Good evening, everybody.

Welcome to the Arlington City Council.

We're gonna go ahead and call the council session to order.

I'm gonna ask Reverend Joseph Francis from Saint Albans Angelican Church to come forward and lead us in the Anglican.

Did I uh thank you.

Help y'all help me with the big words sometimes.

Um forward and and lead us in the invocation, please stand.

Good evening, and thank you for the invitation to be here.

Let us pray.

Oh heavenly Father who sent thy son among us to proclaim the kingdom of God in cities, towns, villages, and lonely places.

Behold and visit, we beseech thee this community of Arlington, renew the bonds of charity that uphold our civic life, send us honest and able leaders, deliver us from poverty, prejudice, and oppression, that peace may prevail with righteousness and justice with mercy, and at the last bring us to thy holy city, the new Jerusalem, where we shall know perfect unity and peace.

This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Get 'em up here now.

G y'all get up here.

I have presentations to give to each one of these people.

It should only take fifteen minutes per person.

Come on in.

Y'all keep on company.

Get on up over here.

That's pretty cool.

Folks, I think the folks behind me are responsible for something that we often take for granted.

And that's when we we turn our water on at our house at our businesses.

We expect it to be safe and drinkable and clean.

And we don't put much thought into it.

It's like breathing, I guess.

This character standing next to me is Alex Whiteway, who's the director of our water department here in Arlington.

And the reason why we've brought everybody up here is because Arlington water has been recognized with something pretty incredibly special here in the state of Texas.

And I want to read something here.

Arlington Water Utilities received two prestigious awards at the Texas Commission on Environmental Qualities Public Drinking Water Conference in July.

Those were first the outstanding public drinking water system award.

And then the second one was the outstanding cross connection control program award.

Arlington was one of just two public water systems out of 7,000 public water systems in Texas to earn the outstanding public drinking water system award this year.

Did y'all get that?

One of two out of seven thousand public water systems.

It was the sole recipient of the cross connection control program award this year.

A testament to the department's commitment to public health and water safety.

According to TCEQ, the outstanding public drinking water system award recognizes overall excellence in all aspects of operating a public water system.

To be recognized, a PWS must go above and beyond the minimum standards in protecting public health and ensuring reliable operation.

The extensive application for the outstanding public drinking water system honor requires the utility to show that it exceeds the capacity requirements for water production, storage, and system pressure maintenance.

And it has had no primary drinking water regulatory violations.

For those of you who aren't aware of how big Arlington is, we're over 400,000 people.

So real quick, uh, before we take the picture, um, you know, I want to say thank you to our mayor and council.

Without y'all's support and believing, you know, in the department, we wouldn't be able to do what we do.

Um, same thing with our executive leadership, Trey Yelverton, Lemuel Randolph, and Jennifer Whitman.

We want to thank y'all, you know, for y'all's support.

Oh, there you go.

Makes it easy.

I thought I'd talk loud enough.

But um, you know, also uh, you know, I just want to say my staff is the best staff anyone could ever have.

You know, this this team is what makes it possible.

Um, you know, I always say I'm just one man, without them, I'm nothing.

And I want uh everyone to know that you have the best utility in the nation, if not the world serving you, and it's all because of the staff that's right here right now, and the ones that couldn't make it.

They work in the heat, they work in the freezing cold weather.

They answer calls, sometimes not always happy ones.

You know, they uh they we run 24 hour ops, so there's no way we can ever say, hey, we're going home for the day.

We'll give you your water, we'll fix your water main break tomorrow or the next day.

We can't do that.

You always have to have water, you always have to have sewer.

And I just want y'all to know that it's because of this staff and the ones that obviously are out there working in the field right now.

So if y'all could join me in a round of applause for the wonderful staff that we have here.

Council, why don't you and Trey and Molly, y'all stand up behind so we can get y'all a part of this picture with everybody out here also.

We'll get to you.

Are you where you need to be?

Yeah, I mean, we're always gonna put it on the world.

I don't know how they're taking this picture.

We need a panoramic.

Uh not my not my problem.

So don't you know my way I have water water?

Rowls stand on the chair.

Squeeze it.

There isn't some more.

Thank you.

Thank you guys.

All right, all the fun stuff's over with.

Let's get down to business.

Mr.

Buskin, speaker guidelines is general decorum, please.

Thank you, Mayor.

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During public hearings for zoning cases, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make a presentation.

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In consideration of other speakers, please conclude your comments promptly when you hear the bell.

We ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council.

Thank you, Mr.

Buskin.

Do we have any appointment to boards or commissions?

Thank you, Mayor.

We have three appointments to boards and commissions to the North Texas Higher Education Authority effective October 1st, 2025.

Governor Jackson, place two, Tony Pompa, place four, Stephanie Shanner, place five.

Thanks, sir, sir.

Do we have any speakers on this item?

No, sir, we do not.

Thank you.

I got a motion from Councilmember Gonzalez, a second from Councilmember Pham.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Mr.

Buskin will do consideration of items from the executive session.

I want to handle them separately.

So can you do 6.1 first for me, please?

Yes, sir.

6.1, a resolution authorizing condemnation of fees simple title to certain tracts of land along and adjacent to Division Street, also known as State Highway 180 between Cooper Street and Collins Street within the city of Arlington for the public use of sidewalks and landscaping for the Division Street, Text out Sidewalk Project, Cooper Street to Collins Street.

Thank you, Mr.

Buskin.

Do we have any speakers on 6.1?

Yes, sir.

We have two speakers in support of item 6.1.

Our first speaker is Liam Crowley.

Mr.

Crowley.

After Mr.

Crowley is Donald Turner.

Come on up, sir.

Good evening.

My name is Liam Crowley and I serve as the President of Walkable Arlington.

I'm here speaking in support of agenda item 6.1.

City Council's a thankless position, so I just want to take a minute for this meeting and thank you.

Thank the city council for advocating for the essential sidewalk project here before you.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Next speaker, Mr.

Buskin.

Our next speaker is Donald Turner.

Mr.

Turner.

Hi, this is Don Turner, and I am speaking in support of uh the sidewalk project because Arlington needs a walkable infrastructure and uh by making Highway 157 between uh Cooper Street and uh center walkable.

It'll help create a vibrant entertainment district.

Also uh bring people here, mixed use development, more restaurants, shops, maybe a museum of some sort, maybe an all a tower, uh an observation tower, like I suggested for Arlington's form-based code pilot uh area where people can go 400 feet up to look out over the area and see the skylines of Dallas and Fort Worth.

The tower would be located at the intersection of northwest corner of center and uh uh uh division.

Thank you, sir.

Appreciate you.

Mr.

Buskin, any other speakers, sir?

No, sir.

No additional speakers on this item.

Thank you.

I'm gonna recognize, excuse me, I'm gonna recognize Councilmember Odom Wesley.

Thank you, Mayor.

I move that the City Council authorize the use of the power of eminent domain by the City of Arlington to acquire the property necessary for the public use of sidewalk improvements for the Division Street Text Dot Sidewalk, Cooper Street to Collins Street Project, as read by the City Secretary, and as more fully described in the resolution for this item.

Thank you, Councilmember.

I have a second from Councilmember Gonzalez.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Mr.

Buskin, let's do 6.2 and 3 together, please.

Thank you, Mayor.

6.2, a resolution authorizing the settlement of negotiations for a fee acquisition of 550 square feet on property otherwise known as 101 West Division Street, Arlington, Texas, for the public use of sidewalks and landscaping improvements for the Division Street Text.

Styled the State of Texas and the City of Arlington v.

Thomas W.

Campbell, cause number 2025-002503-1, relative to the acquisition of a 1,358 square feet square foot fee acquisition on property otherwise known as 107 West Division Street, City of Arlington, Texas.

Thank you, sir.

Do we have any speakers for those two items?

No, sir.

We do not.

Thank you.

I have a motion from Councilmember Galante.

A second from Councilmember Pham.

Please cast your votes.

The motion passes.

Mr.

Buskin, consideration of minutes, please.

Thank you, Mayor.

Minutes for consideration this evening are the afternoon and evening meetings from August 5th, 2025, and the regular meeting from August 12th, 2025.

Thanks, sir.

Council, do you all have any corrections or additions?

Seeing none, Mr.

Buskin.

Any speakers on this item?

No, sir.

No speakers on this item.

Thank you, sir.

I have a motion from Councilmember Odom Wesley, a second from Councilmember Hunter.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Consideration of consent agenda, Mr.

Buskin.

Thank you, Mayor.

The consent agenda this evening contains 20 minute orders, five ordinances, and five resolutions.

The minute orders seek to authorize one through nine annual requirements contracts for cold patch asphalt for traffic parts and ethernet switches for liquid asphalt emulsion PHP M 50 for potholes for liquid aluminum sulfate for sole source equipment replacement repair services, water instrument instrumentation and testing supplies for the sole source purchase of census meter smart point transceivers and annual hosting services for Amazon online marketplace for the purchase of office supplies and equipment for professional auditing services and for soft body armor for the police department.

10 annual contract for the GovQA records request management software and support subscription.

11 renewal and modification of annual requirements contract for tree maintenance and removal services.

12 renewal of annual requirements contract for communication cable and installation services.

13 through 15, three-year contracts for the software and hardware support and maintenance subscription for time clocks for the subscription of work day success plans and for information technology asset management software and support services.

16 contract modifications for the annual contract for grounds maintenance of medians and rights of way.

17 and 18 contracts for audio visual hardware, software, and related installation services for municipal courts relocation to City Tower, and for the purchase and installation of playground equipment at College Hills Park.

19 change order number one for the construction contract for the river legacy park trail improvements, phase one and two, and sewer main replacement.

20 sole source purchase of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer system and instrumentation for the water utilities department.

The ordinances seek to authorize 21 municipal setting designation 25-1 for 1520 East Abram Street.

22 Unified Development Code, UDC amendments, regulations for multifamily and mixed use developments under SB 840 and small lots, single family developments on five-acre or larger unplatted tracks under SB 15.

23 specific use permit SUP 09-20R1 drill zone for the Arkansas drill site.

24 zoning case, SUP 25-01, 2712 West Division Street.

25 zoning case, SUP 25-04, 1645 New York Avenue.

The resolution seek to authorize 26 fiscal year 2026 annual audit plan.

27 Encore Electric Delivery Company LLC's transmission line route.

28 agreement for the sale and delivery of treated water to Johnson County Special Utility District.

29, Arlington Economic Development Corporation, West Main Street Water Infrastructure Project.

30 Ditch Improvements, Dan Gould, Wood, Bell, Renee, Waterview, Shaparito, Jewel, Lake Arlington Baptist Church Incorporated.

Thank you, Mayor.

This concludes the consent agenda for this evening.

Thank you, sir.

Do we have any speakers on any of the items that appear on the consent agenda?

Yes, sir.

We have one speaker in opposition to item 8.22.

Uh Liam Crowley.

Mr.

Crowley.

Wrong item.

Gotcha.

Thank you.

Any other speakers, Mr.

Buskin?

We had one non-speaker in opposition on item 8.22.

And then on item 8.23.

Uh we have the applicant available for any questions, as well as five non-speakers in support.

