Again, 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 June 3rd, 2026.

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.

In consideration of others, please can conclude your comments promptly when you hear the bell.

We ask that you address your comments to the planning and zoning commissioners.

Thank you.

A copy of the minutes of our May 13th, 2026 regular agenda meeting were sent to all the commissioners in advance.

Were there any changes or corrections needed to these minutes?

Seeing none, do I have a motion to approve?

I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Maddox.

I have a second by Commissioner Blake.

Please cast your vote.

Motion passes six to nothing with one abstention.

Next on our agenda, we have four zoning cases to discuss.

The first two we will not be talking about very much tonight.

The first one is entitled PD 25-17, roughly located at 2002 Wynne Terrace.

This is an application for approval of a planned development for residential RM12 for its cottage community with a development plan on approximately two acres.

Prior to the meeting, the applicant requested an indefinite continuance.

This will require a vote by the commission, so I hereby ask for a motion, and I will need a second for an indefinite continuance.

I have a motion by Mr.

Blake, Commissioner Blake, and I have a motion to second by Commissioner Sumter.

Please cast your vote.

Next case, PD 25-21 addressed at 1013 North Musquete Street.

This is an application for approval of a change in zoning from entertainment district overlay, residential single family 7.2 to a plan development for residential medium density with a development plan on approximately 0.924 acres.

Prior to this meeting, the applicant requested a continuance to the June 17th, 2026 meeting.

This will require a vote by the commissioners.

I do need a motion to approve.

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

Commissioner Sumter, would you state your motion, please?

Yes, I move to continue zoning case PD 25-21 to the June 17th, 2026 planning and zoning commission hearing.

Thank you.

Commissioner Blake, is that your second?

It is.

Thank you.

Please cast your vote.

Motion passes seven to nothing.

Next on our agenda is SUP 26-01, located at approximately 911 South Davis Drive.

This is an application for approval of a specific use permit for a daycare on a property zone, residential single family 7.2, and neighborhood commercial on approximately 2.454 acres.

At this time, I will call staff to present its report on zoning case SUP 26-01.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Alex Van Amberg Planner with Planning and Development Services.

So the case before you today, they are requesting a specific use permit to open a daycare at 911 South Davis Street.

The current zoning on the entire parcel, it is split zoned, so we have neighborhood commercial to the west and then residential single family to the east.

They are requesting the daycare in the eastern portion of that building, and the way for a daycare to be approved in residential is through the SUP process.

Here you have some images of the surrounding area across South Davis and across University Drive.

And some images of the church, the front of the church with faces South Davis.

Uh you can also see the playground here, which would be used for the daycare use.

The hash marks on the floor plan are the rooms that would be used for the daycare.

So far, our staff had received two letters of support and one letter of opposition for this case, and staff's available for any questions.

Thank you, Alex.

Do any of the commissioners have any questions at this time?

This case was discussed upstairs during our work session.

Since there are no questions or comments at this time, I will now open up the public hearing and call for the first speaker.

We have four cards.

Who will be the primary speaker for this tonight?

Thank you.

If you'll come forward, state your name and only the city that you live in, not your street address.

Kristen Parker, Middle End, Texas.

Thank you.

Go ahead and make your presentation, please.

The floor is yours.

I am the aspiring director of Little Saints Preschool, a ministry of St.

Albans Anglican Church, where our mission is guiding children to grow and shine in the light of Christ.

I thank all of you for listening to me tonight, especially Alex, for all that she's done to support us and back us up.

We are rooted in faith and we are growing in love.

And every single child that comes into our facility would know that they are left.

We're there to plant seeds.

We want to teach them how to have their own relationship with the Lord.

We would do that through prayers, creeds, lectionary, as well as guiding them with the history of the saints and telling them what a saint they are.

We have a thoughtfully blended approach to early learning.

See, as children come in, they all learn differently.

However, the way that we embrace that is we take monessory skills, we take classical instruction, we take play-based techniques, we wrap those together, and we feed them to the kids so that we can reach every single child where they are.

Most preschools, they use one technique and they concentrate on enrollment.

