Well, it was 75 today.

Exactly.

Welcome as I call to order the January 6th regular city council meeting.

The time is 6 p.m.

Wise with me as I offer the indication to leave the pledge of allegiance.

Our Heavenly Father bless us as we consider the agenda in front of us tonight.

Give us the wisdom to act with compassion and vision for what is best for the community.

Bless and watch over our public safety officers, the community they serve.

In your name we pray.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I will turn the time over to the City Secretary for Wall Call and Certification of the Quarn.

Mayor Scott Bradley?

Here.

Mayor Pro Tim Elizabeth Abraham?

Here.

Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Janay Butler?

Here.

Councilmember place to Scott Smith?

Here.

Councilmember place three, Andrew Chase.

Here.

Council Member Place 4 can Oakman.

Here.

Councilmember Place Five, Laura Dill?

Here.

Mayor certify the presence of a quam.

Thank you.

All right.

We're going to turn, we're going to move on to public comments.

It's time we set aside on the agenda to allow residents to address council and item not on the agenda this evening.

We do have one public comment form from Mr.

Little.

Welcome today, Mr.

Look.

How are you?

Sir.

Good evening.

Maynard Little, 1004, St.

Mark Drive.

Tonight I wish to comment on water loss fiasco that Murphy residents have endured for over a decade.

During this time, city leaders have done a disservice to residents for not informing them of the added cost of water loss due to the loss to the water rates due to the loss or mitigating the loss issue.

For many years and numerous times, I questioned council and staff about the high water rates of city charges when compared to other area cities.

Not one person ever disclosed that water loss was significant reason for rates that rates were so high.

Not one of the annual five-year rate presentations by New Gen ever mentioned water loss as a factor in the ever increasing rates that were recommended.

Yet the consistently high 20 to 30% water loss for more than 10 years had to be covered with higher rates each and every year, costing the ratepayers an added $10 per year.

This occurred despite the fact that two different ordinances stated the loss should be 12% or less.

These ordinances were passed in 2014 and 2019, but the water loss ever increased and culminated in 23, 2023 to close at close to 30% when the taker pay with NTMWD was set.

The excessive volumes of water loss over the decade plus can only be attributed to faulty meters, theft leaks, or combination of those.

However, theft of any magnitude would be discovered.

And the meters are stated to be 99% accurate by staff.

Thus leaks are the probable cause for the loss.

Over the years, the city did approve some expensive inconclusive analysis to try to find a probable cause.

Yet instead of expensive studies, all that was needed was a little knowledge, experience, and common sense to predict the probable cause.

Any soil engineer, geologist, structural engineer, or foundation professional, would have pinpointed the probable cause if asked to examine the issue.

No doubt there are residents that could have identified the probable cause.

Apparently, no citizen was contacted to help address this issue.

The City of Murphy sits on the Eagleford formation at the surface.

The Eagleford is a late Cretaceous, is late Cretaceous in age and composed of clays, quartz, limestone, and organics.

It is both a source rock and a reservoir rock, reservoir rock, being a prolific oil and gas producer in central and south Texas.

Montmarillinite is the dominant clay and is well known for its ability to swell and shrink, producing shifting soils.

When wet, this swelling can produce horizontal and vertical pressures of more than 5,000 pounds per square foot.

Upon drying out, cracks of five feet or greater in depth can occur, which is well within the depth of water service lines.

This these shrink shrink swell properties create a hazard, structural hazard for foundations, road sidewalks, pipelines, and utility lines.

Obviously, older structures and pipelines have experienced more repetitions of shrink swell and have a greater potential for failure.

The concrete road sections being replaced along the career are examples of damage done by this shrink swell.

If these stresses can crack and heave concrete road sections, imagine what they can do to a one-inch copper water line.

The water distribution lines in Murphy have been subject to these stresses for years, and many lines have failed or will fail.

When a buried low-pressure water line begins to leak, the clay simply absorbed the water, and there is no surface indication of the leak.

Water service line leaks should have been considered years ago as the most likely cause for the excessive water loss volumes.

And the abnormally high water rates charged by the city could have been avoided.

It is presumed that the city leaders will see the logic that older lines have the highest probability of leaking, and will replace those in the oldest areas to the newest in that order.

The city of Murphy has many knowledgeable and experienced residents.

Hopefully, when a future persistent problem occurs, the city leaders will announce the issue and seek suggestions and solutions for the resident from the residents and develop a plan to address it without delay.

Thank you for your attention.

Thank you, Mr.

Little.

Hope you had a good day.

Is there anyone else who would like to address council on an item not on the agenda this evening?

