY TIME, WHICH SEEMS TO MAKE IT CHALLENGING.
AND EVERY TIME YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE AN SUP.
SO TODAY IN OUR CURRENT CODE, IT AS STATED, IT SAYS, UH, RELIGIOUS, I BELIEVE IT'S RELIGIOUS OR PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS MAY BE PERMITTED BY SPECIAL BY APPROVAL OF A SPECIAL USE PERMIT AT ANY DISTRICT.
SO ESSENTIALLY THAT JUST MEANS THAT THE PLANNING, ZONING, COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL CAN REVIEW A REQUEST FOR ANY OF THOSE USES IN ANY DISTRICT, AND IT NEEDS TO BE EVALUATED WHETHER IT IT'S APPROPRIATE OR NOT.
UM, SO AND THAT'S, UM, IS THAT THE NORM? WOULD IT MAKE MORE, WOULD IT MAKE SENSE FOR US TO HAVE ZONING, SPECIFIC ZONING FOR YEAH, AND THAT'S WHY WE ADDED IT AS A NEW LINE IN THE, IN THE TABLE.
WHAT, WHAT YOU WANT TO BE CAREFUL OF IS, IS NOT BEING MORE RESTRICTIVE ON RELIGIOUS USES THAN YOU ARE ON OTHER PLACES OF ASSEMBLY.
BUT YOU'RE A SPECIAL USE PERMIT.
IT, I MEAN, TO ME THAT SEEMS WAY MORE RESTRICTIVE.
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I THINK IF YOU, IF I COULD JUST JUMP IN QUICKLY, AND LESLIE MENTIONED IF YOU, IF YOU REFERENCE PAGE 44, I THINK IT'LL HELP THE DISCUSSION BECAUSE YOU CAN GO THERE AND SEE THAT THIS IS CHANGING TO SAY IT'S ALLOWED IN MORE PLACES WITHOUT AN SUP.SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT, AND I'M JUST ECHOING WHAT LESLIE SAID, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT THERE MORE CLEARLY IT'S STILL REQUIRED AND SUP IS STILL REQUIRED IN RESIDENTIAL USE.
I THINK THAT'S A GOOD CONVERSATION FOR THIS GROUP TO HAVE RIGHT NOW.
UM, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT NOW IS ALLOWED IN MIXED USE AND NON-RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND YOU CAN SEE THOSE THERE.
SO I WOULD JUST POINT YOU TO THAT PAGE.
I THINK THAT WILL HELP THIS DISCUSSION.
DAVID, UM, FOLLOW UP QUESTION TO THAT.
WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON? PAGE 44 OF THE ATTACHMENT, NOT THE POWERPOINT SIDE.
THE ATTACHMENT, THE ACTUAL DOC, CORRECT? YEAH, THIS, YOU SWITCH OVER AND NIP THIS
IF YOU GO TO THE TABLE OF ALLOWED USES, WHICH IS 3.2 0.8, CAN WE PULL, CAN WE PULL THAT UP ON THE SCREEN PLEASE? THAT I THINK IT'S PAGE 1 0 6 IN OUR P HEY DAVID, WHILE WE'RE PULLING THAT UP, ARE WE, UH, WEREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT INCLUDING THE DEFINITION OF, UH, PLACES OF WORSHIP IN, IN THIS CODE? I, I BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFINITION IN HERE SOMEWHERE, BUT I'LL LET THEM PULL THAT UP.
THERE IS A DEFINITION IN HERE.
SO, UH, GIVE US JUST A MOMENT.
WE'RE GONNA PULL THE USE TABLE UP ON THE SCREEN.
IT'S GONNA TAKE US JUST ONE MOMENT.
AND I THINK MATT CAN SHARE THE DEFINITION OF THAT WHILE WE GET THAT GOING.
UH, PLACE OF WORSHIP IS STRUCTURES AND OUTDOOR OR INDOOR FACILITIES USED FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP AND ACCESSORY EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES.
