All right, good afternoon, everybody.

It is 2 03, and we're going to call the Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Planning Commission meeting to order.

Would staff please do a roll call?

Commissioner Sanchez.

Present.

Commissioner De Suki.

Present.

Commissioner Lopez.

Commissioner Cooper.

Present.

Commissioner Wallerstein.

Here.

Commissioner Vistamonte.

Present.

Commissioner Profit.

Present.

Chair Peck.

Here.

Aquorum is present.

Thank you.

Can we get the Spanish-English interpreter, please?

Good afternoon.

Buenas tardes para aquellas personas que requieren servicios de interpretación in espanhol.

Thank you.

All right.

Today we're going to have two agendas.

Our first congen our first agenda is the combined hearing agenda.

Cases on the combined hearing agenda are cases where staff recommends approval.

Planning commission does not require further detailed discussion and nobody in the audience to sign up to speak on the item.

All cases will be read into the record in one unified motion.

If someone is signed up to speak, the item will be moved to individual hearing agenda.

Other agenda is the individual hearing agenda.

Cases on the individual hearing agenda will be heard individually before the commission takes any action.

Right now we have on individual hearing agenda is items 12, 13, 14, and 16.

That is correct.

Okay.

Um we do have some people signed up to speak on some of the plats.

Um, so we're gonna have you uh address the commission prior to the commission uh taking action on the consent agenda, but I will remind everybody that state law requires that if the plats uh meet the unified development code and do not have any variances, the commission is required to approve them.

So I'm gonna ask staff on uh items one seven and two if those platts meet the code first and do not have any variances.

That is correct.

Thank you.

All right.

We're gonna have Commissioner Bustamante recuse himself.

It's 2006, and he has left the meeting.

All right.

First person signed up to speak on item number one is Eugene Vega.

State your name and address for the record, you'll have three minutes.

Hello, my name is Eugene Vega, and I live at 1161 Trumbull Trumble Trail, and that is on the corner of what they're where they're talking about replatting.

That's Trumbull Road and Trumbull Trail.

And I'd like to thank everyone for coming.

I will start by thanking God for blessing Texas and the great heritage of San Antonio.

Texas is known for being country and many people come here from many states and decide to stay for the home time feeling in Texas hospitality.

We respect God's nature and we coexist with it from Lady Bird Johnson's wildflowers to preserving the missions and Hot Wells Park.

And Tristan Berry recently decided to create trees everywhere, thousand trees downtown, which makes sure that we learn from our mistakes and preserve nature and how it benefits us tremendously in our health.

These lots would be going to eight, which is not normally out there.

All of them are maybe maximum three, four of uh residences.

I used to work for the environment environmental public uh works division with Barrow County, and all of our on-site sewage facilities plans that were submitted by the engineers would have an alternate drain field to be able to uh replace the existing field if it became saturated or damaged.

With the 100 foot setback that was enacted by Dr.

Zachariah on these uh this subdivision originally, it had a hundred foot setback from the street, twenty foot from each side, with that much uh being used for that and the structures there will not be enough alternate drain sites for this.

And also for country live in for the people that are uh residents there that are retirement age already.

Uh they do a lot of farming and they have uh agriculture and livestock and uh they like to grow their own vegetables and things like that.

And uh I know for a fact that me and my wife were working on aircraft when before Kelly Air Force Base closed, we became instructors.

And I know for a fact that these kinds of uh environments foster a good uh nurturing environment for students to become well uh adapted young people and training and good for their nature and their stress.

Um when they talk about the gas easement.

I don't want them to put natural gas because uh we've already had over fifteen hundred leaks in San Antonio, and it has to be in good agreement and good faith for the neighbors of the community that are pioneers in that area, and we deem that this would be offensive on number six of the deeds restrictions by Dr.

Zachariah of being offensive because of eliminating too many trees, not enough space for alternate drain fields, and it's a retirement community with nature, and we believe it would encroach too much on the on the civil rights and uh way of living of them.

Um may the honor honorable commissions commissioners be true and respectful of positive development in the best interest of all and their future generations.

I humbly submit this for you for consideration from a myself being a public servant as one of God's stewards of the land.

Thank you.

Next we have Mary Louvega.

Hello, my name's Mary Lou Vega.

I live at 161 Trumbull Trail.

Um that is uh next to where they're trying to replat that five-acre track.

So that subdivision has five-acre tracks all along the Trumbull Trail and Trump uh Trumbull Sands, uh their five-acre plates with individual families that live there.

That that flat that they're trying to replat that act uh lot that they're trying to replat has uh five acres.

They're trying to divide it into eight different properties, and um it's causing it causes a lot of problems because of the the septic design, like my husband said it'll cause pollution in that sense, and then they also want to put the gas out there, which uh there is no gas down that subdivision right now, it's all electrical, so we haven't had to deal with any kind of gas, or they have propane also, but we haven't had to deal with any of the gas problems that they have been existing with the subdivisions.

It is all country country area out there, and um most of the people have a lot of acreage and a good size of acreage.

Um there's a lot of subdivisions that have been developing in uh closer to the school.

