The Arlington Planning and Zoning Commission met in regular session on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, at 5:43 PM in the City Hall Council Chamber. All nine commissioners were present: Chairperson Nunez, Commissioners Blake, Sumpter, Finley, Ware, Winkles, Greer, Carter, and Maddox. The commission considered three zoning cases: a cottage community, a townhouse development, and a mixed-use development. Two cases were continued to June 3, 2026, and one was approved with conditions.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Dr. Ignacio Nunez. I serve as chair of the Planning 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 April the 15th. At this time, I'll ask our administrator to read the speaker guidelines and general decorum for tonight's meeting. 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. 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. A consideration of other speakers, please conclude your comments promptly when you hear the bell. We ask that you address your comments to the planning and zoning commissioners. Thank you very much. Were there any changes or corrections that were needed seeing none to have a motion to approve? I do by Commissioner Maddox. I have a second by Commissioner Greer. Cast your vote, please. Motion passes 8 to nothing with one abstention. Next on the agenda, we have three zoning cases this evening. The first one is PD 14 17, addressed at 2002 wind terrace. This is application for approval of a planned development for residential and medium density, RM12 for a cottage community with a development plan on approximately 2.035 acres. This time I'll call on staff to present its report on zoning case PD 14-17. Good evening, Commissioners for the record. Principal plan Kevin Charles, Principal Planner, Planning and Development Services. This afternoon, we're looking at PD 25-17 wind terrace. This is a request for a cottage community. The site is approximately two point, the site is approximately two acres in size, addressed at 2002 wind terrace. The current zoning of the property is residential single family 7.2. And the request is plan development for residential medium density RM12 for cottage community use with a development plan. So this is an aerial photograph of the site in its current configuration, highlighted in yellow. As you can see, all of the properties to the north, the west, and the south are all zone RS 7.2 and fully developed. The property to the east is uh PD for RMF 22. Uh the site is developed uh in a similar manner as Cottage Communities. However, when this particular site went through our zoning process, uh we did not have our cottage community standards in place. Therefore, it was processed under a PD for RM22, uh, which is uh multi multifamily zoning. These are aerial photographs of the site uh which show a general uh transition from its original configuration to where it is now. Uh the general area of the subject property was largely undeveloped until single family homes were constructed in the early 1950s to the north of the site. By 1964, uh many new homes were built south of the site. The church to the west was built in in the 1980s. In 2022, as I mentioned before, PD 22-16 was approved for RMF 22 development for 12 cottage style units. The aerial images provide an overview of how the area evolved from the 1950s to the present. Since we have had our ordinance in place. Starting in the upper left-hand corner and moving clockwise. Also, to access the property in the rear in the rear to access 2002.