RIGHT. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. GOOD EVENING. THIS IS THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE MONDAY,
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SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2025. PROSPER PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. THE MEETING IS CALLED TO ORDER AT 6:13 P.M. PLEASE NOTE, FOR THE RECORD, ALL COMMISSIONERS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF COMMISSIONER JACKSON AND COMMISSIONER HAMILTON, ARE PRESENT THIS EVENING.ADDRESSING THE COMMISSION. CITIZENS AND OTHER VISITORS ATTENDING PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETINGS SHALL OBSERVE THE SAME RULES OF PROPRIETY, DECORUM AND GOOD CONDUCT APPLICABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION. ANY PERSON MAKING PERSONAL, IMPERTINENT, PROFANE OR SLANDEROUS REMARKS, OR WHO BECOMES BOISTEROUS WHILE ADDRESSING THE COMMISSION OR WHILE ATTENDING THE MEETING, SHALL BE REMOVED FROM THE ROOM. IF SO, DIRECTED BY THE COMMISSIONER PRESIDING OFFICER, AND THE PERSON SHALL BE BARRED FROM FURTHER AUDIENCE BEFORE THE COMMISSION DURING THAT SESSION OF THE MEETING. DISRUPTION OF A PUBLIC MEETING COULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF SECTION 42.05 OF THE TEXAS PENAL CODE. THOSE WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSION MUST COMPLETE THE PUBLIC COMMENT REQUEST FORM, LOCATED ON THE TOWN WEBSITE OR IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS. IF YOU'RE ATTENDING IN PERSON, PLEASE SUBMIT THIS FORM TO THE BOARD CHAIR OR A STAFF MEMBER PRIOR TO THE MEETING. WHEN CALLED UPON, PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD. ITEM TWO ON OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING IS THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. IF EVERYONE WILL PLEASE RISE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU. OUR
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CONSENT AGENDA THIS EVENING. ITEM NUMBER THREE. WE HAVE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS THREE THROUGH THREE ON OUR CONSENT AGENDA THIS EVENING. DO ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS WISH TO PULL ANY CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS OFF? AND IF NOT, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS THREE THROUGH THREE, SUBJECT TO STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM COMMISSIONER HARRIS FOR APPROVAL. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND? WE HAVE A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER CARSON. ALL THOSE COMMISSIONERS IN FAVOR OF APPROVING CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS THREE THROUGH THREE, SUBJECT TO TOWN STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS. PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. AND THAT MOTION CARRIES 5 TO 0 IN APPROVAL. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. CITIZEN COMMENTS. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ADDRESS THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION ON ANY TOPIC. HOWEVER, THE COMMISSION IS UNABLE TO DISCUSS OR TAKE ACTION ON ANY TOPIC NOT LISTED ON THIS AGENDA. PLEASE COMPLETE A PUBLIC COMMENT REQUEST FORM AND PRESENT IT TO THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT. PRIOR TO THE MEETING, DID WE HAVE ANY OF THOSE REQUEST FORMS COMPLETED? WE DID NOT. I'M BEING TOLD. SO LET'S MOVE ON TO OUR REGULAR AGENDA THIS EVENING. AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE THE TITLE SLIDE FOR THAT, BUT I'LL[4. Conduct a Public Hearing and consider and act upon a request to rezone 61.7± acres from Agricultural and Planned Development-71 to a Planned Development allowing for Mixed-Use Development, located on the south side of First Street and 1,550± feet east of Legacy Drive. (ZONE-24-0025)]
GO AHEAD. DO WE HAVE THAT OR. NOPE. SO LET'S GO. REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR THIS EVENING IS CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER AND ACT UPON A REQUEST TO REZONE 61.7 ACRES FROM AGRICULTURAL AND PLANNED DEVELOPMENT 71 TO A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT ALLOWING FOR MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT LOCATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF FIRST STREET AND 1550 FEET EAST OF LEGACY DRIVE, THIS IS CASE ZONE DASH 20 4-0025. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU CHAIRMAN. SO IF YOU GUYS RECALL, AROUND FOUR MONTHS AGO, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION HELD A WORK SESSION ON THIS CASE ON MAY 6TH, 2025. AND BASED ON THAT WORK SESSION THAT THEY HAD WITH YOU GUYS AND THE WORK SESSION THAT THEY HAD WITH TOWN COUNCIL, THEY MADE SOME CHANGES TO THE PLAN. AND THESE ARE KIND OF HIGHLIGHTS. THERE WAS REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF MULTI-FAMILY DWELLINGS FROM 550 TO 435, REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF TOWNHOME UNITS FROM 94 TO 88, ADDITION OF CURVILINEAR STREETS WITHIN THE TOWNHOME SECTION. REMOVAL OF A SECOND HOTEL THAT WAS SUBSTITUTED WITH ADDITIONAL RETAIL AND RESTAURANT AROUND THE OPEN SPACE AMPHITHEATER AREA, AND THEN A RECONFIGURATION OF THE ASSISTED LIVING BUILDING IN FULL SERVICE HOTEL TO ALSO FACE THE AMPHITHEATER AREA. SO THE PROPOSAL BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS TO CONSTRUCT A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING ITEMS. ASSISTED LIVING. OTHER COMMERCIAL USES SUCH AS HOTEL, RESTAURANT, RETAIL, MULTI-FAMILY AND TOWNHOMES. HERE IS WHERE THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED. SOUTH OF FIRST STREET, IN BETWEEN LEGACY AND THE TOLLWAY. SO THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN FOR THIS AREA IS THE DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY DISTRICT. THIS RECOMMENDS THE MOST INTENSE LAND USES WITHIN THE TOWN AND ENCOURAGES MIXED[00:05:04]
USE DEVELOPMENT, CONTAINING A MIXTURE OF OFFICE, RETAIL, AND RESIDENTIAL USES. IT ALSO IDENTIFIES MIXED USE LOFT APARTMENTS AS THE MOST APPROPRIATE RESIDENTIAL USE WITHIN THIS DISTRICT. AND HERE'S A EXHIBIT OF THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN. SO THE SURROUNDING ZONING, I'LL SHOW YOU KIND OF A MAP. SO IT'S CURRENTLY ZONED AGRICULTURAL.AND THEN THE BOTTOM PORTION THERE IS WITHIN PLAN DEVELOPMENT 71. AND THEN SURROUNDING IT, YOU HAVE STAR TRAIL TO THE NORTH. YOU HAVE PD 41 TO THE EAST WHICH IS MULTIFAMILY. YOU HAVE PD 71, THE REST OF THAT TO THE SOUTH. AND THEN YOU HAVE COMMERCIAL TO THE WEST, WHICH IF YOU GUYS RECALL, CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND IS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THIS PROPERTY. IT'S RIGHT THERE. SO THERE'S TWO SUBDISTRICTS, ONE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE OTHER RETAIL. IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT. YOU HAVE TOWNHOMES IN MULTIFAMILY AND THE TOWNHOME, THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED AND THE ZONING ORDINANCE. THERE'S A DECREASE IN THE UNITS PER ACRE FROM 10 TO 8. THERE'S A TOTAL OF 88 UNITS WITHIN THE TOWNHOME SECTION. THE SETBACKS DECREASE IN THE FRONT FROM 25 TO 20, AND THEY INCREASE IN THE REAR FROM 20 TO 25. ADDITIONALLY, THE HEIGHT INCREASED BY FIVE FEET FROM 40 TO 45, AND THE MULTIFAMILY AREA. THE DENSITY IS 435 UNITS. THERE'S A DECREASE FROM EIGHT STORIES TO FIVE STORIES, AND THEN THE LOT COVERAGE INCREASED FROM 45% TO 80%. THESE ARE THE STANDARDS.
AND THOSE THAT I JUST POINTED OUT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO COLUMNS THERE FOR EACH OF THESE DISTRICTS. SO THE PERMITTED USE BY RIGHT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD SECTION ARE THESE FOUR HERE. THIS IS THE CONCEPT PLANS. YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE SEVEN DIFFERENT TRACKS KIND OF ALL DEFINED BY THOSE AREAS IN RED. THIS IS THE BREAKOUT OR THE HATCHING FOR EACH SUBDISTRICT. SO IT'S THE RETAIL SUBDISTRICT THAT'S ON THE EAST SIDE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD SUBDISTRICT THAT'S ON THE WEST SIDE. FOR THIS RETAIL SUBDISTRICT, THERE'S ASSISTED LIVING IN THERE. THE NUMBER OF UNITS IS 249. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS AND WHAT'S IN THE ZONING ORDINANCE IS THERE'S AN INCREASE FROM TWO STORIES TO FIVE STORIES FOR THE ASSISTED LIVING, FOR FULL SERVICE HOTELS, THERE'S AN INCREASE IN THE HEIGHT FROM TWO STORIES TO EIGHT STORIES. AND FOR OTHER COMMERCIAL USES, THE FLOOR AREA RATIO INCREASED AS WELL. AND THOSE ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO COLUMNS WITHIN THIS CHART HERE. THESE ARE THE PERMITTED USES BY RIGHT. I'LL JUST KIND OF SCROLL THROUGH THESE BECAUSE THERE'S A FAIR AMOUNT. AND THEN YOU SEE AT THE BOTTOM THERE'S TWO PERMITTED BY SVP COMMERCIAL AMUSEMENT INDOOR AND DRIVE THROUGH RESTAURANTS. AGAIN THERE'S THE CONCEPT PLAN THE HATCHING, IDENTIFY THE TWO SUBDISTRICTS. THEN FOR BOTH SUBDISTRICT THESE REGULATIONS APPLY TO ALL OF THE TRACT. SO THE BUILDING MATERIALS, THEY HAVE PRIMARY MATERIALS WHICH AT LEAST EVERY BUILDING HAS TO BE A MINIMUM OF 75% OF THESE MATERIALS, WHICH IS CONSIST OF BRICK, CEMENTITIOUS PANEL SYSTEM, GLAZING AND STONE. THE SECONDARY MATERIALS. A MAXIMUM OF 25% OF BUILDINGS CAN BE CONSTRUCTED OF THESE MATERIALS. THESE INCLUDE CLAPBOARD SIDING, METAL PANEL SYSTEM, WOOD PANEL SYSTEM, AND THREE COATS STUCCO. ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF ALL BUILDINGS, THERE'S MASONRY CLADDING HAS TO BE A MINIMUM OF 90%, AND THEN METAL PANEL SYSTEMS FOR NONRESIDENTIAL USES ONLY FOR MULTI-FAMILY BUILDINGS, SPECIFICALLY, THE BUILDING MATERIALS ARE BRICK, CEMENTITIOUS PANEL SYSTEM AND STONE FOR OFFICE BUILDINGS. THIS IS KIND OF WHERE IT DIFFERS A LITTLE BIT IS THEY ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE DECORATIVE OR ENHANCED CONCRETE TILT WALL ON A MAXIMUM OF 60% OF THEIR FACADES, AS WELL AS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS FOR THE BUILDING DESIGN. THERE ARE DIFFERENT POINTS, SO THERE'S ARTICULATION, WHICH WILL BE ACCENTUATED BY THE INCLUSION OF ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING FEATURES, AWNINGS OR CANOPIES, ETC. THESE AWNINGS AND CANOPIES WILL BE COMPRISED OF MATERIALS THAT ARE COMPLIMENTARY TO THE BUILDING, AND THEN DOORS AND WINDOWS THAT WILL BE TRANSPARENT ON 30% OF THE GROUND FLOOR FACADE AREAS FACING OPEN SPACE OR RIGHT OF WAY, AND THEY'LL BE TRANSPARENT ON 20% OF UPPER FLOOR FACADES FACING RIGHT OF WAY FOR EMBELLISHMENTS AND MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT. THESE CAN EXTEND UP TO OVER 20FT UP TO 20FT, I SHOULD SAY ABOVE THE BUILDING HEIGHT PROVIDED THEIR SETBACK EQUAL DISTANCE TO THEIR HEIGHT OR INTEGRAL PARTS OF THE BUILDING. FACADE. ENTRIES WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED USING BUILDING ARTICULATION AND ENTRY CANOPIES. THE FACADE COMPOSITION WILL CONSIST OF ARCHITECTURALLY COMPATIBLE MULTI-TENANT STOREFRONTS, AND THESE WILL
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HAVE DEFINED ARTICULATED BUILDING ENTRANCES AND ACCENTUATED AND UNIQUE FEATURES FOR FEATURE BUILDINGS THAT ARE LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF STREETS FOR THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT, FOR DIFFERENT USES FOR HOTELS OR THE MINIMUM HEIGHT, I SHOULD SAY FOR DIFFERENT USES. THE MINIMUM HEIGHT FOR HOTEL IS FOUR STORIES. THE MINIMUM HEIGHT FOR MULTIFAMILY IS THREE STORIES, MINIMUM HEIGHT FOR OFFICES TWO. THE MINIMUM HEIGHT FOR RESTAURANT AND RETAIL IS ONE, AND THE MINIMUM HEIGHT FOR A TOWNHOME IS TWO STORIES. PARKING STRUCTURES WILL HAVE HORIZONTAL VERTICAL ARTICULATION, CLEARLY MARKED ENTRIES AND EXITS FOR VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS, AND OUR ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES COMPATIBLE TO THE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS IF THEY ARE VISIBLE FROM THE STREET. PROJECTIONS INTO FIRE ACCESS, UTILITY AND DRAINAGE EASEMENTS ARE PERMITTED, PROVIDED THERE ARE NO ENCROACHMENTS INTO BUILDING SETBACKS EXTENDED OVER PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAYS AND LOCATED OVER PUBLIC UTILITIES. WITHIN A FIRE LINE, A PUBLIC EASEMENT AND THEN ROOF FORMS WILL HAVE WILL BE FLAT OR LOW PITCHED AROUND 2.5 TO 12 OR LOWER. PARAPET WALLS. THESE ARE RENDERINGS OF WHAT THE PROPOSED BUILDINGS WILL LOOK LIKE. I'LL KIND OF JUMP THROUGH THESE AS THEY ARE IN YOUR PACKET. SO THERE ARE A FEW. THERE ARE TWO TRIGGERS WITHIN THIS PLAN DEVELOPMENT. THE FIRST ONE IS THAT THE FULL LENGTH OF MILLARD PARKWAY, AS SHOWN ON THE CONCEPT PLAN, WILL BE CONSTRUCTED WITH THE TOWNHOME SECTION. THE SECOND IS THAT A MINIMUM OF 50,000FT■!S OF COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT IS REQUIRED TO BE CONSTRUCTED PRIOR TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SECOND MULTIFAMILY BUILDING SHOWN ON THE CONCEPT PLAN, IT WILL ALSO BE PHASED. THE PHASING WILL BE AS SHOWN IN PHASE ONE. THEY WILL HAVE, AND IT MIGHT BE EASIER TO SHOW YOU HERE. SO PHASE ONE WILL CONSIST OF THIS RESTAURANT HERE, THIS RESTAURANT HERE, THE TOWNHOMES, ALL THE STREETS WITHIN THERE AND THE MAIN SECTION THAT HAS TO BE PROVIDED THERE. AND THEN THE BANK AND RESTAURANT RETAIL AREA HERE. FOR THE SECOND PHASE, IT'LL BE MULTI-FAMILY AND RESTAURANT RETAIL AND THE FULL SERVICE HOTEL. SO PHASE TWO WILL CONSIST OF THIS BOTTOM PORTION HERE NEAR LOVERS LANE.PHASE THREE. THE PHASE THREE THROUGH FOUR WILL BE JUST COMPLETION OF TRACT FIVE, WHICH IS ALL OF THIS SECTION HERE THAT INCLUDES THE AMPHITHEATER AREA, THE WATER FEATURE, ALL OF THOSE RESTAURANT RETAILS. AND YEAH, I THINK THAT'S IT. OH, AND THE ASSISTED LIVING WILL BE IN PHASE THREE OF THAT FOR THE OPEN SPACE TOWNHOMES. ALL THE OPEN SPACE FOR TOWNHOMES WILL BE CONSOLIDATED WITHIN THE TOWNHOME AREA, AND IT HAS TO BE A MINIMUM OF 20% FOR THE MULTIFAMILY AND COMMERCIAL USES. SO FOR MULTIFAMILY, THEY'RE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A MINIMUM OF 30% OPEN SPACE FOR COMMERCIAL USES. THEY ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A MINIMUM OF 7% FOR EACH LOT. HOWEVER, THAT CAN ALL BE CONSOLIDATED WITHIN THEIR OPEN SPACE HERE.