Um so we suggest that they keep it at uh higher to put less uh houses out there, at least at one acre tracks, because what you're doing is just populating that area, and we have a lot of wildlife that gets affected.

So we have uh deers that go out there, turkeys, and they're all being affected by all those houses being built so close together, they have nowhere to go.

We have acreage on the site that allow them to run free, and a lot of the people there, they keep their trees, and these people are proposing to knock down majority of the trees, and that takes away from the animals that live out there.

So we're we understand that they want to develop more, but they're trying to put too many houses in one little five-acre track.

So we're suggesting that they at least minimize it to half the amount that they're doing.

That's all.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Okay, next person is Rainey Foley.

Good afternoon.

My name is Renee Foley.

I live in China Grove, but I'm talking about Southeast Bear County.

I'm the trustee for the property across from the replat for this uh for Mr.

Moya.

Can you state your address for the record?

Oh, my address my address is seven seven one seven triple acres, San Antonio, Texas, seven eight two six three.

Um my concerns are uh since I represent my my parents' acreage, it's it's out in the country in Atkins.

Um I have I didn't officially have an objection to the replat as it was submitted, but I'm concerned about future construction on smaller uh having dense uh buildings on this property.

Uh and because it's in a it is in a field uh field drainage area, I'm concerned about pe uh future building due to uh uh septic systems.

Uh I know we have San Antonio water, but I know that they will have uh they'll have drainage problems that they I don't know if they're gonna want to do build uh build commercial or residential and everyone out there the con the developments are happening pretty rapidly out on Highway 87 and I just don't want to see a bunch of crowded stuff across the road where we raise cattle, farm and ranch, and that's pretty much my concern.

Uh I wanna know if they will have deed restrictions if that's allowed.

Uh I'm just that's that's just my concern right now is to kind of keep it country living because that's what you know my parents bought the property out there for over 30 years ago and now it's just being uh overbuilt uh with track houses and it's it's getting pretty ugly.

Uh that's those are my main concerns.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And last is Richard Castillo.

Hey, this is for a uh item number two.

My name is Richard Castillo.

I live at ninety six sixty Huntress Lane.

Our property is um uh directly n neighborly to the um to the Harvey family.

Um so our uh the fence separates us.

So we've been there s for about twenty twenty four twenty five years now.

Uh when we moved out there, um I think the deed restrictions had lapsed for that neighborhood huntress.

Um the neighborhood had deed restrictions prior to when we bought the property, but everyone had a minimum of five acres and there were certain things that were required.

Um I think our our property is just under seven acres.

I think the Harvey's property is about right at six acres.

Um and I understand, you know, we try to be neighborly, we wanna be neighborly.

I mean, everybody i is has freedom in our country, um and we're not trying to to limit their freedom to do what they do with their property, but but it's kind of like from the from um our house when you come off of scenic loop, our home is probably maybe the uh maybe the fifth property coming to the end of our street.

It's a it's a it's a no end street.

Um and the um and it seems like it's slowly has been changing.

It's like every from the end of the street towards our home, it's just been like okay, so they made an exception for um for subdividing this property and then this property, and now it's just seems like it's just coming up and up and up the street, so it seems like it's I guess that's the trend now is every property is gonna be uh subdivided and when we bought the land and paid the taxes on the land for twenty three, twenty five years, however long it's been, um it was with the in uh appreciation for the space.

You know, when you come out and you look out and you can kind of see your area, your space, and you knew everybody had a certain amount of space.

But the my concern is the splitting off that piece, um, the two acres.

Um I don't know if there's any limitations as to how many homes they can put on that two acres.

Uh it's an open field.

Um our field of view looks right across their property.

Um they've laid level all I think the the owners before the Harveys leveled all the trees there.

Um so you can see right across the the the pasture area, so from our home to across their back fields, um you see grass, and so I don't know if they're gonna put in one, two, three, four houses.

I have no idea what the what they're if there's any limits at all about that.

Um clearly it it's a uh an uncomfortable situation to be here speaking to you all um on on behalf of our interest um because you know we are neighbors with the Harvey family um and uh we like them as people so we're not trying to suppress their their ambitions with their land and their freedom as you know citizens, but um unfortunately I have to be here today to kind of say I'm really not crazy about that and if if there's any um graphitos or weight to what I say, which probably is not that that much.

Um I it just I wanted to get it on the record that I'm opposed to this and I spoke to some of my other neighbors.

I think someone called in and left a voice message, and one of the neighbors um mentioned to me that that he wasn't too crazy about it, but I don't know if he made it here or not.

He was out of town.

Um but I just know that the consensus is it's just okay.

Here goes another another subdivision of a of a plotted piece of property that that drove us our that we sought out and we moved to that area for that reason and it's totally changing the dynamic of it.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you very much.

Okay, that is everybody that signed up to speak.

So we'll move on with the consent agenda.

Is there any uh commissioner questions on that?

If not, we'll entertain a motion.

Move to approve uh consent agenda.

Second.

I have a motion for approval by Commissioner Profit, a second by Commissioner Sanchez.

Staff please do a roll call vote.

Commissioner Profit.

Yes.

