Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Dr.

Ignacio Nunez.

I serve as chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission of 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 October the 16th, 2024.

At this time, I will again ask our administrative staff to read the speaker guidelines and general decorum as required by our law.

So please bear with us.

The City of Arlington fully embraces the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility where people of all identities and experiences are understood, appreciated, and fully included in the community and where equitable treatment outcomes prevail.

We also have the citizens and other visitors in attendance assist in preserving the order and decorum of this meeting and to provide for attendance and participation in the meeting without fear of intimidation, threats, or hostility.

Any person making personal profane hostile slanders or threatening remarks uses vulgar or obscene language who engages in any other reactions that disturb or calculated to describe the meeting or who becomes disruptive by addressing the planning zoning commissioners or while attending the planning zoning meeting may be removed from the council chambers.

All speakers shall address the commissioners or not the audience or city staff and shall not call out individually named members of city staff or the public.

For speakers tonight, when your name is called, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and city of residence for the record.

The applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given 10 minutes to make a presentation.

Speakers in support or opposition of the item will be given five minutes each to make their statements.

If there are many speakers for an item, each speaker will be given three minutes to make their statements.

The applicant will then be given five minutes for any rebuttal.

If multiple speakers plan to provide the same or similar comments, so speakers may, if they so desire, designate one or more individuals provide public comment on behalf of the group.

A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time.

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

We ask that you address your comments to the planning and zoning commissioners.

We're real friendly up here.

For many of you, uh this might be your first time if you're planning on speaking.

We don't bite.

For others who've been up here lots of times, we still don't bite.

So at this time, I'm gonna copy the minutes of our October 2nd regularly session uh regular session agenda that were sent to all the commissioners in advance.

Were there any changes or corrections needed to the minutes?

In hearing none.

Do I have a motion to approve the minutes?

I do by Commissioner Payne and I have a motion to second by Commissioner Sumter.

Please vote.

Motion passes nine to nothing.

First case on the agenda is uh zoning case PD 24-9 at 108 Hosak Street.

We have been informed that the uh applicant requested a continuance, and they have requested a continuance until December the 14th.

I need a motion the fourth, excuse me, December the 4th for the minutes.

I need an application, uh motion to approve and a second.

I have a motion to approve the continuance to December the 4th by Commissioner Payne and a second uh by Commissioner Blake.

Please vote.

Motion passes nine to nothing.

We'll move on next to zoning case PD 24-23, located at 2425 Northeast Green Oaks Boulevard.

An application for approval of a change in zoning from community commercial to plan development for community commercial with package liquor store in a unit with an area of approximately 2475 square feet within the existing building on the site that consists of approximately 3.130 acres.

Um the uh applicant requested that they be allowed to ask for continuance.

Since this was noticed, and since we knew that we would have people coming down here tonight, I'm going to ask on staff to go ahead and present its report.

And then I'm going to ask the applicant to come for forth and ask for continuance.

We will not vote on the continuance until I've given the audience an opportunity to express your opinion.

Please.

Thank you.

Good evening, Commissioners.

For the record, Sae More Senior Planner, Planning and Development Services.

Here to present a zoning case PD 24-23.

The subject property is approximately 3.13 acres, address as 2425 Northeast Green Oaks Boulevard.

It is located north of Northeast Green Oaks Boulevard and west of Forestwood Drive.

The property is currently zoned community commercial.

The applicant requests approval for zoning change to plan development to include package liquor store in one of the suites, approximately 2574 square feet within the existing multi-tenant building.

This is a location and view of the subject site.

Property to the north is zoned residential medium density 22 and developed with single family residential uses.

Property to the south across Northeast Green Oaks Boulevard is zone PD for multifamily uses and developed with multifamily residential uses.

Property to the west is zoned residential, single family 7.2 and developed with single family residential uses.

Properties to the east across Forestwood Drive is a small silver lot which is undeveloped, zoned community commercial, and there is an existing multifamily development to the further east of it, zoned PD.

The surrounding area and the subject site were developed between 1980 and 2000 and continued to develop substantially with mixed uses, including residential users and commercial uses.

The aerial images provide an overview of how the area evolved to present.