Thank you, sir.

I have a motion from Councilmember Golante, a second from Council Member Boxell.

Please cast your vote.

Motion passes.

We're going to move on down to 11.1.

Ms.

Thoppel.

Thank you, Mayor.

Item 11.1 zoning case PD 25-09, the Knox is a request from community commercial CC zoning to a plan development for residential multifamily 22 PD RMF 22 with a development plan on approximately 6.1 acres at 1401 South Watson Road, generally located north of East Park Road Drive and east of South Watson Road.

The proposed development plan includes an 82-unit apartment complex with a maximum density of 6.3 units per acre.

The proposal meets most of the unified development code standards.

On August 6th, when planning and zoning commission recommended approval of this case with a development plan by a vote of 7-2, they had a following stipulation.

Since the only point of access to the site is from the portion of Watson Road, which is in the 100-year floodplain.

Earlier today, I emailed you all the engineers' letter related to the floodplain elevations and the staff responds to it.

Applicant is structured development represented by Sally Burchett and Jake Mooney, who will be presenting the case this evening.

Are you all talking together or come on up?

You both can hang out up here.

Thank you for the opportunity.

My name's Jake Mooney.

I'm JCM Ventures Sally with structure development.

First, I just want to say the staff in Arlington has been unbelievable to work with.

The responsiveness and engagement and ability to look at things from different angles and come up with ideas has been fantastic.

And before we jump into the project, we are going to comply.

And we are going to not just comply, we're going to meet that requirement of a secondary access.

We've got several different options, but I want to make sure that we that the uh the council knows that we're not asking for any type of deviation from what was approved at planning and zoning.

You know, with what happened in Kerrville and everything else and flooding and those types of issues, we take it very seriously.

Um but my name is Jake Mooney.

I've done 40 developments like this around six states.

Uh several of them actually I can move through this, sorry.

Presentation here.

Okay, up screen if it's okay.

So here's the development team.

Obviously, me, Jake Mooney, Sarah Andre couldn't be here tonight.

Uh Sally and Fred Merrill.

Um, this is a list of developments that I've done in Texas and other areas.

Um I think it's important to point out that that I'm vertically integrated, meaning I own the construction company, the management company, every development that I've built, I still own.

Um, so I'm I'm not buying something, selling it.

You know, from the time that that we started working with PNZ and actually working with TDHCA to get an award of tax credits.

Um we've you know I'll I'll be involved from then until 15 years from now.

Um so the construction company uh is streamlined construction uh management companies called Valhalla Management.

Um we I work with each one of them every day.

Actually, office right next to the construction company.

Uh Sally's gonna talk about the developments since we've got pretty short time.

So my name is Sally Burchett, and um I was we were here back in uh February when you guys gave us a resolution of support for this housing tax credit development.

Um we this is funded um through tax credits that's administered by TDHCA, and it's a very specific uh technical process to get something that um can get an award.

So we're super excited we got an award in end of July to build 82 units um here um on Watson Road.

Um this is our site plan.

There's three buildings, there's three stories, it's for families, one and two and three bedroom units.

Um as I mentioned, it's it's it's priced for people so they can afford it for folks that make basically between 17 to 24 dollars an hour.

Uh and um the rents will mostly be between a thousand and uh fourteen hundred a month, where uh a market rate um uh three-bedroom is significantly more than that.

It's about a thousand dollars more.

So we're hoping it can give uh you know people the opportunity to uh not have to pay uh an exorbitant amount of their income for housing.

Um we have met with um East Arlington neighborhood and staff, and I've been fortunate enough to meet with a a couple of the council members uh to come up with our design for the PD.

It's it is it's it's very compliant.

There are a couple deviations that are based on the site that's very much pie-shaped.

Um, this is a summary of our um finishes and uh the I went through this already.

This is it's affordable, uh and that's uh we like Jake said we own and operate for 15 years.

Um okay, we're gonna have uh high quality security.

There's 13 cameras, it'll be fenced uh and so safe for the neighborhood, and as mentioned, we will have a secondary access to make sure that there isn't just one access that would that could be blocked uh due to uh stormwater.

Um we've got eight AV charging stations, dog park, uh walking path, and one thing that was important to council was that we were we have connectivity to the park so the children could walk through the development over to Susan and up to Crouch Um elementary.

Um this is another uh site plan with those some of the connections.

We're gonna have an after school program uh 15 hours a week, so for kids can um have get help with their homework.

We're gonna have a a you a space for the police to work uh out of um whenever they would want.

Um outdoor amenities.

There's three buildings, three stories, no elevators, one, two, three bedrooms, high quality finishes, granite countertops.

Thank you.

Look how you sped it up and finished right on the case.

It's a good thing you didn't give me 10 minutes.

Let me recognize council member Boxell, please.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Burchett, uh Mr.

Mooney.

Um I have a couple questions.

Before I get to that, I just want to say this is a really nice development.

You did a great job with the site plan.

There's a lot of stuff going for you in this development being next to the park and close to three elementary schools, close to some jobs, things like that.

I also appreciate that you broke it up into smaller buildings, and that there's a lot of corner space on the building, so you have your three bedroom units there that all it's very rare for us to get this many three bedroom units, and that's what we really need for families.

Um, but let's talk about those uh that secondary access.

Uh I understand you got a waiver from our fire marshal for the secondary access, but you're not planning to use that waiver.

Is that correct?

Yes.

Yeah, the chain of events was we know we started um looking at the the access back in December, January, and spoke with TechSot, who um agreed that one access there was fine as long as it was limited to 82 units, and and we spoke with fire also.

So planning told us to reach out to fire, and they said that that would be acceptable to just just have one vehicular access.

Um, but in the since that time, um you know we we had the terrible flood and P and Z mentioned they wanted that condition, and you know, we said that's sure that sounds fine, and we're working uh like Jake said, exhausting all our possibilities, trying to come up with the best solution, but we're confident we'll we'll get that access.

So you said you're confident, but um you made a you made overtures to nearby owners and you haven't had any success.

So what is your plan really?

So there's really four options.

There's there's immediately next door in the apartments that are in the circular.

They've said no, we've offered them money, they've said no, we've said give us a price, and they haven't given us a price yet back.

Um there's the the vacant space to the south uh that is owned by a grocery store group out of out of Houston.

Uh we're trying to get a price out of them.

Those are the two uh least expensive options of creating secondary access.

Um the third option, which would take a lot of time would be trying to work out something with parks, but uh really the most realistic but most expensive option is to uh do a stormwater study across the creek.

The seller of this property that we're developing on also owns the piece to the north, and then creating a secondary access uh further north on uh Watson Street, and we actually talked to Damie Cannon this morning uh to make sure that that would be a viable option.

Uh she said would be from a a stormwater uh perspective, but obviously we would need to get that option in front of other.

So you would cross the creek then, and that wouldn't be a problem with the stormwater.

We'd have to put in culvers uh and build and build it up, build it up and go over almost kind of like what is exists on on uh Watson Street, so it would be a culver system, not on unlike what feeds that creek.

Yeah, and then would be a crossing with culverts that allows water to continue to keep going on downstream.

So 100% out of the floodplain.

Um I have a question then for our city attorney then.

How would this be structured?

Uh could we make this contingent on them getting the second exit or the second uh access when we make the motion, and then if they can't get it, then the the whole thing is off.

Is that how it would work?

Or yeah, I think you could unless Gen C's got any other ideas about handling this at a I'm not sure where the properties is from a plotting perspective.

Right.

Um so the first two options working out with the neighbors.

If the condition is placed that they are getting that, uh we could have it with the first reading, but not have the final reading until they have that in place.

So we put it on the agenda for final reading when they have that.

But if that's not a possible option for them, and it is about the culverts and all that, that is a long process.

Um it's important to understand that once you approve it with that condition, you are not seeing that condition fulfilled.

The zoning stays with the land.

Uh, if this development does not occur, uh, because we will not allow that development to be built without that condition being fulfilled.

So the development may not occur, but the zoning will be there, which will be PD for RMF 22 that will stay with that land.

And whoever the condition will stay with the land too.

Right.

Okay.

I think that's I think that's my only question is about that.

I just want to explain to the public that the secondary exit does not necessarily have to do with the flooding issues.

That's a general requirement that we have for any any development that's over 40 units that they require two access points.

But they have gotten a waiver on that.

So for multifamily developments, the number is 100.

So if you have more than 100 units, you are required to have that second point of access.

However, for this one, when fire looked at it and planning looked at it, they were looking at the unified development code number, which is that hundred in the beginning, not knowing that at that that access, the only access point is within floodplain.

So when that was realized, is where this concern came up that they need to have a secondary emergency access point.

Not saying that there has to be set two access points, only saying that there has to be a secondary emergency access point during that flood event.

And that came from the fire marshal.

No, it came came up during our planning and zoning commission and staff, yes.

Okay.

All right.

Well, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Mr.

Buskin, any other speakers on this item?

No, sir.

No additional speakers on this item.

Thank you.

I'm gonna close the public hearing, Miss Boxel.

Do you want to make an amended motion?

Yes.

Um, I want to make the motion to approve with the condition that they have to have a secondary emergency access.

Thank you.

I have a motion from Councilmember Boxell, an amended motion, and a second from Councilmember Delante.

Please cast your vote.

And the motion passes.

12.2, Mr.

Thop, Ms.

Thopel, Mr.

Thopel, sorry.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh item 11.2 SUP25-05 is a request for a specific use permit for a secondary living unit on property zoned residential single family 7.2 RS 7.2 on a property addressed at 2306 Park Run Drive, generally located south of West Arkansas Lane and south of Park Run Drive.

The property is currently platted and developed with a single family home on a lot that is more than 15,000 square feet in size.

The proposed secondary living unit located in the rear of the property, the design for it meets all the unified development code regulations, including setbacks from neighboring property lines.

Based upon planning and zoning commission stipulation, the applicant also provided a preliminary drainage report.

Staff has reviewed the drainage report and grading plan, and there does not appear to be any issues.

The applicant and owner is Stephen Nix, and is he and he's here to present the case this evening.

Mr.

Nix.

No, it's gotta be Mrs.

Nick.

Mrs.

Nakes, yeah.

Mrs.

Nix.

Sure.

I guess she told both of us finishing.

He just goes along with what I say anyway.

Um good evening.

I am I thinking I need two as well, then.

You might.

You might.

Um, I'll sell you on this one.

All right.

Um, my name is Tish Nix, and I am a current resident of Arlington.

I live at 2306 Parkrun Drive, have lived there since 2011.

Um, have been in Arlington almost well, my entire married life, my husband has lived here his entire life.

Um we I have a mother who will be 80 years old next month.

And she currently lives in Andalusia, Alabama.

Little bitty teeny tiny town in the middle of nowhere.

She is the only family that we have in Alabama right now.

My father passed away a couple of years ago.

And I know I'm not alone with a lot of us who have parents who are aging.

The idea of her being 12 hours from me is scary as she approaches these ages of big you know, falling and and and accidents happening and me not being able to be there.

Um so we started toying with the ideas of trying to move her to Texas to get her closer to me and the rest of the family.

And um basically we were running into um a lot of issues with finances.