Commissioner Sonchez?

Yes.

Commissioner DeSucci?

Yes.

Commissioner Lopez.

Commissioner Cooper?

Yes.

Commissioner Wallerstein.

Yes.

Yes.

Chair Peck.

Yes.

Motion passes for approval.

Thank you.

Um can someone get Commissioner Bustamante back in?

Apparently he was listening.

It's 218 and Commissioner Bustamante is re-entered the meeting.

Okay, item number 12.

Uh for item number 12 or a request.

We're I wanted to see if we can move that to the end just because the um representative is not here yet.

And we wanted to see so if we could just move it to the end.

So we'll go straight into item number 13 if that's possible.

It works for me.

Okay.

Hi everybody, my name is Kelly Sanders, planning manager with um zoning division.

Uh the item number 13 is a request by Dwight Howard for approval of a resolution amending the Guadalupe West Side Community Plan for changing the land use classification from low density residential to high density mixed use, uh located at 2814 Vera Cruz Street.

We um staff mailed 50 notices.

We received zero in favor, zero opposed, uh Braden's Cardin, Brady Gardens community organization is opposed, and there was no response from the El Charo Neighborhood Association.

The proposed plan amendment from low density residential to high density mixed use is requested to rezone the property from R4 residential single family district to IDZ3 high intensity infill development zone for four dwelling units.

Um the proposed high density mixed use land use is not consistent with the surrounding properties.

The subject property is only 1,875 square feet that is inconsistent with the requirements of a high density mixed use category.

The requested designation permits a level of intensity that cannot be harmoniously integrated into a single family residential block.

Furthermore, the proposal to place four dwelling units on the lot of this size represents a density shift that is better suited for transitional areas closer to commercial hubs rather than the interior of a low density resident neighborhood.

The requested amendment does not align with the goal of maintaining stable and predictable neighborhood growth, and the land use plan does recommend some areas for medium and high density residential, but in areas that are apartments already exist.

I do know that the applicant is most likely amending that he will not be doing four units, but only three potentially, but it still will require this um high density mixed use to allow that IDZ base zone.

Staff recommends denial and the applicant is here to answer any questions.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Kelly.

The applicant like to address the commission.

Name and address for the record, please.

Um, my name is Mark Guerra, and uh my address is 317 Nogalitos, uh my office address.

And uh I understand um that it says you know multifamily high density, but these are actually uh eight by forty containers.

Um but you see like eighteen wheeler containers, we're only putting two of them side by side with uh 20 feet of common wall between them.

So we would it's only a total of 640 square feet um that we would build there.

Most of the homes around there are gonna be bigger than that.

Um we comply with the parking there.

We have eighteen feet of parking plus the sidewalk, gives us 22 feet from the dwelling all the way to the curb.

Um we have four and a half feet of uh setbacks on each side that we would provide uh sidewalks to you know we understand uh you know maybe the hesitation of having multi-family, but you know, we're talking about two units being 160 square feet and one being 320 square feet.

So I don't think it it affects too much the number of people that will be living there, which would only be really three people.

Um we changed it from four to three based on the recommendation.

Um that maybe would be a little bit more palatable to the commission.

Um, you know, we're trying to do something nice, trying to make it very um pleasing to the eye there, but also feasible as a business, of course.

So you know, we're hoping that the commission would look favorably towards this um so that we can get going, start the process.

Okay, thank you.

Nobody signed up to speak on this item, so I'll move to Commissioner questions.

We'll start on the right with Commissioner Cooper.

No questions these are containers, right?

I'm sorry, these are containers.

18 um you see on the 18 wheelers, they're eight, they're only eight feet wide and fifty by forty feet deep.

Forty feet.

Right.

So to give it a little bit more appeal, we kind of staggered them a little bit so they look a little nicer, where we can provide some green areas for the ones in the front and the back, maybe some patio areas.

Uh we didn't want to just stack them side by side.

Um so it wouldn't look so commercial, you know, just try to give it some appeal.

At the end of the construction, this would be three different units.

So there are actually two containers, but we're splitting the middle of it.

So if you look at the video, if you look at it, there's there's two containers that'll be staggered, kind of like this.

The common wall between the two is 20 feet, and all that would be fire rated, of course.

So you'd have one in the front.

So you see here that's 160 square feet, which is basically, you know, eight by twenty.

And then that part right here, this is the rest of this container, there's the divider right there.

And this is one contain one, you know, one unit of three hundred and twenty square feet, which is the second half of this first one, and the second half of this one, and then the back is only 160 square feet.

So they're basically efficiency type dwellings.

I mean, you know, there's not a whole lot of room in there.

It's they're just two containers that we're kind of splitting in the middle to give uh two different units on each side, front and back, and then one in the middle.

I don't think more than three people could live in those.

I mean we wouldn't you know it's three people, three one in each one.

One in each, yeah.

Three vehicles to park, and lot or index.

We have under the IDG we're allowed to have um 50% of the required parking, so we have more than that.

We have two full parking spaces there.

Um I know that people do park on the streets there.

Um there's also bus stops about there's one bus stop that's five about five blocks away, and there's one that's nine blocks away.

