So just leave your mics on.

Mr.

Chair, will you please call the meeting to order?

Uh welcome everybody.

The meeting of the zoning commission.

Uh officially called this meeting to order.

Today is April 8th, 2026, and it is 105 p.m.

Uh, don't have any special announcements today except to welcome you.

Uh this is Dave.

This will be his first day up here with us.

Uh he's he's been helping us for a really long time.

He knows what he's doing, thankfully.

So uh so welcome up here.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Welcome to the April 8th, 2026 zoning commission meeting and public hearing.

Today's meeting agenda can be found online at www.fortworth, Texas.gov.

Speaker registration forms must have been turned in prior to the start of the meeting.

Today's public hearing is being documented by cable television, and a recording will be available on the city's website.

Cases heard at this public hearing are to be heard at the May 12th City Council meeting and public hearing unless otherwise stated on the agenda to achieve a timely and orderly meeting.

The commission requests that the following rules of procedure be respected.

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 commission only.

After staff presentation, the applicant and support will be given a maximum total of five minutes to present their case.

Opposition may then speak for a maximum total of seven minutes.

At the conclusion of opposition, the applicant will be provided two minutes for a rebuttal.

At the conclusion of opposition, excuse me.

Those that are not able to speak today are encouraged to submit comments or uh sign up to speak at the city council meeting.

Sign ups to comment or speak at city council meeting, begin the Friday before the scheduled hearing.

Continuation beyond the speaker's allotted time will be subject to the chairman's sole discretion and approval.

All other meeting procedures will adhere to board adopted rules of procedure to the extent possible.

Following the official close of each hearing of each case hearing, the commission will remain an open session to discuss and vote upon 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 commission 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 817-3928.

Mr.

Chair, the first order of business is roll call.

The zoning commission requires a quorum of six members to be present and available for voting.

Apologies.

Here commissioner Mayo.

Here.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Commissioner Welch.

Here.

Commissioner McCoy?

Here.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Here.

Commissioner Robinson?

Commissioner Pierce?

Here.

Commissioner Rogers.

Commissioner Werman.

Present.

Commissioner Castro.

Present.

With a total of 11 members present.

Mr.

Chair, we have a quorum.

Excellent.

Next item on the agenda is the approval of the month's minutes.

All right.

Do we have a uh motion to approve our minutes from March 11th?

Mr.

Chairman, I move approval of the minutes.

We have a second.

Is that you, Commissioner Rogers?

All right.

We have a motion uh by Commissioner Edmonds and a second by Commissioner Rogers.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo.

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

All right.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Worman.

Aye.

Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0.

The zoning commission votes to approve the meeting minutes.

And at this time we will open the public hearing and we'll call our first case.

First case on the agenda is ZC25171.

Is a text amendment related to uh Senate Bill 15.

The applicant is the City of Fort Worth.

The request is I'm sorry, we go back a slide, please.

An ordinance amending the comprehensive zoning ordinance of the City of Fort Worth being ordinance number 21653 as amended, codified as appendix A of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, amending Chapter 4, District Regulations, Article 6, Residential Land U Residential District Land Use Table to add small lot housing as a new use under the household living category and allow the use in all one-family districts and establish supplemental standards consistent with chapter 211 of the Texas Local Government Code.

Amending Chapter 4 District Regulations, Article 8, Non-Residential District Use Table, and Article 12, Form Based Code District Use Table to remove the use titled governmental office facility as a use allowed in CF Community Facilities District and in CBT Camp Bowie Transition Zone, amending appendix A, Chapter 9 of the definitions, Section 9.101 to add the definition of mixed use residential and amend the definition of multifamily dwelling to include multifamily residential.

All right, thank you.

Uh there's no one signed up to speak in opposition for this case.

Uh so at this time I'll close the public hearing and leave it open for discussion or a vote.

And again, this is only for Senate Bill 15, the small lot housing.

They've removed the other two House and Senate bills.

Any discussion chairman, in the case of uh ZC-25-173, I move to approve 71.

Or 171, I approve I move to approve.

Second.

All right, we have a motion to approve by Commissioner Mayo and a second by Commissioner Edmonds.

I'm sorry, Commissioner Robinson.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo?

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye.

Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Aye.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Worman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0, the zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case, next case on the agenda is ZC25-173.

The request is an ordinance amending the zoning ordinance of the City of Fort Worth being ordinance number 21653 as amended, codified as appendix A of the Code of the City of Fort Worth by amending Chapter 3 review procedures, Article 5, Text or Map Amendment, rezoning to amend Section 3.502 notice to add the requirement that notice be published on the city's internet website to amend the posted notice requirement concerning the erection and maintenance of a sign to require that a sign be posted at a specific location and for a specific period in order for council to act on a proposed zoning change in zoning classification to establish regulations for failing to post notice to amend appendix A Chapter 9 definitions section 9.101 define terms to add the definition of proposed comprehensive zoning changes.

All right.

So at this time I will close the public hearing and leave it open for some discussion or vote.

Chairman, in the case of ZC 25173, I recommend approval.

Second.

All right.

In this case, we have a recommendation for approval by Commissioner Mayo and a second by Commissioner Robinson.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns?

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo?

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye.

Commissioner Welch?

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Aye.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce?

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Worman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0.

The Zoning Commission recommends to recommends approval for this case.

Next case is ZC26 051.

Request is an ordinance amending the comprehensive zoning ordinance of the city of Fort Worth, being ordinance number 21653 as amended, codified as appendix A of the City of Fort Worth, the code of the City of Fort Worth.

By amending Chapter 6, Development Standards, Article 4, signs, Section 6.409, regulations governing on premise detached signs in commercial and industrial districts to increase maximum height and advertised message areas for pylon signs for properties along Chisholm Trail Parkway.

And on behalf of staff commission, the staff would like to withdraw this case and request acceptance of the withdrawal.

Seeing that there is no one signed up to speak against this case.

Next case is ZC26 008.

The address is 660 Union Stockyards Boulevard.

Applicant is Stockyard Hotel LLC, Justin Kaminsky, Brandon Middleton, Kimley Horn, and Associates.

The request is to add a conditional use permit in SY-TSA-130 Stockyards Transition Swift Armor and SYHCO-130, Stockyards Historic Core for temporary parking lot with a three-year time limit.

Site plan included.

All right, is the applicant present?

If you are, would you step forward?

And when you hear your case called uh up here, you're welcome to just start coming forward and we'll uh hear what you have to say.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Um yes, essentially, this is a a temporary use within the stockyards for a much needed uh uh item for parking.

Um the the parking lot would be a temporary gravel parking lot um to service the stockyards.

Um we we have a few waivers that we will be requesting through UDC, HCLC, and we have had a stockyards DRC meeting.

Um the temporary parking lot will have on-site management, um trash, um, as well as uh some maintenance as well.

Um we plan to have dust protection just for the surrounding areas in the existing condition.

This this lot just sits here and does not have a use.

Um our request is just for uh up to three years for the the temporary use with the the future intent of um a hotel in this location all right thank you very much uh any questions, commissioners yeah Commissioner Robinson.

Oh we'll need to turn his mic back on there you go so um this proposal site are you gonna have fencing around it?

Is it just gonna be open?

Uh yes, we'll have a low pipe rail fence for car protection and uh uh pedestrians.

And is lighting gonna be a part of that also?

Yes, we'll provide solar lighting as it's a temporary use and that will comply with the the standards of the stockyards.

That's it.

Commissioner Trujillo I'm ready, ready to move forward.

All right, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing.

Thank you very much.

Uh no one has signed up speaking opposition, so we're ready.

Yes, for Z Z 26-008, I move for approval.

Second.

We have a motion to approve by Commissioner Trujillo and a second by Commissioner Welch.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo.

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye.

Commissioner Welch?

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Aye.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Warman?

Aye.

Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 110, the zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case on the agenda is ZC 26 012.

The address is 11091, Chapin Road.

The applicant is Mary's Creek LLC, Brandon Middleton, Kimley Horn and Associates.

Ray OJeski with Kelly Hart.

The request is from Unzoned.

This is connected to an annexation case AX-26-001 to I Light Industrial.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Hello, Mr.

Chairman, members of the Commission, Ray OJeski on behalf of the property owner with this zoning request in uh conjunction with annexation of the property into the city of Fort Worth.

Let me see if I can get us to the uh there we go.

That's exactly what I'm looking for.

Um Commissioners, if you see the zoning map currently, uh to the west of this property is PD uh 625, that is the west side waste transfer station landfill area.

Uh just to the east is some G intensive commercial zoning.

The property to the north is uh property owned by the city of Fort Worth.

It was actually sold by this property owner to the city.

I don't think it's been annexed yet, but it is owned by the city.

And then there is a uh single family neighborhood a little bit further to the east that uh is buffered uh by uh as you can see the Fort Worth property and some uh floodplain area there as well.

Currently, the property owner has no immediate plans for this property.

Uh it's not currently being marketed for sale, they've held it for some period of time.

They do expect that this will be uh an interesting spot for a warehouse distribution type facility, and so that is what they were expecting to see here, but again, at this point they really have no uh immediate user for the property, so the request is simply for the light industrial today.

So with that, I'll answer any questions you have.

Any questions, Commissioners?

All right, thank you, Ray.

We do have one person signed up to speak.

It's not clear.

Um are you here to speak in favor or opposition?

Okay, yeah, if you'll come up.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Elaine Wagner, I represent uh the Gleason's 99 neighborhood, which is directly across Chape and Road from the wastewater treatment facility.

Now we are a little bit concerned.

We have seen the zoning change request sign that is directly opposite Chapin Road, and our neighborhood is across a one-lane each direction uh narrow road from the wastewater treatment.

So I guess we are a little concerned about or confused.

I have spoken with Ms.

Jordan and also with Miss Suzanne Abbey about the expectation of the final development on the wastewater treatment, the adjacent 90 something acre by uh including a secondary pumping building, open space, buffer to the neighborhood to the east, and a uh rumored park.

Now we are large track uh houses.

We are not in the city, we're in Terran County, the Fort Worth City boundary is at my lower fence line, these large tracks, and we've got maybe 12 households out there, and we stay in good touch.

But we need we would like some more information about the overall plan for this vicinity.

We have seen a lot more activity in the Chapin Road access.

I don't know if you guys are familiar, but we are in kind of a cul-de-sac.

Chapin Road goes east-west and turns north-south where it hits Old Weatherford, and we have a school, we've got some traffic issues, but we are seeing more activity toward the um posted you know, west side water reclamation facility, and we do not understand the construction access, and again, we don't know the final plan for all of this land in in this vicinity.

So I'm a good point of contact.

I'm designated to come here to represent the neighborhood today.

I'd be more than more than happy.

I've spoken with Ms.

Jordan and Miss Abbey, and no one seems to know the final plan for the layout in there.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Ray, I'll invite you back up to you don't have anything on that to add.

Um do we know if I know neighborhood associations can sign up.

I think somewhere on the city's website to receive alerts and notifications.

They can.

Yes, um, if you if any neighborhood wants to register with uh the uh community engagement uh division of the city, you can receive notifications any time that there's a zoning case in your district.

Thank you.

I don't have anyone else signed up to speak for this case.

Were you wanting to speak to this case as well?

Yes, just for the um the question on traffic and access.

Um just just stating that access will be taken solely off of uh I-30 and does not plan to impact um any of the surrounding neighborhoods.

Okay, all right, and Ray, you're good.

Okay.

Do you need to go?

Yeah, sir.

If you wouldn't mind just go, I know you filled one out.

If you would fill out another one just so we have that on record.

Any questions, Commissioners?

Okay, seeing none, and we'll go ahead and close the public hearing and leave it open for discussion uh or a motion.

And Commissioner Welch, this one is yours.

Um in the matter of the case ZC-26-012.

I move for approval.

Second.

All right, we have a motion to approve by Commissioner Welch and a second by Commissioner Trujillo.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo.

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye.

Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

All right, Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce?

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Werman.

Aye.

Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0, the zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case is ZC26-018.

The address is 8900, the 8900th block of River Trails Boulevard.

Applicant is now Text Facilities Management, LLC, DCG Engineering.

David Gregory, PE.

Request from AG Agricultural to TLN Trinity Lakes Neighborhood Zone.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Good afternoon, David Gregory, DCG Engineering 1668, Keller Parkway Suite 100, Keller, Texas, 76248.

Hopefully, this is a pretty simple case.

We're proposing to rezone the property that's currently AG into Trinity Lakes neighborhood foreign-based code zoning.

The property to our west is already zoned, Trinity Lakes neighborhood.

And the properties to the north and east are also neighborhood zoning A5 and R2, if I remember correctly.

They have no intention of developing inside the floodplain.

We brought our zoning district or boundary slightly below, just in case when we get the detailed topography that the map and and uh line would change just slightly, but our intention is to stay out of the Trinity River floodplain.

Be happy to answer any questions that you'd have.

All right.

There is no one signed to speak uh in opposition to this case, so uh we'll leave it open to some questions, commissioners.

If I may, Mr.

Chairman.

Um concern I've I've heard um from the opposition is that there are some drainage problems in this area, and in some in this particular case, this property has had drainage problems.

Uh I guess you're aware of that, the applicants aware of that, and you realize that um we our process will require you to work with mitigating any future problems for not only yourself but also the adjacent property owners.

Yes, sir.

We're very aware of that.

I've actually uh was the engineer that did the uh design on most of the single family in this immediate area.

Um and this property in general primarily drains from north to south, so away from the existing single family.

You can see it on the map right now.

There's actually a large drainage channel that is immediately to the west of our boundary, and most of the drainage problems actually happened a little bit to the west of that, but we've been uh talking with the neighborhood uh last year.

We talked with the neighborhood a lot where we rezoned the property immediately to the west.

And uh as plans progress, we will of course adhere to all the city required drainage studies, et cetera, and meet and or exceed all the code.

