Is this not coming?

Eddie.

Bryce Platz, can you please come to the podium?

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Metropolitan Development Commission public meeting.

Let the record show it's September 3rd, 2025.

I also want to welcome Mr.

Bryce Patts, who is our new current planning manager, and Bryce is looking forward to leading us with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Please stand.

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

For which it stands.

Undergone.

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, Bryce, and welcome.

For those involved in the hearing at the end of the meeting, Commissioner Hergett's got a hard stop and will be out the door at two o'clock, so when he leaves, don't be surprised.

Moving forward.

Members of the commission, you received uh the minutes from our meeting on August 20, 2025.

Any additions or deletions to those minutes.

Hearing none.

I'll accept the emotion to approve.

Thank you, Commissioner Schumacher.

I have a second.

Thank you, Commissioner Garver, and let me call the roll.

Garver.

Garver, yes.

Hergett.

Herget, yes.

Lyle.

Lyle, yes.

Morerity.

Morriarty, yes.

Schumacher.

Schumacher, yes.

West.

West, yes.

Dylan is a yes.

We have a vote of seven to zero to approve those.

Moving forward.

Let's move to special request.

Withdrawals, continuances.

Kathy.

Good afternoon, President Dylan, members of the commission.

Staff is requesting that resolution 2025 A02A 028 be continued to the September 17th hearing.

We are still working through the details of finalizing the MOA.

Kathy.

Thunderbird C C Land Partners.

Seems to be dragging their feet.

They are.

Well, we don't get it done by the 9th, getting ready for the 17th.

We'll probably take it off the calendar.

I will let them know that.

I would appreciate it.

Okay.

We have before us members of the Commission 2025A 028.

A request from staff to move this to the September 17th hearing.

Can I get a motion?

Commissioner Garver to approve.

So moved.

Commissioner Hergett, can I get a second?

Second.

Let me call the roll.

Garver.

Garver, yes.

Hergett.

Hergitt, yes.

Lyle.

Lyle, yes.

More erity.

Schumacher.

Schumacher, yes.

West.

West, yes.

Dylan is a yes.

They pass seven to zero.

Thank you.

Any other continuances?

Withdraw a special request.

Kathleen, you're good.

Yes.

Yes, President Dylan.

Seeing no others, we have three policy resolutions, which is now two policy resolutions.

Nancy, can you read the two remaining ones into the record?

Yes, thank you, President Dylan and Commissioners.

First is 2025 R033.

Authorizes MDC to accept 43 real properties from the Marion County Commissioners for a total cost not to exceed 33,000 and 0100 dollars.

2025 R034 asks the Metropolitan Development Commission authorizes DMD to dispose of property as presented to you and approved by vacant to vibrant review committee.

This ends the reading of the resolutions.

Thank you, Nancy.

We have two policy resolutions that are not scheduled for a hearing.

2025 R033.

I'd like to take those together.

Commissioner Lyle, can I get a motion to approve?

So move.

Commissioner Morerity, can I get a second?

Second.

Let me call the roll.

Garver.

Garver, yes.

Hergett.

Yes.

Lyle.

Lyle, yes.

Morerity.

Schumacher.

Schumacher, yes.

West.

West, yes.

Dylan is a yes.

They pass 7 to 0.

Moving forward.

Nancy, would you read the no appeals into the record?

Thank you again, President Dillon and Commissioners.

Petitions for no appeal recommended for approval are 2025 APP 008 at 5510 Carvel Avenue, Washington Township, Council District 7.

Also 2025, MOD 015 at 2326 Southport Commons Drive, Perry Township, Council District 2.

And then we have one petition of of no appeal recommended for denial, which is 2025 MOD 012 at 8809 South Meridian Street, Perry Township Council District 23.

This ends the reading of the no appeals docket.

Thank you, Nancy.

We have two zoning petitions of no appeal recommended for approval.

2025 APP 008, 2025 MOD 015.

Commissioner Mority, can I get a motion to approve both?

So moved.

Thank you.

Commissioner Schumacher, can I get a second?