Um, but yeah, so we would comply with the parking under IDZ three.

Okay, thank you.

Yes, sir.

Question for staff.

Is there a minimum size requirement for dwellings?

No, sir.

Okay.

And that type of material that you're suggesting can still get meters, utility service.

Yeah.

So the property maintenance code says that a sleeping area has to be 70 square feet, and every additional person sleeping in that area, there needs to be an additional 50 square feet.

Um to answer the second question, I need a clarification from the applicant.

Are you talking about like metal shipping containers?

Because twice I've heard you say the trailer that an 18-wheeler hauls.

Which is it?

Well, they're metal shipping containers that are okay, metal shipping containers that are it's just for people to understand what they look like.

There's what you see like on 18 wheelers, but they're eight feet wide by 40 feet deep.

So uh the building codes would still apply, so those shipping containers would have to be retrofitted to meet the international residential code.

Is doable, it's challenging, but it's doable.

We're in the process of doing it already at 2942 Tampico.

We actually put two containers side by side, cut out the middle and two containers on top to make it a duplex.

Um we didn't choose to do go that route here because of the size of the lot.

Uh but yes, uh, we've looked into how many people can sleep there, the minimum square footage, and we are under that zoning, we would be in compliance.

And your engagement with Brady Gardens, the neighbor's association.

That they did not recommend approving this.

I didn't know you didn't wait.

No, sir.

I didn't interact with the neighbors to I did around the neighbors.

Um we were there's um a rental unit to one side of us.

If you're looking at the at the lot from the street to the left, it's a rental unit, but it's vacant.

There's a neighbor to the right, we talked to them, they were in favor, they were okay.

Talk to the neighbors in front, they were in favor.

We also own the lot across the street, Caddy Corner, which is the corner, and hopefully we would you know like to do something there as well later, but one one step at a time.

Thank you.

Yes, sir, Commissioner Wallerstein.

The question I have is, is there currently a dwelling there?

According to the maps, there is.

There's no dwelling there.

Okay.

It's a vacant lot.

It's a vacant lot.

Sorry.

It's a vacant lot.

If you see the it's 2814 Vera Cruz?

Correct.

There it is right there.

Oh, it's on the other.

And what are you doing to make these look like not container homes?

I mean uh containers.

Are you putting stucco in front of them or drywall or batten or on the exterior?

Um, we haven't determined exactly what we're gonna do with the outside.

Normally they remain the the metal, and we we can paint them, or we put patios in front, uh, or we can put siding on them.

Um there's just different ways to do it.

So the question I have, you're working on 2942 Tampico.

Is that a completed project?

No, ma'am.

Not yet.

We're in the process.

No more questions.

Commissioner Sanchez.

The property on very on Veracruz is that gonna be single story or two story?

Single story, sir.

Thank you.

Yes, sir.

All right.

Um I have some questions primarily for staff.

Uh first, uh, I believe in the report you said that the IDZ base zoning uh will require the high density mixed use, even from four to three.

Correct.

With that density.

Is that true from three to two?

Give me a second.

Let me check.

I might have a suggestion.

The uh I mean IDZ is going to need a land use of a plan amendment either way, okay.

So for the low density mixed use, you are allowed up a density of 25 units per acre.

And again, this property is approximately small.

R1, effectively, right?

It's 1875 square feet.

Yeah, so it's point zero four three.

And if I did the MF 25, it would only give him one.

So let me ask you this.

This is currently zoned R4.

And I know I'm going into zoning, but I'm going to get to the planning in a second.

This is currently zoned R4, correct?

Correct.

All right.

It's 1800 square feet.

Is that compliant with R 4?

It is not, but it does look like it may be original configuration that he could potentially look into a certificate of determination if he wanted to build a single family dwelling unit.

Okay.

If they didn't and they wanted to rezone to R1, what would that plan use be?

That land use.

So I will admit this is a very this is an older plan that I believe was adopted before R1 and R2 were created.

And so low density residential though does permit like R3, R4, R5.

So I would stick with the low density residential if he was to rezone to R1, and he would not need this plan amendment.

Okay, so that's one way to avoid the plan amendment, but that's kind of the only way.

And it's not technically in the plan because R1 and R2 didn't exist, right?

Correct.

All right.

I think those are my questions.

Zoning has not heard this yet, correct?

That is correct.

Okay.

I don't have any further questions other than what's already been asked.

Um any other commissioner questions?

No, we'll entertain a motion.

I move to approve item 13.

Second.

We have a motion for approval by Commissioner Bustamante and a second by Commissioner DeSucci.

Staff please do a roll call vote.

Commissioner Bustamante?

Aye.

Commissioner DeSucci?

Yes.

Commissioner Sanchez?

Yes.

Commissioner Lopez?

Yes.

Commissioner Cooper?

No.

Commissioner Wallerstead?

No.

Commissioner Profit.

For clarification, this is for approval of the applicant's request, correct?

That is correct.

No.

Chair Peck?

No.

Motion fails.

Okay.

So we have two options.

Either Commissioner Bustamante can rescind his motion and change it, or we can entertain another motion.