I appreciate that assurance, and I'm sure the uh neighbors will as well.

All right, thank you very much.

Any other questions?

Seeing none, we will close the public hearing and leave it up for more discussion or this one's yours, Commissioner.

Uh Mr.

Chairman, in the in the um case ZC26 018.

I move of approval, second.

All right, we have a motion uh to approve by Commissioner Edmonds and a second by Commissioner Mayo.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye, Commissioner Mayo?

Aye, Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye, Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Aye.

Commissioner Robinson?

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Warman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 110, the zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case, ZC-26027.

Address is 3608 and 3612 Dexter Avenue.

Applicant is Les Doris J.

I'm sorry.

The applicant is Leslie K.

Doris J and Arlene Pervis Jr., Texas Survey and Engineering Inc., Caitlin McQueene.

Request is from B two Family Residential to ER neighborhood commercial restricted.

The zoning commission.

Thank you.

Uh hello, Commissioners.

My name is Teresa McGee.

I'm with Texas Surveying and Engineering, and I represent the developers and owner for this site.

We are seeking a rezoning from B to ER for a proposed professional building to be erected.

Um it'll be approximately between 5,060, 400 square feet, and it will have on-site parking available.

So we're expecting minimal traffic to be increased, and we actually want to update the aesthetic for the neighborhood and kind of clean it up.

So if this zoning is granted, they have plans for four townhomes to go to the west of this site specifically.

Okay.

Do you guys have any questions for me?

Questions, commissioners.

Seeing them we do have someone signed up to speak in opposition, so we'll let them come up and then uh you'll have two minutes to rebut.

Good afternoon.

My name is Shauna Cisneros.

I live at 3875 Lafayette, Fort Worth, Texas, 76107.

I am the vice president of Arlington Heights Neighborhood Association, and am also a member of the association's zoning committee.

I am speaking on behalf of the association today.

Commercial encroachment is one of the top issues in our neighborhood association.

With almost no exception, we staunchly oppose commercial encroachment into our historic 100-year old neighborhood.

Comprehensive plan, excuse me, map plan clearly shows the subject properties at 3608 and 3612 Dexter to be residential.

The comp plan policy for Arlington Heights reinforces this area should be protected from commercial encroachment.

I am here today to advocate for this commission to follow the zoning ordinance and companies and deny ZC hyphen 26 hyphen 027.

The applicant's representative told us that this site plan is subject to change.

So it actually promises nothing.

Also, ER zoning allows some uses we believe would negatively impact the residential right next to it.

Allowing commercial to intrude further into the neighborhood, even just a little bit more, sets a terrible precedent for neighbors who live in the first blocks off of Montgomery.

We believe the highest and best use for the two subject parcels is residential.

Redevelopment of existing residential is already occurring at the end of this block of Dexter, as well as across the alley, right behind the subject parcels on the south side of Lafayette Avenue.

We support that kind of development for the two subject properties.

Yes.

Thank you.

Please support Arlington Heights in its efforts to hold the line on commercial encroachment any further into our neighborhood.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

And now, Ms.

McGee, you've got two minutes.

Absolutely.

Thank you again, Commissioners.

Um, while we do understand and respect Arlington Heights position on this, I do want to enforce the fact that this area has needed a cleanup and the neighborhood for a while.

And there have been several developers who have attempted this and failed because of the zoning.

This developer is not only promising to clean up this area in specific, but is also offering new residential units directly next to them.

They like the fact that this is a residential area and they feel more secure for their professional office building to go in this location.

And we would have attempted the next two vacant lots running on Montgomery Street had they been available.

So I again just asked commissioners to consider the fact for this professional office building space, which would have parking designed for the square footage of the building that is not set yet because the zoning has not been set for this area.

So if you guys have any further questions, I again am here to answer those for you.

Questions, commissioners.

So you have no site plan, no like showing how you're gonna split the two lots with residential on one side and what the office building might look like.

I do have those, and I sent that, I have them in a PowerPoint that I was expecting to present today, and I did present it to our council person, but did not get it in time to this commission to review it.

But since it's a straight zoning change, it wouldn't be tied to it.

Um I have a question.

So the I'm sorry.

So the office building, is it like just office uh space to lease or so?

It'll be a professional office building for HGC development solely, and it may be possibly a few business partners that would be tied in with that development group specifically.

Thank you.

So I am I'm also concerned about the encroachment into the neighborhood.

Um as the uh as someone just spoke.

Um our opposition spoke about uh rezoning this whole area, did a big chunk of it.

Um there's a lot of that going on in this area, as you're aware, and I understand uh why your clients uh want their office over here.

Um, but uh you know it doesn't match the land use, you know, it does go into the neighborhood.

If it was on Montgomery, obviously a totally different story.

Um, but uh it doesn't follow the comp plan.

I think that's there for a reason because the neighborhood's seen so much.

Uh so I would have a really hard time uh supporting it as is there any other questions?

Yep, I agree with that.

Okay, at this time I'll close the public hearing.

Thank you very much.

Uh and this is in my district, and I can't start the vote.

So Mr.

Chairman, if there's no discussion, I'd like to make a motion uh for you.

Um the case of ZC 26027, and my recommendation recommendation would be to deny second.

All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Edmonds to deny and a second by Commissioner Mayo.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye, Commissioner Mayo.

Aye, Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye, Commissioner Welch?

Aye, Commissioner McCoy.

Aye, Commissioner Edmonds, aye, Commissioner Robinson.

Aye, Commissioner Pierce, aye.

Commissioner Rogers?

Aye.

Commissioner Werman.

Aye.

Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0, the zoning commission votes to recommend denial for this case.

Next case is ZC-26-029.

The address is 1000 South Redder Street.

Applicant is Jesus Martinez.

The request is from A51 Family Residential and CF Community Facilities to ER neighborhood commercial restricted.

Is the applicant present.

And anybody.

Hello, welcome to the zoning commission.

That's weird.

Like a price is right up in here.

You might have to come to the middle.

I'm not sure if that mic's on.

You can try it.

Test.

Oh, it's on.

There you go.

Go for it.

I have powers, I know.

Uh good afternoon.

Um my name's Robin Kelly.

Do I need to state my address?

We have.

Is that official?

Yes or no.

We've got it.

You can just okay.

I live literally right across the street from the applicant.

And we don't know anything about it.

I saw the sign.

I called our president of United Riverside Neighborhood Association.

I said, hello.

What is this zoning about?

I don't know.

She goes on the calendar.

It's not on the list.

I call the number.

I get a card.

Um I think she's gotten a response, and she'll talk to that later in reference to why our neighborhood association was not um communicated about this information.

And it was they have a new program, and there was a slip in the system, and so it was lost in the mail.

Electronic mail.

Next to a park near a neighborhood school, etc.

Not in the comprehensive plan of United Riverside to be anything other than residential.

So I'm asking for a continuance number one, but I am quite it might have been minor in the department.

I'm not sure what department it goes under.

You have a new system.

It doesn't communicate, but that slight mistake seems like nothing to them.

But for us, had we not been here, this would be probably approval, and I'm probably would not be happy uh with any type of business in that neighborhood right across the street.

So FY Continuance, but please make sure in communication.

These things are very important to neighbors.

So Robin, real quick, sorry.

You mentioned continuance a couple of times.

Staff is recommending denial on this case in the event.

I was trying to go with what my president said, but straight up, I want a denial.

Okay.

That was my that was gonna be my next question.

Okay, thank you very much.

So a denial.

And at this time we'll hear from Phyllis.

And Phyllis looks like you've got nice to see you, James.

Good to see you too.

You've got about a minute left.

Did you want to say anything?

Okay.

Okay.

Any other questions, Commissioners?

And one more time for the applicant.

If you just walked in, is the applicant for this case present.

Mr.

Sherman, we work very hard to communicate with neighborhoods and uh interested parties on these cases.

And if testimony is that we did not communicate with this neighborhood, um I'd just like for the staff to discuss it with them as an aside and see if maybe we need to do something else to improve the process.

Yeah, I know they've taken note of this, so they'll address that.

Can I address that?

Yeah, one second.

Yeah, she wants to.

I'm sorry.

Go ahead.

I can't see you.

Um so we did staff did look into this concern, and um, so these um basically, I think that there was a name um issue.

So our uh neighborhood association um or neighborhood services group who compiles all of this information for us, had a United Riverside Rebuilding Corporation in our um in our database, but not United Riverside in A.

So I think that there was just a potentially a naming and possibly address addressing issue.

That has been corrected, so moving forward, they'll receive notice.

Yes, okay.

That is correct.

Very good.

Thank you.

And oh, I'm sorry that that part's over.

It's just one more thing as a feedback.

Maybe we need to give when we do send out those notifications, give details on what that zoning change is because I can tell you some of my some of my constituents are saying, what is this?

What is this in in layman's terms, not in zoning terms?

Hey, this is gonna be a signage change that this is going to impact your your neighborhood.

They want to change it from residential commercial so they know exactly what they're looking at because a lot of people are saying, I don't understand this.

All right, thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you.

Any other uh discussion?

Seeing none, we will close the public hearing and Commissioner Castro.

This one is yours.

Sure.

Uh first of all, thank you to Phyllis and Callie for being here today and bringing that to our attention.

Um, acknowledging the latest update and your alignment with the staff recommendation to deny, acknowledging that the applicant is not present.

Uh I think that we don't have any further discussion, and we just move with a denial.

Second.

Oh, sorry, could you state the case and then say it just for the record?

So in CC-26-029, I move for denial.

Second.

All right, we have a motion to deny by Commissioner Castro and a second by Commissioner Mayo.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye.

Commissioner Welch.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

All right.

Commissioner Robinson?

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Hi.

Commissioner Warman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Hi.

With a vote of 11 to 0.

The zoning commission votes to recommend denial for this case.

Next case, CC-26-030.

Address is 1231 East Harmon Road.

Applicant is Nathan Ootke.

The request is from C Medium Density Multifamily and F General Commercial 2.

Feneral Commercial.

Is the applicant present.

If you have a presentation, you might have to use this one.

Do you have something you want to show us?

Welcome to the zoning commission.

My name is Jennifer Lutz.

I'm with Plaza Developers.

10101, West Ridge Willoward, McKenna Texas 75072.

We currently uh have this piece of property here on Harman and East Harmon Road.

Um it's a 3.42 acre piece of property.

Um we're only looking to rezone 0.615% of that.

I mean point six five one five acres of that, and that's on the very western part of the property.

It's a small strip um to just essentially match it to the rest of our property, which is zoned commercial.

Okay.

All right, saying none, thank you very much.

Um we will close the public hearing.

And uh Commissioner Worman.

For ZC26 030, I move for approval.

Second.

All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Worman and a second by Commissioner Trujillo to move for approval.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Hi.

Commissioner Mayo?

Hi.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Hi.

Commissioner Welch.

Hi.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Hi.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Hi.

Commissioner Worman.

Aye.

Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0, the zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case, CC-26-031.

Address is 454 West Cleveland Avenue.

Applicant is outpost Fort Worth, LLC, Will Moncrief, and Chandler Davis.

The request is from NST4N near Southside General Urban Neighborhood and NST5 near South Side T5 Urban Center to NST5 near Southside T5 Urban Center and add a conditional use permit for a recreational vehicle park with development waivers to only to allow only four vehicle lot spaces to keep all vehicles in the park longer than 60 days and to not maintain a publicly accessible telephone on site, site plan included.

Thank you.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Hey Jeremy, thanks for having me.

But I will say this, you know, these products are 150,000 each, very custom, uh high quality um uh units, but would love to address any questions that you guys may have.

Yeah, I think we have some here.

Um, and there is no one signed up to speak in opposition, so y'all are free to ask the applicant questions.

So the ball drop you referred to.

Was that the miscommunication, lack of communication with regard to the fact that they didn't meet building standards?

So the to my knowledge, we were always gonna have to go through um a zoning change for those particular units.

So they were on a different permit than the 31 Casita billas.

Um at the time, Justin Newhart in the meeting with Elizabeth Beck's approval, um, Evans, you know, agreeable agreement and approval.

Um, we were gonna have to seek that zoning change, and upon his departure, I guess the application never got processed.

And so um that is frankly, we took responsibility in that as well.

But um that that essentially is what happened.

The point of me telling is just that this isn't um something that we're we're trying to push across now.

Like we went through the proper channels initially, were given the green light purchased these, got them set up, installed, and then um found out later that they needed that that we needed to go through this formal process.

Um that's that's kind of where we are now, but so were you aware that the trailers didn't meet the minimum build building standards for the standard building code?

Correct, yes, sir.

Okay.

The we yeah, is there anything on the like from a technical perspective on what was allowable?

No, because when we looked at it the first time, we didn't know how to actually request for that variance, so we didn't know which channel to actually apply for.

Um so that was in uh the court, and I kind of came in midway through figuring out what we're needing and what application we need to apply for to get the uh airstreams permitted and have CEOs.

Okay, you had met with your council rep and city staff in planning and development, so they had advised you you needed to zoning.

Yeah, it's just not which avenue to go for for them.

So this is where we're at now going through and uh requesting the few variances to allow the recreational vehicles on the site.

And like we talked about uh in our uh pre-hearing, it sounded like that the person that was initially charged with this case um got shuffled around, and perhaps there was a ball dropped there.

Uh they were gonna look into some solution, then that just never happened.

Is that right?

That is correct.

Okay.

Um, Mr.

Chairman, yes, sir.

I had a question.

Um, it's kind of an unusual product.

Um, we don't see this very often.

It's new.

Uh, can you kind of describe since we're talking to the public here as well as commissioners, what you're intending to do here, how it operates, um, what you envision will happen once you open.

Yeah, yeah, I'll take that.

So um, so my line of business is in operating boutique hotels, and so this is a boat independent boutique hotel product.