CAN YOU MOVE YOUR MIC A LITTLE BIT? JUST YOUR OFF THERE.
AND PLACE OF WORSHIP IS DEFINED AS STRUCTURES AND OUTDOOR OR INDOOR FACILITIES USED FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP AND ACCESSORY, EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES.
AND THAT WAS A COM THAT WAS A COMBINED DEFINITION THAT WE BUILT OFF OF THREE OR FOUR THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR CURRENT CODE, INCLUDING RELIGIOUS AND PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER PUBLIC ASSEMBLY.
IS IT, IS IT NICOLE? IS IT NICOLE? IS THAT NICOLE? CAN YOU WEIGH IN ON THIS? 'CAUSE WE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATION OF THIS AND IT WASN'T YOU, 'CAUSE YOUR COUNTERPART IS WHO WAS THE P AND Z.
SHE WAS VERY INVOLVED IN THAT IN THE DISCUSSION.
YEAH, I'M JUST SAYING THAT OUR CONVERSATION WAS WITH A DIFFERENT BENCH ONE.
SO CAN YOU WEIGH IN ON THIS TOPIC? SURE.
WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO WEIGH IN ON
UM, SO WHAT WE DON'T WANNA DO IS PREVENT IT FROM BEING ALLOWED, PERIOD.
AND HOW WE DO THAT IS WE ALLOW IT IN DISTRICTS, WE CAN EITHER DO IT ONE OR TWO WAYS.
WE CAN JUST ALLOW IT AS A MATTER OF RIGHT PERIOD, OR WE CAN PUT IT IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS.
BUT THAT'S UP TO YOU GUYS HOW YOU WANNA DO THAT.
WHAT WE CAN'T DO IS JUST COMPLETELY IGNORE IT.
AND SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, AS WE, NOW, WE HAVE THIS SLIDE UP AND YOU CAN SEE IT.
THIS IS ALREADY RECOMMENDING TO CHANGE OUR CURRENT PRACTICE.
WE'RE ALREADY SAYING WE ARE NOT GONNA CONTINUE TO SAY IT ONLY IS ALLOWED BY SUP.
SO NOW YOU CAN SEE UP HERE WHERE WE'RE SAYING AN SUP WOULD BE REQUIRED AND WHERE IT'S, IT'S IT'S, IT'S ALLOWED.
SO A CONVERSATION TO HAVE IS WE'VE ALREADY, WE'VE ALL AGREED THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE FROM OUR CURRENT PRACTICE.
AND NOW A GOOD CONVERSATION TO HAVE IS ARE WE COMFORTABLE SAYING SUP AND RESIDENTIAL, ARE WE COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT'S UP HERE? SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE A PRODUCTIVE PART OF THE CONVERSATION.
HAVE YOU WALKED THROUGH THAT LINE, LESLIE? YEAH.
SO, UM, AS YOU SEE ON YOUR LEFT, THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THE, UM, LEASE INTENSE RESIDENTIAL USES, SO STARTING AT R ONE, WE HAVE SPECIAL USE PERMIT REQUIRED R ONE THROUGH R FIVE.
SO THAT WOULD GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO EVALUATE, UM, ALL THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS WHEN ADJACENT TO PRIMARILY RESI SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
AS WE MOVE THROUGH OUR MIXED USE DISTRICTS, WHICH ARE TOWARDS THE CENTER OF THE PAGE, UH, SPECIAL USE PERMIT IS REQUIRED IN THE R ONE AS DRAFTED.
THEY WOULD BE PERMITTED IN THE M TWO AND M FOUR DISTRICT.
THEY WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE M THREE AND
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THEN THEY WOULD BE, UH, PERMITTED BY WRIGHT WITHIN THE, UM, COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS, COMMERCIAL LIMITED AND COMMERCIAL GENERAL AND AS WELL AS THE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL, THEY'LL BE PERMITTED BY RIGHT OR EXCUSE ME, PERMITTED BY SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN THE AIRPORT.AND THOSE ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED TO BE POSSIBLY INCIDENTAL TO LIKE AN FBO OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.