My mom's on a fixed income, she lives off of social security, and the IB, you know how expensive it is to live anywhere down here.

So um we started toying with the idea of her moving in with us.

We have a huge house, it's great, it's got four bedrooms, and we're only occupying one of them, but all the bedrooms are upstairs.

So my mom being able to go up and down stairs multiple times a day scares me to death.

When she comes to visit over the holidays and things like that, I I basically follow her around to make sure she doesn't fall.

So um plan B was to look at the possibility of maybe adding on to our house, or we started considering maybe a little tiny home, a little ADU.

Um, after a lot of talking to a lot of people, talking to our neighbors, talking to different contractors and things like that, we kind of settled on the idea of the small ADU that gives her the opportunity to still live independently, but in my backyard, so that she is literally you know just a few steps away.

Um she's extremely independent, extremely hard headed, and I don't know about you, but I like the idea of her having her own place and not necessarily being under my roof all the time.

Um I'm sure my my husband would like her in her own place and not have the mother-in-law under the same roof.

No hard feelings if you don't know.

Um that being said, you know, we we really talked to a lot of different people.

Um there's there's a need for this, honestly, and because we're fortunate to have a yard that is big enough to be able to put this small home in the backyard for her, and his aging parents are also in the area.

Um it it it kind of met all of our requirements and all of our needs.

So that's what we're asking for.

We're asking for permission to build this tiny home in our backyard and get our permits.

And um, like I said, uh all the stuff is on here.

I think you guys have already seen it all.

I don't there's right there where the house is gonna be.

We have a rear entry garage.

So we have a gated driveway.

The house is in the very back of the yard.

Can't I mean it's not going to affect anybody in the front.

Um we have already got the design.

It looks exactly like my current home, even uses the same brick.

So it will look identical.

Um let's see, what else do you have?

That's my family.

Um traffic shouldn't be an issue.

Again, we have a rear entry garage, so she will park in the back, just like we do.

Um there was one concern from a neighbor of ours about potential draining issues.

He was concerned that it might affect flooding into his backyard.

So, because of that, we went ahead and had the drainage plan developed to make sure that it wasn't going to flood his yard or our yard or her tiny home.

So we've got all that figured out.

And all we need now are your blessings.

Thank you, ma'am.

Recognize council member Peel.

Yeah, I'd uh don't sit down.

Uh I'd like what is this Steven nonsense?

I know.

Okay.

We don't go by our like real names.

And he's and then he's Stevie Nicks.

Okay, oh, that's right.

I can see that.

All right.

Anyway, okay.

So this is my street.

And the Nixes have lived on my street, and they've been in my Sunday school class for 20 years, more than 20 years.

Um Tish did a lot of time serving our children with the Arlington ISD and recently retired.

We're at Young when my kids were at Young.

And I've known Paige and Tish for a very long time.

When they moved to our street uh through a little party, it is clear that their yard is the nicest yard on the street.

All right.

I think that's because Stephen Page uh actually is out there all the time.

He has OCD and he's always pulling all the weeds.

Yeah, there's not a weed in my yard.

So anyway, I just want to vouch for these two.

When they said they wanted to do this, they called me and they said we want to do this the right way and fully respect the city.

I said, you need to call Gen C and they did, and they've done it the right way.

And you know, uh on the street, they talk to everybody, and everybody's for it.

If there's one person you would trust to do the right thing, it's Tish and Steve Page Nix.

And uh I highly encourage all of my uh council member colleagues to vote for this.

They're wonderful people.

Well, I'm upset.

Why?

I want y'all as my neighbor.

Aw.

Well, I'm not building another tiny home for you.

So one is my limit.

Listen, uh I'll just say y'all made my night coming in here with having all your ducks in a row, and you were dead on right.

You convinced me as soon as you started talking.

The fact that you're taking care of your mom like this is what we want folks to be able to do.

God bless y'all for doing this.

God bless y'all for putting up with Mr.

Peel in your neighborhood for as long as we're at the far end of the street.

So uh thank y'all for coming tonight.

Mr.

Buskin, do we have any other speakers?

Uh the only other card I had was from uh Mr.

Nicks.

Okay, she's not gonna let him talk.

No.

There you go.

I'm gonna I'm gonna close the public hearing.

I have a motion from Councilmember Boxell, a second from Councilmember Galante.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Congratulations to y'all and thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, we're gonna move on down to 11.3, Ms.

Thoppel.

Thank you, Mayor.

Item 11.3 zoning case PD 24-40 anthem is a request to recate the zoning adopted by zoning case PD 23-18, which was a planned development for limited entertainment district overlay regional mixed use, PD EDO, RMU uses with a development plan, and revert back to plan development for limited entertainment district overlay community commercial.

That's PD EDOCC uses that was adopted in 2010 by zoning case PD 08-19 with additional permitted uses and a revised concept brief incorporating enhanced development standards.

The subject site is located at 1322 and 1400 North Collins Street and set 770, 781 and 800 East Road to Six Flag Street on approximately 45.275 acres, generally located south of Interstate 30 and west of North Collins Street.

Since the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting in March, the owner has worked with city staff to resolve outstanding issues, and this is reflected in the proposed ordinance.

Thank you, Jency.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um Terry Montez, CEO of Trademark Property Company.

Glad to see you guys again.

Let's see here.

Okay, yes, okay, I got it.

Um I'd like to start by reading our purpose statement uh to be extraordinary stewards, enhance communities, and enrich lives.

And um we were sought out by the um uh city manager and and others um because that's really what we're committed to doing, and we think this is a really great opportunity to take uh um aging somewhat distressed asset and turn it into a real community asset, and we're excited about the opportunity to do that with you guys.

Um we are uh uh uh top placemaking centric retail mixed use developer.

Um, and we office 20 minutes from here in uh Fort Worth and Terran County, and this uh project is really important to us.

Um you see on the on the screen some of our projects around the state that we're we're proud to share with you.

So when we started this process, we start off by listening, um interviewing stakeholders, set out with city council, staff, mayor, city manager, and we heard a lot of consistent themes more green space, updated looking experience, a fun place, better stores, restaurant, and restaurants, family-friendly environment, mix of uses, and that's still the plan.

We will deliver that.

And uh early meetings um with you guys and and staff at our uh design workshop.

We were told to dream big, push density, shoot high, and we've uh continued to do that.

Our vision that we came up with in uh collaboration with the stakeholders was to transform the existing Lincoln Square, now known as Anthem, uh, into a vibrant open-air mixed use gathering place for the community and a modern gateway to North Arlington, and we're still able to do that in cooperation with you guys.

And our our goal is to make Anthem a high quality, walkable, amenitized retail and mixed use project.

And you know, we've been talking to you guys about various options and zoning for a while now, but um in partnership with the city and the uh council and staff, we're still able to uh dil deliver a great project.

Um and in every scenario, it'll be a substantial improvement over that um Lincoln Square asset today.

Monica?

Yep.

And so our zoning request is to revert and revise our zoning to the previous um PD.

Um, this new zoning will allow us flexibility to work with marketing conditions as well as tenants with their private agreements, as well as uh establish design standards that are more strong or stronger than what we had originally in the PD.

So this um chart shows things that we are carrying over our elements or excuse me, design standards and regulations that we're carrying over from the zoning you all approved last year.

We still will have um the ability to add density to the site.

We are committed that if it's a multifamily or hotel project that that would come back to you all via development plan.

And this PD adopts additional design standards as it relates to setbacks, articulation, parking, et cetera.

And if it's not listed, then it defaults to the EDO and UDC standards.

So over the course of the last few months and really the last few weeks, we've really worked with city staff and some of you all on developing phasing elements that we are committed to doing in this project.

Um that includes exterior renovations on all buildings with the exception of the power center because that's big and does really well already.

Um not timing, um, elements around demolition, a commitment to a minimum 3,000 square foot green space.

Um, if structure parking comes, it has to be attached with mixed use.

If we build a multi-story building, it has to include office.

So we've added in a lot more phasing than we had originally in our other element, our other PD, and then Tina, you know, the UDC allows for you all to grant a PD if there's a unique situation, and we feel that Lincoln Square is a unique situation.

Yeah, and yeah, most of y'all are familiar with the Lincoln Square.

Oh, okay, 20 seconds today.

What our vision is, um, which we're really proud of, and it's gonna be uh we're re redoing every facade, um, and you will not recognize any of it.

We are demoing um 85,000 feet, creating more parking, public spaces, et cetera.

You're not gonna need a full five minutes to talk about 11.4, are you right?

You're right.

Then I'll let you, I'll let you use some of that time here.

Perfect, and we don't need much.

Um, every plan we're considering um fulfills the vision of transforming Lincoln Square into a vibrant walkable uh community gathering place and uh gateway to North Arlington.

You guys will be proud of just more more pictures.

This is the southern track that's a crossroad to Six Flags.

Um we also plan to activate common areas with music, public art, upgraded furnishings, host community events, um, and uh the perimeter landscaping will be all new.

And we're working uh with staff to save those existing big trees, tenant storefronts.

You see some of the work we do, it'll it'll just be completely different than what's what you see there today.

Um we've enjoyed working with you guys and would appreciate your support.

Thank you, sir.

Mr.

Buskin, do I have any other speakers on this?

Yes, sir.

We have one speaker in opposition, Bruce Vidston, Mr.

Vincent.

Good evening, sir.

Good evening.

I have a couple handouts.

Yes, sir.

If you can just give them over to the officer there.

Go ahead, sir.

Okay, great.

Uh my name is Bruce Bitson.

I'm CFO of On Deck Concepts, representing Boomer Jacks.

Um B for I guess I just want to say we're very supportive of the direction and the vision for redeveloping Lincoln Square.

Our opposition is very, very specific on the PD.

Um, just a quick little background.

We've been operating at the current location since 2005.

It's over 20 years.

In 2020 2021, um, we amended our existing lease with ShopCore, the prior shopping center owner to vacate some relocation restrictions to allow for densification of the shopping center, which we were supportive of.

In exchange, we're given some very specific relocation package rights elsewhere in the North Track.

And based on this agreement, we did make a sizable two million dollar investment in our property.

Subsequently, ShopCorps sold it to Trademark.

We're approached by trademark or on the vision of the anthem again.

We support the vision of the anthem.

But did not seem like we'd be fit.

Worked with trademark and members of the city to arrive at a relocation.

Less desirable spot on the South Track.

Spent money on legal architect design costs to make this happen.

But it did not happen.

But we're concerned about plans that could limit our parking in the immediate vicinity.

Is very specific.

Like I said, it was just uh two items.

The um PD shows a sizable reduction in the new build on the uh new build zone or the permissible building area with a modification to exclude the no build from the parking field directly in front of us.

On page two on the handout, um it's exhibit C of PD 20-40, which you all have.

Um this was the same slide that was shown just a moment ago above with the blue line showing the uh permissible building area.

Our concern is the existing P uh PBA is in red and it excludes the parking lot directly to our north in front of Studi Mover Girl.

Um the proposed PBA does not restrict that area.

Um that's the parking area that both us and student mover grill use for existing customers.

