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IT IS 1:30 AND I WILL CALL THIS MEETING OF THE PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION TO ORDER.
REVEREND, WOULD YOU MIND BLESSING OUR PROCEEDINGS HERE. >> LET US PRAY.
WE COME FIRST TO SAY THANK YOU, THANK YOU GOD FOR ALL OF THE THINGS YOU'VE DONE FOR US.
GOD, WE WANT TO ESPECIALLY THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN THAT YOU SENT A FEW DAYS AGO.
VERY MUCH NEEDED IN THESE PARTS. GOD, WE PRAY THAT YOU CONTINUE TO SHOWER ALL OF YOUR FAVORS UPON US. WE ASK YOU GOD TO FORGIVE US FOR THE THINGS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE DONE. AND THE THINGS THAT WE COULD HAVE AND FAILED TO DO. GOD, CONTINUE TO BLESS THIS CITY, BLESS THE LEADERS, BLESS OUR STATE, BLESS OUR NATION. AND WHEREAS, ESPECIALLY BLESSING UPON OUR SCHOOLS, BLESS THE SUPERINTENDENT AND ADMINISTRATION AND ALL OF THE TEACHERS AND AIDS.
PROTECT THE KIDS AND CONTINUE TO KEEP US SAFE AND SOUND IN THIS CITY AND THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT. GOD, WE ASK YOU TO ALLOW YOUR HOLY SPIRIT TO DWELL WITH US AS WE MEET THIS AFTERNOON. THESE BLESSINGS AND ALL OTHERS, WE ASK YOU IN SWEET SON JESUS
NAME WE PRAY, AMEN. >> AMEN. BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE KEVIN HALIBURTON, HE IS A NEW COMMISSIONER HERE.
KEVIN, WHY DON'T YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF AND WHERE YOU'RE FROM.
>> FIRST POINT OF CLARITY, THERE IS NO BILLING BILL NEWMAN'S SHOES.
ARCHITECT AT THE CITY OF ABILENE. I BEGAN MY CAREER HERE IN ABILENE, UNDER CLINT ROSENBLUM. I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN THE COUNCIL IN HIS PLACE. AND VERY GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE HERE. I HOPE THAT I CAN SERVE AS A GOOD COMMISSIONER TO CONTINUE
THAT WORK IN A GOOD WAY. >> THANKS, KEVIN. WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO YOU GETTING UP TO SPEED HERE WITH US. PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION IS THE FINAL AUTHORITY FOR APPROVAL OF PLATS, HOWEVER, IT ACTS ONLY AS A RECOMMENDED BOARD TO THE CITY COUNCIL. ALL APPEALS MUST BE IN WRITING. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM UNDER DISCUSSION BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION AFTER RECEIVING RECOGNITION BY THE CHAIR. THOSE WISHING TO BE HEARD SHALL APPROACH THE PODIUM, STATE YOUR NAME AND PURPOSE FOR APPEARING. EACH SPEAKER IS REQUESTED TO LIMIT THEIR PRESENTATION NO
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MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES. ADDITIONAL TIME MAY BE GRANTED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHAIR.OUR FIRST ITEM IS THE MINUTES FROM OUR PREVIOUS MEETING. THEY WERE IN OUR PACKET.
HAS EVERYBODY HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW AND ANY DISCUSSION OR COMMENT THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
MAKE? >> MOVE THAT THEY BE APPROVED AS PRESENTED.
>> I WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS OUR MINUTES FROM THE PREVIOUS MEETING. SEEING NO ONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. REVEREND HAS MOVED. DO WE HAVE A SECOND.
>> I'LL SECOND. >> MOTION AND A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR.
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AYE. NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS PLATS.ADAM, ARE YOU UP. >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS ADAM, CITY PLANNER FOR THE CITY OF ABILENE. STAFF HAS 1823-FP, STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS THAT CITY STAFF GET A TITLE OPINION. STREET NAME CHANGE BE COMPLETED AND APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL PRIOR TO RECORDING, FOR TIN CUP, EXTENDING EAST FOREST MEADOWS DRIVE. THE NEXT PLAT I HAVE 1923-FP. THIS HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND FOUND CONSISTENT WITH CHAPTER 3, ARTICLE 2 OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS, CITY STAFF BE FURNISHED WITH A TITLE OPINION OR TITLE COMMITMENT LETTER, AS WELL AS ALL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS BE INSPECTED INSPECTED AND APPROVED. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE FOR ME.
>> DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ADAM? THANK YOU, ADAM.
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OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANYONE HERE THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS EITHER ONE OF THESE PLATS? SEEING NO ONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.DO WE HAVE A MOTION OR ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? >> MOVE TO APPROVE.
>> MOTION TO APPROVE. >> WITH CONDITIONS AS STATED. >> WITH CONDITIONS.
>> SECOND. >> AND A SECOND. >> WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE
WITH CONDITIONS AS STATED. MR. BARNETT. >> YES.
>> MR. HALIBURTON. >> YES. >> REVEREND LANGFORD.
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>> YES. >> MS. FLEMING >> YES.
>> MOTION CARRIES. >> CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT 2023-02, ALLOWS WHOLESALING AND STORAGE OUTDOORS TO A PROPERTY ZONED HEAVY COMMERCIAL LOCATED AT 2102 OLD ANSON ROAD.
CLARISSA. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS CLARISSA IVEY, PLANNER FOR THE CITY OF ABILENE. TODAY I AM PRESENTING TO YOU CUP-2023-02, REQUEST TO ALLOW OUTDOOR STORAGE FACILITY AT 3102 OLD ANSON ROAD. YOU HAVE A LOCATION MAP SHOWING THE PROPERTY, RIGHT OFF OF OLD ANSON ROAD. THE PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY UNDEVELOPED. THE PROPERTY RIGHT NOW IS ZONED HEAVY COMMERCIAL.
THEY ARE NOT PROPOSING A ZONE CHANGE. THEY ARE JUST WANTING TO GET A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT TO ALLOW ARE LOCATABLE UNITS AT THIS PROPERTY WHICH IS ONLY AN ALLOWED USE WITH A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THE USES OF SELF-STORAGE UNITS IS AN ALLOWED USE, WHICH IS ACTUALLY WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING TO USE THIS UNIT AS. THEY'RE WANTING TO CREATE A SELF-STORAGE FACILITY.
USING THIS RELOCATABLE UNITS. WHICH NORMALLY SELF-STORAGE UNITS IS AN ALLOWED USE IN HEAVY COMMERCIAL. HERE WE HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
CURRENTLY HAS, IS FENCED IN AND HAS THROUGHOUT, TO THE NORTH, WE HAVE GAS STATIONS:AND TO THE EAST AND SOUTH, WE HAVE RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES. HERE IS WHAT THEIR PROPOSED CONCEPT PLAN IS. THEY'RE ONLY PROPOSING TO USE THE FRONT OF THE LOT.
THEY'RE WANTING TO CREATE SOMEWHAT OF A FIRELANE. AND LINING OUT THE UNITS IN ROWS. THEY'RE ALSO PROPOSING SOME LANDSCAPE.
AND NO UTILITIES TO THE PROPERTY. WE SENT OUT NOTICE WITHIN A 200-FOOT BUFFER AND WE RECEIVED NO RESPONSE EITHER IN FAVOR OR OPPOSED.
AFTER REVIEW, THE FINDINGS, THE CITY STAFF CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE SURFACE PROPOSED BY THE APPLICANT WOULD NOT HOLD UP OVER TIME. AND THEREFORE RESULTED IN DUST AND EROSION CONTROL ISSUES. THE STORAGE STRUCTURE DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE BUILDING CODE IN TERMS OF BEING ON A PERMANENT FOUNDATION AND TIEDOWN TO SATISFY THE 115 MILES PER HOUR WIND FLOW REQUIREMENTS. ACTUALLY, WE RECEIVED THE ENGINEERED INFORMATION ON THE ACTUAL BUILDINGS AND THE ENGINEER SAYS THAT THEY ONLY WITHSTAND A 50 MILE PER HOUR WIND LOAD. MAKING THEM RELATIVELY EASY FOR THEM TO KIND OF MOVE OR EVEN IF WE HAD A TORNADO TO BE PICKED UP.
BECAUSE THE UNITS ARE RELOCATABLE, THAT IS WHY WE CAN'T REALLY CONSIDER THEM A SELF-STORAGE UNITS. SO THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE TO APPROVE FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. ANOTHER THING TO NOTE IS THAT THE PROPOSED USE, AS DESIGNED IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE SURROUNDING RESIDENTIAL AREA. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY
QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. >> DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR CLARISSA?
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>> IS THIS PROPERTY COMPLETELY IN A FLOOD ZONE? >> NO, SIR.
THAT IS THE REASON WHY THEY'RE WANTING TO ONLY DO THE NORTH PORTION OF THE LOT.
BECAUSE THAT IS NOT IN THE FLOOD ZONE. ONLY THE AREA LEADING TOWARDS
THE CREEK. >> SO AS PART OF THE CUP, WE WOULD WANT A SITE PLAN, AN APPROPRIATE SITE PLAN. TO ME, THIS REALLY ISN'T AN APPROPRIATE SITE PLAN TO PASS FORWARD IN A CUP. WOULD YOU CONSIDER IT ACCEPTABLE FOR --
>> IT'S LACKING SOME INFORMATION. IT DOESN'T MEET MOST MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS THAT WE TYPICALLY SEE ON THE SITE PLAN. BUT IT GAVE US A GENERAL IDEA OF WHAT THEIR PROPOSED USE AND HOW THEY INTEND TO USE THIS AS. WE PUSHED IT FORWARD THROUGH THE DRC COMMITTEE TO GIVE THEM A GENERAL IDEA OF WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING AND WHAT MIGHT BE A REQUIREMENT. SO THAT IS HOW WE GOT ALL OF THE COMMENTS.
BUT YES, YOU ARE CORRECT. AND MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS, THEY WOULD HAVE TO PRESENT A
PROPER SITE PLAN. >> OKAY. BECAUSE THE SITE PLAN WILL BE A PART OF THE CUP. THE CUP IS BASED ON THE SITE PLAN THAT WE'RE TRYING TO APPROVE TODAY. I'M NOT SURE THIS IS A GOOD ENOUGH SITE PLAN FOR US TO APPROVE. WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT.
ALSO, DOES THE APPLICANT UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS ALL THEY CAN DO WITHIN THE CUP, THEY CAN'T COME OUT AND ADD MORE BECAUSE WE PASSED A CUP FOR THIS PROPERTY.
IT ONLY CAN BE WHAT THEY SHOWED? >> YES.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE EXACT NUMBER BUT THAT IS WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING.
IN THE SITUATION THAT THEY NEEDED TO ADD MORE, THEY WOULD HAVE TO COME THROUGH THE
PROCESS AGAIN. >> THEY WOULD HAVE TO MODIFY THE CUP
>> UH-HUH. >> OKAY. CONCERNING THE RECOMMENDATION
OF STAFF TO PAVE THIS SITE. >> YES. >> THAT IS NOT SOMETHING WE'RE CONSIDERING TODAY. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THE APPLICANT IS NOT INTENDING TO
PAVE THE SITE. >> THEY HAVE -- THEY ARE SUGGESTING TO DO SOME LIQUID ON LIKE THAT HOLDS DOWN THE DUST. BUT WE PUSHED IT THROUGH THE DRC AND WE GOT FEEDBACK FROM THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT THAT WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING WOULD NOT BE ADEQUATE, THAT THEY
WOULD STILL NEED MORE. >> SO IS THERE A DISPLACED WATER STUDY? WE DON'T HAVE A SITE PLAN SHOWING ANY KIND OF DETENTION POND OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S NEEDED. I JUST WANT TO HAVE CLARITY THAT IS WHAT BEING PROPOSED TODAY IS NOT A PAVED SITE. IT'S TO USE A PERMEABLE SURFACE
OF SOME KIND. >> YES. THAT IS ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS. THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A DRAINAGE PLAN PREPARED BY A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER. THAT IS ALSO ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ENGINEERING
IS REQUESTING TO BE DONE BEFORE ISSUING ANY TYPE OF PERMITS. >> SO ARE WE ABLE TO APPROVE
THIS WITHOUT THAT? >> LET'S HEAR FROM THE PROPONENT IF HE IS HERE.
AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK TO THAT. OKAY.
>> CAN YOU GO TO YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS. >> YEAH.
GO BACK TO YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS. >> THERE YOU GO.
>> I JUST WANTED TO READ THE PART ABOUT THE FORKLIFT. I WAS TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS. ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR CLARISSA.
>> THANK YOU. I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING, WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO COME UP AND VISIT WITH US ABOUT THIS ZONING CASE? SEEING NO ONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. I GUESS THERE IS A LOT -- I'VE GOT LOTS OF QUESTIONS.
WE COULD GO ON AND ON HERE WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT IT. BUT YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW -- I DON'T THINK THE SITE PLAN IS APPROPRIATE TO START WITH. SO I DON'T KNOW HOW WE APPROVE SOMETHING FROM THE SITE PLAN. ENTERTAIN A MOTION. SOMEBODY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE
ONE. >> I'LL MOVE TO DENY THE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
>> SECOND. >> MOTION TO DENY AND A SECOND. >> MR. HALIBURTON, WERE YOU
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SECOND. >> MOTION TO DENY. MR. BARNETT.
>> MR. HALIBURTON. >> YES. >> MS. FLEMING
>> YES. >> MR. ROSE ENBAUM. YES.
>> ZONING Z-2023-04, >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS CLARISSA IVEY, WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WITH CITY OF ABILENE. TODAY I HAVE BEFORE YOU ZONING CASE, 2023-24. OWNER OF THIS PROPERTY IS SITZESCLEBURNE.
REQUESTING TO REZONE FROM OFFICE TO PD 180 WITH A BASE ZONING OF OFFICE.
AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS LOCATION MAP, THE PROPERTY IS NEAR THE CORNER OF HICKORY AND NORTH 13TH. THE PROPERTY IS ZONED OFFICE WITH OFFICE ALMOST COMPLETELY SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY. WITH THE EXCLUSION OF EAST, THEN YOU HAVE MEDIUM DENSITY.
THE PROPERTY IS ENCOMPASSED BY THE EMPOWERMENT ZONE. HERE YOU CAN SEE THE PERMITTED USES WITHIN THE OFFICE ZONING DISTRICT. AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT THE SELF-STORAGE UNITS THAT THEY'RE PROPOSING IS NOT AN ALLOWED USE.
THEREFORE, THAT IS WHY THEY'RE GOING TO GO FOR THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT 180.
ON THE TOP LEFT HAND CORNER, YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY LOOKS LIKE.
YOU CAN SEE AROUND TO THE WEST AND TO THE NORTH, YOU HAVE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES. JUST TO THE SOUTH, THERE IS A MEDICAL OFFICE WE WENT THAT NOTIFICATION OF 200-FOOT BUFFER AND WE RECEIVED ZERO IN FAVOR AND ZERO OPPOSED.
THE PROPOSED REQUEST IS CONSISTENT WITH THE HISTORY BUSINESS USE AND USE INTENSITY OF THE SUBJECT SITE. GENERAL SETS OF PLANNING PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA FOR APPROVAL UNDERSTOOD LDC. STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS APPROVAL.
I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. >> HOW WOULD YOU CLASSIFY THIS? WOULD YOU CLASSIFY IT LESS INTENSIVE THAN OFFICE OR SAME OR MORE?
HOW WOULD YOU -- WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? >> WE WOULD GO A LITTLE BIT LESS. ABOUT THE SAME AS OFFICE. YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A LOT OF TRAFFIC COMING TO AND FROM A SELF-STORAGE UNIT. SO WE WOULD MORE OR LESS IT WOULD BE ABOUT THE SAME INTENSITY AS OFFICE. YOU KNOW, IN AN OFFICE, YOU HAVE PEOPLE COMING THROUGHOUT THE DAY. YOU DON'T HAVE AT ONE TIME, YOU DON'T HAVE 50 PEOPLE COME IN TO AN OFFICE. IT WOULD BE THE SAME CONCEPT, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ABOUT 50 PEOPLE COMING TO YOUR SELF-STORAGE UNITS AT ONCE.
>> WITH OFFICES THE BASE ZONING, IS THERE HOUR LIMITATIONS?
>> NO, SIR. >> THERE WILL BE? >> NO. LT THE THE NEIGHBORHOOD OFFICE IS THE ONE THAT HAS THE LIMITATIONS. I'M SORRY, I FORGOT
>> NO. THAT COULD BE THE ONLY CHANGE, POTENTIALLY MORE INTENSIVE THAN TRADITIONAL OFFICE, IS IF IT'S SOMEBODY'S SELF-STORAGE UNIT, THEY COULD BE COMING TO IT IN A DIFFERENT TIME THAN WHAT YOU WOULD TRADITIONALLY COME TO AN OFFICE.
NONE OF THE NEIGHBORS SAID ANYTHING HERE? >> I DROVE BY THE SITE TODAY AND SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE REMNANTS OF MEDICAL USE SIGNAGE ON THE BUILDING.
>> YES, SIR >> THE ONE THING THAT I DON'T SEE HERE I THINK WOULD BE A POTENTIAL PROBLEM, IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE SOMETHING THAT ANYBODY OBJECTED TO, BUT SELF- SELF-STORAGE, LARGE VEHICLES BLOCKING THE STREET.
I DIDN'T SEE AN UNLOADING ZONE >> THEY'RE NOT PROPOSING ANY CHANGES TO THE EXTERIOR, ADDING LOADING DOCKS OR UNLOADING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. THEY ARE WANTING TO USE THE
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SITE AS IS. THEY ARE GOING TO DO A REMODEL IN THE INTERIOR.I NOTICED THE APPLICANT IS HERE, IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ON THE DESIGN.
I'M SURE HE CAN ASSIST, HELP YOU ANSWER THOSE. >> THANK YOU.
>> CLARISSA, THERE WAS ZERO OPPOSITION FOR THIS? >> CORRECT.
>> OKAY. THAT WAS MY ONLY QUESTION. THANK YOU.
>> THANKS, CLARISSA. >> OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. TYLER, YOU WANT TO --
>> I GUESS MY FIRST QUESTION WOULD BE, KIND OF GIVE US AN OVERVIEW OF HOW YOU WANT TO USE
THE BUILDING. IF YOU DON'T MIND. >> FIRST, MY NAME IS TYLER SITZES. THE INTENTION TO COME TO SPEAK IS SUPPORT MY SUPPORT FOR THIS REZONING. THE INTENTION HERE, AS WAS MENTIONED, THIS WAS THE FORMER MEADOWS MEDICAL CLINIC. THERE MIGHT BE OTHER NAMES THAT THIS WAS UNDER.
ON THE EAST SIDE, YOU CAN SEE THAT IN GRANITE THAT ENGRAVED INTO THE BUILDING.
TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THIS PROPERTY HAS NOT BEEN USED IN WHAT LOOKS TO BE PROBABLY AT LEAST 15 YEARS. MAYBE JAY MOORE MIGHT BE ABLE TO TELL ME EXACTLY WHEN IT WAS NOT IN USE. TO ANSWER KEVIN'S QUESTION, THERE IS A SPECIFIC TERM FOR IT. I DON'T KNOW IT. BUT THERE IS PARKING ALONG HICKORY STREET. YOU CAN KIND OF SEE IT FROM THOSE PICTURES.
AND EVEN MAYBE THE OVERHEAD, IT RUNS ALONG HICKORY STREET. IT'S KIND OF CUT OUT.
IT'S OVERGROWN. THAT IS OUR INTENTION TO USE THAT, TO HOUSE TRAFFIC COMING IN AND OUT OF IT. TO ANSWER BRAD'S QUESTION, WHETHER IT'S IMPOSED ON IT OR NOT, THIS WILL BE CONSISTENT WITH SOME OF THE OTHER FACILITIES WE'VE DONE, ON THE CORNER OF TREADWAY AND BUTTERNUT. WILL HAVE SELF-IMPOSED HOURS OF OPERATION, PEOPLE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GO IN OUTSIDE THE HOURS OF SIX AND TEN.
WE CAN BE FLEXIBLE. BUT RIGHT NOW THAT IS KIND OF THE PLAN, AS FAR AS KEEPING PEOPLE, NOT BEING INVASIVE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WE'RE TAKING THE SHELL OF THE BUILDING CURRENTLY THERE. WHAT I'VE COME ACROSS IS SOMETHING, A BUILDING THAT HAS BEEN HOUSING HOMELESS PEOPLE. I PERSONALLY HAD TO KICK OUT SEVERAL DIFFERENT HOMELESS PEOPLE. WE'VE HAD AN ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST US FROM SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORS BECAUSE OF THE HOMELESS PEOPLE. I CERTAINLY TAKE FULL OWNERSHIP OF AND WANT TO SEE THAT NOT BE THE CASE ANYMORE. WE'RE GOING TO BASICALLY DRESS UP THE FACADE. GO IN AND ABATE THE BUILDING. IT'S IN PRETTY DIFFICULT SHAPE RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T HAVE PICTURESD IN. A LOT OF THE ASBESTOS ABATEMENT THAT WILL GO INTO IT. BASICALLY TURN THE LIGHTS ON AND PUT SOME LIPSTICK ON.
MAKE IT A PLACE THAT DOESN'T ATTRACT CRIME AND HOMELESSNESS TO THAT AREA AND NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE WANT IT TO BE AS MINIMALLY INVASIVE AS POSSIBLE. AND BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR.
WE WOULD LOVE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ANYBODY MIGHT HAVE. >> FURTHER QUESTIONS FOR TYLER?
>> IT'S ALL INTERIOR, RIGHT? NEIGHBORS WOULDN'T HEAR DOORS MOVING UP AND DOWN LATE AT
NIGHT? >> CORRECT. ALL INTERIOR.
NO ADDITIONAL YOU KNOW, DEVELOPMENT ON THE PROPERTY OTHER THAN WHAT IS ALREADY IN
EXISTENCE. >> LAST TIME Y'ALL WERE ON THE TREADWAY AND BUTTERNUT, Y'ALL DID A GOOD JOB ON THAT BUILDING. IT LOOKS REALLY GOOD.
>> THANK YOU. >> THANKS, TYLER. ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO COME UP AND VISIT WITH US? SEEING NO ONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
FRANKLY, SOMETHING NEEDS TO HAPPEN WITH THIS BUILDING AND THIS IS AS YOU KNOW, VERY APPLICABLE TO WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE. I'LL MOVE TO APPROVE.
>> SECOND. >> MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE.
>> MR. BARNETT. >> YES. >> MR. BENHAM.
>> YES. >> MR. HALIBURTON. >> YES.
>> THE MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIES. >> AND I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE MADE AN ANNOUNCEMENT EARLIER. THERE IS AN LANSIUM, IT WAS A ZONING CASE FOR AO TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL THAT WAS PULLED FOR THIS AGENDA. IT WON'T BE DISCUSSED THIS.
IF ANYBODY IS HERE TODAY FOR THAT, I APOLOGIZE. THAT CASE WON'T BE DISCUSSED
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TODAY. THANK YOU. ZONING CASE Z-2023-05, CHANGE ZONING FROM HEAVY COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY. LOCATED AT 1314 ASH STREET>> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS ADAM HOLLAND, CITY PLANNER FOR CITY OF ABILENE.
CASE TO REZONE FROM HEAVY COMMERCIAL TO RS6. HERE IS A LOCATION MAP, KIND OF SHOWING THE AREA OF THE PROPERTY. THIS IS LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF ASH STREET AND NORTH 13TH. IT CURRENTLY EXISTS AS HEAVY COMMERCIAL.
BUT THE PRIMARY USE IS SINGLE FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL. AS YOU CAN SEE BY THIS MAP, THERE IS A BUNCH OF HEAVY COMMERCIAL IN THIS AREA. RIGHT NEAR TREADWAY, WHERE HEAVY COMMERCIAL WOULD MAKE SENSE. BUT THE PRIMARY USE FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY IS RESIDENTIAL AND THE OWNER IS INTENDING TO BUILD A SINGLE FAMILY HOME FOR HIS FATHER. SO THAT HE CAN LIVE IN IT ONCE AGAIN.