Second.

Let me call the roll.

Garver.

Garver, yes.

Hergett.

Herg, yes.

Lyle.

Lyle, yes.

Morerity.

Moyerity, yes.

Schumacher.

Schumacher, yes.

West.

West, yes.

Dillon is a yes.

It passes 7 to 0.

The final uh resolution of no appeal is a petition that's recommended for denial.

That's 2025 MOD 012.

A yes vote stands up for the denial.

Commissioner Schumacher, can I get a motion to approve?

So moved.

Commissioner West, can I get a second?

Second.

Let me call the roll.

Garver.

Garver, yes.

Hergitt.

Hergitt, yes.

Lyle.

Lyle, yes.

Morerity.

Moreity, yes.

Schumacher.

Schumacher, yes.

West.

West, yes.

Dillon is a yes.

2025 MOD 012 is indeed denied.

720.

Nancy.

That leads us to our loan hearing.

Would you read it into the minutes?

Yes.

Thank you, President Dillon.

We have a petition for public hearing.

It is a rezoning petition scheduled scheduled for initial hearing.

2025 ZON 046 at 10,010 and 10,440 Pentecost Road, Franklin Township, Council District 25.

Poulty Group by Brian J.

Towey requesting rezoning of 96.6 acres from the DA district to the DP District to provide for a single family detached residential development consisting of 225 lots.

Well, all those intending to testify on this petition this afternoon, either for or against anyone that's going to speak, please stand now to be identified.

Anyone else includes remonstrators, please speak?

Demonstrators or opposition, people in opposition, please raise your right hand.

Do you sir?

You're going to speak?

Uh no opposition.

Just questions.

Well, you need to go ahead and be sworn in.

You need to be swearing in if you're going to speak.

Okay.

Do you swear affirmative penalties of perjury to tell the truth and nothing but the two say I do?

I do.

Thank you.

Let me walk through the rules of engagement and then I want to clarify one matter.

The petitioner will have 15 minutes to present your case.

You're sitting with the remonstrators, so I'm gonna have you come up and ask your questions, and you'll have 15 minutes to ask your questions.

Even though you've recommended, even though you're saying you're not for it, I want you to ask your questions and during the remonstrator piece.

Then we'll go to staff.

I don't see any city council people in the room.

We'll go back to the petitioner for rebuttal, uh, and then we'll go to our vote.

Counselor, both counselors.

This has not been heard at the hearing officer level, members of the commission, because when you move from a DA district to a DP district, you jump to go, you don't collect 200, but you come see us.

And it goes, this will be the first hearing.

Mr.

Tue.

Yes, sir.

You're on the shot clock.

Go.

Thank you.

Mr.

Chairman and members of the MDC, good afternoon, Brian Twee.

My address is 9294 North Meridian.

Here with me today from the Poulti group is Rex Ramage, who's vice president of land acquisition and entitlement.

Thank you for hearing our case this afternoon.

This is a uh case in down in Franklin Township.

It's on a 96-acre site.

And here's this photograph, and in your packet is a uh aerial showing that on the south side, it's uh bordered by Fox Hollow Subdivision, Hunter's Crossing, also, of course, Pentecost Road.

Then on the east side, which is the right, is bordered by, I think it's pronounced CNOR Road, and then to the west is bordered by a subdivision named Palermo Gardens.

To the north is all farmland and uh Vander Griff Road.

The next slide shows what the zoning is around this site, and this site is zoned, it's proposed to be zone DP, which I'll explain in a minute, but that's essentially Indianapolis's planned development, and I'll move this presentation along given the uh limitations on time.

But right next door to the left of it is D52, which is a uh development of duplexes and single-family homes.

To the south of it is D3, directly south of it is another DP, another planned unit development, and to the north is DA.

Across CNOR Road, there's additional uh residential development.

So all around the site, basically is either residential development or farmland.

Um this site lays out what is in the DP development, and this is the proposed concept plan.

What a DP does is it sort of sets, not exactly in concrete, but maybe in putty, what your plan will look like, at least conceptually.

