Okay, we're gonna go ahead and get started.

Call this meeting to order.

July 30th, 2026 meeting for the Fort Worth City Plan Commission.

I'm gonna turn it over to Stephen Murray for announcements.

Good morning, and welcome to the July 30, 2026 in-person meeting of the City of Fort Worth Plan Commission.

The commission meets in month monthly in open session to conduct public hearings on advertised cases.

Specific rules and procedures governing these hearings include the city subdivision ordinance, city plan commission rules, regulations, and bylaws, and related provisions of the Texas state law.

The commission's primary responsibilities are to review and act upon subdivision plans and plats, street and alley, right-of-vacations and closures, annexation, comprehensive planning, and other land development issues affecting the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction area.

The commission is made up of 11 Fort Worth citizens, each of whom are appointed by the city council.

A quorum of six of the eleven members must be present in order to conduct commission business.

Nine members are present today, therefore the hearing may proceed.

Seated at the center of the table is Commissioner CJ Johnson, or Vice Chair CJ Johnson.

And other commission members present are Commissioner Adams, Commissioner Lambeth, Commissioner Henderson, Commissioner Sins, Commissioner Kelly, Commissioner Risher, Commissioner Reed, and Commissioner Gillette.

Staff members present today are Alex Park, Saladriguez, Rich McCracken, Jessica Williams, Alex Johnson, Shell Penya, Barbara Soltero, Leo Valencia, Christopher Thornton, Stubersette, and I think that's it.

My name is Stephen Murray, I'm the plating manager and a facilitator of today's meeting.

Copies of the meeting's agenda can be and staff reports are included in the commission's document and are available on the city's website.

The staff reports are being compiled by the city's development review committee to inform the commission and applicants of city code requirements and technical issues associated with the cases to be heard.

Today's public hearing are being documented by cable television and streamed on the internet.

To achieve an orderly and timely meeting, we request that you observe the following rules and procedures.

All cases are called.

Applicants and others in support of the case will be asked to present their testimony first for a total of five minutes.

Opposing testimony will follow and be given a total of seven minutes.

We have Barbara Sotero keeping time today.

Prior to addressing the commission, clearly state your name.

All dialogue will only occur between the speaker and the commission.

Upon the chairman's initial closure of the case, the commission will remain in open session to discuss and vote upon the case.

No further public testimony or commentary will be allowed.

Be advised that the commission's decision on plating matters is final.

Action on other docket items constitute a recommendation to the city council.

If you need additional information about a particular case, please call the development services department at 817-392-8027.

Thank you for your attention.

Uh Mr.

Chairman, Vice Chair, Commissioners.

The first order of the business is the approval of the minutes from the June meeting.

Thank you, Mr.

Murray.

If there are no questions, I'll entertain a motion for approval of the minutes.

I have a motion and a second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes.

Mr.

Murray.

All right.

First case is VA 26005, vacation of a portion of San Shell Boulevard right away, located north of Basswood Boulevard on waiver request, section 3163 E6A.

Street vacation recommendation.

Expiration.

Uh general locations north of Basswood Boulevard, south of Thompson Road, east of I 35W and west of Old Denton Road.

Applicant is done away, Maro Santos.

Sorry, I thought you had PowerPoint open.

Everything's already there.

All over there.

Oh yeah, there we go.

Okay.

Yeah, this case has already been continued a few times.

Uh they're still in discussion with transportation on the actual see if I can get to it.

The actual exhibit, because it's transportation is requiring them to retain some of this right-of-way for a planned uh signaling in the intersection.

So at this time, we're still recommending a continuance until they figure that out.

And there is some discussion with the MRN, which I think they may still be possibly proposing to amend, but at this time it's gonna we're recommending continuance per TDS comments.

Sorry, question is this holding up development and a plating application while waiting on this vacation to be continued over and over again.

Is this is this holding up other development uh filings because this vacation keeps getting continued?

No, it shouldn't be holding anything up.

It's just there's been discussion between TDS and the applicant, and they're I guess they haven't figured out the proper way to do the exhibit at this time.

So they're still trying to work it out at the moment.