Um, it's consistent again of 31 550 square foot casita villas um that are designed to be rented out, you know, overnight.

Um, and then it's comprised of a large courtyard area in the middle of the the perimeter of the project that does have the four air streams, and in between, it's a little bit of an outdated uh picture, but you've got um all the landscaping, you've got pathways, you've got fire pits on each side, you've got the string lights, um, and we're what we're really trying to set is just like this immersive um experience for for our guests.

Um but traditionally it's it's allowable for extended stays because these casitas have full kitchenettes in them.

Um, but the product is is certainly designed for more of the traditional hotel type guests.

Um, and obviously we're catering to um the proximity to downtown, the convention center, the hospital district, working with um uh several of the folks in the wedding planning uh space as well.

Um and then we've worked very very closely with Mike Brennan and Megan Henderson and near South Side, and they're super excited about the product.

Um yeah, and so uh it's uh it's unique in the fact that it it does have a different approach, it's not in a singular, you know, two to four story hotel building.

We've just split up our units to having exterior entrance exits and the airstream um initially probably more information you need, but we were looking to do like a pool and some more community space in the middle, but uh due to like a gas line going throughout, that's when we started looking at um what would be a fun and unique and different way for our guests to be able to experience the property, and and that's where the airstreams were brought on, and Elizabeth loved the idea and thought it was something cool and unique that could be different for Fort Worth, especially for near Southside being an arts district, and so that started like the conversations and and that's where we continue to get more and more confirmation that we were good with with this particular concept.

But again, the airstreams only make up four of the total 35 doors, 35 units.

So uh being that this is so unique.

I'm sorry, do you have the follow-up?

I just if I could just follow up a little bit.

Do you have a um community area, a room or something?

Um is there any kind of um is there a swimming pool?

Is there are there hot tubs?

Are there no there are no hot tubs and there's no pool.

There's a pickleball court, there's two fire pits, there's yard games.

Um there is an office, so we'll always have on site personnel.

We have a hotel manager as well as hourly uh folks that rotate, and then we have a security guard in the evenings.

It's also fully secured and perimetered.

Um, so it is fully privatized and fenced off across the entire project.

Is it a single entrance?

Uh there's actually multiple entrance.

So the main entrance is on the top right corner off of Cleveland Avenue.

That street actually dead ends to the right of that Cleveland is the UT Southwestern 411 parking lot.

Um, and then on the corner there, and that true top right corner, we have a we have an entrance right there with a monument sign, a bunch of like really pretty landscaping.

There's a bunch of uh cactus and different bushes and um and things.

There's a very cool mural that we got custom made in Soma Hotel Soma is what it's called, is representative of obviously South Main village.

So we brought in local artists, every single casita's got local uh Fort Worth artists that we're doing a consignment and residency program with.

We've got murals throughout the project.

Um, but the main entrance to answer your questions top right.

There's also an entrance on the far left side, and then we have man gates um in between where the parking sections are.

So all of these like hammerhead entrances um on Cleveland and Galveston as you go to the left and right perimeters of the project, those are parking, and there's a man gate uh that's code by code um to enter and exit.

One final question.

Umticipate any performance stages or any loud music um after hours or during the day.

Uh well, no, sir.

We do have a stage, um, but it's it's set up as a um it's set up as a seating area.

So it's it's basically like four separate um seating areas, like under like a huge oak tree that we have where we have light um like light balls coming off of it.

Um it's set up to be used as like a one-person uh musician stage, uh, if and when allowable, which it is, but I will say for this particular project and for our other projects, we do have like a nine 9 p.m.

quiet hours.

So um that's part of why we have security guard on site to allow people because it is it does have a lot of community space.

Um, and the idea is to create that community to allow people to come out in the courtyards in the seating areas.

There's benches and seating areas throughout and and kind of experience the project or together, but then they're walkable to all the restaurants and bars and retail that South Main has to offer across the street.

Um so to answer your question, 100%, we do have quiet hours starting at 9 p.m.

We will not have any evening uh concert events, but we do have the ability to have a musician play during the daylight hours.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you.

Uh but because this is such a unique product, nothing like this really exists in the city currently.

Um, would you be open to some kind of a time limit if we were to approve this with a time limit?

Yeah, absolutely.

Like we wouldn't be able to work with you guys, and we want to make sure it's um beneficial to everyone involved.

So completely understand that.

Okay.

Any other questions, commissioners?

You mentioned several times that you got the green light.

What does that mean?

Well, we we had a meeting.

I mean, uh Elizabeth's assisted.

I'm I'm sure there are notes taken, but are you referring to council member Beck?

Uh I'm not I'm not friends, no.

I I just scheduled a meeting with her, but it was uh, you know, myself, Evan Roberts, Justin Newhart, um, my business partner, and and then um our large capital investor, and we sat there and we explained um exactly what we were doing and the idea of incorporating these airstreams, and everybody was very supportive on board.

Justin said, I'll run this through the formal process.

I'll just be honest, I'm a first-time developer, so the technical expertise and and this was all new to me.

Um, and so yeah, we moved forward with the assumption and understanding that that we were able to to do exactly what our intent was.

Um, but understandable that you know if I could go back, we we probably should have checked more boxes and ensured that that process was uh moving forward before we moved moved these in.

So you're aware that you would require some sort of rezoning to install these uh airstream.

Initially, what was proposed was an administrative approval.

I don't know how realistic or reasonable if that is even uh a thing, but that was what was communicated.

Um yes, rezoning they were permitted separately.

Um so there was an understanding that most likely, yes.

I my intent or assumption was that it would be rezoned.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

You said your business is boutique hotels.

What other boutique hotels are you involved with?

So we've got the Rambler Inn.

It's a 24-door boutique hotel in Arlington, Texas.

Um it's in the downtown area.

Um, and then we also have project called the Ryan that's uh also in Arlington, Texas, and then we're building a second location similar to this one.

Um it's comprised of 30 uh casita villas, and it's also gonna be in Arlington, Texas, across from ATT stadium.

And then we're looking at potentially another location in Fort Worth in the stockyards area.

So um so you're not a first-time developer.

You've got to well, we we manage operate all of these.

This was the first time we've developed from the ground up.

But we are we are an experienced manager operator of boutique hotels um on the back end.

This is the first time that we've built um a hotel, and then we're looking to continue to build our own portfolio of hotels versus managing and operating other people's, and with the focus being to continue in DFW in our backyard.

When you say we, is it just you two or there are other people involved?

Yeah, no, absolutely.

There's a there's a team.

So we've got um my company is a team of nine, and we have you know, multiple entities that these various hotel projects fall within with investors and co-developers and um I think what I'm getting at is if you have a team of people who do this for a living, that it might be a reasonable assumption that some type of zoning was needed in there for moving airstreams onto the property was premature and outside city ordinance.

Yes, ma'am.

And at the same time, I think you know, legal may want to refresh zoning staff as well as city council on you know any verbal approval or discussions.

Well, I mean, again, um the purpose of you know whether or not they needed a variance or the zoning commission, uh, you know, the board, uh whether it was the board of adjustment or the zoning, it's not intended, y'all are not intended to be a board of um punishment.

Uh it's a board to either seek relief of some type of misunderstanding or some type of zoning violation.

But whether or not there's some type of zoning violation or misunderstanding, the the board is limited into determining whether or not the proposed use and the waivers that are being requested is appropriate in terms of land use compatibility and consistency.

So I understand that there are some discussions with regards to whether or not he understood or whether or not a zoning change is needed.

Bear that in mind, the board really should focus on whether or not the proposed use again is consistent and compatible with um the location.

So is this a good location for this type of project?

Is the land use compatible?

Just follow the comp plan.

Well, I mean, I'm not asking the question.

Regardless of whether or not y'all take that in consideration.

I just wanted to make sure that uh whether or not you approve or deny shouldn't be on the basis of whether or not um you know you believe that there was any malicious intent or just trying to take advantage of the system.

Uh, I would I would caution the board uh in in factoring that into whether or not to approve or deny.

It's whether or not you, as commissioners of the zoning commission believe that this use is either not compatible or or or consistent with the comprehensive plan.

Thank you, Chris.

Any other discussion?

I I would add that my question would be is this really an RV park?

Because it seems to be a workaround to allow it.

But it's not in an RV park in its traditional sense.

Right.

And I think that's why we were in uh, I believe, wasn't it you, Dave that presented this one?

Who presented this?

This was uh Joe Lawless from our first.

I think one of the first things he said when he uh when he presented it was uh you know he read that out loud and it was like wait till you see pictures because it's not what you think it is.

Uh but it sounded to me and Joe you can speak to this, but uh that's really the only mechanism you had.

There's this is a very unique product.

Yes, and I'd ask the zoning commission to consider this in context with the requested waivers that put the restrictions from this being a what you might call a traditional RV park.

All right, thank you, Joe.

All right.

One more question.

These aren't visible from the street, are they?

No, ma'am.

So I didn't think they're looking.

Commissioner Rogers, you have all the information you need.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh at this time I will close the public hearing.

Thank you, gentlemen.

And uh it is yours, sir.

ZC26031, a move approval with a three-year time limit.

Second.

All right, we had a motion to approve with a three-year time limit um by Commissioner Rogers and a second by Commissioner Worman.

Mr.

Chair, before you do that, you need to probably clarify with the applicant what that three-year time limit means.

So he's aware he doesn't make that same mistake again.

Yeah, we'll make sure that he understands with staff.

Yes.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Rings.

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo.

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye.

Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Aye.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce?

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Warman.

Aye.

Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0, the zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case with a three-year time limit.

Next case is ZC-26-033.

Address is 1727 Bellsize Terrace.

Applicant is Herman Munoz and James Walker.

The request is from A5 one family residential to B two family residential.

Is the applicant present?

Okay.

It does not appear the applicant is present.

There is no one signed up to speak in opposition.

So at this time we will close the public hearing.

And Commissioner Pierce, this one's yours.

If you'd like some discussion.

Okay.

Ready to go.

All right.

Thank you, Chairman.

In the case of ZZ26033, I move for approval.

Second.

We have a motion from Commissioner Pierce and a second from Commissioner Robinson to approve.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo.

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo?

Aye.

Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCord?

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Aye.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce?

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Werman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0, the Zoning Commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case, ZC-26-034.

The address is R21 or excuse me, 2613, 2617, 2701, 2717, 2721, 2723, and 2725 Wabash Avenue.

The applicant is Texas Christian University and Dunaway Associates.

Stephen Cook.

The request.

Excuse me.

Again, it's my first meeting.

Thanks.

So the request was from B two Family Residential with a TCU overlay to CF community facilities with a TCU overlay.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

Thank you, Commission.

I greatly appreciate it.

Again, my name is Stephen Cook with Dunaway Associates representing uh TCU on this zoning case.

I'm going to go ahead and uh get over to our presentation.

Um the properties that we're looking at is a total of uh 1.3 acres of property.

They are zoned uh currently as the B zoning district, the two-family zoning district, and they were located just north of the main uh TCU campus.

Uh these properties are owned by TCU, and uh they had uh previously had on them uh some uh older uh duplex type of buildings and uh older structures, and those have uh been removed from those uh sites in uh subsequent time.

Uh the uh TCU and uh staff has been really working together uh with your planning staff in order to uh look at how we can utilize this property in order to assist and uh the reconstruction efforts on uh the Landrith building.

This is uh the Landrith uh auditorium is just to the south and east of these uh lots, and uh the intent of the uh rezoning uh was to uh utilize these properties as lay down area and uh secure areas for uh storage and for office uh uh temporary office buildings in order to uh uh manage the uh reconstruction of the landrith auditorium over the next two years, and staff recommended that uh we move forward with a change from the B zoning to the CF zoning, which is what the majority of TCU properties are uh zoned throughout the entirety of the campus.

The uh the intent is that uh once the uh uh uh zoning is in place, then a CUP would be uh achieved and and uh applied for in order to so that uh uh the uh temporary offices may be uh located there throughout the uh reconstruction efforts uh for the land auditorium over the next two years.

And uh then uh following following that uh there is uh you know nothing specific.

There's long range plans for TCU, but uh the CF zoning is very uh specific in how it uh affects the adjacent uh properties in height restrictions as well as uh in uh particular to adjacency to residential uh zoning.

So we feel that the uh uh TCU is uh going to make sure that it uh complies with all of those standards and that uh these these uh lots are going to be into the future.

But there's nothing that is uh specifically planned for these lots other than being utilized uh to in support of uh improving the uh auditorium structure itself.

Uh the properties have been cleared of uh any uh uh uh existing construction on it and uh they will be utilized then.

Staff has recommended approval uh for this uh particular uh rezoning and will uh move forward with a CF.

We have met uh with the uh University West uh board.

We're um greatly appreciate their uh cooperation and working with us and uh meeting and uh discussing this over several uh several days and uh uh they did uh provide a uh a letter of support and uh uh understanding that uh TCU has been a good partner with them over uh many decades and that they will continue to be uh a good partner with uh with the neighborhood, uh even with the uh CF zoning uh into the future.

Uh we are planning on meeting with uh uh councilwoman Beck uh next week was when uh her uh uh the district uh officer was able to get us a meeting with her um prior to uh any uh decision that would be going before with the uh city council.

So uh we are greatly appreciative of your time and uh we're available for any questions that you uh the commission may have.

Thanks, Stephen.

Uh we don't have anyone signed up to speak in opposition, so uh we have any questions for the applicant.

Uh if I may um during the workshop it was expressed that uh this would be converted into a park after it had been used for its temporary use.

And the park would be available for the neighborhood.

Is you're saying that there's nothing specific um that's planned.

No, sir.

There is uh there is uh, you know, obviously TCU itself has a long-range plan over uh particular uh time period.

Some of the ideas of it have been including uh the uh the kinder uh uh frog uh area as as part of that, but there has not been anything specific uh to that.

