The Arlington Planning and Zoning Commission held a regular session on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, at 5:42 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chamber, 101 West Abram Street. All nine commissioners were present. The meeting addressed five zoning cases, including approvals, a continuance, and a tabling, with public hearings held for three items.
My name is Dr. Ignacio Nunez, and I am the chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of Arlington. I hereby call this regularly scheduled and noticed meeting of the City of Arlington's Planning and Zoning Commission regular session to order for July the 16th, 2025. This time I'll ask our administration to read the speaker guidelines and the general decorum for tonight's meeting. We have so the citizens and other visitors in attendance assist in persevering the order and decorum of this meeting and to provide for attendance at any 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 become 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 supporter 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, those speakers may, if they so desire, designate one or more individuals to 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 bell, we ask you to address your comments to the planning and zoning commissioners. Thank you very much. A copy of the minutes of our June 18, 2025 regular session agenda meeting were sent to all the commissioners in advance. Were there any changes or corrections needed to the minutes? Seeing none, I now have a motion to approve by Commissioner Ware and a second by Commissioner Winkles. Cast your vote. Motion passes nine to nothing. Next on the agenda, we have five zoning cases. I'm gonna go a little bit out of order just to make sure that if there's anyone here for the zoning case ZA 25-3, located at 1225 California Lane. Uh that particular case has been tabled and will not be discussed tonight, so you can uh leave if you'd like to. The other case that let me see if it's on here. Mark run. Nope, that's okay. Nope. And Matlock Road. Yep, the rest of them are okay. All right, very good. So case, zoning case PD 24-28, roughly located at 5920 Matlock Road. An application for approval of a change in zoning from office commercial uses to a planned development for residential medium density RM12 uses and office commercial uses with a development plan on approximately 3.1 acres. At this time, staff will present its report on this case. Thank you good evening, Commissioners, and to everyone present here today. For the record, Tarani Devi Palma, principal planner with the planning and development services here to press in zoning case PD 2428. The subject site is approximately 3.165 acres, addressed off of 5920 Matlock Road. The properties currently zoned office commercial OC, and the applicant requests approval for a PD for residential and medium density, RM12 uses and office commercial uses with the development plan. The property is generally located north of West Sublet Road and west of Matlock Road. The properties to the north is developed with the daycare and duplexes. The properties to the east, west, and south are developed at single family homes. Looking at the history of the property, the subject site was annexed into the city limits in 1970. Single family development began in 1980s, and the daycare to the north was constructed in 1987. Matlock Road was completed in 1997, and since then homes began developing to the east, west, and south. The aerial image shows that how the area evolved from 1970s to percent. These are the site photos and view west subject site and view south is also from the towards the subject site, and to the north is the duplexes, and this is the west is across Matlock Road. In the site layout, the development proposes 29 townhomes in the southern portion of the property and a commercial building to the north. Each unit in townhome is two stories with three bedrooms and two and a half bath. It also includes one car garage with tandem parking in the driveway and eight visitors' parking spaces in the southwest portion adjacent to the residential.