Seeing none.

Move on to the mayor's report.

I don't have anything to address in today's meeting.

Anyone from council have any updates, messages they want?

Very good.

I don't think it is on here.

When when does the construction start on uh on the the new on updating the water feeds?

We're still working through that.

We haven't even gone out to bid yet.

Okay, thank you.

Moving on to presentations.

Uh presentation 6A, commemoration of retired Murphy Police Sergeant David Rogers.

Chief.

Mayor, Council, good evening.

We, as a law enforcement agency, are so grateful that you are taking the opportunity to honor Sergeant David Rogers.

He was a proud part of our team.

He was a dedicated and committed individual to this community by providing law enforcement leadership to our people as well as services to the community.

Although this was a tragedy, I think that we should look at the optimistic aspect of every tragedy.

And in this particular tragedy, you saw two states that came together as one unified family to provide a grieving family, the necessary support that they needed, and that support will continue from this day, this day forward.

Again, thank you for taking this moment to allow us to recognize Sergeant Rogers.

We appreciate you.

Thank you.

All right, moving on to item 6B presentation, employee of the quarter.

Your name's on here again, Jones.

It is, I know.

Well, good evening, Mayor and Council.

Uh, tonight I have the pleasure of introducing our first employee of the quarter at Fiscal Year 2026.

Um, as a reminder, this program is designed to publicly recognize a Murphy team member who is known to consistently go above and beyond and demonstrate a commitment to our core values of being Murphy cool.

Um, after another um strong quarter of nominations, I am pleased to announce the next recipient of employee of the quarter is Tim Sapp with the Finance Department.

So I am going to hand it over to our finance director to come on up and present Tim's award.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

It is my honor to introduce to you, Tim Sapp.

He currently serves in the capacity of the finance purchasing specialist.

He joined the city a little over a year ago.

He started out as the finance technician.

And we quickly were able to see that he was going to prove to be a valuable asset and go much further than where he started.

He demonstrates professionalism, reliabilities, respectfulness, and all with a positive attitude.

You may remember that he also served as our interim budget officer when we had that vacancy.

So now the his position is called finance purchasing specialist.

There's been a little bit of a reclass, and you will continue to see him helping with the budget throughout the years.

He helps with it just went blank.

What else was the though the large vendor payments?

He helps with our file integrations to try to do less things manual and more things automated, and we're so glad and so happy to have Tim Sapp with us.

Now he's here tonight because he had a recommendation from a colleague.

And I want you to hear that the colleague says Tim consistently demonstrates outstanding support and professionalism in all finance related matters.

Whenever we have a question about our budget, purchase orders or any financial process, he responds quickly, clearly, and with a positive attitude.

He takes the time to explain details thoroughly and will even provide examples or documentation when needed to ensure we fully understand.

So it's my pleasure tonight to present Tim Sapp as employee of the quarter.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Very good.

All right.

Moving on to presentation update regarding municipal courts.

Robert Cass.

I'm gonna do it.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Before I give the court operation update, I thought I would introduce myself.

My name is Heather Smith, and I've had the privilege of serving the City of Murphy for 23 years.

I began as a receptionist, moved into records and CID with the police department, and later served as the executive assistant to the city manager.

Following some restructuring, I transitioned to municipal court where I've spent the last 17 years of my career growing from court clerk to juvenile case manager to interim court administrator and now court administrator.

I'm proud of the experience I bring to this role and look forward to continuing to serve the City of Murphy and our community.

So with that said, I'd like to provide the council with a brief municipal court operations update.

So we'll start with the staffing.

Operationally, the court is supported by the court administrator.

Deputy Court Clerk Roberta Reyes and the Bailiff Philip Gilbert.

We do have one part-time deputy court clerk position that is currently vacant, and we are in the process of filling that role.

So moving on to the case activity for last year for 2025.

While traffic violations do make up a significant portion of that number, the court also handles code enforcement cases, parking violations, animal control violations, and certain alcohol and tobacco related citations.

And warrants.

As of January 4th of this year, the total number of active warrants is 1,308, representing a total dollar amount of 506,171 dollars.

This number is slightly lower than last year, which reflects the combined efforts of our team, which includes our bailiff, who continues to make uh reminder phone calls, our warrant uh warrant clerk who sends pre-warrant notification letters out, and our collection agency, who actively follows up with the defendants.

Our warrant uh uh warrant clerk who sends pre-warrant notification letters out, and our collection agency, who actively follows up with the defendants.

Um just last year, our collection agency was able to collect 25,501 through targeted phone calls, text messages, and mailed correspondence.

