Good evening again, ladies and gentlemen.

Again, 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 noticed meeting of the City of Arlington's Planning and Zoning Commission regular session to order for December the 17th, 2025.

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

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Thank you very much.

First item for tonight is the approval of minutes.

The minutes of the December 3rd, 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, do I have a motion to approve?

I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Blake and a second by Commissioner Winkles.

Please cast your vote.

Motion passes 7 00.

Next on our agenda, we have three zoning cases.

This first one is titled PD 24-28, addressed at 5920 Matlock Road.

This is an application for a change in zoning from office commercial to a planned development for residential medium density RM12 uses and office commercial uses with a development plan on approximately 3.165 acres.

This time I'll call on our staff to present its report on the zoning case PD 24-28.

Good evening, Commissioners Audience.

Alicia Sudberry, Development Planning Manager.

Tonight we're going to hear PD 24-28, located at 5920 Matlock Road.

It is approximately 3.165 acres.

The current zoning is office commercial.

The request is for a planned development for residential medium density 12 and office commercial uses with a development plan.

Properties to the north are developed with a daycare center and duplexes.

Properties to the east, west, and south are developed with single-family homes.

The daycare to the north was constructed in 1987.

Matlock Road was completed in 1997, and homes began developing to the east, west, and south of the site.

The aerial images show how the area evolved from 1970s to present.

The site photos in the upper left-hand corner.

It's a view of the subject site looking west.

There's a view of the site looking north to the daycare, a view south from the subject site, and a view east across Matlock Road.

The development proposes 24 townhomes in the southern portion of the property and a commercial building to the north.

Each unit in the townhome is two stories with three bedrooms and two and a half baths.

One car garage with tandem parking in the driveway and 15 visitor parking spaces located in the southwest portion of the development.

In the north portion of the property is a commercial building.

The building will be a one-story shell building, leaving the interior for tenant customization.

The plan proposes 36 parking spaces.

Dumpster has been relocated to the northwest corner of the property after discussion at the last planning and zoning commission meeting.

The proposed development meets the dimensional standards except for the lot area for the townhomes.

In the previous version, you saw that they were proposing 2,000 square feet.

They have increased that to 2200 square feet, and the UDC requirements are for 2900 square feet.

The commercial building meets all the dimensional standards.

The applicant proposes a brick and stucco on the facades.

The roofs feature a pitch design with a composition shingle covering with a roof pitch of 812.

Variation in building facades, roof designs, and window placements have been integrated to add character and establish an identity to the community.

This is the first floor plan that shows a garage, a living room, kitchen, pantry, and bath.

This is the second floor plan, which shows three bedrooms and one and a half baths.

This is the office commercial building.

The plan proposes brick and stucco on the facades with at least 25% of the front facade featuring glazing.

And there are several architectural elements proposed to add character to the building.

This is the landscape plan.

One tree is provided in front of each townhome, and some landscaping with trees and benches has been added next to the visitor parking area.

The development is providing approximately 17,898 square feet as open space.

There are no existing protected trees on the site.

And the applicant proposes to remove all non-protected trees from the site.

Two neighbors, city staff, and council member Rogan Solis were present.

The applicant has met most of the required screening and buffering requirements per the UDC except for the buffer between the office commercial and residential along the western property line and southern property line.

A 10-foot buffer is provided rather than the required 15 feet, and also trees are layered in a single row rather than the required two rows.

Three trees have been added to the northern property line, increasing the count from six trees to nine trees.

A total of 22 trees are provided in the buffer for the commercial lot.

And these are the itemized allowable uses for the OC zoning.

The proposed townhome development promotes the following develop our land strategies.

Encourage the development of housing choices that meet the needs of current and emerging populations, including singles, couples, small and large families, empty nesters, and seniors.

Identify and develop infill areas in ways that are compatible with their surroundings.

Town home development can be a transitional use between single family detached to the south and commercial zoning to the north along Matlock Road.

The applicant is seeking the following deviations for the lot area required.

It's 2900 square feet and proposed is 2200 square feet.

And the required screening and buffer, level two buffer is required between the western and southern property line.

Nine trees are provided along the western property line in the commercial lot.

The applicant is Henry Wynn consulting LLC.

The owner is CAPCAP properties, LLC.

Staff has received two letters of support and one letter of opposition, and staff is available for any questions.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Are there any questions of staff at this time by the commissioners?

Saying none.

If you would please come to the podium, please state your name and the city of your residence.

Okay, thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name is Henry Wynne.

Um I'm the applicant for this uh zoning case.

Uh again, I'm not gonna try you know, take any more of your time because we we went through this before.

And uh after the our meeting back in July 17, I know that you um the count the committee have a uh number of issues and concern, and we went back and to our drawn board.

We have try our best to address I think almost every single one except a couple of item.

Um we uh we did reduce the number of the town home unit from 29 to 24.

Uh we increased the visit visitor parking from eight to fifteen.

Um we provide more landscaping, more tree, more shrub.

Um we did send out a hundred and fifty letter for the neighborhood meeting, but unfortunately only uh two residents show up and uh and we we did intend to to address the fencing issue at that meeting, but unfortunately, um the only the only solution that we can come up with is since there are only maybe 12 um residents surrounding this property, we can get together with them individually and see if we can address the fencing issue.

Uh our plan is to remove all the um unprotected tree and provide a new fence, uh remove the all fence and provide the new fence.

This is that is our goal, but again, we have to you know get the uh agreement from the citizen in order to do that, and since the only 12 um individual homeowners, I I believe we can we can knock on their door and and have a meeting and address that um issue another concern that I think these uh the committee has is the location of the uh dumpster, and we did move that to the to the back and provide a drive-through for the garbage truck to come by and pick it up and and bring it back to the front.