We would be different in that aspect.

We'd be a service to the community.

We would want to love on children ages two to five.

We would maintain a low teacher to student ratio.

We would intentionally keep our program small with only 30 to 40 children.

We would focus on manners, life skills, and lots of other focuses, such as literacy, math.

We have a location designed to serve.

You see, our facility housed a school before for 50 years, and unfortunately, some unforeseen events happened and it fell apart.

We're not trying to bring that back, but we do have a love for the generation, and we want to bring that generation back into the walls.

We have made many facility improvements and upgrades.

We have a beautiful cross in the front of our church.

We have painted our parking lots, we've updated our landscaping with beautiful flowers, as well as mulch.

We have removed some of the parking, or we have removed some of the park structures that were unsafe.

We have worked with the fire marshals.

There'd be staggered parking and pickup and drop-off, and we also have parking.

We have serviced the community through Crisis Pregnancy Center, feeding the poor, and various other aspects.

And we would do that through the preschool as well.

In order to do that, we would bring in intergenerational, we would have the elderly work with the younger kids, and both generations would know how valuable and how loved they are.

We have an ongoing commitment to all of you, the residents of Arlington, your children and your grandchildren.

Overall community value is huge.

We want to raise future leaders for Arlington, Texas.

We want to provide families access to quality care, and we want to build a church, excuse me, I'm sorry, a preschool for our diocese.

And you have seen the letter that our bishop gave and support of us, as well as our warden.

In closing, we thank you so much for your time.

We ask that you would let us get started with this next best project for Arlington, Texas.

Thank you for your presentation.

Do any of the commissioners have questions of this particular speaker at this time?

Say none.

In addition, Father Joseph Francis, I have you now as a speaker.

Did you want to come to the microphone and say anything, sir?

Father Joseph Francis, I live in Arlington, Texas.

I just wanted to point out, as far as I recall, St.

Albans opened the first preschool in Arlington back in the 1940s.

And so I'm excited to have the opportunity to offer that again to our community.

And uh I think it'll be great for everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you, Father.

I have uh Mr.

Ryan Williams as a speaker.

Did you want to say anything, sir?

Let's show questions.

Okay.

Are there any questions?

And I have uh the um a non-speaker, Leslie Story and here in support.

Are you here?

Raise your hand.

Thank you.

Do any of the commissioners have any questions of any of the members of the applicant team?

None.

Very good.

Is there anyone here in opposition that would like to speak?

Are there any other speakers that would like to say anything?

Saying none, I will hereby close the public hearing and ask the commissioners if they have any questions, comments, or a motion.

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

Commissioner Blake, would you please state your motion?

I can make a motion to approve SCP 26-01, 9-11 South Davis Drive, as presented.

Commissioner Winkles.

Is that your second?

Yes.

Very good.

Please cast your vote.

I knew that was going to happen.

Congratulations.

The vote is seven to nothing.

Thank you so much for bringing preschool back from a personal perspective.

I can remember taking my youngest daughter who's now 40 45 with a grandson that's just graduated from high school.

She went there to pre-K a long time ago.

And my uh two of my stepdaughters also went there for quite a few years until I'm familiar with the story of why the school closed, which is not important.

You're back.

That's what's important.

With that, we'll move on to the next case.

PD 25-18, 1605 Wilma Lane.

Application for a change in zoning from residential single family 7.2 to a plan development for residential single family RS5 on approximately 2.919 acres.

This time I call on staff to present its report.

Good evening, Alex Van Amberg, planner with planning and development services.

Um, here at the case at 1605 Wilma Lane.

They are requesting a planned development for residential single family uh RS5.

Uh the current zoning on the property is RS 7.2.

It's located um kind of near northwest Greenoaks Boulevard and West Randall Mill.

Um we also have an image of the surrounding area.

Um the lot directly to the west is zoned for a PD for 23 townhomes, and there's been some increased uh multifamily development, and then the rest of the area is mostly single family.

And the comprehensive plan does recommend um requiring streetscape improvements, and as you can see here from the site photos, uh, this is Wilma Lane, which is going to be the only point of access uh to the site.