HOWEVER, WE WOULD EVALUATE THOSE AS AS THEY COME.
UM, WE WOULD WANT THEM TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH AN AIRPORT RELATED USE.
AND THEN THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED OR THEY'RE IN THE, UM, COMMUNITY FACILITY OR THE PARKS AND OPEN SPACE DISTRICTS, WHICH ARE PRIMARILY TOWN FACILITIES.
SO IN EARLIER CONVERSATION TONIGHT, WE HAD THIS THAT ALL YOUR OTHER CODES AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS ARE GONNA CONTROL WHAT CAN REALLY GO ON IN A LOT OF PLACES, RIGHT? SO IN A RESIDENTIAL USE MM-HMM,
I MEAN THERE'S GONNA BE ALL THESE OTHER STIPULATIONS.
SO I HAVE A REALLY HARD TIME REQUIRING SUVS EVERY TIME THAT A CHURCH WANTS TO GO IN PLACE.
IS THAT COMMON PRACTICE IN OTHER CITIES IN TEXAS? I MEAN, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE, WE WERE TOLD THAT WE WERE BASICALLY THE OUTLIER AND THE ONLY ONE DOING IT THAT WAY.
SO, UM, I WOULD SAY IT IS NOT UNCOMMON TO REQUIRE, UH, ADDITIONAL, UM, REVIEW IN, IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS.
I WOULD SAY WE ARE, OUR CURRENT PRACTICE, WHICH WE REQUIRE A SPECIAL USE PERMIT EVERYWHERE IS NOT COMMON.
SO I WOULD SAY AS PROPOSED, WE'RE KIND OF MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AS FAR AS, AND COMPARED TO OTHER JURISDICTIONS, YOU JUST WANNA MAKE SURE YOU'RE NOT ANY MORE STRICT ON CHURCHES THAN YOU ARE ON OTHER TYPES OF ASSEMBLY USES.
BUT IF YOU'RE EQUALLY STRICT IN TERMS OF REQUIRING A SUP IN A RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT, AND THAT'S, THAT'S FINE.
UM, AND THIS IS THE POINT OF THIS CONVERSATION.
IF WE GET A THUMBS UP FROM EVERYONE AT THIS TABLE THAT SAYS YOU WANT TO ALLOW IT WITHOUT AN SUP IN RESIDENTIAL, WE WILL MAKE THAT CHANGE.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.
REMEMBER IN THE, IN THE PRIOR INSTALLMENT WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, WE HAD RESIDENTIAL ADJACENCY STANDARDS AND THAT THOSE WOULD PROVIDE SOME PROTECTION, UH, FOR ADDITIONAL SETBACKS AND, YOU KNOW, LOCATION OF DRIVEWAYS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, IF, IF THEY ARE ALLOWED IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS, IT'S, IT'S PROBABLY WORTH RE-LOOKING AT THE STANDARDS, UH, FOR PLACES OF WORSHIP JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE RESIDENTIAL ADJACENCY ISSUES ARE, ARE FULLY ADDRESSED.
UM, I UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF NOT BEING OVERLY RESTRICTIVE TO PLACES OF WORSHIP, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT WE'RE SAYING NOW THAT THERE COULD BE PERMITTED THROUGH R ONE, THROUGH R FOUR OR R FIVE WITH A SPECIAL USE PERMIT.
ARE WE, WHAT OTHER USE WOULD BE EQUIVALENT OF A PLACE OF WORSHIP THAT WE'RE ALLOWING A RES IN RESIDENTIAL IN TERMS OF ASSEMBLY TYPE USES? MM-HMM,
I, I DON'T THINK THERE ARE ANY, I DON'T THINK WE'RE IN THAT PROBLEM YET.
I JUST, I'M JUST SAYING WE DON'T WANT TO GO TO THAT DIRECTION.