The um for the commercial um building, the proposal is gonna be medical office, uh pharmacy, and some retail, general retail.

This will be no smoke smoke or vape shop or anything like that.

Uh, that's it's not you know, we we're not gonna that's not our goal.

Well, anyway, um that's that's all I have.

If you have any question, I'm I would try my best to to address uh to answer the question.

Thank you, Mr.

Nguyen.

Um remember the last time you were here.

Uh we do appreciate that you've come back, and we appreciate that you've made many of the changes that we requested.

So thank you for that.

At this time, do the commissioners have any questions of the applicant?

First, Commissioner Sumter, followed by Commissioner Carter.

Good evening.

Uh if we could pull the site plan up, but from what I just heard, you had put the dumpster in the I guess northwest corner in the single-lane drive.

That's purely just for the access for the truck refuse.

That's correct.

My personal opinion is we maybe move that in line with the building and not have to have all that expense of constructing that drive just for that purpose, and then it allows you to provide the buffer that we're asking for a deviation on.

And then it allows you to provide the buffer that we're asking for a deviation on.

So you might have the room to do that.

And you don't have if it's not gonna be a drive-thru window of some sort, because that's originally what I thought it was gonna be.

Um just a thought.

Okay.

This is the uh the old plans.

Um yeah, that's an old one.

That that's the the this plan well originally that the dumpster will was that right there, but um because of the concern we have to move it back.

Yeah, I was thinking you just put the dumpster on the north side on the north side.

Okay, that way you don't have to build that drive.

Okay.

Because the parking doesn't work anyways because it's 12 foot lane, you can't back out.

And if you're purely just building all that drive just for the trash truck, I don't want you to have to do that and have all that expense doing it, and then you all you can provide the 10-foot buffer.

Okay.

We'll do.

Okay, so that'll be part of the motion.

Uh uh, Commissioner Carter.

Do you plan on uh these units to be for sale the last time I spoke with the property all I mean with the development, it gonna be for rent.

So it's a for rent community, okay.

Um the the uh um trash for each garage, the the trash for each unit, um how many feet is the driveway from the street to their garage door.

Um it we had a problem lately with the uh um the uh um you know where were the where the trash pins will be stored.

I think right now it's it's about 20 feet from the from the roadway to the garage.

And uh it's gonna be individual, just like you know, a residential home.

You have uh you have to look with a city to have a container and and leave it uh out in front of your garage.

The the file lane is um designed to to the city's standard, so you know that the five um the the truck can be you know come in and and turn around and it'll be tight, but yeah, they're gonna be tight, yes.

It's I think that's what the problem last time was also.

The and I I really thought last time that I in my mind I was thinking they were for sell units for sell.

Um but either way, the uh I I just don't think you'll have a um uh it'll really say a lot for your build in your community if you do uh a new fence.

So I really think it's important for you to get the the uh neighbor participation to you know for you to offer to put in a an eight-foot cedar fence.

Um it's a really tiny backyard, and no one wants to, you know, a tenant or a home buyer don't want to look look outside and see you know the 1990 fence from the neighbor uh wind blows them down, and so I really think it would be uh you and the developer being a good neighbor and putting up a perimeter fence of the property to make it have a really good look.

Yes, sir.

That's I'll go Commissioner Carter, where where would you like to see that eight-foot fence specifically on this drawing?

Uh the the perimeter of the property, the all the back side, the west side, the south side anywhere it's that it's someone's um backyard and anywhere in the even in this parking lot.

I just don't see how a new development like this spending this much money on it could be um uh uh you know rely on a a 20-year-old fence that could be behind there or mismatched fence.

You know, those are gonna be uh four to five different properties on the on the west side.

And uh so I think it just needs to be consistent, and um it's it's three houses uh on that west side that would so it could possibly be three different homeowners' fences.

Um the other the north side is duplexes, um so I haven't seen the condition of the fence, but you know, those could be really uh sporadic uh on the condition and the timing of the age, you know, the age of them.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Uh Commissioner Blake, thank you.

Glad I'm that memorable.

Um so I have I still have concerns about the size of the lot and would really like to see a couple more done, but I I really hate to send you back to the drawing board.

So unless other commissioners feel that way.

I'm also kind of concerned that we're going to take this type of property and put it to rent because how is that going to be maintained?

Is it is there gonna be an HOA?

Is there gonna be a management company that's there?

Um you know, how are we gonna make sure that everything's done and kept up to to standard if it's if it's gonna be for rain then the the property owner gonna be responsible for the maintained of their property?

I think it's is in the best interest to to make sure the property in you know good shape so you can attract the the right.

Which is this?

Is this a rental property or a property for sale, or you specifically have people that lined up to buy it as investments?

No, the this owner he right now he um the owner intend to um to use um the commercial building as his pharmacy.

He's a pharmacist.

Okay, he owned all of this land, and his goal is to uh operate and and own the whole the you know the two uh the two both commercial and residential.

So he will be the developer, the owner.

I think if I was to move forward with this, I I would want to make sure that this at least this part of it, so that if it ever got sold off, whatever we decide to do, because I think are these also individually platted.

Yeah, individually platted.

So therefore I would want an HOA on top of this that made sure that there was long-term management and stability of it instead of just running with it.

There will have to be an HOA because there's a private accessment, it'll have to be maintained by a homeowners association.

It won't be a city street.

Thank you.

And then the other thing is the the fencing, and even if you can't get the current homeowners to agree to that, you know, I'd like to see it in there that they take responsibility for the fencing of the entire property.

And typically a six-foot uh wood fence is what is required between residential.

I think somebody said eight foot, but six foot is typically required uh between residential properties.

Commissioner Carter would thank you, Commissioner Carter.

Because it is res it's RM12 residential, and then there's RS5 on one side, and then I think it's RS 7.2.