It's directly in front of the site.

Um so the city will be requiring some road improvements on Wilma Lane.

Uh this orange bar you can see here is about half of Wilma Lane, so from that midpoint to the north where it intersects on that northern road.

They will be improving it to a 28-foot width roadway, and that is part of the city's rural road standards.

And the development plan.

Um this case was continued from the April 29th meeting, so there have been some changes.

They have reduced uh the lots by two, so it went from 26 to 24 lots.

This increases the width of those uh front entry units on the eastern boundary.

And they have added another X lot uh at the north there.

Uh this did also increase their tree preservation.

They are also um going to be in replacing or you know, improving the fencing along all those residential uh properties to an eight-foot board-on board cedar fence.

I did not mention that at work session.

Oh, also what I wanted to mention on the development plan.

Uh there is some discussion about the lot width on this lot.

Um, this is actually the frontage of the lot, and so that lot is 34 feet wide of frontage.

Yeah, and the tree preservation, they did increase it a little with the addition of that X slot.

Um, some elevations, you will see better ones in the applicant's presentation.

They will all be three bedroom units.

And the list of deviations, they are requesting 10 deviations, so deviations to the lot dimensions, the required setbacks, a small deviation from tree preservation, and then also deviation to the landscape buffer and the building design.

Staff does have concerns about the number of deviations requested.

However, if the planning and zoning commission recommends approval, staff does have the following recommendations.

Those west side lots will need to meet UDC front yard landscape standards, and if any fencing is put up, it will need to be kept to a four feet maximum and wrought iron for visibility.

The applicant has agreed to this standard.

We also have requested that the rear setback for those front loading homes along the eastern boundary be 20 feet.

So that will be written into the ordinance that it is a 20-foot setback for the primary residents on all of those lots.

The applicant has also agreed to this consideration.

We have not received any letters of support.

We did receive 11 letters, which were either emailed in to me or put in through the online PON dashboard, and then the neighborhood got together and got signatures on a petition of opposition, and they did get 278 signatures.

And I'm available for any questions.

Thank you, Alex.

Do the commissioners have any additional questions?

For our staff.

Seeing none, thank you very much.

At this time, I will open up the public hearing and ask for the first speaker.

As per our guidelines, the first speaker is the applicant.

Will the applicant please step forward?

Name and city of residence, please.

Yes, Nikki Moore, Colleyville.

Okay, so good evening, Commissioners.

Um, it's a pleasure to be back in front of you.

Since we've made a lot of those changes since the April 29th, kind of going through the list of what you all provided as for your is it working now?

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Good evening, Commissioners.

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Can you hear that in the back?

Okay, so we're having a microphone issue.

Let's let them know in the back before we continue.

Good evening, commissioners.

Okay, there you go.

Okay.

Now I hear it.

All right.

Can I have my time back, please?

Yeah, you can have your time back.

Okay, thank you.

All right.

Um, so the developer and I are glad to be back in front of you having made um all of the changes that were specifically requested by the PZ commissioners on the April 29th meeting.

Um those did include the eight wood vents along the neighbors bordering line for screening, uh plan for the additional open space, which includes a bench, petway station, and bollard lighting.

That's also allowed us to increase our tree preservation from 31 to a little over 34%.

The developer has agreed to repair Wilma Lane to the extent of the property.

Um halfway point between um Oakwood and Randall Mill as previously outlined by city staff.

And we also have to, I think it's really challenging sometimes to like visualize a community from a two-dimensional piece of paper.

So we've actually got some really great three-dimensional renderings that I think will provide more context as to how this neighborhood will orient itself.

With that being said, you know, just quick refresher is approximately three acres down on Northwest Green Oaks and West Randall Mill Road.

With these surrounding uses of, you know, RS 7.2, multifamily, a plan development for residential RM12 townhomes.

Um, we're kind of offering that stepped approach in terms of housing density.

So as you get closer to the major roadway, you're you're you're offering a different variety of housing product, and you're stepping down that density or stepping up towards that major roadway.

And this will be a small lot four cell product.