WE DON'T, WE DON'T WANT TO BE MORE RESTRICTIVE WITH ANY CHANGES THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD MAKE, UM, THE CITY MORE RESTRICTIVE ON RELIGIOUS.
BUT WE HAVEN'T DONE THAT IN THIS TABLE YET.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, ARE WE NOT BEING OVERLY GENEROUS? SHOULD WE JUST SAY NO, THEY'RE NOT PREVENTING CHURCHES ARE, UM, THEY'RE PROBLEM ISSUES IN A LOT OF PLACES.
I MEAN, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE ALLOWING THEM IN OTHER, UH, DISTRICTS.
SO IT'S NOT AS IF WE'RE OUTLYING THEM.
I'M JUST SAYING, WHY WOULD WE DO THAT TO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS? I MEAN THE, THE ONE CHURCH THAT WE HAVE, WHICH IS ACROSS MY STREET, UM, WAS VERY DIVISIVE AND, AND VERY, IT WAS A, AN ISSUE TRYING TO GET THAT, UH, UH, PUSHED THROUGH.
WHY WOULD WE DO THAT TO ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD IF WE'RE NOT ALLOWING OTHER ASSEMBLY USES IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS? WE'RE NOT DISCRIMINATING, WE'RE TREATING THEM IN EXACTLY.
I DUNNO, EVERY CHURCH I'VE EVER GONE TO IN MY LIFE HAS BEEN IN A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND I'M SORRY, EVERY CHURCH I'VE EVER GONE TO IN MY LIFE HAS BEEN IN A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD? YES, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND I, I JUST, YOU KNOW, TO ME THIS IS A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT AND I HAVE A HARD TIME PUTTING STIPULATIONS ON IT.
I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION GOING BACK TO PLACES OF ASSEMBLY.
WHAT ABOUT LIKE CIVIC CENTERS OR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS? IS THAT ADDRESSED? YEAH, THAT'S, UH, CLUB OR LODGE, I THINK WE GOT SOME OTHER DEFINITIONS THERE.
AND ARE THOSE ALLOWED IN RESIDENTIAL
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AREAS AS RIGHT OR WITH SUVS? THEY'RE CLUB OR LODGE IS UP THERE ON THE SCREEN.IT'S, IT'S THE THIRD, THIRD ROW DOWN.
CAN YOU MOVE THE MOUSE? YOU MIND? THERE YOU GO.
SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S WHY I WAS SAYING WE'RE NOT ABLE RESTRICT AND THE ATHLETIC CLUB IS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
I MEAN, THAT'S A POINT OF ASSEMBLY.
YEAH, I MEAN THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
IS ATHLETIC CLUB, UH, A USE IN, IS IT ALLOWED IN RESIDENTIAL WITH AN SUP, RIGHT? IS IT DIFFERENT THAN CLUB OR LODGE IS, YEAH.
THAT'S RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT.
IF YOU, WHOEVER'S GOT THE SCREEN, IF YOU SCROLL DOWN, YOU SCROLL DOWN A PAGE TO, CAN MATT TURN HIS MIC ON PLEASE? YEAH, THAT'S RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT THERE.
UH, AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE THAT'S ON THE SCREEN.
SO RECREATION FACILITY, INDOOR, SO THOSE ARE ALLOWED AS ACCESSORY IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS BECAUSE THEY'RE PART OF A CLUBHOUSE.
I REMEMBER WE, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, THAT'S ONE OF THE USE SPECIFIC STANDARDS, BUT THEY'RE ALLOWED BY WRIGHT IN SOME OF THE MIXED USE DISTRICTS AND THE NON-RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS.
SO WE, I REMEMBER WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT THOSE, THEY, THEY CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH LIKE A CLUBHOUSE FOR AN HOA OR SOMETHING.
