And 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 the 17th, 2026.

This time I'll ask Commissioner Blake to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Indivisible.

Thank you very much.

At this time, I'll ask our administrator to read the speaker guidelines and general decorum for tonight's meeting.

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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 to make each to make their statements.

If there are many speakers for an item, each speaker will be given three minutes to make their statements.

In consideration of other speakers, please conclude 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.

First item of business is approval of minutes.

We have a copy of the minutes of our June 3rd, 2026 planning and zoning plat agenda were sent to the commissioners in advance.

Were there any changes or corrections needed to those minutes?

Seeing none, I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Winkles, and I show a second by Commissioner Maddox.

Please cast your vote.

Motion passes eight to nothing.

Next are the minutes of the June 3rd, 2026 PNZ regular meeting.

A copy of those minutes were also sent to us in advance.

Were there any changes or corrections needed to these minutes?

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

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

Cast your vote, please.

Motion passes eight to nothing.

Tonight we have on our consent agenda two plates to be approved with conditions.

Do we have any speakers on these items?

I have a Joyce Stanton for item four B, which is uh the preliminary plat Mountain View edition.

Uh did you have anything you want to say?

Okay, very good.

There being no speakers to have a motion to approve the consent agenda.

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

Cast your vote.

Those minutes are approved, eight to nothing.

Next on our agenda, we have two zoning cases.

The first one is PD 25-08, located at approximately 2100 Southeast Green Oaks Boulevard.

This is an application for approval of a change in zoning from community commercial uses to plan development for community commercial uses plus a car wash with a development plan on approximately 1.295 acres prior to this meeting.

The applicant requested an indefinite continuance.

This will require a vote by the commission.

Are there any speakers on this item?

As there are no speakers, I'll entertain a motion to approve the indefinite continuance.

I have a motion by Commissioner Blake.

Commissioner Blake would you state your motion.

Thank you.

And Commissioner Winkles is at your motion.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Cast your vote.

The indefinite continuance is approved eight to nothing.

Thank you.

And our final case for tonight.

PD 25-21, located 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 a plan development for residential medium density or M12 with a development plan on approximately 0.924 acres.

We heard this motion at our last meeting and they're back.

So at this time I'll call on staff to present its report on this zoning case.

Mr.

Charles.

Good evening, Commissioners.

For the record, Kevin Charles, Principal Planner Planning and Development Services.

Uh this evening we will be looking at 1013 North Mesquite Street, also known as PD 25-21.

The site is approximately one acre in size.

Here in yellow, you see this the site highlighted in yellow.

You are familiar with this particular site.

This is a photograph of the site and the surrounding area, which basically shows you that the surrounding area has been developed over time in a very similar type of design status, with the majority of the area being RS 7.2.

However, there are also multiple locations that are that are RM12, which is uh single family attached housing as well as residential multifamily.

These are photographs of the site.

Okay, now to the meeting potatoes of this.

Since the previous meeting that was held back in April, the applicant took into account all of the things that were brought up at that meeting and has implemented quite a few of those requests or stipulations with their new layout.

The resulting application requests single family attached uses on approximately 0.9 acres.

The revised development plan has reduced the number of units from 10 units to 9 for this townhouse uh development, which uh reduces the density from a little bit over 10 to right at 9 units per acre.

Uh the project uh also has transferred the entrance to the northern uh side of the lot where the existing drive approach was located as recommended by staff and by uh the PNZ commission.

They also have relocated their green space area away from the public right away to provide for more safety uh during high traffic areas as well as when other folks are playing uh or using that area.

They've done away with the pickleball courts since it is such a restricted area.

They created a green space for folks who may have uh animals and a grilling area with the covered grilling area as well as preserving the large pecan tree in that area, which was also one of the things that's that was very important to the uh neighbor to the north.

Excuse me.

All of the units are uniform as they were previously in nature, with uh the uh bedrooms being located on the second story of each unit.