Um this was the originally proposed site plan that did consist of 26 homes and conservatively preserved 31% of the trees.

This is a high-level feedback from the existing surrounding neighborhood.

We did host a neighborhood meeting.

We extended our outreach to to further than just the standard 200 feet of notification, and kind of like listen to some of their concerns and feedback.

Specifically, I want to point out on this slide because this does have more addresses the parking issues.

So each of these homes do have their two-car garage for the off-street parking requirement, and then for on-street, this shows you where we can fit 20 visitor spaces on street as you can park in public roadways in the city of Arlington that does not include Wilma lanes.

That's what I wanted to still continue to point out from this slide.

As staff presented, this is our updated STIP plan, adding an X Lot.

There was a specific request from a neighboring resident that we reduce the amount of lots that were actually touching this neighborhood.

So by widening these lots on the eastern side and creating an additional X lot, we will were able to reduce that neighborhood impact along that way.

And increase the tree preservation from 31 to 34 percent.

So while wider and larger lots were evaluated, so maintaining the proposed lot widths allows us to balance a lot of different things.

We've got there's some site physical constraints, we can deliver the required infrastructure improvements that the city of Arlington is asking this developer to provide, and we can provide housing that aligns with the current market demand here in Arlington.

If you kind of remember the site itself has about 60 feet of elevation change by using these lot widths, we're able to design streets that follow the natural contours.

So when you have a retaining walls between lots, those become then the responsibility of the individual homeowners, and that's where sometimes we see some failures.

But overall creates a more stable and natural looking neighborhood.

So as we kind of mentioned earlier, I did admit like it's difficult to envision a community from a two-dimensional plan on paper.

So I hope some of these 3D perspectives provide a visual visual understanding of how this neighborhood will look and feel and how you can see that it is the stepped down kind of approach from the top of the hill back toward Wilma Lane.

So this would be the entrance, the front of those homes facing Wilma, create a really nice streetscape, planning that four-foot tall transparent fencing along just to give some safety and also just to provide a little area to let out a puppy or whatnot, and then having the sidewalk connectivity right there as well.

This is more of a bird's eye kind of aerial view of the development.

One thing I really want to point out here is along this back fence line, right?

So I'm drawing your attention to that area right there.

You have quite a bit of significant retaining wall, and then with the eight-foot fence on top of that, the top of that fence is really hitting the midline point of that roof.

And so those homes behind that are existing are still significantly higher than this site, as it is proposed here.

Um, just kind of gives you the context of how this development will sit with its with its surrounding community and the shared property line.

And with that, um, I think we have accomplished all the changes that came out of planning and zoning commission on the April 29th meeting.

Um there were some additional staff considerations that we have continued to agree to, as well as now extending those Roma Lane improvements so that we're bettering the whole entire development in the city of Arlington's roadway infrastructure with our development.

At that time, I'll open the floor to any questions you may have of me.

Thank you.

Are there any questions about the commissioners?

Commissioner Blake.

All right.

Ms.

Moore.

So now that we're on the record, we talked the other day about one of the concerns that the neighbors had about making sure that property was cleaned up, and what I'd like to make sure that we're committing to before we vote on this, is that it you'll go ahead and clean up that property even before the rest of the construction starts.

Yes.

To get rid of that trash, the fences, things like that that are dilapidated, and also, of course, securing uh the building as well as some of the outbuildings to make sure that that's not done.

Uh I will tell you that while the small lots, I kind of like the project here, so for what that's worth.

Thank you.

Commissioner Winkles.

Um, what is the price point?

Do you have that yet?

Yes, we're anticipating that these would start.

So maybe for sale residents would have the option of coming in and putting different um types of grenades like that.

We think they'd probably start in like 450s.

Yeah.

I have one question.

This particular drawing that you're showing staff has this.

Uh no, we just got these hot off the press like yesterday.

We've been scrambling to get these.

Well, you make sure that both of these uh views are uh able to be presented to staff.

Yes.

Okay.

Should this pass tonight?

The sidewalks, everything you've shown me to be included.