SO I, I DON'T THINK THIS DRAFT HAS THE PROBLEM OF BEING MORE RESTRICTIVE ON CHURCHES, BUT THE, THE QUESTION REMAINS HOW RESTRICTIVE YOU WANT TO BE IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND MAYBE WE DON'T NEED TO RESOLVE THIS RIGHT NOW, BUT WE'VE, WE TEED UP THE CONVERSATION FOR THE CONSOLIDATED DRAFT TO, TO, I MEAN, WE CAN, WE CAN CARRY FORWARD, OPEN QUESTIONS.
WE DON'T HAVE TO RESOLVE EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW.
WE, WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF OTHER BIG ONES THAT WE'D LIKE TO GET TO Y'ALL AND WE KNOW THAT YOU'D LIKE TO BE OUT BY EIGHT.
YEAH, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF OTHER BIG USES.
AND SO HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, YEAH.
AND SINCE WE ONLY HAVE ABOUT 10 MINUTES LEFT, I'M JUST GONNA WALK THROUGH ALL OF THESE AS SOMETHING.
UM, AND TO KEEP IN MIND AS YOU REVIEW THE DRAFTS WHEN IT'S AVAILABLE ON CONVEO AND JUST GIVE YOU A LITTLE CONTEXT OF SOME OF THE THINGS WE HEARD THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
UM, 'CAUSE A FEW OF THESE ARE PRETTY BIG.
SO WHAT YOU WILL SEE IN THE DRAFT IS THAT WE'VE, UM, PULLED APART ACCESSORY, UM, ON-PREMISE ALCOHOL, SALES AND CONSUMPTION AND RESTAURANTS.
AND IN THE DRAFT IT IS PROPOSED THAT THE SUP IS REQUIRED FOR THE RESTAURANTS, BUT YOU DO NOT NEED AN SUP TO DO, UM, THE ACCESSORY ON-PREMISE ALCOHOL SALES, WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT IT IS NOW, I BELIEVE.
UM, BUT ESSENTIALLY THIS WAS A BIG PART OF OUR DISCUSSION TODAY WITH ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF WHAT, UM, SHOULD REQUIRE A SPECIAL USE PERMIT.
AT WHAT POINT DO ALCOHOL SALES NEED A SPECIAL USE PERMIT? HOW DO RESTAURANTS NEED TO BE DEFINED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR? UM, WE TALKED ABOUT IF WE NEED TO SPECIFY, UM, IF, UM, BARS SPECIFICALLY NEED TO BE PROHIBITED IN THE TEXT.
UM, A FEW OF THESE THINGS ARE ACTUALLY CAPTURED IN THE NOTES, UM, FROM JADE FROM THOSE MEETINGS IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT, AT THAT.
BUT WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT THESE AGAIN, UM, AND FIGURE OUT WHAT IS GOING TO WORK BEST, UM, WITH A COMBINATION OF WHAT NEEDS A SPECIAL USE PERMIT, HOW THINGS ARE DEFINED, AND THEN ALSO WHAT TYPES OF ADDITIONAL STANDARDS NEED TO BE APPLIED REGARDLESS.
SO THINGS LIKE, UM, IF RESTAURANTS ARE OPEN PAST A CERTAIN TIME, NOISE RESTRICTIONS AND SUCH.
UM, AND THEN JUST ANOTHER THING TO POINT OUT, UM, DRIVE-THROUGHS HAVE BEEN LIMITED TO THE M TWO, WHICH IS THAT SUBURBAN CORRIDOR DISTRICT.
UM, AND THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED IN ALL OF THE OTHER MIXED USE DISTRICTS.
UM, SO THAT WAS ONE OF OUR BIG TOPICS.
THE NEXT ONE WAS AUTO RELATED USES AND SOME HIGHLIGHTS HERE.
UM, VEHICLE FUELING STATIONS, WHICH WE GOT THE QUESTION, DOES THAT INCLUDE, UM, SOMEWHERE THAT ALSO HAS EV CHARGING STATIONS WITH ITS GAS PUMPS? OR UM, SHOULD A NEW USE COME THAT'S JUST EV CHARGING STATIONS BUT STILL SET UP LIKE A CLASSIC GAS STATION? YES, THOSE WOULD BE UNDER THIS DEFINITION.
