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The Plano City Council convened in open session on October 12, 2026, to discuss and receive updates on the proposed Willowbend arena and entertainment district. Presentations covered preliminary transportation impact findings, a residential market study, a financing plan update, and public safety considerations. The council also appointed a TIF board chair and heard public comment opposing the venue tax proposition.
I now declare that the Plano City Councils convened in open session. That all council members are present. The council will now recess into executive session and 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. Section 551087 to discuss economic development matters and Section 551074 to discuss personnel matters. Thank you. That all council members are present. Our first item on the preliminary agenda is consideration and action resulting from the executive session. Our next item is personnel appointments. Tax increment financing reinvestment zone number four, board chair. Mr. Mayor, at this point, I move to a point. Nadia Christian as the chair for the TERS number four. Mr. Mayor, I second that. Okay, so we have a motion and a second uh for the uh tax increment financing reinvestment zone number four, board chair. All in favor, raise your hand. Motion passes eight to zero. Thank you. Our next item is the Willowbend District Update Presentation. Curtis, welcome. Uh good evening, Mayor, Council members, Curtis Howard, Assistant City Manager. Uh tonight I'd like to talk to you and give you uh a short overview uh of the uh short uh history of the Willow Bend Redevelopment Advisory Committee. Uh so just a little bit. So the purpose of this committee was to create kind of an organized method of providing a constructive and solution-oriented process in which feedback can be gathered from uh from the community and provided to staff and and uh our consultants in this case, and then also as a conduit to provide information back to the uh to uh the community as needed. Uh and so in mid-August, what we did is we we uh reached out to our neighborhood uh groups, including our HOAs and and other neighborhood groups, looking for volunteers for this committee. Uh, from that list from the from the request, uh we put together a list and that went to this council, and on uh August 24th, you came up with the uh 10 member ad hoc committee. Uh uh at that point, uh, what were the things that we've done as you've seen? So we have had six meetings so far in which the uh committee members were able to gather questions from the community, provide uh or ask those questions to consultants and staff who have information uh on some of those hot button issues that we've talked about, and then also take that information back and provide it to to their community. Uh we have one scheduled meeting left for tomorrow night, and that is going to be what we've done is uh we've created a public uh online survey, which people can ask questions. Those questions are are being uh populated right now, and we'll give those questions to the committee tomorrow night, and they'll ask all the consultants and provide that information, then of course, back to the community. That will be live streamed and then also will be recorded and will be on the Willow Bend site. So uh and unless you have uh any questions at this time. Uh it is my honor to introduce Bill Warren, who is the chair of the Will Bend Redevelopment Advisory Committee. Hello, Mayor Muns and everybody else. I appreciate your letting me be here tonight and talk to you. Um most importantly, as you would imagine, our biggest concern, all the HOAs, is the traffic and what's going to be done with the traffic, and we've been very happy to meet with Parent Fair and Peers twice now, where they've discussed the traffic situation and how they're going to mitigate traffic, and frankly, it's been very interesting. They admit that they've finished phase one and they got a lot more work to do, but by and large, we really enjoyed the processes they're going through and the content, how many people per car, how many cars, etc. etc. etc. A lot of detail and frankly, they enjoyed our comments and questions.