It sets the number of houses, it sets the uh types of lots you're gonna have, the lot standards, and and some other development standards, unlike our other zoning districts where you just rezone and then you go to whatever the density is allowed.

This sets the maximum number of houses, and in this case it's 225 houses that equals about 2.3 homes uh per acre.

The minimum lot size, there'll be some lots bigger, are is 60 by 130.

But what this really does is if you look at that uh exhibit, there's two really nice stands of trees on this property up in the central part of the site of about one and a half acres, and there at the right-hand side on the northeast corner, there's about four acres.

The idea would be in the center part of this site would be an amenity area, which I'll talk for about in a minute, which would provide the residents with a there's a better way to describe this, but a pretty cool amenity area, and then those woods would be preserved, and there'd be trails connecting the amenity area to those woods on the in the center and on the northeast part of the site.

There'll be sidewalks on both sides of the street, and then this slide shows what typically Pulti builds in an amenity area.

They don't have this exactly planned out, but this slide depicts pool, pickleball courts, barbecue uh areas, playground areas that will be in that area of amenities, plus the about five and a half acres of woods that we be preserved uh for walking and and uh just preserve the green area.

Pulti would propose to build these types of homes and others, the minimum square footage of homes, these were agreements uh proposed by the Franklin Township Civic League, uh that is commitments proposed by the Civic League and Poulti has agreed to, I think 27 of them, which I'll touch on in a minute.

The minimum square footage uh footage of the homes would be about 1,600 square feet for ranches, about 2200 square feet for two stories, and there would be a minimum separation of these homes of about 15 feet.

Uh these are additional illustrative uh elevations.

There would be no vinyl siding, not there's anything wrong with that, but uh the Franklin Township Civic League asked for masonry and uh Hardy Plank siding, and the Pulti folks agreed to that.

There'd be a minimum of 20 feet in length in driveways, a certain minimum of size of garages, and there would be anti-monotony provisions, so you wouldn't have the same home built across the street from each other, nor would the same home be built right next door to each other.

This is a streetscape showing what a rendering of what it could look like along inside the subdivision.

There were 22 commitments requested by the Franklin Township Civic League and five requested by staff.

We've agreed to virtually all of those commitments, including restrictions on rental homes and staff requested and DPW requested certain improvements inside the roadways in this subdivision and on Pentecost Road, and Pulti has agreed to make the improvements, all the improvements requested by DPW and staff.

This slide shows some of the interiors.

These homes are expected to average in the mid-400,000 dollar range and may uh depending on if people get enough options, may go up to the half million dollar range.

So these are these are quality, nice homes.

Here's another example of those interiors and finishes that would be expected to be in these homes.

We the staff asked us to do a traffic study.

We engaged ANF engineering, they concluded that the four intersections they studied all would operate at uh acceptable levels of service, even with the addition of these homes.

And remember, this isn't something that would happen overnight.

This is a development that could take three or so, three or four years to finish out with this number of homes.

Um we've we've worked with uh Kathleen and staff, we've met three times with the Franklin Township Civic League, and the staff has recommended approval uh subject to the five commitments uh that staff has proposed, and we have agreed we Pulti has agreed to all those uh commitments.

They all relate to roadway improvements and Pulti is willing to make those as part of this rezoning.

So we met with the Franklin Township Civic League in February, in April, and in July, and I've had uh I don't know, dozens of emails back and forth with Kathy Burton.

They asked for, as I mentioned, uh 22 commitments.

Uh and until this morning at 1115, I thought I had the support of the cat of the Franklin Township Civic League.

But at 1115, she emailed me and said that they voted 4-3 to not support this petition.

She then said in her email, I realize that your client may choose to take most of these commitments off the table.

I talked to Mr.

Ramage after I got this email this morning, and we've decided not to take the commitments off the table.

We worked with Franklin Township.

Uh we frankly thought we were going to get their support in exchange for those 22 commitments.

Uh Ms.

Burton is uh kindly offering or I guess acknowledging that we could take them off the table, but we're not.