Happy for someone else to make an alternative motion.

I make a movement for denial.

We have a motion for denial of the applicant's request by Commissioner Wallersted.

Second.

Second by Commissioner Profit.

Staff please do a roll call vote.

Commissioner Wallerstein?

No.

Yes.

Commissioner Profit?

Yes.

Commissioner Sanchez.

No.

Commissioner DeSucci?

No.

Commissioner Lopez.

Commissioner Cooper.

Yes.

Commissioner Bustamonte?

No.

Chair Peck?

Yes.

Motion for denial fails.

I move for a continuance to June 10th.

We have a motion for continuance to June 10th by Commissioner Bustamante.

Second.

Second by who was that, Commissioner Sanchez?

All right.

Uh staff, please do a roll call vote.

Commissioner Bustamante?

Commissioner Sanchez?

Yes.

Commissioner DeSucci?

Yes.

Commissioner Lopez?

Yes.

Commissioner Cooper?

Yes.

Commissioner Wallerstead?

Yes.

Commissioner Prophet?

No.

Chair Peck.

Yes.

Motion passes for continuance.

Thank you.

Is it that's a two-week continuance, correct?

Correct.

Okay.

All right.

Item 14.

Sorry.

Item 14 is requesting a four-week continuance to the June 24th meeting.

Thank you.

We do have somebody signed up to speak on this item.

We have Ruby Ramos.

If you'd like to speak now or wait till the continuance in four weeks.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay, so uh applicant has requested four-week continues.

That would be to June 24th if I'm not mistaken.

Correct.

To approve the applicant's request for continuance to the June 24th PC meeting.

Okay.

Second.

We have a motion for approval of the four-week continues by Commissioner Profit.

Second by Commissioner DeSucci.

Roll call vote, please.

Commissioner Profit.

Yes.

Commissioner De Succi.

Yes.

Commissioner Sonchez.

Yes.

Commissioner Lopez.

Commissioner Cooper.

Yes.

Commissioner Wallerstead.

Yes.

Commissioner Bustamonte.

Uh.

Chair Peck.

Yes.

Motion passes for continuance.

Thank you.

Item 16.

Good afternoon.

My name is Samantha Benavides.

Plannerwood Development Services.

Item number 16 is the request for approval of a resolution to amend the near Northwest Community Plan from neighborhood commercial to community commercial located at 1802 West Front Place.

There were 30 notices mailed, eight in favor, one opposed within 200 feet.

Woodlawn Lake, West End Hope in Action, Martinez Creek Neighborhood Associations, and San Antonio, Texas District 1 Residence Association gave no response.

Outside 200 feet, 16 are in favor and zero post.

The applicant seeks a plan amendment to community commercial to rezone to see to an A C D commercial non-alcoholic sales district with a conditional use for rental tool equipment and event specialties fenced and screened outside storage and display permitted.

The surrounding area includes both neighborhood commercial and medium density land use designations.

While similar commercial uses in zoning districts exist along North Soss and Water Street, these developments exceed the zoning intensity supported by the area's current land use designation, making the requesting consistent with the recommended development pattern envisioned in the near northwest community plan.

Additionally, both the existing and proposed land use designation designations as defined by the community plan.

Emphasize that parking areas, service entrances, and or side or rear yards should be screened from adjacent residential properties and street view to promote pedestrian-friendly and visually attractive development.

Given the scale of the proposed outdoor storage and the site's proximity to nearby single family residences, staff finds that the property does not satisfy the locational criteria necessary to support the requested community commercial designation.

Staff recommends denial and the applicant is here to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Name and address for the record, please.

Okay.

Basically what we're doing is we're just trying to get our lot changed over.

Uh we've been around for 25 years.

I've been there, I've been in the neighborhood.

I was actually there before.

Most of these businesses have been there.

Um we've been there, we've been operating at this location at this bill building.

We bought the location 1802 about seven years ago.

We went ahead and we put up a wrought iron fence all the way around.

We fenced it off.

It used to be an abandoned lot.

Um there was a lot of um on house people that used to stay there.

So we went ahead um and bought the lot, we fixed it up, we put some concrete on the side, we put some asphalt on there.

Um we built up the neighborhood and we've been using it for parking ever since.

Um we started, of course, with our business as it's expanding.

It's a family-owned business right here.

This is me and my wife, my family.

This is what we do.

We've been doing carnival business for the past 10 years.

We've been doing inflatables out of this location for the past 25 years.

Um, if you go to the next slide also, we do a lot of community work.

We do a lot of the inflatables, we do a lot of tables and chairs.

We do a lot of stuff for the neighborhood, for Will Lawn Academy for YWLA, Thomas Jefferson High School.

We do a lot of stuff.

These are just all the stuff in our district seven within a 500 mile radius.

I'm sorry, five uh 500 square foot radius.

Most of the churches, we do a lot of donations for the Weston Woods, Thomas Jefferson, the Montecello Park, all the neighborhood associations, they all use us in our neighborhood, the Salvation Army, the Boys, H E B, these are all businesses that are in support of us.

Like I said, we've we've been a pillar in the community.

Our business has already been operating out of there.

