I now declare the Plano City Council is convened in open session that all council members are present with the exception of Mayor Pro Tim Maria II.

Council will now recess a new executive session in training room A to hold a closed executive meeting pursuant to the provisions of Vernon's Texas Codes annotated government code, Chapter 551.

The open meetings act in accordance with the authority contained in Section 551071 to consult with the attorney to receive legal advice and discuss litigation.

And section 551087 to discuss economic development matters.

Thank

you.

Our first item on the preliminary agenda is consideration and action resulting in executive session.

Our next item is the zoning and subdivision ordinance rewrite, module one update.

Mayor and council, I'm Christina Day, the director of planning.

We're here to give you a brief update on the work we've been doing in rewriting the zoning and subdivision ordinances.

Tonight I am joined by Christina Sebastian, our land records planning manager, and Daniel Harrison of Freeze and Nichols, who is our consultant on the project.

So just to remind you of the purpose of this project, we have been working to align the regulations that support our comprehensive plan policy to ensure that the ordinances we're using to implement guidance on land use actually align with that policy guidance that you've established.

We also want to simplify the code to make sure that it's clear to all the stakeholders that are part of the development process, and then improve the code.

We have an increasing focus on redevelopment and ensuring that code is adequate to the task is another major focus.

So what have we been doing so far?

Well, this really started uh back in April of 2024 when we brought you a consulting contract.

This is of course after funding.

Um

we

selected Freeze and Nichols in June of 24.

You appointed a committee of technical experts, which are known as the rewrite advisory committee.

And that then we finished the kind of first phase of the project where we concluded a diagnostic report looking at our existing ordinances in December of the same year, one year ago.

So that diagnostic report was phase one.

It

took about six months.

Then we went into phase two.

We're actually looking at four modules of breaking up the code into these kind of what I'll say, bite-sized pieces.

So we've been looking at those.

This is module one that we're bringing to you tonight.

And then the final phase will be adoption that we anticipate in late 2026.

So what have we been doing with regard to module one?

It had a little bit of a detour, and so we actually drafted module one in the first quarter of this year.

Um, it was considered by the public and the rewrite advisory committee in the spring and accepted by the rewrite advisory committee.

And then things changed due to the legislative session, and so we actually pushed pause on this project in order to consider impacts of the legislature to our development codes.

You saw those changes and we're part of that process.

So once those changes were adopted in August, we moved back to module one and incorporated changes from the legislative session.

So we had to go back and kind of retool the work that we had done previously.

So that's what we did through the fall.

Those changes were accepted by the rewrite advisory committee in October, early December.

We presented this to the planning and zoning commission, and then we're here before you this evening to present that same

work.

So Christina Sebastian will be presenting residential terms and land uses, and that will be followed by Daniel Harrison giving an update on zoning districts and non-residential land uses, and then uh update on the next steps in the project.

So Christina Sebastian.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

So

again, Christina Sebastian, Land Records Planning Manager, I'll be discussing the residential terms and land uses with you tonight.

So our new unified development code, which just combines our zoning and subdivision ordinances, but is being rewritten as part of this project.

So our new framework is based on updated terms looking at building form for those residential uses, and then creating some new foundational terms for the residential uses that are then applied to other the actual uses within the use chart.

So we will go over what that means.

So our current definitions for residential uses currently regulate both form and function.

And you see here our definition and example for single family residents detached currently today.

And then on the left side, we have our example, say a sample table from our proposed residential zoning districts of our dimensional standards.

So the information in red is about maximum number of dwelling units, and the information in green is really whether those uses can be connected or not to other uses or other buildings.

So if you take out the form information in red and green, what you're left with is really just about function.

So that's our focus is trying to get our residential uses to really talk about function and less so about form.

So as we think about function more, think about whether a family living in a detached home really is uh functionally similar to a family that lives in an apartment or duplex.

It's the same family just in a different space.

So different buildings, whether it's a detached home or a townhouse or an apartment building or a duplex, those can all really be containing the same use.

So

for this new residential framework, we have three foundational terms.