The Arlington Planning and Zoning Commission met on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 5:36 PM in the City Hall Council Chamber to consider several zoning cases and a continuance. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Ignacio Nunez. All nine commissioners were present: Chairperson Nunez, Commissioners Blake, Sumpter, Finley, Ware, Payne, Greer, Carter, and Maddox. The commission approved minutes from December 18, 2024, continued one case, and held public hearings on four zoning items, approving three and renoticing one.
Application: Amend the zoning of Downtown Neighborhood Overlay-Planned Development (DNO-PD) for Residential Multi-family 22 (RMF-22) on approximately 0.459 acres, formerly known as PD14-20, with approval of a new development plan for an eight-unit townhouse-style apartment building.
Application: Change in zoning from Residential Estate (RE) to Residential Single-Family (RS-7.2) on approximately 0.172 acres. Staff noted that the site should be zoned RS-5 instead, as it meets RS-5 standards but not RS-7.2. The case was renoticed for a future meeting (January 22, 2025 P&Z meeting). No action taken.
Application: Change in zoning from Neighborhood Commercial (NC) and Community Commercial (CC) to Planned Development (PD) for NC plus Recreation/outdoor uses, with a development plan on approximately 10.64 acres. The project is a sports complex called Troponin Sports Arena, developed in three phases: outdoor ball fields, indoor retail/field space, and a restaurant pad.
Application: Change in zoning from Residential Estate (RE) to Community Commercial (CC) on approximately 0.276 acres to develop a parking lot for an adjacent chiropractor office (8011 S Cooper). The applicant will re-plat the two lots together.
So now that we're all signed in, uh I'm gonna have to repeat the same thing. Uh 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, and I hereby call this regularly noticed meeting of the City of Arlington's Planning and Zoning Commission regular session to order for January the 8th, 2025. At this time, I'll ask administration to read the speaker guidelines and general decorum. 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 and outcomes prevail. We ask that the citizens and other visitors in attendance assist in preserving the order and decorum of this meeting and to provide for attendance at and participation in the meeting without fear of intimidation, threats, or hostility. Any person making personal, profane, hostile, slanderous, or threatening remarks who uses vulgar or obscene language, who engages in any other actions that disturb or are calculated to disturb the meeting, or who becomes disruptive while addressing the planning and zoning commissioners or while attending the planning and zoning meeting may be removed from the council chambers. All speakers shall address the commissioners and 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. Thank you very much. A copy of the minutes of our December 18, 2024 regular session agenda meeting were sent to all the commissioners in advance. Were there any changes or corrections needed to the minutes? Hearing none, I need a motion to approve the minutes and a second. Nothing happening here. Let's try somebody try again. Nope. Please pardon us for our technical difficulties. While they're doing that, uh let me go ahead and announce in advance. If you're here for uh zoning case PD 2424 on East Randall Mill, that one's going to be continued. We're going to be dealing with that in a little bit. Also, if you're here for zoning case ZA 24-10 located on Lloyd Drive, that one's not we're taking that off the agenda. It's going to be re-noticed to a future date. So if you're here for that, I thought I'd let you know so you can go ahead and slip out. Chair, we'll have to take this motion and vote manually. Okay, very good. So I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Blake. And I need a second uh from Commissioner Finley. Uh let's see. I guess we can raise our hands. So please cast your votes. Ah, there it goes. Ah, well, let's touch our touch screens and we can vote. Oh, good. So we have a vote of eight, yay, and one abstention. Motion passes. All right. So the first item on our agenda is zoning case PD 2424, located at 700 East Randall Mill Road. The applicant for this zoning case has requested a continuance to the February to February the 5th, 2025. The continuous must be approved by the commission by a vote. So at this time I will ask our commissioners for any questions, comments, or a motion. And a second. It's being really slow. Chair, unfortunately, the motion buttons are not working at the moment, so we'll have to take the motions manually. Okay, so I need a hand for a motion from Commissioner Sumter and a second from Commissioner Blake. Raise your hand.