Gentlemen, my name is Linda Gibson.

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 regular session to order for June 5th, 2024.

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Next on the agenda are the approval of minutes.

A copy of our May 15th regular session meeting agenda were sent to you ahead of time.

Were there any changes or corrections to the minutes?

Seeing none, I have an motion to approve from Commissioner Tolumbas and a second from Commissioner Payne.

Please cast your votes.

Motion passes six with one six zero with one abstention.

Thank you.

Next on the agenda this evening, we have two zoning cases.

This time I'm going to call on staff, Mr.

Golston, to present its report on the first zoning case, PD 24-11, the home to suites hotel.

Chair Commissioners for the record, Clifford Goldson, Senior Planner, Planning and Development Services.

We have for you a PD 24-11 for home to suites hotel.

The subject site is approximately 3.24 acres, addressed at 4400 South Collins Street, currently zone airport overlay general commercial and airport overlay community commercial with a request for airport overlay for a limited general commercial uses plus an upper mid-scale hotel with a development plan.

So location map.

The subject site is uh just south of the East Interstate Highway 20 service road and just west of South Collins Street.

These are site photos with the highlighted follow up photo actually being the subject site with the Arlington uh airport in the background, just to the south, immediately south is the uh A Loft Hotel.

And uh as well as to the east, you have a additional uh commercial uses along South Collins Street, which is uh a gateway to the city and a commercial corridor for the city.

And this is the South Collins edition uh the site of the entire set site was planted in about 2017 and has seen a lot of development since uh currently you had initially it was the um you had the self-storage facility, you had the A Loth.

Uh now the uh you have a Murphy's uh Express gas station and Dutch Brothers, and you currently have a Chipotle uh under construction on that site and then east of the site across um South Collins Street.

You have three hotels, uh existing hotels as well.

And this is just language from the unified uh development code in relation to um hotels in the airport overlay.

Uh they are required uh effective as of uh May 1st of this year with this specific use permit, uh, given that all rooms shall be suites, have defined living areas, separate bathrooms, kitchenettes, interrogate workspaces, on-site meeting facilities, uh pools, fitness center centers, et cetera.

And this is a site layout again, it's just south of uh the I-20 service road and uh west of South Collins Street.

Uh there will be there actually is an access point, a portion of the lot, um, a portion of the lot uh to the north that uh comes off of the uh I-20 access road, is it's really just an access easement just to allow access from that service road, and then you're gonna have three access points from uh South Collins Street to actually access the internal access easement, which would provide access to the hotel.

And the hotel is the development plan, it will be an upper mid-scale hotel, 81,050 square feet, five stories, uh, all-suite hotel consisting of 134 rooms.

There will be 14 rooms on the first floor.

Floors two to five will consist of 30 rooms each, all access via an internal um hallway.

Amenities will include 3,000 square foot lobby, a thousand square foot of meeting space, 674 square foot fitness area, business center, a guest laundry area, breakfast area, market area, outdoor seating area, fire pits, and a swimming pool.

And again, this is the uh hotel saturation just of the existing hotels uh that are existing uh within two mile radius uh of that uh airport overlay.

So this would add to that hotel stock uh in the area with the additional hotels again, which uh you know a lot of um you have the uh pilots that do training in the areas mentioned in work session.

So this will bring uh these 134 rooms will bring that total up to just over 1,300 rooms in that that general area.

And this is the first floor uh layout, uh, which is show um at the opening of the hotel.

Basically, you're gonna have the portacay here.

It's gonna have a water feature there as well.

Uh, then you have uh adjacent to the portage, you're gonna have the fire pits, outdoor seating area.

Uh you have the meeting space.

Uh this is the um lobby area.

You're gonna have meeting space fitness center, a breakfast area, a market area, all on the first floor, and this is a floor out uh layout for floors through to five, which will uh consist of we have 30 rooms on each floor.

These are just the different room types, uh, with the smallest being 364 square feet, and the average room size of 414 square feet.

These are again are the building elevations.

Uh that that east elevation is the one that'll actually be the Murphy's, the Murphy's is actually in front of that on Collins, but this will be the part that actually faces Collins, uh, consisting of uh brick, stucco, and easy the hotel entry features with the again the portacochet, uh the water feature, and you're also gonna have the um the sitting areas and the and the fire pit area there as well.

And this is the landscape plan that it actually meets all the requirements uh of the landscaping.

There will be uh on South South Collins Street, and then there'll be landscaping internally to the site, and it meets most of the landscaping requirements, uh, which is the reason for the uh item actually being a PD as uh on that rear property line.

It's it's uh shares a property line with the Arlington Airport.

So the deviation is not due to the applicants, basically due to the airport uh request from the airport in order for them to meet FAA regulations to not have uh birds or any type of wildlife um gathering in the area with flights and things coming in.

So that's the only reason for the deviation, even though uh they won't provide the necessary landscaping in that area, they are still providing some trees on the landscape islands in the rear portion of the of the site.