SO ALL THE TOWNHOMES OPEN SPACE WILL BE ON ITS OWN TRACT HERE, BUT THE REST OF THE REQUIRED OPEN SPACE FOR THE REST OF THIS AREA CAN BE CONSOLIDATED WITHIN THE OPEN SPACE AREA SHOWN IN GREEN. IN CLOSING, THIS CASE WAS NOTICED ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH. WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY CITIZEN RESPONSE TO THIS TOWN. STAFF DOES RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THIS CASE AND IF THERE IS AN ACTION MADE ON IT TONIGHT, THIS WILL BE ON THE COUNCIL MEETING FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14TH. CHAIRMAN, I KNOW THAT THE APPLICANT IS HERE AND THEY HAVE A PRESENTATION AS WELL. SO PROCEDURALLY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'D LIKE TO ASK ME QUESTIONS FIRST OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE APPLICANT PRESENT THEIR CASE FIRST. YEAH. BEFORE WE HAVE THE APPLICANT COME UP, WAS THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF AT THIS POINT? ONE QUICK QUESTION.
SINCE THE MINIMUM HEIGHT FOR A RESTAURANT IS ONE STORY, WHAT WOULD BE THE ALTERNATIVE? I THINK THEY CAN BE UP TO TWO STORIES. SO THE MAXIMUM IS TWO STORIES, RIGHT. AND THE MINIMUM IS A MINIMUM HERE IT'S AT A MINIMUM EARLIER A MINIMUM OF ONE STORY. RIGHT. SO THEY HAVE TO AND I MEAN I GUESS ONE STORY IS GOING TO BE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING THAT YOU BUILD. SO IT'S I JUST WASN'T SURE. RIGHT. NO I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION. GREAT. YEAH. OKAY. SO CAN WE GO BACK TO THE PHASING MAP AGAIN? YES. AND WALK ME THROUGH THE PHASING AGAIN BECAUSE PHASE ONE IS THE TOWNHOMES. THAT'S CORRECT. SO PHASE ONE THE RETAIL THAT'S JUST NORTH OF THAT RIGHT. YES. AND THEN WHAT ABOUT THE RETAIL RIGHT THERE WHERE YOU'RE AND THIS IS ALSO PART OF PHASE ONE. SO THAT BANK RESTAURANT AND RETAIL AREA OKAY. THAT'S ALL PART OF THAT PHASE ONE AS WELL. THAT'S ALL PHASE ONE. YES OKAY. AND THEN PHASE TWO IS THE MULTIFAMILY. YEAH.
AND THEN THIS HOTEL AS WELL. AND THE HOTEL. BUT THAT'S BUT THE SECOND BUILDING OF THE APARTMENTS IS TRIGGERED BY A 50,000FT■!S OF RETAIL BEFORE. DS THAT INCLUDE THE RETAIL THAT'S
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PART OF PHASE ONE OR IS THAT ADDITIONAL RETAIL IN PHASE 5 OR 4? THAT CAN BE THE RETAIL WITHIN PHASE ONE. AND WOULD THAT DOES THAT RETAIL THAT'S IN PHASE ONE MEET THE 50,000. IS THAT IS THAT IT. THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION. I DON'T HAVE THE CH ART ON THERE TO SEE WHAT THE SQUARE FOOTAGE IS OF EACH OF THOSE BUILDINGS ARE, BUT IF IT DOESN'T MEET THEN THEY'D HAVE TO CONSTRUCT OTHER RESTAURANTS AND RETAIL TO MEET THAT TRIGGER. OKAY. PHASE THREE THEN WAS IS THE ASSISTED LIVING. ASSISTED LIVING. BUT WASN'T THERE SOME RETAIL IN THAT TOO? WAS THAT PART OF IT? SO PHASE THREE THROUGH FOUR, THREE THROUGH FIVE EXCUSE ME, ARE ALL THE SAME TRACT. SO THIS WHOLE THING IS TRACT FIVE OKAY. BUT THEY JUST BROKE OUT THE PHASE INTO THREE DIFFERENT SECTIONS. SO THE PHASING WILL BE PHASE THREE WILL BE THE FIRST PART OF TRACT FIVE THAT'S DEVELOPED. AND THEN THIS KIND OF OFFICE RESTAURANT RETAIL AREA UP HERE WILL BE THE NEXT PART OF TRACT FIVE THAT'S DEVELOPED. AND THEN IT WILL BE THIS AREA RIGHT HERE WITH THE RESTAURANT RETAIL ADJACENT TO THE AMPHITHEATER AREA AND WATER FEATURE. SO THE OKAY, THE. BUT PHASE THREE DOES THE WATER FEATURE AND THE AMPHITHEATER. THAT'S IS THAT IN PHASE THREE, AS IT'S SHOWN ON THE MAP, IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS. I WILL LEAN ON THE APPLICANT TO CLARIFY THAT. BUT OKAY. AND THEN DOES THIS. AND AS I LOOK AT THE PHASING HERE I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND. SO. THE RETAIL THAT'S IN THE CENTER PART OF THIS PLAN, THE CENTRAL PART IS LAST. THERE'S NOTHING THERE. THE ONLY RETAIL THAT COULD HAPPEN. IT WOULD BE RIGHT ALONG FIRST STREET THAT COULD BE THERE. THAT'S. YEAH. THAT'LL BE IN THERE IN THE FIRST. THAT'S RIGHT. THEN IT COULD BE A LONG TIME BEFORE WE GET TO THE MIDDLE SECTIONS. YEAH. BECAUSE THAT WILL BE THE THE FOURTH PHASE OF IT. SO YEAH IT'LL BE ALL THE RETAIL AT THE TOP OF FIRST. AND THEN THE REST OF THE RETAIL RESTAURANTS WILL BE IN THE LAST TWO PHASES. THAT'S CORRECT. THAT IS THERE IN PHASE TWO THE APARTMENTS IS THAT DOES THAT INCLUDE RETAIL. AND SO IT DOES. SO ON THE GROUND FLOOR. IT HAS OKAY RETAIL ON THOSE.AND THEN SAME FOR THE RED ONE AS WELL OKAY. THANK YOU. I APOLOGIZE IF THIS HAS BEEN ASKED BEFORE BUT WITHIN PHASE ONE ARE THE TRACKS THE ORDER THAT PHASE ONE WILL BE DEVELOPED. SO. THAT'S A THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. AGAIN I'LL LEAN ON THE APPLICANT TO CLARIFY BECAUSE IT'S ALL WITHIN THAT TRACK. BUT. I GOT A COUPLE FOR NOW AND THEN I'LL SAVE A FEW FOR LATER. YOU SAID THERE WAS TWO TRIGGERS. FIRST ONE WAS MULTIFAMILY SECOND BUILDING WHICH IS THE SECOND BUILDING IS MUCH SMALLER. BUT WHAT WAS THE SECOND TRIGGER? THE SECOND TRIGGER WAS ABOUT THEM HAVING TO CONSTRUCT METHOD WHEN THEY BUILD THE TOWNHOMES. OKAY, THAT WAS A QUESTION. ARE THEY ALSO BUILDING OUT LOVERS OR IS THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TIMELINE IS FOR THEM TO BUILD LOVERS? IS THE DEVELOPER BUILDING LOVERS OR ONLY METHOD? OKAY. ONLY.
ONLY THEY ARE OKAY. YOU MENTIONED A COUPLE CHANGES, JUST MAYBE SOME INSIGHT. THE TOWNHOMES WENT UP TO 45FT FROM 40. WHAT? JUST WHAT'S THE INTENT THERE? SO I THINK THE IN OUR ZONING ORDINANCE, THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT FOR TOWNHOMES IS TWO STORIES. THESE WOULD BE THREE. AND I THINK THE EXTRA FIVE FEET ALLOWS THEM TO DO THREE OKAY. SO THEY CAN GO TO THREE STORIES, BUT WE'RE MOVING THEM FIVE FEET CLOSER TO THE ROAD. THE BUILDING HEIGHT IS GOING TO BE FIVE FEET TALLER. YEAH, BUT BUT DIDN'T YOU ALSO HAVE A CHANGE WHERE YOU WERE TAKING FIVE FEET OFF THE FRONT SETBACK AND MOVING IT TO THE BACK? THAT IS CORRECT. THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY. NOT A FAN OF THAT, BUT THAT'S WE'LL TALK THROUGH THAT LATER. MULTIFAMILY.
YOU WENT FROM EIGHT STORIES TO FIVE. WHAT WAS THE. ANY PARTICULAR REASON? I DON'T KNOW THE SPECIFIC REASON. THAT WAS FINE. AND THEN WE SAY THIS IS MORE OF A A DEFINITION QUESTION.
WE CALL IT A FULL SERVICE HOTEL. THAT MEANS SOMETHING SPECIFIC IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY. IS THAT WHAT OUR DEFINITION REQUIRES IS A FULL SERVICE HOTEL? OKAY. AND SO THE FULL SERVICE HOTEL ALSO LIKE THERE'S YOU HAVE TO HAVE 10,000FT■!S OF CONFERENCE FLOOR AREA AND A FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT AND ALL THOSE FEATURES IN THERE. THANK YOU. TWO MORE EASY ONES I THINK ON ONE OF THE SLIDES, I THINK IT WAS A COUPLE AFTER THIS, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE FACADE MATERIALS THAT ARE ALLOWED. YES. YEAH. STAY HERE FOR A SECOND. IS THERE. SO WE'RE SAYING A MINIMUM CAN BE THE TOP PART FIRST. SO BRICK CEMENTITIOUS SIDING, GLAZING GLAZING OR
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STONE. IT HAS TO BE A MINIMUM OF 75. BUT WE'RE ALLOWING 50% OF IT COULD BE HALF THE BUILDING COULD BE CEMENTITIOUS PANELS, PARTY BOARD. SO YEAH OF THAT PRIMARY MATERIALS 50% OF THAT COULD BE THE CEMENTITIOUS PANEL SYSTEM. IS THAT. WELL, WE CAN MAYBE THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION FOR THE APPLICANT. IF WE COULD LOOK AT LOWERING THAT PERCENTAGE DOWN THAT THAT'S A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE THREE STORIES AND THIS IS ACROSS THE WHOLE STANDARDS. CORRECT. CORRECT. OKAY. AND THEN THE I'M SORRY GO TO I THINK IT WAS THE NEXT SLIDE. IT GOES TO THE OFFICE ONE. THERE WE GO. I DON'T THINK WELL WE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE ANY LARGE OFFICE REALLY IN PROSPER YET. BUT WE'RE ALLOWING PATENTED TILT WALL FOR MAXIMUM OF 60%. SO THE MAJORITY OF THE THING COULD BE PAINTED TILT WALL. I THINK THAT AND DAVID CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I THINK THE SENTIMENT IS THAT IT'S THE DECORATIVE ENHANCED CONCRETE TILT WALL. NOT THAT IT'S JUST ANY NORMAL TILT WALL, BUT THE DECORATIVE ENHANCING IS WHAT WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH. BUT AGAIN, YOU CAN ASK FOR THEM TO LOWER THAT PERCENTAGE IF YOU'D LIKE TO. AND THEN THIS IS ON THE PARKING I THINK IS THE NEXT ONE OR THE NEXT COUPLE. WE TALK ABOUT ARTICULATION OF IT, BUT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT ANY SCREENING OR I MEAN CAN THEY DO CAN DO WE ALLOW WITH A PARKING STRUCTURE WHICH THIS ONE'S KIND OF IN THE CENTER. NOT SO MUCH THE WRAP MORE SO THE PIECE. THAT'S PHASE FIVE I THINK. DO WE REQUIRE ANY SORT OF SCREENING OR CAN THEY DO JUST A VERY SIMPLE CONCRETE NO METAL PANEL? NO. IT SAYS LIKE IT CAN BE TO MATCH THE SURROUNDING. BUT WHAT DO WE VIEW AS SURROUNDING. SO YEAH THE OTHER. SO IF THE GARAGE IS KIND OF EXPOSED IN A SENSE TO WHERE THE BUILDING DOESN'T WRAP ALL THE WAY AROUND IT, THE THE PART THAT SHOWS HAS TO MATCH WHAT'S ON THE BUILDING AND WHAT'S AROUND IN THE AREA. THE MATERIALS DO AT LEAST THE ONE IN PHASE FIVE, THOUGH THAT APPEARS TO BE LIKE A STANDALONE GARAGE. THAT'S CORRECT. IT IS A STANDALONE GARAGE, SO IT WOULD HAVE TO BE COMPRISED OF MATERIALS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO WHAT'S SURROUNDING IT. OKAY. YEAH, THAT'S ALL I GOT FOR NOW. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. YES I KNOW BACK TO THE ON THE MULTIFAMILY. THE SO IT IS A WRAPAROUND RIGHT. THAT'S CORRECT. HOW DOES HOW DOES THAT FIT WITH THE TWO EXTRA MULTIFAMILY BUILDING. DOES THAT MEAN THE WRAPAROUND REQUIREMENTS. SO THOSE TWO BUILDINGS THE TENANTS FOR THOSE THEY WILL PARK WITHIN THE WRAP DESIGN AREA. AND THE GROUND SURFACE PARKING IS PRIMARILY FOR THE RETAIL ON THE BOTTOM AND THE RETAIL ON THE BOTTOM OF THE THE WRAP DESIGN. SO THOSE TENANTS ARE GOING TO BE UTILIZING THE STRUCTURED GARAGE, EVEN THOUGH THOSE TWO BUILDINGS PHYSICALLY DON'T HAVE THE STRUCTURED GARAGE AS WELL. OKAY. THANKS. MR. I HAVE I HAVE TWO QUICK QUESTIONS ON THE MULTIFAMILY COMPONENT. SO OF THE 435 NOW MULTIFAMILY UNITS, IS THERE EITHER A MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE OF TWO BED UNITS OR A MINIMUM PERCENTAGE OF OF ONE BED. RIGHT. SO IT CAN EITHER BE 1 OR 2. BUT THE SPECIFIC BREAKOUTS THAT WEREN'T DEFINED IN THE PD. AND SO THE APPLICANT MAY BE ABLE TO CLARIFY THE PERCENTAGE OF ONE BEDROOM VERSUS TWO BEDROOM. THANK YOU. AND TO BUILD ON, I THINK, COMMISSIONER BLANCHARD'S QUESTION FROM A SECOND AGO. SO THEY ARE WRAPPED CONSTRUCTION ARE THE CORRIDORS CLIMATE CONTROLLED OR ARE THEY OPEN AIR CLIMATE CONTROLLED. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING? I APPRECIATE THOSE QUESTIONS. THANKS TO COREY FOR YOUR TIME AT THIS TIME. THIS IS REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING. I'LL GO AHEAD AND OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. I KNOW WE HAVE THE APPLICANT HERE, SO ASK THE APPLICANT TO COME FORWARD WITH THE PRESENTATION. WE'LL HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. AND JUST MAKE SURE TO STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS WHEN YOU COME UP. AND I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. GOOD EVENING. CHAIRMAN. COMMISSIONERS. MY NAME IS ALEXA KNIGHT. I WORK WITH DICKIE LAW, 322 WEST WALNUT, SALINA, TEXAS. I'M HERE THIS EVENING ON BEHALF OF THE OF OUR CLIENT, THE APPLICANT, TO DISCUSS THE PROPER ZONING CASE. DAKARI DID A GREAT JOB ON GIVING YOU ALL THE DETAILS. SO I'M GOING TO FLIP THROUGH A LOT OF THESE SLIDES. AS HE SAID, WE'RE ON THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE TOWN, AND WE ARE ON THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY DISTRICT. THIS IS ZOOMED IN. AND HE DID MENTION THE CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND IS JUST TO OUR WEST. WE'RE LOCATED BETWEEN LEGACY DRIVE AND THE DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY, AND WE ARE SOUTH OF FIRST STREET. ONE OF THE THINGS OF COURSE, WE LOOKED AT FIRST WAS THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN THAT YOU ADOPTED BACK IN 2022. MY HEART IS NOT SHOWN TO GO THROUGH THE THE TRACT, BUT BECAUSE OF THE MIXED USE LAND USE OF THE 60 ACRES, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE[00:25:07]
ACTUALLY EXTEND THAT MAYHAR THROUGH THE PROPERTY. WE'RE POINT THREE ACRES. ACRES MILES TO THE WEST. WE HAVE THE LEGACY AND THEN WE HAVE A HALF MILE. TO OUR EAST IS THE. THESE ARE THE TWO. THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER IS THE PARKWAY. WHAT'S REALLY SIGNIFICANT ABOUT THIS AND WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT THAN OTHER POTENTIAL MIXED USE DEALS, IS, YES, WE HAVE A 60 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY FOR MAHADE. BUT THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, ULTIMATELY WE HAVE ANOTHER 40FT.THAT IS A LANDSCAPE AND ACCESS EASEMENT, WHICH HAS THE TEN FOOT SHARED BIKE PATH PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY. THAT WAS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT THE COMMISSIONERS HAD LAST TIME FOR US DURING THE WORK SESSION WAS HOW THAT CONNECTS WITH THE TOWN'S OVERALL PARK SYSTEM. AND THEN ON THE WEST SIDE, WE HAVE ANOTHER 30FT UNTIL YOU GET TO THE FACE OF THE TOWNHOMES.