That's again something that TCU uh and and uh working through their long-range plan and continuing the uh the uh relationship with the university west neighborhood that uh we want to make sure that we that they workshop all of the potential use of the uh properties after the construction.

So it is not something that has been specifically designed yet.

Can we get an aerial view?

Yes, sir, absolutely.

Here we go.

And again, this area is a little bit old because it still has the uh structures that are on there that are no longer there.

So it does a butt on other residential properties.

There are properties that uh I think there's only one that is actually occupied as a residential structure.

The others are um uh utilized as offices for uh the UCC and uh the Baptist Church that are along through there, and but the majority of the properties that these butt onto are uh uh uh parking.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you, sir.

All right.

At this time we will close the public hearing.

Thank you very much.

And Commissioner Rogers, this case is yours, or if you want some more discussion, we can do that.

I'm good.

Thank you.

Um ZC26034, I move approval.

Second.

We have a motion to approve by Commissioner Rogers, and I believe that was Commissioner Warman with the second.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Hi.

Commissioner Mayo.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

All right.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce?

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Warman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

The vote of 11 to 0.

The zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case.

ZC-26-035.

Address is 2606 in Pill Street.

The applicant is Cowtown properties in Troy Kunkel.

The request is from PDCR.

Plan development for all uses in CR low density multifamily with specific development standards for open space setback adjacent to one family residential fencing location, building orientation, and a waiver to the multifamily development.

Submittal site plan approved and A51 family residential.

Two PDE plan development for all uses in e neighborhood commercial as amended, plus warehouse.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

This uh property was a neighborhood commercial building.

Uh it was originally a family dollar, later converted into a church.

And uh the church was wanting to build some tiny homes on the little grass area back towards the railroad tracks.

So they rezoned it a couple years ago to multifamily to uh allow that to happen because it didn't matter what the commercial building was zoned because they were using it as a church.

Uh they have since sold to me, and uh now the commercial building is uh unleasable because um it's zoned multifamily, and we're asking for it to be uh turned back into neighborhood um commercial building so we can get it leased up.

We do have a tenant um interested in leasing the building, but obviously we have to change the it to the appropriate zoning questions, commissioners are you able to share any details as to what the tenant over here tenant is uh oh, there you are.

Sorry, yeah.

What what kind of business the tenant is trying to bring in?

Yes, uh the the current tenant that we're working with, it would primarily be offices, but they do want to have the ability to do some storage inside because it's 8,000 square feet, and so that's what we're looking at as a tenant that would primarily use it for offices and with some storage inside and talk a little about the engagement that you've been able to have with the nearby neighborhood associations and any other organizations.

Sure.

Uh yes, we've reached out to several neighborhood associations, and both have been uh in favor of what we're trying to do and agreed with uh changing it back to the neighborhood commercial zoning.

Yeah, they've all been in favor.

So one of the uh waivers that you're uh looking for the amendments is adding a warehouse use.

Um are you planning on there being any 18-wheeler access?

No, sir.

No, okay.

And we're okay with limiting if you know alcohol, outside storage, whatever you uh see fit on that.

So because one of the issues that we this isn't specific to your case necessarily, but one of the things we have to think about is uh when you uh add stuff like that, like warehouse.

Uh say your your tenant doesn't work out, you need to move, you sell the property, it still has that use.

Someone else can use it as a warehouse.

They need it 18-wheeler access.

That's a really busy street with really no way to get a truck in and out other than pulling in and then backing out onto a really busy street.

Those are things we have to consider uh when it comes to land use uh compatibility.

Yes, sir.

And I think the reason for the this indoor storage was the tenant might um, I think the zoning has if it's more storage than office, it falls under a different zoning.

And and I do know they have a lot of boxes, so just want to make sure that we weren't using it for an inappropriate use.

Understood our intent and just to clarify, you did mention that you are open to restrictions against alcohol and any vaping type of business.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

With regards to one particular organization, we did receive in writing uh Hempfield Corridor Development Collaborative is open to the business, but I guess I'm not sure if they've actually had any communication with you.

They wanted to meet with you.

We we spoke to them for the last couple weeks as well.

Uh but yes, for some reason, yesterday they sent a letter that said they'd like to do a 30-day continuance.

Um again that might cause conflict with our current potential tenant.

Um just time kills deals.

So we'd like to move this forward.

Any uh chance that this could be done before this goes before city council on May 12th, that y'all can come to an agreement and do whatever follow-up business needs to be there.

With the Hemphill corridor specifically, sure.

Yes.

We've been very friendly with them and talking back and forth.

Thank you.

Sure.

All right.

Any other questions, Commissioners?

All right, again, there is no one here to speak in opposition, so at this time we will close the public hearing.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

And Commissioner Castro, this one's yours unless you want some more discussion.

I just want to get the feelers for the uh ask on that uh continuance that would happen, uh follow-up meeting between those two entities before the May 12th City Council meeting.

All good with that?

So yeah, you don't feel like there's been enough communication.

Is that what your concern is?

Uh yes, definitely want to make sure that they're all on the same page.

Uh perhaps uh this is new information on the intent of the potential tenants that are coming.

Yeah.

Yeah, my biggest concern isn't the isn't the E, it's the E plus the warehouse.

Yeah.

If it was straight E, that'd be a little easier to swallow, but with the warehouse.

Well and council is almost five weeks away.

It would be we do have time to coordinate and speak.

I mean, maybe this is something that goes just to council for for their decision.

Would it would any of their discussion change your ruling?

Commissioner, do you think I don't think so.

Um, I think that the applicant seems to be aligned with the ask that everyone involved wants.

Yeah, and I tend to agree with Commissioner Welch that five weeks is plenty of time for them to get together.

Unlucky, so the applicant said time does kill deals.

Okay, so in this case, would we be in the understanding that they will connect, but we go ahead and move it for it to be we would just go ahead and vote uh and then and let them speak before council.

They can always go back to the council and discussion.

We're just gonna make a recommendation.

My issue is this doesn't really appear to be an engagement issue.

Um the staff report is pretty clear that their analysis found that it's not consistent uh with the land use and taking it back to a straight E um, you know makes sense, but adding the warehouses and making it a PD, uh that's not gonna change.

Right.

Yeah, I tend to agree.

This is a unique building that's been before us multiple times.

And it's sat there vacant, just basically due to its size and construction type.

Yeah.

It is an odd lot.

I think he indicated that he was willing to remove that.

Jumping to bring him back up here and ask.

Can the applicant step forward again so we can clear up one thing with you?

So the question is um, would you be opposed to us removing the plus warehouse amendment?

The tenant that we have, like I said, has a lot of boxes and storage, and so I just didn't want to, you know, sign a lease with them and then they have I can you understood.

Yeah, if you clarify the percentage of office per warehouse, can you clarify that again for me?

On what the E would allow?

If you need the warehouse, you should probably leave it and then let us make a recommendation and let it go to council.

I'd like to keep it then, yes, sir.

Okay.

All right.

Okay, I still need clarification for the vanity.

Uh so we would we're voting to keep it as, or we want to make it just a recommendation for just E.

I mean, you can make your motion however you want, but it sounds like he wants to keep it, so he'd prefer to keep it in his city council.

So he'd prefer to keep it in his city council.

Well, then he asked about boxes and stuff.

The internees like I I don't, it's not for us to decide here.

So if you're yeah, again, going back to you know, we're supposed to be deciding is this proposal a good land use compatibility?

Does it follow the comp plan and kind of base our decision on that?

Certainly there are other factors, but that should be the basis.

Yeah, and if he's willing, if he was willing to accept it without the warehouse, that's one motion.

If he wants to keep the warehouse, that's another, that's okay for you too.

But he said he wants to keep the warehouse involved.

I would do I mean I would I would move forward with not approving it because of the warehouse piece on my end.

If we took that off, I haven't I have no problem moving forward.

Yeah.

Because that can also be attained later on, but I understand the need to have you know if you got a tenant in place and you're not sure.

Yep, you know, worst case is you get denied here and it gets all worked out by council.

Right.

Yeah, I would I would I would think we'd want to make the recommendation um based on as written as requested.

Okay.

Zoning to straight E.

There's no surprises.

It was once that before um the neighbors around it certainly understand that and it makes the most sense for me.

It's just really not usable as a warehouse.

Simply because if it's gonna be a warehouse, then large vehicles are gonna have to be able to access the property, they're gonna have to turn around, they're gonna have to be able to navigate.

I don't think there's any it doesn't appear to have DAC DACI um construction.

So it's really not a warehouse property.

Right.

Yeah, and even if the current tenant doesn't need to use big trucks, who knows what the next tenant needs.

Yeah, so that'd be my concern.

It'll be an e-gress problem.

All right, I think I'm leaning towards the 30-day continuance.

I think that there's a lot of uh things up in the air with parties that are directly involved and we're making assumptions.

I think it'd be the safest bet.

I don't know if we need a 30-day extension if we've got five weeks to council.

Yeah, so that's gonna make them three months out by the time they hit the next council after the 30-day extension.

So this deal is probably gonna go away, even if it could happen.

They will be quick turned to council in June since they have no meeting in July.

So there you go.

Um just Commissioner, you're you're free to make whatever motion you want.

In the event that uh you don't get a second, then there could be another motion.

There's always that procedural.

Yeah, all of the things I think that are of concern here are beyond what we can handle.

And if this is what it is, it's easy enough to get it that way and get it moving down the road.

They can always send it back if they need to.

But I think all the information we need is here.

And we asked a question and he said no.

We can proceed with this almost as it's written.

Um I agree that I don't think there's support for a continuance.

Because there's nothing else that I think needs to happen between them.

It's between the applicant and this uh proposed tenant.

Okay, thank you.

So for CC-26-035, I make a motion to deny.

Second.

A motion to deny by Commissioner Castro and a second by Commissioner Worman.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye, Commissioner Mayo.

Aye, Commissioner Trujillo?

I Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Aye.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Warman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

The vote of 11 to 0.

The zoning commission votes to recommend denial of this case.

Next case, Z C26-036.

The address is 3724 South Freeway.

The applicant is AGZ Holmes, LLC, Martin Zuniga and Daniel Guerrero.

The request is from ER, neighborhood commercial restricted to A5, one family residential.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Welcome.

And um, thank you for your service to the citizens of Fort Worth.

And thank you for hearing this case.

Simply, obviously, because it's ER.

Secondly, the house has been empty enough to where the property owner and contractor would not qualify for legal non-conforming at this point.

So he couldn't use it as a residential under a grandfathered ordinance.

Secondly, in the scenario where he would have qualified, that is a very small two-bedroom home that under the legal unconforming ordinance would not be able to expand the footprint of the home.

So the future land use is A5.

He is planning on building a approximately 15 square foot three-bedroom home with an attached two-car garage.

Met with the rest of the neighborhood association on the 13th of February.

And we were fortunate enough to receive a unanimous support for that.

And that is all I have.

If you all have any questions, I'm very happy to answer.

And we have no opposition for this case.

Commissioners, do you have any questions for the applicant?

All right.

Thank you very much.

This time we will close the public hearing.

And Commissioner Castro, this one is yours as well.

Thank you.

For CC-26-036, I move for approval.

Second.

We have a motion to approve by Commissioner Castro and a second by Commissioner Worman.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo?

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye.

Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds?

Aye.

Commissioner Robinson?

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Werman.

Aye.

Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0, the Zoning Commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case is ZC-26-037.

Address is 2422 Loving Avenue.

The applicant is Jesus Alberto Blanco Sr.

and Jesus Bonco.

The request is from ER, neighborhood commercial restricted to A5, one family residential.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Good afternoon.

Thank you for having me.

I'm Jesus Blanco.

This is my father.

We're here to talk about the this case, which is a vacant lot on 2422 Loving Avenue.

We're wanting to switch it from ER commercial to A5 single family residential.

I printed out a packet for each one of y'all.

Does everyone have one?

Yes, we did receive.

I think thank you.

We have a next we're missing.

Everybody has one?

Yes.

Okay.

So in the packet, we uh has two pictures up front.

This first picture is the picture of the vacant lot how it sits right now.

And the second picture is a picture of a house that me and my father built uh within the last 10 months.

Uh we are planning to build a house similar to that one.

Uh we are planning to uh upgrade it a little bit, make the master bedroom a little bit bigger and uh cosmetic upgrades.

Uh within the packet, I have provided a plat in the plat.

You can see the lot, the lot size, which is 50 by 140, 7,000 square feet.

All the neighboring houses are the same size.

And then in the as well in the packet, I I went ahead and spoke to every single one of the neighbors.

Uh every single one of the neighbors were excited, and they were all in favor of us building the house there.

Um, I went ahead and got their signatures for y'all.

And yeah, that um I did add some pictures.

Uh no, who think I went too far.

Sorry.

But yeah, that's about it if I'm open to any questions.

I don't have a question, but I'm impressed with uh what you provided us and uh your efforts going to your neighbors and uh yes, sir.

It was it was a pleasure meeting each one of them and getting to know them since we're gonna be there for a couple months and getting familiar with them.

Any questions, Commissioners?

Uh we don't have anybody signed up to speak in opposition, so uh thank you guys very much.

Thank you for having us.

And at this time we will close the public hearing.

And Commissioner Trujillo, this one is yours.

For Z Z 26-037, I move for approval.

Second.

Commissioner isn't you who was that?

I'm sorry.

That was Matt.

Commissioner McCoy.

My apologies.

You can take the credits, fine.

No, no, no, you locked it in.

It's locked in.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo.

Hi.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Hi.

Commissioner Welch.

Hi.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

All right.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Werman.

Aye.

Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0, the zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case.

ZC-26-038.

The address is 9100 South Hewland Street.

Applicant is Crowley ISD.

Philip Varagesi.

Request is from AR, one family residential, R2 Townhouse Cluster Residential and E neighborhood commercial.