Um our request is simple the trademark marketing materials, which is on page three from their website that presented to us, and also um their development website as well as presented to us, which was also I think is on their website, pulled this down today, does not show them building in that area, so it would request that the permissible building area does not um exclude the parking field directly to us, directly to the north of us.

Our other concern is you can you can finish up your thoughts, or I gave them a little bit of time.

I'll give you a little bit.

The entire north track is 35 acres and is parked as one property.

If this parking field directly to our north is not excluded from the permissible building area, that would mean that a building could go directly into our parking field, and then we'd have to park someplace within this 35 35 acres if it's all entirely cross-parked.

Um simpler based on the UDC guidelines.

We would require 110 spaces, student mover go be 250 spaces.

Um, and the proposed PD does not account for any parking media vicinity.

So our concern is either address something with parking in the media vicinity in the PD, or quite simply just exclude the building area that's not included on the plans, development plans from trademark.

So that's it.

I'm I'm assuming because you're here tonight that y'all have already tried to resolve this and we've been working on that for years.

Yeah.

Um Ms.

Boxell, I'll recognize you.

Bruce Bitson.

Yeah.

The um trademark went through before this pro did this process before and got the zoning changed with a development plan, and that development plan showed buildings in that area.

Were you aware of that?

I've seen multiple plans.

I was the most recent plan I've been shown is one that's on page three of the handout.

That shows that there's nothing being built in the parking field directly to our north.

Okay, but that is not the plan that's that is not what's been approved.

And they're asking to revert to a different plan, which I understand you also don't agree with.

But did you object to the to the one that was approved?

I think when was that?

That was about almost a year ago, was approved.

No, on that one, at that point in time we had an agreement for us to relocate off the north track into the south track so the densification could happen.

So you were going to physically move your whole store.

Yes, whole thing.

Yeah.

Oh, I wasn't aware of that because it always showed boomer jacks in that same location on every plan that I've seen.

If we were to stay in there, we've objected to staying in there that reduced any of our park in the immediate vicinity.

All right, I'll ask the uh I'll ask Trademark about that.

Um I just wanted wanted to make sure that you were aware that the that the plan that's if if we don't pass this tonight, the plan that's in place right now also uh has buildings in that in that area that you are talking about.

The one that's actually in force right now.

Okay, I was not aware of that.

Okay.

I was aware of the development plans that were presented to us that showed nothing being built in the no build zone.

Okay.

Well, I just wanted you to be aware of that.

Thank you.

Okay.

Mr.

Buskin, any other speakers on this?

No, sir.

No additional speakers on this.

Thank you.

Mr.

Monteasy, did you want to address this?

Yeah, I would like to.

Sure.

Um I think you guys know uh we have a lease with them.

We uh intend to honor our lease.

We always honor our leases, that is our obligation.

Their lease has language about how much we can do to their parking.

We can we can't substantially or materially reduce their parking without their approval.

So the lease is really takes care of parking issues going forward.

And we we will honor that lease.

That's our obligation.

Thank you, sir.

Ms.

Boxel, did your name come back up or did you Okay.

I just want to make sure I'm sorry, I have my question is for Mr.

Montezi.

Mr.

Montezi.

Sir, you can sit down now.

I think we're we're done with you for now, but don't run away too far.

So I'm a little confused because every plan that I've seen and the one that's approved right now shows buildings in that commercial buildings in that parking lot.

That's not what you want to do now.

But that's if if nothing else happens, that's what is approved right now.

And so I never uh my understanding was is that Boomer Jacks was not going to be moved, did not want to be removed, and they I've never seen a plan where they were in another location.

No, that's uh that's not right.

The the he he was right.

In the the more dense plan where we were building a lot of buildings out in front of what would be north of his uh current store, we were relocating in that case.

Because we were going to be taking a lot of his parking, we were paying to relocate him to what's what is the old Bed Bath and Beyond building on the end cap there.

But now, since we are not, you know, we we are not planning to build buildings in his parking lot, we're we're not planning to relocate and we have a lease with him in that location.

We're obligated to maintain the parking substantially like it is.

Okay.

I just I didn't remember that.

What I remember is that hearing that there was a lot of negotiations going on and that you wanted them to relocate, but that was never agreed to.

If we did that dense plan with the town center that you're talking about, it would require us working with the city and and boomer jacks to relocate them.

But now we have a a a development plan in place that's that's in force right now, and and and uh the gentleman is saying that he didn't know that that was approved.

Yeah, but to his credit, that in if we were to do that plan, we had to move him because we were going to be sub taking a substantial amount of his parking.

So we had to negotiate to move him, which we were doing.

Okay.

But and then is that still the case then?

Well, no, because this plan does we're not adding those buildings, so we're planning the building.

You are not adding those buildings, but you are doing some substantial uh reworking of that.

No, no, no, we're adding parking.

We're not taking the the current plan we're working on doesn't take any of their parking, and we're adding a bunch of parking by demolishing buildings.

Okay, so I'm not sure what the controversy is about then.

Um he's trying to basically amend his lease.

He's trying to ask y'all to amend his lease.

We have language in the lease right now that governs what we how much we can affect his parking and and it protects him.

And we're willing to honor that.

I'm just trying to get this all straight so that we all know what we're voting on, and it sounds like that's between that's a that's a decision between the two of you.

It has nothing to do with the zoning question before us right now.

Governed by a lease document, you know, in the state of Texas, that's what rules.

Okay.

And so that will be something you'll have to work out with the tenant.

Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Mr.

Galante.

Well, thank you, Terry, trademark team and uh everybody to put it together and keep working on improving this uh this project.

You know, I'm in favor for the project.

We really need the location to be redeveloped.

Um just gonna continue the discussion here.

Uh Ms.

Boxer, we already talked uh behind the scenes about this uh this afternoon.

So if you say if you said that you're gonna own the the lease, of course, and you're gonna build in front of them.

So what does it take for you to change back the line specifically in front of their business back to the red line instead of the blue line?

Because then we're gonna be approving an area that you're gonna be able to build in the future, but what guarantees that you that the tenant had it, yes.

The zoning might allow us to do things there, but his lease doesn't allow us to do anything there without his approval.

If we it I can't remember the exact language, it's something like we can't materially uh reduce his parking without his approval.

So the lease, the lease protects him today.

He's got a lease in place.

We have to our obligation.

How long is his lease?

Oh, he's gonna got a long time a lot of options, right?

Another eight years.

Another eight years on it.

Right.

So it doesn't matter to you to be the red line that he that is in place right now, or the blue line that you suggesting that that he was proposing now.

It doesn't matter to you because you're not gonna build in there anyways, right?

But uh not only because you own his lease, because it's your your project now, the new project now does not call for construction there, correct?

As of right now, we're not planning to build in that area, but we've been encouraged by several city council folks and staff.

What if Studio Movie Girl goes away?

If they go away, we may demo that, move things around, do a redevelopment, and we'd either if we're gonna build a building in front of him, we'd have to go relocate him, make a deal with him, or replace his parking as his lease says.

So we're the point is we're planning to honor his lease.

We have the legal obligation to honor his lease.

And it protects his parking right now.

Uh-huh.

And to have y'all add that to the zoning doesn't make any sense to us.

That that would be you'd be amending his lease without me having an opportunity to.

Let me jump in here real fast.

Uh Mr.

Bantisi, you said that you're gonna honor the lease.

Yeah, absolutely.

Sir, I saw you shake your head.

No, you're not looking to amend your lease, are you?

No.

You if if they if trademark honors your lease and provide you with ample parking pursuant to your lease, are you satisfied?

The lease is very vague.

That says if not reduce our parking at the immediate vicinity.

I I okay, I'll be able to do that.

Can you speak slowly?

Let's just oh well we'll we'll hold on.

Let's assume the lease get up here to the podium, please.

Let's assume the lease is vague, but that's not something that council can address.

That's a legal issue between landlord and tenant.

Yes.

So what what I'm saying is if the lease legally entitles you to X number of parking spaces, it's not specific.

Okay, but you're still functioning with a lease that is not specific now.

Right?

Except that we signed a lease with an existing ordinance in place that had the parking in front of us up in front of us as a no-build zone.

Now that's being changed to a build zone, which could allow for a building to be built there, and then it'd be a question of whether it's in violation of a lease, which would be a separate topic.

Go ahead, Ms.

Boxel.

That may be the case, but if we don't approve this reversion tonight, then what's in place right now and is shows a development plan with buildings in that area.

So you're really it's between you and the landlord, but you're really better off in a better position if we approve this tonight from a zoning perspective, then you are under what is currently in place.

Because you you were not aware of that.

Um that the development plan that was approved about a year ago and is currently in place, has buildings there.

Yeah, if they're gonna densify the shopping center, they're gonna have to relocate me.

If we're not gonna densify it, but they want to build in the in the uh no bid's currently the no-build zone under the old PD that they're trying to revert back to, yeah, then it does affect me.

Sure.

But it's still either way, it's still uh a negotiating between you and the landlord.

Right.

It's this whole thing is uh council can't get involved in a landlord tenant dispute over whether or not the lease is vague as to parking, is what I'm trying to say here.

Yeah, right.

So this is a zoning.

You're trying to change the zoning, and either way, whether we change it or not, you still have to deal with the landlord on your own terms about your lease.

Yes, I understand that.

My request was if they're gonna modify the PBA to the no-build zone to exclude the existing parking lot that the tenants use rather than having that be a buildable area.

That's the request.

Let me recognize Mr.

Peel.

This is kind of ridiculous.

Okay.

This is a legal matter between you and your landlord.

You didn't call any of us and tell us that this was a concern.

This is the first time you've ever shown up.

And it appears to me that you're trying to sabotage something that the entire city has been working on for years.

This is wrong.

We are not going to fix your problems for you.

That is your responsibility as the leaseholder with an in-place lease to meet with them with your lawyers and work it out.

We are not going to do it for you.

And I don't appreciate you coming down here and popping this and confusing everybody like this in an attempt to get some leverage in your lease negotiations.

So no.

I think the entire council should vote to approve this and not give this man what he's trying to get.

It's improper for us to interfere in the legal relationship between trademark and a tenant.

Mr.

Buskin, do I have any other speakers on this item?

No, sir.

No additional speakers on this item.

Okay, I'm going to close the public hearing.

I have a motion from Councilmember Peel, a second from Councilmember Odom Wesley.

Please cast your vote.

I guess the answer would be no.

Okay, 11.4, Ms.

Thhoppel.

Thank you, Mayor.

Item 11.4 PD 24-40 ASP is a request for an alternate sign plan related to the previous zoning case for the 45-acre anthem site.

Since the planning and zoning commission meeting in March, the owner has worked with the city staff to resolve outstanding issues, and this is reflected in the proposed ordinance.

Again, we have Monica Luera representing trademark present the case this evening.

This will be much shorter than the other one.

As Gen C said, our request is to adopt an alternate sign plan to update the signage and establish a unified brand for Anthem.

To the right is the list of signage types that we have identified within this ASP.

As you all are very much aware, this is what signage looks like today.

These are some design concepts of how we plan on rolling out the new brand.

There are places where we'll incorporate the Arlington Entertainment District.

One of the signs that we had a lot of discussion about at P and Z and with staff is the ask for one multi-tenant large monument ground sign, as you can see on the Google images when Lincoln Square was built.