BECAUSE IT WAS DEMOLISHED PREVIOUSLY AND HE CAN'T REBUILD HIS HOUSE ON THAT AREA.
THIS PROPERTY IS WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT ZONE. HERE ARE THE PERMITTED USES IN HEAVY COMMERCIAL ZONING. THERE IS A LOT OF DIFFERENT COMMERCIAL USES.
BUT HERE ARE THE PERMITTED USES IN RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY ZONING.
HERE ARE SUBJECT VIEWS OF THE PROPERTY. CURRENTLY MOST OF THE PROPERTY IS VACANT. THERE USED TO BE AN EXISTING HOUSE ON 626 NORTH 13TH.
BUT THAT WAS DEMOLISHED PRIOR TO CONDEMNATION CASE. WE RECEIVED NO OPPOSITION OR IN FAVOR FOR THIS PARTICULAR CASE. THE PROPOSED REQUEST STAFF FINDS THAT IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, SURROUNDING USES AND ZONING. GENERALLY ACCEPTED PLANNING PRINCIPLES AND THE CRITERIA FOR APPROVAL IN THE LDC AND STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.
I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE FOR ME. >> QUESTIONS FOR ADAM?
>> NO, SIR. >> THANK YOU, ADAM. I WILL OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING. WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO COME UP AND ADDRESS THIS CASE? SEEING NO ONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. ADAM, THE ONLY I GUESS MAYBE COMMISSIONERS, THE ONLY THING I HAVE IS HOW IS 13TH GOING TO DEVELOP.
I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PURPOSE IS OF REZONING THIS. I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH THAT.
I MEAN, HEAVY COMMERCIAL IS ALL UP AND DOWN 13TH. IS THERE ANY KIND OF IN THE EMPOWERMENT ZONE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, IS THERE ANY DESCRIPTION OF WHAT SHOULD GO
ON UP AND DOWN 13TH? ADAM, DO YOU KNOW OF ANYTHING? >> NO, SIR.
I BELIEVE IT MIGHT BE DISCUSSED IN THE COMP PLAN, IN OUR FUTURE LAND USE MAP IT WILL SHOW A LITTLE BIT BETTER AS TO WHAT THE FUTURE LAND USE IS OF THAT AREA.
>> I DOUBT IT'S HEAVY COMMERCIAL, THOUGH. >> YES, SIR.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? >> WELL, I GUESS I HAD SOME OF THE SAME KIND OF QUESTIONS.
WHAT DO WE DO WHEN MAYBE SOMEBODY WANTS TO -- WE'RE DEVELOPING HEAVY COMMERCIAL ALL ALONG THERE AND THEN THERE IS ONE HOME IN THE MIDDLE. I THINK I'M INCLINED TO APPROVE
THIS MYSELF. >> WELL, THAT WAS KIND OF WHERE -- I MEAN, WE'VE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF PRIVILEGE HERE IN THE COMMISSIONERS TO KIND OF SEE SOME OF THE THINGS GOING ON AND SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT ARE KIND OF GOING ON IN THIS AREA. IT APPEARS TO ME THAT HEAVY -- IT'S UP AND DOWN 13TH IS NOT GOING TO BE HEAVY COMMERCIAL FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
I MEAN, THERE IS GOING TO BE CHANGES IN THE EMPOWERMENT ZONE, THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO HAPPEN, WHICH IS KIND OF GET AWAY FROM THAT. MY OPINION IS WE'RE GOING TO SEE MORE AND MORE CASES GETTING AWAY FROM HEAVY COMMERCIAL ALONG 13TH.
THAT IS KIND OF MY OPINION. THAT IS WHY I THINK THIS IS OKAY TO DO, BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE, NOT SURE HOW HEAVY COMMERCIAL GOT UP AND DOWN 13TH TO START WITH.
BUT I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE CHANGES COMING FORWARD. >> THERE IS A LOT OF SINGLE
FAMILIES GOING UP IN THAT AREA NOW. >> YEAH.
>> I AM INCLINED TO APPROVE IT. >> YOU WANT TO MAKE THE MOTION. >> MOVE.
>> CAN I CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? >> YES.
>> MOTION AND A SECOND. >> TO APPROVE. >> THIS IS A HISTORIC AREA AND I THINK TO REBUILD THERE WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA. TO RESTORE AND REVITALIZE NORTH
13TH. SO YES. >> WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
MR. BARNETT. >> YES. >> MR. BENHAM
>> YES. >> MR. HALIBURTON. >> YES. REVEREND LANGFORD
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>> YES. >> MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIES. >> ZONING CASE Z-2023-06, CHANGE ZONING FROM MEDIUM DENSITY AND RESIDENTIAL TO MEDIUM RETAIL AT 715 GRAPE
STREET >> GOOD AFTERNOON, ADAM HOLLAND.
REQUEST TO REZONE TO GENERAL RETAIL, OWNED BY GFF TEXAS HOLDINGS, LLC.
JUST SOUTH OF A COUPLE OF BUSINESSES LOCATED ON I BELIEVE NORTH 10TH OR NORTH 8TH.
CURRENTLY THE ZONING NORTH OF THE PROPERTY IS GENERAL COMMERCIAL, MX TO THE SOUTH OF THIS PROPERTY. THIS PROPERTY WAS PREVIOUSLY USED AS AN ANTIQUE STORE AND SIMILAR USES. IT IS ALSO WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT ZONE.
THE OWNER INTENDS TO USE THIS FOR COMMERCIAL USE IN THE FUTURE.
HERE YOU CAN SEE SOME PERMITTED USES IN MD ZONING. AS WELL AS HERE YOU CAN SEE PERMITTED USES IN GR-ZONING. HERE ARE SOME SUBJECT VIEWS OF THE PROPERTY.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS WAS THE FABULOUS FINDS ANTIQUES STORE. THERE ARE SOME MULTIFAMILY RESIDENCES NEARBY AS WELL AS SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES NEARBY.
WITH SOME OTHER COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT TO THE NORTH OF THE PROPERTY.
WE SENT OUT NOTIFICATIONS. I RECEIVED NO RESPONSES FROM OWNERS ADJACENT.
STAFF HAS FOUND THAT THIS REQUEST IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SURROUNDING USES AND ZONINGS. GENERALLY ACCEPTED PLANNING PRINCIPLES AND THE CRITERIA FOR APPROVAL IN THE LDC. STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY
QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. >> SO I GET THESE CONFUSED ALL OF THE TIME.
IS GENERAL RETAIL MORE INTENSE THAN GENERAL COMMERCIAL OR LESS INTENSE THAN GENERAL
COMMERCIAL? >> LESS INTENSE. >> LESS INTENSE.
OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ADAM? >> THANKS, ADAM.
>> I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANYONE LIKE TO COME UP AND ADDRESS THIS ZONING CASE WITH US? I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? OR A MOTION.
>> MOVE TO APPROVE. >> SECOND. >> MOTION AND A SECOND TO
APPROVE. >> MR. BARNETT. >> YES.
>> MR. BENHAM >> YES. >> MR. HALIBURTON
>> YES. >> REVEREND LANGFORD >> YES.
>> MS. FLEMING >> YES. >> MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIES.
ZONING CASE Z-2023-07, CHANGE ZONING PDD-128 TO GENERAL RETAIL.
705 SOUTH JUDGE ELY. >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS CLARISSA IVEY WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, CITY OF ABILENE. REQUEST TO REZONE FROM PD-128 TO GENERAL RETAIL. THE PROPERTY OWNER IS COFFEE MOMMA, LLC.
LOCATION OF THIS PROPERTY IS AT 701 SOUTH JUDGE ELY BOULEVARD. THIS PROPERTY IS RIGHT ON THE CORNER OF JUDGE ELY BOULEVARD AND FIRE STREET. THE PROPERTY IS ZONED PLAN DEVELOPMENT 128, WHICH HAS A ZONE BASE OF SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH IS TODAY'S GENERAL RETAIL. THEY ARE CURRENTLY WANTING TO REZONE TO GENERAL RETAIL.
YOU HAVE RESIDENTIAL TO THE EAST AND YOU HAVE VACANT LAND TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
AND RIGHT ACROSS SOUTH JUDGE ELY, YOU HAVE A MIDDLE SCHOOL. HERE YOU CAN SEE THE USES PERMITTED IN THE GENERAL COMMERCIAL. THEY ARE PROPOSING TO DO A COFFEE SHOP WHICH IS THE PERMITTED USE AND GENERAL RETAIL.
I MIGHT HAVE SAID GENERAL COMMERCIAL. I MEAN GENERAL RETAIL.
HERE YOU HAVE PICTURES OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. YOU CAN SEE IT'S UNDEVELOPED.
THE SOUTH NEIGHBORING PROPERTY AND THE NORTH NEIGHBORING PROPERTY ARE ALSO UNDEVELOPED.
ALSO ENCOMPASSED BY SOME TYPE OF PD, ACROSS THE STREET YOU HAVE A MIDDLE SCHOOL.
WE SENT OUT NOTIFICATION AND WE DID GET A RESPONSE, WE GOT TWO IN FAVOR, ONE OF THEM BEING THE
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APPLICANT. AND ONE OPPOSED. THE FINDINGS FROM STAFF WERE THAT IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. THE BASE ZONING THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE PD-128 GENERALLY ACCEPTED PLANNING PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA FOR THE APPROVAL IN THE LLC, STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO RECOMMENDANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. >> WE'RE DOING AWAY WITH THE PD AND GOING TO GENERAL RETAIL.
YOU SAID THE BASE ZONING IN THE PD WAS GENERAL RETAIL. >> YES.
>> SO WAS THERE SOMETHING EXCLUDED THAT WOULD NOT ALLOW THIS TO GO IN THE PD?
>> FIRST THING IN 2009, WHEN THE PROPERTY WAS REZONED TO THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT 128, THEY INCLUDED THAT IN 18 MONTHS, IF THE PROPERTY WAS, IF NO BUILDING PERMITS WERE ISSUED, THEN THE PD WOULD EXPIRE. SO IT WOULD HAVE TO BE REZONED WHENEVER THEY WANT TO DEVELOP.
IN THIS CASE, THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THEY'RE BRINGING THIS.
ANOTHER THING WITH THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT IS THAT THE COFFEE SHOP IS WANTING TO HAVE A DRIVE-THROUGH WINDOW. AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE ITEMS, ACTUALLY LIKE THE ONLY ITEM THAT THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT WASN'T ALLOWING. DRIVE-THROUGH WINDOWS.
>> OKAY. PD WOULDN'T ALLOW FOR DRIVE-THROUGH?
>> CORRECT. >> OKAY. >> IT WOULDN'T ALLOW IT AND
THEN IT EXPIRED. >> WERE THERE ANY DETAILS ON THE PERSON THAT OBJECTED?
>> YES. SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND READ FROM THE RESPONSE.
IT SAYS WITH THE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACROSS THE STREET OF THE REQUESTED AREA IN QUESTION, THERE ARE ALREADY MULTIPLE VEHICLES PARKING IN THE NO PARKING ZONES.
SPEEDING VEHICLES DOWN SOUTH OF JUDGE ELY AND RECKLESS DRIVING THAT MAKES THIS AREA VERY UNSAFE FOR STUDENTS AND THE SCHOOL AND PEOPLE LIVING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
ADDING TO THIS ALREADY HEAVILY POPULATED AREA WOULD CAUSE MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
>> THANKS. QUESTIONS FOR CLARISSA? THANKS, CLARISSA.
OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANYONE LIKE TO COME UP AND VISIT WITH US
>> MY NAME IS CJ CHENEY AND I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW I WAS HERE AND IF YOU HAD ANY
QUESTIONS THAT I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE. >> CJ, I DID HAVE THE SAME CONCERN ABOUT THE DRIVE-THROUGH ASPECT OF THIS THING AND RIGHT THERE KIND OF IN THAT HEAVY TRAFFIC AREA. HAVE Y'ALL CONSIDERED -- I'M ASSUMING YOU HAVE CONSIDERED
ALL OF THAT AND HAVE YOU WORKED A PLAN FOR IT >> WE HAVE.