We'll just we'll stay with the commitments we've agreed to, and uh we've sent them to Kathleen for filing.

These commitments they limit the number of houses, they limit the uh width of the lots, they restrict it.

They they prohibit any homes closer than 15 feet to each other on the sides, they limit the uh length of the driveway.

They uh prohibit smaller houses than 1,600 feet or 2200 square feet.

Uh they have a uh anti-monotony commitment in them.

It talks the commitments preserve the land I spoke of, the one and a half acres and the four acres up in the north side.

There's a landscape commitment, all the homes will have a certain number of uh shrubs and trees in the house.

There'll be a landscape buffer along the frontage.

They also agree that drainage is a concern, understandable concern for the neighbors, and they have agreed to submit the drainage plans to the Franklin Township Civic League at the same time they submit them to DPW, and that the uh the drainage plans will comply with all applicable drainage regulations.

The developer Pulti has also agreed during the build-out, will limit the dust and debris leaving the site and will keep Pentecost Road clear of mud and dirt from construction equipment leaving the site.

Again, these are all requests that were made over the last five months from the Franklin Township Civic League.

Then there was five uh commitments requested by staff, again, which uh the Pulti folks have agreed to.

The the kind of wrap up the commitments, there's also a commitment about uh including language in the covenants and conditions and of the and restrictions of the subdivision to limit rentals.

And the limit that Franklin Township has requested and Pulti has agreed to is there's be no more than 20 percent of the homes would be rented to third parties, and there are no more than two homes would be owned by any one entity.

The idea is to prohibit an entity coming in and from buying 50 homes and renting those out.

Um I'm sure these commitments will keep that from happening.

There are some hardship exceptions to that.

If a person in the armed forces gets called away to duty, they could rent their house if there's a medical emergency where they need to rent their house, that can be approved by the HOA.

So there's a couple of exceptions.

The Franklin Township Civic League also asked that we prohibit all Airbnbs, and that's in these commitments.

They they are prohibited.

So even though uh we thought that we were gonna have their support, apparently we don't on a 4-3 vote.

Uh, but we're gonna leave these commitments in place.

I've sent them to Kathleen and they're in the file, and so uh you have my uh word, and it's on the record now that we'll leave those uh in place.

Members of the MDC, this is a community that is a site that is surrounded by residential communities.

And one of them is a DP just right across the street.

The other ones are D3 and D5-2, which are uh D52 is certainly more dense than what this is proposed to be.

And with this DP, there's certain architectural standards uh, including the no vinyl siding, that there'd be solded front yards, uh, minimum square footage of houses.

It provides for extensive tree preservation on these, what we think are pretty uh special areas in the north part of the community, so they will not be torn up in the development.

The staff believes that this would be compatible with the surrounding uh properties, and we've agreed to almost all the commitments that were proposed by the Franklin Township Civic League, and we have agreed to all the commitments proposed by staff.

We've been meeting with the Franklin Township Civic League since uh April, I'm sorry, February of this year, and uh with the uh staff's uh support of this, we'd respectfully ask for your favorable recommendation.

Thank you for coming.

Questions for the petitioner question?

Commissioner West.

Uh hi.

Um I'm noting that the petition uh, even though we have staff approval, uh staff calls out that it's not consistent with the comprehensive plan in in two ways.

Um the districts called out in the comp plan are rural or a state neighborhood typology, and uh um another category which uh basically provides for agricultural use.

Um I'm wanting to call into question the 2.33 houses per acre.

I wonder if that meets the spirit of the DP3 in a community like this, where we often hear that you know the last thing they need is more houses.

They need some business and some amenities, and DP3 does call for a petition to serve uh to bring amenities to meet an ever-changing community.

And I wonder if you could talk about what amenities are being brought that would serve Franklin in the way that Franklin needs to be served, and also um DP uh calls for new site treatments not contemplated in other types of districts.

I mean, what are we bringing Franklin really other than what it already has?

Uh thank you, Mr.

West.

So I I'll answer your question.