Two EDCF plan development for all uses in CF community facilities, excluding golf course and country club, and allow one electronic changeable copy signed on McPherson Boulevard and one on Hewland Street across the street from A5 or B zoning districts with development standards for 32.68 square feet of electronic changeable copy, which is 76% of the sign area.

Site plan waiver requested.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Good afternoon, Chairman and Commission members.

Philip Vergis with Tignal and Perkins representing Crowley ISD.

As staff has mentioned in the in the request, uh, as part of the renovations of this high school and the ninth grade campus, uh the signage in front of those two buildings are being upgraded to the district's latest standards.

And uh as part of those requirements, we're required to change the zoning.

There's multiple zonings on this property, and to meet the city's requirements of the zoning, we've uh applied for the PDCF zoning.

And I'm here to answer any questions you may have.

Oh, I got questions.

Yes, Commissioner Robinson.

Questions.

So the sign, let me just talk about Nor Crowley.

If you look at the map right there on the map, it says North Crowley is what it's looking like right now.

So the sign that you're going to propose, electronic one, it's gonna come closer to the street on uh Hewland, right?

So on uh on Hewland Street, there used to be an existing sign that was a pole mounted sign.

Yeah, it was a pole.

And that's right.

It's being taken down and a and a ground mounted sign is being put.

So that's gonna be all electronic, right?

That's correct.

Electronic with the name, yes.

Okay, so here's my question.

Uh how how is it how's the one I'm gonna illumination of the sign?

Is it gonna be illuminated at night after school hours?

It's an electronic changeable sign, and there should there will be illumination in front of it, yes.

Okay.

Here's the concern I have is that there's houses that's that butt up behind close to uh hewlund in front of Nor Crowley.

Right.

And there is those signs like the sign currently doesn't illuminate in their backyard, but you move in this sign closer to Hewlin, right?

And it's a little it's electronic.

Yeah, so it's pretty close to where the existing sign used to be.

It's it's I've seen this because I've seen the money, I've seen this this where it's going to be placed.

It's closer than the other one.

Yeah, I'm not disagreed disagreeing with you.

Yeah, it's closer in terms of towards the street.

Is that what you're saying?

Yes, yes.

So there's a in front of North Crowley High School to sign currently at there's a parking lot, right?

That's correct.

And the sign is gonna be in front of that parking lot.

That is correct.

Okay, yes, sir.

It's gonna be illuminated.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

So my question have you the neighbors talk?

You talked to the neighborhood at butts up on that.

I would have to check back with the district and find that out, but I'm believe they have either I'm not sure if they've communicated with the neighborhood.

That's the concern I have because you've come before us before for Crowley Middle School.

It was two months ago, two or three months ago.

It was Crowley Middle School.

You tried this the same thing with the signage.

That's correct.

Yes, Crowley Middle School.

So this is going to be totally different from that.

So I think we need more community engagement, especially those are going to be impacted by that signage.

Sure.

So we can we can talk to the district and have them engage with the neighborhood.

So I'm gonna recommend a rec uh a continuous so you engage the neighborhood so they can get input and make sure they're aware of what's gonna happen.

Sure.

Because that sign of the zoning change, they probably didn't pay no attention because you're doing construction there.

So they said this is part of construction.

But they're not knowing that sign is there.

That could be an issue to them later on.

Sure.

Uh the only uh response back I would have is that the neighborhood is almost four lanes outside away from the school, and it's the backyards of those neighborhoods, right?

Sign is more ground mounted, it's not uh on a pole.

So I do not see how the illumination would affect the neighborhood.

Uh, but I I don't see any issues with um them the district having to engage with the community about it.

So as you can see here, the sign is more on towards the ground.

It's probably about six foot tall, and the height of the illumination is probably about four feet from the ground.

So I'm not sure how that illumination would affect the see.

This sign here is not an electronic, though.

This is just this is just nor crowd and and bubble with uh yeah, the the sign on the top left hand is more closer towards the building.

Yes, the sign that we're requesting for is the one on the bottom right.

Uh that's the sign that we're requesting for.

And how far is that new sign from the street from North Park?

Uh Hewland.

I believe they're on the side plan.

We provided the dimension.

I think it's about 25 feet away from the back of curb.

Let me see here.

I have it right here in front of me.

Yeah, that's the football field.

It seems like the football field would illuminate with far more light than the sign would.

The but the sign, but the football field is not used all the time.

If the sign is 25 feet from the property line, it's about a hundred and forty feet from the backyard fence of those neighbors on Hewlin.

Correct.

I was while he was trying to dig it up, I tried to dig it up too.

Um because it's a closet, it's across that four-lane right away with the median.

And it has a parkway median in the middle of it.

Yeah, so I mean basically six lanes plus a backyard and a backyard fence.

But that's that's the distance stuff.

You know, I don't know how it's gonna be illuminated or what's gonna look like.

Uh well, I can tell you because I I live in the neighborhood, it's illuminated even when they have activities at that school, it's illuminated big time.

Is that the pole mounted?

Uh all of it.

Yeah, the poles, the lights, everything, it illuminates big time in those backyards.

Which what's the the orientation of the sign?

Uh the site plan is kind of hard for us to read up here, but that's it.

So that you see it, it's perpendicular to Hewlin.

Yes.

Or is it turned out so that we'll see it as they come in?

Yeah, so the the sign would be like if I'm face you can see where my mouse is maybe not.

Okay, so where number one is closer to the parking lot, the sign would be perpendicular to Hewlin.

So as a drivers are driving, they can see the sign.

It's it's two-sided, right?

So it's so it's facing the oncoming and passing traffic, so it's not facing the bigger.

It's not facing the backyards, correct.

Okay.

Okay, wait a minute.

You say it's not facing the backyards?

That's correct.

So the sign.

So I've seen the mount because I pass that street all the time.

You have a you have a concreted mounted area right there, and I'm where I'm looking at it, it looks like the sign is facing the backyards.

Okay, so let me make sure we're clear on the request because I think I know what you're talking about.

The sign that you're talking about, if you go to the next slide, is that sign one one before it's that sign on the top.

No, no, I'm not talking about that sign.

I'm talking about the sign after the parking lot.

There's a parking lot right there that you just constructed.

Right.

That sign is going in front of that parking lot, right?

Right.

We haven't constructed the sign yet.

But it's uh there's a mount there, there's a concrete pillar there that supports signage, right?

I don't believe so.

That the district has not constructed the sign until it's not there yet, but there's something there to put it there.

To my knowledge, I'm not aware that that that concrete foundation has been built.

Yes.

It's there.

Okay.

It's there.

They just haven't put the sign there.

It's there.

Just to just to clarify.

So the the sign is is on the ground, it's not pole mounted.

That's correct.

Uh, and it's going to not face the street.

It's going to be perpendicular to the street.

That's correct.

So it actually wouldn't face the neighbors if that's helpful.

I chairman Rain, I'm gonna disagree with you on that because I passed the street every day.

The sign is there.

Oh, okay.

And the sign is facing the the neighborhood.

You can see the back of the houses.

I'm looking at it.

I said, What is that?

And I said, That must be the new sign they're gonna put there because you can see the concrete mount where they're gonna mount it on top of the concrete.

You can see it.

Is there a way to show a photo of the street?

Okay.

I'm gonna get one of those rolling ones.

Remember the ones you had to clean off school.

Yeah, we needed those little markers that we used to use on roller one.

You can't see it because you got glare on it.

You got that privacy screen.

See, that's the fence.

That's not the front of the school though.

That's the parking lot.

That's the parking lot.

But right if you go by the little guard shack on the other side of that, you just got the side of the parking lot.

To the island is where it's being mounted.

Island is where it's being mounted.

So that what you're seeing right here is on South Hewlin.

And so the sign is going to be right in this island area.

So you're saying that that sign is not going to be on Hewland?

No.

We can't put the sign on Hewlin.

The sign is on school property.

But I'm talking about, well, I know it's on school property, but I'm saying you're saying the sign is not going to be facing South Hewling.

What you're saying?

That's correct.

It's going to be perpendicular to Hewling.

So as drivers are going by, they will see the sign.

I'm sorry if I'm not if it were parallel to the street, drivers couldn't see it.

Only the neighborhood could see it if they were on a ladder looking over their fence.

It it it sounds commission, something like the sign that you're referring to is not the sign that they're doing.

No, no.

I I know is what I'm talking about because I passed by the street.

Oh no, no, I know you know what you're talking about.

I'm just know what I'm talking about.

Yeah, but this uh I'm talking about there is something mounted that I wish I'd have took a photo of it because I didn't know this was gonna be contentious.

But this this is not this is not what I'm saying.

There's another mount right there.

This is the side of the parking lot because you can't even see the front of the school.

So why would you see pre pepper?

So you can only see the sign going south or uh north on hewling you and see going.

So this is not very school.

Yes, that's the bring it, bring the camera, bring the phone down a little bit.

Right there.

Yep.

And that's an old photo.

It's not the current photo.

This is from April, I think, of last year.

That's just yeah, this is not current.

Yeah.

So there's something mounted there.

There's something there.

This is an old photo.

And then the island where the sign is supposed to be mounted near close to that island.

Uh again, there might be some things as part of construction that have they might have done, but the sign has not been constructed to my knowledge that I'm aware of, because we had to go through the process of the zoning change before we went and put the sign in.

I'm gonna say last but a continuous on that because number one, this sign, this picture's old.

This is not the current look right now.

Yeah, uh in the event we um vote to do a continuance.

Uh, would you uh the next time you come bring some current photos of the location?

Yeah, sure.

I mean that would be um just a little bit of background on this.

We have been coordinating with staff since November of last year and trying to get this signage permitted.

The district is wanting to get this signage installed and completed by summer of this year.

So if there's any other means of providing that information so that we can keep moving forward uh for council approval, uh, because this is gonna hold back in terms of getting the sign installed, manufactured, and in place before school opens uh in summer.

Um we've been we've been delayed in that process as well.

So um I don't call us delaying it, so we're gonna delayed it.

I think he's saying getting our approval would delay it 30 days if we did a continuance.

I like and there's no council in July.

I can't help but you know keep agreeing.

Um, because it it's important for the districts to communicate, especially with as much goes into it.

I think that's the biggest kind of hitch in all this is it feels like there's a missing communication piece somewhere.

Right.

Yep.

However, I I feel confident in this moving forward because if there is something messed up, I know that Dr.

Hall is gonna stick right in there and go like, no, no, no, no, no, we can't do this.

Especially if it's oriented incorrectly, but based on the information we have, like it feels good enough to me to move it on down the road because I know that we have somebody in that seat at council who is as invested as anybody and making sure that this is correct, and there's five weeks, you know, that's enough time for all that to kind of occur.

Uh here's my feedback to you, sir, going forward.

Sure.

If you're gonna be budded up to a neighborhood like this, because I I know get get get the neighborhood's input and let them know and get with the school districts.

Hey, make sure you tell the neighborhood what's going on with the sign is because I can tell you you had that note that zoning sign in, they probably thought this was just nothing more than part of the construction of the campus.

Understood.

Yes, I acknowledge that and I will yeah, uh Dr.

Hall probably will say something about that to them going forward.

I'm gonna ask for continuous motion on pass, somebody else can put another motion out there.

Uh the only thing that I will add with regards to I know that uh there'd been mention about Dr.

Hall, giving her, I believe, position with Crowley ISD.

I believe she sits on the board.

No, she doesn't.

She resigned that seat, sir.

Okay.

Cause normally um she would uh recuse herself in the event that there was any conflict.

I know that she's done in the past, so I just wanted to make sure that everyone is aware that there is a potential, and I'm not sure if she would.

I again I'm not I'm not up to date, but I know in the past that she has recused herself from certain Crowley ISD uh relationships.

I've never heard that one.

That's new to me.

That was that was back when she was on zoning.

That's when she was on zoning, but she's no longer on she's not she's not part of the board.

She could I I'm I'm just I'm just I'm not I'm just disclosing that as well.

I'm gonna correct you, sir, that she's no longer part of the Crowley C school board.

She resigned that seat when she took the council seat.

That was last year.

Commissioners, I have a quick question, if I may.

Yes.

Are you still requesting a waiver on a site plan?

Yes, sir.

The site is already existing.

So we provided a site plan with the information that's requested by staff.

Uh but uh for Does does it show the location of the sign?

Yes, sir.

We have provided a site plan that shows the distance and the site the location.

I don't think this is the latest, but there was a request from staff to show the distance from the sign to the right-of-way, the distance from the sign to the edge of the curb, and we had provided that information to staff.

And it maybe I'm not seeing it, but is it unclear the orientation of the sign?

Like I take you at your word that it's gonna be perpendicular because that just common sense.

Um but is any way to just indicate that on the site plan before you go to council?

Yeah, we have no problem doing that.

We can we can what we can do is we can blow up that area to show a detailed definition of where that sign is in relationship to the right-of-way to the edge of the roadway and provide an arrow background behind it as well to clarify that for staff.

Thank you, sir.

Yeah, I think they need a photo of that.

Wouldn't this have been these homes across the street um have been noticed by zoning for about this case?

They had the opportunity to oppose.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, yeah, they would have been.

And I think uh Commissioner Robinson's concern is because there's so much construction, they would have just looked at it and gone but they don't get out of there's construction, they don't know that this specific thing is happening.

Yeah, I think that's the concern.

It really says signage.

And uh that there's just not um Yeah, and even if it does say signage, I think they would just see Crowley IST and go, uh it's bought at the district's improvement.

They're doing a multi-year bond package improvement of the schools.

I think that the larger recommendation that uh Commissioner Warman also touched on, uh kind of agreeing with Commissioner Robinson is that um you know, more engagement is always uh better than not at all than just whatever the city does.

That if whoever the applicant is gets engaged with the neighborhood with the neighbors, um certainly is is helpful just so everybody's clear and has the opportunity to hear.