WE HAVE ACTUALLY WORKED THROUGH A FEW DIFFERENT PLANS, PRELIMINARILY AT THIS POINT.
BECAUSE WE WERE WAITING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COULD GET THE ZONING THAT WE WOULD NEED TO BE ABLE TO USE THE PROPERTY AS WE INTEND. WE DO WANT -- WE ARE CONSIDERING THE SAFETY OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC. AND OUR CUSTOMERS.
AND SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WILL GO INTO OUR CONSIDERATIONS AS WE'RE DEVELOPING THE SITE.
>> YOU DO NOT KNOW WHETHER YOU'RE GOING TO ENTER AND EXIT ON JUDGE ELY?
>> AT THIS POINT WE DO NOT KNOW. ONE OF THE OTHER ISSUES THAT THE PDD INDICATED IS THAT WE WERE ONLY ALLOWED TO HAVE -- IT WAS RESTRICTED ON HOW WE COULD HAVE ENTRANCES AND EXITS ON THE PROPERTIES. THAT WAS ONE OF THE OTHER
REASONS IT WAS GOOD THAT THE PDD HAD EXPIRED. >> WHAT WOULD BE THE
DETERMINING FACTOR TO DETERMINE THE INGRESS AND EGRESS. >> SAFETY FOR TRAFFIC OBVIOUSLY IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THOSE. THERE IS THE CROSSWALK THERE THAT IS ACROSS -- THAT WALKS ACROSS THE STREET TO GET TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND WE WOULD WANT TO PUT OUR INGRESS AND EGRESS TO THE SOUTH OF THAT. SO THAT WOULD AVOID CONGESTING THE CORNER. ALSO, IF WE PUT OUR ENTRANCE INGRESS AND EGRESS TOWARDS THE EAST, AWAY FROM JUDGE ELY, THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR TRAFFIC TO NOT BE CONGESTED AROUND THE CORNER, SO WE DON'T END UP CREATING ISSUES WITH TRAFFIC BACKED UP. THERE IS AMPLE ROOM FOR QUEUE
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TO BE ABLE TO CREATE THE SPACE FOR PARKING INSIDE OF THE PROPERTY.>> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> THANKS, CJ.
APPRECIATE IT. ANYONE ELSE? I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I GUESS THE ZONING, TO ME SEEMS APPROPRIATE FOR THE PROPERTY. HOW IT ACTUALLY, THE CRITERIA FOR PUTTING ANYTHING ON THERE, ANY DEVELOPMENT ON THAT REALLY IS GOING TO FALL ON THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS TO WORK THAT OUT WITH JUDGE ELY. BUT SINCE IT WAS ALREADY A PD WITH A BASE ZONING OF GENERAL RETAIL, IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR A WHILE.
SO I MEAN, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A GOOD USE FOR THE PROPERTY. >> IF I UNDERSTOOD THE PRIMARY OBJECTION, IT'S ANY USE OF THIS PROPERTY WOULD INCREASE TRAFFIC ON THERE.
THAT IS NOT A VIABLE OBJECTION. >> YEAH. >> ESPECIALLY ON JUDGE ELY.
IT'S GOING TO BE A DROP IN THE BUCKET COMPARED TO A MIDDLE SCHOOL ACROSS THE STREET.
>> I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERN, I DON'T THINK THAT IT'S A REASON TO NOT APPROVE.
>> ENTERTAIN A MOTION. IF SOMEBODY WOULD LIKE TO >> MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
>> MOTION TO APPROVE. >> SECOND. >> AND A SECOND.
>> MR. BARNETT. >> YES. >> MR. BENHAM
>> YES. >> MR. HALIBURTON. >> YES.
>> REVEREND LANGFORD >> YES. >> MR. FLEMING.
>> YES. >> MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIES. >> ZONING CASE Z-2023-08, AMEND TERMS OF PDD-142 TO CHANGE THE BASE ZONING OF TRACTS TWO AND THREE FROM NEIGHBORHOOD RETAIL AND NEIGHBORHOOD OFFICE TO GENERAL RETAIL, LOCATED AT 6856 BUFFALO GAP ROAD.
>> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS ADAM HOLLAND, PLANNER FOR THE CITY OF ABILENE. THIS IS OWNED BY GREAT EXPECTATIONS, LLC, THIS IS A REQUEST TO AMEND PD-142. HERE IS A LOCATION MAP. KIND OF SHOWING THE GENERAL AREA. THIS IS LOCATED AT 6856 BUFFALO GAP ROAD.
THESE TWO TRACTS ARE LOCATED THERE. HERE IS A ZONING MAP OF THE CURRENT PROPERTY. TO THE WEST OF THIS PROPERTY IS THE REST OF THE PD AS WELL AS TO THE NORTH, ANOTHER PORTION OF THIS PD. TO THE SOUTH OF THE PROPERTY IS ZONED AO WITH A CORRIDOR OVERLAY. TO THE EAST OF THIS PROPERTY IS GR WITH A CORRIDOR OVERLAY. HERE IS THE CURRENT CONCEPT PLAN FOR THE PROPERTY.
AS YOU CAN SEE, TRACT TWO AND THREE ARE PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD OFFICE -- OR HAVE NEIGHBORHOOD OFFICE ZONING AND NEIGHBORHOOD RETAIL ZONING. THEY ARE PROPOSING TO CHANGE THAT TO A BASE ZONING OF GR. HERE IS THEIR PROPOSED CONCEPT PLAN, AMENDING THE ZONING.
HERE ARE SOME VIEWS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. NEIGHBORING PROPERTY TO THE SOUTHEAST, WHICH IS DOLLAR TREE. CURRENTLY, THIS PROPERTY IS VACANT. AND PROPERTY TO THE WEST AS WELL, WHICH IS MULTIFAMILY USE.
WE SENT NOTIFICATIONS OUT TO 200-FOOT BUFFER AND RECEIVED NO RESPONSES.
CITY STAFF HAS FOUND THAT THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, SURROUNDING USES IN ZONING, GENERALLY ACCEPTED PLANNING PRINCIPLES AND STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.
I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. >> QUESTIONS OF ADAM?
>> NO. >> THANK YOU, ADAM. I WOULD OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANYONE LIKE TO COME UP AND ADDRESS THIS CASE?
>> GOOD AFTERNOON. CHERYL SAWYER. I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE.
THE PROPERTY HAS REMAINED VACANT SINCE ANNEXATION AND THEN ALSO AFTER REZONING IN
2014. >> ANY QUESTIONS FOR CHERYL? >> THANK YOU.
>> GOOD TO SEE YOU. >> ANYBODY ELSE? >> I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION OR A MOTION?
>> MOTION TO APPROVE. >> SECOND. >> MOTION AND A SECOND TO
APPROVE. >> MR. BARNETT. >> YES
>> MR. BENHAM >> YES. >> MR. HALIBURTON.
>> YES. >> MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIES. >> SO WE'RE TO THE THIRD OF -- MELISSA. OKAY. THOROUGHFARE CLOSURE TC-2023-01, TAKE ACTION ON A REQUEST TO ABANDON SANTOS STREET.
>> GOOD AFTERNOON. CLARISSA IVEY, PLANNING DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF
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ABILENE. THE OWNER OF THIS PROPERTY IS MCMURRAY UNIVERSITY AND THE REPRESENTING AGENT IS JACOB MARTIN. THEY'RE REQUESTING TO ABANDON SANTOS STREET FROM HUNT STREET TO SOUTH 18TH STREET. AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THE LOCATION. CURRENTLY TO THE RIGHT, TO THE EAST, YOU HAVE A STUDENT DORMS. AND TO THE WEST, WE RECENTLY LOOKED AT A SITE PLAN WHERE THEY'RE ALSO PROPOSING ADDITIONAL HOUSING FOR MCMURRAY. THE ZONING FOR THIS PROPERTY, I MEAN, FOR THE PROPERTIES SURROUNDING IT IS COLLEGE UNIVERSITY, AND THEN YOU HAVE YOUR MULTIFAMILY TO THE EAST. AND TO THE SOUTH, YOU HAVE YOUR MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL.HERE IS THE SITE EXHIBIT OF WHAT THE LOCATION LOOKS LIKE. HERE YOU HAVE ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SUBJECT LOCATION AND ITS SURROUNDING USES.
WE DIDN'T RECEIVE ANY FEEDBACK, WHETHER OPPOSING OR IN FAVOR. THE STAFF WOULD NOT OBJECT TO THE REQUEST SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS, THE SUBJECT RIGHT-OF-WAYS AND ALL THE ADJOINING PROPERTIES SHALL BE PLATTED WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ABANDONMENT ORDINANCE. IF A RE-PLAT IS NOT APPROVED AND RECORDED WITHIN ONE YEAR, THE GRANTING OF THE ABANDONMENT OF THE SUBJECT RIGHT-OF-WAY SHALL BE VOID.
AND ALL THE EXISTING UTILITIES AND AFFECTED RIGHT-OF-WAY SHALL BE CONVERTED BY A UTILITY EASEMENT OR REROUTED. THE FIRE LANE SUBJECT TO FIRE MARSHAL'S APPROVAL SHALL BE PROVIDED PRIOR TO THE STREET CLOSURE. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY
QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. >> MCMURRAY OWNS PROPERTY ON BOTH SIDES?
>> RIGHT. >> MY SON ACTUALLY LIVES IN THESE APARTMENTS THERE AT THIS TIME. I BELIEVE, IS THERE NOT -- THE DORMS ARE ACTUALLY UNDER
CONSTRUCTION ACROSS THE STREET ALREADY, AREN'T THEY? >> YES.
THEY'RE UNDER CONSTRUCTION ALREADY. SO WHENEVER THEY DO CLOSE SANTOS, I BELIEVE THEY'RE WANTING TO EXTEND PARKING, SO IT WILL BE A PARKING LOT WITHIN
THE TWO HOUSING UNITS FACILITY >> ONE QUESTION I HAVE IS THAT THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF T'S KIND OF BEING USED AS A PARKING LOT RIGHT NOW IN A LOT OF WAYS. I'M ASSUMING THERE IS ADEQUATE PARKING PLANNED.
>> YES. >> PARKING IS TAKEN AWAY. >> YES, SIR.
SO RIGHT NOW, WHENEVER I WENT OUT TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF VEHICLES ALREADY PARKING ALONG THE CONSTRUCTION SITE.
ON SANITOS STREET. YES, THEY'RE ALREADY USING IT AS PARKING.
I'M ASSUMING THAT THE PARKING WILL ONLY INTENSIFY ONCE THE CONSTRUCTION IS COMPLETE.
THEY DO HAVE ADDITIONAL PARKING TO THE NORTH OF THAT 2301 HUNT STREET.
THERE IS A PARKING LOT THERE. BUT WHENEVER THEY DO CLOSE, I BELIEVE, I'M NOT SURE IF THE APPLICANT IS HERE, HE CAN TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT THE PLANS MIGHT BE, SINCE I'M JUST
SPECULATING WHAT THEIR PROPOSED USE IS. >> THANK YOU.
>> THANKS, CLARISSA. >> OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
TAL, AGENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY. MCMURRAY DOES OWN BOTH SIDES OF SANTOS STREET EAST AND WEST.
EAST IS EXISTING STUDENT HOUSING. TO THE WEST, THERE IS ADDITIONAL STUDENT HOUSING UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE INTENT BEHIND CLOSING THIS THOROUGHFARE IS CREATE ADDITIONAL PARKING NOT ONLY FOR THE STUDENT HOUSING, ABBUT FOR THE CAMPUS AS A WHOLE. THE CONDITIONS THAT STAFF HAVE ARE NOT A PROBLEM.
WE WILL BE DESIGNING THAT PARKING LOT AS SOON AS YOU GUYS AND COUNCIL APPROVE THIS
>> JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, UTILITY ISSUES, ANY UTILITY ISSUES IN THE AREA?
