With that, I believe we're all signed in.

So again, I call this regularly noticed meeting of the uh planning and zoning commission for the city of Arlington for January the 14th, 2026 into session.

Period.

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First item of business for our regular session is the approval of the minutes of December the 17th, 2025.

Were there any changes or corrections that were needed?

Hearing none, uh, do I have a motion to approve the minutes?

I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Winkles.

I have a second by Commissioner Blake.

Cast your vote, please.

Motion is approved, eight to nothing with one abstention.

Next on our agenda, we have two zoning cases.

The first case.

Yeah, no, hold on just a minute.

It's down here at the bottom.

Yeah.

One little sentence.

Okay.

PD 25-14 addressed approximately at 1112 North Collins Street.

This is an application for approval of a change in zoning from community commercial to planned development for community commercial uses plus a package liquor store within an existing building on a site of approximately 0.86 acres.

At this time, I will call on staff to present its report on zoning case PD 25-14.

Excuse me, we can't hear you.

Now you're on.

Thank you.

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

We have for you PD 25-14 addressed at 1112 North Collins Street.

Again, this is a 0.907-acre site, uh currently zone EDO community commercial with a request for a plan development for EDO community commercial uses plus a package liquor store.

And this is just the UDC's uh definition for a package liquor store as an established license by the state for the retail sale of liquor, malt, and venous liquors for off-premises consumption.

Again, this is the site location.

It's located, excuse me, uh along North Collins Street, uh less than a little less than a quarter mile north of uh ATT Stadium.

Again, these are the site photos, it's uh with it being located on uh North Collins Street is surrounded uh mostly by commercial developments with some residential uh developments across uh North Collins Street.

And again, this is the overall uh site location, just with highlighted here.

Uh what we're uh the PD is for is for this just specifically for this uh 2400 square foot site within this center that is currently a C store.

Uh the existing center again is uh 11,98 square feet center uh with various uses, uh restaurants, barber and styling salon offices, and this convenience use.

Hours of operation will be Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m.

to 9 p.m.

Uh, with two to six employees on site at any given time.

And again, based on the UDC requirements per all the uses, existing uses in the site, or and with the change if if approved for the package liquor store, the site does meet all the current minimum UDC parking requirements based on the uses in the center.

Yeah, this is just a site layout to showing the different uh units um uses on the site.

It does have access to access points uh off of North Collins Street to the existing center.

And then these are the packaged liquor stores uh within a two-mile radius of the site, uh, within the one mile, you have two packaged liquor stores.

There are actually four within the two mile radius.

This is just uh the coordination of uh consideration uh with coordination of other plans to evaluate the development proposal in context with existing infrastructure, connectivity and some mounting uses.

Encourage uh appropriate redevelopment and reinvestment, encourage uh the redevelopment of aging shopping centers uh with high vacancy rates.

And again, the staff recommendations if approved uh for consideration is uh staff recommends requiring the applicant to remove any of the illegal signage in the windows and bring the site into compliance with clean, visually appropriate and well designed signage, and additionally the gaps and shrugs along uh Collins Street uh be filled with more shrubs, and the applicant has agreed uh you know to add additional landscaping uh within that landscape setback uh buffer area along North Collins Street.

And we did receive you should have one letter of opposition we received uh in in the packet, and we did receive another one today uh after posting that you should have as well, and in speaking with the applicant prior to, I provided a list of signatures, which uh the applicant is is prepared to explain.

And the applicant is our Kimmy Development Partners represented the owner is Nayep family staff.