However, as recommended by the Planning Zoning Commission, they did take building number four, and they incorporated a downstairs bedroom into that particular uh building.

Of course, that's a two two unit building.

Uh the units themselves did increase uh in square footage somewhat, but they were larger than the minimum square footage uh anyway, and and they increased the square footage of the building to make way for the bedroom on the bottom floor, and again, they reduced the number of units to make up for that additional space that they needed for that.

Uh again, uh all structures have incorporated a slope roofs uh design displaying a roof pitch of approximately six twelve.

Uh, again, building four is included a first floor bathroom.

Though this the color scheme uh is still the original color scheme that the applicant desired, uh, it is only nine units and four buildings.

They did take uh the materials that they have incorporated into the buildings, and they've just reassigned them and used them in different different specific locations per building.

Uh, this was their best way of addressing the anti-monotony.

Again, this is a smallish uh development where you talk about a site that's smaller than one acre in size with only nine units and four buildings.

Uh staff does not take any issue with this and appreciates their efforts.

Uh also they did identify the the front yard required setback for the building along North Mesquite Street.

Uh they are showing the the benches and bicycle racks.

Uh that they had agreed to in the previous meeting, uh, but they didn't have them shown on the face of the plan.

They're now shown on the face of the plan.

They have relocated their refuse enclosure area that has been vetted by both Republic and our excuse me, multifamily recycling uh coordinate coordinator, so that it is in a serviceable and acceptable location.

Deviations.

Uh, the deviations have remained somewhat consistent since the very first meeting.

Uh, the lot area is uh is uh uh 32% deviation.

Uh the required is 2900 square feet.

Uh the minimum for them is 1950.

The lot depth is a hundred feet.

Uh the rear garage units have a minimum lot depth of 57 feet, and the front garage units have a minimum lot depth of 87 feet, so they both are beneath the maximum.

Uh the maximum width of the garage units is uh per UDC, it's slated as no more than 60 percent in width of the entire dwelling.

Uh, the units they have is the front facing uh garage-facing units, uh, have a width of approximately 80 uh percent of the will of the width of the unit.

Uh the gross living area is not a deviation, they exceed that uh significantly.

Again, we talked about the anti-monotony standards uh and we went over that a little bit in our work session.

Uh staff attempted to explain, you know, the number of different things that can be done.

Uh, we do feel like they've taken the existing materials that they were using, and they've uh changed them in terms of how they've used them on each individual building.

Uh, so we think that they've made their a good faith effort to try and address the anti-monotony standards as well as possible for such a small development.

Staff did not receive any letters of support they received, one letter of opposition.

Uh, staff is available if there are any questions or comments in reference to this particular site.

Thank you, Mr.

Charles.

Does commissioners have any questions at this time?

We have quite a few upstairs, but are there any here?

Thank you.

Uh Mr.

Chairman, Mr.

Charles, please go ahead.

I would like to make a recommendation uh as you guys go through it and as this continues to move forward that when you do get to the point where you potentially talk about how you want to address the front setback, uh, that potentially we would take the furnishings on and make it seven feet in width.

Uh, make keep the sidewalk as it is.

That's a requirement for ADA.

It can't be smaller than five feet.

The seven feet in width would give us room to plant in, molly grass, purple, purple fountain grass, things that nature that will create a soft edge for pedestrians on the sidewalk beyond that.

Also, the north mesquite is not on the trip thoroughfare development plan for any type of improvements any time.

It is built to his maximum width for a one-way street, the three lanes going in one direction, both sides, center and and north mesquite there.

Any other questions?

Thank you for the additional information that we asked for during the work session.

Thank you, Kevin.

You're welcome, sir.

Are there any other questions of staff at this time?

If not, uh, open the uh public hearing and ask for the applicant to step forward and um make their presentation.

And will that be you?

Is it Mr.

Scoggins or Mr.

Thank you?