>> THERE ARE UNDERGROUND BUT THEY WILL REMAIN IN AN EASEMENT >> OKAY.
ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR TAL. THANKS. >> THANK YOU.
>> ANYONE ELSE? >> CARL SCOTT, DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES FOR MCMURRAY
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UNIVERSITY. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, ALONG HUNT STREET, THERE IS NO PARKING SIGNS ON THERE. KIND OF WHAT WE WENT IN, TO TRY TO FIND MORE PARKING FOR THAT.THAT WAS THE REASON FOR CLOSING OFF SANTOS AND BE ABLE TO FIND ADDITIONAL PARKING.
WE ARE DOING ADDITIONAL CONSTRUCTION ON CAMPUS, AS WELL AS A NEW CAMPUS STUDENT CENTER THAT IS GOING TO ELIMINATE PARKING. WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE A LOT OF THE PARKING OUTSIDE TO ADD ADDITIONAL PARKING SPOTS FOR THE UNIVERSITY.
>> THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION OR A MOTION?
>> MOVE THAT IT BE APPROVED WITH THE CONDITIONS. >> SECOND
>> MOTION TO APPROVE WITH CONDITIONS AND A SECOND. >> (ROLL CALL)
>> THE MOTION IS APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS >> THOROUGHFARE CLOSURE TC-2023-02, ABANDON THE NORTH HALF OF AN ALLEY LOCATED BETWEEN 1800 BLOCKS OF GRAND
AVENUE AND SANTOS AVENUE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, ONCE AGAIN MY NAME IS ADAM HOLLAND, PLANNER FOR THE CITY OF ABILENE. REQUEST TO ABANDON THE NORTH HALF OF AN ALLEY ON THE 2300 BLOCK OF SOUTH 18TH STREET. HERE IS A LOCATION MAP SHOWING THE AREA. THIS IS LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE PROPERTY AT 2323 AND 2327 SOUTH 18TH STREET. THAT IS A DUPLEX. HERE IS A CURRENT ZONING MAP OF THE PROPERTY. CURRENTLY THIS IS ZONED MD, WITH COLLEGE UNIVERSITY DISTRICT NORTH OF THE PROPERTY. THIS IS PROBABLY CLOSE TO THE OTHER THOROUGHFARE CLOSURE THAT WE HAVE. HERE ARE SOME SUBJECT VIEWS OF THE PROPERTY.
CURRENTLY THERE IS A DUPLEX ADJACENT TO THIS PROPERTY. WITH AN ALLEY AS PROPOSED TO BE CLOSED. YOU CAN SEE THE ADJACENT CONSTRUCTION OF THE STUDENT HOUSING FOR MCMURRAY ACROSS THE STREET. WE RECEIVED NO RESPONSES IN FAVOR OR OPPOSED TO THIS REQUEST. AND STAFF WOULD NOT OBJECT TO THE REQUEST, SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS, THAT THE SUBJECT RIGHT-OF-WAY AND ADJOINING PROPERTIES SHALL BE PLATTED WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ABANDONMENT ORDINANCE. IF A REPLAT IS NOT APPROVED AND RECORDED, THIS ABANDONMENT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID. ALL EXISTING UTILITIES IN THE AFFECTED RIGHT-OF-WAY SHALL BE COVERED BY UTILITY EASEMENT OR REROUTED. THE ABANDON RIGHT-OF-WAY SHALL BE COVERED BY AN ACCESS EASEMENT TO MAINTAIN THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE EASEMENT.
HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE FOR ME. >> GO BACK TO THE PLAN.
THAT ONE IS GOOD. SO THE ALLEY IS NOT USED FOR ANYTHING NOW?
REFUGE DOESN'T USE IT? >> I'M NOT SURE IF REFUGE USES IT.
THERE ARE EXISTING UTILITIES FOR THE ALLEY. >> NORMALLY WE DON'T DEAD-END
AN ALLEY. >> AS FAR AS, I SENT THIS OUT TO THE DRC AND SOLID WASTE MADE
NO COMMENTS REGARDING THIS ABANDONMENT. >> WE'RE ALSO COVERING IT WITH
AN ACCESS EASEMENT AS WELL. AS A CONDITION. >> SAY THAT AGAIN.
>> ABANDONED RIGHT-OF-WAY SHALL BE COVERED BY AN ACCESS EASEMENT, TO MAINTAIN THE
FUNCTIONALITY OF THE EASEMENT >> SO WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ABANDONING IT IF WE STILL PUT
AN EASEMENT BACK ON TOP OF IT? >> THIS IS TO -- THE APPLICANT WISHES TO BUILD A THIRD UNIT IN THAT 2323 AND 2327 MD ZONED PARCEL. AND THEY NEED -- THEY WERE ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL ACCESS TO THEIR LOT SO THAT THEY COULD USE IT AS A DRIVEWAY.
>> KIND OF HAVE THE SAME CONFUSION THAT CLINT DOES. >> LET ME SEE IF I CAN -- WE'VE DEALT WITH TWO CASES LIKE THIS I THINK LATELY. ONE WAS OVER AT HARDEN SIMMONS, WE WERE ABANDONING AN ALLEY, BUT THE EASEMENT WAS GOING THROUGH A PARKING LOT.
THE OTHER ONE I THINK WE MISHANDLED. BUT IT WAS OVER ON BUTTERNUT.
I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS ON THIS 2327, THERE IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING PUT IN THERE AND
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THERE IS GOING TO BE A PARKING LOT AROUND IT AND THE ALLEY -- EASEMENT WILL STILL BE THERE,WHERE YOU CAN STILL GO THROUGH THE ALLEY. >> THEY ARE PROPOSING TO BUILD ANOTHER DWELLING IN THE REAR OF THAT PROPERTY SO THEY'RE REQUESTING THIS TO HAVE ACCESS
TO THEIR PROPOSED UNIT IN THE REAR. >> THEY WANT TO PAVE PART OF THAT ALLEY AND MAKE IT A DRIVEWAY FOR THEM BUT THEN IT WILL STILL HAVE THE SECOND HALF OF THE ALLEY AND THERE WILL BE AN EASEMENT FOR UTILITIES AND WHATEVER TO GO ACROSS IT.
>> YES. AND THE PROPONENT IS HERE AS WELL TO ANSWER ANY OTHER
QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. >> OKAY. THANKS, ADAM.
>> OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS DYLAN DUGGAN, HERE ON BEHALF OF
THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY. HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. >> YEAH.
SO WE DON'T NORMALLY DEAD-END AN ALLEY. THE WAY I UNDERSTAND IT, THERE IS GOING TO BE AN EASEMENT THROUGH THERE IS THAT CORRECT? YOU CAN'T BLOCK IT?
>> YES, SIR. RIGHT. SO ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE 2325 PROPERTY, THERE HAS BEEN A DUPLEX, THERE IS CURRENTLY A DUPLEX SITTING THERE.
YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE PICTURES ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDES. THERE IS AMPLE AMOUNT OF ROOM BEHIND IT TO THE SOUTH, TO BUILD A SINGLE DWELLING UNIT, SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING UNIT.
THERE IS 5800 SQUARE FOOT STILL ALLOWED OF COVERABLE SURFACE. THE DUPLEX WAS BUILT TO THE WEST. WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS FAR ENOUGH TO ALLOW A DRIVEWAY TO COME DOWN THE EAST SIDE OF THE FENCE TO GET BACK TO THE SINGLE FAMILY UNIT IN THE BACK.
AFTER RELOOKING AT THE PLANS AND AFTER GOING BACK OVER IT, THERE IS NOT QUITE ENOUGH ROOM TO GET A DRIVEWAY RIGHT THERE NEXT TO THE DUPLEX IN ORDER TO GET BACK TO THE SINGLE FAMILY UNIT. SO THE IDEA IS TO ABANDON THE ALLEY, REPLAT, TO GIVE US JUST
9ENOUGH ROOM TO GET A DRIVEWAY BACK TO THAT SINGLE FAMILY >> SO YOU'RE CREATING A FLAG
LOT BEHIND >> YES, SIR. >> OKAY.
>> THERE IS CURRENTLY TWO ADDRESSES OUT OF THE THREE BEING USED FOR THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY. WE HAVE AN ADDRESS FOR THE SINGLE FAMILY UNIT IN THE BACK.
>> YOU NEED THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY TO GO OUT TO THE STREET SO YOU CAN GET A 911
ADDRESS, SO YOU CAN USE THE FLAG LOT AT THE BACK. >> YES, SIR.
>> OKAY. >> STILL HAVE THE SAME FU FUNCTIONALITY AS THE ALLEY
CURRENTLY DOES. >> YES. >> JUST BE PAVED
>> I AM UP TO SPEED NOW. I SEE WHAT IS GOING ON NOW. >> WE WON'T PUT A FENCE.
IT STILL WILL REMAIN EFFECTIVELY A THOROUGHFARE. >> SORRY, DYLAN, IT TOOK ME A
WHILE TO GET UP TO SPEED. BUT I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU NOW. >> I WAS SCRATCHING MY HEAD THE SAME WAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR DYLAN. APPRECIATE IT.
THANKS FOR COMING UP UP. ANYBODY ELSE? I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE -- EXCEPTIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS.
LET'S SEE. OKAY. SO WHEN WE MAKE THIS MOTION, I GUESS WE JUST APPROVE BASED ON -- WE NEED TO ADD THESE CONDITIONS.
WE WANT THESE CONDITIONS ALL FOUR OF THEM ADDED IN THE MOTION.
OKAY. ALL RIGHT. >> MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE STAFF TO BE ADOPTED IN THAT MOTION.
>> WITH THE CONDITIONS THAT ARE RECOMMENDED. >> I'LL SECOND.
>> OKAY. SO MOTION WITH THE CONDITIONS, THESE FOUR CONDITIONS.
MOTION AND A SECOND. >> (ROLL CALL) >> THE MOTION TO APPROVE WITH
THE CONDITIONS CARRIES. >> THANK YOU, EVERYONE. SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THE ELECTION DOWN AND WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND JUMP ON IN TO THE ORDINANCE AMENDMENT FOR THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN. EVERYBODY IS WELCOME TO STAY. THIS IS GOING TO BE AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION, I'M SURE AND THEN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ADVISORY AFTER THAT.
SO DOES ANYBODY NEED A BREAK OR ARE WE GOOD TO MOVE FORWARD, KEEP GOING?
>> MITCH WENT TO THE RESTROOM. >> WHY DON'T WE TAKE A FIVE-MINUTE BREAK RIGHT QUICK,
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SINCE MITCH IS ALREADYBACK. >> WE TOOK SOME OF THESE ROAD EXTENSIONS IN CONSIDERATION.
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>> SO DID YOU HAVE -- GO BACK TO JUST THESE GUYS WORKED ON THAT?
>> YES, SIR. THIS IS THE GROUP. WE HAD ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, HE LED THE GROUP. MR. MICHAEL RICE. WE HAD OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, CITY ENGINEER, MYSELF, ADAM HOLLAND, THE PLANNER AND THEN OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF WATER UTILITIES MEET ON A WEEKLY BASIS. AND EACH WEEK, WE WOULD TRY TO DO A LITTLE PIE OF THE CITY. IF YOU IMAGINE, THE CITY IS A CIRCLE, WE WOULD TAKE A PIE EACH WEEK AND WORK ON THAT AND BE READY FOR THAT FRIDAY. WORK ON THAT FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS AND THEN TAKE THE NEXT PIECE. TOWARDS THE END OF THE DISCUSSIONS, WE WOULD TRY TO PIECE IT ALL TOGETHER. WHAT WERE WE THINKING RIGHT HERE? IT'S NOT LINING UP AND THEN WE WOULD MAKE OUR ADJUSTMENTS AND
TALK IT THROUGH. >> DID YOU SEND IT OUT TO ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC REALM?
>> WE DID SEND IT OUT TO THE LOCAL ENGINEERING FIRMS. MAINLY THE TWO LARGER ONES AND
THEY HAD NO CONCERNS AT ALL WITH THE PLAN. >> OKAY.
DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR TIM? >> THANKS, TIM.