This isn't holding up development.

Unusual.

What's the goal?

What are they trying to do here?

I mean, it looks like it's just an empty lot.

Trying to vacate a little portion of the street based on the uh if you look on there, there's that maybe we show right there.

I can go to the aerial.

There's a little stub out there that they are they're trying to vacate because typically we require them to extend the street if it stubs out on the property, but they're choosing to vacate it instead.

Yeah, and sometimes through the development process, these types of things happen where there's still work that needs to be done.

That's why we're requesting a continuance.

Any other questions?

Okay, I'll close the uh public meeting and entertain a motion to continue.

I move to continue case VA 26005 to the October 8th, 2026 meeting.

I'll say I have a motion and a second.

Commissioner Adams, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Simpson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Kelly, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Richard, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Gillette, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Reed, how do you vote?

Yes.

Vice Chair Johnson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Okay.

Next case is FS25120, Oakhurst.

Waiver request section 31106 C3 Street Design Standards.

Three lots, council district eleven.

Uh general locations north of Daisy Lane, east of Bluebird Avenue, and west of Blue Bonnet Drive.

Applicant is topographic company for Stance.

All right, so with this one, this is uh final short plot.

It's just three lots.

It's currently technically three different homes uh over multiple different lots, and they're essentially cleaning up the site with this replot.

Um, but since the street there with stereo court is only 28 feet in width, we typically require them to do the minimum 50 feet for local residential roads, but they're requesting to not have to dedicate the additional right-of-way.

Um I'll let the applicant go into more detail as to why, but their reasoning is basically that they don't want to remove some of the developable area in the front of their homes right there.

But yes, they're requesting a waiver to not extend the road or dedicate additional right-of-way.

And it's an existing street, correct, Alex?

Right, right.

Yeah, right.

And it's a cul de sex.

So at this time, we're recommending approval of the waiver.

Any questions?

Um, is there any neighborhopping spree?

People were curious what was going on, but I mean I explained it to them and they seemed understanding and they didn't have an issue with it.

So is the applicant present?

Yes, sir.

Would you please come forward?

Uh Force Nance uh 4817 inwood road for Texas 76109.

Um representing the property owners on the the plat application.

Um as discussed, this road is was originally platted in 1926, so right at 100 years ago.

Um they're not proposing any redevelopment or any other changes to the property um or changes to the existing houses.

So we felt that having to uh dedicate additional right-of-way would adversely affect the existing lots and landscaping and buildable areas of the house if they were to choose to remodel or anything like that.

Any questions of the applicant?

Uh just to be clear, this still remains three separate lots.

Yes, sir.

These are three separate property owners representing.

Uh there are three three lots, two or which owned are owned by the Calabrisi's, and then there's another lot that's owned by uh the McDowells.

Okay, thank you.

No other questions.

Thank you.

Any other speakers in favor of or opposed?

Not I'll close the public hearing and entertain a motion or approval of the waiver.

All right.

I'll go ahead and motion for the approval of a waiver section 31-106 of the subdivision ordinance to permit a 28-foot cross section rather than the minimum required 50-foot cross-section for Westoria Court and conditional approval of the final plat upon meeting at the comments of the staff report.

Second I have a motion to approve by Commissioner Reisher and a second by Commissioner Sims.

I'll take a vote, please.

Commissioner Adams, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Sims, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Kelly, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Victor, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Jalat, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Reed, how do you vote?

Yes.

Vice Chair Johnson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Next case, FS 26151, Wadon Lee subdivision, waiver request section 31102 B2.

Interconnectivity of neighborhoods.

One lot, Council District 10.

General location is north of 287, south of Avondale Hazlitt Road, east of Bates Aston Road, and west of Francis Ann Cord.

The applicant is urban infrastructure group, Cameron Kimball.

All right.

So this is just one lot that they're proposing.

Um the reason that we're here is because as you can see there on the northeast portion of the property, that street stubs out, and we typically require applicants to extend the street through the site, but they're requesting a waiver to that requirement.

Um let's see.

So I've received a few calls on this one.

Um people have been curious what they're proposing, but I don't believe there's been any opposition.