Our staff, along with our collection agency, have done an excellent job with uh warrant collections.

This concludes my update if there are any questions.

Uh thank you, Mayor and Council, for your time this evening.

I will now turn the presentation over to Judge Callaway.

Thanks.

Uh I told her beforehand that y'all were gonna ask a billion questions.

So I was kidding.

Um she was like, really?

What are they gonna ask?

I'm like, we're gonna ask you specifics about like what did we do on Tuesday of last year.

Um I was just kidding.

Um council, it's good to see all of you again.

Um I have a pretty short and sweet update.

Um, when this agenda was getting created, um there was a lot of municipal court items being put on it, and Jarrett finally sent us an email that goes, this is gonna be municipal court night.

Um so I'll go quickly.

Um the court is uh in a very good place right now.

Uh Heather stepping in as our court administrator is a huge thing.

Um I think there's something to be said for loyalty to staff that have been with the city for a long time.

Um and her stepping in this role is kind of a triumph for the city that she started off as a receptionist and now she's leading a department, so that's pretty cool.

All right.

Um I got to do Citizens Academy this year.

If you haven't done Citizen Academy, it's very fun.

Um Berna kind of conned me into it, and uh then I loved it.

Um our citizens that participated, we did an interactive activities in the court, and they got an opportunity to kind of see more than just what municipal court does as traffic tickets, but we took it into an example of um some code-related issues and neighbor related issues and why the court's important to the city, and they were very active.

This is a copy of the outline that we covered with them.

We covered a lot of ground.

Um, and I so enjoyed the experience.

Uh, here is us continuing, and then here's the activity we did.

Um it was a good mix of people, citizens that came.

It was different viewpoints in different neighborhoods and different people, and uh I'm kind of looking forward to next year, or I should say this year, um, for who will come to the academy.

And we've been promised, I think, Jared, you say we get to have more time this year.

Hopefully.

Just a little bit more time.

Um we've had it, right?

What?

You're like, yeah, I've got the council here and the mayor, so I'm like commitment.

Um yeah, with more time, I think we're gonna do more stuff.

And it was actually uh Bernard, you were there that night.

It was a really fun.

I I had a good time with it.

Uh we've also done some outreach in the community um with our scouts again.

Uh we had more kids come this year, and uh again, uh annual event we do, and uh we covered a lot of ground with the kids and they were just wonderful.

Um let's see.

Um engaging with defendants.

Uh as Heather kind of alluded to earlier, we're doing a much better job of connecting with people on cases.

Uh Officer Gilbert, who does the calls is really engaging and does a good job with them.

But we're also trying to figure out, and we are trying to hopefully this year, one of our main goals is to reach defendants in every other way that is convenient for the defendant.

Um and some of our analytics um from just the last six months is that um people will go on Google Maps.

This is just Google Map data, and 677 people called the court, right?

That's engagement where they actually call the court and speak to a staff member and take up time of the staff, right?

Um there were 313 that went to our website, and then five hundred and ninety-six of those contacts with our court through Google Maps asked for directions.

So, what does that mean?

It means that they come physically to the court.

And our hope in 2026 is to get those numbers inverted, right?

We'd have much rather be phone call than in person, and we'd much rather be online than in person or phone.

And we're trying to come up with some solutions on how to make that work.

And it's gonna be a uh kind of a strategic way of just seeing how we can connect with people better so that it doesn't create them having to come to the court.

Um and that's kind of the basics of that.

Um we are uh it's on the agenda tonight, I believe, for the court of record transition.

Uh court of record is something we've been wanting to do for quite a while, and it gives our court power.

And where it really gives us power is with our police department.

Um statutorily, I'm an attorney judge, um, but I have to have a court of record backing me to be able to do certain types of search warrants, certain types of levels of things.

Uh, and this finally gives me the ability to assist our CID department, RPD in a much bigger way than I have in the past.

Um it also allows me to be a partner with other cities nearby, like Parker and others.

If they have a something that they need done, I can also do that for them if they're not a court recorder.

So it gives us more power to do more for the city.

And it's one that is an easy transition uh if it's approved.

Uh Heather, we already talked about her.

She's fantastic.

Hope you all get to meet and spend some time with her.

That's it.

Any questions?

So that was an omen.

You're supposed to ask me a million questions.

Okay.

No questions.

All right.

Thank you all very much.

Thank you, Judge.

Happy New Year.

All right.

Moving on to City Manager staff reports.

Mayor and Council, I have a few updates tonight, but first I do want to say congratulations to Heather.