No, it's it's RS 7.2 all the way around.

RS5 to the south and the west, and then in that northwest is uh RMF RMF 22.

I think it's duplex is built there.

So the requirement uh according to our unified development code is a six-foot fence.

This would be a six-foot fence.

Okay.

Commissioner Carter, what do you think about that?

Even where the pharmacy is is would that be because it's RMF 22 behind it?

That would exclude the the pharmacies uh behind the pharmacy being only six.

I believe they have an option for a six or eight where there's commercial adjacent to residential.

Okay.

I'd be okay with six.

Yes, I would be okay with six too, but I just it's um it I just really couldn't imagine doing this caliber of a project with using the existing fences, but no, I I agree with you.

Um other questions at this time comments.

I have a question uh just because I want to make sure every one of these units has a backyard, correct?

Yes, and those backyards are gonna be divided between each other.

Gonna be a fence between the along the property line.

And how how long will the how to those fences be in?

Six foot.

And what will they be constructed of?

Uh it's the wooden fence.

Okay.

All right.

Very good.

Okay.

All right.

So I just want you, I want to make sure you understand, based on uh what what you just heard, that part of what you what's your uh owner will be required to establish as a homeowners association.

Okay.

Uh and the that will then the dues for that will be needed will need to be taken into consideration when you do your rent structure because those dues are going to go into the homeowners association to maintain that private drive to maintain the fences.

And to maintain whatever open space you have for whatever company is going to come through and mow it and keep the trees alive and watered and all that and all that other stuff.

All right.

Any other questions about the commissioners?

Okay.

Mr.

Nguyen, thank you.

Is there anyone else here to speak in favor of this project?

Is there anyone here that is uh wants to speak opposing this project?

I don't see any cards.

Okay, so before I close the uh uh this uh public part of the meeting, Mr.

Duane, did you have any final comments?

All right, thank you very much.

I'll entertain a motion at this time.

I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Blake.

I have a second by Commissioner Sumter.

Commissioner Blake, would you please state your motion?

I would like to make a motion to approve PD 24-28, 5920 Matlock Road with any staff considerations in the addition of the requirement of the HOA and ensuring that the HOA is the one to maintain the perimeter fencing.

And you wanted to make sure that we have a six-foot fence surrounding the property?

Yes, sir.

And uh we're allowing uh staff and the applicant to change the location of the dumpster from where it is in the rendering.

Yes, sir.

Is that also part of your motion?

Add the word cedar to the fencing.

It's inferior products just won't last.

But I think the cedar will be cedar fencing.

Cedar fencing, okay.

Commissioner Sumter.

And could I also ask the uh motion maker to amend to relocate the dumpster and get rid of the drive on the backside to allow for the landscape buffer to be in place?

Yes, sir.

That is my amendment.

That is that is your motion.

Okay.

Commissioner Sumter, since you're the second, is that also your second?

Yeah, yes, sir.

And staff has that all jotted down?

Yes, sir.

Very good.

Cast your vote.

Motion passes five to two.

Thank you, Mr.

Duane, for your business.

Good luck on your endeavor.

Next, um we're gonna move on to the next item on our agenda.

PD 25-19 addressed at approximately 2504 South Cooper.

This is an application for approval of a change in zoning from community commercial to planned development for community commercial uses plus auto repair major, limited to aesthetic and customization work on approximately 1.177 acres.

This time staff will present.

Good evening, commissioners.

For the record, Alex Van Amberg, planner, planning and development services presenting PD 25-19.

The site is approximately 1.177 acres, addressed as 2504 South Cooper Street, currently zoned community commercial.

The applicant is requesting a planned development for community commercial uses plus auto repair garage major use, which will be limited to aesthetic and customization work only.

The site is located west of South Cooper Street.

Here are some images of the surrounding uses.

The view west is directly behind the subject property and actually gets access from the subject property, developed with an industrial building which houses commercial automotive and industrial uses.

Here's an aerial image of the site.

The site is currently developed with a single commercial building.

It does contain two suites.

Both of those suites are currently vacant.

In September, the applicant applied for a CO at this property, asking for auto vinyl sales.

That application was denied.

Per our zoning administrator, vinyl auto wraps have been determined to fall under the zoning use type, auto repair garage major, which is not a permitted use in the currently zoned community commercial.

Some background on auto repair garage major uses.

They are allowed by right in industrial manufacturing and by right and light industrial if that lease space is greater than 200 feet from the right-of-way.

It's allowed with SUP approval in light industrial if it is closer than 200 feet.

So this request will be for auto repair garage major, which is limited to only aesthetic and customization services.

Those services would include vinyl wrapping, upholstery, paintless stent repair, custom wheels, window tinting, audio system installation, prohibited uses, which would typically be allowed in auto repair garage major, would be painting or use of any sort of paint booths or spray painting of vehicles or vehicle parts, collision repair or reconditioning services, car washing or detailing services, or uses that would fall under auto service center, which would be things like oil change, inspections, and tire shops.

These proposed and prohibited uses would be clearly outlined in the plan development ordinance.

The following standards do apply to auto repair garage major uses, as uh these are currently outlined in our UDC.

All work must be conducted entirely within an enclosed building.

Uh any outdoor storage or display of products is not permitted, and service bays must not be visible from the public right-of-way.

The applicant does agree to all of these standards.

The existing two bay doors for this building are located in the rear and are not uh visible from South Cooper Street.

Here you can see the front of the building from South Cooper Street.

Required parking for this use type is two spaces for per 1,000 square feet of floor area.

That would be about 20 parking spaces.

Uh they are providing 37 parking spaces.

12 of these parking spaces are in the rear of the building and cannot be seen from South Cooper Street.

They have also recently repaved the parking surface and restriped.

The site was developed in 1972.