THERE WAS A QUESTION JUST THIS EVENING ABOUT LOVER'S LANE THAT IS NOT CONTROLLED BY US, THAT'S CONTROLLED BY THE DEVELOPER TO THE SOUTH OF US. SO THEY'RE BUILDING IT, DESIGNING IT. I ALREADY SHOWED YOU THIS SLIDE, WHICH HAS THE EXISTING ZONING OF AGRICULTURE. AND THEN THAT PD, THE SMALLER PORTION ON THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE PROPERTY IS PD WITH SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. BUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT HERE IS WE HAVE COMMERCIAL TO OUR WEST AND THEN WE HAVE MIXED USE ALREADY TO OUR EAST ZONING RIGHTS. SO AGAIN THIS IS PART OF THE D AND T DISTRICT AND WHICH CALLS FOR A MIXED USE PROJECT. WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU ALL THIS EVENING IS HOW DO WE COMPARE WITH THE COMP PLAN AND THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN, WHICH WAS ADOPTED BACK IN 2023. AND YES, AGAIN, WE ARE PART OF THE DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY DISTRICT.
HERE'S THE OVERALL TRAIL SYSTEM FOR THE TOWN. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE WHERE OUR SITE IS THERE IN YELLOW, AND WE WILL HAVE OVER SEVEN ACRES OF OPEN SPACE WITHIN OUR PROJECT. AND THEN WE'LL BE TAKING THAT HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL THROUGH NORTH SOUTH THROUGH THE SITE. SO LINKING LOVERS UP TO FIRST STREET. THIS ALSO IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO YOU ALL THIS EVENING. AND THAT'S THE LAND USE PRINCIPLES. AND AGAIN, THE DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY DISTRICT REQUIRES MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED AND SHOULD CONTAIN A MIXTURE OF OFFICE, RETAIL AND RESIDENTIAL USES. MIXED USE LOFTS AND APARTMENTS WOULD BE THE MOST APPROPRIATE RESIDENTIAL USE WITHIN THIS DISTRICT. AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE PROVIDING. QUALITY OF LIFE QUALITY PROJECT. WE'RE LOOKING AT OVER $300 MILLION PROJECT HERE. IT'S NOT A IT'S NOT A SMALL DEAL BY ANY MEANS. IT'S PROVIDING THE MIXED USE COMPONENT, FLEXIBILITY OF BUILDING SPACES, LONG TERM VISIBILITY OF THE COMMERCIAL UP ON FIRST STREET, HIGHER QUALITY AND DENSITY. AND YOU'VE SEEN THAT IN OUR ARCHITECTURAL STANDARDS THAT WE'VE INCLUDED AND THE INCLUSION OF PUBLIC FACILITIES. WE HAVE OVER FOUR ACRES IN THE CENTER OF OUR PROJECT THAT WE ENVISIONED TO LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER THAT WAS PULLED RIGHT OUT OF YOUR COMP PLAN. AND REALLY JUST NOT ONLY THE RESIDENTS THAT RESIDE ON THE 60 ACRES, BUT FOR THE COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE TO COME HERE AND ENJOY THAT OPEN PARK SPACE. SO WITH THAT, THIS IS A CONCEPT PLAN THAT IS BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING. AGAIN, WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT THAN OTHER DEALS IS WE HAVE A WALKABLE COMMUNITY THAT HAS ALL THE DIFFERENT MIXES OF OF LAND USE. WE'VE GOT RETAIL, BANK, RESTAURANTS, A FULL SERVICE HOTEL, THE ASSISTED LIVING AND THE OFFICE COMPONENT. AND IN THE CENTER OF THE PROJECT IS THAT FOUR ACRES THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. THAT IS A, WELL, AMENITIZED PROJECT. WE HAVE ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT CAME OUT OF THE COMMISSIONERS LAST TIME WAS TO EXTEND THE WATER SPACE. IT ORIGINALLY IT WAS JUST DOWN OVER THERE BY THE THE HOTEL, AND THAT'S NOW MORPHED INTO THE CENTER. AND SO IT'S A LONGER LINEAR, ALMOST AN ACRE WORTH OF, OF WATER SPACE NEXT TO THE AMPHITHEATER. SO THE, THE CHANGES THAT YOU FROM THE LAST WORK SESSION TO THIS EVENING ARE THAT WE INCREASE THE OVERALL OPEN SPACE. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE TOWNHOME COMPONENT STANDS ON ITS OWN, AND THAT WAS ACTUALLY INCREASED BY OVER A HALF ACRE. AND THE OVERALL PROJECT HAS SEVEN ACRES OF OPEN SPACE. WE BROUGHT, AS I MENTIONED, THE LAKE FEATURE TO THE CENTER OF THE PROJECT. WE REDUCED ONE OF THE HOTELS. SO NOW WE ONLY HAVE ONE. WE
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REDUCED THE LEVEL OF THE ASSISTED LIVING. AND THEN NOW WE HAVE TWO OFFICE SPACES THAT FLANK THE WATER SPACE THERE. WE'VE ALSO ADDED MORE SMALL RETAIL TO THE NORTH OF THE AMPHITHEATER AND WATER SPACE IN THE CENTER, BECAUSE THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY RECEIVED WELL BY BOTH THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMISSIONERS. SO WE ADDED THAT TO AND THEN WE ALSO ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT CAME OUT OF COMMISSIONERS MADE LAST TIME WAS TO REALLY TRY TO CONNECT THE TOWNHOMES IN BECAUSE THEY FELT LIKE IT WAS A LITTLE BIT DISCONNECTED. AND SO WE HAVE THAT CONNECTION NOW FROM THE TOWNHOME INTO THE EASTERN SIDE. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THIS IS OVER A $300 MILLION PROJECT. IT'S IT'S NOT IT'S NOT SMALL BEANS BY ANY MEANS. WE HAVE 20 TO 25 MILLION IN HORIZONTAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND, AND $290 MILLION IN VERTICAL. SO QUITE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT. IT'S NOT ONLY IT'S A IT'S A HUGE ECONOMIC BENEFIT TO THE TOWN OF PROSPER MOVING FROM A PIECE OF RAW DIRT TO A DEVELOPMENT LIKE THIS. YOU'RE OF COURSE, AS YOU WELL KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE YOUR ONE TIME FEES WITH IMPACT FEES, PERMITS AND INSPECTIONS, AND THEN THE INCREASE IN PROPERTY TAX, SALES TAX AND HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX TO THE TOWN. WE ALREADY WENT THROUGH THIS OPEN SPACE, BUT THIS IS THE INCREASE THAT WE HAD. JUST HIGHLIGHTS EVERYTHING. THE HALF ACRE AND THE 1.75 INCREASE FOR THE BALANCE OF THE TRACT FROM THE WORK SESSION. THIS IS THE PHASING PLAN. I DID WANT TO CLARIFY ON THE MULTIFAMILY WITH REGARD TO THE TRIGGER, THAT THAT TRIGGER ACTUALLY NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED, BECAUSE PREVIOUSLY WE HAD TWO MULTIFAMILY BUILDINGS AND NOW WE ONLY HAVE ONE. YES, WE HAVE THOSE TWO LITTLE OUT PARCEL BUILDINGS, BUT THAT REALLY IS ALL PART OF THE ONE. IT'S ONE MULTIFAMILY DEAL. NOW IT'S NOT TWO. SO THOSE TWO PARCELS, THOSE TWO BUILDINGS THAT ARE ALONG LOVERS HAVE THE GROUND FLOOR RETAIL IN IT. AND THE PARTY IS CORRECT THAT THEY WILL BE PARKING ON THE BACKS ON THE BACKSIDE WITHIN THE ACTUAL STRUCTURED PARKING THAT'S WRAPPED BY THE MULTIFAMILY UNITS. THE PRODUCT MIX WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPER. WHEN THEY COME TO DEVELOP THE PROJECT, YOU KNOW, THEY WILL DO A MARKET STUDY ANALYSIS AND REALLY FIGURE OUT WHAT THE MAKEUP NEEDS TO BE DONE AS FAR AS ONE, TWO, OR EVEN THREE BEDROOMS. AND I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO BRIAN.HE'S GOING TO TAKE YOU THROUGH ALL THE GOOD STUFF, WHICH IS THE ARCHITECTURAL. MR. CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION. GOOD EVENING. I'M BRIAN MOORE WITH GF DESIGN 3030 NOWITZKI WAY IN DALLAS. REALLY PLEASED TO BE HERE THIS EVENING. THE WORK SESSION THAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY, BOTH WITH YOUR COMMISSION AND WITH YOUR TOWN COUNCIL, WERE EXTREMELY CONSTRUCTIVE, VERY HELPFUL FOR US. YOUR COMMISSION HAD VERY FEW COMMENTS OTHER THAN POSITIVE COMMENTS. TOWN COUNCIL HAD SEVERAL COMMENTS. AND JUST AS A REMINDER, BASED ON ALL OF THE DIFFERENT DISCUSSION TOOLS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, THAT THAT BOTH DAKARI AND ALEXA MENTIONED, ABOUT 65% OR SO OF THE ENTIRE PLAN IS CHANGED. AND WE BELIEVE DEFINITELY FOR THE BETTER IN IN A LOT OF RESPECTS. SO A LOT OF THOSE PIECES WERE REALLY KIND OF MENTIONED TO YOU ALREADY. I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT QUALITY OF LIFE AS IT RELATES TO THE PROJECT. SEVERAL OF THE ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN CHANGING HAVE A LOT TO DO WITH CONNECTEDNESS TO THE TO THE PROJECT OVERALL. ALSO, THE MULTIFAMILY PIECE IN PARTICULAR, THAT WAS ONE THING WHERE ORIGINALLY, AS YOU MAY RECALL, THERE WERE TWO INDIVIDUAL PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT. THEY HAD TWO PARKING GARAGES THAT WERE LITERALLY SIDE BY SIDE. THE MULTIFAMILY NOW IS A SINGLE PHASE INSTEAD OF TWO PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT. THE PARKING GARAGE IS ENTIRELY INTERNALIZED, AND IT'S FOUR BUILDINGS INSTEAD OF TWO LARGER, MORE, YOU MIGHT SAY MORE RECTILINEAR, MORE ORTHOGONAL BUILDINGS. SO NOW THERE ARE GREATER OPPORTUNITIES FOR DIFFERENT DIFFERING VARIABLE HEIGHTS. WE'RE SHOWING A COMBINATION OF FIVE STORY FOR THE TWO NORTHERN BUILDINGS AND THEN FOUR STORY FOR THE TWO SOUTHERLY BUILDINGS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO TO LOVER'S LANE.
ALSO, MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DESIGN INTEREST, THE MORE RECTILINEAR THE BUILDING IS.