There was one letter where the person I I think they maybe misunderstood what was being proposed.

So it it may have been documented as opposition, but technically what they were saying was actually approval for it.

So as far as I'm aware, there hasn't been any opposition, just a lot of people in the community were curious on this one.

But at this time, we're recommending approval since they're proposing an industrial site, and it I don't think people in the neighborhood would want to be tied in, and we it wouldn't make sense for an industrial site to be connected into the neighborhood as well.

So again, recommending approval.

Thank you.

Is the applicant present?

Please come forward.

Any comments?

Uh no, it's fairly simple.

Uh my name is Cameron Kimball.

We're with Urban Infrastructure Group.

Uh, we're the engineering consultants on this one.

Uh the biggest thing is the subdivision ordinance list that it's like to provide future connection with adjoining unplatted lands, right?

You got to be considerate of the properties around it.

But we're basically landlocked.

We have a railroad on the north side, we have 287, and then that neighborhood.

And then as uh Mr.

Johnson uh mentioned, it is gonna be light industrial, very simple warehouse under 10,000 square feet, uh more of a term terminal facility.

Uh and so we we don't want to uh extend that road, uh mess with that neighborhood, and then the second part where that road is, there's a massive uh watershed and existing drainage system.

Bring up the map.

Yeah, okay.

So you see on the north side of the property, you you see that like indention that's an existing channel.

It's roughly a 200-acre watershed that actually goes through our property as well, then goes into that neighborhood.

So our design and our development, it we're we don't even want to touch that area.

You know, we don't even want to mess with it uh because the amount of uh uh adverse impacts and drainage studies that will be required to make those improvements, and so all of our development is closer to 287.

Uh and again, just there's yeah, there's really no point to to extend that road, and not to mention if we extend that road, there is a Bates Ashton Road that doesn't actually exist.

And so if we extend Susan K, we would also have to extend uh Bates Ashton all the way up to Hazlitt even further north and to service what there's no adjoining lands, there's no future development.

Uh it would just be a road for almost no reason uh at extreme cost for this small of a development.

So we we do think it's unnecessary uh at this time.

Thank you.

Any questions for the applicant?

Yeah, one thing that's unclear to me is what is the access uh path for this development?

Because it looks like it's no access roads to the highway there.

Yes, right off of the the current plan is uh uh to work with Text Dot.

The 287, there's a service road that actually ends approximately 2,000 feet like south.

Uh there's a neighboring church, and so that church extended the road to their property, stopped it.

So we're gonna pick it up where they stopped it, run it down to us.

Uh and that that will serve us as our access road and and all that.

All right, that's a good plan.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

If not, I will close the public hearing and entertain a motion.

Commissioner Kelly.

Seeing as out I make a motion to approve the waiver to section 31-102B2 of the subdivision ordinance to not require the extension of Susan Kaileen to the plat boundary and to conditional approval.

Yeah, plat the plat of the final plat upon the meeting.

Upon meeting the comments in the staff report.

Second.

I have a motion by Commissioner Kelly and a second by Commissioner Henderson.

Let's take a vote, please.

Commissioner Adams, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Sims, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Kelly, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Richard, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Jillett's how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Reed, how do you vote?

Yes.

Vice Chair Johnson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Next case, PP 26024, Pioneer Point Crossing Waiver Request, Section 31102 B2, interconnectivity of neighborhoods, nine commercial lots, council district seven.

General location is north of Bailey Boswell Road, south of Blacksmith Avenue, and east of Boat Club Road and west of General Store Way.

Applicant is Kimley Horn.

Morning, Chair.

Commissioners.

Okay, so we have a um uh nine-lot commercial subdivision.

Um, about 20 acres here, and um what they're requesting a waiver on is um not to have to connect to Butter Turn Drive on the on the north side.

Um the reason being is that um according to their concept plan, um they are proposing a grocery store right there, and the groceries, the rear of the grocery store is going to be facing what would or what could have been the the connection to Butterchurn Drive.