Uh, this was prior to the current UDC landscape standards, so the site is not in compliance with the current minimum landscape requirements.

Those landscape requirements in the current UDC would be a 15-foot landscape buffer and associated plantings along South Cooper Street.

There are also two existing non-conforming pole signs on the property.

Uh, the applicant has agreed to remove those pole signs.

The pole signs would have to be removed before staff would uh issue a certificate of occupancy.

Staff considerations include adding landscaping and irrigation along South Cooper Street to improve the landscaping and the look of the front of that property.

The comprehensive plan uh designates this area as established residential, uh, which is comprised of commercial uses and some light industrial uses.

The proposed development may be seen to advance the following strategies, such as promoting land use patterns that reflects a mix of integrated community uses, encouraging appropriate redevelopment and investment of uh existing sites, and continuing to require street scape improvements as a part of new developments and redevelopments.

The site is also within the South Cooper Corridor strategy.

Um it is in zone two of the strategy, which the vision for that zone is for small business innovation district, and certain objectives that should be taken into consideration is exploring a business innovation district strategy, um, establishing well-connected street grid and improving access to work for day laborers in the corridor.

So the allowed uses uh in the community commercial zoning district are here on the screen.

Uh all of these uses would be allowed, plus that auto repair garage major limited to the custom and aesthetic uh use.

Applicant is David Dowling and the owner is Johnson Creek Partners.

Staff has received two letters of opposition, and staff is available for any questions.

Thank you very much.

At this time, the staff have any additional questions.

Thank you very much.

At this time, I'll open the public hearing and call for the first speaker.

So if the applicant would please come forward.

Please identify yourself by name and city of residence only.

We don't need your address.

My name is David Dowling, Arlington, Texas.

Thank you, sir.

Umundamentally what we're doing is uh taking the old Kellymore slash furniture mart and giving it some newer uses.

Um I guess the oh no.

There we go.

Oh, this is kind of an example of what we're proposing as far as one tenant.

It's two suites 2504, 2506.

Um 2506 is earmarked for Jay-Z wraps, and here's a sampling of some of the work that he does.

JC, do you want to talk about this?

I don't know if that matters as far as your cards.

Okay.

My name is Hajar Cindy and uh Arlington, Texas.

Um, pretty much what we do is cars come in and we just freshen them up, give them a new look.

This car, the finish on it is uh called satin black.

And what that is is just it's like a vinyl wrap.

Um so that one actually came in white, and we put the sleek new wrap on it and pretty much just styled it up.

Um clients like to use their cars nowadays to kind of express who they are and and fix them up a little bit.

I feel like nowadays people take their cars more and more uh or they treat them more and more like dearly to themselves and and how they want to show them off and stuff like that.

So yeah, that's pretty much what we do.

I mean, simply put, cars come in, we clean them up, make them look better, or make them look how the client wants it to look, and then they roll out.

Uh we don't do anything heavy mechanical, we don't tear them apart, we don't you know get oily and greasy.

The cleaner our environment is the the better our business will do.

The better it looks, the better the business will do, and that's something that uh clients really look for when they're looking for a wrap shop, is something that looks nice and tidy, looks good from the inside, off uh good from the outside.

And then this is another uh commercial rep we did.

The van was already black.

This is for Via of Arlington.

Um they literally just came in and within a day we put the blue stripe on it, the blue Arlington on demand, and obviously there are their logo and stuff like that.

We actually have a contract with them, so we've done probably 30 to 40 vans for them in the past year.

And then this is uh car that's just customized, obviously.

It's uh it's one of the neuro Corvettes.

It came in white.

We put a candy red wrap on it.

Uh, he got some new wheels and pretty much ready to roll.

And then in the back, you can see obviously like rolls of wrap and just kind of displaying what we do.

It has to be uh, you can see there's a uh AC unit as well.

We have three in that one.

Um it has to be climate controlled, which is huge.

So just overall, it's it's a very nice and friendly environment.

And then our current location on uh uh Arkansas, this is what it's looking like uh from the outside.

Obviously, it's not necessarily the prettiest thing, but this is also something that's not on a main road.

Um this is kind of tucked away behind a few different buildings, so this is what it looks like.

Um, but yeah, it's still fairly clean.

You know, we have the turf in the front and signs and stuff, marking stuff like that.

Uh that's pretty much yeah.

Go ahead.

Thank you, Jay-Z.

Thank you.

Okay, um, Alex did an awesome job giving you the adjacent uses.

Um, I'm gonna go through them very, very quickly.

Um I guess uh we need to uh okay.

So obviously that's our site directly to the north.

Um being that is uh the glacier wind uh window tinning, whose uh PDs actually LB, I guess back in the day it was local business, which has since conformed to after a few iterations to the new CC, but it's still that PD was issued for those folks to our direct north that's there.

Um directly ahead of that would be Southwest Classics.

These folks specialize in uh classic truck parts and accessories, which you can't get off the shelf at AutoZone or O'Reilly's.

Um further to the north of that is the Popeyes, which used to be that old eyesore Chinese restaurant.

To the southwest is tire shop.

Further south than that would be another PD that was done back in the 70s.

B then, yeah.

As Alex pointed out on the other side of the street is uh the burger box with the Pecan Plaza kind of nestled in behind it, uh, which is all retail again, more CC.

Um and then the other thing that I wanted to point out, which didn't really quite make it.

The closest resident uh would be uh this nestling of duplexes off of Mirabelle.

That's about 1800 feet away.

And I will give it now to Tom S, the owner of Johnson Creek Properties LP.

Remember to state your name in your city.

Hello, my name's Tom Mast.

Uh, I'm the owner of the property and I live in Fort Worth, Texas.

Uh I'd like to bring up a couple things.

Uh one, I think as David's kind of stated, that neighborhood were kind of appropriate for that neighborhood and what's in there local to us right away.