I did not see that on all of the all the drawings, but yeah, they are there, but yeah, they are there.

It's just yeah, it's not quite as clear.

Okay, very good.

Any other questions?

Commissioner Blake, just something I wanted to point out, which I didn't realize from the black and white drawing, but you know, having that walkway up the side, you know, really, I think extends that the walking path.

So, very good.

Were you gonna put any um amenities or grills or anything in either one of these uh X lots?

Yes, so in the X lots we do have benches programmed, um, not grills.

We didn't really want those so close to the the fencing and whatnot.

I think that was going to become more of like a community safety concern.

The re the neighboring residents um didn't necessarily approve of that.

Um, but we do have benches, petway stations.

Um, there's some bollard lighting that will be kind of placed right around here, and that's also too like as you're driving into the development, you're gonna kind of see this nice little open space, be inviting, welcoming, etc.

And then also the ballards will keep anyone from driving into it.

Okay, very good.

Any other questions or comments at this time?

Saying none, thank you very much, Ms.

Moore.

Welcome.

Are there any other speakers uh in favor of the project?

If not, I have quite a few cards uh in opposition.

Many are not most of these are non-speakers.

I have two cards who will speak.

Uh the first one is uh Leslie Story.

Would you come forward, please?

Remember your name and city of residents.

Thank you, Ms.

Story.

I think I'm a pro now good Leslie Story, Arlington, Texas.

Um I am speaking on behalf of some of our neighbors, um, some that couldn't be here and some that didn't wish to speak.

Um, we still oppose this plan development as presented.

We do appreciate um some of the changes that they did make um from the April meeting, including increasing the tree preservation to almost 35 percent, not quite, but almost the slightly wider homes on the east that will back up to the existing homes, and um the 20 foot setback on those same homes on the east.

Um, I wanted to bring this issue.

This wasn't mentioned tonight, but I know it was mentioned possibly the April meeting, at least in the neighborhood meeting, um, about a similar project that has lots that are the same width.

This is on California Lane, um, it's PD 2312.

Um I did drive around the neighborhood just to see what would it look like, and I was able to speak to the building rep for a couple of minutes since it was kind of late.

And um the one thing I noticed is that all of the 30 and 40 what with lots had five foot setbacks, so why can't this project have that same five-foot setback?

Um, I think that would be really helpful to so you have a little more sun, you have a little more airspace, you're not so close to your neighbor.

Um, also in this project, they had nine homes that backed up to the existing neighborhoods, and these homes were on much larger lots.

Um, I looked at the plat, and they arranged anywhere from 0.16 to 0.4 acres with width of width of 60 to 80 feet.

Um, if I could have anything I wanted, I think these two things are what I would like to see with this project, the five-foot setbacks, and the homes that are going to be in the east to meet UDC codes and be at least 50 feet wide.

Um, I think that would go a long way to making the neighbors okay with this project.

Um, and this is just some food for thought as I sat in the work meeting and appreciate that that opportunity is that um I like that they're going to fix Wilma because it's it's been falling apart for decades.

Um, but I noticed I said that they're gonna widen it to 28 feet, and I'm just wondering where they're gonna get that extra land because Wilma is anywhere from 13 to 20 feet wide.

So if they're not going to improve the Wilma property, because they said you're keeping the bar ditches, where where is the land going to come from?

And then another thought is if that property to the west is never developed, what happens to the other half of Wilma?

Is it gonna remain the shambles that it is?

Anyway, and that's it.

From back on, are there any questions?

Okay, thank you very much.

Next, we have um Clay Carlisle.

Thank you, Claudia.

Good evening.

Thank you very much.

Clay Carlisle.

I grew up there, I live in Arlington, Texas.

Lifelong resident.

I grew up when I was growing up, there was 3,001 West Randall Mill.

We left Arlington to go into Fort Worth to come back into Arlington.

The major point of reference for that area was the liquor store.

The pad is still there.

When uh the development started in that area, was in the Oakwood section was 1977.

The year two after that was when the Cascade Apartments was put in.

There was no notification to our family the cascade apartments were being put in.