And so um that's the reason why they didn't want to connect because having that traffic of um day-to-day deliveries with with trucks going in and out of there and stuff like that, it really didn't make sense to have that combined with um regular oncoming traffic um you know mixed in with that.

So they they're proposing to not have to connect to that, and um that's basically it.

It will be providing pedestrian access, however, so that if folks want from the neighborhood want to walk to the grocery store or whatever uh we are are requesting that they provide that would be a sidewalk from off butter churn or that's correct.

Is there a change in future land use between when this development residential is done and since the stub outs there it's a little bit yeah?

When I when I looked at the map, they're they're pretty consistent with what's uh zone now's neighborhood commercial future land use says it's gonna be neighborhood commercial as well.

In fact, there it is right there.

Is that it?

Is the applicant present?

Good morning.

Um Steve Gregory with Meloof Interest.

Uh the purpose for this is uh to develop a Tom Thumb anchored uh grocery store uh and two 15,000 square foot uh shopping centers adjacent to it.

Uh as you said, the uh property is currently zoned.

Uh it just didn't make sense to us.

This will be our sixth project with Tom Thumb in the last eight years to create a connection for uh people to drive through into the shop into the neighborhood to go back and forth in the shopping center and create a cut through access point.

Uh we've worked with TechStot to create a uh left in left out on boat club, and uh we're working encore with the access easement uh underneath their power lines, and we prefer everybody to use those access points and not cut through people's neighborhoods and homes as a shortcut.

Uh, but we are proposing keeping a sidewalk so the neighbors can walk back and forth.

And this project is proposed to move forward immediately upon your approval for with permits.

Any questions for the applicant?

I just want to say I appreciate that full explanation, clearing its eyes.

Sounds like a great point.

Any other speakers in favor of or against seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and enter entertain a motion.

Commissioner Henderson.

Can I get the language on screen?

All right.

Uh I'd like to make a motion to approve PP 26024, uh, approval of the waiver to section 31102 B2 of the subdivision ordinance to not require extension of Butterchurn Drive through the plat and second conditional approval of the final platform meeting the comments in the staff report.

Okay.

I have a motion by Commissioner Henderson and a second by Commissioner Reed.

I'll take a vote, please.

Commissioner Adams Haddy Vote.

Yes.

Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Simpson Howdy Vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Kelly, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Richard, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Jalatz, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Reed, how do you vote?

Yes.

Vice Chair Johnson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Excuse me.

Next case VA 26012.

Physical closure of a portion of Hawks Landing Road north of West Bonds Ranch Road, Council District 10.

General locations north of West Bonds Ranch Road, east of Fossil Springs Drive, and south of Airsbrook Court.

Applicant City of Warworth.

Good morning, Commissioners.

So this one's a little unique, and normally when we're doing vacations, it's for the actual removal of the right of way.

In this instance, we have a closure here.

And this closure is some of the folks in the neighborhood don't really understand the purpose of the closure and were a little upset and don't think that it's a good idea.

But it's tied to a much larger project.

There's a whole lot of transportation improvements coming to this area.

And this just happens to be one of them.

Ultimately, there's going to be a bridge that goes over the railroad tracks along Bonds Ranch Road that ties into the bridge that then goes over 287.

And that project's not supposed to start until 2029.

In their interim, there's a lot of other improvements that are being made to Bonds Ranch Road to the West, and then to Wagley Robertson leading back up to 287 along with frontage road construction on 287.

Thank you.

But it's good, it should be getting better before it gets worse.

Essentially is the idea.

Because in 2029, when this is physically closed, just one second, Alex.

Hopefully, all of these other things would have been done by now.

So in essence, it will get better before it gets worse.

But I would love I would rather uh Alex from TPW give you insight on what's going on.

Whatever reason that's really welcome, Alex.

Good morning.

I'm Alex number two.

Um Alejandra Ayala with uh TPW Capital Delivery.

Um and I'm here to request approval of this closure.

And before I get to the details of it, um, we're gonna go to slide number two, so I can give you a little brief overview, very fast run through of what TPW Capital Delivery has been working on with Terran County, the Texas Department of Transportation, and North Central Texas Council of Governments.

