Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Linda Gibson, and I serve as chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of Arlington.

I hereby call this regularly noticed meeting of the City of Arlington's Planning and Zoning Commission plat agenda for June 5th, 2024 into session.

Commissioner Ware, will you leave us in the pledge, please?

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Thank you.

Next on our agenda is approval of the minutes, the minutes, um May 15th.

You had copies in uh in your packets.

Are there any uh corrections or changes to the minutes?

Seeing none, I see that I have an motion to approve from Commissioner Ware and a second from Commissioner Tolambus.

Let's please cast your votes.

Motion passes six with zero with one extent one abstention.

All right, next on our agenda are the consent agenda of plates to be approved.

Tonight we have five plates on the consent agenda, but we have one plat that we will remove because we have speakers for that.

We have speakers on uh or we have cards in favor of the unique homes edition replat, and we have another card in favor for a um check that or the amending plat for Timberdale edition.

The other plates to be approved are the replat second filing Rush Creek Ranch Estates, final plat of St.

Joseph Estates, Amending Plat Timberdale edition, and the first one replatting of unique homes.

Do I have a motion to approve these plates on the consent agenda?

Is everybody's working or nobody working?

All right, I do have a motion from Commissioner Ware and a second from Commissioner Payne, and these two are to approve four plats on the consent agenda.

Please cast your votes.

The uh the motion passes seven zero.

Right.

On the motion that we took off, or the uh plat that we took off of the consent agenda, that was the preliminary plat for the townhomes at the ballpark, townhomes of a ballpark and bar ballpark plaza.

We have a speaker and opposite.

Let's see, I don't think we have any speakers in favor.

Oh, we do, I'm sorry.

We have one speaker in favor, which will go first.

Uh Remington Wheat.

Good evening.

Uh I'm Remington Wheat with Bannister Engineering, 240 North Mitchell Road, Mansfield, Texas.

I'm here to represent the applicant for this project.

Um I think our preliminary plaque case is pretty straightforward.

Uh I think I'll just speak specifically to the concern that was raised.

Um my understanding is some uh community members are concerned about one of the trees we're planning to remove with this development.

And uh the tree preservation plan was submitted and approved with the zoning that was previously approved at City Council.

Uh but since the concern came up, I I looked into what we had in that tree preservation plan.

And I think the specific tree in question is listed as a 75-inch post oak.

Uh upon further investigations, it's actually 515-inch post oaks, so considerably less age involved in 515s versus 175.

Uh that particular tree is located within one of our proposed townhome units, so it wouldn't be possible to save that tree.

Uh if it was easy to or feasible to save the tree, the developer would be agreeable to that, but in this particular case, unfortunately, it wouldn't wouldn't be able to save it.

Um it it uh yeah, I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Questions from the commissioners, Commissioner Ware.

Um, you're saying it's it's five trees that have grown together or yes, sir.

It's basically a multi-trunk tree, or you could consider it five separate trees or one cluster that are basically in one location that with a total uh caliper measurement of 75 inches, yes, sir.

I was informed by by the arborist that our uh 75 inch could actually be reduced to more like 52 based on a uh a different method of recording that same tree cluster that would meet the city's requirements, which would actually make our uh percentage of trees saved look better than what was previously approved.

So that that actually works in our favor.

All right, Commissioner Tolumbas.