Period in the sentence.

So we've I've seen that.

I've watched the interlocking come up.

I remember that was a pig pasture in the back.

We had horses out there.

As to the property, there are either, as you can look at it, one hill with three knolls or four knolls, depending how you want to look at it.

There's approximately five different sets of soil type.

The one that is undeveloped, going to be undeveloped, is the harder sandstone.

I've tried, I know that because I've tried to dig a hole to China on the north side, which backs up to the residents of Oakwood, that is sand.

That hill that's there, we grew up calling it Boot Hill because that's where all the craters were buried.

Everything from deer to coyote to dogs, cats, and everything.

So Gracious only knows what's dad knows what's there.

When you get into putting in landscape and you're putting those retaining walls, you're gonna have to deal with a lot of sand.

And how do retaining walls hold up against sand after all those years?

Where the Brunson Court, Creighton Court, Leakman Court, all that is filled, especially Brunson Court, that is sitting on well over five foot of fill.

So now you put a on their west side, you put a retaining wall for the east side of the Wilma property, and as it was stated earlier, that is now the pro now the reason for the residents to take care of.

If it's done correctly, there should be no taking care of it.

If it's gonna be hard to do that when you have to put in that much retaining wall to hold that back that much earth, where the present house is sitting slightly on the north side is uh a little bit of sandstone on the south side is more sandstone.

That is stable.

Down towards uh Wilma Lane, that is all sand.

That is sand from Village Creek over the years.

In 1977, the 50-year flood brought uh Village Creek all the way up to the corner of Wilma and Randall Mill.

The two floods of 89, 100 year floods of 89 and 90, it did not because Dallas, thankfully, after the 89-year flood cleaned out the Trinity River, which stopped that backup.

So if we have another 100-year flood, it's gonna back up.

There is a creek wash on the north side of the property.

There is a 12-foot water table that if we ever do have rain again, it has already washed out Brunson once.

I think before Leslie Katie bought that property, and um they had to go back in there and redo Brunson Court and fill it up.

So if you have a good rain, if we ever get rain again, you're gonna have a lot of soil movement through there, and that soil is not stable, especially on the south side.

I'm up I'm not opposed so much to progress.

I understand that, but let's think about what we're doing.

You're gonna put half a million dollars homes next to existing 50 plus year homes next to Section 8 housing apartment complexes.

Is that something we want to do?

As Arlington, do we want to have that disparity right next to each other?

Growing up with Wilma, mom and dad were citated by the city of Arlington for not maintaining the bar ditch.

That road is the exact same way even before they put in green oaks.

It has not changed.

It was that same way.

I put patch of that road when there were holes.

I look forward to development.

I understand it's gonna happen, but let's just be very smart about it.

Do it right once you do it right.

Thank you very kindly.

Thank you.

I'm going to read out the names of the people who are here in opposition.

As I read your name, I'm gonna look up, please just raise your hand so I know you're here, Mampetch News, Timothy News, Mickey Hugel, and if I butcher your name and mispronounced it, I do apologize.

Beverly Windsor.

Thank you, Judy Hayes.

John Sidenstein, Sue Barton, Marsha Eddy, Carol Trussell, Jill Burns, Nina Kuhn, Peggy Botching, Susan Reagan, Heather Morgan, Carol Markot, Lords.

See it Carson Lee?

Carson, would you?

Carstenson.

Thank you, Carstetson.

Thank you so much.

That's a cool name.

Carla Frierson.

Ralph Sovell, sir.

I know you.

Alice Subble.

Likewise.

Thank you all for being here tonight.

Um, are there any other speakers who have not had a chance to speak that would like to speak?

Saying none, the applicant now has an opportunity to speak one more time.

Ms.

Moore?

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Um, yeah, I think there's some good good discussion, and there's an opportunity to provide some clarity.

So on Wilma Lane, yes, right now the asphalt that is down is only about 16 feet wide, but the right-of-way, because it is a local road, has been a 50-foot right-of-way has been dedicated.

And so in a 50-foot right-of-way, that allows for 28 feet of pavement from backup curb to backup curb.