YOU REALLY ONLY HAVE THE CORNER ELEMENTS THAT REALLY HAVE THE OPTION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR DESIGN CREATIVITY. NOW YOU HAVE MORE END CONDITIONS, YOU HAVE MORE TERMINAL CONDITIONS, SO A LOT MORE VARIETY, BOTH IN BUILDING HEIGHTS AND THEN ALSO JUST ARCHITECTURAL VISUAL INTEREST ALONG THE A LOT OF A LOT MORE CORNER ELEMENTS. LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT ALEXA MENTIONED ABOUT THE THE VARIANCE FROM THE PREVIOUS PLAN. AND THIS ONE AS IT RELATES TO BODY OF WATER. THE THE THE BODIES OF WATER ARE NOW EXTENDED MORE INTERNALLY TO THE
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TO THE MIDDLE PORTION OF THE PROPERTY, INSTEAD OF THERE BEING ALL WATER AND THEN ALL GRASS. SO YOU'RE SEEING A VARIABILITY OF THAT. ALSO THE THE WAY THAT YOU MEANDER AROUND THE THE COMBINATION OF THE FOUR, THE FOUR ACRE PARK SPACE WITH WATER IS MORE VARIABLE NOW IT'S MORE ARTICULATED NOW. WE HAVE A GREATER VISION NOW AS IT RELATES TO WHAT WHAT TYPES OF VEGETATION THAT THAT MIGHT WANT TO BE. SO A COMBINATION OF ARCHITECTURAL TREATMENT AS IT RELATES TO A COMBINATION OF TOWNHOMES AND MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT, BUT THEN ALSO THINKING A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE THE VEGETATIVE TREATMENT AND THE QUALITY OF THE PARK SPACES ARE REALLY IMPORTANT. TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THESE. LET'S GO A LITTLE BIT INTO IN DEPTH FOR SOME OF THE STILL IMAGES. SO FOR THE TOWNHOME PIECE WE HAD ORIGINALLY A MUCH MORE UNIFORM LOOK TO IT. NOW IT'S MUCH MORE VARIED. SO YOU HAVE MORE OF A BROWNSTONE LOOK FROM ONE POD TO THE NEXT POD. SO ROUGHLY EVERY 25 30FT IT HAS A VARIABILITY TO IT. THEN ALSO A STAGGER, A VERTICAL STAGGER FROM FROM ONE PIECE TO THE NEXT. WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT LAST TIME ABOUT THE MODERN FARMHOUSE. LOOK FOR THE RETAIL RESTAURANT ACTIVITY THAT WAS VERY FAVORABLY RECEIVED. WE LIKE IT AS WELL. IT'S A PRODUCT TYPE THAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, VERY RECENTLY AS A FIRM, AND IT'S BEEN VERY WELL RECEIVED ELSEWHERE. AND WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS WE'RE ACTUALLY ENHANCING THAT AND ADDING MORE OF A OF A PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL OVERALL BUILDINGS OF THIS PARTICULAR KIND OF LOOK THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT, PARTICULARLY WHERE THE THE SECOND HOTEL ORIGINALLY WAS. NOW THAT IS AN ADDITIONAL I THINK THREE BUILDINGS FOR THIS PARTICULAR LOOK AS WELL. AGAIN, THE CENTER PORTION OF THE PROPERTY STILL SHOWING THE SAME ROUGH SIZE FOR THE AMPHITHEATER SITE, BUT BUT NOW ALSO INCORPORATING A WATER FEATURE INTO IT. THAT WAS A DISCUSSION TOOL AND CONCERN BY TOWN COUNCIL AS IT RELATED TO THE THE ADJACENCY OF THE ASSISTED LIVING USES THAT TOO MUCH GREEN SPACE MIGHT IMPLY TOO MUCH ACTIVITY, TOO MUCH PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY, TOO NOISY. SO WE'RE TREATING THE THE WATER AS A PARTIAL BUFFER BETWEEN BETWEEN THOSE TWO. SAMPLING OF DIFFERENT DIFFERENT IMAGES THAT HAVE BEEN UPDATED SINCE THEN. SO YOU HAVE FOUR STORY OFFICE BACK IN THE REAR, A MORE LUSH PARK SCAPE THROUGHOUT THE THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE PROPERTY, THE ARCHITECTURAL STYLING FOR THE MULTIFAMILY AS YOU SEE HERE, WHICH IS AT THE THE FAR SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE OF THE PROPERTY NEAREST THE THE POTENTIAL ROUNDABOUT FOR AT THE INTERSECTION OF LOVERS LANE AND PARKWAY, AGAIN HAS MORE GREATER AMOUNT OF ARTICULATION. IT HAS A MORE SALUTE TO A TRIPARTITE DESIGN OF BASE METAL CAP AND GREATER OPPORTUNITIES AGAIN FOR END TREATMENTS FOR VISUAL INTEREST, A SMALLER WATER FEATURE THAT'S ON THE FAR SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE PROPERTY, AS YOU SEE HERE, WITH A FOUR STORY OFFICE IN THE IN THE CENTER LEFT AND TWO STORY OFFICE ON THE RIGHT. AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR PORTION OF THE PRESENTATION. THERE WERE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS I WANT TO SPEAK TO. ONE OBSERVATION AND AND QUESTION IN REGARD TO THE THE THE 50% CEMENTITIOUS SIDING. THE CLIENT IS, IS IS ACCEPTING GOING UP TO 35% ONLY AND NOT 50% AS, AS AN ACCOMMODATION. SO BLOCK THAT. THANK YOU. YOU SAID 60 BUT THEY SAID YEAH. MR. OUR CIVIL ENGINEER IS ALSO HERE AT KIMLEY-HORN AND HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. ALL RIGHT. SO WELL APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION. AND REALLY, I GUESS BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH SOME QUESTIONS AND THERE'LL BE A FEW QUESTIONS, JUST REALLY APPRECIATE THE PROCESS. APPRECIATE Y'ALL COMING BACK. WHEN WAS THAT? IN MAY I THINK TO GET THE FEEDBACK AND WORK WITH THE TOWN STAFF AND AND BOTH COMMISSION AND COUNCIL AND COME BACK TO THIS. SO THANKS FOR DOING THAT. WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO OPEN THIS. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING. I'M GOING TO OPEN THE FLOOR TO OUR COMMISSIONERS FOR QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE FOR THE APPLICANT THIS EVENING. COMMISSIONER CARSON, WE'LL START WITH YOU. I KNOW YOU HAVE A FEW THERE, SO WE'LL JUST GET YOU STARTED.WELL, I APPRECIATE THE HONOR. I ECHO YOUR COMMENTS. YOU GUYS ARE ARE DOING THIS RIGHT. WE APPRECIATE IT. IT'S NOTED THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE SOME EFFORTS HERE. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. I THINK WE COVERED A LOT OF THEM. I'M GOING TO RESERVE MY QUESTIONS FOR SOME OF THEM FOR MAYBE LATER FOR STAFF, BUT ONLY QUESTION REALLY. JUST GOING DOWN MY LIST I APOLOGIZE.
YOU PUT ME ON THE SPOT. I THINK THE PHASING I GUESS. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE TRIGGER ON THE
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MULTIFAMILY. SO WHAT IF WHAT'S PROPOSED IS NOT NECESSARILY ALIGNED? NOW WHAT WHAT'S THE PROPOSAL THERE? I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THAT WE CAN KEEP THE TRIGGER IN THERE AND JUST REMOVE THE WORD SECOND. SO THE MINIMUM OF THE 50,000 SQUARE FOOT COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL ON FIRST STREET MUST HAVE A CO PRIOR TO THE MULTIFAMILY BUILDING COMMENCING VERTICAL CONSTRUCTION. SO IT'S ACTUALLY MORE RIGID, RIGHT? YEAH. YEAH I WOULD AGREE. AND YOU AND YOUR ANTICIPATION IS DO YOU MIND GOING MAYBE BACK TO THAT CONCEPT PLAN. THAT WAS A GOOD PICTURE IF YOU CAN. SO YOUR THOUGHT ON THE ON THE. YEAH THAT'S GOOD ON THE THE TWO BUILDINGS DOWN BY LOVERS. YOU'RE THE PARKING IS IN THE RAP STRUCTURED PARKING. SO THOSE FOLKS ARE GOING TO WALK ACROSS THE STREET AND WALK UP FOUR STORIES OR CORRECT. ONE THING TO KEEP IN MIND THOUGH, IT'S A FOUR STORY BUILDING. THERE'S A TWO FOR A24 STORY BUILDINGS, BUT THE RETAIL RESTAURANT ACTIVITY IS ESSENTIALLY A DOUBLE VOLUME. SO YOU'RE ONLY LOOKING AT TWO FLOORS OF RESIDENTIAL. SO IT'S A VERY IT'S A FAIRLY SMALL AMOUNT OF MULTIFAMILY PER EACH BUILDING. IT'S PROBABLY ACTUALLY ABOUT, I WOULD SAY MAYBE ABOUT 20 UNITS PER BUILDING. SO A BULK OF THE OF THE TOTAL UNIT COUNT, WHICH IS OVER 400 UNITS, IS REALLY IN THE TWO NORTHERN BUILDINGS. IT'S A IT'S AN INTERESTING CONCEPT FOR SURE. AND THEN ON THE IS THERE A FLAG IDENTIFIED OR PROPOSED ON THE FLAG FOR THE HOTEL? HAVE YOU GOT THAT FAR YET? I WAS JUST CURIOUS. NOT AS YET, NO. SO WHAT WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE OF THAT THOUGH? LIKE WHAT? WHAT KIND OF HOTEL? GIVE ME SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT WOULD FIT IN. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I GUESS YOU COULD SAY. WHAT TYPES OF HOTELS MIGHT IT NOT BE? RIGHT. THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO ANSWER IT. EITHER WAY, THE TYPICAL EXPRESS HOTEL IS REALLY WHAT YOU'RE TRYING. WHAT? WHEN YOU SAY FULL SERVICE HOTEL, YOU'RE TRYING TO PREVENT THE EXPRESS HOTEL FROM FROM BEING INCORPORATED INTO IT. SO IN TERMS, I MEAN, A LOT OF THE FLAGS THEY, THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE THE EXPRESS, THEY HAVE THE EXPRESS HOTEL VERSION AND THEN THEY HAVE THE, THE FULL SERVICE VERSION. SO IT'S SOMETHING VALUABLE. YES. I THINK DAKARI ADDRESSED MY CONCERN THERE. THAT WAS GOOD. AS LONG AS THERE'S SOME OTHER AMENITY ON THE ON THIS PLAN IN PARTICULAR, DO YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S AS CLOSELY REPRESENTING THE SETBACKS THAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR ON THE TOWNHOMES? IT DOES. SO THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE CLOSEST TO THE SIDEWALKS. THOSE ARE PROBABLY ABOUT THE 20 FOOT SETBACK ON THE FRONT. YEAH, IT WAS REALLY ALONG THE WESTERN SIDE OF MAJOR PARKWAY THAT WE WERE TRYING TO TO TO HUG MY HEART AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE TOWNHOMES ARE REAL, ARE TRYING TO HAVE TWO FRONTS.THEY FRONT ALONG MAJOR PARKWAY. BUT WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ANY PARALLEL PARKING ALONG THE PARKWAY. WE WERE TRYING TO HAVE PARALLEL PARKING ALONG THERE, BUT THERE WILL BE STOOPED ENTRIES ALONG MAJOR PARKWAY AND THEN ALSO ENTRIES FOR THE FOR THE VEHICLES BACK IN THE REAR. SO TO YOUR TO YOUR QUESTION IT TO US IT MAY SEEM A LITTLE ODD OR AWKWARD WHEN YOU HAVE STOOP STYLE ENTRY, WHICH IS INTENDED TO TRY TO BE A LITTLE MORE URBAN ORIENTED THE FARTHER BACK THE SETBACK IS. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YEAH. I GUESS THIS IS MORE IN YOUR DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE. IT'S PRETTY BROAD. IT DOESN'T REALLY SHOW. AND I GET ITS CONCEPT AT THIS STAGE. I'M NOT LOOKING FOR CONSTRUCTION LEVEL SCHEDULE, BUT DOES THE YOU HAVE I THINK THE SENIOR LIVING THERE'S NOT NECESSARILY A TRIGGER FOR THAT. IT COULD START AS EARLY OR LATE. YOU KNOW, THE PHASING IS JUST KIND OF NUMERICAL. IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE IN ORDER PER SE, BUT THE ONLY REAL TRIGGER IS THE MULTIFAMILY. SO IF YOU HAD A LOT OF MOMENTUM AND YOU WANTED TO DO PHASE FIVE BEFORE PHASE TWO, YOU COULD DO THAT. OR IF THERE WAS ENOUGH INTEREST OR SAME THING ON THE SENIOR, WHAT DO YOU I THINK THE ASSISTED LIVING PRODUCT COULD BE VERY SUCCESSFUL IN OUR TOWN. WHAT'S THE FROM THE DEVELOPMENT SIDE? WHAT TRIGGERS THAT TO GO IN YOUR MIND? IF THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS THERE AND THE NEED IS THERE, IT'LL GO. AND THAT IS FROM A DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE. THAT CENTER IS KIND OF DIFFICULT TO. WE. WE THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT WHAT NEEDS TO GO THERE ON THAT EASTERN SIDE BECAUSE IT'S BURIED. SO THE ACCESSIBILITY AND VISIBILITY IS DIFFICULT. SO WE REALLY DO NEED TO HAVE A HARD COME IN. AND THEN WE NEED TO HAVE SOME ACTIVITY THERE BEFORE THAT ASSISTED LIVING COMES IN. SO IT REALLY DOES MAKE SENSE THAT THAT FIRST PHASE IS THE TOWNHOME. AND THE RETAIL IS ALONG FIRST STREET. AND THEN ASSISTED LIVING COULD COME IN NEXT BEFORE THE MULTIFAMILY. YEAH, I LIKE THE CENTER OF THIS DEVELOPMENT AS MUCH AS THE REST OF IT. MY CONCERN ON LOVERS, WHICH YOU SAID IS OUT OF YOUR CONTROL, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PUT A HOTEL THAT YOU CAN'T ACCESS. AND I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED HOW FAST.
THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING IF IT WAS A TOWN OF PROSPER PROJECT OR A DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. SO A
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LITTLE CONCERNING THAT THOSE GET DELAYED OR PUSHED JUST OUT OF PURE CAN'T GET TO THEM.THAT'S CORRECT. AND THAT'S WHY WE PUT IN THE PD FROM A DISPOSITION STANDPOINT THAT THAT THOSE THOSE CAN GO OUT OF SEQUENCE. THOSE TRIGGERS ARE IMPORTANT. BUT THEN THE OTHER PHASES CAN FLIP FLOP. I THINK YOU'RE ADDRESSING THE BIGGER TRIGGER. WE FOR US I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR EVERYBODY. FOR ME, GETTING SOMETHING THERE BESIDES MULTIFAMILY IN PLACE IS IMPORTANT TO THE TOWN. SO THANK YOU. I THINK THAT'S ALL FOR NOW. COMMISSIONERS, WHEN DID YOU GO? I JUST HAD A QUICK ONE. SO IF THE PHASES ARE IRRELEVANT. SO PHASE IF THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS THE TRIGGER WITHIN WITHIN PHASE ONE ARE HOW HOW ARE THE TRACKS GOING TO BE DEVELOPED. IS IT ARE YOU LOOKING TO WITHIN PHASE ONE TO DEVELOP ALL OF THE. SO IN TRACT I GUESS IT'S TRACK THREE. SO YOU'RE GOING TO DEVELOP TRACK THREE FIRST FULLY. SO EVERYTHING WITHIN TRACK THREE THEN MOVE TO TRACK ONE AND THEN TO TRACK TWO TO DEVELOP THE RETAIL. I MEAN IS THE IDEA WITHIN PHASE ONE TO BEGIN AND COMPLETE EVERYTHING THAT'S IN THAT TRACK THREE, WHICH IS WHICH ARE THE TOWNHOMES? ESSENTIALLY THE TOWNHOMES WOULD BE GOING IN FIRST. THE TOWNHOME WOULD GO FIRST BECAUSE THEN THEN WE ALSO HAVE TO EXTEND MAY HEART AND THEN THE RETAIL WILL COME IN. WOULD. AND BETWEEN THESE DEVELOPMENTS WHAT WOULD WHAT IS THE ESTIMATED. AND YOU KNOW THINGS HAPPEN. THERE'S NO WAY TO GIVE A DEFINITE. BUT WHAT IS THE TIME FRAME BETWEEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRACK THREE AND THEN ONE AND TWO, WHICH IS THE RETAIL, AND THEN I GUESS ALL THE REST OF THE RETAIL RUNNING ALONG THAT AREA. I MEAN, IS IT POSSIBLE TO TO DO TRACK THREE, IS IT POSSIBLE TO BUILD OUT ALL THOSE TOWNHOMES? AND THEN A YEAR LATER, TWO YEARS LATER, THEN BEGIN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE RETAIL? OR IS THE IDEA THAT IT WILL BE BUILT CONCURRENTLY? WHAT IS WHAT IS THE PLAN? THERE IS INTEREST BOTH IN THE TOWNHOME AND THE RETAIL. SO WHETHER OR NOT THEY GO CONCURRENTLY, THAT THAT IS RIGHT NOW THAT IS THE PLAN. YES. TO BUILD TO BUILD THEM CONCURRENTLY. YES. OKAY.
WHETHER OR NOT IT WILL ALL, ALL 60,000FT■!S WILL BE BUILT OUT. T SURE. BUT AGAIN THAT THAT'S WHY THAT SECONDARY TRIGGER IS IN THERE, THAT ALL THAT RETAIL DOES NEED TO BE BUILT AT LEAST 50,000FT■!S OF IT BEFORE WE CAN MOVE ON. BUT THAT'S BEFORE YOU MOVE ON TO THE MULTIFAMILY, RIGHT? NOT THE TOWNHOMES. THAT'S CORRECT. YES. SO THE TOWNHOMES WILL BE FULLY BUILT OUT BEFORE ANYTHING IS DONE. THE TOWNHOMES ARE FIRST. AGAIN, THINGS CHANGE WITH THE MARKET.
BUT YES THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. AND BECAUSE THE THE BUILDER FOR THE TOWNHOMES AND THE COMMERCIAL WOULD BE DIFFERENT, MORE THAN LIKELY THE TIMING FOR EACH OF THOSE COULD BE SIMULTANEOUS OR THEY COULD BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER. OKAY. THANK YOU. MORE OF A THIS IS AN EASY ONE. BUT ARE YOU A ARE YOU OPPOSED TO RAISING THAT $50,000 OR 50,000 SQUARE FOOT TRIGGER? BECAUSE MY CONCERN IS YOU HAVE ONE BOX THAT'S ABOUT 50,000FT CAN. YOU GO PUT ONE LITTLE THING IN AND THEN YOU'VE TECHNICALLY MET IT AND THEN YOU YOU HAVE SEVEN PAD SITES THAT ARE NOT BUILT YET. IS THAT REASONABLE OR SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT? WE CAN KEEP QUESTIONING THIS. LET US CONSULT. COMMISSIONER. OKAY. SO CONTINUING ON WITH THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PHASING FOR A MINUTE. SO IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY, THE UNDER THE CONCEPT PLAN, THE RETAIL THAT'S ALONG FIRST STREET, THAT IS AT LEAST THE 50,000FT■!S THAT WOULD TRIGGER THE APARTMENTS IN PHASE TWO. YEAH. AND THEN AS THE FIRST FLOOR, YOU MENTIONED THAT THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE SMALLER BUILDINGS IS ALL IS RETAIL AND HAS A HIGHER MULTIFAMILY. YES. ON THE MULTIFAMILY. YES. AND HAS A HIGHER HEIGHT. THAT'S CORRECT.