The freeway was depressed 15 feet from what it is now.

So you can't even see Lincoln Square.

So the image to the right shows you from a 60-foot perspective how this sign you will be able to see it from the freeway.

Additionally, there were three signs that we asked for that were not in the UDC.

And so working with Gen C and Lisa and staff and some requirements that were put on us with P and Z.

The building mounted multi-tenant listing would only be allowed on structured parking.

We have parameters around digital or advertising kiosk, and then building mounted digital lifestyle or advertising panels would only be allowed on buildings 50 foot or taller.

And this is a representative road to six flags and collins before and after of how we would uh entryway project identity sign to announce that you are at Anthem.

And that's it.

Thank you.

Mr.

Buskin, do I have any other speakers on this?

No, sir.

No additional speakers on this item.

Thank you.

I'm going to close the public hearing.

I have a motion from Councilmember Peel, a second from Councilmember Boxel.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

11.5, Ms.

Thoppel.

Thank you, Mayor.

Item 11.5 gas well permit, GWP 25-001, Arkansas Agape 1H.

This request includes one wellhead permit for the Arkansas PAT site within the established drill zone.

Total ENP Barnett USALLC was granted the amended SUP 0920R1 to establish this designated drill zone with the final reading approval earlier this evening.

On August 25th, the operator held a neighborhood meeting.

The railroad commission of Texas has already issued a permit for this gas well.

No changes have been proposed from the previously approved transportation routes to this gas well site.

This evening we have the applicant Leslie Garveys here to answer any questions for Total EMP.

She doesn't have a presentation, but she is here to answer questions.

I like it when you don't have a presentation.

Mr.

Buskin, do I have any other speakers on this one?

No, sir.

No additional speakers.

We do have five non-speakers in support.

Thank you, sir.

I'm going to close the public hearing.

I have a motion from Councilmember Bellante.

A second from Councilmember Gonzalez, please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

12.1, Mr.

David Johnson.

Good evening, Mayor and Council, David Johnson, Assistant City Attorney, City Attorney's Office.

The ordinance before you tonight concerns setting gas rates for service in the city.

Atmos Energy filed a request with the railroad commission to increase its race and recover capital investments.

The Atmos City Steering Committee, which of which the city is a member, has negotiated a settlement with Atmos, and this ordinance reflects that settlement effective October 1st.

And I'm happy to answer any questions the council may have.

Thank you, sir.

Mr.

Buskin, do we have any speakers on this item?

No, sir.

We do not.

Can I get a motion and a second, please?

I have a motion from Councilmember Gonzalez, a second from Councilmember Hunter.

Please cast your vote.

12.2, Mr.

Brooks.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Keith Brooks, Director of Public Works, here to present the first reading of an ordinance amending the streets and sidewalks chapter by the addition of Section 6.06 temporary traffic control permit.

City of Arlington reviews and approves numerous traffic control permits annually for capital projects, development projects, franchise utilities, and various applicants.

Amending the ordinance allows the city to introduce a permit fee for the purposes of recouping staff time and work zone data exchange flat platform costs associated with the review and approval of temporary traffic control permits.

This will allow the enforcement of traffic control violations under the ordinance pursuing or pursuing a safer roadway user experience.

The creation of a permit fee will help offset the administrative costs associated with the review of the traffic control permits.

Staff will uh present a fee resolution for the temporary traffic control permit to city council on September 16th.

Uh at this time I'll answer any questions you might have.

Thank you, sir.

Mr.

Buskin, do we have any speakers on this?

No, sir, we do not.

Thank you.

I have a motion from Councilmember Hunter, a second from Councilmember Galante, please cast your vote.

And the motion passes.

12.3, Miss Amy Rockhill Carpenter.

Good evening.

I'm Amy Rockhill with Health Services, Planning and Development Services.

I'm here before you this evening, bringing the amendments to the Health and Sanitation Chapter, specifically a first and final reading of the ordinance revision amending health and sanitation chapter code of the City of Arlington through the amendment of Article 4 Food Establishment Regulations.

In your packet, you'll find both the staff report and the ordinance.

The intent is to align our ordinance with the state provisions or recently passed, as well as add the requirement for the food sanitation grade posting, which you all had requested previously.

I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, ma'am.

Mr.

Buskin, any speakers on this item?

No, sir.

No speakers on this item.

Thank you.

I have a motion from Councilmember Boxel.

A second from Council Member Pham, please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Thank you, ma'am.

Okay.

We're going to move on down to 13.1 on our first resolution.

Ms.

Rockwah, Rock Hill.

You don't have to run away too far.

Sorry.

Thank you so much.

Um, so I'm here before you on 13.1, which is the fee adjustment authorization to the health services fee schedule within planning and development department.

Uh this is the adjacent um fee resolution that goes with that ordinance that I aforementioned.

And if you have any questions, I'm still here.

Thank you.

Mr.

Buskin, do we have any speakers on this one?

No, sir.

No speakers on this item.

Thank you, sir.

I have a motion from Councilmember Boxell, a second from Councilmember Odom Wesley, please cast your vote.

And the motion passes 13.2, Ms.

Mitchell.

Okay.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Lindsey Mitchell, Director of Strategic Initiatives.

Tonight on your agenda, you have a Chapter 380 agreement with the Shady Valley Golf Corporation relative to an expansion and renovation of the Shady Valley Country Club.

The project would renovate the entire Shady Valley Clubhouse facility and add new amenities, including a new pool, meeting and event space, tennis courts, pickleball courts, parking and drainage improvements.

This reinvestment and expansion helps to anchor the property as a revitalized neighborhood asset.

Golf course adjacent properties are valued between seven and thirteen percent higher per square foot than comparable non-gorse golf course adjacent properties with large city parks nearby in Arlington.

The investment in the property will likely increase the appraised value and increase higher sales for taxable goods and services.

The event space and the tick tennis and pickleball courts will be accessible to the public.

So again, the project scope and cost is uh to refresh and renovate the entire clubhouse facility, construct a new pool, add parking, do drainage work across the golf course, add publicly accessible event space and tennis and pickleball courts for a minimum of eight million dollars in capital investment, and the golf corporation is requesting assistance not to exceed two and a half million from the city.

These are some conceptual renderings of the improvements showing the renovated clubhouse and new parking area, and another view showing the new tennis courts, pickleball courts, and a small concession area.

We did have a third-party economic impact analysis run on this project, and it does show notably over 15 years, the taxable sales and purchases within the city of Arlington would be about 120 million dollars.

A summary of the agreement, it has a 10-year term, total project cost minimum of $8 million, with the city contributing no more than $2.5 million.

There's incentive recapture provisions in case of any default.

If the club elects to return to a fully private operation at any time during the agreement, a penalty of $650,000 is due in addition to incentive recapture.

The tennis and pickleball courts will be available to rent for a fee for non-members at any available time during normal operating hours.

The new 6,000 square foot event space will be available to rent for non-members at any available time.

Shady Valley will provide a 15% discount rate for Arlington nonprofit charitable golf tournaments.

And they will change the name of the property to the Arlington Country Club within 90 days of completion of construction.

And I'm happy to take any questions.

Thank you, ma'am.

Mr.

Buskin, do we have any speakers on this item?

Yes, sir.

We have six speakers in support and one speaker in opposition.

Ms.

Mitchell, hold on one second.

Dr.

Odom Wesley will recognize you first.

Thank you, Mayor.

Even though it sounds like a great deal and improvement for the for the neighborhood, it sounds to me like we're using public money for a private purpose.

The public will have access to tennis courts and pickleball.

They will not have access to the pool.

And with the name Arlington Country Club, it gives the misperception that it's public.

And it is not public, and I can't support using two and a half million dollars for a private establishment.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dr.

Odom Wesley.

First speaker, I'm sorry, Mr.

Peale.

You want to talk now or yeah, I just want to say with with all respect.

I think that we do use money to uh accomplish private purposes on a regular basis in the EDC.

So I disagree with that assessment while I respect the council member greatly.

Um I also think that by nature of definition, a country club is a members only organization, and I think that will be evident to everybody when it comes across.

And you know, whenever we talk about our attempts to do uh recruitment of corporations, we all know that the biggest hit on Arlington is that it doesn't have enough executive housing.

We hear that from a lot of different people who we try to get to open a business here.

And this is something that goes directly to something that has become a thorn in our side when it comes to attempts to improve the tax base in this area.

And I think it's entirely consistent with things we've done for years and years and years.

So for that reason, you know, just a gentle rebuttal.

I respect Councilmember Oban Wesley to the moon and back, but I just felt like I needed to say that uh to clarify some things.

Thank you, sir.

First speaker, Mr.

Odom, or Mr.

Odom, Lord have mercy, Mr.

Buskin.

Our first speaker is Doug Hafer, after Mr.

Haifer is Clay Kelly.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, Council.

My name is Doug Hafer, and I'm a resident of Arlington.

Um to echo a little bit about what um Councilmember Peel said.

This is an important project for the City of Arlington.

And Dr.

Odom Wesley and I have are familiar with each other and and I respect her greatly.

But I disagree with the assessment that uh naming this the Arlington Country Club is anything but a good thing for Arlington.

Um if you look at cities around, um, we're we've got to be among the very, very few who don't have a very prominent country club.

And to name it the Arlington Country Club is an excellent branding opportunity.

Um so I don't think that can be short-sighted.

What the improvements that are going to be proposed is also going to add a great deal to the city of Arlington.

The country club was built in 1959 and is dated.

Um it needs a refresh in general.

It will help tremendously with um the recruitment of businesses.

In fact, when the cowboys were um in discussions about coming here, um, then Mayor Cluck would meet with uh uh Jerry Jones at uh Shady Valley, but um they did not find it adequate for what they were wanting to do.

So I think this will add something to what the City of Arlington showcases as a showpiece for what um this city can be.

It is a move in the right direction.

It also I I can tell you, having been um on the board when this current management group bought the club, um the MP group, they've done a fantastic job as stewards of the property.

Um they inherited some problems with drainage, those are going to be addressed with uh what this is.

This is nothing but a great thing for Arlington for economic development for an increase in the tax base for the city, which should recoup it's not giving money away, but investing in what everything that Arlington can be.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr.

Peel.

Hold on, Mr.

Haker.

Doug, I just real quick, I just want to make sure I want to make it clear how much money is the club going to spend on this project.

So I have worked um with the club during this process.

This is as many of you may know, this has been a long time coming, and this has been under discussions for some time.

Um at a minimum, um the MP group is looking at five and a half to six million of its own money coming into this.

And that's in addition to already two million that the ownership group has put into it.

Um I guess it inherited um years of problems and neglect by Club Corp, um, deferred maintenance um things that happened development in Arlington that happened upstream.

I've been a member at uh Shady Valley since 2003.

Uh oh, since about 2016, 2017 going forward, flooding has been a tremendous problem.

Um very little was done by Club to Corp to address it, but this ownership group is taking great strides to be great stewards of this property, improving not only what the the runoff is, but um it's making it better downstream as well because you have interlocking it in those neighborhoods that go off from Shady Valley.

So what they're doing is helping not only the the surrounding community but downstream communities.