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>> I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. >> LESSENING SOME REQUIREMENTS THAT REALLY HAVE BEEN MAYBE THEY WERE OUTDATED THE WAY SOME OF THOSE ROADS WERE LAID OUT.
YOU KNOW, THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN IS A LIVING DOCUMENT. I MEAN, IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE MODIFIED MORE THAN JUST EVERY 15 OR 20 YEARS. IT NEEDS TO BE UPDATED MORE OFTEN, AS COMMUNITIES CONTINUE TO DEVELOP. I THINK IT'S A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. YOU KNOW, THE ONLY COMMENT, I DON'T KNOW THAT I MADE THIS COMMENT TO TIM YET. BUT SWITCHING FROM MINOR ARTERIAL AND REGULAR ARTERIAL TO JUST ARTERIAL, WE JUST NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS CONSISTENT AS WE MOVE THROUGH UPDATING OTHER DOCUMENTS. BECAUSE I THINK THERE WERE THINGS THAT YOU WERE ALLOWED TO DO WITH A MINOR ARTERIAL COMPARED TO ARTERIAL WITH RIGHT-OF-WAY WIDTHS. WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ALL CONSISTENT.
BUT I CERTAINLY THINK IT'S A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. ANYBODY ELSE? I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. TIM, ONE OTHER QUESTION, WAS THERE ANYBODY FROM THE COUNTY, DID THE COUNTY GET A CHANCE TO LOOK AT WHAT IS OUT IN THE COUNTY, I GUESS OUTSIDE THE
CITY LIMITS. >> NOT THE COUNTY, TXDOT WAS ABLE TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND
THEN ALSO THE MARKET ROADS SO ON. >> SHOULD THE COUNTY HAVE BEEN
CONSULTED, WHERE IT'S OUT IN THE COUNTY? >> I DON'T THINK WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THE COUNTY, IS THAT CORRECT? NO. THIS WOULD BE MORE FOR FUTURE CITY LIMITS, THAT WOULD BE OUR VISION, OUR RIGHT-OF-WAYS AND OUR ROADWAYS EVENTUALLY. THE COUNTY ONLY LOOKS AT COUNTY STANDARDS AND WE'RE LOOKING AT HIGHER STANDARDS THAN THAT. SO WE DIDN'T REACH OUT FOR THEIR INPUT.
>> DO WE HAVE ANYMORE DISCUSSION OR ANYTHING? ANY QUESTIONS FOR TIM OR
ANYBODY ELSE ON THE STAFF? >> IT'S HARD FOR ME, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE STAFF IS HERE TO DO THAT, THIS IS A VERY GOOD GROUP OF FOLKS, THE FOLKS THAT IF WE WERE GOING TO DO A THOROUGHFARE PLAN, THESE ARE THE FOLKS WE WOULD WANT ON IT. I WOULD LIKE TO SEND SOMEBODY FROM COUNTY TO HAVE A LITTLE MORE INPUT. BJ IS NOT HERE FROM EHT TO TALK
TO US TODAY. >> I WILL SAY WE DID REACH OUT TO BJ.
I WAS TRYING TO GET SOMETHING IN WRITING SO I COULD PUT IT IN THE PRESENTATION TO SHOW THAT,
BUT WE DIDN'T GET IT. >> WE CAN CALL HIM AND PUT HIM ON THE CELL PHONE.
>> TAL'S CONCERN ABOUT THE MAJOR AND MINOR DISTINCTION MOVING FORWARD, DO YOU SEE ANY
ISSUES WITH THAT? >> NO. I DON'T THINK THERE WILL BE ANY ISSUES, HE WILL BE WORKING WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS GROUP ON THAT PORTION OF IT. AND THEY'RE VERY CONSISTENT
BASED ON THE SITUATION BEING SERVED. >> REALLY JUST A RIGHT-OF-WAY.
BECAUSE ONE IS 80-FOOT AND ONE IS 130 NOW. RIGHT-OF-WAY.
APPROPRIATE RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR THE AREA. >> AS A CURSORY OBSERVATION, I THINK WE TOOK A BOWL OF SPAGHETTI AND CLEANED UP SOME OF THE WAYS THE NOODLES LAID.
CURSORY GLANCE, IT'S SIMPLIFIED SIGNIFICANTLY. >> ITEM BEFORE US TO APPROVE THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN. OBVIOUSLY MOVE ON TO COUNCIL AND THERE WILL BE ANOTHER PUBLIC HEARING THERE ALSO AT COUNCIL. SO I MEAN, I THINK IT'S PROBABLY AS GOOD AS WE CAN DO. I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO MOVE IT FORWARD.
>> MOTION TO MOVE FORWARD. >> MOTION TO APPROVE. >> APPROVE.
>> MOTION TO APPROVE. >> SECOND. >> AND A SECOND.
>> TO MOVE THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN FORWARD TO COUNCIL. >> MR. BARNETT.
>> MR. HALIBURTON >> YES. >> MS. FLEMING
>> YES. >> MOTION CARRIES. >> NEXT ITEM IS ORDINANCE AMENDMENT ON FOR THE -- LET'S SEE HERE. NEW COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
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I THINK IT'S CALLED -- TIM, ARE YOU GOING TO DO THIS ONE DIRECTOR OF THE TEXAS OFFICE. I WILL SAY PLEASE BE BACK HERE AS TIM MENTIONED. THIS HAS BEEN KIND OF AN ONGOING PROCESS THAT WE STARTED BACK IN 2020 AND WE DID HAVE SOME CHANGES ALONG THE WAY AND EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT WE ARE HAPPY TO BE HERE TO BE PRESENTING THIS PLAN TO YOU ALL THIS AFTERNOON FOR CONSIDERATION OF YOUR FUTURE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CITY OF ABILENE. JUST KIND OF AN OUTLINE HERE FOR THE AGENDA THIS AFTERNOON, JUST PROVIDING TO YOU GUYS WITH THE PROJECT TIMELINE OF THE PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH, LOOKING AT THE BRIEF PROJECT RECAP. TALK ABOUT FUTURE LAND USE PLAN COMMITTEE WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE PLAN THAT WAS TYING THE TWO PIECES TOGETHER. TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE COMMUNITY DIRECTION THAT WE RECEIVED AND RECOMMENDATIONS THAT TALK ABOUT THE NEXT STEPS.THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN THREE TO CONSIDER ADOPTION OF YOUR UPDATED CONFERENCE OF CONFERENCE OF PLAN. THE OVERALL PROJECT TIMELINE, WE STARTED THIS BACK IN 2020, AND ND WE HAD AN EXTENSIVE LONG ENGAGEMENT ON THE FRONT END OF IT. WE WERE OUT HERE MULTIPLE TIMES WORKING WITH THE CPAC AND THE COMMUNITY AND DID A COMMUNITY SURVEY, HELD MULTI-DAY EVENTS. WE TALKED TO THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITY, DIFFERENCE TO COLDER MEETINGS AND IT WAS BUILT ON PHASE 1 AND 2 OF DOING THE BACKGROUND EXISTING CONDITIONS AND KICKOFF EVENTS WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS, WE WERE GUIDED BY YOUR COMMUNITY AND THE CPAC TO START DEVELOPING SOME OVERALL VISION AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE PLANT. THEY HELP GENERATE SOME OF THE GROWTH SCENARIOS AND THE FISCAL IMPACTS OF THE DIFFERENT GROWTH SCENARIOS OF FUTURE LAND CONSIDERATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY. AND OBVIOUSLY KIND OF HELPED US DEVELOP THE LAND-USE DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL BE PRESENTED TO YOU AS WELL.
PHASE 4 WAS REALLY LOOKING AT THE IDEA OF THE PROPOSED THINGS, THE PLAN COMPONENTS.
SOME OF YOUR MAJOR THINGS LIKE TRANSPORTATION, MOBILITY, LAND-USE, ALSO INCLUDES FINAL MAPS AND, MOST IMPORTANT, TO A COMMITTEE OF YOUR SORTS IS REALLY THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
YOU KNOW, THIS IS KIND OF JUST TALKED ABOUT FOR YOU GUYS, KNOWING WHAT THE CONFERENCE OF PLAN IS THE BLUEPRINT FOR YOUR COMMUNITY. SO IF YOU LAY A POLICY DOCUMENT THE STRESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL LEVEL AND REALLY GETS IT DOWN TO YOUR STAFF AND PLANNING DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO REALLY MOVE THAT FORWARD, IT DOES NOT JUST TOUCH THE PLAN IN THE DEVELOPMENT SIDE OF THINGS, IT TOUCHES OTHER DISCIPLINES WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND ENGINEERING AS WELL.
YOU KNOW, AT THE CORE OF THE SOUL PLANNING PROCESS IS REALLY FOCUSED ON YOUR LAND-USE, WHERE YOU WANT TO SEE FUTURE GROWTH IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND RECEIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR REDEVELOPMENT, WHAT TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL.
OBVIOUSLY A CHANGE IN DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS AND TYPES OF THE ALLOWS COMMUNITIES THE
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OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY REEVALUATE, REASSESS, TALK TO THE COMMUNITY TO SEE HOW THEY WANT THE COMMUNITY TO GROW INTO THE FUTURE. TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, YOU TRY TO UPDATE THE PLAN AND PROCESS AROUND ONCE EVERY 10 YEARS. YOUR CURRENT PLAN THAT YOU ARE WORKING OFF OF RIGHT NOW IS ACTUALLY LAST ADOPTED BACK IN 2004, AND HAS GUIDING YOU SINCE THEN.AGAIN, THIS IS REALLY THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO IDENTIFY WHAT REFLECTS THEM IN THE COMMUNITY TODAY. SO ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE, AGAIN GOING THROUGH GUIDING PRINCIPLES, VISION AND GOALS STRATEGIES AND IMPLEMENTATION.
THE DOCUMENT THAT WAS PRESENTED TO YOU OR SUBMITTED AS PART OF THIS PRESENTATION THIS AFTERNOON IS YOUR CONFERENCE OF PLAN. IT'S BROKEN DOWN INTO ABOUT FIVE DIFFERENT PIECES HERE, ONE BEING THE COMMUNITIES PLAN, THE PLAN IN GENERAL. TALK ABOUT SECTION 2 WOULD BE THE COMMUNITY VISION WHICH IS TO IDENTIFY THE VISION FOR THE PLAN, THE FRAMEWORK AND GRADING THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP, THEN AGAIN, THE COMMUNITY DIRECTION WHICH IS REALLY THE IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK, GETTING TO THAT KEY PIECE IN A LITTLE BIT. JUST TAKING A STEP BACK, LITTLE BIT OF ALL THE ENGAGEMENT THAT WE RECEIVED EARLY IN THE PROCESS AND THROUGHOUT THE OVERALL ENTIRE PLANNING PROCESS, IT IDENTIFIED SEVEN COMMUNITY BUILDING BLOCKS THAT WE WANTED TO BUILD THIS PLANNED OFF OF. SO FOCUSING AROUND GROWTH, COMMUNITY THAT'S PROSPEROUS AND WELCOMING, SUPPORTIVE, HEALTHY, RESILIENT, AND ONE FOCUSED AROUND EDUCATION. THESE ARE THE OVERALL COMMUNITY BUILDING BLOCKS THAT WE BUILT A LITTLE POND A LOT EARLY IN THE ENGAGEMENT AND IT GOT US THROUGH THE PLANNING PROCESS TO IDENTIFY, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THE CHART, THE OVERALL COMMUNITY, GOALS THAT WILL GET INTO FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE BUILDING BLOCKS AND A SET OF STRATEGIES THAT ARE IDENTIFIED TO HELP ACHIEVE THE GOALS AND OVERALL COMMUNITY BUILDING BLOCK FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE ELEMENTS WITHIN THE PLAN.