IS THAT RIGHT? IS THAT ALSO TRUE? IS THERE A RETAIL ON THE ON THE BIG BUILDING? NO. ON THE FIRST FLOOR AT ALL. JUST THE JUST THE TWO BUILDINGS. JUST THOSE. OKAY. AND THEN. ON BACK TO THE HOTEL AGAIN. JUST A QUICK QUESTION. IT'S FULL SERVICE. AND YOU WERE SAYING THAT THAT MEANS IT'S NOT EXPRESS. DOES THAT MEAN IT'S IS IT. COULD IT POTENTIALLY BE
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LONG TERM STAY. FULL SERVICE TO ME DOES NOT MEAN THAT THAT'S NOT THE INTENT OKAY. DO WE HAVE A DEFINITION. SO YEAH FOR HOTELS WE HAVE THREE DIFFERENT THERE'S FULL SERVICE LIMITED SERVICE AND EXTENDED STAY. SO IT WOULDN'T QUALIFY AS AN EXTENDED STAY OKAY. THANK YOU.THAT'S ALL I HAVE A QUESTION, COMMISSIONER FURYK. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN. A FEW GENERAL QUESTIONS AND THEN A COUPLE SPECIFIC ONES AS IT RELATES TO THE MULTIFAMILY COMPONENT. SO ARE THERE OTHER DEVELOPMENTS FROM THIS DEVELOPER IN THE AREA THAT WE CAN KIND OF LOOK TO AS, AS TO WHAT, YOU KNOW, IS TYPICALLY BROUGHT HERE BY THIS DEVELOPER AS FAR AS QUALITY AND VISION, THE MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPER HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED. I MEAN, JUST IN TOTAL HERE, LIKE SO IT YOU GUYS ARE THERE'S A BUNCH OF PICTURES. THERE'S A BUNCH OF THERE'S A VISION. ARE YOU SAYING THAT ALL THESE PARTS ARE GOING TO BE DEVELOPED INTO, SOLD OFF AND DEVELOPED INDIVIDUALLY? THE, THE, THE CLIENT HAS MADE A COMMITMENT TO BEING PART OF A JOINT VENTURE OF THE, OF THE COMBINATION OF THE TOWNHOME DEVELOPMENT AND THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT AS PART OF THE PHASE ONE. OKAY, WHAT ABOUT THE TOWNHOMES AND COMMERCIAL? ARE THERE ANY OTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AREA THEY'RE INVOLVED IN, JOINT VENTURE OR OR OTHERWISE? I DON'T BELIEVE SO. IN IN YOUR MIND, AS YOU'VE BEEN DEVELOPING THIS, IS THERE ANY OTHER DEVELOPMENTS THAT YOU WOULD SAY THIS MOST CLOSELY RESEMBLES IN YOUR MIND THAT ARE BUILT? YEAH, I MEAN, WE SEE THE PICTURES. I'M JUST CURIOUS IN YOUR VISION KIND OF AS YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS AREA, WHAT IS THIS MOST LIKE? YEAH, YEAH. THERE'S A, THERE'S A PROJECT IN IN PLANO CALLED HAGER SQUARE. IT'S ONE OF THE VERY FIRST NEW URBANIST PROJECTS THAT WERE, THAT WERE DONE IN NORTH TEXAS. THAT IS A FULLY BUILT OUT PROJECT. YOU'RE WELCOME TO TO GO THERE AND TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. IT'S A COMBINATION OF MULTIFAMILY BACK IN THE REAR THAT ARE A COMBINATION OF TWO AND THREE STORY MULTIFAMILY AT THAT TIME, AND AND THEN COMMERCIAL IN THE IMMEDIATE FOREGROUND AND ALONG ALONG PRESTON ROAD. IT'S NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF PRESTON ROAD AND 121. AND THERE'S A CREEK RUNNING THROUGH IT. SO IT HAS THE SAME KIT OF PARTS THAT ARE FAIRLY SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER. THANK YOU. DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW WHAT THE TOTAL? I MEAN, THERE'S BEEN VARIOUS QUESTIONS UP HERE ABOUT THE RETAIL AND SQUARE FOOTAGE. WHAT IS THE TOTAL RETAIL SQUARE FOOTAGE ENVISIONED FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT? IT'S OVER 100,000FT■!S. WE HAVE 127,000FT■!S OF RETAIL. THANK Y. WHAT ABOUT THE OFFICE COMPONENT? OF WHICH MORE? OF WHICH HALF OF THAT IS IN THAT PHASE ONE? BY THE WAY, IT'S OVER 60,000. WHAT ABOUT THE OFFICE COMPONENT, THE SIZE, THE OFFICE? WE HAVE 112,000FT■!S OF OFFICE IN TWO BUILDINGS. THANK YOU. AND LAST QUESTION, I THINK SO ON THE MULTIFAMILY COMPONENT. SO THE 435 AND THIS IS A REITERATION OF MY QUESTION TO DAKARI FROM EARLIER, WHAT IS THE UNIT BREAKDOWN BETWEEN ONE BED AND TWO BED. SO WHEN I USED TO BE A MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPER. SO WHEN THE DEVELOPER DOES THEIR MARKET ANALYSIS, THAT'S WHEN THEY'LL DETERMINE THAT RATIO OF ONE BEDROOM, TWO BEDROOM, AND POSSIBLY EVEN THREE BEDROOMS. ARE YOU ALL OPEN TO RESTRICTIONS ON THAT IN THE PD ITSELF? AS FAR AS THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF TWO BEDROOM UNITS, I THINK THAT MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR THEM TO, FOR THEM, A MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPER TO COME IN AND DEVELOP, BECAUSE I REALLY DO BASE UPON THE MARKET ANALYSIS. THANK YOU. SO YOU WENT BACK EARLIER. THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF RETAIL. THE I THINK COMMISSIONER CARSON BROUGHT UP THAT WOULD YOU BE OPEN TO UPPING THAT 50,000 TRIGGER Y'ALL TALKED ABOUT? SO DID YOU HAVE ANY REVELATIONS ON THAT OR NOT? YEAH. THE THE TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE ALONG THAT, THE NORTH END ALONG 60,000 IS PROBABLY ABOUT 60, 65,000 OR SO. THAT'S I'D FEEL PRETTY UNCOMFORTABLE MOVING THAT MOVING THAT, THAT 50,000 UP TO A HIGHER AMOUNT. OKAY. FAIR ENOUGH. APPRECIATE YOU LOOKING AT IT. ALL RIGHT. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING ITEM. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT AT THIS POINT I REALLY APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION. NOT SAYING NOT BE BACK UP FOR A QUESTION OR TWO HERE IN A MOMENT, BUT SINCE THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, ANY MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE WISH TO COME FORWARD AT THIS TIME FOR ANY COMMENTS. IF YOU DO NEED TO TURN IN THAT PUBLIC COMMENT REQUEST FORM AND ALSO STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. I DON'T SEE ANYONE LOOKING LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO COME UP WITH THAT. SO BEFORE WE CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, I'M GOING TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE COMMISSION. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR STAFF OR THE APPLICANT BEFORE I CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR THIS EVENING. COMMISSIONER CARSON, YOU GOOD? YOU LOOK LIKE YOU MIGHT HAVE A QUESTION. YEAH. I
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THINK THE ONLY QUESTION IS BACK TO THE OFFICE. THE THE IMAGES SHOWN IN THE BACK DON'T REALLY ALIGN TO THE WHAT'S BEING ASKED FOR, YOU KNOW, PAINTED WALL OR ENHANCED, WHICH IS VERY VAGUE, BUT THEY'RE ALL FULLY BRICKED, FULLY WITH LOTS OF GLAZING. MAYBE FOR OUR FRIENDLY ARCHITECT. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT OF JUST KIND OF WHAT IS WHAT YOUR ENVISION OF ENHANCED CONCRETE TILT WALL OR LIKE I SAID, THE INSPIRATION PICTURES IS IN YOUR PRESENTATION. MAYBE DON'T TOTALLY ALIGN AND I GET YOUR YEARS AWAY FROM THIS. SO I'M NOT TRYING TO PIN YOU TO TOO MUCH. IT JUST I DON'T I DON'T LOVE THE CONCEPT. IF YOU LOOK IN PLANO AND OTHER OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AROUND, THERE'S A RASH OF VERY UGLY PAINTED OFFICE BUILDINGS THAT DO NOT ADD A LOT OF VALUE INTO THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENTS. I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, BUT THAT'S A THAT FEELS LIKE A LOT. BUT MAYBE YOU HAVE A BETTER DEFINITION OF THAT. NO, I DON'T REALLY HAVE A BETTER DEFINITION. YOU KNOW, ENHANCED CONCRETE TILT WALL THAT THAT USUALLY INVOLVES A SERIES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF WHAT THEY CALL FORM LINER. AND IT'S, IT'S IT ADDS ARTICULATION TO THE TO THE, TO THE TILT WALL RATHER THAN BEING SINGLE, A SINGLE FACE, IT HAS IT HAS A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT ARTICULATIONS TO IT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S A, THAT'S ANOTHER WAY OF KIND OF DESCRIBING WHAT ENHANCED CONCRETE WALL REALLY IS. IS THAT WHAT YOU WOULD LOOK FOR OR DAVID, WHENEVER SOMETHING CAME THROUGH LATER? BECAUSE THE CHANCE OF THIS COMMISSION BEING THE SAME ONES, HEARING THIS IN A FEW YEARS IS PROBABLY PRETTY UNLIKELY. THE DEFINITION OF ENHANCED TILT WALL IS THAT HOW THE TOWN WE HAVEN'T WE HAVEN'T DONE THIS. THIS IS A NEW FORAY FOR US, FRANKLY. BUT SURE. AND SHOULD A SHOULD THIS GET APPROVED AND DOWN THE LINE THEY COME IN FOR LIKE SITE PLANS AND FACADE PLANS FOR THIS BUILDING. THEY HAVE TO SHOW THE PERMITTED.THEY HAVE TO SHOW THE MATERIALS THAT CONSTRUCT THE BUILDING OUT OF ON THE FACADE PLAN. AND AS PART OF MY REVIEW, I ALSO CONSULT WITH DAVID ABOUT WHAT THEY SHOW IN TERMS OF THE MATERIALS. SO IF IT'S NOT THE MATERIALS THAT I DESCRIBED WITH THE ARTICULATION THAT WAS MENTIONED, THEN WE WOULDN'T APPROVE IT UNLESS IT WAS OKAY. I DON'T GUESS WE HAD ANY PICTURES IN THE REPRESENTATIVE PICTURES THERE THAT SHOWED ANYTHING LIKE THAT. DID WE? OF THIS ENHANCED CONCRETE TILT WALL, DID WE? I DON'T THINK WE DID. BUT YEAH, WE CAN WE CAN CHECK. I MEAN, SOME OF THESE LOOK REALLY NICE. I DIDN'T SEE ANY. BUT YEAH, I MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR EITHER. OKAY. NO WORRIES OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONER CARSON? COMMISSIONER BLANSETT. OKAY. THESE THESE THE DESIGN STANDARDS THAT YOU WERE JUST DESCRIBING AND THE THE THE 50% LIMITS AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS ON THE BUILDING MATERIALS. YES, ON THE BUILDING MATERIAL. CAN YOU SHOW ME QUICKLY? I'M NOT. WHERE IS THAT IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT HERE. I DON'T SEE THAT. SO ON THE OF THE MATERIALS BUT I DON'T SEE THOSE MAXIMUMS. SO ON THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, THERE SHOULD BE I THINK IT'S EXHIBIT B ON THE. SO IT'S LIKE TOWARDS KIND OF THE END OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND I APOLOGIZE. I DON'T HAVE IT IN THE SLIDESHOW, BUT IT'S ON EXHIBIT B UNDER THE PERMITTED MATERIALS AND BUILDING DESIGN THAT REFERENCES ALL THE ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS, THE ARTICULATION, THE CANOPIES AND EVERYTHING. IT DOES SPECIFY THE SPECIFIC MATERIALS AND IT'S NOT BROKEN OUT LIKE THIS. THIS IS JUST FOR IT'S EASIER TO VISUALIZE ON THE POWERPOINT.
THE WORDING IS MORE. IT'S IN LONGER SENTENCES, IF YOU WILL. OKAY. AND I'M OKAY. ALL RIGHT.
I WAS JUST NOT FINDING SOME OF THOSE ON THERE. BUT I CAN BEGIN TO SEE THEM. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. AND THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS IS IN SECTION 3.1 3.10. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.
WILL YOU DO ME A FAVOR. WILL YOU GO BACK TO THE PICTURE? I THINK IT'S IN THE THE APPLICANT'S PRESENTATION OF THE OFFICE THAT THEY'RE PRESENTING THE APPLICANT'S PRESENTATION I THINK SO. COMMISSIONER CARSON'S QUESTION HAS ME THINKING NOW. DO YOU REMEMBER WHICH SLIDE IT WAS? YEAH. THAT ONE. THIS ONE. YEAH. SO THAT THAT IS NOT ENHANCED TILT WALL. CORRECT. NO.