This was her first time presenting in front of council, and you did a great job.

So congratulations.

We're happy to have you in this promotional position.

All right.

Um, so the daddy daughter dance is coming up on February 7th, 2026 at the Murphy Community Center from 7 to 9 p.m.

The bells and bows on the buy you daddy daughter dance is going to be the theme.

Hurry up and get your tickets before it sells out.

Uh the rainbow trout roundup is also headed our way on February 28th.

That will take place at Murphy City Hall Pond from 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

This is a kid-only fishing event from 10 to 1, and then uh fishing before 10 a.m.

is strictly prohibited.

If you need more information, please go to our website.

And our next council meeting will be held on January 20th at 6 p.m.

in this room.

Thank you.

Very good.

Move on item 8.

Consider andor act on the December 2nd, 2025 regular council meeting minutes.

Mayor 50.

Anybody?

Okay.

Mayor approve uh or move that we approve the December 2nd regular council meeting minutes as presented.

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

All in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion pass unanimously.

Item B, consider and or act on an ordinance amending.

Article 12.02 of the Murphy Court of Ordinances to create a municipal court of record.

Jerry.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Judge Calloway stole on my thunder.

So if you have any questions, be happy to just kidding.

But he did steal my thunder.

As the judge alluded to, our currently our municipal court is not designated as a court of record.

And so this has been a long-term goal that we're finally able to bring to you tonight.

It basically involves changing uh Article 12.02 of our code of ordinances and and and you all simply designating them as a court of record.

Really the only difference is it requires our court to create a formal record and transcript of the proceedings.

We have uh the staff to be able to do that and the equipment to be able to do that.

It's just not something that we've been required to do.

Uh our clerks are trained to do it, and so uh staff does recommend uh transitioning the court over to that.

Um I won't bother you with the reasons for the judge did an excellent job of telling you why it does give us uh much more local authority uh and ability to act on things more quickly than we currently can.

Why is it taking us this?

I mean, why why not?

Well, I don't know.

I I'll say municipal court was was transitioned over to me a few months ago, and so I just took this.

So you're taking all the credit.

So I just I I took on the legwork and did it.

So here we are.

That's what I have.

So why not now?

Now's a good time.

All right.

Very good.

Any questions for Jared or the judge on this?

Right.

With none, I'll take a motion.

Thank you, Jared.

Mayor move that we approve the ordinance amending Article 12.02 of the Murphy Code of Ordinances to create a municipal court of record.

Second.

I have a motion to the second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Any up?

Motion passed unanimously.

Moving on to item 8 C consider and or act or resolution regarding the appointment of presiding judge.

Are we gonna we yeah, we're gonna skip to F to and and we'll wait and do this after.

Executive exec.

Yeah.

Okay.

Consider and or act on case number 2025-016 on an application by coffee gurus, Murphy LLC for a site plan for the uh Arawa Yemene Coffee on property described as lot three block A, Walmart edition, and located at 109 North Murphy Road, suite 100.

Almost caught me off guard there.

Okay.

Thank you, uh, Mayor and Council.

Jumped a few items.

Uh let's see if I can have my presentation.

I called Carter off guard too.

We're just trying to mess with everybody.

That's okay.

Well, all right, we'll back up a little bit.

All right, good evening, Mayor and Council.

Thank you.

This item is a consideration of a site plan for 109 North Murphy Road.

This is sometimes referred to as Evans Crossing.

It is on the east side, the Walmart.

It's on North Murphy Road.

Again, 109.

Current zoning is retail with a planned development overlay.

You can see its location here.

This is an image of the property in question, kind of looking northwest from North Murphy Road.

You can see the location of the business that is requesting this.

The applicant is requesting approval of a site plan to add an approximately, let's say 1600 square foot patio on the south side of the building.

Their tenant space that's located at this building.

The patio would remove an existing seven parking spaces, bringing the new parking ratio to one to 101 square feet.

It would exceed the minimum requirement of this planned development.

Really, the only reason it's before you tonight is the fact that it does increase the coverage on the lot.

Any increasing coverage on a lot requires a site plan approval as part of the new requirements that were passed last year for our site plan procedural requirements.

The patio will be approximately 11 feet tall and will include a knee wall with brick to match the building to enclose the patio.

On the left, you can see the original 2015 concept plan for the site showing the layout.

I'd just like to point out that there is an existing patio on the site on the north side that was shown on that concept plan.

Obviously, there was not one shown here.

And again, we'll zoom in a little bit here.

You can see the tenant space and hatch marks and the related patio that's being proposed next door.