Bonds Ranch Road between Morris Dido, FM 1220, Bo Club Road.

They're all called all three names.

Between there and Highway 287, U.S.

Highway 287 on the east is eventually gonna be a four-lane divider roadway.

It's getting uh it's gonna be constructed in in in seven different phases.

Um segment one, which starts on the west, is the purple.

That's gonna be built by developers, and we don't have a set schedule.

And we don't have a set schedule.

There's a lot of moving parts because we have various developers coming in to build their residential and commercial units through that area.

So segment one is is from uh Morris Didal all the way to Business Highway 287, which is also Saginaw Boulevard.

At Saginaw Boulevard and Bontz Ranch is segment two.

That is being designed right now by Tarrant County and the North Central Texas Council of Governments.

In the future, we're still working at looking at schematics to we're that's also gonna have a bridge.

So they're gonna have to bridge uh the BNSF Railroad and also Business Highway 287 with Text Odd, and they're gonna have to move a railroad in order to achieve that uh connection, that bridge, because we have to get it away from the Hicks Airfield uh avigation easement because they do that's in the flight path for those small uh planes that come in and out of there.

Segment three is gonna pick up wherever this bridge touches down, which is the pink area, and that is going to be two-lane divided all the way to Waggley Robertson Road.

That one does have a tentative schedule, I believe, of 2029 right now.

Uh Terran County and uh is paying for the design in the future with the 2020 2026 bond.

The city did get 41 million to construct it.

So uh we're gonna pick it up from design and probably going to construction in 2029.

We still have to obtain right away and move franchise utilities on that area.

Then we get to segment four, which is that green area, and this is why this is gonna be a critical component to this request.

I'm uh we're TBW is about to start construction on that next month.

We're currently uh routing a contract, construction contract for for signatures.

We're gonna widen that section between Wagley Robertson Road to the Fossil Creek, um, which is just west of Hawks Landing.

Um that's gonna be a four-lane divided roadway.

Um we're also gonna make improvements to Wagley Robertson Road to the north.

Um in the future, um segment five is going to have a bridge over the BNSF Railroad in 2029.

Um, and all of this construction is to help us prepare for shutting down that road in two years, three years.

Eventually, we're gonna have to make cars are gonna have to make a left or a right onto Waggley Robertson Road, travel north to business to Highway 287.

In 2027, TechStot is gonna start construction on extending a frontage road to connect Wagley Robertson Road to the freeway.

They're also making improvements along that that uh Text Doc corridor between uh Bonds Ranch Road all the way up north to West Blue Mound Road because there's a lot of uh capacity improvements that need to happen with the closure of Bonds Ranch.

We've got to be able to take you know uh vehicular traffic in and out of this area in a in a safe manner.

So those things are coming in 2027.

They are planning on uh reconstructing the bridge at Bonds Ranch Road and um put in a four uh six-lane bridge and be able to take out those roundabouts that currently exist there.

So all of these capacity improvements are to prepare us for what's coming in 2029, which is the Bonds Ranch Road closure to build this bridge over the BNSF Railroad.

Next slide.

You say segment three is going to be two-lane, not four-lane.

It's four-lane divided.

It is segment three is four-lane, so is it all of it will be segment one, segment two, segment three?

Okay.

Yes.

Must have been heard.

Thank you.

Well, I have a question as well.

So segment three is not scheduled to be four-lane until 2029.

That's when it starts.

Yes, that's where tentative construction start.

Yes.

Are you concerned about any bottleneck from that segment four?

Um, we plan to be finished by the time they go to construction.

And the good thing about segment three is that we already have the right of way, so we can build a road to the north in the in the the right of way that does not have a street, and while we leave the two lanes that are currently there open for traffic.

Okay.

Thank you.

So I have a question for you.

So I I drive that area all the time, and it's the construction never stops.

And you're just you're saying now they're gonna rip out the roundabouts that they just put in.

So why did they spend the money to put the roundabouts in there to rip them out?

That was a temporary solution that came in because a street uh stoplights did not work there.

Uh also stops.

The roundabouts don't work either.

I kind of want to bring back the focus to what we're kind of talking about.