And I I think that's something that's missed a little bit and what um this is going to be on that aspect of it.

Um and I can feel it any other questions because I said I've been involved with this process for the yeah.

I just want to clarify y'all spending about are your the club owners going to spend four times more than the city contribution on the project.

Yes.

Okay, that's what I wanted to clarify.

Yes, Ms.

Boxel.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Haber.

Earlier today, I asked some drainage questions, and I still not clear.

Yeah.

Um the the owner, I was asking him about what the actual work was and then what the total percentage of the budget, he seemed to think it was one-tenth of the budget would be going to drainage work, and it's still unclear to me how that's gonna help the situation both on the golf course and the overall area drainage.

I'm not I'm not really convinced that one-tenth of the budget is going to do the job.

Um so could you elaborate on that?

In my view, and it so some of this is um you know, to use a military term that uh the mayor would know.

So this is above my pay ground.

Yeah, it's above my pay grade a little bit.

So kind of historically looking, um a great deal of runoff comes south from the south onto uh onto the property.

That had caused a great deal of problems.

And in fact, it was raising up the the level uh um of where the land should be.

We're getting all this silt that was coming on.

And so um city came out, city people came out, and in fact um engineers from the city as well as engineers from uh that MP group had had worked with and found out you know, prop ways that we could use utilize channels that would go on to a drainage just to the west.

Um during that process, MP group has begun take to take steps to address the drainage.

In fact, what they've spent is right now there's a 400,000 project going on that will address this drainage issue.

I mean, to be fair, I I would say that you're looking at probably close to a million dollars plus of what is going into this project.

Since you mean one more than like 12 percent, if you're looking at 8 million a million is you know, one eighth of that, so um 12.5 percent at least.

But that's on this current project, not to include what has been done invested in the past, is it was leading to shutdowns of what this what this property was.

And in that respect, this is you know development upstream from this facility.

They were being asked to bear the brunt of loss because of that.

Um so this is uh something that has to be done in order to preserve the financial integrity of this asset for the owner.

Well, that's that was my question because it seems like that's very important, and it didn't seem like very much of the budget was going towards fixing these drainage problems and also improving the whole situation for uh downstream.

Yeah, so a lot of in that work has already begun.

So you're you're seeing there's some costs that are already in the past.

But the work I I asked this before in the work session, what is the work?

And what the answer I got was we're just removing some brush and some debris, and uh it seems like there needs to be a lot more done than that.

Yeah, so um I know there's a hydraulic study coming.

Um I know that um Graham and Associates is working on the engineering as well to address uh how water is coming on and how it can be directed.

A an issue, and this is there's a neighborhood being put in across 303, just to the south of Shady Valley.

Um between Shady Valley Golf Club and Shady Valley West, there is a drainage ditch.

That that and it's fairly substantial.

It is not taking water like it should.

So things are being done to take water off the golf course and put it into an existing channel.

This is something that really design-wise should take place upstream.

Um it's not.

So this is being done through an existing uh there was a a place where it can go, the existing ditch between Shady Valley West and Shady Valley Golf Club.

So there is now the club itself is taking on the project of um having a channel that will divert water that comes on.

Because there would be times where we would be shut down for a couple of weeks after fairly minor rains.

Uh this year, because of uh some of the things that have been already taken place, um, they're addressing that, and we were not shut down uh really for any longer than a day or so.

Yeah, and it's worst, and that's remarkable given um what we've experienced over the last few years.

Okay, thank you.

Mr.

Hay for run back to your seat before somebody else gets a question in here.

The only one who likes to talk up here more than me, apparently I think is you.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah.

I'd like that.

But as a counsel to do with us being lawyers that's what I was gonna say.

Uh Mr.

Kelly, come on up, sir.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, council.

Um my parents joined Shady Valley Country Club in 1973.

As usual, Mr.

Hafer takes my talking points and does them very eloquently.

So I don't have a whole lot to add to what he said, but to give a historical perspective.

Again, my parents joined in 1973.

I joined in 1999.

During that time, Mr.

Weuman, who built the club, sold it to Club Corp.

And over that period of time, um, Club Corp made some really really great changes in it in the first two or three years, and then pretty much used it as a proving ground for management and pretty much sucked all of the money out and did not put money back into the club.

So we had um we just had years and years of neglect, and you can see it on the golf course.

You can see it from when cart paths and fairways were level, and now those fairways are now 18 inches higher than the cart paths because of runoff and sewage and all that from uh the uh upstream uh flooding that has happened.

So um Mr.

Hafer is right.

Um Mayor Cluck and Jerry Jones did used to have lunch when they were talking about uh Cowboy Stadium, and because it was not up to either uh Mr.

U Mayor Clucks or Mr.

John Sanders, they stopped going there.

And um Councilman Wesley, there uh Odin Wesley, there is always opportunities for non-members to rent out the club facilities.

There's there's just the opportunity with this to be able to give them more of an opportunity to use them the amenities of the club.

So um if there's any questions that I can answer.

Thank you, sir.

Don't ever ask that question up here.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Next speaker, Mr.

Buskin.

Our next speaker is Wendell Olson.

Mr.

Olson.

After Mr.

Olson is Philip Choi.

Thank you, Council, for your consideration on this matter.

My name is Wendell Olson.

Uh I've been a member at Shady Valley since 1995.

Uh when I first came a member, I was a lot younger.

I wasn't in the business world, and I saw a lot of business uh deals made at Shady Valley, and over the years that has dwindled down.

It's because the facilities have gotten older.

Business owners in Arlington are moving to clubs in Fort Worth and Dallas and North because of our facilities.

So we need a lot of business deals that are made in Arlington by Arlington business owners done at Shady Valley.

So in the swimming pool, you mentioned that earlier.

We do have a summer program that people that are not members of the club can be a pool member for the summer.

So we have a lot of people that are not golf members that I think it's a $500 fee for the summer.

We have a lot of families that are not there for the golf, but they are there for the swimming pool.

But this would make our club the center point of Arlington.

Right now we cannot go to Rangers and Ditto, well, Ditto is Rangers, but the other golf courses to conduct our business because that is a public course.

It's going to take five, five and a half hours to do a round of golf.

I run a national roofing company in the state of Texas, and I do a lot of my deals at Shady Valley.

So I'm asking for these improvements done so I can do them at a nice facility that represents Arlington like it should be.

People all over think the Dallas Cowboys are in Dallas.

I have to remind them all throughout this state, the cowboys are in Arlington.

Let this country club be a reflection of what y'all have built over the years and brought all this amenities to Arlington to make us one of the best cities.

We are not just between Dallas and Fort Worth.

We stand alone and help us stand alone.

Thank you, sir.

Next speaker, Mr.

Buskin.

Our next speaker is Philip Choi.

Mr.

Choi.

After Mr.

Choi is Tom McCarty.

You know, benefit of talking towards the end is everybody else has said everything important, you know.

That was a hint.

Um my name is Philip Choi.

I'm the director of project management at MP Group.

Um first, I'd like to say thank you guys for for being here today.

Um, I'd just like to reiterate kind of what I spoke on earlier today.

Um I feel like I misconstrued it and and didn't explain our processes a little bit more in depth.

Um so when we acquired this club in 2019, we had a long-standing vision for the club.

Um, but there were many obstacles that got in our way, and and a lot of that was inherited when when we acquired the club.

Um the number one issue was was drainage.

Um our club has not, you know, recuperated any anything on that investment because there is needing to have more done to the drainage problem that we have currently.

Um we have an ongoing project right now, uh evaluated at 400,000 uh worth of improvements.

Um what we did with that creek.

Um, there was a existing bank uh on the other side of Rush Creek.

So we we took a hole on our property.

Uh we dredged uh away for water to rush to the other open bank.

Um what we did was we reinforced the sides with uh concrete blocks so that no further silt or or dirt could perhaps collapse the walls and and causing that that bridge to to shrink.

Uh we have spent somewhere close to to where what is requested uh from the city to help us aid aid this project um in just drainage alone.

Um and just to just to speak on kind of what council member uh Odin Wesley has said.

Yes, this is this is a country club, uh, but we're proud to be the last standing and and only country club in the city of Arlington, and and we're very proud of that.

Um and you know, with with y'all's aid and help, uh, we believe that we would make y'all proud and um and we're proud to to be holding that name uh upon ourselves.

Thank you, sir.

Next speaker, Mr.

Buskin.

Our next speaker is Tom McCarty.

Mayor, council, team manager.

Okay, well, Mr.

Hagfer and Clay Kelly and others have all covered many of the points just like the mayor at Halloween brought up, but I'm gonna address uh uh boxel.

You want to know about drainage?

Yes, and and how much yeah, as you know, being in the industry, it takes a little bit to get your hand around all the numbers and what it takes to improve.

We have been working uh Tom McCarty uh with LBL architects, but also a member of Shady Valley for many, many years.

So um but I can't speak to a long history uh as some of the others.

But nonetheless, uh we've been working with the MP group for over a year now on their facilities, uh, which includes um the building, the golf course, and understanding more about the drainage aspects.

And although uh you're trying to find a number and the quantitate how much money is gonna go towards this, we're already at a probably a six hundred uh million dollars, and that's even without doing the engineering aspect so far.

Uh one of the things uh the difficulties on their property is retainment of the water.

Everything that lands on the property goes directly into the creeks, so therefore you're already adding water there.

They're adding uh drainage uh retention ponds so that they can hold that on their property longer and better.

Reuse that water on their own property to refurbish the golf course.

So there's an engineering solution to it.

How much?

Not sure, but every day it seems to get higher and higher.

So the city's part in terms of you know 2.5 million is really uh I see it as an infrastructure aspect to address uh again with the facility itself increasing more sewer lines.

Uh you know, there'll be some parking, some other aspects that are all things that uh seem appropriate for a 380 agreement in this regard.

Ms.

Fox will you have more questions on this?

I think you mr.

McCarty.

That's really what I'm getting at.

Is I'm trying to understand and I'm trying to make this make sense from our city perspective, what we're getting out of it.

And when I look at this overall project, by the way, it's beautiful.

The design, the uh design of the buildings is beautiful.

It would be uh I would love to see that.

It's it's really nice.

You did nice work.

But I'm looking at the overall budget, and I'm thinking to myself, has anybody done a uh uh has anybody done a budget?

Has anybody done a cost estimate of all this?

Because with all of that work that I'm seeing on your renderings and the drainage work, it is doesn't make sense to me unless somebody's run the numbers and said this is what it's gonna cost, or is it gonna cost more?

And it you know, I want to see that that the city's contribution, it we're getting enough value out of it, in addition to the value of having a country club, because I'm just sort of setting that on another the other side over here and just looking at the numbers, what we're getting out of it in terms of uh being able to use the facility four times a year, the the um the nonprofits being able to use it, the pickleball courts, the new the public restrooms, uh the offset of that from our city parks from people using that and the drainage improvements, how that's going to help us overall.

And in my mind, I'm trying to make that come up to 2.5.

You see what I'm trying to say.

Yes, we we ran initial numbers some time ago to help you know bring this to uh the city, and uh we were at a minimum eight million dollars, which is what they're committing to put towards the property improvements.