LOOKING AT YOUR FUTURE LAND USE MAP, WE LOOKED AT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LAND-USE -- WE LOOK AT THE EXISTING CHARACTER THAT'S OUT THERE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. WE AS A FIRM LOOK AT A CHARACTER-BASED TYPE OF PLANNING SYSTEM WHERE IT IS MORE FOCUSED ON GENERAL DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. WE DON'T TRY TO SEPARATE AGAIN ZONING AND EVERYTHING ELSE, AS KIND OF SEPARATING THE USES BETWEEN SINGLE-FAMILY DUPLEXES AND EVERYTHING ELSE. WE TAKE MORE OF A CHARACTER-BASED APPROACH LOOKING AT THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS WITH CHARACTER OF THE COMMUNITY, WHICH SOMETIMES WILL HAVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CHARACTER DISTRICT OR CHARACTERISTICS OF THAT AREA. THROUGH OUR KIND OF ON THE GROUND AND PERCEPTION BASED ANALYSIS ALONG WITH WORKING THROUGH THE DIFFERENT SCENARIOS OF IDENTIFIED THE SERIES OF PLACE TYPES. AGAIN, THOSE ARE NOT FRIEND ZONING. IT'S REALLY TO IDENTIFY AN OVERALL CHARACTER AREA FOR THE COMMUNITY WHICH HELPS US DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL GROWTH SCENARIOS. WE DID HAVE A MARK CONSULTANT ON BOARD TO IDENTIFY WHAT YOUR MARKET POTENTIAL HERE IS IN THE FUTURE, ALIGNING THAT TO THE POPULATION GROWTH PROJECTIONS AS WELL.
THROUGH THE OVERALL PROCESSES WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY AND WORKED AS LEADERSHIP TO GET TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY, RESORTED TO A FUTURE IN FRONT OF GROWTH SCENARIO WITH THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP THAT YOU WILL SEE IN A MINUTE. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE, IT'S YOUR FUTURE LAND USE MAP THAT'S UP FOR CONSIDERATION THIS AFTERNOON BY THE COMMITTEE. ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE YOU WILL SEE KIND OF THE OVERALL DIFFERENT PLACE TYPES AND CATEGORIES THAT WE CREATED AS PART OF THIS, SO YOU WILL SEE, FOR EXAMPLE, SOME OF THESE ARE SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU'VE HAD BEFORE AND THAT WAS A DIRECTIONAL CHANGE AS WELL, KIND OF RELATING TO WHAT IS OUT THERE TODAY. BUT YOU ARE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, CHARACTERISTICS THAT ARE VERY LOW DENSITY AND LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL AND RETAIL, HAVE A COMMERCIAL. YOU CAN SEE WHAT I TALKED ABOUT KIND OF A CHARACTER STANDPOINT ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CHART, YOU WILL SEE THE TABS THAT SITE RURAL CHARACTER, SUBURBAN CHARACTER, THAT REALLY KIND OF STARTS GENERATING THE OVERALL TYPE OF DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS IN DEVELOPING CONSIDERATIONS WITHIN THE DIFFERENT AREAS. SO WE CATEGORIZE THEM INTO FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT OVERALL CHARACTERISTICS AND BROKEN DOWN FURTHER, AS YOU CAN SAY, ON THE MAP. GOING ACROSS THE CHART, YOU CAN SEE THAT A SERIES OF PRIMARY LAND-USE IS SECONDARY, SO WE STARTED TO ALIGN THIS TO YOUR CURRENT LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE. THAT HAVE BEEN SOME REQUESTS FOR COUPLE CHANGES HERE THAT ARE NOT REFLECTED IN THE POWERPOINT THIS AFTERNOON, BUT THERE ARE COUPLE CHANGES OF DIFFERENT USES THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE ALLOWED ARE CONSIDERED. AS PART OF THAT, OVERALL, WE HAVE TRIED TO, ONCE WE HAVE GENERATED THE OVERALL PLACE TYPES IN CHARACTER, CHARACTER DISTRICTS, WE STARTED RELATED TO THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF USES, PROVERBIAL ON EACH ONE OF THOSE LIST OF AREAS. SO LOOKING AT THE OVERALL
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COMMUNITY DIRECTION, AS I MENTIONED, WE HAD SEVEN BUILDING BLOCKS THAT WERE CREATED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PLANNING PROCESS. THAT DROVE DOWN TO IDENTIFYING 26 DIFFERENT GOALS FOR THE COMMUNITY TO CONSIDER, AND THEN WE ALSO DEVELOPED 93 STRATEGIES FOR SPECIFIC IMPLEMENTATION TO ACHIEVE THE OVERALL OBJECTIVES OF THE GOALS AND THE BUILDING BLOCKS. THIS IS JUST A SIMPLE PLAN OF WHAT IS WITHIN THE OVERALL COMPOUNDS OF PLAN. THIS IS JUST, AGAIN, THE ACTION PLAN IDENTIFIED YOUR DIFFERENT GOAL AND SOME OF THE STRATEGIES, THE TYPE OF STRATEGY THAT IT WOULD BE, WHETHER IT'S A REGULATION, WHETHER AS A POLICY, WHETHER IT IS A POTENTIALLY ANOTHER STUDY FOR CONSIDERATION. IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT WHO THE IMPLEMENTING AGENCY MAY BE.AGAIN AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE CITY CANNOT DO EVERYTHING, NEITHER CAN THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT CAN DO ANYTHING. THERE ARE AGENCIES WITHIN CITY HALL TODAY OR OTHER AGENCIES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY THAT COULD HELP SUPPORT YOU, YOUR TEAM AND THE COMMUNITY WHO BRINGS THE PLANNING PROJECT AND THE GOALS FORWARD. AGAIN, WE ALSO IDENTIFY DIFFERENT PARTNERS. IT'S ALSO COLOR-CODED TO IDENTIFY YOUR SHORT-TERM, YOUR MEDIUM-TERM AND LONG-TERM GOALS.
SHORT-TERM WOULD BE KIND OF PERSON THAT 1 TO 5 YEAR, MEETING TIME IS 5 TO 10, LONG-TERM IS 10+ YEARS WHEN IT COMES TO THE OVERALL GOALS. I KNOW THIS WAS -- THIS PRESENTATION WAS PART OF YOUR OVERALL PACKAGE THIS AFTERNOON, SO I D THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT'S ON THE SCREEN, BUT IT WILL GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW. SO YOUR FIRST OVERALL BUILDING BLOCK IS FOCUSED ON GROWTH. ABILENE WILL DEVELOP IN A WAY THAT ATTRACTS NEW RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES, INCOMES AND STAGES OF THEIR CAREERS. THIS DEVELOPMENTAL SUPPORT ALL STAGES OF LIFE AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL ABILENE ENDS. GROWTH TO PROVIDE A BROAD VARIETY OF DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT OF STAKEM TREATED COMMUNITY REVIEW OF CHOICES WHERE THEY LIVE, WORK AND PLAY.
THIS WAS REALLY FOCUSED ABOUT THE IDEA OF CREATING A COHESIVE NEIGHBORHOODS, ALLOWING FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAYBE SUPPORT INFILL DEVELOPMENT OR OTHER TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT WITHIN SOME OF THE EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS, PROMOTE STRENGTH AND SOCIAL CONNECTION. LOOKING AT MAKING SURE ABILENE GROWS FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, OBVIOUSLY WE FOCUS PRIMARILY ON YOUR CURRENT CITY LIMITS TODAY. WE DO NOT FOCUS ON ET JAY, AND THE POPULATION PROJECTIONS ARE ONLY LOOKING AT ABILENE GROWING BY ABOUT ANOTHER 20 TO 25,000 PEOPLE BY 2040 POINTS TO YOUR EXISTING CITY LIMITS THAT YOU HAVE TODAY CAN SUPPORT THE POPULATION GROWTH WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
WE KNOW THERE IS SOME GROWTH DEVELOPMENT HAPPENING DOWN THE SOUTHWEST AND THE NORTHEAST AT MADE SUGAR. SOME AMENDMENTS ARE ET JAY IN THE FUTURE, BUT OVERALL YOU CITY CAN SUPPORT WITH THE CURRENT LIMITS THE POPULATION PROJECTION FOR THE FUTURE. REALLY FOCUSING ON PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT, YOU'VE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB WITH A NEAR DOWNTOWN AND SURROUNDING AREAS AS WELL TO REALLY PROMOTE REDEVELOPMENT AND REINVESTMENT AND SOME OF THE MORE AGING AREAS OF THE COMMUNITY. SAW A COUPLE OF THOSE THIS AFTERNOON AS WELL FOR APPLICATIONS. THEN ALSO, WE REALLY WANT TO FOCUS ON THE WALKABILITY AND DIFFERENT DENSITY OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL TO PROMOTE SOME OF THAT SO YOU ARE NOT BUILDING FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE AND EVERYTHING ELSE, YOU ARE USING WHAT'S OUT THERE TODAY. THE SECOND BUILDING BLOCK WAS FOCUSED ON WELCOMING, AND ABILENE WILL BE THE COMMUNITY THAT'S INVITED FOR NOT ONLY IS CURRENT AND RETURNING RESIDENTS BUT THE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS. THE CITY WILL MAKE EVERYONE FEEL SAFE AND AT HOME AND WILL MEET THE DAILY NEEDS OF ALL THE RESIDENTS. THIS IS REALLY FOCUSING ON THE OVERALL QUALITY HEALTH, THE SAFE AND AFFORDABILITY OF YOUR COMMUNITY AND MAKING SURE THAT ALL RESIDENTS AND VISITORS CAN LIVE, WORK, PLAY IN HERE. REALLY FOCUSING ON SOME OF YOUR -- YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB WITH SOME OF YOUR RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS AND PROMOTING THE INVESTMENT INTO SOME OF THE AREAS, CONTINUING TO DO THAT WITH OTHER AREAS AS WELL. ALSO LOOKING AT THE OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE SOME MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL SPACES, GREEN SPACES, AND THE COMMUNITY WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME TOGETHER, WHETHER THAT'S OUR CONTROLS OR PUBLIC ARTS.
THE THIRD GOAL, THE BUILDING BLOCK IS FOCUSED AROUND ABILENE BEING PROSPEROUS, AND ABILENE WILL HAVE A DIVERSIFIED ECONOMY THAT WILL BE A VARIETY OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE OF ALL EMPLOYMENT LEVELS, WHERE THE WILL RETAIN TALENT. ABILENE WILL BE A PROSPEROUS LOCATION FOR NEW AND EXISTING BUSINESSES FIND ONE OF THE EXCITING THINGS HERE WHEN WE FIRST CAME OUT HERE BACK IN 2019 AND 2020, THAT SURPRISED ME, AS WE HAVE SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY HERE. YOU GUYS ARE REALLY THE GATEWAY TO THE WEST. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO YOUR COMMUNITY AS WELL, SO YOU PROVIDE A LOT OF SERVICES NOT ONLY TO YOUR
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CURRENT RESIDENCE BUT ALSO TO THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN SOME OF THE SURROUNDING CITIES AND TOWNSHIPS AS WELL. SO REALLY FOCUSING ON THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING TO STAY WITHIN THE REGION HERE AS WELL. LOOKING AT THE OPPORTUNITY, FOSTERING A TRANSPORTATION THAT'S SAFE. I THINK IT'S ALL THAT WITH THE PREVIOUS AGENDA ITEM, TIM AND YOUR STAFF HERE DID A FANTASTIC JOB OF REALLY REDOING SOME OF THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN TO ALIGN WITH THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP AS WELL AND MAKE SURE THAT WE DO PROVIDE SOME OF THE STRATEGIES FOR SAFE NETWORK INTO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL.THE FOURTH BUILDING BLOCK WAS SUPPORTIVE, AND THIS WAS -- ABILENE WILL BE A COMMUNITY FOCUSED ON MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ITS RESIDENTS. THE CITY WILL BE SUPPORTIVE OF THE RESIDENCE AND CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SERVICES NEEDED TO FACILITATE THE TODAY LIFE.
THIS IS REALLY KIND OF FOCUSED AROUND MAINTAINING THE OVERALL HISTORY AND CHARACTER THAT'S WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, MAINTAINING THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION. I LOVE YOU DOWNTOWN AND I THINK IT'S FANTASTIC! SEEING A LOT OF REDEVELOPMENT, A LOT OF THE YOUNGER ENTREPRENEURSHIPS.
BUSINESSES COMING INTO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL.