The this is kind of an overview of the overall proposed.

We we can talk about roundabouts later, but I really want to bring back the focus to the current closure and what you're doing to ensure residents have uh better access in that neighborhood.

So can we go to the next slide?

So this is just a brief little schematic of of how this uh rail this bridge is gonna go over the railroad.

Uh as you can see, it's gonna be pretty tall because we got to span it and be able to to come back down to Earth before we get to uh fossil fossil springs Kittering Road.

Um the next slide.

I kind of blew up the area that's impacting Hawks Landing right about in the middle of the screen.

You'll see Hawks Landing to the north.

Right at that point, the the walls to this bridge are about seven feet up in the air, um, which requires closure of this intersection.

And also there is not a safe way to to be able to connect traffic there with whatever right-of-way is is left.

There would be uh it just doesn't fit.

So we decided to close this road.

Um we I did meet with the board in May, along with TechSoc to explain uh the need to close it because we we're gonna have a bridge there in the future, and so what the only thing they requested was for us to put in a pedestrian connectivity to that to the sidewalks that are gonna be connected uh close to Fossil Springs Kittering Road on the on the west side, and we we plan to comply with that request.

They'll have a shared use path connecting the the neighborhood to pedestrian traffic who wants to go walk to the Kroger or the QT or any other area within that neighborhood.

Next slide.

So here's how we plan to mitigate the traffic because that has been the biggest question that I have I have had so far.

So there's this little what I call the triangle, that is the Dorado Ranch Triangle.

In the future, Hawks Landing to the north is gonna remain open with the construction that's coming next month.

We plan to make interim improvements, and we've studied the corridor with traffic and did some traffic analysis and determined that we're gonna need a stoplight at Hawks Landing in the future because once we start pulling traffic off of Bonds Ranch, it's gonna be critical for people to be able to make a right out of Hawks Landing, head north to the future connection with Waggley Robertson Road.

And also the and this the that this closure won't happen until 2029.

So by then we will have all the tech stocks improvements in place.

We will have our project, our city project completed, and these connections in place for people that live in that triangle piece to be able to get onto Waggley Robertson Road and get in onto Highway 287.

And that has been the main concern from the residents and the emails that I have been answering.

But we do have a plan.

We're working closely with Text Ot to make sure connectivity to Highway 287 is in place before we even think about closing down Bonds Ranch Road to build a bridge or the BNSF.

You briefly discuss uh neighborhood discussions and how have you met with the neighborhood?

I did uh TextOt and the city met with the Dorado Ranch HOA board.

They were pretty much understanding of the situation, pretty much understand that we had to close it for safety reasons.

Um and and the only thing they requested is for us to leave a pedestrian access to the the shared use paths that we're will be constructing with Bonds Ranch Road.

Last question, and this closure takes effect 2029.

2029, yes.

And relatively the uh the construction date on Wagley Robertson to connect with Bonds Ranch is still TBD on this you have a better date than TBD and when those signals will be going in too.

On uh on this corridor, it it'll probably be in the next 18 months.

Okay.

Now would the signals be added at the same time?

Is that we're we plan to add the signals.

We're gonna we're going to uh probably look at the traffic to see if they're needed at this time.

Because um it is one of those things that we're just gonna have to to watch because we are connecting, you know, right now Wagley Robertson dead ends at the corner of Bonds Ranch and Wagley, that connection's gonna be in place.

So in the future, you know, we plan to add a signal at Fossil Springs, which is very needed right now.

Uh the the signal at Bonds Ranch and Wagley will become a four-legged intersection, and then we're gonna add another signal at Hawks Landing.

Yeah, just was my concern about once that connection is made with that intersection that the Hawks landing gets a signal at the same time in the plan.

Did you say it's it's gonna be traffic studies?

Yeah, but we have some preliminary numbers.

Um that light really may not be needed until 2029, but we're gonna go ahead and put it in now and and just watch the traffic because I have a feeling a lot of these folks are gonna want to go north to get on highway 287, then deal with the traffic, I mean the train till 2029 I had a quick question for you.