And so that is what we will be providing per the specifications that are outlined in the design criteria manual for rural residential road.

Um, with that being said, said to, so the bartages are not remaining, they'll be part of the development and all that infrastructure will be updated.

Um, and then also to um, in terms of like um what are the residents' comments about like the different soils and stuff like that.

There has been a geotech um has been performed on the site, and so those retaining walls will be designed by a structural engineer.

They have a separate permit process that is pulled before they are constructed within the Arlington, and that also takes into consideration that the geotech results and the different soils that are available on site.

And then those particular walls, because they belong to the whole entire community, will be maintained by the HOA.

The retaining walls that I was speaking about earlier is if we did larger lots, we'd have to step down those larger lots, and those would be on the lot line in between the homes, and those are the ones that would be there.

We're minimizing that by having the smaller lots and stepping down the lots with the natural grade of the home.

So yes, I you know completely understand.

I think also too there's some clarification on those homes on the eastern boundary against the residential neighborhood, those homes do have five foot side setbacks.

So those are offering that amount of space in between those homes.

I know that was one of the other residents' concerns.

So I think I've addressed everything that was brought up here this evening, and just invite you to approve this development as presented.

We've made those changes as was were requested.

I have two short questions.

Yes.

Tell me, or remind me, I know the answer to this, but I'm gonna ask it.

Um is a city-owned road, correct?

That's correct.

Okay.

So it's not a private road.

Next, where are the external uh air conditioning units?

The compressors, where are they gonna go?

Yeah, so they will be so for these homes right here, they will be on the side of the homes as they always typically are in this type of like residential housing development, and then for the smaller lot homes, um, they will be in the rear close to the um garage on the alley.

So if I'm driving down that alley, I'll see the air conditioning unit.

Yeah, and we've talked about having them like so they'll always be, you know, screened with landscaping.

We can also do a short kind of like opaque wood fence around those.

Um, yeah, there's different ways to kind of screen those, but they'll be screened per the landscape standards that are outlined in the UDC.

They will not be attached to the homes and elevated off the ground.

They will not.

Okay, good.

Okay.

Are there any other questions?

Can I can I expand on the will in the lane too?

Because I think that was another point that came up.

Um, so yes, it is a local road, and you know, one of the emails that we got from city staff is like, hey, yeah, it has not been improved and it is on the city street plan, but there are other roads that are in worse condition that are ahead of this particular one.

Um, and so that is just kind of one of the things that the developer is like, hey, yeah, we understand that our residents will be using this, um, the homes will be fronting on that, so we're gonna go ahead and do the entire, you know, almost length of the development within proportionality with the other developments that are going in and around this, but it would be the city's responsibility at some point to have that maintenance, right?

Okay, any other questions, Commissioner Finley.

Thank you.

Um Nikki, can you tell me?

Um, can you guys hear me?

I'm not getting can you tell me what the percentages of stone, brick, and cementitious fiber board.

Let me see.

So as of right now, I know they're all sorry, I'm I was trying to zoom in, but I can't.

Um, there is there's all brick basically all the way around the whole entire home, even down the sides.

The only time I have actually more of these photos that are better.

So, like, that's all brick.

Um, there's no cementitious fiber accents on that particular one.

This one, they are provided as just an accent material on the second story.

So I don't have exact percentages in front of me of each of these.

They were provided in the elevation packet to staff, but they're I don't have them in my presentation at this moment.

Um, this one also too, the cementitious fiber panels are limited to above the second story top plate.

None on those.

This would be just around the windows.

So I would say if I'm ballparking, I mean you're above 75% of brick masonry material.

Okay, thank you.

You're welcome.

Any other questions?

Thank you very much.

With that, I'm gonna close the public hearing every time I say that.

But let's see what happens.

So at this time, I invite the commissioners to make comments, ask questions of staff, or to make a motion.

Commissioner Winkles.

Can staff share with us the staff recommendations that you had?

You had the one sheet with the staff recommendations if we were to approve the project.

Will you pull that back up?

Yeah.

And one second.

Excuse me.

