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Good evening again, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Dr.

Ignacio Nunez.

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 September the 18th, 2024.

And again, I'll ask our administration to read the speaker guidelines and general decorum for this meeting.

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There we go.

Thank you.

A copy of the minutes of our September 4th, 2024 regular session agenda meeting were sent to all the commissioners in advance.

Were there any changes or corrections needed to these minutes?

And if none, do I have a motion to approve those minutes?

And I have a motion from Commissioner Payne and a second from Commissioner Blake.

Please cast your ballots.

Motion passes unanimously.

Next on the agenda, we have two zoning cases, but the first one, zoning case PD 24-7, has been continued indefinitely, and no action on our part is required.

The next item on the agenda is zoning case PD 23-37, roughly located at 1600 East Pioneer Parkway.

This is an application for approval of a change in zoning from community commercial to planned development for neighborhood mixed uses with a development plan on approximately 5.390 acres.

This time I'll call on staff to present its report on this case.

Uh staff member uh Charles.

Thank you.

Good evening, Commissioners for the Record, Kevin Charles, Principal Planner, Planning and Development Services.

This afternoon we'll be looking at PD 23-37, also known as uh 1600 East Pioneer Parkway.

Uh the current zoning of the property is community commercial.

The requested zoning is uh plan development for neighborhood mixed uses uh with a development plan.

Here you see an aerial photograph of the site in its current configuration highlighted in in yellow.

Um looking at the surrounding properties, the property to the north across East Pioneer Parkway is zone residential multifamily and fully developed as a an apartment complex.

The property to the east across Browning Drive is currently all community commercial and developed as a strip shopping center and restaurant at the northeast corner of the intersection of Browning Drive and East Pioneer Parkway is AISD state of the art, Dan Diapert Career and Technical Center, which was built in 2017.

At the northeast corner of the intersection of Browning Drive and East Pioneer Parkway is AISD state of the art, Dan Diapert Career and Technical Center, which was built in 2017.

And the property to the south is on neighborhood commercial and residential multifamily, both both of which are currently developed.

And it shares a western property line with that same apartment complex there to the south.

These are photographs of the site and the surrounding parcels.

The use of the site has remained consistent since its original construction.

The surrounding area began developing in the 1970s with multifamily use to the north and south.

These uses, along with other commercial service type uses established the area as a great location for a mixture of single and multifamily housing, commercial services, and office locations.

The development plan.

Since the continuance on August 21st, the applicant has revised the development plan to include the following.

An additional drive approach to the north was closed for better internal traffic circulation.

D cell lane was added along the eastern property line on Browning Drive based off of the TIA that was submitted to staff.

Visibility triangles have also been added to the drawing.

As these are currently shown on the plan, they do require some research by our staff prior to development, and they are subject to change.

Through this PD process, you do have the right to request that these banners be placed on the internal parking lot light lighting standards.

And this is for the west, south, and southeast property lines.

Not just the street-facing elevation, but the sides and rear elevation as well.

The deviations at at this particular time was the residential screening and buffering to the southern and western property line.

There still is a deviation in reference to the trees that are required in these buffers.

However, the applicant is asking for a deviation for the trees that would be required there due to there being award us several easements, including waterline easement, utility easement, as well as uh drainage easements in the southeastern portion of the property that extend over to Browning.

Transportation.