Uh I'll try to answer your question as best I can.

The your first part of your question was about what the comprehensive plan calls for.

I think it says the state and suburban neighborhoods.

If you look at this uh exhibit that shows the aerial map, so you're right, that site is right next door to Palermo Gardens, which is a nice community, but it's all duplexes, I believe.

And it's right across the street from Fox Hollow and Hunter's Crossing.

Hunter's Crossing is DP, just like this is DP.

And to the east of it, on the other side of CENOR Road, I think that's called Montgomery Woods.

And I you don't see it on that exhibit, but it's a it's a uh, am I right about that?

Yeah, it's a single family residential subdivision.

So my point about all that is I don't think that you're gonna have a state neighborhoods surrounded by duplexes and DPs and D3 zonings.

I think you're probably more likely to get a residential neighborhood.

Now, then the second part of your question was addressing the amenities.

What the what that does to improve Franklin Township is staff has asked for quite a bit of improvement along Pentecost Road.

Pentecost Road's got kind of a narrow bridge there, and their improvements to the frontage of Pentecost Road will alleviate some traffic concerns in there.

Now it's not going to improve all of Pentecost Road because they don't have frontage on all of them, but the frontage they have, it's going to improve that.

And then in terms of amenities, the amenity acre or the amenities that I don't think a lot of neighborhoods have, like the neighborhoods to the west and to the south, is these two pretty sizable wooded areas.

And if you'll look at this exhibit, which is the site plan, right in the center as you come up from the entrance off of Pentecost Road, that's where this there'll be pickleball courts, there'll be this wooded ball, wooded ball, this wooded area, there'll be barbecue, there'll be a playground, there'll be a pool and clubhouse, all connected throughout this neighborhood by trails and by sidewalks.

I don't think a lot of the neighborhoods in Franklin Township, especially the older neighborhoods, have those kind of amenities.

So I think it's it is bringing something that other neighborhoods don't have when you when you think about the preserved wooded areas, the amenities for its residents, uh, and the road improvements uh to Pentecost as long as frontage.

I recognize those arguments and I I thank you for them.

It looks like there's more farmland to the north that possibly we'd be considering at some future date.

I suppose the argument at that point, if this is approved, would be that we've got DP 3 and houses of 2.33 adjacent to it, so why not have more?

It just seems like some breakwater might be called for.

Yeah.

I I understand what you're saying there.

And uh frankly, Franklin Township and Decatur Township are really the only townships left in Marion County that have much farm land.

Everybody else is pretty well developed.

And I would expect that you could possibly see additional residential development, which eventually will bring some of that commercial development that everybody wants to see.

Not maybe not industrial, but some of the commercial development.

You've got to have those rooftops.

And I think that's that's on its way.

But I don't think you're gonna see a commercial development on this site surrounded by these residences on three sides of it.

It seems to me you're gonna see commercial development near busier intersections, Southport Road areas, uh, those kind of intersections are gonna track the commercial development, which will follow these houses.

But I I think certainly Franklin Township and Decatur Township, they're gonna see more house uh applications because we're running out of that land to develop in Marion County.

I agree with you.

Well, I think that much in regards to the proximity or possible locations of commercial is probably true.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner West, you're good?

Yes, sir.

Mr.

Twe walk through the Airbnb limitations, please.

Okay.

It's on page 17.

Okay.

So what the rentals uh that Franklin Township asked for, the prohibition on rentals were one, no more than 20 percent of the total lots would be rented to a third party.

Poulty agreed to that.

But they also agreed that the same legal entity would not own more than two lots for lease at the same time.

And then they were concerned about whether the one person might be able to use their house for an Airbnb.

So we inserted the commitment that says no residence or other portion of a lot may be used as an Airbnb, a lodging home, a hotel, a bed and breakfast lodge, or any similar purpose.

So that's prohibited in item D of the commitments that would be included in the covenants and restrictions.

So that would run with each deeded property, it would run with the land.

Thank you.

Other questions for petitioner?

One more, please.

Yes.