We just weren't zoned correctly.

We're actually zoned for um auto upholstery when we bought the lot next door.

So all we're trying to do is just get it zoned properly.

These are our neighbors.

I know they showed you right across the street, but if you would just go right across from that, this is what's going.

You have industrial waste, just big trucks just sitting there that have been abandoned.

Um no one's using um stuff.

You have abandoned cars that are parked literally less than 300 square feet away.

That's the that's the plan that they're that's going on right now.

Um if you go to the next one right now, um there's an abandoned um car wash chair that's been there.

Um you have a lot of uh where they're selling the stash back, they're selling weed stores.

Um there's about three or four of them up the street.

There's another one.

There's a gaming room that people use or abandoned.

There's nothing but abandoned buildings all up and down Zazamora.

I went ahead and we've been there for a long time.

Um we've helped bring in other businesses.

We brought in two other daycares right across the street from us.

We've helped a party planning place right across the street from us.

So we've helped Diane Burgers when they used to be formerly known as Chris Madrid's.

We brought them over.

Um, so we're actually growing the neighborhood.

So for them to say that it doesn't go with the aesthetics for the Northside Plan, it's that's unreal.

We've been there forever.

We've been there, um, everyone supports us.

We've only had one that does not support us, which is the neighbor right behind us.

So to fulfill that, what we did is we moved all of our carnival rides over and got a second location.

So we went ahead and moved outside 1604.

We moved all of our carnival rides outside.

All we're trying to do is just trying to get it zoned properly so we can just still stay in business.

We're not trying to close down our business after 25 years.

We've been in district seven.

We're planning on staying there for the next, you know, until I can keep going another 20 years.

Um for them for denial, it's just uncalled for, and I just don't understand the reality of that.

Um, but if you go to the next slide as well, this is the community benefits.

We were we met with the neighborhood association, the Woodlawn Lake Association.

Um, our district um seven consulman was there also.

Marina was there.

Uh, we've met with her already twice.

We've met with the neighborhood.

Um, all of them were in support of us.

They all spoke up and said that they don't want us to go.

Um, we've met with three different homeowners associations surrounding areas.

Each one of them, we've taken the time, and each one of them, they all use us.

We've met with the families, everyone said they don't want us to go because they all know us, they've known us for years.

We've seen their kids grow up in our in that neighborhood.

I've had people that run it from us that are 18 years old when they're when their kids were babies.

Um, so for them to deny us, it's just I don't understand why they're not allowing us.

All we want to do is just to be able to park our cars, our trucks, our trailers there, um, and just want to be in and um and stand in good standing with everything.

Co-compliance did come.

They did give us five violations that we didn't know that we were violating uh within two weeks.

We went ahead and corrected everything, but within these past two months, we've never had any violations in our whole 25 years of being there.

Um so we've we've been there for for quite a while.

Um, and if you go to the next slide, and this is basically what they're saying right here.

So we would drive in, so we we removed all the big carnival rides.

Um, all that's parked there is just smaller trucks, smaller trailers.

So we would be climbing in, um, driving in through West French, and we'd be coming out through Zalzamora.

Um, what we did is we were gonna be following the decimos, which we try when they try new store hours.

Um, we don't want to be obstructing traffic on Zazamoda.

We heard what people were just asking about saying, hey, if we do approve this zoning for you, if we're in favor, can you do this and that?

And just everybody had different opinions on different things for for noise or just stuff.

I mean, every Monday morning we're out there washing inflatables, blowing up these.

And it's uh if if anyone is ever rented an inflatable, you know they don't make up much noise, but you have a small blower that blows it up.

Um, we have to clean up these inflatables every Monday morning.

We start at eight in the morning by three, four o'clock, we're done.

We knock them down, we roll them up and we put everything away.

We've never had any complaints.

We've been there, like I said, for years.

Um, all we're trying to do is just get it zoned properly, so we can store our trucks and trailers there on the corner lot.

And if you go to the next one um this is basically what we're gonna be storing now you saw the picture of what it used to be there all we're gonna be parking is just our our regular trucks our trailers dunk tanks uh small rides that are gonna be under six feet um tall and then just basically that setting if you go to the next ride as well um it's just we're just requesting for the approval on this on the rezoning and then if you have the next one as well um does anybody have any questions for me on the zoning.

Thank you I appreciate your presentation okay all right I'm gonna move on to commissioner questions we'll start on the left with Commissioner Bustamante.

No questions.

Sir you had mentioned uh believe it was the neighbor behind you is that on 18 uh that was not in favor I'm sorry in 18 is that 1810 West French yes that property is currently zone C2 um and the last communication you've had with them has been it's been negative it's been negative yes sir um he he um they he moved in about a year ago and um he just wasn't happy but with uh I just I guess with everything going on um so we we try to work with them we try different things um even the neighbors the couple of the neighbors have talked to him and we even told them hey we he even offered to we'll we can put storm windows on his thing because he says for the noise but it's just we offer different things we put up to uh we offered to put the fence a little higher uh we even put like um um some privacy fence up I mean we're trying to do what we can to to appease him but he's just he's just really unhappy on that but he's like I said he's been around for about a year but everyone else from the neighborhood I even have people in the neighborhood that don't want us to go they they've been using us for years um their complete support with us everybody's in support with this I haven't found not one other person that's not in support of us it's except for one neighbor sometimes that's all it takes though.