Will it be more than eight million?

Possibly, just like you're saying now, because of actually when we get to the engineering aspects about how do you solve some of those technical aspects?

And that's where I'm trying to get to to try to justify this 2.5 is to say that we're spending money basically like you like you said on the infrastructure.

Yes, infrastructure costs keep rising daily.

You see that with your roads and your streets and your sewer improvements and everything, that's exactly the the same type of aspects here.

So on a project cost you may have uh, you know, 15 percent, 20 percent on a project cost may go towards just you know site work.

Yeah.

That's a easy project.

Right.

This is not necessarily easy.

Because I've really I've really struggled with this, and and I really um I agree with my colleague Barbara Odin Wesley about the optics of this, but I also see that I I believe that the 2.5 would be uh justified in terms of what we get as a city.

Again, setting aside the the whole the whole country club aspect of it, just set that aside.

Yeah, and I I'm I'm trying to make it come up to 2.5, and I think with the drainage improvements that it would.

Yeah.

For me, it's every day it seems like that aspect takes more away from the building.

Yes, that's right.

Okay.

Thank you.

Is that help?

Don't run away, Mr.

Gonzalez.

Yes, thank you.

Um, you know, I uh that's been the hardest part for me is is how much is being spent on the golf course.

I I have gotten emails and phone calls from members, and they're concerned that relatively small amount of funds are being earmarked for the golf course itself.

And so not being a golfer, not being a member, and here hearing this from members, I'm concerned.

You know, it's the same thing.

And exactly what Ms.

Boxall said is this going to fix the problem?

You know, if uh it's uh it sounds like a small amount.

I mean 8.5 million is not a lot of money.

And if it's got major problems and trying to get a pool and the clubhouse and all that, it's like I mean it sounds too good to be true.

So um, you know, and I and I you know it that that's the only thing.

So I mean can you address the the members that are have reached out and saying nothing there's not the only a small amount of funds are being earmarked for the golf course.

So when they say that, I've been trying to get answers what they mean.

Is it yeah, and and I've even asked Mauricio since you've gone off there, tell me about the experience you have there and everything else.

Yeah, well, and in the golf course business world, you need to make sure that the course is taken care of first.

Otherwise it's just a club.

And so uh this particular owner, this is not their first club.

This is they have three.

They've uh improved the other two that they've owned, uh, so that they can have that stature of a nice golf course and a nice building facility.

And so I believe that they are experienced in balancing between the two for the improvements uh that are needed.

Yeah.

And working in Dallas, I have seen a lot of the country clubs close.

You know, uh a lot of the younger uh, I guess people that make money are not joining these clubs because they rather spend money with their family and everything else.

So it has changed the way things are.

I can tell you most of my law firm were members of clubs at one time or another.

Some of those are gone, some have gone to other ones.

So it's not I mean, I understand we need one here.

I hate not having one here.

I want this to be something, but like I said, I'm concerned just with the the money that is that enough to get it where it needs to go, or is this just something that you know we're putting money into and it's just not gonna get it there?

So well, they've already been uh spending money as um Mr.

Choice said earlier, up to 400,000 so far on their own without coming to the city with any assistance because they do understand that the and the drainage is uh the driver of those things.

They're they're remedy and things that are keeping people from playing golf right now, and they're gonna continue doing that.

They understand that's where their their membership is looking for.

And ha has the membership been given updates on what's going on, do they know this is all happening and and they're being a member and also helping them, I do see that they're they're uh they are informing people at the timely manner.

Sometimes you let people know too much too early, honestly.

I mean you being in that and sometimes that things aren't really all fleshed out completely.

So thank you.

Seriously.

So I know I know seriously, great project.

I just have a quick question.

Since the casition of the course is 2019, how many members do you guys have in the club?

How many members total?

I think it's nearly four hundred.

I've that's an operational thing.

I would have to you know check with these folks.

Did increase the membership after you the that you he's the architect.

I know.

Does anybody from the paration that can answer my question?

Well membership counts.

I'm sorry, can you repeat that question again?

So when you guys acquired the property, have uh X amount of members, how many members do you had when you acquired the property?

When we had acquired a property, we had around I would like to say 350.

And how many members you have now?

We have 450 right now.

So it increased almost 25% of membership number of membership.

Correct.

So the course is profitable, correct?

Correct.

So with those improvements that is going to be done on the clubhouse, expanding the area for functions and events, uh expanding the outdoor areas uh for entertainment and also uh uh different functions.

Do you see an improve uh uh do you foresee an improving cash flow uh in memberships also?

Tremendously.

Um tremendously how much?

What is your cap for members?

600, 700, thousand?

Oh my gosh, it would be very ideal if we had a thousand.

Um but I I would say we pride ourselves in the sense of we have a cap obviously for the golf course.

We don't want to overpopulate the golf course.

We want to be that exclusive club, obviously, for the city of Arlington as well.

And so um from a social standpoint, we can take as much as we can, and but we would look at those numbers at that time.

Well, it will be this sweet sweet spot of of a m maximum amount of amount of members that the course doesn't have a lot of play that deteriorates the course, and also you can accommodate everybody, not given Sunday or or or Saturday dinner, everybody can sit and and you know, be comfortable there.

What is this sweet spot number of members?

A sweet spot for the golf membership would be ideally 450, and then in total, including the social part, it would be 800.

800.

So how much do you guys usually put aside on the operational NOI net operating income uh back to the maintenance?

What is the do you have a percentage they usually put back not only the cores in the facilities since you already own a couple other golf courses?

You're talking about currently, right?

Yes.

So um in a lot of people don't know the history of MP Group and what our group and our ownership group has believed in.

We 100% put in all of our efforts and our financial efforts within our clubs.

We own I'm I'm gonna stop this discussion right now because our cutoff is at nine o'clock tonight to get this thing wrapped up and we're spinning in circles real quick.

So my last question.

Oh Robin.

One more question, and so we've got it off.

Uh is it fair to say with the uh increasing memberships after you do all the construction?

Is it fair to say you're gonna have at 60 to 80 percent increase in uh in uh in revenue, and then you are able to put back more in the property in case it needs for unforeseen costs in uh in drainage?

Of course.

Uh that's that's our whole motto in our group.

Okay, that makes me a little bit more comfortable on voting as for the Mr.

Buskin.

Any other speakers on this item?

Yes, sir.

We still have one additional speaker in support.

G Choi.

Choi, Ms.

Choi, you don't have anything else to say, do you?

No, I don't think so.

I think everyone has said everything that's been.

Thank you.

So much.

Mayor, we we do have one speaker in opposition as well.

Who's the one in opposition?

Chris Dobson.

Mr.

Dobson.

I sure miss seeing you come on up here, sir.

I appreciate that.

Uh Chris Dobson and I reside here in Arlington.

Um, we're looking at about two-tenths of one percent of Arlington's population uh being a membership being in the membership up here.

And um the form went by pretty quickly uh with the carry-on benefits, but I was wondering if we had an estimate of the number of years it would take to get our return on our investment.

Um, we uh we're looking at uh 2.5 million dollars.

I checked with the Terrant Appraisal District, the property value is uh just under 2 million.

Uh and even with the business personal property little other section, it still doesn't hit two million dollars.

Um you know, uh Woodland West, where I've grown up, um taught swim lessons there.

We have uh public facilities.

We have tennis courts, we can add pickleball courts relatively cheaply if that's really what we're looking to do here.

Um there's a pitch and putt at the Elks Lodge.

I know it's just a little three-stroke course, but come on.

It's still a golf course here in Arlington.

Um, I I also would like to know what other alternative fundraising that the golf company has, golf corporation has gone with.

Uh have they done car washes, have they done bank sales, have they done other things to you know generally raise some of these funds themselves.

Um I uh each year purchase a swim pass for the city of Arlington.

It's about 60 bucks.

Let me go to all the different pools in Arlington.

So $500 for a summer pass there just feels like they're telling us that they have a pool and a pond.

And the pond is probably right for most of us.

Uh Caddish back joke, anybody?

All right.

I got it.

I'm older than everybody.

Yeah.

Uh I'd also like to point out that uh the Journal of American uh JAMA recently put uh out a study or published a study that showed that proximity to golf courses does increase the risk of Parkinson's.

Uh and that goes out at one mile and three miles having effect.

So while some of the people in the neighborhood do have memberships and do uh benefit from it, much of us do not.

And uh it seems like we should be reserving these funds for public facilities.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Mr.

Buskin, anybody else?

No, sir.

No additional speakers.

We did have five non-speakers in support.

Thank you, sir.

I have a motion from Councilmember Galante, a second from Council Member Hogg.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

We're gonna move on down to 13.3.

Miss Mitchell.

Good evening again, Lindsay Mitchell, Director of Strategic Initiatives.

On your agenda this evening are a series of actions related to the continued development of the west side of Arlington Municipal Airport, primarily with the North American headquarters of eSpace.

We've been working on this project for the past 18 months as an opportunity for the Arlington EDC to develop and own industrial real estate assets to help create community wealth.

In May of 2024, we executed a master agreement with eSpace, a global satellite manufacturer, to move their headquarters to Arlington and develop their initial factory space.

The project advances goals in many of the city's adopted policies, such as the comprehensive plan, the economic development strategic plan, and the airport development plan.

ESpace will bring up to 2,000 high-wage, high-tech jobs with average salary of $95,000 over the next 30 years.

The project initiates further development on the west side of the airport, maximizing the economic potential of this major public asset and facility design on the first phase of what was originally conceived as a three-phase project began last summer.

The site is on the western side of our airport on currently undeveloped land.

The city has long had plans to build Dr.

MLK Jr.

Drive through from Bardon to Green Oaks, and that project will be complete this fall, truly opening up access to the west side.

The project site does surround the air traffic control tower, but still leaves developable space for future projects.

The economic impact of a project at the scale is substantial.

A third-party analysis estimated a total of over 3,000 direct and indirect jobs, $8 billion of salaries and wages, and $560 million of taxable sales in Arlington over the next 30 years.

The fiscal impact of the city is also notable, about $21 million in net fiscal benefits over 30 years.

The city and the EDC's investment on and around the airport is unlocking the potential of this asset and helping to geographically diversify our economic growth.

There are several examples.

The Lincoln Properties development at Bardin and MLK is underway currently, as is Provident Realty's 20-acre industrial development on the east side of MLK, toward the northern end.

New hangar development is already underway at the airport, and another track toward the southern end of MLK Drive was recently privately acquired for development.

A little bit about eSpace over the past year here in Arlington.

They leased $75,000 square feet of space in the entertainment district in October of 2024, moving their headquarters here.

They've made $7 million of improvements to the space and relocated equipment.

There are now 35 employees here in Arlington, and there will be 40 in the next few weeks, so they're continuing to hire at a fast pace.

And over the past year, eSpace has achieved new revenues and additional capital raise to accelerate their technology development even faster than they originally anticipated.

Due to this growth, eSpace requested in December to consider constructing phases one and two of the facility simultaneously.

And after discussion with the EDC board and city council, design proceeded on a larger initial facility.

This is the site layout for the current design, with phase one now comprising about 480,000 square feet in total.

