The Arlington City Council convened in a special session on March 10, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. for an executive session followed by a work session and issues session. Key topics included a proposed access agreement for a QuikTrip gas station at Lake Arlington Golf Course, an update on FIFA World Cup 2026 preparations, the 2026 Capital Budget, the Arlington Water Utilities 2025 Year-End Report, and several policy and governance items. No votes were taken during the afternoon session; decisions will be made at a subsequent evening meeting.
Some of us have already been sharing that information. Okay, we'll go ahead and call the afternoon session back to order. We'll move on down to the work session items three point one. Today we are bringing you the access agreement proposal that we received at our Lake Arlington golf course. This is a conversation that's been happening for quite a while. In fact, in 2020, QT, the gas station group that has come to us, expressed interest in purchasing the southwest corner of Green Oaks and Pioneer Parkway in West Arlington to develop a gas station. At the time, the access agreement requests came to Office of Strategic Initiatives as a real estate matter to get access to the site from the Lake Arlington Golf Course Drive. At the time, council reviewed it in executive session and decided not to move forward with the access agreement at that time. And so QT went back to the books, kind of worked on the design, had another opportunity come up in June of 2025, partially related to the development on the north side of the street, which was also a gas station being demolished and redeveloped. Wanted to restart those conversations for the gas station here at this location. So they resubmitted that proposal in June, and it was presented to council, and we were going to move forward with the conditions that there was a right turn out of the Lake Arlington golf course that would get traffic only going southbound. QT came back and said they really need that left turn at Green Oaks in order to make the development feasible. This is a little bit of a unique situation. And so the discussion today really is about the access agreement and whether to allow QT access to the site as the adjacent property owner. They're early on in their development process, and so they will still need to go through an administrative zoning, site planning, floodplain review, and all of their normal permitting processes once we grant an access agreement if the council chooses to do so. The proposal that we received from QT, which was included in your packet, has a lot of investment uh commitment from QT at the golf course itself, including um reconstructing and maintaining the driveway with a new D cell lane into the golf course, relocating and replacing the golf course gate, which would need to move as a part of that configuration with a motorized version, which is our city standard, and replace any pieces of the wooden fence that were affected. They would also construct an additional drive to the south with a new landscape bed and signage, and to install two trash enclosures, three sandbins, um, replace the eastern facing wall, repaint the eastern facing wall of the golf club house, and install conduit for future um irrigation electrical and security improvements. The final piece of their proposal was to install a traffic signal at the shared drive, which would include an advanced warning system with flashing signal ahead sign and a radar speed limit sign. Um their proposal also includes some of their projected phases of the project where their first phase would build that south driveway out of Lake Arlington golf course first, which would take four to six weeks, and then do the main drive reconfiguration, which is where the signal would go. Um today we've got um two other presenters. Uh QT is here to present uh how they kind of arrived at this and their need um for that specific configuration at the site, and then we've also got Keith Brooks, our director of public works, um, to discuss some of the impacts to our larger roadway network. So I'm gonna turn it over to Craig. Craig, we're gonna limit all y'all to five minutes each. So if you have a tense to be long-winded, don't be surprised if I cut you off. Okay. We're good. I appreciate the warning though. Uh Craig Honeywell with Quick Trip, 1120 North Industrial Umless, Texas. Um we have a lot of slides, a lot of it staff has covered very well, so I will make this move as quickly as possible and let the slides be a lot of QA if that works as well. Um, so again, this is our existing intersection uh the intersection we're discussing. Um wanted to give you a good aerial. I know a lot of council members um have been great and shared times with us to be able to meet as well as you know, Mayor Mayor Ross. And we had a lot of feedback back and forth and through conversations with everybody and wanted to go over some of that here. Um the reason I wanted to show the intersection kind of zoomed out, is one of the things that kept coming up is can we fix the intersection with doing something different on 303 pioneer? Um, we worked through a lot of issues with TextOt and Text Ot will not grant us a medium break in there. Um, some of it has to do with the storm control and the I believe it's the outflow from Lake Arlington, but the creek going under 303, and some of it is to do with some of the other constraints Text dot has on that location. Here's just a really quick site plan showing our proposed connection as staff pointed out. Um, we are rebuilding the drive back into the golf course and making some upgrades there as well if this does get approved. Landscape plan just for questions if later, as well as our new building elevations, because it is a unique building for us. So we don't have any in DFW yet. Um that's kind of a new prototype. Uh so I've got slides in there for that as well if there's any questions later on. Um getting started. The bit the biggest thing is we're tying into a golf course. It's a city, city building, city properties, you know, city service for that fact. So we wanted to really limit any impacts to them the best we could. When we met outside on site originally, right when this opportunity presented itself. Uh, we met with the golf golf course management. We met with Parks and Rack and had a lot of conversations. Some of the conversations were around just traffic generation, over occupying just the one driveway.