Uh also I'd like to state that uh so some of these businesses that we're talking about, the rap business, the PDR business, these uh internet customization of cars, all those businesses didn't really exist back in the day.

These are kind of the new tech businesses, and I don't think they're given a fair shake as far as allowing uh these businesses to be in community commercial.

We're not asking that they're in community commercial, but I think I'm just saying that these businesses are super clean and uh they kind of deserve to be in that neighborhood that's in CC, but we are asking for the PD.

Then my other comment is that uh sorry, I'm gonna written down.

Uh I think the city feels that the way to identify this property is auto garage major with these limited to uh automotive aesthetic work.

And I feel this is kind of unfairly representing the property because uh I'm afraid that that word major just freaks people out, right?

So uh there's uh also another uh use uh in commercial, and it's called automotive service center.

It's those are the two main ones auto garage major and automotive service center.

So I was gonna read through what automotive service center is, but it's it's it allows you to work on cars.

I have it written here, I'm not gonna, I'm just gonna paraphrase it.

It allows you to work on vehicles uh under 10,000 pounds, it allows you to do maintenance on them, services, uh it allows you to do everything like that, everything but what is listed specifically in the use auto repair garage major.

So in that specific, Alex had it up in that use auto repair garage major.

There are four specific uses.

One's reconditioning, one's collision services.

Now we are asking for PDR work, which is uh dent and ding, it's pentless, paintless dent repair, it's how you massage out dents.

We really don't feel like it's collision related, it's more aesthetic related.

They also have the one Alex mentioned, which is overall painting of vehicles, and then the last one is dismantling of motor vehicles.

And uh I'm not sure why the city has classified PDR work into automotive major, but they have.

So that's why they feel like they need to identify this as auto major with limitations.

But if I read the dismantling section, the only thing I see in there is you can't dismantle, but we're not dismantling, we're disassembling some stuff.

We're taking off a mirror or a bumper or something that when we do this wrap work, or if they do PDR work, or if we're putting a wheel on a car.

So if I look up the word dismantling in the Webster's dictionary, because it is not defined in the UDC, uh, it says to uh dismantling the Webster is defined as to take two pieces.

So that's what the word dismantling means in Webster's dictionary.

Then if I look up two pieces, it says completely.

So you know you've got about 36.

Okay, we are not taking a park completely.

We're not reconditioning, we're not doing collision repair, we're not painting the overall thing, and we're not dismantling completely.

So we don't deserve the maniker moniker auto major.

So I would request that we use the term C C with auto service center than with those limitations that we ask for.

Well I will um I just think it would be the city council will be more agreeable to it.

I think everybody would be more agreeable if those words were used.

What you've pointed out is something we actually talked about upstairs.

Uh amendments to our unified development code.

And your the very beginning of your comment was was the most impactful.

The white technology has been advancing in every aspect of our lives.

You are describing a service that isn't what I would consider major automotive repair.

It's sort of cosmetic.

Yeah, so you have to disassemble.

The problem we have is that today, tonight, the only thing we can work with is what we have on our books.

So our UDC, even though it may not be uh, even though it is outdated for this particular thing tonight, you really don't want to change your request because if you ask to change your request, this process stops and you don't get a vote tonight.

Okay.

Okay.

So that and that's that's the warning I want to give you.

I agree with you in just about almost everything you said, uh, and I can understand your frustration.

But tonight we have to work with what we got.

Okay.

And so I can tell you, I'm looking at this in a very favorable way.

I'm speaking for myself now, not for the commissioners as a whole, but myself personally.

I like this project.

We're going to talk about some other stuff in a little bit.

Because it's a I looked at those pictures and went, wow, I didn't know you could do that to a car.

I mean, I didn't.

And I think it's a great product.

Uh and it's fast, it's easy, uh, or relatively fast.

Well, there's some other questions you're going to get a little a little later on.

But you don't want to change your request tonight, sir.

Okay.

Let us get past this.

Let's hopefully you'll get a positive vote and you'll get to do what you want to do.

And then I want staff to take notes.

We really do need to look at the UDC and change what we're doing.

Uh I don't know when we were going to do an amendment, but we need to look at what the definition of auto major repair is and look at the new definition of automotive service area of automotive service.

What does that really mean in today's world with the services that that are available?

And so you brought up a really great point, and I thank you for that.

But please don't say you want to do something different because you won't get a vote tonight.

Okay.

Yeah.

No, I agree.

I think those some of these services that didn't even exist when this code book was written are now available and assets to the community.

Okay.

Any other questions of this particular person or any of the others that have been up here?

Oh, we got a lot of questions.

Okay.

Let's start down on that end.

Okay.

Uh, Commissioner Sumter.

And you may you guys may want to come up here just in case you've got a better answer, just to save some time.

Yeah, thank you for your presentation and thank you for bringing your business to Arlington.

I think it looks awesome.

Thank you.

Got me thinking of wow, I can bring my vehicles to you.

Yeah.

Um in the staff report, there's one staff consideration in regards to the removing the polls, which we've heard you're amenable to doing that.

I can remove the poll signs.

What's your take on adding the landscaping along Cooper Street?

Well, we're concerned that the landscaping, the grass that's there is in the text dot right away.

Uh I'm willing to do something with the landscaping.

Uh I think uh uh Mr.

Blake recommended doing some like cactus or something.

We don't have water there currently, uh, which would we just repave the parking lot.

Uh I would hate to have to put uh tear the parking lot up.

We just repaved it.

Um I'm I'm willing to do something, uh, but uh you know I'd like it, it'd be a lot easier if I didn't have to uh put uh irrigation there.

Uh we could do like rocks or some boulders or something, or uh some uh plants that don't require a lot of irrigation.

Yeah, because I agree with you, the the paving looks great, right?