Uh thank you, Counselor.

You talked about Decatur and uh Franklin Township together in that way.

Franklin Township probably has a higher dollars per household meaning sell price of the houses.

Would there be an opportunity for Poulty to build houses fewer than 2.33 per acre and increase the price per house and effectively start to formulate a breakwater between the more compact additions?

I'll let Mr.

Ramage answer that, but I think with the preservation of that acreage and the uh expensive amenity package that they propose to build in this community, they probably need that number of houses to stand those costs for maintenance of the pool and maintenance of the pickleball courts and maintenance of the uh playground and and to maintain those wooded areas.

But if if you disagree with that or have additional this is Mr.

Ramage.

Please introduce yourself and your address.

Yeah, for the record, Rex Ramage Pulti Homes 11595 North Meridian Street.

You've been duly sworn.

I have, yes.

Go ahead, Rex.

Okay.

Um so to elaborate on you know housing for this particular site.

I would I would defer to Mr.

Tuey's comments uh on this particular location given the amenities and and quite frankly, I don't know how much I don't know that there's enough emphasis that we can put on Pentecost Road and the improvements that it desperately needs with this bridge connection right there at our southwest corner.

Um but it in other areas of Franklin Township or different site locations, yes, there would be the opportunity for us to to diversify um our housing offering.

This particular location is not one of them.

Um but I would say you know, we had a site a couple years ago that we were looking at that could definitely withstand um you know a higher price point and different things.

And not to say that the homes that we're building here are of a low price point because they're certainly not when we look at the the price bands of the homes that are being sold within a certain radius of this particular site.

Um there's the existing housing stock, regardless of how new or old it is, and then there's a step up, which is what we're seeing here.

You believe this is a move-up product, don't you?

I do.

Yes, we do.

Commissioner West.

Good.

Yeah, as prices of houses go up, it's hard to keep track of what's entry level and what's move up anymore.

I can tell you that some of my competition would love to build houses that start with a three.

Um for us it's virtually impossible to do that, and we don't want to play in that space, um, which is why we would say that you know the average Mr.

Tue said that it was going to be in that mid-400s, it's certainly going to exceed that.

Um, but I would rather underpromise and no underpromise and overdeliver.

Um so I I don't want to say 600 and then someone say, well, Rex, you sold a house at 495, and then we have to have that conversation.

I'd rather tell you the opposite.

Okay, thank you.

Final questions for the petitioner.

Thank you.

Stand by.

Sir, come on up with your questions.

Uh I'm showing you as remonstrator.

Can you introduce yourself?

And your address, sir.

Yes, my name is Bruce Liphold, and my address is 10406 Pentecost Road in Indianapolis.

And that's a property that's just south of this uh this new development that we're discussing here.

So uh there's a statement here on page 18 that says development plan should incorporate and promote environmental and aesthetic considerations working with the constraints and advantages presented by the existing site conditions, including vegetation, topography, drainage, and wild wildlife.

So that seems a little vague to me, so I wanted a little more clarification on the I don't know if you call it a landscape buffer or whatever on the north side of our house where the power lines are.

Um there's a lot of existing vegetation and trees, and we were hoping that those would remain undisturbed, and we're we're a little concerned about some of the small wildlife migration in the area, like raccoons and rabbits and stuff like that.

So I don't see anything here specifying the exact amount of space behind our house where the power lines are and what kind of vegetation will be allowed to exist there.

So I don't know if I'm supposed to talk to Brian or Mr.

Chew, put those uh answers in your rebuttal, and then Bruce will have him come back up and answer those questions.

So what other questions do you have, sir?

Uh I think that's about it.

I I guess uh our road doesn't affect the frontage because the frontage will be further down the way.

So I guess Pentecost Road won't be affected in front of our house.

Um I think it was mainly just the space behind and and the and the amount of vegetation and type of vegetation that we can leave there so that we can have a nice barrier behind our house.

So I think that's thank you, Bruce.

Hang tight, we'll get your answers for you.

Okay, thank you.

Staff.