BUT THAT IS ENHANCED WALL. THAT IS ENHANCED TILT WALL. YEAH. ON THE LEFT ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE IT IS AS AS DEPICTED. YEAH. SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THERE ARE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT COLORS. SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THERE ARE THE, THE ABILITY TO HAVE CONCRETE TILT WALL WITH A
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COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT ARTICULATED PANELS THAT ARE EMBEDDED INTO THAT TO ADD, ADD VARIETY TO IT. SO THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE SEEING THE VARIETY OF DIFFERENT DIFFERENT COLOR. WHAT THAT ALSO DOES IS IT IT ADDS VARIETY TO THE TO THE TO THE TO THE ELEVATION OF THE, OF THE FACADE SO THAT YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT SHADE AND SHADOW TO THE, TO THE BUILDING. SO INTERESTING. OKAY. THANK YOU. ONE NOTE I WOULD SAY THE PERCENTAGE OF GLAZING IS PRETTY HIGH ON THAT, WHICH IS I THINK FAVORABLE TO. SO WELL DONE. AND AGAIN, THESE ARE JUST CONCEPTUAL IMAGES. AND AT THE TIME OF FACADE PLAN WILL REALLY STAMP OUT ALL THOSE. AND THAT GOES THROUGH A REVIEW THROUGH US. SO OKAY. COMMISSIONERS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT BEFORE WE CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? ALL RIGHT. I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS. WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR. AND I'M GOING TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE COMMISSION. AND I'M LOOKING DOWN AT COMMISSIONER HARRIS. IF YOU WANT TO PROVIDE ANY COMMENTARY. AND THEN WE'LL WALK ACROSS AND LET EVERYONE GIVE THEIR FINAL COMMENTS HERE. SURE. THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THE TOWN AND MAKING ADJUSTMENTS TO BRING THE PRESENTATION THAT YOU HAVE TODAY. I LIKE THE PRODUCT. I THINK THE ONLY CONCERN THAT I HAD WAS JUST IN THE THE, THE CADENCE OF THE BUILD AND HOW EVERYTHING IS BEING BUILT. I THINK THE SPIRIT OF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT A WHILE BACK WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WASN'T PRIMARILY AND SOLELY A EITHER MULTIFAMILY OR A, YOU KNOW, A MORE HOME TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT, THAT RETAIL WOULD BE A PART OF IT AND IT WOULD WALK LOCKSTEP. SO I JUST MY ONLY CONCERN IS, IS THE, I GUESS, PHASING OF THE TOWNHOMES BEING BUILT TO THE RETAIL, BECAUSE ONCE THE RETAIL IS BUILT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE ENTIRE TOWN CAN ENJOY AND CAN USE. SO THE SOONER THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT THE TOWN AND THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN ARE ABLE TO TO USE THE BETTER. SO I GUESS THE ONLY CONCERN THAT I WOULD HAVE IS THE TOWNHOMES BEING BUILT. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, A YEAR AND A HALF, TWO YEARS LATER, BEFORE THE RETAIL GETS BUILT OR, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THAT'S BASED ON THE PRESENTATION, BASED ON WHAT YOU SAID, THOSE CONCERNS ARE NOT.HIGH. BUT BUT I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO, YOU KNOW, AS YOU'RE DEVELOPING IT, JUST REALLY KEEP IN MIND THAT, YOU KNOW, AS YOU'RE BUILDING IT OUT, THE TOWN WOULD REALLY LIKE HAVING THAT RETAIL SPACE IN THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO THAT EVERYONE CAN ENJOY THE DEVELOPMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. SO OTHER THAN THAT, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND APPRECIATE YOU APPRECIATE YOUR YOUR TIME AND EFFORT WITH THE TOWN STAFF. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER HARRIS. COMMISSIONER CARSON, I'LL KEEP THIS PRETTY BRIEF. I THINK WE'VE ADDRESSED MY CONCERNS IN GENERAL. I THINK WE'RE IN A GOOD SPOT, BUT I DON'T LOVE THE THE BIGGER SETBACKS WITH THREE STORIES. BUT I APPRECIATE THE EXPLANATION THAT IT REALLY FELT MORE ALONG METHOD VERSUS KIND OF THROUGH THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT. SO I'D ADDRESS THAT CONCERN. I THINK THE SOME OF THE DESIGN STANDARDS ARE A LITTLE A LITTLE BIT LOOSER THAN I WOULD PREFER, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S WORTH HOLDING UP, HOLDING UP A DEVELOPMENT, A GOOD QUALITY DEVELOPMENT THAT'S GOOD FOR THE TOWN. AND I THINK THE STAFF WILL DO A GREAT JOB TRYING TO TO DO THEIR BEST. I THINK THE TWO THINGS THAT WILL THAT I HEARD IS LOWERING THE CEMENTITIOUS TO 35% MAX AND THEN ADJUSTING THE TRIGGER TO JUST REMOVE THE LANGUAGE. SO WE'LL JUST CAPTURE THOSE WHENEVER IF, IF WE GO TO A MOTION LATER. I THINK OTHER THAN THAT, EVERYTHING ELSE FEELS GOOD. I LIKE THE MIXED USE CONCEPT. I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID. I'D LOVE TO SEE THAT RETAIL GO A LOT QUICKER, AND I THINK THAT ASSISTED LIVING COULD BE VERY SUCCESSFUL AND WOULD SERVE THE TOWN WELL. WITH AN AGING POPULATION THAT STILL LIVES HERE AND WANTS TO BE AROUND THE GRANDKIDS. SO EVERYTHING ELSE, I THINK I'M OKAY WITH IT. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, COMMISSIONER CARSON. COMMISSIONER BLANCHETT, YES, I, I LIKE THIS DEVELOPMENT. I THINK YOU ALL HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB. I LIKE THE CHANGES. I APPRECIATE THE CHANGES YOU'VE MADE. SO I THINK THIS COULD BE VERY ATTRACTIVE AS WELL. SO WE ALWAYS WE CAN ALWAYS IMPROVE. WE WOULD ALWAYS LIKE THE PHASING TO BE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU KNOW, WE'D ALWAYS GO WITH RETAIL FIRST AND MULTIFAMILY LAST, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO EVER BE REALISTIC. BUT NONETHELESS, I, I REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE DONE HERE AND CERTAINLY SUPPORT THIS. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER BLANCHETT. COMMISSIONER, I'LL BE FAIRLY BRIEF. SO, YOU KNOW, I'LL START SAYING, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU TO THE APPLICANT AND THE STAFF. I THINK, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF WORK WENT INTO THIS WITH THE CHANGES. I ECHO A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT COMMISSIONER CARSON SAID A SECOND AGO. LIKE, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE THE THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS TIGHTENED UP A LITTLE BIT. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE
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MULTIFAMILY UNIT SPLIT WORKED OUT AHEAD OF TIME. I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT PUTS RESTRICTIONS ON THE DEVELOPER LATER, BUT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, REALLY THE POINT BEHIND IT. IT LOOKS GREAT IN THE DESIGN. IT REALLY LOOKS GREAT. YOU KNOW, IF I'M BEING FULLY HONEST, I STRUGGLE A LITTLE BIT WITH HAVING, YOU KNOW, AGRICULTURAL LAND. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, PD 71 IS A LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT'S BEING CHANGED. BUT, YOU KNOW, THE FUTURE LAND USE LAND USE PLAN SAYS WHAT IT SAYS. AND I THINK THIS FITS IN WITH THAT FUTURE LAND USE PLAN. AND IT DEVELOPED THIS WAY, YOU KNOW, CONSISTENT WITH THOSE CONCEPT IMAGES I THINK IT WILL LOOK GREAT. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER FURAY. AND I GUESS, AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.THANKS FOR WORKING WITH THE TOWN. I REALLY KIND OF ECHO THE SENTIMENTS OF MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS. AGAIN, COMMISSIONER FUREY SAID IT WELL, WE'RE WITHIN THE FUTURE. LAND USE PLAN. TOWN STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL. I LIKE THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE. I LIKE THAT YOU WORKED WITH TOWN STAFF AND JUST DIDN'T COME BACK WITH WHAT YOU HAD INITIALLY, AND IT'S TAKEN SEVERAL MONTHS, RIGHT, TO GET TO THIS POINT. I KNOW THERE'S A FEW LITTLE THINGS. NOTHING'S PERFECT. NOTHING EVER WILL BE. BUT THIS LOOKS REALLY GOOD. I HOPE SOME OF THESE IMAGES WE SEE COME TO FRUITION JUST LIKE WE SEE THEM. BUT I KNOW AT THIS STAGE IN THE PROCESS, IT MAY OR MAY NOT HAPPEN THAT WAY, UNFORTUNATELY. AND THAT'S THE DILEMMA FOR US AT TIMES WHEN WE APPROVE THESE PROJECTS. THAT BEING SAID, I AM IN FAVOR OF APPROVAL. I DO KNOW WE WILL IF WE HAVE A MOTION OF APPROVAL. I KNOW WE HAD A COUPLE OF COMMENTS NOTED ABOUT THE SOME OF THE SIDING OR THE MATERIALS. THE SIDING, I THINK, WAS ONE OF THE 35% OF THE.
PARTY SIDING. AND SO APPRECIATE IT. AND I'LL TAKE IT BACK TO THE COMMISSION FOR A MOTION ON REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR, WITH TWO MODIFICATIONS LOWERING THE CEMENTITIOUS SIDING PERCENTAGE TO 35% MAX THROUGH THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT, AND THEN ADJUSTING THE LANGUAGE FOR THE TRIGGER TO JUST REMOVE THE SECOND BUILDING.
SO THEREFORE REQUIRING THE 50,000 SQUARE FOOT AS PROPOSED TO BE BUILT BEFORE THE MULTIFAMILY CAN GO VERTICAL. PERFECT. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER CARSON. I HAVE A MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND COMMISSIONER CARSON'S MOTION, A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER BLANCETT. ALL THOSE COMMISSIONERS IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THAT MOTION, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. AND THAT MOTION IS APPROVED. 5 TO 0 UNANIMOUS APPROVAL FROM COMMISSIONERS PRESENT. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. GO TO COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 14TH. WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK. THANK YOU. AND THANK TOWN STAFF FOR YOUR WORK ON THAT. REALLY APPRECIATE
[5. Discussion of Proposed Unified Development Code.]
IT. OKAY. NEXT UP ON OUR AGENDA IS AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE, A DISCUSSION OF PROPOSED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE. YES, SIR. SO KIND OF DISCUSS AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE DISCUSSION OF PROPOSED. WHAT ARE OUR GOALS ON ITEM NUMBER FIVE THIS EVENING DAVID. AND KIND OF REVIEW HIGH LEVEL WHERE WE'RE AT AND WHERE WE'RE GOING IN A SENSE. YES SIR. WHAT THE THE PRIMARY GOAL AND THE REASON THAT IT'S, IT'S AN AGENDA ITEM AS OPPOSED TO A WORKSHOP LIKE ALL THE PREVIOUS ONES HAVE BEEN, IS TO GET THIS INTO OUR SYSTEM. THIS IS RECORDED SO PEOPLE NOW KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING. WE WILL ALSO THE AGENDA INFORMATION WE SENT YOU, WHICH IS THE DRAFT WITH THE LITTLE SUMMARIES AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH OF THE CHAPTERS THAT WILL WIND UP GETTING POSTED TO OUR WEBSITE, OUR THE PLANNING WEBSITE, IN OUR OVERALL WEBSITE TOWN WEBSITE. WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, WE'LL SEND OUT NOTICES TO WHAT WE CALL OUR EMAIL LIST OF OF THE PROSPER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL. ENGINEERING FIRMS, ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS, PLANNING FIRMS THAT WE DO A LOT OF BUSINESS WITH AND ARE AWARE OF TO GET THE WORD OUT FOR PEOPLE TO START LOOKING AT IT SO WE CAN START GETTING COMMENTS BECAUSE SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS IS OBVIOUSLY A LOT MORE DIFFICULT THAN A TYPICAL AGENDA ITEM FOR FOR PEOPLE TO REVIEW IT AND, AND GET TO THE POINT TO WHERE THEY CAN MAKE COMMENTS. AND WE ALSO WANTED TONIGHT TO ALLOW RYAN, I THINK IS IS GOING TO BE DOING MOST OF THE TALKING, BUT THE THE CONSULTANT TO TELL YOU KIND OF HOW WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE, WHY WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE, WHAT OUR PROCESS HAS BEEN JUST TO AGAIN, LET PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN A PART OF THIS PROCESS PUBLIC GET A PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT IT TAKES TO DO THIS AND WHAT THE GOAL IS AND AND WHY. SO WE KNOW THAT[01:10:03]
THAT YOU ALL HAVE SPENT MANY, MANY, MANY HOURS GOING THROUGH ALL OF THIS AS IT WAS, WAS GOING THROUGH THE VARIOUS DRAFT STAGES AND AND READING IT, MAKING COMMENTS. AND THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF OTHER COMMENTS THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH. STAFF HAVE MADE COMMENTS AND ALL THE STAFF, NOT JUST THE PLANNING STAFF, BUT ENGINEERING, BUILDING THE CODE, PUBLIC WORKS OF ALL HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK THROUGH AND MAKE SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.SO WE WE WE'VE DONE A LOT TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE ARE NOW. WE JUST NEED TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING. SO THE GOAL IS HAVE THIS WORKSHOP TONIGHT. YOUR NEXT MEETING WILL HAVE IT AS AN AGENDA ITEM. IT'LL BE THE SAME THING BASICALLY THAT THAT YOU'VE GOT NOW. SO YOU'LL HAVE ANOTHER GOOD COUPLE OF WEEKS, THREE WEEKS TO BE ABLE TO, TO REVIEW AND LOOK THROUGH AND KIND OF VERIFY OR VERIFY THAT COMMENTS THAT YOU ALL HAVE MADE INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY HAVE FOUND THEMSELVES WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE. WE THINK THEY'RE THEY'RE PRETTY SURE THEY'RE THERE, BUT WE STILL WANT Y'ALL TO TO LOOK AT IT. THEN AFTER YOU TAKE THE ACTION, IT'LL GO TO COUNCIL AS A WORKSHOP. IT'LL BE A REGULAR WORKSHOP AGENDA ITEM FOR THE COUNCIL. SO IT'LL BE THE BEGINNING OF THEIR MEETING ON OCTOBER THE 14TH, 5 TO 6. AND THEN ON THE 28TH, ASSUMING ALL THE PROCESS MOVES FORWARD, LIKE LIKE THE PLAN ON THE 28TH, IT'LL BE ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA FOR FOR ACTION AND HOPEFULLY AT THAT TIME FINAL ADOPTION. BUT BUT THAT'S WHERE WE ARE. THAT'S THE PROGRESS. LIKE I SAID, I'LL HAVE BRIAN AND ABDUL COME UP IF HE'S GOING TO GET ROPED IN TO TALKING TO JUST TO TO AGAIN GIVE YOU A RECAP BECAUSE MOST OF OF WHAT Y'ALL HAVE OF OF HAD AS FAR AS INTERACTIONS ARE CONCERNED ARE WITH US. AND WE'VE BEEN HAVING THE INTERACTIONS WITH THE CONSULTANTS AND JUST THOUGHT IT'D BE A GOOD IDEA FOR THEM TO KIND OF TELL YOU, AGAIN, THEIR PERSPECTIVE, HOW WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE, AND THEY CAN TELL YOU WHY THEY'RE QUALIFIED TO DO THIS AND, AND TELL YOU ASSURE YOU THAT THEY ACTUALLY REALLY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED. IT HASN'T BEEN US DOING THIS IN THE BACKROOM. SO THAT'S GOOD. AS A TAXPAYER, I'D LIKE TO KNOW THAT BECAUSE I'M SURE AS A TAXPAYER WE HAD TO PAY THE CONSULTANT. SO THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S GOOD THAT THEY WERE INVOLVED. EXACTLY. SO IF Y'ALL ARE GOOD, I'LL GET BRIAN TO COME UP AND YES, SIR, GO FROM THERE. YEP. YES, SIR. MR. COMMISSIONER SORRY. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I CAN GO AHEAD AND EXCUSE MY FAMILY BECAUSE. ABSOLUTELY. IT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT LATE AS WELL. THEY'RE HERE TO SEE THE FINAL. BOTH OF OUR FINAL. YEP. SO WE JUST IT'S MY WIFE BRANDI. IT'S MY SON RILEY. AND THAT'S MY DAUGHTER IMANI. SO THEY CAME IN JUST TO SEE THE FINAL ONE. SO WELL APPRECIATE YOU ALL BEING HERE. AND THANKS FOR LETTING US HAVE YOU ALL THESE YEARS. AND YOU KNOW, I KIND OF FEEL GUILTY. MY FAMILY'S NOT HERE. BUT ANYWAY, IT TELLS YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. ALRIGHT, I'LL BE HOME LATE. SO Y'ALL PROBABLY GOT USED TO THAT A LITTLE BIT ON THESE EVENINGS. SO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
APPRECIATE IT. GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FOR HAVING US AND FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU'VE PUT IN TO PUTTING YOUR FINGERPRINTS ON THIS DEVELOPMENT CODE. OUR OUR GOAL IS THE SAME AS YOUR GOAL TO CONTINUE IN THE PROSPER TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN, EXCELLENCE IN LAND USE, AND MAKING SURE THAT YOU'RE BUILDING A COMMUNITY THAT THAT FITS YOUR NEEDS TODAY AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. SO REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE THROUGH THESE WORKSHOPS. I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION. I KNOW IT'S A LOT TO TAKE TO TAKE IN AND COMMENT ON. SO CERTAINLY APPRECIATE ALL OF THE EFFORT THAT THAT YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES HAVE HAVE PUT IN TO INTO THIS WORK. AND WORKING WITH THE TOWN STAFF HAS BEEN EXCELLENT. NOTHING SHORT OF. SO WITH THAT, JUST A QUICK RECAP ON WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. SO THE THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE, TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE PROVIDES CITIES WITH THE AUTHORITY TO MANAGE LAND DEVELOPMENT. SIMPLY PUT, THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE PLANS, THROUGH ZONING AND THROUGH SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS, CITIES HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO WHAT'S IN THEIR BEST INTEREST, TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH, TO PROTECT SAFETY, MORALS, AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY, AND AND PRESERVE THE PLACES AND AREAS THAT YOU LIVE, WORK AND PLAY THROUGH. THROUGH ZONING, THROUGH SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS LIKE PLATTING AND OTHER LAND USES WITHIN YOUR JURISDICTION, AND THEN THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING TO TO CREATE THOSE LONG TERM VISIONS THAT HAVE 15, 20, 25 YEAR HORIZONS. ALL OF THAT GIVES
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CITIES A REALLY UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO TO SHAPE, SHAPE THEIR COMMUNITIES IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE. WHEN WE FIRST STARTED OUT, WHAT WE DID IS WE TOOK YOUR EXISTING CODE, WORKING WITH TOWN STAFF TO TO DEVELOP A DIAGNOSTIC REPORT. SO TO REALLY METICULOUSLY GO THROUGH EVERY CHAPTER THAT ROLLS UP INTO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE AND, AND REALLY EXAMINE IT IN A DETAILED, METHODICAL AND THOUGHTFUL WAY. AND THAT MEANT NOT ONLY LOOKING AT YOUR CURRENT CODE, BUT ALSO LOOKING AT BEST PRACTICES IN COMMUNITIES THAT ARE COMPARABLE IN SIZE, COMPARABLE IN GEOGRAPHY, SOCIOECONOMICS, AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE BRINGING TO THE TABLE THE FULL WEIGHT OF OUR SERVICES THAT THAT THAT WE CAN BRING TO BEAR TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WE'RE HAVING A MODERN DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR YOUR TOWN. AND WE WE ARE A FORT WORTH BASED COMPANY. I AM SO SORRY. MY NAME IS RYAN SLATTERY. I'M WITH FRIESEN.NICHOLS. WE ARE A FORT WORTH BASED COMPANY. WE HAVE OFFICES IN DALLAS AND FRISCO AS WELL.
