Good afternoon and welcome to the regular session of the City of Weatherford Planning and Zoning Commission.

Today is Wednesday, June 10th, 2026.

I am Chair Dr.

Joshua Tarbe, and I call this meeting to order at 2 30 p.m.

and announce that a quorum is present.

Before we begin working through today's agenda, I'd like to remind all applicants and interested parties that cases considered by this commission today will also be considered by the city council.

City Council agendas are posted at the City Hall at least three business days prior to meetings.

City Council agendas can also be found on the City of Weatherford website at www.weatherfordtexas.gov backslash meetings.

Board first item on the agenda is item 2A, that is approval of the meeting minutes.

That's to consider approval of the minutes of the planning and zoning commission meeting held May 13th, 2026.

We have a motion to accept the minutes by Mr.

Hinton and a second by that away from me a little quick and change.

Who is it?

Miss Hayes, second by Miss Hayes.

Yeah.

All those in favor, please designate yay or nay on your screen.

Motion passes unanimously.

The minutes are approved.

Item 3A, we're now entering into our regular agenda items, is to hold a public hearing to consider a request for a conditional use permit regarding hotel motel use on a 0.517 acre tract of land located at 117 College Avenue, City of Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, CUP-26-0004.

Ms.

Johnson.

Thank you, Chairman.

The request before you is going to be for a conditional use permit for the Cotton Bratton Hotel at 117 College Avenue.

This property is currently zoned central business district, which you can see on the screen.

The conditional use permit is going to be to operate a hotel on this property.

And for some background, there was a conditional use permit for this same hotel that was previously approved about three years ago.

Part of the conditions on that permit was to complete construction within 20 months, which was not met.

Because of that, their permit has expired, which requires them to come back through that approval process.

And this slide is showing the current conditions of the property.

Since the previous permit approval, the applicant has done several improvements to the site under that was required under the previous conditional use permit.

Some of those improvements are going to be removing the existing drive approach, a new sidewalk.

They installed a decorative screening wall with some landscaping, and then they also made improvements to the adjacent building.

The project consists of a 14-room hotel that will be constructed using shipping containers.

Those containers will be about 19 feet in height.

There will be a courtyard with a pool as well.

The applicant is proposing to paint the containers that either matches the adjacent building or another collar that will comply with our design guidelines for downtown.

There will also be a landscape screening installed along the southern, western, and the southern, western, and the eastern sides of the container to help reduce visitability from the street.

This slide is going to show a few examples of what that screening looks like along with an example of those hotel rooms.

Staff does recommend approval of this conditional use permit subject to the following conditions.

I'm here if you have any questions, and the applicant's also here as well, and they do have a presentation.

Thank you.

Monica Board.

Yeah, of course.

In the event the hotel use ceases operation for a period of 180 days.

Consecutive days that the shipping container structures will be removed.

Yes.

So my question is is there a mechanism in place that would for removing these 14 containers if this were to come to pass that it ceased operation?

So my question is is there a mechanism in place that would um for removing these 14 containers if this were to come to pass that it ceased operation and if that's the case who would be responsible for it would be the owner of the property the owner the owner of the property would be responsible for removing them.

We would contact them if this were to occur.

Okay, it just seems like it's all fully integrated that that would be a major project to come back and remove them all.

So that was just my question.

Yeah, it's uh it's a tough one.

We were talking a little bit with some of the sit city leadership, and and you guys can chime in on this, but um a condition like that would be extremely unique to this project only.

Um if a McDonald's wants to open up and they go out of business, we don't ask them to take down the McDonald's.

But you said there is some precedent maybe for something like this or or no, it's kind of uncharted waters.

Um I I think it's relatively new.

There are other types of businesses that may use a prefabricated structure um that would come in on a trailer or multiple pieces on a trailer um and be constructed, but um not necessarily that we would have a requirement that if it ceases to operate for 180 days, it would have to be removed.

So Kathy, are you okay with the way number four is written, or would you like to do that?

Well, I guess for me, I'm just trying to you know a little clarification in the um the recommendations and how they would set that up if it did cease to operate for 180 days, and how would you get it out in 60 days?

And looking at the you know the project and what it's going to look like.