It looks brand new.

And it's the area painted to then restriped, but there's kind of some odd spaces to where you really can't park, right?

Right there in the front.

At least based on the aerial I've seen.

So data is uh we were told that the landscape required if you had nose in parking, whatever that means.

Now I think nose in parking means parking nose in on Cooper Street.

That lot before we restriped had nose in parking.

It now no longer has any nose in parking.

We remove that from the lot in an attempt to get around the screening issue.

Uh, but I can't remember the code book exactly if that did relieve that problem or not, David.

Do you remember?

Because it does not noise any longer.

Okay, so I think we might have solved also the landscaping requirement by eliminating no.

Let me let me let me interject here uh because there's something that you don't know.

Okay.

Um and that's why we're gonna we're gonna push.

We're gonna push you really hard on it.

This landscaping issue.

And here's why.

That I've lived here since 1971.

I grew up in Fort Worth, but that road, that particular section of Cooper has been divided up into three or four subsections.

And we now have this long-term plan.

It's called the Cooper Master Plan, and you are in that Cooper Master Plan.

And that's why you saw in the presentation some of the things that were there.

We want your business number one to be successful, but number two, we want you to add to the change in the visible atmosphere of that corridor.

Okay.

We're asking you in a planned development.

This body and city council both have both in this city both have the ability to push you to do more than you had originally planned because we want it to look good and because we have that leverage to be quite blunt.

Okay.

That's what I'm asking for.

What we're gonna hear.

We really want that landscaping.

We can be creative, we can you can minimize the cost, but we don't want you to leave it alone.

It's gotta change.

Okay.

Okay.

Uh Commissioner Commissioner Scepter, were you through?

Uh Commissioner Carter.

Okay.

So uh again, like uh Dr.

Nunez, I really like the the business model.

It's uh I think it's a very needed uh thing that you're gonna have good success with, and it's I think it fits the neighborhood really well there because I was auction I was actually on the Cooper Street corridor study a couple years ago, and I I liked it.

I like this kind of stuff.

Um but I'm confused on the who are you gonna be leasing both suites of the building?

No, it's just the one on the left.

Just one side, the one on the left.

So you as the building owner, what do you you'll so you'll be marketing the the south the north suite to another possible tenant?

Yeah, we already have a guy on, yeah, obviously.

And that's the paintless dent re is that uh we do have a guy he's not in that he he meets the CC use.

Okay.

So uh you're you're are you Alex, right?

Is your name Alex?

Uh yeah.

No, my name is Hajar Hajar Sendy.

Oh okay, sorry.

Um you do uh paintless dent repair also.

I don't, I just do vinyl reps.

Where did the okay, where did the paintless dent repair come into?

When we ask for this PD request.

Of course, this is for a long-term uh request, right?

We're not just asking it for one individual business or just that one individual unit.

So we feel like this is uh an acceptable use for this community in this area.

So we're gonna ask for what we can get.

We feel like the PDR business is very similar, very clean.

Uh automotive upholstery business, very similar, very clean.

Uh the electronics business, very similar, very clean.

What what was the other ones where not PDR for sure?

I believe that you're that uh some uses very suitable, but the I think the PDR business is a is its whole unique animal on its own.

I mean, it's just pretty invasive body work that gets done to a car with lots of tools and lots of noise and will you be altering the the back end of the property to to move the cars in, or where's is there already a drive?

Both units have overhead doors in the back already.

Okay, so someone clarify from what is PDR?

Paintless dent repair.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, I don't have to do that.

Before they basically massage out the dents instead of having to do extensive body work to a car.

Okay.

Uh I don't know if it's big enough to get a car in, but there is an existing door there too.

But where they're planning to use uh the door in the back of the property, the overhead existing overhead door that's in the back of the property.

Okay.

Okay, so the um so uh my deal is uh maybe this is a question for staff is uh the vinyl wrap business.

Uh I wish you the best on that.

I think it's gonna work.

I think it's gonna be a clean business for that street, it's gonna brighten it up.

Um, but I think if we go in with the PDR stuff, it's gonna be just another look like another body shop.

A lot of times the PDR places they're very mobile looking anyways.

Uh they you know, they kind of like follow the hill storms and so I'd uh you know, after a hill storm, there could be cars lined up and down the street for to enter the parking lot there.

So I don't know.

I think maybe that's why PDR has a different status in the UDC for the because it is it is a different, it is it is different from your from by you know your wrapping business.

Um the PDR business could affect his wrapping business.

It could affect his ability to have his customers park to stop by and to check on it.

He he's gonna want walk-in customers.

So but so that's maybe what we're what my question is for staff is how does this one PD affect both suites?

If we're so we're basically giving both suites the ability to do uh these other more invasive types of businesses.

You wanna answer that?

Yes, the PD lists the uses and the prohibited uses is what we're proposing.

Yeah, and it could be two paintless dent repair, it could be two car wraps, not that they locate next to each other, but it it encompasses the whole lot.

It could be two automobiles.

Or it could just be trucks or one, they might eliminate one suite and become one whole business, take up the whole building.

And we really don't want a PD that are so restrictive that it only allows one use.

We want to have some flexibility.

We feel those businesses we've got uh those businesses in our business park already in the back, and they they are a different breed from the body shop that you see, they are significantly different.

They don't sand, they don't paint, they really don't take anything apart.

And uh, you know, granted all the body shops get more business after a hail storm, that's for sure.

But you know, we have restrictions on the parking, and we're willing to abide by those rules.

Thank you.

Commissioner Winkles.

Thank you.

So first and foremost, um, I love what you've done at Jay-Z Wraps and Doward and Gardens.

I frequent the guest park a lot, and it's very well maintained, and your property is always clean.

Thank you.

And that says a lot about your tenant relationship with the owners there.

