Regular session to order at this point.

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 business session into order.

At this time, I'm going to ask our administration to again read the speaker guidelines and general decorum because we're required to.

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First item of business is uh the copy of minutes of our November 13th, 2024 regular recession agenda meeting.

We're sent to all the commissioners in advance.

Were there any changes or corrections that were needed to the minutes?

If not, uh, do I have a motion to approve the minutes?

And I need a second.

And I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Ware and a second by Commissioner Sumter.

Cast your votes.

Motion passes seven to nothing.

Next, we're going to uh next we're going to uh we have to approve the minutes of the December 4th regular session agenda meeting.

These were also sent to all the commissioners in advance.

Were there any changes or corrections needed to these minutes?

If there are none, uh I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Sumter and a second by Commissioner Blake.

Cast your votes.

Motion passes seven to nothing.

Next on the agenda, we have six zoning cases tonight.

The first one is a zoning case SUP 24-8, addressed uh approximately a 2020 South Watson Road.

This is an application for approval of a specific use permit for establishing a new gas well site and the location of a drilling zone on 5.4 acres zoned community commercial.

This time I will call on our staff to present its report on this zoning case SUP 24-8.

Good evening.

My name is Cecilia Labor.

I'm the gas well coordinator for the City of Arlington.

This evening I am presenting SUP 24-8.

This is to establish a new gas well site, which is will be called the Maverick.

It will be located at 2020 South Watson Road, and it will be operated by Totel Energies.

The site is 5.406 acres.

It currently is underveloped, and the zoning is community commercial.

The site is north of East Pioneer Parkway, west of South Watson Road, State Highway 360, within two miles of six existing gas well sites.

As I stated before, the property is currently undeveloped.

There are several single-family and multifamily residential developments to the west.

On the site plan, it shows the buffer which is in red, which is the 600-foot buffer, and in within that buffer, there are no protected uses.

The closest protected use is 911 feet to the west.

Mothers Heart Learning Center is 1,063 feet to the north.

John's Elementary is 2200 feet to the west, and Bob Cook Park is 3100 feet west, and all of those are with uh from the proposed drill zone.

And you can also see over here on the right-hand side that rectangle shape area in blue that is the proposed drilling zone where an application has been submitted to drill 10 wells at this location.

Excuse me.

The landscape plan that they have provided is a tier one.

They're proposing a total of 68,290 square feet and 2013-inch caliber trees.

The right-of-way has a required 14 trees, but 15 trees will be provided.