I don't have a problem with the sign and improvement.

I mean the school's gonna be look fantastic, but yeah, make sure that that people know what's going on so they can be aware and they don't come back after the fact and go to their school board saying hey, we didn't know this sign was gonna be here.

Acknowledged.

Does this go to the May?

This goes to May Council or June council.

June.

June council.

Is it June?

May May case.

This would this would go to May.

Yeah, so it's five weeks out.

Yeah, and I mean I like again, it's uh Chris said we're not the board of punishment, and I think, although if there is a board of punishment, I'd like to apply for it, please.

I was just saying here everybody in the city knows.

Yeah, it's but I I think you know, overlooking the fact that there's tremendous growth in Crowley and they're about to explode, and district six has always been um kind of like looking back in time to see what happened in 10.

And it's always nice sitting next to Dr.

Hall on counseling at you on zoning and being like, this is happening here, it happened up here.

Here's what happened to us.

And as the district grows, they're gonna have the growing pains and miss those communication points.

And and people, you know, like you guys are gonna be the ones that help improve it.

And I think just making sure that we're we're okay with this, but not okay with that.

So I want to make sure that the communication part shouldn't be um what holds this up as much as um do we agree with this?

Because I agree with you, the communication has to be always bigger, especially when you're spending this much money.

Um but and and let me add to that just real quick.

I mean, the district is always in communication with all the patrons around the neighborhood in terms of construction, what happens during construction, because we always get comments during construction if there's dust flying around.

They're always in communication with the neighborhood.

And we'll make sure that district is aware when they go in forward, we'll moving forward with signage that to engage the neighborhood again and just make them aware of the the thing request that is being presented to the zoning commission as well as city council.

I think they're doing something with signage, right?

Yes, yeah.

The city is working on a sign ordinance.

Hopefully, this is the last one we see.

Yes, and that's where we were working with staff because we were waiting for that ordinance to get passed.

Um, but in order to move forward with construction, we had to go through the PDs, the PD zoning to keep moving forward.

But uh, maybe I think Commissioner McCoy um made this point.

Uh, since there is a site plan included, if you could make this clear on the side plan, and we're all okay with the perpendicular sign.

Um, then uh we can move forward like that.

Sure, I have no problem with that.

Commissioner Robinson, what do you think about that?

Yeah, this is almost identical to what we have at our high school, Chizentro High School off 820 and Marine Creek Parkway.

We have the divided four-lane, you know, lanes of traffic, and then there's a neighborhood with the backyards.

We just had the brand new sign put in, and nobody's complained.

It doesn't put out you know enough light to where you're seeing it in those yards.

You know, in general, uh just declare football stadium puts out a lot more light most of the time.

Yes, they can't feel sorry about that.

In general, any school campus is going to be a butting pretty close to a residential neighborhood.

So you have the sign situation then in pretty much every school campus as well.

They just you know the community just want to be involved and and have knowledge of what's happening.

They just don't want it just thrown at them.

Hey, y'all decide and you can talk to us about it.

That's that's my perspective on it.

Acknowledged.

Uh so I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion to approve.

All right, if we're good, then I'll close the public hearing commissioner.

It is all yours.

Thanks, sir.

Um, Dr.

Hall address it is counsel if she has more problems with that.

So on the case of ZC26038, I move for approval.

Second.

Thank you, sir.

All right, we have a motion to approve by Commissioner Robinson and a second by Commissioner Rogers.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Hi, Commissioner Mayo.

Aye, Commissioner Trujillo?

Aye.

Commissioner Welch.

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

Aye.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

I Commissioner Warman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

The vote of 11 to 0.

The zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Next case, ZC-26-039.

Address is 2801 Northwest Loop 820.

Applicant is Marion Sansome Co.

Steve Riordan, Westwood P.

S.

Request is from A51 Family Residential and AG Agricultural to I Light Industrial.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

You can sign up later.

Thank you.

They didn't have any sheets up front.

Um, Travis Clegg with Westwood Professional Services.

We're the uh consulting engineer representing the applicant on this project.

Um we are requesting a 30-day continuance on this project.

Uh, we have had some productive conversations with our neighbors to the west, the HOA president uh and our councilman.

Um we have not been able to get back in front of the councilman yet.

That meeting is set up for next week.

So to be fair up front, uh we want to have that conversation first and then return back to you guys in in 30 days.

Okay, that's a request.

Very good.

Is is Steve here?

Does Steve want to speak in the case?

Yeah.

Okay.

If there are questions.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you, Travis.

Uh, we do have one person signed up to speak in opposition.

So I'll let you speak, and then Travis, if you'd like to come back up, you're welcome to welcome everyone.

My name is John Augustine.

I live in the area in the I live on 31st Street, Northwest 31st Street.

Um, I'm here to tell you something for free.

They all paid consultants to tell you.

Uh, I don't think this is the right use for this area.

They told you all this is a mixed-use area, and uh, I think uh this has better potential for our neighborhood and our area than a warehouse.

Um I have lived in this area most of my life.

I walk on Marine Creek Lake, which is just across the highway on 820 almost every evening.

And I think it would be a big waste to have a warehouse, something that looks like Amazon across across from this.

There's neighborhoods along the lake, there's neighborhoods to the left to the right, and to the bottom.

I think while yes, this might bring opportunity to our area.

I think there is better opportunities that this land could be used within the A20 loop.

Um that's all I had to say.

Thank you for your comments.

We appreciate it.

Travis, did you want to say anything else?

Uh not really.

I just want to make sure we have some communication, and I'll I'll reach out to the gentleman.

Okay, very good.

Thank you.

Uh Commissioners, questions.

I don't think anything should be built right here until the state fixes Diesel Avenue and 199, but all right.

At this time I will close the public hearing and Commissioner Trujillo.

Yes, for Z 26-039.

I move for a continuance to the next meeting.

All right, we have a motion to continue until our May hearing by Commissioner Trujillo and a second by Commissioner Robinson.

Oh, there it is.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns?

Aye.

Commissioner Mayo.

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye.

Commissioner Welch?

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

All right.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce.

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Worman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

The vote of 11 to 0.

The zoning commission votes to recommend a continuance for this case to the May 13th meeting.

Next case.

ZC-26-040.

The address is 5773 West Rosinger Road.

The applicant is SDS3 LLC.

Kate Rett and Lucas Hartzel.

The request is to amend PD 1236 to include attached signage.

Site plan included.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Good afternoon.

I'm Red Hart Soul, and this is Kate, my sister.

We're the owners of Silver Dollar Self-Storage.

Off of the tollway here.

Let me hop to the presentation real quick.

So at the top of the green box is Sycamore School Road exit.

At the bottom is McPherson exit.

One of the only commercial properties out there.

Just to give a few examples.

Not sure how you explain that.

But we've got a lot of the businesses.

They have signage directly facing the tollway and north and south of their buildings.

We're proposing just the north and south side.

And that sign, we'll see if we can play it, but at night it lights up with a bunch of neon colors.

That's not what we're proposing.

So caliber collision, Sherwin Williams, these all face the tollway, and the emergency urgent care has oh, I think a dozen signs around it.

So our direct competition, this is at the McPherson X at the all storage.

It's three stories tall, and it has eight signs around the building.

This is from this is uh the north side of the building, and then here's the south side.

If you're heading north on the tollway, uh you see the signage, these are only two signs on the back, but all the way around there's eight.

Um in comparison, this is the north facing side of our building that's single story from the tollway heading south.

We did have some uh banner signs as you can see up, but we really think a permanent signs more classy.

And here's the uh southern edge uh if you're heading north on the tollway of the back of our property, or we're proposing a sign on the east end and the west end.

I'll I'll back up one here.

Uh the uh and the proposed signage on the north side is either right above that temporary banner sign or right above the glass windows, one of those two spots and just a quick video of that.

This is not what we intend to do.

It's good though.

Any questions?

Commissioners, any questions?

There is no speaker signed up in opposition of this case.

Oh, we need to turn Commissioner Robinson's mic back on.

The mic once it once it comes on, you don't have to turn it on or off.

It's just always on.

All right.

So you said that 2019.

You were there, and what was the reason for you not having signage back then?

Because it was nothing out there in 2019.

But Prairie Dress.

So what happened in 2019?

Yeah, we um had a lot of neighborhood engagement.

We were continued three times, I believe.

Um, just because we were the only commercial business, one of the only ones that was being constructed out there at the time.

So there was a lot of neighborhood pushback with uh, you know, the cows in the prairie land being gone pretty quickly.

Um, but during our development phase, or before when we met with the neighborhoods and everything, everybody kind of started agreeing that okay, it's gonna be fine.

We're not building a big red monster, um, per se, is what they called it.

But uh it we're not real sure why it was a condition that was placed on there.

It was just at the time, um it was approved at the end of the hour with that condition of no attached signage on the building.

So we really and we did go back to the council amendment at the time, which was um jungus, Jordan Junkus, and he said that he wasn't real sure why he placed that condition on there, and he did try to retract it administratively, but said that we'd have to go back to city council at that time.

We were out of time as money, and we were out of money and time.

So we just wanted to get a building permit.

Okay, so I'm glad you brought that up.

So community, you you said you got pushback from the neighbors, probably feathergrass and Atlanta Springs, right in that area.

Original.

Yes, sir, from the original request to build a self-storage facility.

So have you tried to re-engage with them now since it's been almost seven years or those.

Yes, sir.

I see them on a daily basis.

Most of them are our tenants that rent storage units with us, and we are in great relationship with them.

Um we've talked about the signage.

I have a lot of customers that drive up and say, Wow, I couldn't find you guys.

Like we just didn't know this was a self-storage facility, and then they get there and they rent a unit, and and also we did meet with um our council, our council member Dr.

Hall, and uh both agreed that the attached signage would look better than the banners that we had.

Yeah, I I agree with her on that.

I've seen a building that's they don't have no signs.

So I now I understand why it's no signs.

Okay, so I don't see too much issue with that.

I mean, as long as it's not impeding on the neighborhood and not causing an issue the in fact that would look better than the the the that thing that you got on the group.

I'm saying I'm not trying to be this descriptive.

I mean it is it is what it is, it don't look right.

It don't look right.

So you mentioned you were down in Crowley and uh forgot to show the slide.

This is our we opened about 30 days ago on 118.

It's nothing wrong with that on 1187, and this is we want to use the same exact sign.

Okay, I don't see anything wrong with that.

I just got one comment.

I applaud the fact that you're still in business without a snow on your building.

And when I reviewed this, I wrote down let them have a sign.

Yeah, and that you work with your sister and y'all are both smiling.

You get along with the system.

I work with mine and it's great too.

Sometimes so is so you said you talked to Dr.

Hall, or was her feedback to you on that?

Uh it was you know, I'm gonna take it's not gonna impact my decision, but yeah, it was the same question of wanting to see why it was putting there in the first place, and we explained it.

Um her um assistant, I'm missing her name, but she Kennedy lives in the neighborhood, and she goes by it every day and indicated hey, a permanent sign is much classier than these you know banners that yeah, snap off the grommets and clap.

The windstorm would take it out or something.

Okay, all right.

Okay, sounds good.

Um if there are no more questions, we will close the public hearing.

Thank y'all very much.

And Commissioner Robinson, this one is all yours.

Okay, in the case of ZC2604, I move for approval.

Second.

All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Robinson to approve, and a second by Commissioner Rogers.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye, Commissioner Mayo?

Aye, Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye, Commissioner Welch.

Aye, Commissioner McCoy, aye.

Commissioner Edmonds, aye, Commissioner Robinson.

Aye, Commissioner Pierce, aye.

Commissioner Rogers, Commissioner Worman, aye.

Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

With a vote of 11 to 0.

The zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case.

Which I'll say.

Oh.

I think you gotta go look for the city council first before you can do that.

I appreciate it.

Next case.

ZC-26-041.

The address is 3760, 3816, 3850, 3900, 3930, and 3950, 4050, 4700 and 4712, Lon Stevenson Road and 7500 England Drive.

The applicant is Black Mountain Power, Rhett Bennett, Lyndon Anowski, Gerald Walls Jr., Theresa Simon, R.

Brown Group, LLC, Jorge Hernandez, LFS Trust, Tammy Bauer, Bob Riley with half an associates.

The request is to amend PD 1420 to add electrical substation, increase the maximum building height to 70 feet, increase the maximum setback to 150 feet.

Data center to be parked at one space per four employees, site plan included.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

Thank you.

I'm Bob Riley, half associates, 2600 Meacham, uh suite 600.

Also joining me today is Rhett Bennett with CEO of uh Black Mountain and two representatives from the Kimley Horn who worked has worked on the uh site plan.

Let me get here.

Uh as y'all recall, we were before you uh about a year and a half ago on the initial first uh zoning for this campus, um, which resulted in a PD 1420.

We're asking to include one additional use to that PD, and that would be including electrical substation on the site that will only be um supplying gener electricity to the data center.

Also in the development standards, we're asking that we maximize uh have the maximum uh building height of 70 feet rather than the 55 that was an I.

Along with that, we would increase our building setback from 80 feet to 150 along Lon Stevenson, and also establish a parking standard for data center buildings to be a minimum of one space for ever 400 or ever for employees.

Uh here's a subject property.

Actually, the AG over on the right is part of PD uh 1435.

We have had community outreach.

Uh we submitted the um application on March the second, informed the council member the next day.

Uh we sent out over 300 uh invites at community meeting, uh, in which we had about 77 uh that showed up on March the 11th.

Here we are today.

There is no registered neighborhood association, so we've done that on our own as we have in other cases.

The site plan uh is part of this since uh the original site uh PD required a site plan.

This is uh the site plan that has been prepared.

Uh it contains four um buildings that total a little over 1.1 million square feet and a substation.

Uh we're increasing the building height from 55 to 6 or 70.