WE HAVE DONE WORK THROUGHOUT THROUGHOUT NORTH TEXAS. SO REALLY NOT JUST DIGGING INTO YOUR CODE, BUT ALSO BRINGING B WITH US OUR EXPERIENCE FROM THESE OTHER COMMUNITIES ACROSS NORTH TEXAS AS WELL. SO THE FIRST THING THAT WE DID, LIKE I SAID, IS WE RAN THROUGH A DIAGNOSTIC REPORT, AND WHAT WE PROVIDED WAS AN ANALYSIS OF WHAT EACH CHAPTER AND WHAT EACH SECTION WITHIN THOSE CHAPTERS PROVIDE FOR. STARTING WITH CHAPTER THREE, BUILDING REGULATION. NOW, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE TIED EVERYTHING THAT WE DID BACK TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. SO WHAT WE WANTED TO DO WAS WE WANTED TO PULL FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, THE OBJECTIVE TO ENSURE THAT THE CORE OF THE TOWN CENTER CONTAINS A HIGH DEGREE OF URBAN DESIGN, WITH BUILDINGS SITUATED UP TO THE BUILDING LINE, WIDE SIDEWALKS, STREET TREES, PEDESTRIAN AN PEDESTRIAN AMENITIES. PREFERRED EXAMPLES SHOP AT LEGACY AND SHOPS AT WATERS CREEK. SO BUILDING REGULATION IS ONE ASPECT WHERE OUR ANALYSIS REALLY WANTED TO FOCUS ON BALANCING SAFETY, FUNCTIONALITY AND ESTHETIC, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT WE FELT WORKING WITH THE TOWN AND FROM THE WORKSHOPS THAT WE HAD WITH YOU ALL, WAS A PRIMARY CONSIDERATION FOR FOR PROSPER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A SAFE AND FUNCTIONAL CITY, BUT ALSO SOMETHING THAT IS ESTHETICALLY PLEASING. SO THE WORK THAT WE DID WITHIN THIS PARTICULAR CHAPTER, CHAPTER THREE, BUILDING REGULATIONS, IS WE WANTED TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK THAT ENSURES THAT SAFETY, THE QUALITY AND MAINTENANCE OF BUILDINGS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, THAT THESE MEASURES COLLECTIVELY ENSURE THAT THE TOWN'S BUILT ENVIRONMENT IS SAFE, SUSTAINABLE AND ESTHETICALLY PLEASING. SO THAT WAS OUR FOCUS WHEN WORKING THROUGH CHAPTER CHAPTER THREE. AND. EACH CHAPTER THAT WE PROVIDED BACK TO YOU. WE ALSO PROVIDED A SUMMARY OF THE CHANGES THAT WENT INTO THAT CHAPTER AS WELL. HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS, UPON HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF PAGES. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GIVE YOU THAT TOP PAGE SO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT. YOU KNOW THE CHANGES THAT WE MADE WORKING WITH YOUR WITH WITH YOUR TOWN STAFF TO GET TO THIS GOAL AS OUTLINED IN YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. SAME THING WITH CHAPTER FOUR. ALL OF THESE ARE GOING TO BE TIED BACK TO ACTION IN YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. AND FOR CHAPTER FOUR THESE ARE YOUR BUSINESS REGULATIONS. SO. WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PRIORITIZING, QUOTE, PROMOTING LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS TO SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES, TOURISM AND COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES TO GROW THE TOWN'S TAX BASE. SO WHEN WE WORK THROUGH CHAPTER FOUR, THAT'S WHAT WE HAD IN MIND WHEN WE WERE MAKING OUR CHOICE, WHEN WE'RE MAKING OUR ANALYSIS AND WORKING WITH YOUR STAFF TO MAKE CHANGES WITHIN THIS CHAPTER. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE FOUND THERE WAS A STRONG RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS FREEDOMS AND COMMUNITY WELFARE AND PROSPER. AND BY SETTING OUT CLEAR GUIDELINES AND PERMIT REQUIREMENTS, THE REGULATIONS IN CHAPTER FOUR ENSURE THAT BUSINESS ACTIVITIES DO NOT COMPROMISE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY OR THE RESIDENTIAL NATURE OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS. SO WE REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT BUSINESSES AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY WITHIN PROSPER WERE HARMONIOUS WITH WITH THE COMMUNITY ON A WHOLE. SO THOSE WERE THE THINGS THAT WE WERE CONSIDERING WHEN WE WORKED THROUGH CHAPTER FOUR. CHAPTER FIVE DEALS WITH FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION, Y'ALL HAD RECENTLY INTEGRATED THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE. THE 2021 EDITION. YOU ALL HAVE ADOPTED THIS WITH AMENDMENTS.
WE WENT THROUGH THIS PIECE OF THE CODE AND WE TOOK OUT. NOMENCLATURE LIKE VOLUNTEER
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FIRE DEPARTMENT. YOU ALL HAVE A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ANYMORE. SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CHAPTER IS IS CURRENT AND THAT IT REALLY REFLECTS YOUR, YOUR, YOUR THE CURRENT STATE OF YOUR YOUR FIRE REGULATIONS AND RESPONSE ACTIVITIES. CHAPTER SIX IS WE REALLY WANTED TO FOCUS ON HEALTH AND SANITATION, AND WE REALLY WANTED TO TIE THIS BACK TO. THE THE COMPREHENSIVE CODE IN A WAY THAT REALLY HIGHLIGHTS THE BENEFITS TO TO PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF THE, OF THE COMMUNITY. SO WE REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE CONTINUING THAT HIGH STANDARD FOR FOR HEALTH AND SANITATION REGULATIONS IS OUTLINED IN THE SUMMARY DOCUMENT THAT THAT YOU HAVE. THESE REGULATIONS COLLECTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO A HEALTHIER AND SAFER COMMUNITY, SOMETHING THAT THAT WE HAVE. SEEN FIRSTHAND.HOW MUCH PRIDE DO YOU TAKE IN THE HEALTH, SAFETY, SECURITY OF YOUR OF YOUR COMMUNITY? SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO BUILD ON THAT SUCCESS THAT YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN WITH WITH REGULATING HEALTH AND SANITATION WITHIN THE TOWN OF PROSPER. SO WE FOCUSED ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SANITATION AND SAFEGUARDING PUBLIC HEALTH. WE PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE, EVIDENCE BASED RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING FUTURE CURRENT AND UP, UPDATING CURRENT AND ALLOWING FOR FUTURE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. MOVING IN TO CHAPTER TEN. THIS IS WHERE WE TACKLED YOUR SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS. WE WANTED TO PROVIDE A DETAILED FRAMEWORK FOR SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMENT, ENSURING THAT ALL PROJECTS MEET THE NECESSARY STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY WELFARE. WHAT WE WANTED TO EXPLORE WAS CHANGING THE SITE PLAN AND PLATTING REVIEW PROCESS TO MAKE THAT MORE STREAMLINED, ALLOWING FOR MINOR PLAT APPROVALS TO BE HANDLED BY YOUR STAFF. TO MAKE THAT WORK QUICKER, MAKE IT MORE OR MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE FOR NOT ONLY YOU AS A PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, YOUR STAFF, BUT ALSO THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AT LARGE. CHAPTER 13.
WE FOCUSED ON UTILITIES. WE WANTED TO ENSURE THAT WATER, WASTEWATER, STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ARE ABLE TO MEET FUTURE GROWTH DEMANDS. WE WERE HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW YOUR TOWN IS PLANNING TO GROW THE INCORPORATION OF MULTIFAMILY. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN ABSORB THAT GROWTH IN A MEANINGFUL WAY. THAT MEANS MAKING SURE THAT YOU CAN PROVIDE THEM WITH WATER, MAKING SURE THAT YOU CAN PROVIDE THEM WITH SYSTEMS THAT THAT THAT DRAIN PROPERLY, MAKING SURE THAT THESE COMMUNITIES RIGHT SIZE THEIR WATER VAULTS, MAKING SURE THAT THESE PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS ACCOUNT FOR NOT ONLY CURRENT STORM WATER CONDITIONS, BUT THE POSSIBILITY OF FUTURE STORM CONDITIONS, FUTURE FLOODING.
WHEN DEVELOPMENT GROWS, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IMPERVIOUS SPACE IS NOT COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO TO TO STREET FLOODING. AND. OTHER UNNECESSARY DAMAGES. AND THEN CHAPTER 14, WE FOCUS ON ZONING AND USING THE THE DISTRICTS, CONSOLIDATING THE DISTRICTS TO, TO TO MAKE AGAIN LIFE EASIER FOR YOU, LIFE EASIER FOR YOUR STAFF LIFE EASIER FOR YOUR DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY. AND MAKING SURE THAT LANDSCAPING AND ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS BY LANDSCAPING AND ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS BY REVISITING TREE SURVEYS, MITIGATION REQUIREMENTS, ADDING EVERGREEN SPECIES, THINGS LIKE THAT. MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE MODERNIZING YOUR YOUR CODE AS BEST WE CAN. AND THEN THE THE THE LAST CONVERSATIONS THAT WE HAVE WERE AROUND THE OVERLAY DISTRICTS AND AND PROVIDING FOR DOWNTOWN AND THE DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY DISTRICT, I BELIEVE IS WHERE THIS DEVELOPMENT, THIS PROJECT IS GOING TO END UP BEING. SO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY WITH THOSE LAND USES ARE BY WAY OF THESE THESE TWO OVERLAY DISTRICTS. AND WE WENT THROUGH A EXHAUSTIVE BACK AND FORTH WHERE WE RECEIVED COMMENTS FROM PNC. WE RECEIVED COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL. WE RECEIVED COMMENTS AS, AS DAVID SAID, NOT JUST FROM HIS STAFF BUT ALSO ENGINEERING. WE WORKED WITH
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YOUR YOUR PARKS DEPARTMENT ON SOME OF THE LANDSCAPING CONVERSATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS. SO THIS HAS BEEN AN EXHAUSTIVE PROCESS, ONE WHICH HAS GOT A LOT OF, LIKE I SAID, FINGERPRINTS ON IT THAT I THINK HAVE MADE FOR A VERY CLEAN SET OF DOCUMENTS THAT THAT YOU CURRENTLY HAVE FOR YOUR REVIEW. LIKE I SAID, I UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE THAT IT IS A LOT OF WORDS, BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROVIDED YOU WITH THOSE TOP PAGES THAT ALLOW YOU TO QUICKLY UNDERSTAND WHAT WE CHANGED, AND THAT IN CONNECTION WITH OUR DIAGNOSTIC REPORT, YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE CHANGED AND WHY WE CHANGED IT. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE CONTINUED ACCESS TO US BY WAY OF DAVID AND HIS STAFF. FOR ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE, ADDITIONAL COMMENTS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BETWEEN NOW AND ANY ACTION THAT YOU DO TAKE IN SUBSEQUENT WEEKS. I'VE BEEN TALKING FOR A LITTLE BIT. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? HAS ANYBODY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TO REVIEW THE THE THE CHAPTERS IN THE THE ONE PAGE REPORTS THAT WE PROVIDED. YEAH, I THINK EVERYONE'S HAD A VERY WELL ESTABLISHED OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THIS. SO YEAH, I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT.ANYBODY ELSE AT THIS POINT. NO, I, I THINK I THINK WHAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE IS, HAS BEEN REALLY GOOD. I MEAN, I DID A SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE DOCUMENT. I'M NOT AS DETAIL ORIENTED AS SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES, SO I HAD TO GET A SUMMARY OF EVERYTHING TO SUMMARIZE. SO I LIKE WHAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE. THERE ARE A COUPLE KEY POINTS THAT I THOUGHT WERE REALLY GOOD. I THINK STRENGTHENING PROVISIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND STORMWATER MANAGEMENT. I THINK THAT'S A REALLY GOOD DIRECTION TO GO IN. I THINK SOME OF THE UPDATED PROCEDURES FOR WELL KNOW, SOME OF THE STRONGER ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS AROUND SOME OF THE TOWN ORDINANCES AND THOSE THINGS I THINK IS NEEDED. WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS BEFORE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY DON'T. AND I THINK I REMEMBER MONTHS AGO WE SAW SOME PICTURES OF SOME OUT OF CODE TRASH CANS, OR THEY WERE EITHER TOO HIGH IN THE FENCING, WASN'T HIGH ENOUGH, AND WE HAD THE CONVERSATION AROUND, WELL, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT? I THINK IT'S GOOD THAT YOU ALL HAVE NOT NOT SAYING THAT THAT SPECIFIC THING, BUT JUST GENERALLY KIND OF STRENGTHENING THE TOWN'S ABILITY TO KIND OF ADDRESS THOSE TYPES OF THINGS IS IMPORTANT. AND I THINK YOU SPOKE TO A COUPLE OTHER, YOU KNOW, THE CHANGES THAT YOU SPOKE TO. I'M IN FAVOR OF ALL THOSE CHANGES. I THINK IT PUTS US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND ALIGNING EVERYTHING WITH THE TOWN'S DEVELOPMENT PLAN, I THINK, IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN BRINGING THE TOWN AND ITS CODE, ALONG WITH WHAT WE ENVISION THE TOWN TO BE. SO YEAH, I THINK YOU ALL HAVE DONE SOME REALLY GOOD WORK, AND I APPRECIATE THE TIME YOU'VE TAKEN AND ALL THIS, I APPRECIATE THAT, THANK YOU. MR. BLANSETT, DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT? YES. SO AND I, I CAN'T CLAIM THAT I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK THROUGH THIS VERY, VERY MUCH. YET. THERE'S TWO THINGS I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE. OKAY. AND THAT I THINK ESPECIALLY IF I WAS ON TOWN COUNCIL, I'D LIKE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, AND I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A LIST OF THE RECORD OF CHANGES ON EACH ONE OF THESE THINGS, BUT ONE OF MUCH OF THE IT'S PROBABLY A FAIR STATEMENT THAT MOST OF THE CHANGES IN HERE ARE MOSTLY. COMBINING, YOU KNOW, PULLING THINGS TOGETHER, REWORDING IT A LITTLE BIT BETTER, DOING SOME CLARIFYING THOSE KIND OF THINGS. I THINK WHAT I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE IS A LIST OF THE SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES. WHAT ACTUALLY IS A CHANGE IN THE ORDINANCES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE TODAY, NOT JUST PURELY JUST FIXING SOME IN SPELLING OR GRAMMATICAL OR MOVING THINGS AROUND. SURE. BUT WHAT'S REALLY BEING CHANGED SUBSTANTIVELY? AND THE OTHER THING I'D LIKE TO KNOW, IF POSSIBLE, IS IF I KNOW WE MADE A WE HAD A LIST OF SEVERAL RECOMMENDED CHANGES THAT WERE SUBSTANTIVE. AGAIN, IF THERE ARE ANY OF THOSE CHANGES THAT WERE NOT TAKEN OR MADE, IT WOULD BE NICE TO JUST KIND OF KNOW THOSE AND SEE IN THE REASONS WHY THOSE KIND OF THINGS. THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
I THINK, IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE TOWN COUNCIL FOR THE FOR THE NEXT STEP. AND THEN ONE JUST ONE QUESTION, JUST AN OVERALL QUESTION. AND AGAIN, HAVING NOT
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LOOKED AT IT YET, I KNOW THERE'S A DEFINITIONS SECTION. CHAPTER 16 IN HERE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ALWAYS CONCERNED ME IS WE WERE GOING THROUGH THIS PIECE BY PIECE, WAS THAT THERE WERE MILLIONS OF DEFINITIONS OF THE SAME TERMS. LOCATING IN SO MANY DIFFERENT PLACES. DID DID YOU ACTUALLY PULL ALL THOSE DEFINITIONS TOGETHER INTO THAT ONE CHAPTER AND GIVE THEM, YOU KNOW, ONE PLACE WHERE WE HAVE THOSE DEFINITIONS IS THAT IS THAT WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE? YES, SIR. THEY'RE THEY'RE NOT SPREAD THROUGHOUT. NO, SIR. UNLESS THEY'RE UNIQUE TO SOME PARTICULAR AREA. CORRECT. YEAH. SO AND TO TO. TO YOUR, TO YOUR POINT OF, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTANDING WHAT SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE. WE DO HAVE AN EXHAUSTIVE CATALOG OF ALL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT CAME FROM BOTH P AND Z, AS WELL AS COUNCIL AS WELL AS STAFF. WE HAVE ALL OF THEM CATALOGED IN ONE PLACE. IT'S A PRETTY DIRTY EXCEL SHEET, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, DRESS THAT UP AND MAKE SURE THAT WE PRESENT THAT AS PART OF THE PACKAGE. SO EVERYBODY GETS TO SEE THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE, CHANGES THAT WERE MADE, AND THE RATIONALE BEHIND BOTH THE CHANGES THAT WE DID MAKE AND THE CHANGES IN RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WERE WERE NOT WERE LEFT ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, SO TO SPEAK. YEAH. AND MY AND AND MY INTEREST IN ALL OF THAT IS I'M NOT INTERESTED NECESSARILY IN LOOKING AT A MASSIVE DOCUMENT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE GOTTEN LOTS OF CHANGES, BUT MY INTEREST IS MORE OF THE SUBSTANTIVE THINGS, THE THINGS WHERE WE RECOMMENDED AN ACTUAL CHANGE IN TODAY'S CURRENT ORDINANCES TO A TO A WHOLE NEW, YOU KNOW, STANDARD OR POSITION. THAT WOULD BE WHAT I'D BE MOSTLY FOCUSED ON. BUT ANYWAY, THAT'S THOSE ARE JUST MY TWO COMMENTS THAT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE GOING FORWARD, IF POSSIBLE. I BELIEVE THAT IS POSSIBLE. YES, SIR. OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU STOLE MY LOW-HANGING FRUIT, BUT IT'S AN IMPORTANT ONE TO US IS THE DEFINITIONS. I DON'T SEE THAT, BUT IT'S 800 PAGES, SO FORGIVE ME. YOU SAID THERE IS A COMBINED DEFINITION. CHAPTER 16.YES, SIR. IN WHICH? ALL RIGHT, IF IT'S THERE, I TRUST YOU ALL THE WAY DOWN AT PAGE 573 FIVE.