Thank you, President Dillon, members of the commission.

As you'll note, staff is recommending approval, and as Commissioner West pointed out, it is not consistent with the comprehensive plan that recommends the rural or a state neighborhood, and a portion of this site is also agricultural reserve.

Staff is, however, supporting this request because of the development that has occurred around this.

And Mr.

Twee clearly explained what that development is in terms of residential.

And this staff believes that what is being proposed would be compatible with that.

And staff also getting back to Commissioner West's concern about that property that is north and undeveloped, what's going to happen at that area.

And staff again is concerned with that likewise.

There is, as we noted, there's a need for housing, but there's also a need for what I would call quality housing that will respond to the market.

DPW is now very concerned about connectivity, pedestrian activity, and there are some commitments that staff is requesting, and the petitioner has agreed to that will provide connections, safe connections, and circulation for the pedestrians that are in the area.

And again, staff is recommending approval of this.

We'll be glad to answer any questions.

Questions for staff.

Hearing Mr.

Tuay Rebuttal.

Please uh direct some of your remarks to Bruce's questions.

Eddie, could I please thank you?

That's the one I need right there.

So uh thank you, Mr.

Leopold.

So Mr.

Leopold, I think lives right along that area, about where it says Pentecost Road.

Is that correct?

Yes.

Yeah.

And so he backs up.

His backs of his homes will back up to the backs of our homes.

But Poulty is retained, and you don't see it very well, has retained a minimum of a 20-foot wide landscape area that will put evergreens and uh deciduous trees in, and we're happy to meet with Mr.

Leopold and see what kind of trees he wants directly behind him.

But we will provide a screening in this site plan again, which we've agreed to has a 20-foot wide area, plus then the back of the lot to the house, and we'll agree, make it part of our presentation.

There's a commitment, Mr.

Tooy?

A commitment.

Do you have that, Kathleen?

To meet with Mr.

Leopold and uh agree to whatever kind of landscaping is appropriate, pine trees, uh fir trees, deciduous trees along his lot.

We're gonna have other landscaping along that area which runs the whole uh east to west length of of that side of our site.

So we had planned on having a landscape buffer back there.

Uh and we can meet with him and decide what kind of landscape buffer works best for him.

Thank you.

Any other comments?

No, sir.

Final questions for the petitioner.

Bruce, did that answer your questions?

He's made a commitment to meet with you and go through that landscaping plan.

Yes, sir.

Come up.

Uh just one more question.

So the 20-foot buffer is that in addition to the any additional landscaping that's on the back of the development?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

So there is a good space there then.

All those trees on your property, of course, will remain there.

Okay, thank you.

Bruce, is that work?

Yeah.

Okay, thank you, sir.

All right.

Uh members of the commission, please go to your ballots.

A yes vote on the Pulti ballot passes the petitioner's request.

A no vote denies it.

Twenty twenty-five Z O N zero four six Pulti group.

There were seven ballots cast, two no votes, five yes votes.

This petition has been approved.

The petition passes five to two.

Rex, can you come to the podium, please?

Yes, sir.

I've just heard this.

I've not seen it.

But when you're marketing, I would leave your attorney out of any pickleball pictures because I hear he's awful.

So you may not sell any houses if they see that.

I think it's in our contract.

He's prohibited from playing.

Okay.

Uh now you've got a commitment to meet with Bruce.

Yes.

And make sure he's gonna work through that.

Yes.

Okay, we're gonna follow up and make sure that happens.

Hold me accountable.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you.

Have a good day.

Thank you for Bruce.

Thanks for coming.

That uh leads us to our last item, which is just to address in a uh do we have enough people to make the signatures of those individuals who're applicable today.

Okay.

If uh you denied the vote.

So just make sure you sign that before you get out of here.

That brings us to conclusion.

Mr.

Hergett, we're on your schedule, sir, as always.

Can I have a motion to adjourn?

You have a second.

We are now adjourned.

Enjoy the beautiful day.

Thank you, members of the commission for being here and putting in time and effort and taking all that grief last week.