Here are some renderings of the patio showing kind of the general feel and look.

Are these just concepts or is these are concepts?

We don't we we wouldn't really require measured drawings at this stage, just it will look substantially similar to this.

I think they look fabulous.

I was just curious.

Yeah.

And again, this is the existing patio on the site, just to give you an idea of what exists there currently.

At their December 4th regular meeting, that would be December 4th of 2025.

A planning and zoning commission recommended approval 7 to 0 for the applicants here and happy to answer any questions you might have, but of course, are there any questions for me?

Any questions?

Nope.

Any concerns?

I'll take a motion.

Mayor move that we approve uh case number 2025-016, an application by Coffee Grows Murphy LLC for a site plan for Arlo Yemini Coffee on property described as Lot 3 Block A Walmart Edition and located at 109 North Murphy Road Suite 100.

Second.

I have a motion second.

All those in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously.

Moving on to item G, consider Act and or Act on case number 2025.018.

An application by ND and Associates for a site plan for Pecon Meadows, townhouses, property described as lots 1 through 3 block A, Wasith Plaza, located at 1000 through 1010 North Murphy Road, right?

Good evening again, Mayor and Council.

This is again another site plan for a different development in our city.

The applicant is Indian Associates, but the property owner and developer is Sayad Hussein.

He's here tonight.

The property is currently zoned single family attached.

It does have a PD overlay.

The land uses neighborhood retail and office and the location is again one that roughly 1000 North Murphy Road at the southeast corner of Betsy Lane and North Murphy Road.

This is a photograph of a site looking east from North Murphy Road.

The site plan shows a 32 townhomes separated into eight buildings on the property with a cul-de-sac with two entrances, one being from North from North Murphy Road and on Betsy Lane.

Just a little bit of a history on the site.

Prior to 2021, it was zoned neighborhood services, a light retail district that's intended for local retail service use type businesses.

In November of 2021, City Council approved the current zoning, which allowed for this townhome development.

There was an attached concept plan.

This is that concept plan that was approved with the zoning in November of 2021.

And this is the site plan that's being proposed.

This is one of the few forms of residential zoning that requires a site plan just to make sure that all of these more finite details, it since it is slightly more dense than a single family development, to make sure everything works together well.

So you can see it is substantially conforming in the number of lots, location of streets, utilities, common areas, and those specific kinds of details.

This is some of the elevations.

These are the elevations for the buildings.

They will be varied throughout the site.

And this is kind of a color rendering to give you an idea of the colors and materials that would be applied here.

This is the landscape plan showing locations of trees and plantings on the site.

And this is the screening wall example that's just been provided for reference for you tonight.

At their December 4th, 2025 regular meeting, the planning and zoning commission recommended approval 70, finding that the plan was in substantial conformance to the concept plan.

Again, the applicant, Sandy Hussein's here tonight to answer any questions you might have, but are there any questions for me?

Yes, Reagan.

Well, the fact that it's uh again more finite and as the site really the purpose of the site plan is to make sure that concept plan is uh able to be carried out effectively.

Really, the only significant change, if you could call it significant, is this parking area that was shown parallel style here.

Um they're going to be uh put in these gaps instead, uh, which allows for again it'll be perpendicular to the roadway.

This is primarily because in this uh concept plan, if you consider the width of the lots and the driveways, there may be some conflicts there.

So these are the kind of things that are hammered out in a site plan phase.

Other than that, again, it's substantially conforming locations of the entrances, uh, dimensions of lots, locations of common spaces.

Umstantially similar.

And how many are there total?

32.

So I wasn't I wasn't excited about this the first time I saw it.

I'm less excited about it now.

Uh this is uh more density than the other units uh townhomes that we have.

That's a mix of townhomes and single-family homes, um, which already was a level of density that I I think was a lot for Murphy.

I would much rather see something more in line with that than this.

That's a lot of traffic that's happening on that specific corner.

So yeah, I I know this is something that council approved.

I I think it was too dense when we approved it the first time, but I still think it's too dense.

Reagan, I have a question about the setback line on the south side.

Sure.

Um, you know, in this rendering that was up on the screen right now, it shows that dotted line as the 10 10 foot on some of these other ones where it shows potential um footprint of the dwelling.

In my perception, looking at this, they don't look like they're 10 foot.

The reason why is because a 10-foot rear setback line on a concept plan, this is not a property boundary.

This is an easement, and this is an error on the concept plan.

So it either should have said 20 feet or showing 10 feet, it's not correct.

The zoning requires that there be a 10-foot rear yard setback line from the property boundary.