Jacobs Coggins, Arlington, Texas.

And I took a quick run, so I may be a little bit out of breath.

I was running behind.

Let me make sure I got this.

I had trouble last time.

Where do I point it?

Oh, there we go.

Uh so Kevin did a great job.

Um, this you saw this project about a month and a half ago.

Uh there was a series of um items that y'all suggested that we go back and look at and take uh advantage of some opportunities with adjusting the site, uh parking uh uh saving some trees and then also addressing the trash issue.

And I think we've put a good faith effort towards that, and I'll kind of go through that here in a second.

So from the 415 PNZ meeting, uh, the list of items we kind of jotted them down.

The list of items that you asked us to look at were to meet with the neighbors uh for input and coordination.

So the owner myself met with uh the neighbors that were able to come on uh Sunday, May 3rd at me and mine's coffee.

Went through a list of things.

They saw the majority of what you are seeing today.

The elevations came a little bit later, but the overall site changes were um I think agreed upon with the neighbors that did show up, and people seem to be excited about that.

Reduced density that came up a couple of times with a few members.

Um we were able to remove one unit and then adjusted some other things, so we've reduced that density down to nine units.

Uh address the multiple trash and recycle bin concern.

You'll see here in a second, we flip the unit and have a trash enclosure, and then we worked with Republic Services to address that.

So uh we feel we feel good about that change.

Um Commissioner uh or um yeah, Commissioner Carter suggested that we put a uh at least one unit with a ground level bedroom.

We were able to do that on the front-facing buildings building four at a balcony on building four that fronts mesquite street.

Commissioner uh Winkles suggested that we made that adjustment as well, which you saw in the rendering just now, and then um relocate common area to avoid noise concern and safety.

So we did that too.

We pushed it further back into the site, which you'll see in a second.

Uh most of these are the staff recommendations that were from the last time.

So identify furnishings that shall be incorporated into the design of the roadside design.

We did that.

We're adding in a we now show a bike rack and a couple of benches, so that was addressed.

Uh differentiate the look for um to avoid monotony.

Uh, we we addressed this by adding in some additional material uh suggestions and adjusted the roof, and I think we made a good faith effort there.

Consider slope roofs um with six and twelve pitch.

We we accomplished that.

You'll see in the elevations.

Uh remove the guest parking spaces from the rear building four, that was accomplished as well, and then we adjusted the the uh guest parking in a few different ways that I think flows better, to be honest with you.

Consider moving the entry drive to the north, which we did, and in doing that that allows to do um well a modified approach to the final comment, which was to save some pine trees.

Really, we looked at a few different ways, and there's not really a great way to save those pine trees along the front edge, but we were able to save an 18-inch uh pecan tree at the common area.

So we felt really good about that.

So this is um a view that you saw last time, but with some modifications.

This is looking from the descension pond, looking back towards uh North Mesquite Street.

You can kind of see the differentiation of the materials on the elevation and the pitched roof, um, landscaping, a lot of the stuff we talked about last time.

This is sort of an aerial view looking kind of to the left would be the detention pond.

You can see that we moved the public amenity, or I'm sorry, the common space to create a pergola with a barbecue area and some uh just some green space to hang out, and then a small uh dog park for folks.

We put the dog park nearest um the building because we we believe that'll be the more quiet approach, especially at night.

Oh, sorry.

And in this view, you can see the dumpster enclosure in the back right of that.

So we addressed that there.

Site plan, uh, you can see the modifications.

Building three, which is the one on the right, we removed one of the units uh there to increase or to reduce the density of the overall site.

When we met with the neighbors, they seem to be uh favorable to that and agree to this approach.

Building four is where we added in the ground level uh bedroom.

You'll see those floor plans here in a second.

And then you can see the the um, you can see the uh public common area.

I'm sorry, the common area on the right side with the pergola and the dog part and the dumpster enclosure on the far left.

This was our um when we flip the site as recommended.