Um, which brings me to my question.

So the building that you own right now currently has been vacant for a while, and as a constituent of the South Street Corridor, South Cooper Street Corridor, I drive past that twice a day guaranteed, because my house is just south of there.

Um the parking lot has become truly a sales lot on Saturdays and Sundays.

Oh what?

Not since you've paved it.

I haven't seen it.

A for sale lot?

People park their cars for sale.

So that is something that concerns all of the people on this commission.

Is that is that going to be addressed?

Are you going to put parking for business only?

Are you gonna enforce it?

How are you gonna what kind of guidelines do you have to do that?

Number one.

Number two, do you own the complex behind you as well?

No, because that is truly commercial, and there's tons of light industrial car, there's car repair shops going on back there, and I have a feeling a lot of the cars in your lot on the weekends come from their lots.

So that would be my second thing.

Um I understand the full aspect of wrapping a vehicle and how it works.

It is by appointment only.

You miss your appointment, you pay for a missed appointment, just like you do at the doctor's office, it's very specific because y'all make your money that way.

PR is very much the same way nowadays.

It used to not be in it very much as that way by a good PDR person.

So I appreciate the concept.

The second question that I have for you is what do you plan on doing to the exterior of the building?

It's very dated.

Uh we've repainted uh the awning now.

So we just recently repainted the awning.

Of course, we repaved, we restriped, we put in curb stops.

We've uh up to the extent we can, we've uh renovated the inside.

Actually, the Kelly Moore half was in really good shape.

They had just done a renovation on it before they moved out.

Uh, but we've cleaned that up, and then we've also cleaned up the furniture mart.

Uh the signage is gonna be replaced on the front of the building.

The the furniture mart sign is already down, and the Kelly Moore sign, I think they're gonna change the inserts in it is the plan if and when they get in.

Uh, you know, if I absolutely had to do something else, uh possibly a facade, a better facade or something like that, we could do that.

But we have put gutters up now, so there's gutters up over the awning, so they before it would just drip rain down through the awning.

We've uh installed lights under the awning now.

Uh they're not on because we don't have power, and we've also uh installed uh light packs on the exterior of the building to like those are some cosmetic things that are gonna benefit the property and the aesthetics of that parking lot, or excuse me, that lot on South Cooper, and hopefully we'll encourage your neighbors to the south of you to improve their aesthetics as well because we file a lot of code compliance with them.

Yeah, and we could work with them too.

That that would lead into where you could tie in some of that.

I mean, you you're right, you do have the tech stock buffer where there's this little strip of grass that doesn't survive because there's no water.

However, maybe you could turf it, maybe you could add some planner boxes out of stone along there that you can car change out through the seasons.

It's not expensive project, but it would add some aesthetically pleasing entrance to that shopping center that you're developing here for cars.

That's a great idea.

Yeah, that's our just a few things and some planners along the outside of the building on the sidewalk.

No, you don't have front basement parking, but you do right there by the building.

And I think that once you improve improve those aspects of the parking lot and create a this is a shopping center that we don't want you parking your cars here to sell on the weekends, some of that will change too.

So I think you for what you're bringing.

I think it is an improved project.

Thank you.

I I think that's probably the problem.

I mean, I'm I'm not aware of cars being put up for sale in that parking lot.

So I I'm not aware of that, so I haven't noticed that yet.

But once the tenants are in there, they they will know it and they'll let us know, and those cars will be towed.

Yeah.

Good.

Commissioner Blank.

So don't get any ideas, you can't charge rent for the cars up front for sale.

Um and I'll apologize to you before I say this because you know, by you improving that facade and putting in some landscaping and things like that, you know, hopefully you'll be able to start increasing your rent.

Not on him, but the next guy that comes in.

You can increase the rent there.

But it's gonna make all the people around you start having to up their game a little bit to keep their tenants, and that's the whole purpose of moving forward with this.

That's why we want you to put something out there.

And I don't think I told you to put cactus, but I'd be okay with that.

No, no, sorry.

If it was okay with I like the idea of a carpet.

If it's okay with the UDC, I'm even amenable to a nice rock sculpture or something like that out there.

And if I hadn't just repaved, I probably would have been up for putting a water line out there.

Well, I don't want to make you do that, but I want you to commit to making sure that you work with the staff to have some sort of boundary there that looks good.

Absolutely.

As well as doing some sort of like a repaint is and certainly doing a little bit of additional facing on that.

Do where it doesn't look like it's fresh out of the 70s with new paint.

You know, everybody can put lipstick on a pig, how do we change it?

But the the other thing that I want to make sure of, because you have all those windows there.

I don't want to drive by and see a bunch of signage plastered in those windows.

I really want to see something that's professional.

I know you may have some sort of thing in inside that shows something, but I hate driving by these little stores and things like that that put special going out of business, all that all that mess.

It just looks tacky.

And I want Arlington to look better.

And I think your idea is great.

Uh I'm for it.

So make those those concessions, and I think we're good.

Absolutely.

Commissioner Ware.

I can usually show up.

Creative zone.

Right.

Um we definitely want you here.

Uh I think everybody's pretty much covered anything I could possibly say.

Uh so uh I hope that you will agree to do the landscaping as as well as we can do it uh for the city to to make that look really nice.

Again, we are trying to make that a much uh more welcoming corridor there.

We you know, I own uh several properties in that area, and I was telling Mr.

Blake that when we have a full-time maintenance man that's very productive, and my one order to him is you know, every time you do a job, you know, when you leave, make it a little better.

You know, don't just fix stuff, try to make it better, and he's really passionate about that, and we always leave things looking nicer than it did when we got there, and we pick up trash religiously.

Uh, you know, we're we're as concerned about that neighborhood.

We've repainted buildings over there, you know.

We we do MO religiously, so we try to uh we try to work uh to try to make that neighborhood look good, that street look good.