And these are some conceptual renderings of the exterior of the facility.

The master agreement with eSpace had certain requirements related to leasing space, providing evidence of certain revenues and capital raise and other items, and eSpace has met all of those.

And that brings us to today.

You have five actions to consider, which the EDC approved last week.

A development agreement with manufacturing facility and hangar leases and performance agreement attached, an initial construction package for the project, a contract modification for Hill Building Group related to construction administration, a contract administration for Gensler, the architect related to additional mechanical, electrical and plumbing design and construction administration fees, and a chapter 380 agreement between the city and the EDC for water utility funding to be applied to water and sewer utilities for the project.

I'll very briefly go through some of the major terms of all of the agreements.

In the development agreement, the EDC will provide no more than $115 million to defined project costs.

ESpace will provide specialized tenant improvements to the space.

The city will waive development fees for the EDC and eSpace.

And before the EDC executes the manufacturing facility lease with eSpace, they must provide proof of funding for their tenant improvements and provide proof of certain additional revenues and capital raise.

The manufacturing facility and hangar lease each have 30-year terms with two five-year renewals and will be triple net.

Base rent will be $9 per square foot with escalation every five years on the manufacturing facility and every three years on the hangar.

The EDC's ground lease payment to the city for the site will be passed through to eSpace, and the performance agreement will be cross-defaulted to the lease.

And they must provide philanthropic support to Arlington organizations and promote Arlington to their investors, suppliers, and affiliates.

To ensure the EDC is protected, the agreements contain several provisions.

The development agreement has a provision that in case of default, the penalty to eSpace is payment equivalent to two years of annual lease payments.

In the leases, the eSpace is required to provide a security deposit of six months and provide a letter of credit for two years of lease payments for the first five years of the lease term that will be accessible to the EDC upon default.

The EDC will file a UCC lien on eSpace's manufacturing equipment located in the facility to help provide relief in case of insolvency or breach.

And eSpace shall have the option but not the requirement, except in the case of IPO, to purchase the leasehold interest of the EDC, provided they pay the EDC the amount equivalent to any outstanding bonds on the project and amortized value of cash expended.

Incentive recaptures for the entire 10-year term, and the agreement is cross-defaulted to the leases.

And probably most importantly, important to remember the EDC does own all of the vertical improvements.

To fund the project, the EDC intends to sell approximately 70 million dollars in revenue bonds and will cover the rest with cash on hand.

The EDC's financial advisor estimates an annual level payment of about 5.3 million dollars, and the rent payments from eSpace are projected to cover 100% of the vertical cost of the project.

As I mentioned, there are also a few actions related to design and construction.

The first is the initial construction package through the project's construction manager at risk, Moss and Associate Moss and Associates.

This package comes in at $13.4 million and includes site work, utilities, drainage, and related infrastructure.

The final GMP will be determined when the vertical construction package is delivered in about two months.

There's also a contract modification for Hill Building Group, the project manager to cover the construction administration phase of the project through to completion for an amount not to exceed $700,000, and a contract modification for Gensler, the architect, to address construction administration fees for the hangar as well as additional necessary MEP work for the facility for a cost not to exceed 436,760.

Finally, the last item on your agenda is a chapter 380 agreement between the city and the EDC to provide 1.2 million in water utility funding to the project to apply to water and sewer facilities at the site.

Should you all approve the actions this evening?

The project groundbreaking is slated for early September.

Also upcoming will be the consideration of debt approval for the vertical portion of the project, and then the vertical construction package will come forward in November.

Project completion is slated for spring of 2027.

With that, I'm happy to take any questions.

Thank you, ma'am.

Mr.

Buskin, any other speakers on this item?

No, sir.

No additional speakers.

We do have one non-speaker in support.

Thank you, sir.

I have a motion from Councilmember Galante, a second from Councilmember Pham.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Congratulations.

Job.

Well done.

We're gonna move on down the 13.4.

Deputy City Manager Randolph.

You're looking at me like why am I even walking up here now on this thing?

Mayor, um tonight we are requesting that the items 13.4A through C.

Um will no longer be considered.

And for the item 13.4D to be tabled.

Thank you, sir.

So can I get a motion to remove 13.4A through C.

I have a motion from Councilmember Boxel and a second from Council Member Hunter.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

And can I entertain or have a motion to table?

Mayor, I apologize for interrupting.

We did have one individual register as a speaker in opposition to this item.

Oh, thank you.

I didn't even ask.

Mr.

Dobson, get up here and please forgive me for forgetting to ask on that.

It is completely okay.

Um, you know, I had to uh sign up in opposition.

I really do support affordable housing in Arlington.

Um I had some issues with this one.

Um, but given the uh withdrawal of those first three sections, don't think we need to discuss that at the moment.

Um I just wanted to stress the need for affordable housing to be in proximity, walkable proximity to supermarkets and other uh real services, uh, whether it be post office, things like that.

Um fielder does not really provide that.

However, uh at Division and Bowen, there is property available that is right next door to the Kroger.

Um I know that there are some other issues in that area with homeless, but you know, it's my neighborhood.

It's kind of like the character of the place.

Um, but uh aside from that, you know, Pleasant Ridge and Little Road, Sub Liton 287.

Um, you know, and we could also look at some of the anthem model, uh, well, the original part of that, uh, where we added some affordable housing to commercial uh areas already available and you know if we're going to have a 380 agreement with different properties, maybe we could uh put in some affordable housing.

Obviously, not at the golf course.

That's it.

Thank you.

Thanks, sir.

Okay, now I have a motion to table 13.4 Diaz and David by Councilmember Odom Wesley, a second from Councilmember Box will please cast your vote.

And the motion passes.

Citizen participation, Mr.

Buskin.

Thank you, Mayor.

Citizen participation gives the public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns regarding matters related to city business or affairs that are in the scope of the authority of the city council and which are not posted on the evening agenda.

However, please understand that the mayor and council are not permitted by law to respond to, discuss, or address the comment at this time because these items are not included on the posted council agenda for this evening.

The mayor and council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action.

Speakers who are pre-registered will be given two minutes to make their comments, except that if 26 or more speakers have pre-registered, each speaker will be given one minute to make their comments.

Mayor, we have four speakers this evening.

Our first speaker is Chris Dobson.

Mr.

Dobson, come on up.

But before you talk, uh Trey always tells me how rude I am sometimes.

And he ain't wrong, but I've got to recognize the president and CEO of eSpace who's joined us tonight, Mr.

Greg Weiler.

And we wanted to thank you for believing in Arlington and coming here and investing in this community, sir.

We certainly appreciate you so much.

Thank you, sir.

All right, Mr.

Dobson.

Go ahead.

That's the third time you've been up here today.

Don't I got them all right in a row?

Are you trying to make up for lost time or something?

Uh you know, I was out of town for two weeks.

All right, I missed the budget meetings.

Fair enough.

So uh, you know, we all have ethics and responsibilities and duties to the city.

Um I think I do this pretty annually.

I'd like to remind everyone that it is illegal to take corporate donations.

Recently, uh Tarrant County Commissioner uh Manny Ramirez provided a check to the Fort Worth Star Telegram that was a business account but was a named business account uh in that it was an individual's name.

Uh that is still a legal because although it does have a name and an address, which passes the facial compliance test that the Texas Ethics Commission uses, it is still drawn from a business account.

Uh it reminds me of some of the donations I've seen here in Arlington over the years.

Uh so I hope that perhaps our Greater Arlington Chamber of Commerce will take note and uh put out a little uh saying or a little note to all their members.

Um, you know, we're facing an interesting time in America.

Dan Patrick just recently uh threatened to remove people from our state house who did not stand for the invocation and the pledge.

Trump recently sought to criminalize the burning of the flag.

Uh criticism of Israel's occupation of Palestine and its ensure ensuing genocide uh or supporting the BDS movement is enough to prevent employment with the state of Texas.

We are having our rights assaulted.

You know, uh and it's being done with a flag, being done with a Bible.

We have to stand for something in this country, and preserving each other's rights is as important, if not more, than preserving your own.

I hope each of y'all will fight daily to ensure that even the people that you disagree with are given all of the rights and due process afforded to Americans.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, sir.

Next speaker, Mr.

Buskin.

Our next speaker is Mary Owens.

Thank you all for hearing me tonight.

And I'm don't sound like Wogan Recording, but I want to appeal to your humanity and your sense of um caring about human beings.

Anybody can become homeless, and it's just become worse.

Uh and the way y'all are treating them is horrible.

Uh you can't be anywhere.

People come to me all the time because they're afraid to be out there.

You can't be here.

You can't be there.

You can't be home with time.

You can't be over there.

Where do you want the homeless to be?

Either give me a permit to start a homeless shelter at my house, or create one somewhere that's more acceptable for the homeless people to want to go there and have a working homeless shelter.

It won't be just laying around being lazy because the way I want me in my it's gonna be working people.

Everybody will be doing something.

And it's a lot better than people having to hide behind your buildings.

Did you not want them there?

Aren't you embarrassed?

Aren't you embarrassed?

That there's homeless people sleeping behind some of the businesses because they have no other place to be.

The man brought me three boxes.

This big food.

I mean, it's just I can't say what that is.

Why they told me that why can it reach the gun?

All the other shelters are the hogs.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

Y'all please do something.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Okay.

Next speaker, Mr.

Buskin.

Our next speaker is Robert Clyde Davis.

Mr.

Davis.

Next speaker, Mr.

Buskin.

Our next speaker is Jasmine Hogan.

Ms.

Hogan.

Are you Jasmine?

Okay.

Thank you for me.

Well, I guess I'll concern about the uh the area.

Like there's no way for us to be.

The homeless people.

Well, I'll probably be home in Moslavu, but for the people who are homeless, all of us are being home.

There's some people who who actually you know, well, what would be better walking off the street?

But it's it's just hard, you know.

Some time, you know.

You try to try the best to do what you can.

It's just always an obstacle.

Well, what you just push back again.

It's like it's like we have the well to go, you know.

I try my best to do the world's rights, you know, but a lot a lot have, you know, black flag in the head, somebody steals this, or still that.

I try I try I try our best to uh you know help help everybody, but you know, there are some people that want to be helped, there's some people who ask, well, get off the street, you know.

I feel I feel I feel like that, you know, if uh we can just have someone to go or so uh uh uh facility that that helps us, you know.

I'll be we need something, something goes up to the two to occupy a time, I'll be uh uh job judge of anything, anything for like uh our area.

You know, it's like it's like there's nothing for us to do.

It's like well, what can we go?

You know, I mean, I mean, I try I I try to talk to the people to to speak up, but not everybody wants to speak up.

So I guess what I've said is like if we if we had if we had a better area to go to, then we would do that.

You know, so will the well be out here.

You know, so so actually actually walk as well to go, you know.

That's all I want to say.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Any other speakers, Mr.

Buskin?

No, sir.

That concludes our speakers.

Thank you.

Council, do y'all have any announcements you'd like to make?

Seeing none, uh, Mr.

Buskin announcements.

Thank you, Mayor.

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Thank you, folks for coming out to the city council meeting.

Y'all please be safe going home, and the meeting is adjourned.

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Y aquí hay un dato important.

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