Uh that gives us two levels of data center hardware, thus the um footprint of many buildings would be reduced by 50 percent on this site.

Um, along with this being more of a campus development, uh it would increase the amount of imperfected surface, and the total lot coverage of buildings would be less than 15 percent.

Southern right away of uh lawn stevenson is being increased uh from 80 feet to 150.

Uh as you see in the um site plan, our closest building on lawn Stevenson actually will be a 350 feet uh along uh forest uh hill drive it'd be 30 feet.

Uh as I was mentioned before, electrical substation would be providing power for the data center buildings and not uh for power distribution beyond the building materials consist of concrete glass and metal, and we will conform with all the city's uh forestry landscape lighting noise and sign.

We have received the comments and staff report for as uh including the increasing the or the other information in the site plan.

Uh I was hoping we'd have that today.

We're still uh completing that, but we are committed to giving that to the staff prior to the council meeting, addressing all of the eight concerns or questions.

Rhett Bennett with uh Black Mountain has done an illustration, wouldn't like to put on the on the overhead that shows a comparison of 70 and a 55 building height on the um properties that front on uh launch demons.

He might want to he might want to speak to it as well.

And Rhett, I'm not trying to rush you, but I'm going to a little bit, you're almost out of time.

So we'll just keep it brief.

No.

Okay.

Mr.

Riley has a habit of talking.

All right.

Um so just real quick, if you can see, because I'm a visual person.

I wanted to kind of show a rendering showing what okay.

What are we talking about?

Uh hopefully most of the other stuff's non-controversial, but here is at 55 feet uh with the existing setbacks, kind of with existing um zoning criteria.

And then if you toggle over here, this is going back 150 feet with 70 foot heights, and you can see it actually looks it looks better in my impression.

So I think in in addition to put cutting down the footprint of the buildings by half on the site, which again is less than 15% of the total surface area.

Um kind of increasing the setback for the height exchange.

I think is a net positive for surrounding landowners.

So again, here's 55 feet, 70 feet.

Great, 55 feet, 70 feet.

So that's I think the main change that you guys would want to see kind of what that looks like.

Um I'll walk back over here to this one.

All right, thank you very much.

Uh appreciate that.

Y'all have a couple of minutes after the opposition as well.

Um, before I invite the opposition commissioners, you have any questions beforehand.

Okay.

Uh, and if I could ask the opposition, it looks like there are six of you signed up, if y'all wouldn't mind just go ahead and uh line up and then uh just say your name uh before you start speaking.

Uh, for those of you that y'all can go ahead and come up.

And for those of you that haven't been here before, just a quick reminder.

Uh, if you weren't here at the beginning, um we're a little bit different than council in that your entire opposition has seven minutes to speak, not seven minutes individually.

Uh, since there are six of you, or there are five of you right now, maybe one of them dropped off.

Um just uh do us and your your fellow folks behind you uh in line uh a favor and try and keep your comments brief.

And uh, and if someone already brought up a point, um, you know, we heard that one, and so you know, new points would be helpful for us to help us make our decisions.

So uh also thank you for being here.

We encourage this type of participation.

So thank you all.

Thank you.

Matita Wilburne, I'm here with Echo Heights Top Six Environmental Coalition and Fort Worth Environmental Coalition of Communities.

I want to say this should have never been approved with at any level to begin with.

You have two gigantic polluters, a 13 million million square foot landfill that produces methane, and then they have over a hundred million square foot of a data center, which also creates pollution, and they add to each other.

They kind of enhance the data center, will enhance the pollution coming from the landfill.

Also, the reason this should have never been voted for.

The city of Fort Worth has no policy, no procedures, no rules for data centers, and that has been verified.

So, how do y'all plan on enforcing anything that they do or believe in anything that they say they get up here and tell y'all one thing, but the thing they said at the meeting was something totally different.

This is in a community, and this is in an area that is already highly polluted, low life expectancy, some of the highest death rates in Texas, and the highest cancer rates in the United States.

And I'm gonna go and give them the rest of the time.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome.

My name is Jackson Weston.

I work at Weston Gardens, and I grew up next to the site of the proposed data center.

This zoning request should be denied when Black Mountain had a community meeting on March 11th in Forest Hill.

Mr.

Bennett stated that he would include his operating partner for the data center at a meeting in a couple of weeks to answer the community's questions about the environmental impact of this data center on our neighborhood and historic gardens.

This has not happened yet.

Before this goes a step further.

I oppose this totally.

There was a comment about industrial encroachment.

And I would just like to say this is a similar situation in my eyes.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Welcome.

My name is Angela Riza.

I live at the Mobile Home Park for 19 years.

My question is what is the future of the mobile home park?

On their site plan is zoned mobile home.

Future land use.

Affordable homes for that area.

Green land, beautiful landscape.

This needs to be moved out of city limits.

Please oppose this project.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

Welcome.

Hello.

My name is Amy Ibrahim.

I work at Weston Gardens.

I would like to ask y'all to deny this zoning request.

Um, I believe they already received some land to build the data center and to add more land for more data center with the lack of knowledge we all have as far as resource usage and um how it's going to affect the surrounding neighbors of Forest Hill, our people that come to our gardens.

I don't think they need that yet.

I think we need to know more information about what these um facilities cost.

Um I would ask y'all to vote no to that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hey, I'm Jaime.

Um, yeah, just echoing that there's no real uh way to regulate or truly um deal with these data centers, which are huge.

Energy sucks and water uh sucks and and huge eyesores and things that clearly uh no one here uh that's spoken want.

Uh and also the recently there was a vote uh that has been pushed a few times now now to January about rezoning more land for these greedy people that want to uh destroy and uh corrupt and pollute even more land.

And if that's being uh already rescheduled or pushed back to June, I don't know why we would move forward on more uh zoning uh um votes for this, uh, if that's already being pushed back pending for the research and study by council.

Uh uh furthermore, uh a lot of the council has already mentioned wanting to uh a need uh for uh city ordinances and more uh strict regulations on data centers and uh that's echoed uh across uh communities across Fort Worth and in neighboring cities because this is also on the border between Forest Hill and Kennedale and other uh cities who uh are gonna be dealing with the effects uh just as much as people in uh of Fort Worth if this is uh truly brought forward.

So I think moving forward uh on this with without their input with the uh uh previous zoning cases being already pushed back makes no sense.

And yeah, I mean, as you can see, no one here uh wants to live next to this.

Would would y'all want to live next to this?

I'm sure not, right?

Uh these things are also you know, being uh pushed back and and um fought against across Texas.

Uh we've uh report came out that about half of data centers are our are uh proposed for this year are not moving forward, and that's rightfully so because uh yeah, everyone's waking up to the fact that these things are gonna just drain all the resources, are gonna cause so much problems for communities uh directly nearby, and also communities across um the area.

Uh so please please, you know, don't vote in favor of this.

Vote to oppose this.

Work with city to truly pass some some common sense, strong sustainability standards uh to ensure that these aren't popping up right next to uh community gardens, that these aren't popping up uh in neighborhoods that already deal with uh severe serious issues with industry that data centers like these will only exacerbate.

Uh so that should be the priority, not uh moving forward with this vote, not moving allowing them to make their buildings even taller or to allow uh substations which are gonna cause uh even more issues.

That that should is uh this should should not be what is thought of this should not be what is uh decided on uh what should be talked about.

What we should be focusing on is how to ensure that these things are are sustainable, and how do we ensure that these things are not pubbing up in these communities that these things are not sucking up all of our resources and and damaging nearby communities?

I mean, truly, if you can see, I I don't know if there's gonna be another item that has this many people who are are united and and passionate about their opposition, and I think that should truly tell you uh where where the political winds are are in this and and what the community is is feeling on this issue.

And and at the end of the day, this is uh an issue that's uniting people all across the metroplex.

Uh and this data center is a hyperscaler, so not just any regular data center.

This is a huge behemoth of a data center that's going to cause so many severe issues for for people across Fort Worth and surrounding cities.

Uh so truly truly heed the advice of everyone here that is telling you to uh absolutely oppose this.

And and really, if if you're if you're not aware about how problematic uh these things are, do a quick Google search.

I mean, as you can see that the these things are are being fought across the country.

And and you you even see uh communities in Texas, like in San Marcos and other places where uh the uh city government is truly working with community to find uh uh resolutions to the huge issues that these are causing.

And and cities there are actually moving forward with uh ways to protect their communities and not allow these things to move forward and truly pushing against uh projects that are are just as bad.

Uh you know, and and this one it is terrible.

I mean, have you looked at the scale?

We're up against it.

Yeah, please vote against this.

Thank you.

All right, uh two minutes.

Let me get to another slide.

Okay.

And while you're looking for that, Mr.

Riley, I've also got a Jeff Landon here to speak in favor.

Did Jeff want to speak too or no?

He's with the uh Kimley Horn, who has prepared our uh site plan.

Real quickly and rebuttal, uh we are here today to fulfill a requirement that the zoning commission and city council placed upon us to come back with a site plan.

Uh and that's the area which is light blue that was approved for land use back in January of uh 2025, and subsequently another parcel was added to that uh in September of 2025.

Um we did mention at the community meeting that we would try to have another uh community meeting.

Um unfortunately, all those that were responsible or we wanted for is um having that meeting were not available and uh have not had that uh regarding the mobile home.

Um we have not acquired any mobile homes parks, nor are we planning on acquiring any.

With that, if there's any other questions in the commission, I'd be more than happy to answer.

All right.

Thank you very much.

I'm sure there will be um commissioners who would like to go first.

So, yeah, I I have a question, and this is a very layman term question.

Explain to me exactly in layman terms, what a data center is for.

What is the sole purpose of it and why?

Sure, I'd be happy to take that one.

So the data centers are digital infrastructure.

So as you think about everybody that's got an iPhone that's got iCloud or credit cards or uses Amazon, all that uses computer servers somewhere and the cloud and its physical representation is inside data centers.

So as you think about a warehouse with little traffic activity, that's that's what they do.

So anything we're doing internet wise, um, yes, with the advance of AI, you know, there's AI training stuff that goes on.

Anything that's using compute and power, um, that's what a data center building's for.

So it's it's a big building with servers that are just doing Amazon checkouts versus you know, storing family photos for the last 30 years, backing up data that that's their purpose.

Like a big uh server closet, a huge so what would happen with AI and this course, of course, we moved to 5G uh 5G uh doing COVID.

What would happen if we don't have data centers?

It would be a dramatically different life, I think.

Um, because then whether it's from telecom to Netflix to every everything that we kind of take for granted at this point, um, things that didn't exist 20 years ago um would cease to you know function appropriately.

So it's it's necessary for the for the modern life, the enjoyment we have of movies on demand or storing thousands of family photos versus Kodak you know film books.

Like there's those are the tangible benefits that access to data brings.

Um and I would say in the new world, that ability to participate in kind of the digital economies important, and I don't think you want to be left behind and not have any of those assets in your community.

Even placing a phone call now with your mobile phone, you're using a data center basically.

Wow.

Without those data centers, you couldn't place a call.

Okay, thank you.

Um and so I lost my train of thought.

Um okay, so the the setback.

So the 55, hold on, the 55 to the 70 feet, you said that's for the electrical, correct?

So we're gonna do as it exists today, um the current setback from roads, lawn Stevenson 80 feet.

We're gonna almost double that to 150 feet to set back more.

And then by virtue of doing that, if we get a little more building height, we can use less buildings, half the amount of buildings.

So you have more green space, more of a campus feel.

So we think that's probably the appropriate call for the neighborhood and kind of the you know, the the surrounding enjoyment and not to be imposing, so not going up to the property lines.

Um with that, also part of the request was on the parking side.

Um, you know, we're not an Amazon warehouse that has 500 workers busy being in and out.

So it would be overkill to give it the same industrial parking ratio that an Amazon building would have.

So amending that to have less, you know, impervious kind of concrete or blacktop, more green space, I think that's good.

Um other thing.

Just on the substation, because it's unclear the way it's currently written if a substation can be utilized in an industrial zoning.

So just cleaning that language up, accessory use.

Yep.

And so um, of course, we've all heard about you know the data centers and uh the uh questions about the the electricity and the amount of electricity that will be used uh in case you know, for example, what happened maybe three years ago and we had the bad ice storm.

Have you uh I'm I'm sure you've done your proper due diligence with the local leg TXU with your center take away from the use the utilities in the in the surrounding neighborhoods?

It would not.

So Encore being a regulated monopoly, they they don't play favorites, they can't turn on your power and turn off somebody else's.

That's just the the way that that works from a standards perspective.

So no, you don't get any preferential treatment.

I think if anything, in a time of like a winter storm Uri, if you do have backup generation on site, then all of a sudden you become a place that that might have close accessibility to power if people are freezing, or you know, so I think there's there's some redundancy there, but but no, the quick answer is Encore can't say, well, we want to keep the Black Mountain Data Center on versus you know this neighborhood over here.

That's just not not how that operates.

And um the comment about uh as far as health risk, uh I'm sure you did an environmental study, and so will it be any health risk or will it impact the community with in the water or no, we don't believe so.

And so um and the council is they're gonna have a presentation from Encore, I believe, in the next couple weeks before their votes.

Uh, but that getting away from the site plan, you know, topic of today, but in general, um we would argue there's plenty of research out there that they're pretty benign and actually are less impactful than a lot of other alternate use cases, which in this scenario was going to be a mobile home park for the south half.

So uh most of the data centers are going to closed loop systems where they don't continue to intake new water constantly, so they're cooling with a closed loop.

Um so I think the industry is really starting to try and be thoughtful about we need to be good neighbors and not um stress local resources for you know all the obvious reasons they want to coexist peacefully and be a net positive to the community.

Okay, thank you.

I have a question.

What's the power requirement for the substation?

The applied power for the entire development is about 980 megawatts, uh if if that's kind of the question.