I'm trying to turn this off.

Hold on.

Okay.

Um you can let him speak first.

Yes.

Microphone.

Every time I close a public hearing, I end up opening it back up.

So with the commissioner's blessing, I'm going to open up the public hearing.

Sir, I understand that you need it, you want to say something.

Please come to the microphone and please state your name and the city that you live in as you begin.

John Sidenstein, Arlington, Texas.

I just want to point out that drawing looks nice, but it's missing oakwood.

There's a where the first so on the northern side of the property, which would be towards the lettering.

And you're missing hundred-plus foot deep lots that run on oak wood.

So where the rendering is of the driveway going into the development is actually where Oakwood goes, the dead end that you see goes to the house.

Those houses that are showing are the houses on the far side of Oakwood.

So if you pulled up the satellite view or the city, I guess you have that in your presentation.

You can see the lot is much more narrow.

So it's much more narrow and deep.

Does that make sense?

Sure.

So this is not that it's not an accurate kind of concept drawing of what it what it is, but we're missing a whole all the people that live on Oakwood that back up to the property.

Are your houses there?

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah, I understand.

I'll also give the applicant an opportunity to respond to that.

Any response?

So the purpose of this rendering was really just to take our site plan of our development and kind of show the different the vantage point.

We're limited in what we can kind of bring in from aerial data.

And so the company that we use kind of did the best they could, but the main purpose that we had hired the rendering company to do was to focus on our particular site plan using our drawings, site plan, the homes and whatnot.

So that was the purpose of this.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah, I had a feeling that that's what you were gonna say.

Okay.

All right.

With that, I'll try, I'll try again.

I will close the public hearing.

Uh staff, if you if you would please come back up.

Okay, so the uh set or recommendations.

We had the one about the Wilma Road improvements to that midpoint of Wilma Lane.

And then the other was that the um Wilma Lane facing lots meet landscape requirements.

I mean, those are UDC landscape requirements, and then four foot wrought iron fence, and then increase that rear set back to 20 feet.

I was just looking for clarity to make sure I didn't miss those things because it looks like they met, they agreed to meet both of them.

Yes, they have agreed to meet these, and they will be reflected on the development plan.

If it is approved, uh they will make those edits to the development plan, and the edited one will go to council.

Thank you.

Any other comments or questions by the commissioners?

As chair, I don't know how this vote's going to turn out tonight.

I really don't.

This is the second time this case has come before us, and this is the second time that the public has shown up is in numbers to voice their opposition.

Um I think we're all realistic.

This is a piece of land owned by a family.

They want to sell it, they want to develop it, they have the right to do that.

The question is, is that the that this commissioner has this commission has to decide is is it the right project for the right location?

That's a really difficult and uh very um subjective question.

We all have different opinions up here, and uh with that said, I like the project.

Uh I just my biggest regret is the trees, but at least we went from the lower percentage of trees to a higher percentage, almost 35 percent.

Um I wish it could be a park, but that's not the case.

The city isn't gonna buy it.

So with that, if there are any other comments, commissioners are welcome.

Otherwise, I have a motion on the floor by Commissioner Winkles, and I have a second by Commissioner Blake.

Commissioner Winkles, would you please state your motion?

Yes, I make a motion that we approve PD 25-18 1605 Wilma Lane for a change in zoning from residential single family 7.2 RS 7.2 to plan development PD for residential single family five, RS5 on approximately 2.919 acres with the staff considerations as outlined.

Commissioner Blake, is that your second?

It is cast your votes motion passes five to one with one abstention.

Thank you very much.

This case will now go to city council.

The vote tonight does not mean that anybody has any authority to start construction.

The way city council can do that.

With that, I don't believe we have any other cases.

Do we have any reports from boards, commissions, or any other liaisons?

No, sir.

Do we have any reports from staff or any other announcements?

Uh at your next meeting, we have one case.

No, that's good news.

Um, do any of the commissioners have any announcements?

No.

With that, I want to remind everyone that our next regular session meeting of the planning and zoning commission is on Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 at 5 30 p.m.

With that, we are adjourned.