The Downtown Design Review Board (DDRB) held a public hearing on March 5, 2026, at 9:45 AM. The sole agenda item was a certificate of appropriateness for a proposed three-story duplex at 740 Samuels Avenue. Staff recommended approval with encouragement for design refinements. The board unanimously approved the application, and several routine announcements were made.
Welcome everyone to the March 5th 2026 meeting of the downtown design review board. Public hearing. May we please have the statement of open meeting, please. Thank you. Welcome to the March 5th, 2026 Downtown Design Review Board Public Hearing. Specific rules and procedures of these hearings are found in the downtown urban design standards and guidelines, DDRB rules of procedure, and related provisions of Texas state law. The Downtown Design Review Board requires a quorum of five members to be present and four available for voting. The following board members are present today. Commissioner Milliken, Commissioner Dunn, Commissioner Blake, Commissioner Burns, and Commissioner Dabney. Staff present today are Laura Young, Brandon Uderback, Francis Delvega, and Trey Qualls. Copies of today's meeting agenda and speaker registration forms are provided at the desk near the conference room entrance. Today's public hearing is being documented by video conference recording, which will be available on the city's website. To achieve a timely and orderly meeting, the board requests that the following rules of procedure be respected. Please turn off all cell phones. Each case will be called in the sequence listed on the agenda unless otherwise directed by the chair. All ensuing dialogue shall be directed to the board only. After the staff presentation, the applicant and other proponents will be asked to speak. The opposition opposition may then speak. A completed registration form must be turned in before addressing the board to ensure that your appearance and presentation are officially recorded. Please state your name and the city in which you reside before addressing the board. Following the official close of each case hearing, the board will remain in open session to discuss and vote on the item in question. During this time, no further public testimony or commentary will be allowed unless directed by the chair. A closed executive session may be held with respect to the posted agenda items to enable the board to receive advice from legal staff. For additional information on any case on today's agenda, you may contact the development services department by calling 817-392-8000. And for record keeping, I will uh like to state that Commissioner Retman just joined us as well. Thank you so much. Laura, thank you very much. Do we have any announcements? Um, we don't have any announcements, just a quick update. Uh we're still working in the uh all and gas building. Uh they have been review revising some of their drawings, and we continue working with them and transportation development, so it says hopefully we have a final uh set of plans soon, and I would like to provide a nominated once that happens. Francisco, thank you for that update. I do have an announcement. Uh the on April the 9th is the 44th annual downtown Fort Worth Inc. annual meeting. So hopefully several of us will be in attendance for that meeting. Very important. And we thank downtown Fort Worth Inc. for everything they have done for downtown. Any other announcements? Yes. A couple of questions. Seems like my memory serves me that we typically have a summer month where we don't have a meeting. Looking at this calendar, it looks like we have a meeting every month this summer. Accurate. Yes, that's that's correct. We will have a meeting in every month. Okay. Uh that was just something we when we were looking at how uh our rules of procedure. We don't have really any month to you know have a vacation time or anything like that.