Well any other questions, comments?

Okay.

Um before we uh is there anyone else here that want that wants to speak in uh uh on this particular uh case that's in favor of it?

Okay, let me read a few names here.

Andrew Mast, you are in support.

Where are you, Andrew?

Thank you.

Uh I have uh Zara Cindy, that's you.

All right, Tom Mast.

That's you, and Judy Mast.

That's you, you're in support.

Thank you.

Uh with that, thank you.

Uh is there anyone anyone here who wants to speak in opposition?

Saying none, I'm gonna close.

Uh wait a minute, before I do that, does do any of the commissioners have any other questions of the applicant or questions of staff?

Let's see if I get lucky.

At this time, I'm going to close the uh public hearing and ask for a motion.

I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Winkles.

Commissioner Winkles.

Sorry?

Oh, sure.

Uh Commissioner Carter, please ask your question.

Um Do I need to reopen the public session?

No, no, it's it's for you and staff.

Okay.

So we're this motion possibly is gonna be uh what are the what are the allowed uses that we're gonna give this location this PD?

Um they're on that slide, and if you if you have it let Alex repeat that for you um so proposed uses would include vinyl wrapping, upholstery, paintless dent repair, custom wheels, window tinting, and audio installation.

Okay.

Sounds good.

Okay, thank you.

Anything else, Commissioner Carter?

You're you good?

Commissioner Winkles, would you please state sorry?

I just I just heard custom wheels, so I just will make sure you can't change a tire out in the middle of the parking lot.

No, no, I think it would potentially sales, but no work would be able to be done outside.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah.

Nothing can be allowed outside, correct?

Yeah, correct.

Yeah, it all has to be done inside inside the building.

Okay.

With that, let me try again.

Commissioner Winkles, would you state your motion?

Yes, I'd like to make a motion to approve PD 2519 at 2504 South Cooper Street.

Forum, a CC plan development to community commercial uses, plus auto repair major limited to aesthetic and customization work.

With the addition of some landscape.

Amenities to be provided.

And the removal of the poll signs.

Yes, sir.

Please remove your poll signs.

Additional work on that facility.

And when an additional work on the facade to make it look amazing.

Some cosmetic upgrades to the exterior of your property, please.

That's a good way to word it.

Commissioner Sumter, is that your second?

Uh yes, sir.

Cast your votes.

Motion passes seven to nothing.

Congratulations.

We look forward to your business here.

And I mean it.

Thank you for bringing that topic up about the automotive technology.

We really need to look at our definitions, and that is going to be a future agenda item for us to change uh how we how we describe those.

Thank you very much for your business.

Finally, on our agenda last item on the agenda tonight.

Shorewood Court.

This is an application for approval of a specific use permit for a secondary living unit on a property zone, residential single family 7.2.

At this time, if staff would please present its report.

Good evening, Commissioners.

For the record, Cecilia Nelson, Senior Planner, Planning and Development Services.

Here to present SUP 25-8.

The subject site is approximately 0.851 acres and addressed as 3409 Shorewood Court.

The property is zoned residential single family 7.2.

The property is generally located north of Shorewood Drive and west of Perkins Road.

All surrounding parcels are zoned residential single family 7.2 and developed with single family homes.

The setbacks exceed the minimum required.

Staff is available for any questions.

Are there any questions of staff at this time?

Seeing none.

At this time, I'll open up the uh public session and call for the first speaker.

So if the applicant would please come forward and present your case.

I'm not worried.

I'm just ready to go home, as I'm sure you guys are as well.

Um city, please.

Miranda Lamb, uh Arlington.

And it is what it looks like.

Um my dad is retired, would like to downsize, be near the family.

Um so he would love to build this with proceeds from the cell of his home.

Um future considerations.

My brother, you can see in the photo and presentation, has special needs.

So down the road when my dad no longer resides in the unit.

We plan to have my brother move in.

He currently lives with my mom.

Um that's really it in a nutshell.

We've got a growing family, so we have two daughters, and we're in the process of adopting, so building a separate unit is preferable versus uh an addition to the home questions.

Thank you.

Is there anyone else here that would like to speak in favor?

Uh I have Jeff Carey.

Uh you're uh you're here.

Uh it says here you're in support as a speaker.

Did you want to say anything?

Uh only if needed.

If you do, you do do need to do it on the microphone so we can record you.

Otherwise, you're good.

Okay.

Very good.

Uh is there anyone here that is uh opposed.

Any final comments?

No.

Thank you for your time.

Oh, sure.

Mr.

Blake.

I think the last two or three of these that have come up, I voted against them.

Umly, I see a lot that looks like it can accommodate it.

Truly.

And the story.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yep.

At this time, I'll close the public session.

You may sit down.

Is there any uh is there a motion?

I have a motion by Commissioner Ware.

I have a second by Commissioner Finley.

Commissioner Ware, would you please state your motion?

I'd like to move for the approval of SUP 25-8, 3409 Shorewood Court for the approval of a specific use permit for a secondary living unit on the property zone residential single family 7.2.

Commissioner Finley, is that your second?

Yes, it is.

Cast your vote.

Motion passed seven to nothing.

Congratulations.

You can go ahead and get going once you've finished once you do everything staff tells you to do.

Oh, is that right?

You're fine.

It's Mr.

Maddox.

Oh, sure.

I thought you wanted back because I was like, wow, I didn't know I was in the wind, but that's awesome.

No, no, but I was I was telling you to sit up here.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, excuse me.

Are there any other reports from any commissions or any announcements?

No.

No.

With that, uh let me remind all of us that we uh meet again.

When do we meet again?

I'm already putting it.

January the 14th.

And this uh public session of the Planning Zonic Commission is hereby adjourned.

Thank you very much.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year.