Again, we weren't able to save those two pine trees.

You can kind of see where they sit on the frontage, and I'm not a huge fan of saving older pine trees personally, but we were able to save an 18-inch uh pecan right in the middle of that common area, which we thought we felt that was really uh the best approach that we could take.

Just our generous landscape plan.

You can see that it's a well landscaped site, so anything that's coming out is going back in, it's gonna look really nice.

Uh lot area requirements.

Uh, Kevin touched on that.

We have some deviations that we've requested that he touched on.

But to point out, um, if we were to take lot one and lot nine and distribute those to the other lots, we would uh aside from butt depth, we'd meet all the lot areas.

It's just we have two X lots for the HOA that we talked about last time.

So, side area wide, we we meet the intent, it's just the way we've had to chop it up for um access and maintenance.

Uh here's some building uh plans we have buildings one and two, which are on the right side of the of the plan.

It's kind of the same unit type on that side, but it's broken down into uh three and uh two-unit uh buildings in that.

And then building three, which is the one that we reduced uh one of the units to go from three to three to two, which brought it down to nine units on the far right there.

You see uh building four, which faces uh faces mesquite street, and you can see we have a ground level um sort of master suite right there with uh upstairs living area and kind of a game room section.

And this is the elevation.

You can see we added the we added the balconies that were requested, and we we feel like that's a really good approach.

You can also see uh the bike racks and the additional landscaping, the widened uh sidewalk, which I think he just touched on, and then uh the public um, you know, the benches and the uh other amenities.

So we did our best to try to address everybody's concern.

We feel really good about it, reduce the density, and then overall, I think it was an improvement from where we started.

So look forward to any questions.

Thank you very much.

Um the commissioners have any questions of the applicant at this time.

Uh Commissioner Winkles.

Yes, ma'am.

One of the questions that was brought up uh during our work session was the types of wood and structure that you were using on the extra of the building to give it dimension.

Use the word wood, elaborate a little bit on that.

You know, I I should have maybe been a little bit more specific about that.

We've been doing a lot of wood look metal siding.

Uh, there's a couple of different products out there.

We prefer those because they hold up really well.

You can hose them down and they look just like new.

So uh quality edge is a product that we use quite often.

So it would be something durable like that.

Nothing that's gonna fade and rot and look you know not good two years from now, especially in Texas.

Thank you.

So to be specific, where it says wood in your materials on the most recent uh elevations that we received, which are really what that really should say is metal.

Wood looked steel siding.

That's probably the better approach we should have said.

Okay, thank you very much.

Yeah, wood look steel siding.

And um, Mr.

Charles, our uh our staff member indicated um how we would uh change or uh ask you to consider changing that front sidewalk area, and you're okay with it.

What you heard the recommendations?

I didn't hear all the recommendations because I was running from the car because obviously but uh I heard that he was addressing something along the front edge because the public realm it kind of stacks up pretty quick, but we don't have a lot of distance on that road, so we we try to meet that intent, but we're open ideas.

I'm gonna defer a commissioner's center to too.

Yeah, I can elaborate on that.

Uh I think there's some discussion at work session of creating type of a soft buffer between the roadway and the sidewalk.

So you have a two-foot edge zone and a five-foot furniture zone.

Yeah, I think combining those two in the seven feet for a nicer landscape area, leaving the five-foot sidewalk as is, and just adding some additional plantings there to kind of soften the edge and kind of create that visual barrier.

So that was the idea.

I think we'd be uh I'll just confer to her, but I think that's a great idea.

We were concerned about the two foot, but we were trying to meet the intent of that public.

We understand that, but I think combining the two having a seven foot landscape buffer will probably be better for the project.

I think that'd be great.

Excellent.

Any other comments?

Thank you, Commissioner Sempser.

Questions.

Commissioner Greer.

Yes.

I don't really have any any questions.

