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The meeting is recorded as having taken place on 2025-02-06 12:30:00+00:00 (the Work Session began at 6:30 PM CST, with the Regular Meeting at 7:00 PM CST). It was Managing Director Clayton Comstock's 218th and final meeting for the commission, serving 13.5 years with a 95% attendance rate. Corey Reim was announced as the incoming Planning Director. The commission acted on five public hearings and one continuation item.
Good evening. It is 6 30 p.m. and I call the Thursday, February 6th, 2025 Planning and Zoning Commission work session to order. A quorum of the Planning and Zoning Commission is present. And the meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act of the Texas Government Code. Staff will discuss the items on tonight's work session agenda. Thank you, Mr. Vice Chairman. Good evening, Commission. Making sure we have a quorum real quick. First, on the city council agenda from January 27th, that was the last city council meeting since you all had last met. Number one, the Starbucks across the street on Boulevard 26, just in front of where space was approved. I know it's getting a lot of uh social media uh attention after City Council approved it. Uh again, one of the main things about that, and and we talked about it at the DRC. I'm sorry, the DRC and the planning zoning commission level is that uh Starbucks locating south of the loop is a good sign for growth south of the loop. Uh I know it's a coffee shop, it's an um we were getting a lot of coffee shops, we understand that. But where Starbucks goes, typically other retailers, other restaurants go as well because the Starbucks site selectors, the professional site selectors uh that work for Starbucks are critical of uh demographics, traffic counts, things like that. Uh they don't typically uh select a site unless it is a good site for future growth. So it really says something about the growth of City Point here, and then also the potential for growth in the area. Um other items. The uh the sign ordinance was also passed. Remember, this was a uh revision that we made what we kind of talked a lot about a little bit actually with another zoning case that was before you. Uh, but there are now uh an allowance for three building signs on a commercial building. Um so before it was two sides of a building could be signed with wall signs, and now it was increased to three sides. Um and then we also talked about digital um reader boards, uh digital message boards, and those were approved for um kind of increase the allowances and uh standards for those. Uh we also redefined the um how we calculate and how we come to the maximum size for a sign. So we took looked at the wall area and redefined that from an interior ceiling height to actually the exterior wall height of the building. I made it more in line with a lot of the other uh municipalities and how they measure signs. Uh we did apply or we will be applying for a grant um before I leave tomorrow for a TA set-aside uh project for pedestrian facilities master plan. Uh City Council did approve a resolution in support of an application for a pedestrian facilities master plan, essentially a sidewalk plan and active transportation plan for North Richon Hills to allow for us to kind of focus on where we need to fill those sidewalk gaps, um, get people to transit, safe routes of schools. Um there was an ADA transition plan component to it uh in that as well. Then I think that was mostly it with regard to um planning type items. So moving on.