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 August 20th, 2025.

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A copy of the minutes of our August 6th, 2025 regular session agenda were disseminated amongst all the commissioners.

Are there any changes?

Saying none, I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Ware and a and a second by Commissioner Maddox.

Please cast your vote.

Motion passes unanimously.

Tonight we have one zoning case.

It is zoning case SUP 25-3 entitled Element Hotel.

This is an application for approval of a specific use permit for an upscale hotel on property zoned airport overlay community commercial on approximately uh 2.033 acres.

At this time, I call on staff to present its report on zoning case SUP 25 30.

Chair Commissioners for the record, Clifford Goldstone, Principal Planner, Planning and Development Services.

Again, we have for you the Element Hotel, SUP 25-3.

Uh, the subject site is approximately 2.033 acres, addressed at 4560 Wax Wing Drive, currently zone airport overlay community commercial, with a request for a specific use permit for an upscale hotel.

And this is a site uh location map located uh just uh north of East Barn Road and west of Wax Wing Drive.

This is just a a little bit of development uh history in the area, as you can see uh with proximity to the airport.

Uh there's been a lot of development um recently uh in this area, and this would just add continually add to that.

These are site photos, again, the first uh photo looking uh west towards uh uh the uh South Collins Street that uh uh that are restaurants, uh commercial retail that uh but South Collins.

You have two hotels to the north, the home suites and the um Hampton Inn and Suites.

You have residential, uh single family residential to the south, and the U.S.

postal facility to the east.

This per the unified development code.

This just advises of the new uh classifications for hotels.

Again, this one will be an upscale hotel.

And this uh hotel, it will again be an upscale hotel consisting of 72,305 square feet.

It will be five stories, consists of uh 60 percent of the rooms will be suites.

All rooms will be accessed uh via an uh interior hallway.

Uh average room size being 386 square feet with the smallest room size being 350 square feet, uh will consist of uh 3,000 square foot lobby area, 661 square foot fitness center, guest laundry area, breakfast area, restore area, and outdoor seating and lounging with uh fire pits, grills, and the pool.

And this is the site layout, it's accessible.

Uh it's gonna be mainly accessible.

Direct access will be provided here via existing access easement, 25-foot wide access easement, and also with the subject site, wax wing extends up to the I-20 service road, and that second entrance off that access easement extends to the I-20 service road as well.

And these are hotels within the one mile radius.

There are five that are existing.

Uh, there was one that was approved that is currently uh under review, hasn't been constructed yet, and including this element hotel, there will be a total, uh, including all those rooms once constructed, will be a total of 830 rooms within a one-mile radius of the area.

Now there's an existing uh 589 rooms with just those open.

And this this is just another comparison of the this proposed hotel with the other hotels uh within that area.

Again, they're all roughly all of them are very comparable.

These are the elevations, again, it'll be a five-story structure, it's gonna consist of brick, um, uh stucco, different color variations, and a lookupon metal material.

And this is just the first floor layout again, showing both um the majority of the amenities will be on the first floor again.

You have inside you're gonna have the lounging area, the meeting space, a food prep breakfast area, administrative offices, fitness center, and in the rear of the site, of course, you're gonna have the pool, the large lounging area.

And these are just floor layouts uh for the second through the fifth floors.

All floors, the second floor will consist of 23 rooms, the third, uh fourth, and fifth would all have 26 rooms.

This is a hotel entry area.