I was just gonna say this is a great example of uh uh the client or a developer uh being flexible and willing to make it make some design changes and listen to our comments and come back with the with an even better project.

So I just wanted to say thank you.

We appreciate that.

We appreciate the neighbors' input too.

We went and uh had a lot of good feedback.

So we do we really do appreciate it.

Uh Will I'm gonna make this comment mostly for the record.

We have a couple of new city council members that are new to uh planning and zoning, but the comment I want to make is every time any project comes before us, including errors, we want to think about the highest and best use of any particular piece of land, and when a planned development comes before us, we really want that planned development.

Uh our perspective on that is that a plan development is asking for deviations.

So, in exchange uh to allow deviations, uh you've done exactly what what we wanted.

You've taken uh a project, you've listened to our concerns, you've made it a better project.

You've created for me what some people might call a wow factor.

And because of that, it's it's very easy to support this kind of a project in this area because it's gonna look really good.

And so thank you so much for uh working with staff and working with the commissioners.

This is a great uh use for this piece of land.

Any other comments?

Thank you very much, sir.

Are there any other speakers in favor of this project that would like to speak?

Mr.

Uh Middleton, William Middleton.

Is it okay if I sit down?

You may sit down, sir.

Thank you.

Please come.

You can stay.

I'm not gonna say that.

Name and city, sir.

My name is William Middleton.

I live in Arlington, Texas.

I've lived here since 1988, and I live just a few lots away from this.

Um I was originally here representing myself and my two neighbors, and we had some significant issues with things at that time.

We've had the sincere pleasure of seeing what happens when people work well together.

Uh I would very much like to echo your comments, sir.

And uh sincerely thank the owner, the applicant, and her professional team.

We're all in favor of this.

We think this is going to be a benchmark for that area of the city to lead uh you know what that area looks like.

It is a jumble of older homes, older apartment buildings that really don't fit the need anymore.

Things that that whole area needs a serious refresh.

This is the start.

Um I don't know how strongly I can say how much we like this and we support it, other than to say just that.

City council will hear your remarks, sir.

We would we would greatly appreciate approval and moving this forward so that she can build her building.

Hopefully, sometime start making money.

Thank you very much.

Um I have one question I'd like to ask.

Uh sir.

You sir, sir.

Excuse me.

Unfortunately, we have some rules about when you're up here.

You can only address the commissioners.

I apologize.

Okay, so but that's basically the end of my comments.

We're extremely happy with what they did.

We're very happy with how they listened to us and worked with us, and thank you so much for everything you guys do to make certain the projects that come forward go through this process.

This is the important part of the process.

It's what keeps Arlington becoming better and better all the way down the road.

So thanks.

Any questions?

Thank you, sir, for your comments very much.

They're very much appreciated.

Are there any other speakers in support that have not a chance, not had a chance to speak?

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

Being no one, I'm going to close the public hearing and ask the commission for any questions, comments, or a motion.

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

Commissioner Blake, would you state your motion?

I'd like to make the motion to approve PD 25-21 1013 North Mesquite Street with uh the acceptance of any staff recommendations in addition to change the wording from wood to wood look sighting and adding the public sidewalk barrier buffers.

Did we word that correctly?

Yeah.

Yes.

He says yes.

Our staff says yes, we worded that correctly.

Commissioner Winkles, is that your second?

Yes.

Very good.

Thank you.

Please cast your vote.

Very much expected.

Congratulations.

Thank you for bringing your project here.

We look forward to its completion.

You're going to set a standard.

Thank you very much.

With that, are there any additional reports from boards or commissions?

No, sir.

Any reports from uh staff or any uh announcements?

Uh we have one case coming to you on July the 15th, I believe it is.

Okay.

And do any of the commissioners have any announcements?

Finally, I want to remind everyone that our next regular session meeting of the planning and zoning commission is on Wednesday, July 15th at 5 30 p.m.

here for the public session.

With that, we are adjourned.

Thank you so much.