So that is what this reflects.

A 10-foot setback from the property boundary.

And the if there's a conflict between the plan and the regulations, the regulations control.

Reagan, can we go back to the parking again, like what the changes?

Sure.

It's uh these four what were originally provided here, and then you have these parallel spaces here, and these here.

And again, these uh parallel spaces are here on the south, here on the east, and then the four rather than being parallel to the street, are uh they're gonna be parallel to the um driveways in these insets.

Is it the same number of parking spots?

It's the same number, ma'am.

In front of each location, uh maybe have to go there.

We go, we have to go back to parking in front of each housing unit, how many parking places are in front of each one?

So each driveway will be able to hold two cars, and so and the total number of guest parking spaces would be I believe 13.

No.

There's seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen parking spaces.

And there actually are more now that I think about it.

There are two here.

So it'd be 15 total.

In addition to the two in the driveway.

The two whatever is in the garage.

And yes, that obviously there are garages.

I know these are town homes.

It's tight.

It's very compact in there.

And this has egregress on two Betsy and to Murphy Road, correct?

North.

Yes, sir.

On the north side, there's this egress point here.

You can see a hooded left turn that's proposed, and then uh this point here on North Murphy Road, there will not be a cut on North Murphy Road.

So this will so traffic coming out will only be able to go north bowl.

Yes, sir.

Yes.

That'll be a we'll visit that.

Remember the issue on the other side of the Betsy?

What's that?

Uh yeah.

Access in and out.

Right, right.

So if you're going southbound, if you're going southbound on on uh Murphy Road, you've got to if you have Betsy, you've got to come back and make the U-turn to get in, correct?

Yes, you'll have to do a U-turn.

Yes, sir.

Yeah.

Or you can like turn on Betsy and Yes, you could turn left on Betsy and do a U-turn there.

Or you wouldn't have to do a U-turn, I'm sorry, do a left and a right.

Any other questions?

My opinion, we spent months trying to negotiate, because we had a similar layout this when the first one came to us on the other side of Betsy.

We spent a lot of time negotiating that down, figuring out how we have a mix of the townhouses and the uh and the single family that were in there, make sure it wasn't quite so dense.

Um I'm not I I can't vote for this level of density.

I I I don't know why we spent all that time negotiating that when we're just doing this.

We're just giving up so clarify to me the process.

So just for like what you're saying.

This was approved in 2021.

Um can you honor?

I mean, like is that what you're trying to do?

Is this isn't different from what was approved, right?

It is substantially conforming to what was approved in 2021.

Yeah.

So what does that mean from a process perspective compared to what you're saying?

We have the we have didn't like it then, I don't like it now.

We had the uh the oper, we have it is a request that has to be approved by us.

We choose not to approve it.

We asked for it to go back to be adjusted.

We can request to have that done.

There's no press on us.

Okay.

If there's an argument on the other direction, please let me know.

Well, I I mean I wasn't part of the discussions in 2029.

Um what the context was then?

Yeah, it's been well I know a lot of things.

I've slept a few times, too.

But no, okay.

Right.

There was a lot that had there was a lot of other development in that area that hadn't happened by at that time as well.

Right.

A lot of things have changed on that corner in that section, a lot of other development uh between then and now.

That's the plan.

Okay.

So my one gonna argue in support of this.

Anyone who wanna argue and support it?

I mean, I'll also just for the sake of like what Laura said in 2021, which was four almost five years ago.

You know, this was something that cancel didn't like necessarily, but we still voted for it.

I believe that part of this was we have rechanged the zoning from retail to um what uh Mr.

Sain had requested here for townhomes, and I think like in my mind, we had the what I didn't want was a two-story retail, which was what was allowed by right there.

So for me, I didn't want it.

Two story retail.

I don't like this density either, mayor.

Um I'm just saying I'm just laying all the cards out.

You know, um tax helps.

But I I don't um have a concern.

I know we still have one homeowner on the south side that owns that lot, and I feel like just looking at this site plan here, the the three buildings or the one building with three um town homes seems awfully close.

Yeah, you know, to yeah, down here on the on the on the southeast side.

That's the that's my main crowds, and I'm tired of all this crowding.

Um my recommendation to staff is take a look at the no, take a look at the um uh at the development on the other side of Betsy, the townhouses there.

Um I think that's the standard that we'd be looking at uh at least for my perspective, City of Murphy.

We spent a lot of time looking at density, talking about density, talking about impact with that development.

Take a look at uh at that, go back to the developer, uh have a conversation about uh about trying to get closer to what that is providing, and I think we can have a conversation.