UM, SO THOSE ARE ALLOWED BY RIGHT IN THE GENERAL COMMERCIAL AND LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.
UM, BUT THEN IN THE LIMITED COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, UM, A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IS REQUIRED AND THEN THERE'S A LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF PUMPS, AND THAT'S TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S SMALLER IN SCALE SINCE THAT DISTRICT IS MORE LIKELY TO BE CLOSER TO SOME OF THE MIXED
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USE AREAS TO JUST KEEPING CONTEXT IN MIND.UM, SOMETHING ELSE THAT WAS FLAGGED TODAY RELATED TO VEHICLE REPAIR IS THAT WE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT HOW WE ARE DESCRIBING, UM, THAT THIRD BULLET ABOUT NO OUTDOOR STORAGE ALLOWED.
UM, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY PART OF, YOU KNOW, THE NATURE OF VEHICLE REPAIR PLACES IS THEY MIGHT HAVE A VEHICLE OR TWO SITTING OUTSIDE OVERNIGHT.
UM, AND SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT PROHIBITING THE REGULAR BUSINESS, UM, BUT THAT WE ARE PROHIBITING KIND OF EXCESS OF, UM, OUTDOOR STORAGE.
AND THEN THE FINAL, UM, TOPIC THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WAS, UM, OUR UPDATES TO THE DEFINITIONS OF HOTEL.
UM, SO THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF HOTEL, THREE TYPES OF HOTELS DEFINED.
UM, THERE IS FULL SERVICE, LIMITED SERVICE AND RESIDENCE HOTELS.
UM, RIGHT NOW THEY'RE HANDLED PRETTY SPECIFIC TO DISTRICTS.
UM, SO THE BELT LINE HAS SOME OF ITS OWN DEFINITIONS VERSUS OUTSIDE HAS DIFFERENT.
AND SO THIS WAS OUR FIRST ATTEMPT AT, UM, GETTING THOSE DEFINITIONS IN THERE.
UM, AND WE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS TODAY ABOUT THIS SPECIFIC DEFINITION AND, UM, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S SORT OF PROPERLY DEFINED OR HOW WE NEED TO MAKE IT EVEN MORE CLEAR IN THE CODE.
UM, UM, SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO THE BOTTOM BULLET ABOUT NOT MORE THAN 30% OF ROOMS, MAYBE SUITES, YOU KNOW, WE GOT THE QUESTION, WHERE DOES AN EMBASSY SUITES FIT INTO THESE DEFINITIONS? WHAT WOULD THAT MEAN? UM, SO THIS IS ANOTHER AREA WHERE WE NEED SOME EXTRA REFINEMENT AND WE KNOW THAT.
UM, BUT AS YOU REVIEW THE DRAFT, IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC THOUGHTS ABOUT THESE, WE WELCOME THEM, BUT WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THOSE THREE PARTICULAR ISSUES, UM, WE KNOW THEY NEED EXTRA REFINEMENT AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR MORE INPUT ON THEM.
UM, SO I'LL QUICKLY WRAP IT UP WITH, UM, JUST SO YOU KNOW, TEMPORARY AND ACCESSORY USES.
IT'S NOT THAT YOU DON'T CURRENTLY ALLOW TEMPORARY USES AND ACCESSORY USES, IT'S JUST THAT WE HAVE CONSOLIDATED ALL OF THE STANDARDS RELATED TO THOSE THINGS IN ONE PLACE.
UM, AND THEN ANOTHER KIND OF BIG NEW THING, AGAIN RELATED TO UM, THE INCREASE IN HOUSING OPTIONS IS ADUS.
UM, SO WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE PROPOSED REGULATIONS RELATED TO ADUS, UM, AND WHETHER YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THOSE REGULATIONS.
UM, AND UH, LIKE WE MENTIONED EARLIER, WE WILL GET THOSE UPDATED DRAFTS ON CONVEO AS SOON AS WE CONSOLIDATE ALL OF THE COMMENTS.