So you mentioned that you guys have spoke to the HOA board.

Um were there any notices sent out to like all residents affected by that neighborhood?

There were as part of this.

There's a 300-foot notice requirement for property owners, but there's also uh neighborhood uh organizations within a half mile that are notified.

Perfect.

And did you receive any responses from those notices that were sent out from the neighbors?

Yes, I did.

Um a lot of them had a lot of questions.

Um I thought that the HOA might have presented this closure to to their people on one of their meetings, and I'm not sure if they did or not, because a lot I I received about five emails asking questions on how are we gonna get out of this neighborhood.

So I think it may be a good idea to this is just a recommendation that you guys maybe set up some type of a neighborhood meeting, just an open meeting to discuss uh what's going on with the project, any concerns they had that way.

I think you'll receive less pushback during the time of uh your implementation of the project.

My pre-construction public meeting for the Bonds Ranch Road Widening is Wednesday at the Betsy Price Community Center.

It starts at 6.

Uh I am asking TechSot to come in Terran County because a lot of people, based on the previous public meetings we've had, they have a lot of questions about this corridor.

And so we're gonna bring in our partners and join us at that meeting, and we're gonna discuss the construction and phasing of Bonds Ranch and how we're not gonna shut down any roads while we're under construction, we can't.

And uh also answer questions on on connectivity to highway, U.S.

Highway 287 in the future.

And that's next Wednesday at 6 p.m.

evening.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Good morning.

I just wanted to add one last statement regarding to the need for the closure.

I'm Raul Lopez, and I'm the engineering manager that oversees the major roadway, uh, capital improvements in Fort Worth.

Alex works here works in my team.

So this is one of those situations where we they say difficult decision, right?

It's either we close the road or we can't build that bridge.

For as long as I've occupied the position that I hold today, engineering manager, we've had complaints about all the residents in this area.

What are you gonna do about those strength crossings that hold us back for two and three and four cycles?

World better than bridge.

For us to be able to build a bridge, and I say awesome, I mean TechSot, uh Council of Government, uh being funding funding agency and uh City of Fort Worth, we have to collapse the road because it's basically not possible to have the bridge and the access through that road.

So that's that's the reason why we're closing the road.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Any other speakers in favor of any speakers here opposed to it?

Seeing none, I will close the I'm sorry, got a question.

Yeah, I just want to command you for uh y'all for doing how y'all can't uh to get the word out and for folks that come to the meeting if it's not y'all, you know.

Uh don't hold your head down if don't nobody show up, you doing how you can, so y'all just move along what y'all got to do.

Thank you.

I just make a comment to staff.

Thank you very much for the full context of what the plan was here because closing down this access, of course, without having an open intersection with Ragley Robertson would be pretty terrible for the Hawks and Wedding neighborhood.

I'll appreciate the phasing timelines put into this with the signals.

It's really gonna make a huge improvement uh for public safety access in this neighborhood, which has been uh a long time, as far as I can remember, 15 plus year serious problem for work.

So thank you.

Let's come in forward.

Perfect.

Any other questions or comments?

I just had a one more question about the roundabouts that are there on that.

I guess that could be segment five.

At the QT.

Well, I read that we're putting in signals.

Is that correct?

Do you know the timeline on that?

They plan to start construction on that phase in 2027.

Um Textot's telling me it's gonna be about 18 months.

I I thought that was a little aggressive for putting in that big bridge that's coming in, but at this point, that's what they're telling me.

18 to 20 months.

Great.

Thank you so much.

Any other questions, comments?

Seeing none, I will close the public hearing and entertain a motion.

Can we get the language up on the screen?

Stand I make a motion for the approval of the recommendation to the city council for the physical closure of Hawks Landing Road at Bonds Ranch Road.

I'll second.

I have a motion by Commissioner Kelly and a second by Commissioner Richer.

Take a vote.

Commissioner Adams, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Sims, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Kelly, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Richard, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Gillette, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Reed, how do you vote?

Yes.

Vice Chair Johnson, how do you vote?

Yes.

Motion passes.

I think that concludes our meeting.

This meeting is now adjourned.