And then um, is your system one of is that a closed loop water system also air cooled, recirculating?

Yes, and so that is what so our operating partners that we're bringing in on the deal, um, they and others, it's all been gravitating towards closed loop.

I think that's the newer design everybody's doing.

So I don't want to front run them and and put out specifically what they're gonna use.

That's above my pay grade, but um it's my understanding, almost everybody's using closed loop now.

Like that's just been the efficiency progression.

Thank you.

Other questions, commissioners, Mr.

Chairman.

I I think um I picked up a couple of data points this week that I I think will be part of my consideration.

One is there's 400 AI centers currently in the state of Texas.

So this is not a one-off situation.

We're not we're not pioneering here.

Now that's not to say that we shouldn't be concerned about as um Rodney pointed out just a minute ago, um water, electricity, the noise and pollution, but city council has all those things on their table right now, and they're um going to get some authoritative and quantitative information before they pass on some previous decisions we've made.

We've made recommendations to approve these AI centers, and um I think we need to be consistent here.

I think I don't think it's we're not really involved in infrastructure.

Um, and we're not really involved in whether we think they're gonna violate some ordinance.

So if Mr.

Riley says we're going to abide by all the city's ordinances or noise pollution, uh, whatever we is approved for setbacks and height and so on and so forth.

Um I just take him I would take him at his word um or any other applicant at their word because I know that we have a process for that.

Right.

And our process will ensure that those things will be taken care of in the process, pulling construction permits and so on and so forth.

So I can't see any reason to deny this request based on speculation.

And um I just wanted to offer that comment.

Um well said.

I I think it's it's also just important for um everyone in the audience and at home um that might be watching this to understand that uh this is an amendment to an existing PD.

So they already have the ability to operate um this uh facility.

So what they are coming back to us are saying we add a substation, can we move our buildings back?

Can we add height so we have less building so we can cover less surface area, and can we have less parking spaces because we don't have a ton of employees?

Um in essence, they're asking for more green space.

Um as uh my colleague here would just pointed out what's happening on the inside of that building.

Um you could argue that it there's some argument to be made for how that affects zoning.

Um, but I think the things that folks are rightly worried about, um, you know, pollution and uh side effects to data centers, stuff that's way above my knowledge, um, really isn't our purview, and we kind of do have to rely on the EPA and you know TXEQ and all the other experts and OSHA to say, no, this is safe for the public.

Um is this use appropriate for the area?

And then we have to rely on uh the experts, the other agencies, uh local and state and federal, um, to have our back with the rest of it and keep our residents safe.

Um so as it reads today, and I'm sorry, I don't have a question.

This is just I'm just talking now.

Um I I don't see any reason not to approve the amendment this this request.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

The only concern I have is that what we're missing out on is the people that have to live with that, and we don't live in that area, so we don't know what they're going to endure with that.

And I was just do you, Mr.

Redd, and you, sir, to have another conversation with the community again, along with your city councilman.

All three of you, in fact, need to have that conversation.

Because what I see here, they you come, they've come here before because I've seen these same faces, and they're not getting satisfactory comfort in this data center.

They just call it out.

That's what it is.

They're not seeing comfort in it.

So I'm gonna have a hard time saying about that.

Number one, my concern is this grid in Texas is unstable, and then you're gonna suck that many kilowatts out on top of everything else that's being built here.

That's a concern.

Mega watts.

Megawatts, you could that's a concern to me.

You did you endure that blackout?

I did.

I froze.

I got me a gen rack generator next time.

But I'm not, I I can't endure that again.

And I don't think a lot of people endure that.

We have to think of these constituents, what the bottom line is gonna impact, how that's going to impact them at the end of the day.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Chairman, um, just to address my colleague's comment for a second.

Um I'm very persuaded by your concern, uh, Commissioner Robertson.

Um, and I don't want to discount it in any way, but I will say that um if anybody's concerned about having enough water and not have and having enough electricity, it's gonna be the operator.

Because if they don't have water and they don't have electricity, they're out of business.

So they're gonna have to solve that problem.

And I think the way they're going to solve the problem, though, or at least the opportunity they want to solve the problem is their footprint on this 178 acres is just a fraction of their acreage.

And so it gives them the opportunity, if they if they must to bring in generators and and be self-sufficient instead of being out of business.

And so I'm not too concerned about what they do or don't do because I know they're gonna do whatever it takes to survive.

And if it makes means wind power or thermal power or whatever it takes to survive, they're going to do it because they're gonna make a major investment here.

So I understand what you're saying.

I might add that it's definitely the the best question around this is just how is this gonna influence um you know the grid?

So for this particular case, it's probably worth highlighting real quick.

Um we first filed with Encore um May of 2024.

So it's coming up on two years of studies, and so it um goes without saying they're being really methodical um as they approach these things to make sure it does not cause disruptions.

Um between both Encore's intimate knowledge of the local grid and getting approvals out of URCOT and Austin.

Um it's a multi-year process.

It's it's definitely not stuff just flying through and we'll see what happens later.

They are being professional and methodical about it.

Any other questions for our applicants?

I'm just curious if this site map indicates where the intended substation might be.

Yeah, the fence is what we've got on that one.

So you wouldn't be able to see it from the road.

No, we've got if my laptop were still open, um, as we've done the campus design, there's an exterior fence and then six to eight foot high kind of line of bushes along with it.

So we're trying to be pretty discreet in general when you're at Street View.

Okay.

Any other questions, Commissioners?

Oh, thank you.

Okay.

Uh seeing none, we'll close the public hearing.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Uh, we can continue discussing here.

Um I've got a question for staff real quick.

What is the allowable build out on this lot?

What's what's the max they could use?

What's the percentage?

Because I think they're at 15.

Is that right?

With this new.

So it's really a two-part answer.

One is they would be locked into whatever their approved site plan is.

So they so any um enlargement of it would need to come back through the zoning commission and the city council.

Um, the second part of that answer is in zoning, there's not a there's not a maximum lock coverage that uh that you could hit.

But being at 15, they're pretty low.

Right.

For industrial, that's extremely low for industrial industrials.

Normally, you know, would be the inverse of that.

Right.

Yes, I I know one of the we're not talking about it for this case, but I think it's worth mentioning um because typically something like this, we're talking about flood concerns because there's so much concrete, so much steel, so much glass, these are all impervious surfaces, and now the neighborhoods around this place are flooding.

And so they're actually the inverse of that.

So I just thought that was worth mentioning.

And I know the uh staff recommendation was to require a site plan, is that correct?

Right.

So the piece of this that that they're doing now approval with site plan.

You know, they've they had a site plan requirement on their previous case, so they would need a site plan.

And as they brought this back, they're also um amending the language of the PD there again to the height and the setback in the parking.

The site plan, like if we were to make a motion here, wouldn't it need to include the the site plan eight concerns?

I'm sorry, say that one more time.

If a motion were to be made, wouldn't wouldn't it the site plan need to include the eight concerns that were listed?

One of them being um generator location, wall height, et cetera.

Yes, ma'am.

Commissioner Pierce.

All right.

Thank you all for your wonderful comments, my fellow commissioners.

Uh Commissioner Etmus, Commissioner Robertson.

Um I was sitting here thinking about the word that came to my mind is progress.

I watched I recently watched a documentary about progress in America, how people were afraid to leave the typewriter for the computer.

People were afraid to leave the horse and buggy for the car.

People were afraid when they digitize time.

Because we used to tell time on a pendulum.

So it sounds like to me these data centers with the AI and all the demands of 5G is a part of progress.

And with progress, people are afraid, and people are afraid of change.

And that's what came out of the documentary I was watching and make it make me think about change is scary.

However, Commissioner Edmund says something that was so profound when he talked about trust.

We have to trust the process.

We have the trusty subject matter experts that are degreed and have the portfolio and the expertise that it's okay, that we'll be fine with a data center.

I trust the city of Fort Worth.

Uh I trust our leadership team.

Uh, I trust the due diligence that that you have done, and I appreciate you and applaud you for all the time that you spent with the neighborhoods and to Commissioner Robertson's point, perhaps spend more time to make sure everybody is comfortable.

So I want to commend you on that and your patience.

You're always here.

Uh even at the the pre-zoning, your patients.

I appreciate that.

So I am going to move for approval.

And my reason for this is that I feel that the due diligence are in place for us to be able to move forward with the with the electrical.

And it's called progress.

So chairman, uh zoning gay ZC26041.

I move for approval.

Second.

Do we need to say the site plan?

Commissioner, yep.

Oh, I'm sorry, my apologies.

Okay.

And the eight concerns.

Yes, ma'am.

I think I'll say it again.

With zoning KZC 26041, I move for approval with a site plan and the eight conditions.

Can we live?

Second, what are the conditions exactly?

Because I'm not entirely clear.

Can we go to that chart?

Sorry.

Those are uh staff's comments on the site plan.

Okay, so they're already on the site plan.

Yes, sir.

Existing on the site plan.

Is that correct?

The comments were were sent to the applicant, but the applicant needs to revise those between now and when it goes to council.

So okay, and I'm sorry, who's seconded that motion?

I'm sorry.

Oh it was either me or Matt.

No, he okay.

All right, we have a uh vote to warm it approve um with a site plan and the eight concerns listed um by that was Commissioner Pierce and seconded by Commissioner Werman.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns, aye.

Commissioner Mayo?

All right, Commissioner Trujillo.

Aye, Commissioner Welch, aye, Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds, aye, commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce?

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Worman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

The vote of 11 to 0.

The zoning commission votes to recommend approval for this case with the site plan that addresses the eight comments listed.

Next case is CC 26-042.

The address is Northwest Corner of Farmer Road, FM 1187 and I-20.

The applicant is John Henry Dean and Shirley Lawson Foundation, Michael Trinari, Standridge Companies, and Westwood Professional Services.

The request is from unzoned.

Um it's included in an annexation case, AX-25-006 to track one, which is 60.023 acres to G Intensive Commercial and Track 2, encompassing 124.365 acres to PD plan development for all uses in G Intensive Commercial, I Light Industrial, R1, Zero Lot Line Cluster, R2 Townhouse Cluster, UR Urban Residential D high density multifamily with a maximum of 2,000 multifamily dwelling units, excluding A51 family residential development and permanent asphalt or concrete batch plants with development standards for multifamily uses to have a maximum height of 48 feet within 250 feet of one family uses, light industrial fences, walls, screening fences, and railings allowed on or near the property line.

Chain link fences not permitted in track two.

Data center use parking to be one space per four employees, MFD site plan waiver requested, site plan required.

Welcome back.

Good afternoon, Travis Clegg again with uh Westwood Professional Services here in Fort Worth, Texas.

We're the consulting engineers for the applicant in this case.

Um to start off, we're asking for a 30-day continuance.

Um while we are on the outskirts of town, and while we are on I-20 in an area of high traffic use and not in residential neighborhoods, we've made a promise and written a letter to remove the data center use completely from the site.

Um and so doing that, we would like to properly notify our neighbors um and get that letter circulated appropriately so that data centers will not be allowed by right under IISTRO or as it's written in this in this uh applic or application and public notice.

So our goal is to remove that for now.

If we ever wanted to do it at a center, we'd have to come back before you and ask that and handle the questions that I got answered today.

So our goal is to continue for 30 days, come back before you um with the revised proper language and then move forward.

Okay.

Thank you, Travis.

We do have one person signed up to speak in opposition.

If that's what you were speaking about, you can wave it off.

If you still want to speak, you're welcome to.

Okay.

Yes, come come forward.

Then we'll let you come back up, Travis.

Welcome to the zoning commission.

I've got seven minutes.

You've got seven minutes.

Floor is yours.

My name is Dorothy Willingham.

I live at 5400 White Settlement Road in Parker County, which is just off Farmers Road, about two miles north of where this site is.

The gentleman just stated that this is not a residential area.

Well, it's not yet, but there's all kinds of housing that's being slated to be built out there.

I personally oppose the use that this is I oppose this being zoned with the light industrial contingent that he has.

The commercial and the residential is going to happen, but I don't feel that this area is suited for any industrial type purpose.

Because once it's zoned for light industrial things like warehouses and those type things can move in, they're within a mile of this site.

There are two elementary schools, churches, and numerous neighborhoods that are not only being built but are also being developed.

So I don't think the light industrial part should be included in this zoning.

I'm not sure the exact word, I'm sorry.

But the commercial and the residential is going to happen whether I want it to or not.

But I am opposed very strongly to the industrial use of the area.

Um thank you so much.

All right, Travis.

Again, we're going to request the 38 continuum, but I will make a point to talk to the uh the speaker and get her concerns and make sure we address them.

Okay, thank you.

Appreciate it.

Uh Commissioners, any questions for the applicant?

All right.

Uh we will close the public hearing.

And Commissioner Welch, this one is yours.

Um, for the case of ZC26-042, I move for a continuance of 30 days or till the next meeting.

Second.

Who was that?

It's throwing again.

McCoy.

All right.

We have a uh motion to continue this case until our May meeting uh by Commissioner Welch and a second by Commissioner McCoy.

Commissioners, how do you vote?

Chairperson Reigns.

Aye, Commissioner Mayo.

Aye.

Commissioner Trujillo?

Aye.

Commissioner Welch?

Aye.

Commissioner McCoy.

Aye.

Commissioner Edmonds.

All right.

Commissioner Robinson.

Aye.

Commissioner Pierce?

Aye.

Commissioner Rogers.

Aye.

Commissioner Werman.

Aye.

And Commissioner Castro.

Aye.

The vote of 11 to 0.

The zoning commission votes to recommend a continuance until the May 13th meeting.

All right.

At this time uh we are adjourned, and thank you all for being here.

Four o'clock on the dot.

Good job, everyone.

And I appreciate all your your comments, your questions, your uh your willingness to serve the public.

So thank you all very much.

Appreciate y'all.

Thank you.