AND, UM, AS USUAL, YOU CAN EITHER COMMENT DIRECTLY IN CONVEO OR EMAIL COMMENTS TO UDC@ADDISONTX.GOV, UM, AND ALL OF YOUR COMMENTS, WE'LL MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THE UPDATED CONSOLIDATED DRAFT.
UM, WHICH LIKE MATT SAID, WE EXPECT SOMEWHERE END OF SUMMER RANGE.
ANYTHING ELSE? CAN YOU REMIND ME? IS, UM, VRBO OR WHATEVER AIRBNBS OR HOW ARE THEY DISCUSSED DURING OUR CODE? SHORT TERM RENTALS ARE, RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE OUTSIDE THE CODE AND THEY HAVE BEEN A SEPARATE, YOU KNOW, BEAST TO CORRAL.
AND, UM, THE DECISION WAS MADE DURING THE DRAFTING OF ALL THIS TO KEEP 'EM SEPARATE OUTSIDE THE UNIFIED CODE.
SO YOU DO HAVE A SHORT TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE.
IT HAS NOT BEEN FOLDED INTO THIS DRAFT, AND WE ARE NOT PROPOSING ANY CHANGES TO THAT AS PART OF THIS PROCESS RIGHT NOW.
SO NOTHING TO TIE INTO THIS DWELLING UNIT THAT, I MEAN, LIKE, THAT'S MEANT WHAT JUMPED OUT AT ME ABOUT THIS, YOU KNOW, OVER A GARAGE IS THAT IT IS, IT IS, IT WOULD BE ANY UNIT THAT WAS CREATED AS PART OF THOSE WOULD BE SUBJECT TO ANY RESTRICTIONS IN YOUR SHORT-TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE.
SO THERE'D BE A CONNECTION THERE, BUT WE'RE NOT PROPOSING TO CHANGE THAT ORDINANCE.
IT WOULD STILL BE A SINGLE RESIDENTIAL CODE ZONING CODE ON IT.
AND THE PRACTICAL IMPACT OF THE A DU CHANGE IS PROBABLY GONNA BE PRETTY LIMITED.
UH, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE, YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT OF LOTS IN ADDISON.
I THINK THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FREESTANDING STRUCTURE, UH, IN THE BACK OF A LOT.
UM, BUT IT, AGAIN, IT'S THAT PACKAGE OF HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, HOUSING OPTIONS, UH, THAT WAS, THAT WAS CALLED FOR, UM, WAY BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PROJECT.
SO THAT'S PART OF THAT, THAT PACKAGE OF TOOLS.
BUT THOSE ARE THREE BIG THINGS WE DROPPED ON YOU THERE.
THE, THE, THE, OBVIOUSLY THE HOTELS AND THE RESTAURANTS, ALCOHOL AND THE, UH, THE CHURCHES.
SO, UM, I, WE WE'RE SENSITIVE TO Y'ALL'S TIME.
WE KNOW YOU WANTED TO END THE MEETING, YOU KNOW, IN REASONABLE MANNER.
BUT, UM, WE WELCOME YOUR QUESTIONS ON THOSE TOPICS AND YOU CAN SEND US EMAILS IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS AFTER TONIGHT.
UM, WE DON'T WANNA SHORT CIRCUIT THOSE CONVERSATIONS
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AND IF WE NEED TO, WE CAN TALK WITH STAFF ABOUT HOW TO MAYBE HAVE SMALLER CONVERSATIONS JUST ABOUT THOSE.WE DON'T WANNA HAVE TO DO ANOTHER ONE OF THESE MEETINGS JUST ON THOSE, BUT
ANYTHING ELSE? ANYTHING FROM ANYBODY ELSE IN THE ROOM? WE GOOD? WELL, IT, UH, WHATEVER TIME IT IS, 7:58 PM I'LL ADJOURN THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND I WILL ADJOURN THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.