I'm not opening this up.

I have a right to talk to you, please.

Because I have a right as I said to the come on up, but it's not changing my mind.

Yeah, but uh I need to explain to you what's happening.

Right.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

This is the first time I have seen people are going against their approval, and this product is Zuni's unique.

Uh by the way, this is Sayodusan 100 North Murphy Road.

What makes this town homes a luxury town home and high-end product?

You cannot find if you go travel ten miles within Plano and all these areas.

This product, uh this townhomes, all these pican models have been approved by PNZ, and Kent was there, Scott was there, it's approved.

We came for the site plan.

So the site plan is normally where he engineering plants and city director Reagan, they check all the PD elements, are in conformance or not.

You have to check only whether it's meeting the PD requirements or not.

We are from the perspective of the design, I I will just go back.

This is the design what we are offering.

Expensive looks.

And you know, when you have an expensive look, it's been it's a combination of material like natural stone, and these are not like a cookie cut product, and you have approved half mile from here, there's a town home and patio home.

There's a Murphy Meadows.

When you approve that, and we this went through engineering design, and there were two engineers they worked on this.

What we are asking is the approval of the site plan.

Like, can you know uh commercial is high density, residential is less density and medium density.

This comes under medium density.

It's injustice for me.

I don't know why we are discussing about uh this is already approved.

This is a site plan.

And this is uh this has been approved, and there are so many extra conditions you guys have put here.

There is a masonry wall on the south side of my neighbor.

There's an eight feet masonry wall, and the parking parking have been accommodated.

And for from the from the design perspective, I'm bringing tile roof.

It's not singles, it is matching with oyster spring and also going to be the South Fork States.

This has been approved.

And now I'm hearing something unusual.

And is there anything against me here?

I'm asking straightforward question.

If it is not against, can you just prove me when it's approved zoning?

Three times two times I went to PNZ.

City Council, and it was approved unanimously.

And then I came because I'm a guy, I don't do multiple projects.

I do one at a time.

I'm finishing this.

Now I'm coming back to this.

And this is this is not fair.

Frankly speaking.

When you have been approved, and now you are snatching, you're trying to do something which is unusual.

I'm sorry to tell.

I'm very loud and clear here.

This is not good at all.

And you know, people are watching, and what our children are going to tell us.

This has been approved, and you see if there is any if it is not in conform conformance, I can tell you you can see the product.

And see the landscaping.

And this unique product is not high density.

You are separated with a 10 feet landscape buffer.

You have a 10-feet landscape buffer between uh one block to another block.

And we are leaving 30 feet on either side of uh if you go on Betsy, we are planting extra trees.

We are the uh as per the engineer, we are uh designing a hooded lane.

So when you cannot this was zoned as uh neighborhood services, and now we agreed, we came and we agreed that it was approved.

Town homes, we are doing the townhomes, and we just came for the uh side plan approval, not the zoning.

It's not the zoning case.

It's a side plan approval, sir.

I'm interested in badly.

You know, if you see whatever I did, uh I'm providing four different floor plans.

The first floor plan is for seniors and who are going to downsize.

So there will be a 70% on the single story and 30% on the second story.

So it's a 2400 uh square feet, and we have another product, and the balconies are not going on the side sides.

I have restricted the balconies.

I will go you with the product.

This is the Jared, you have this one.

You can you can see this clearly.

This balconies are not facing south side, these are facing on the streets.

Betsy and Murphy.

This is the second plan, and all my floor plans open to below.

There is none product, there's no product in the city where you have townhomes open to below.

The third one you have uh a combination of open to below and uh what do you call big patio?

So all this has been reviewed, and we spent a lot of time, money, effort, everything, and I'm requesting, sir.

So we came.

I came from the side plan.

I didn't come for the zoning.

You you would have denied that time.

So I came for the side plan, and the side plan you see all the I'm meeting the PD requirements.

Uh am I going against it's not in conformance?

I'm meeting everything.

So there should not be anything.

So I'm humbly requesting everyone Bradley and everyone, please approve this because I I didn't come for zoning, it's for site plan.

Any questions?

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Any discussion.

So when it is zoned a certain way.

Then okay, so zoned a certain way, but then there was also a P.

Yeah.

Yeah, the side plan.

Yeah, and then there's always but there wasn't a side plan yet.

So there was a PD plan.

There was a concept plan.

And zone.

Right?

So that's what has been approved.

Yes.

Okay, and the density is the same now as it was in the PD.

It's the same number of units.

Okay.

And for the zoning, could it be the zoning that it is and be less dense?