I'm just curious how did the because that that that's been there for a long time with the amusement rides over the gate you can see them it's been years how how did this how did it start with the rezoning it was it was it a co-compliance issue or it was the neighbor had called in the neighbor had called uh code compliance um had called just different things that he could do um and just started making complaints so when they came out he said we were leaning stuff on his fence and that's how it started so when code compliance came out took a look there was nothing lean on his fence they they said that the they said that the fence was in great condition um everything was good but when they started walking around that's when they said hey wait a minute you can't park like this you're not supposed to have big industrial stuff here you can't have side sandbags on the side of the alley that has to be moved in you can't park your trucks outside um and I and I'm parking them right in front of my building and they say well you can't park trucks outside you have to park them inside the lot and you have to have an industrial and it just opened up a whole bunch of different things on there so it started from just one small complaint and then call compliance came but that's why they gave me five different violations um but it was just minimum stuff on there and we fixed it right away from them and so we've been working with with code violations and also with with staff also on there so thank you sir appreciate it.

Could you put the map up of his plan so I'm seeing that you're saying you're going to put a where did I read that eight foot fence?

Yes right right right now we have a six foot fence um I know they were okay I know they were asking right here we have is uh we have a six foot fence going right here and that that's what we have we got permitted to put that on here actually it's a six foot fence right here and then it's a five and a half foot fence right here that was at the city required um and then they were asking us to do a setback right here to do for parking but this is when we're trying to save uh without having us to get a second location so they wanted us to get a higher fence then we went down the 10 fence then we went down the eight foot fence because I was speaking with the neighbors and they said you know they didn't want to have these big old fences either on there so we just said we're trying to do what we can to appease the neighborhood association.

So we just said if we need to do an eight foot fence um to be able to have certain rides or just whatever we need to but actually six foot fence would actually be sufficient enough for what we have so I'm looking on Google maps and it looks like you store your entire amusement park there.

Yes is that currently how it is no everything's already been moved.

And you're proposing to enter like a little entrance from West French that I and our at our front our front is already here's a driveway right here and there's a gate right here.

Right.

It's always been there so this is actually the front of part of it and then there's another driveway right here with another gate right here.

So what we're doing is just and the only reason we say we're going to come in this way is because one of the concerns with the what the people saying is that if we're coming out with equipment they don't want us blocking Zazamoto with our equipment which we've been doing for over 10 years but we just said okay well if you like we'll drive up French drive in this way and then drive out we're just trying to you know try to do whatever we can just to help whatever the neighbors feel so there'll be a clean open driveway between you and the neighbor that's been complaining yes and then a fence yes and there's actually already a driveway that that's been there for when the house what this used to be an actual house and uh and a business right here before the city knocked it down.

So it was abandoned for years and uh but there's a driveway right here and then there's actually a sidewalk to get it so this is actually the front of the building and then this used to be another building right here where the auto upholstery shop was so when I when I first bought the land my my other main building is right here but when I first bought this land there used to be a home right here and then there used to be a uh commercial building right here and uh when the guy left this he just left it abandoned it was abandoned for years and the city literally came and knocked it down because they said it was just um it was just too rotted away so they knocked it down um and then that's when I ended up buying the property um and then I went ahead and fenced it off and then we've been using it for parking ever since but I just they I didn't know it wasn't zone for parking the the way I need it to be okay no more questions thanks for the presentation you know very well uh thought out and and um appreciate what you're doing for the community and in your business I do want to support the staff and the reason you know they recommended denial um I understand but then I also understand and and so that's why the planning commission exists so you can come here and we can take a look at it um I I see that we're basically you know it's use that you had that you're continuing to do under different conditional use um for on the setbacks those are I mean eight foot there's not a requirement because this is about some of it's a butting commercial right so I think the gentleman that's not supporting you said it was about zone C something correct it is a residence that's um on the property that zone C2.

So with the normal abutting of commercial and residential apply right the the code requirements they would be forced to do a six foot fence solid fence if you're abutting residential uses a commercial so they would be um subjected to do a six foot fence the eight foot would need a variance or a request which could actually be approved by city council during the zoning case okay this is just something that the neighborhood is asking for is the eight foot yes all right and no further questions thank you no question no questions uh one question did you say the uh the person that is uh behind you that is in opposition to this did they recently move in is that what you said yes and you were there long long before yes I've been there twenty five years and they moved in about a year ago okay great thank you thank you no further questions any uh other questions from the commissioners that we'll entertain a motion I move to approve applicant's request second we have a motion to approve the applicant's request by uh commissioner Prophet and a second commissioner cooper.

Roll call vote, please.

Commissioner Profit.

Yes.

Commissioner cooper?

Yes.

Commissioner sanchez?

Yes.

Commissioner dezucki.

Yes.

Commissioner Lopez?

Yes.

Commissioner wallerstead.

Yes.