OKAY. I'M GOOD. I JUST WAS BUT ONE OF THOSE, ONE OF THOSE THINGS, BY CONSOLIDATING ALL THESE DEFINITIONS INTO ONE SPACE IS IN EFFECT. STANDARDIZING THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE THAT THE THAT THE EDC DOESN'T TALK AGAINST ITSELF. SO MAKING SURE THAT WE WE PULLED OUT ALL OF THOSE DEFINITIONS. CROSSWALK. WHAT WE WERE SAYING IN CHAPTER FOUR VERSUS CHAPTER SIX. TO YOUR POINT, DOING THESE IN SILOS KIND OF LENDS TO THAT, THAT THAT CROSSTALK WITHIN DEVELOPMENT CODES. SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE PREVENTING THAT. SO PULLING OUT THE DEFINITIONS WAS OUR OUR WAY OF STARTING THAT CONVERSATION OF, OF MAKING SURE THAT EACH CHAPTER WAS USING THE SAME WORDS TO MEAN THE SAME THING, TO ADVANCE THE SAME TOWARDS THE SAME GOALS. OKAY. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? SO DO YOU HAVE MORE TO REVIEW THIS EVENING OR. NO THAT THAT'S IT. NO SIR. NO. THAT'S IT. YEAH. AND I GUESS AND YOU PROBABLY WON'T SEE ME IN A FUTURE MEETING BUT, BUT I THINK THESE COMMENTS WERE GOOD.
YOU KNOW, ANYTIME YOU HAVE THE DOCUMENT OF THIS SIZE TO SUMMARIZE IT AND GET I THINK THESE CHANGES AND WHETHER IT'S IN POWERPOINT THAT'S THAT'S ALWAYS BENEFICIAL. MOST PEOPLE ARE VISUAL BUT APPRECIATE ALL Y'ALL'S WORK AND EVERYBODY AND EVERYBODY ON THIS TEAM. A LOT OF THESE GUYS DID A LOT OF GREAT WORK HERE. SO APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE MOVING RIGHT ALONG. SO BEFORE WE GET TO REGULAR AGENDA
[6. Review actions taken by the Planning & Zoning Commission and possibly direct Town Staff to schedule topic(s) for discussion at a future meeting.]
ITEM NUMBER SIX SO WE'RE NO WE'RE GOING TO GO REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SIX REVIEW ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE TOWN COUNCIL AND POSSIBLY DIRECT TOWN STAFF TO SCHEDULE TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AT A FUTURE MEETING. I THINK WHERE I GOT CONFUSED THERE BECAUSE THERE'S NO REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN ON MY SHEET, BUT I KNOW WHAT THAT IS. SO LET'S GO. I WAS LOOKING AT SIX MONTHS. WE'RE NOT. NO. ANYWAY, OKAY, SO AT THE PREVIOUS TOWN COUNCIL MEETING AND I THINK I WENT OVER THIS LAST TIME, BUT THERE JUST HASN'T BEEN ANOTHER MEETING SINCE WE LAST MET. SO ON THE MEETING ON AUGUST 26TH, THERE WAS NOTHING ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. THERE WERE FOUR ITEMS ON THE REGULAR AGENDA THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT FOR PROSPER OAKS AND THE CORRESPONDING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT WERE BOTH TABLED. THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT 67 AMENDMENT FOR GATES OF PROSPER WAS APPROVED 5 TO 2, AND THEN THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT FOR 607 EAST FIRST STREET WAS APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY FOR FUTURE TOWN COUNCIL ITEMS. FOR TOMORROW, THE CONSENT AGENDA. THERE WILL BE THE LOT FRONTAGE WAIVER FOR TILL 380 EDITION. BLOCK A LOT SEVEN, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT AND THE PD FOR PROSPER OAKS ARE[01:35:05]
ON THE CONSENT AGENDA CONSENT AGENDA, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE BEING TABLED TO THE OCTOBER 14TH MEETING. SO I GUESS THEY DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THEY NEEDED TO HAVE LIKE A PUBLIC HEARING OVER IT SPECIFICALLY, AND THEN THE NOTICE OF APPEALS AS WELL. SO THERE'S NOTHING ON THE REGULAR AGENDA FOR FUTURE PRNS ITEMS. SO OUR NEXT MEETING IS ON THE SEVENTH. THERE'S NOTHING ON THE CONSENT AGENDA AS OF NOW, BUT THERE PROBABLY WILL BE. AND THEN THERE'LL BE ACTION OVER THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE BASED ON DISCUSSION TONIGHT.AND LASTLY, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE CHAIR BRANDON DANIEL AND COMMISSIONER HARRIS FOR THEIR SERVICE. I KNOW THAT THIS IS Y'ALL'S LAST MEETING, BUT I THINK ALL OF US AND STAFF APPRECIATE THE TIME THAT YOU GUYS HAVE SPENT WITH US. WE ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU. I'M SURE OUR FELLOW COMMISSIONERS ECHO THE SAME SENTIMENTS, BUT WE JUST WANTED TO PUBLICLY RECOGNIZE YOU GUYS FOR WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE. SO THANK YOU. FROM TOWN STAFF. WELL, THANK THANK YOU FOR I HAVE I'M GOING TO HAVE A FEW CLOSING COMMENTS THIS EVENING. COMMISSIONER HARRIS WILL TOO. BUT ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR STAFF BEFORE WE GET TO ANY OTHER CLOSING COMMENTS WE MIGHT HAVE THIS EVENING? I'M ASSUMING FOR YOUR OCTOBER 7TH MEETING, COMMISSIONER HARRIS AND I MOST LIKELY WON'T BE HERE UNLESS WE'RE IN THE AUDIENCE. YES, YOU'LL HAVE TWO NEW COMMISSIONERS HERE, AND ON THAT OCTOBER 7TH MEETING, YOU'LL REAPPOINT CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR, ALL THAT IF IF YOU HAVE. BUT BUT I GUESS YOU WOULD HAVE A QUORUM. EITHER WAY, YOU WOULD STILL HAVE FIVE. SO ANYWAY, SO WITH THAT, COMMISSIONER HARRIS, DO YOU WANT TO. COMMISSIONER CLARKSON, I WAS JUST BEFORE YOU GENTLEMEN SIGN OFF, I WOULD JUST SAY THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE TOWN. YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT MENTOR TO ME, AND I THINK YOU DO AN AWESOME JOB SUPPORTING PROSPER. AND I APPRECIATE YOUR FRIENDSHIP. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. APPRECIATE IT, COMMISSIONER HARRIS. I JUST WANT TO THANK TOWN STAFF. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS I'VE I'VE BEEN HERE, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS LIKE A WHILE, BUT I WILL SAY YOU ALL DO AN AMAZING JOB. AND I OFTEN FIND MYSELF SURPRISED WHEN WE HAVE SOME VERY DETAILED QUESTIONS AND YOU ALL ARE ABLE TO RECALL THINGS FROM TWO YEARS AGO ON PAGE FIVE ON SOME DOCUMENT. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I PUBLICLY TELL YOU ALL THAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB, NOT JUST AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE EACH TIME WE MEET, BUT THE WORK THAT YOU DO WHEN WE'RE NOT AROUND AND THE EASE AT WHICH YOU ALL SEEM TO HANDLE THE WORK. I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT. I LIKE WATCHING YOU ALL WORK, AND IT'S BEEN MY HONOR TO WORK WITH ALL OF YOU. AND THANK YOU TO THE COMMISSION.
FOR BEING HERE FOR A WHILE. THANK YOU TO THE COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONERS. YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING, VERY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE. YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB AND THE TOWN OF PROSPER IS LUCKY TO HAVE ALL OF YOU. AND BRANDON. IT'S BEEN AN HONOR SERVING WITH YOU. I TOLD YOU THAT IF YOU LEFT, I WOULD LEAVE TOO. AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW YOU WERE LEAVING, SO I HAD NO CLUE.
SO TO WALK INTO THE SUNSET WITH YOU, BROTHER, I APPRECIATE THAT, AND IT'S AN HONOR. SO THANKS, EVERYBODY. WELL, APPRECIATE APPRECIATE THAT AND APPRECIATE WORKING WITH YOU AND WISH YOU THE BEST AND WISH EVERYONE THE BEST. THE TOWN OF PROSPER, EVERYONE MATTERS. AND I GUESS I NEVER SAW THAT AS MUCH AS I'VE SEEN IT ON THIS COMMISSION. I MEAN, THIS IS A VOLUNTEER, NOT THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF MEMBERS IN THE AUDIENCE, BUT IF ANYBODY DOES WATCH THIS BESIDES THE COUNCIL, YOU KNOW, I REALLY APPRECIATE THESE MEN ON THIS, THIS COUNT, THIS COMMISSION. I SHOULD SAY EVERY ONE OF YOU DO REALLY, REALLY GOOD WORK. YOUR HEART IS IN IT. AND I'VE LEARNED FROM EACH OF YOU, AND I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR EFFORTS. AND I'VE LEARNED FROM YOU EACH TIME I'VE BEEN HERE. AND WE'RE IN GREAT HANDS IN THE TOWN OF PROSPER ON THIS P AND Z COMMISSION. I KNOW THE COUNCIL WILL APPOINT SOME GREAT FOLKS TO JUMP ON ON THIS THIS TEAM FOR TOWN STAFF. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. LEARN SOMETHING FROM EACH OF Y'ALL EVERY WEEK. I'VE DONE THIS FOR QUITE SOME TIME AND THROUGH SEVERAL TOWN STAFFS, THROUGH SEVERAL DIFFERENT COMMISSIONERS, THROUGH MANY THAT HAVE GONE ON TO COUNCIL, AND FROM BEING OVER AND ACROSS THE STREET IN THE OLD BUILDING WHERE THE BATHROOM WAS RIGHT BEHIND THE WALL. AND IF AND IF ANYBODY HAD TO, YOU WOULD HEAR THE PLUMBING AND EVERYTHING ELSE. SO IT'S BEEN A GOOD RUN.
IT'S A GREAT TOWN. WE'RE IN GREAT HANDS. I LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS, AND IT'S JUST BEEN AN HONOR. AND COMMISSIONER HARRIS, WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK. I KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE SEASONS ARE CHANGING. I THINK NEXT MONDAY'S FALL STARTS AND AND SEASONS OF LIFE CHANGE AND THINGS CHANGE. AND THIS IS A LOT OF EXTRA TIME THAT EVERYBODY ON THIS VOLUNTEER COMMISSION PUTS IN. AND AND THERE'S A LOT PULLING AT US. AND SO ENJOY THE OPPORTUNITY, APPRECIATE IT AND WISH EVERYONE THE BEST OF LUCK. YOU NEVER KNOW, MIGHT BE OUT IN THE AUDIENCE FROM TIME TO TIME TO STOP BY AND MAYBE EVEN GRAB A BITE BITE IN THE BACK BEFORE I LEAVE EARLIER THAN Y'ALL. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT, BRANDON, YOUR LAST MOTION RIGHT
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HERE. ALRIGHT, HERE WE GO. THANK THE LAST ONE WE'VE GOT ON OUR REGULAR AGENDA WOULD BE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN. WE'RE A LITTLE FASTER THAN I THOUGHT THIS EVENING, BUT I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN REGULAR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, A MOTION THAT WE ADJOURN.ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A MOTION. COMMISSIONER HARRIS, DO WE HAVE A SECOND, SECOND, SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER CARSON? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNING, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. AND THAT MOTION CARRIES 5 TO 0
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.