Yes.

Yes.

You could have fewer number units.

Okay.

Or a mix, like the on the other side.

Is with the same zoning?

Okay.

Sure.

What's the exact name of this zoning?

It's it's it's single family, it's single family attached with a plan development overlay.

Okay.

So it we have a base single family attached zoning, and then it had special conditions written in for that.

That are in the PD.

Okay, in the plan development.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

Any other questions?

Send it back to staff.

Okay.

We'll take no action.

Mayor, do you want to vote?

You don't want to vote to table.

No.

Okay.

I don't.

We're going to take no action on this item.

All right.

Moving on to item H consider and or act on a resolution authorizing city manager enter into an easement agreement with North Texas Municipal Water District to relocate a portion of a 14-inch portable water main to resolve a construction conflict with FM 544 pedestrian bridge project.

Right.

Good evening, Mayor.

Members of Council.

The item you have before you for consideration is a permanent easement agreement between the City of Murphy and North Ex Municipal Water District.

As part of the FM 544 pedestrian bridge project, there is a existing 14-inch potable water main that's owned by North Texas Municipal Water District that is in direct conflict with one of the proposed bridge pilings.

Take a motion.

Mayor, I move that we approve agenda item H as presented.

I have a motion second.

All is in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion pass unanimously.

Thank you.

All right.

Consider and our act on a resolution authorized city manager enter into an easement agreement with North Texas.

I just go into executive session.

According to the Texas Government Code, Chapter 551, Sub Chapter D, City Council now he says into executive session to discuss the following.

Item A.

551.072 deliberate the purchase exchange lease or value of real property.

Project Tank 551.074 deliberation regarding the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee, Judge Callaway.

Item C 551.074 deliberation.

Same section.

Time is 652.

Take any action regarding item A, 551.072, deliberate the purchase exchange lease or value of real property, project tank.

Deliberation regarding the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline dismissal, public officer, employee, Judge Cass Robert Holliday, item C, same same article.

There was no action taken in exec.

I will take an action.

I will take a motion coming out of exec.

Mayor, I move that we approve the I'm sorry, Mayor.

We have items for this on the agenda.

We have items for the action on the agenda.

Oh, do you want to go through me one at a time?

Okay, we can move it back in E.

Okay.

We can do that.

Yes.

All right.

Then we will do C.

Yes.

Mayor, I'm getting there.

C.

Item Consider interact on resolution regarding the appointment of presiding judge Cass Robert Callaway and authorizing the mayor to execute a professional service agreement.

I'll take a motion on that item which one is it?

This one right here.

Why am I not seeing?

Sorry.

We will back to the original.

Okay.

All right, sorry.

Okay.

Mayor, I move that we act on the resolution resolution regarding the reappointment of presiding judge Cass Robert Callaway and authorizing the mayor to execute a professional services agreement.

Second.

I have a motion, a second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion pass unanimously.

Item D, consider and our act on a resolution regarding the reappointment of associate municipal judge Ashley McSwain for magistration duties and authorizing the mayor to execute contract for services.

Mayor, I move that we approve a resolution regarding the reappointment of associate municipal judge Ashley McSwain for magistration duties and authorizing the mayor to execute a contract for services.

I have uh I have a motion, second, all those in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion pass unanimously.

Item E.

Consider and or act on a resolution regarding the reappointment of Associate Municipal Judge Dana Huffman and authorizing the mayor to execute a contract for services.

Mayor, I move that we approve a resolution regarding the reappointment of Associate Municipal Judge Dana Huffman and authorizing the mayor to execute a contract for services.

Second.

I have a motion, second, all those in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passed unanimously.

We've been asked to recall item G, considering our act on case number 2025-018.

Uh for an application by ND associates for site plan for P.C.

Meadows townhomes on property described lots one through three, block A, Oasis Plaza, and located on 1000 to 1010 North Murphy Road.

I'll take a motion on that.

So do I say deny?

Maybe that's the same thing.

I move that we deny case number 2025-018, an application by Indian associates for site plan for Pecan Meadows Townhomes on property described as lots 1 through 3, Block A, Oasis Plaza, and located at 1000 to 1010 North Murphy Road.

I have a motion second, all those in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Nay.

Okay.

Very good.

That and then we're moving on to future agenda items.

Uh council members may request topics for future agenda meetings.

No member of the city council may discuss any of the requested subjects until such matter has been properly placed on agenda.

Would anyone like to move uh like to request an agenda item uh for a future meeting?

Seeing none.

We're adjourned.

Time is 710.