Commissioner Bustamonte.

No.

Chair peck.

Yes.

Motion passes for approval.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, item 12.

Thanks.

Hello again, Kelly Sanders, planning manager with the City of San Antonio.

Item number 12 is a request for approval of a resolution amending the Kelly South San Pueblo community plan by changing the land use classification from neighborhood commercial to regional commercial located at 1139 new Laredo Highway.

The staff mailed 24 notices.

We received four in favor, zero opposed.

There was no response from Quintana Neighborhood Association.

And outside 200 feet, we received an additional 24 in favor.

The proposed plan amendment from neighborhood commercial to regional commercial is requested to rezone the property from C2 commercial district to C3 general commercial district.

The proposed regional commercial land use is not consistent with the surrounding properties.

The proposed regional commercial redesignation is inconsistent with the established character of the surrounding area.

The new Laredo Highway Corridor is currently defined by community commercial and neighborhood commercial to the south and neighborhood commercial and public institutional to the north.

Within the SA Tomorrow comprehensive plan, regional commercial is defined by its high intensity and its role in serving a large citywide market rather than just the immediate neighborhood.

And I do believe that the applicant is going to potentially uh amend their request to community commercial to align with an ex uh an also an amendment for a C2 CD based zoning.

Staff recommends denial and the applicant is here to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name is Carlos Aldava with Alamo Consulting Services, and I have uh the property owner here.

So Carlos Jimenez, and Laredo Highway.

Can you state your address for the record, please?

Yes, it's eleven thirty-nine new Laredo Highway.

So the uh property owner is proposing to uh rezone a portion of his property, which is um, the back L shape of the property that's currently zone C2.

The the front portion right here is the C3.

Mr.

Jimenez already has a current certificate of occupancy for the whole property, used it by DSD recently uh for um vehicle sales and full service repair.

So the what what he's trying to do is extend the use to the back of the current property, which is currently zoned as I was mentioning C2.

But um originally uh Mr.

Jimenez applied for this under a C3 uh proposal, but uh we would like to amend that to a um C2 C D conditional for that specific uh use to be allowed in the back portion of the property, we have an exhibit here.

I don't know if this possible to display it.

Just for context, that's the subject property, and um the the property owner had has uh identified some other existing uses along the corridor, right here.

Vehicle sales, right there, here so um he already has an existing provision with C.

He he counted eleven properties in the in the um in the vicinity of his property for related uses, and um he already has the current valid existing C of O for out of sales and full repair.

He only wants just to uh extend that to the back portion of his property, so that's pretty much our presentation, all right.

Thank you.

Move on to commissioner questions.

We'll start on the right with Commissioner Cooper.

Does the amended request apply to the entire lot or just the per portion that's already C1 or neighborhood commercial?

Well, the the front portion as I was mentioning is already C3.

So it would be instead of the originally he had um noted originally C3 um in order to be um to not raise any concerns from from neighbors, it'll be instead of a C3 just conditional C D, just in the back portion.

So I'm gonna add the application is for the entire property.

That was what was submitted, and that would require a change to community commercial, correct?

I don't want to do an FCD.

The application when it was submitted was to rezone the entire property to C3, which would require the regional commercial land use classification.

We have heard from the applicant they may be interested in amending their application to C2 C D across the entire site, that would require the community commercial designation rather than the regional one.

Understood.

No further further questions.

Currently, what is the business that uh the applicant is doing out of sales and full uh service, yeah, and that's been um it's it's been in existence for four years, and we have a currency of O issued by TSD for the entire property.

The certificate of occupancy is valid for the entire yes, it's for the entirety of the property, okay.

It's for the portion of the property currently zone C3.

It is not for the entire portion.

If they had a C of O for the entire property, we wouldn't be here today.

Okay, that's what I thought.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, the owner's gonna try to find the the C of O that I believe is issued to the full address, not just a portion.

So, yeah, as regional commercials, I'd have a hard time supporting that.

Um in this sense, you're down zoning the C3 to C2.

Um, yeah, the address is 1139.

And keeping the same, you're not changing the operation of the business one at all.

No, it's just that you wanted to add bringing this additional land.

I used to keep when I need to keep working on my um I didn't, if it'll fit.

Okay.

Alright.

No, no change of use, just existing right.

Um I would be supportive of of the amended request, but not for the regional use or C3.

Well, regional use.

No further questions.

No questions.

Uh motion to accept the amended request.

Commissioner Bustamante, any questions?

No questions.

Okay, we do have a motion by Commissioner Sanchez to accept the amended request to community commercial.

Second.

We have a second by Commissioner Lopez.

Roll call vote, please.

Commissioner Sanchez.

Yes.

Commissioner Lopez?

Yes.

Commissioner De Succi?

Yes.

Commissioner Cooper?

Yes.

Commissioner Wallerstead?

No.

Commissioner Bustamante?

Commissioner Profit?

Yes.

Chair Peck?

Yes.

Motion passes as amended.

Thank you very much.

I think that's it.

Is there a director's report?

There is not.

There is not, huh?

Wow.

Alright then.

Easy.

It is 304 and we are adjourned.