AGAIN, LOOKING AT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REALLY TAKING A DEEPER DIVE INTO SOME OF THEM ARE AREAS OF NEED FOR REINVESTMENT INTO NEIGHBORHOODS. AND YOU GUYS HAVE SOME GREAT PLANS GOING ON RIGHT NOW AND CONTINUING TO FOCUS ON THAT AS WELL. THE FIRST ONE WAS FOCUSING ON ABILENE BEING HEALTHY, AND THIS WAS ABILENE WILL PROVIDE ITS RESIDENTS WITH HEALTHY OPTIONS INCLUDING EASY ACCESS TO HEALTH AND HEALTHY FOODS AND TO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES WAS EASY FOR PEOPLE TO WALK, BIKE AND FLIGHT. ABUNDANCE OF SERVICES, RECREATIONAL AND IS IN THE FINANCIAL CITIZENS, TO LIVE HEALTHY AND ACTIVE LIFESTYLES. THIS IS REALLY FOCUSING ON THE IDEA OF MAKING SURE THAT THE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE FOR FOX, BY CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE SOME OF THE URBAN TREE WAS ONE OF THE THINGS WE HEARD PEOPLE DISPATCH TEXAS IS HOT AND WE KNOW THAT.
AND YOU WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A SOCIAL SPACE IN URBAN TREE, THE CANOPY IS MORE PROMINENT TO BE -- ALLOW PEOPLE TO BE OUTSIDE MORE. YOU HAVE INITIATIVES GOING ON WITH ABILENE IN TAYLOR COUNTY ACTIVE LIVING PLAN. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PROMOTE THAT. AGAIN, LOOKING AT WHAT I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE HAVE COMPLETED A RECENT PARK, PLAN UPDATE AS WELL. THAT'S ALSO FOCUSED ON THE BICYCLE TRAILS AND PEDESTRIANS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. SO SIX BUILDING BLOCK IS FOCUSED ON RESILIENCE AND THE CITY WILL BE FISCALLY RESILIENT NO MATTER HOW UNCERTAIN TIMES MAYBE. YOU WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE HIGH-QUALITY SERVICES TO ITS RESIDENTS BE FISCALLY TRANSPARENT. ABILENE WILL BE A HEALTHY AND RESILIENT COMMUNITY WITH SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE THAT CAN ABSORB, ADAPT, AND GROW FROM STRESS IS IN SHOCK! THIS ONE IS NOT JUST FOCUSED AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE, BUT IT'S ALSO FOCUSED AROUND ECONOMIC RESILIENCE AS WELL. OBVIOUSLY WHEN THE PLANNING PROCESS WAS GOING THROUGH, WE WENT TO COVID, A LOT OF SMALL BUSINESSES HAD TO CLOSE UP SHOP OR REINVENT THEMSELVES A LITTLE BIT. SO THIS IS REALLY ABOUT FOCUSING ON CREATING RESILIENT COMMUNITY FROM THE SOCIAL STANDPOINT, FROM AN ECONOMIC STANDPOINT AND ENVIRONMENTAL STANDPOINT. YOU ARE PRETTY FLAT OUT HERE AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET CAUGHT UP AND BRAINSTORM HERE ONE TIME AND THE COURT DID NOT FLOAT AWAY. WAS CLOSE, BUT WE SEE HOW SOME OF THE STORMS ARE HANDLED HERE AND EVERYTHING ELSE. SO FOCUSING ON QUALITY DEVELOPMENT AND TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION WHERE DEVELOPMENT OCCURS IN THE FUTURE FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL STANDPOINT IS ALSO KEY MOVING FORWARD. I BELIEVE THE LAST BUILDING BLOCK WE HAVE HERE IS FOCUSED AROUND EDUCATION. ABILENE WILL CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON EDUCATION AS A PILLAR FOR THE COMMUNITY AND WILL CONTINUE TO INVEST IN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS TO SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVES. THE SWANIGAN IS FOCUSED AROUND MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE -- KIDS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SAFE ACCESS TO SCHOOLS, CONTINUE TO PROMOTE ARTS AND CULTURE WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN AREA HERE THAT ARE BRINGING PEOPLE IN, CONNECTING PEOPLE.
THAT WAS A BIG THING WE HEARD ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAYBE ENHANCE THE WI-FI ZONES, TELE-COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. YOU HAVE TREMENDOUS RESOURCE HERE WITH THE THREE UNIVERSITIES AND REALLY BUILDING UPON THOSE PARTNERSHIPS AND ALONG WITH THE TECHNICAL SKILLS AS WELL WILL BE KEY MOVING FORWARD TO BE ABLE TO KEEP YOUR STUDENTS HERE INSTEAD OF THEM MOVING OUT. SO JUST TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS, WE ARE HERE THIS AFTERNOON AND ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE PLAN, ANTICIPATE TO PROVIDE A BRIEFING TO THE CITY COUNCIL ON THURSDAY FOR A PUBLIC HEARING, AND THEN HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE BACK IN A COUPLE WEEKS FOR CITY COUNCIL ADOPTION ON MARCH 23. AGAIN, ON BEHALF OF OUR TEAM, APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH YOU ALL ON THIS PLANNING PROCESS AND OPEN UP FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
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I KNOW THAT'S A LOT >> I'M SORRY, BRIAN, RIGHT?
>> BRANAN. >> BRANAN, I AM CURIOUS. I LIKE EVERYTHING YOU WENT THROUGH THERE. I THINK IT ALL MAKES COMPLETE SENSE. I AM CURIOUS, OBVIOUSLY AS YOU WITNESSED MOST OF WHAT WE CONSIDER HERE IS ON THE SLIDE WITH THE LAND USE MATRIX, CAN YOU GIVE US ANY SENSE AS TO WHAT CHANGES WERE PROPOSED -- I GUESS MORE OF THE KEY POINTS OR
HIGH PORTS ON THAT? >> ON THE LAND USE MATRIX?
>> I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT WE HAVE EXISTING TO WHAT -- ARE THERE KEY THINGS ON THAT SLIDE THAT CHANGED THAT YOU GUYS ARE
LIKE, THIS MAKES TOTAL SENSE -- >> ARE LOOKING AT THE DOCTOR DIFFERENT PLACE TYPES? > WELL, I GUESS BOTH CLIENT I OBVIOUSLY HAVE NOT COMPARED THIS VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR CURRENT LAND USE METRICS, BUT I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S
ANYTHING HERE THAT'S -- >> I THINK OF ANYTHING, WITH THE CATEGORIES THAT WERE GENERATED, IT REALLY -- ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE, I THINK, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF COMMUNITIES PROBABLY DESIGNATED A SINGLE-FAMILY TODAY SO WE REALLY EXPANDED ON THAT PORTION. THERE IS REALLY IS A LOT OF SIGNIFICANT CHANGES FROM THE 2004 PLAN, REALLY PROVIDING MORE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR MAYBE -- ONE TIME CALLED IT A JOINT DYNAMIC LIVING IN IT WAS ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES TO MAYBE DO THE NEXT STEP UP FROM SINGLE-FAMILY ESPECIALLY AROUND YOUR DOWNTOWN AREA, ESPECIALLY AROUND SOME OF THESE UNIVERSITIES, PROMOTING NOT TO SINGLE-FAMILY BUT MAYBE DUPLEX OR TRIPLEX TYPE OF LIVING INFILL DEVELOPMENT. LOSER, WHEN YOU GET TO THE WHOLE PLAN, THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE A LOT OF THE REFOCUS WAS. A LITTLE BIT WAS ALLOWING THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THAT NEXT STEP. NEW BERN AVENUE AGAIN, THIS IS PART ONE OF THE OVERALL FIXED. YOU WILL HAVE TO -- IS RECOMMENDED WITHIN THE TO MAKE THE CHANGES, YOU HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, AMEND AND ADAPTER LAND DEVELOPMENT AS WELL. OVERALL, AGAIN, I THINK WE LOOKED AT -- THE FOCUS WAS TRYING TO STAY WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS. YOU WILL SEE ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE THERE IS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF VERY LOW DENSITY DEVELOPMENT. I THINK ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES AND WORKING WITH NOT ONLY THE SEATBACK BUT ALSO THE LEADERSHIP TEAM HERE AS WELL WAS TO TRY TO FIND THE BALANCE IN THE SENSE OF WHERE AND WHEN DO YOU EXPAND YOUR SERVICES AND YOUR UTILITIES? BECAUSE THAT DOES HAVE COST TAXPAYERS AND EVERYTHING ELSE. GOING BACK TO BEING FISCALLY RESILIENT IN THAT PORTION OF IT, WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE SOME MAJOR UPGRADES AND IMPROVEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE DONE. SO TRYING THE CITY LIMITS, SOME OF CONTAINING WHERE IT WILL GO AND WORK IN DEVELOPERS ON THAT SIDE OF THINGS BUT ALSO PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY TO REIMAGINE SOME OF YOUR OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THE NEXT LEVEL AS WELL.
>> SURE. THANK YOU. >> THE PACKET THAT WE REVIEWED HAD THREE GROWTH DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN IT. LOOKING AT THIS LAND USE, AND SCENARIO WHEN IT WAS TRENDS SCENARIO TWO, NOT IN IT LAID OUT A MAP WHERE ALL THREE SCENARIOS, AND THIS DOES NOT MATCH THOUGH! IS THIS A HYBRID OF THE THREE?
>> CORRECT. WE WENT THROUGH A SCENARIO PLANNING PROCESS, YOU ARE CORRECT. EARLY IN THE PROCESS, WE PRESENTED THREE DIFFERENT OPTIONS TO THE SEATBACK TO CONSIDER, WHEN BEING THE OVERALL. IF YOU CONTINUE THE GROWTH PATTERN OF TODAY AND I HATE TO USE THE WORD, BUT SUBURBAN SPRAWL AND YOU DON'T PUT ANY CONTROL MEASURES ON OR ANYTHING ELSE, THAT WAS THE FIRST SCENARIO. THE INFO WAS REALLY TRYING TO COMPACT DEVELOPMENT AND THAT WAS FOCUSED ON WHAT I WILL CALL THE LOOP ROAD, REALLY KIND OF REIMAGINING A LOT OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS WITHIN THE INNER LOOP AREA AND REALLY FOCUSING ON INFILL TYPE OF STRATEGY. AGAIN, THE CITY OF ABILENE HAS DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB AROUND UNIVERSITIES ALREADY. SO CONTINUING TO SPEND IT A LITTLE BIT.
THE THIRD OPTION WAS THE NOODLE OR WHAT WE HAVE CALLED THE ABILENE 15 MINUTES CITY CONCEPT. YES, THIS WOULD BE A COMPLETE HYBRID OF ALL THREE OF THEM. WE HAD RECOMMENDED A PREFERRED SCENARIO THAT WE HAD PRESENTED TO THE TEAM AND WE REQUESTED TO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS BASED UPON THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS THAT ARE OCCURRING IN THE CITY
TODAY. >> WHICH OF THOSE THREE
SCENARIOS WAS IT ALL OF THEM? >> I WOULD SAY IT'S A BLEND BETWEEN YOUR -- KIND OF YEAR SCENARIO ONE, SCENARIO TWO.
THERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOME OF THE NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS. YOU WILL SEE THAT IN THE ORANGE AREAS ALONG THE MAP. ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE WHERE IT SAYS KIND OF THE RETAIL AREA, THOSE ARE KIND OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS WHERE YOU WILL HAVE MORE OF -- MORE OF THE WALKABILITY ENVIRONMENT. YOU WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR HIGHER DENSITY SURROUNDING IT.
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AGAIN, I THINK THE BIG SHIFT IS PROBABLY CHANGING THE LAND USE IN THE SOUTHWEST WHERE WE KNEW DEVELOPMENT WAS GOING A LITTLE BIT MORE, NOT THE NORTHEAST AS WELL. THEY HAD PREDOMINANTLY LITTLE MORE RURAL PRESERVATION OUTSIDE OF THE LOOP, BUT WITH MORE RECENT DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS. WE HAVE OBSERVED AND ARE WORKING WITH THE TEAM HERE AS WELL, THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD BE A BETTER DIRECTION TO GO WITH MORE RESIDENTIAL, LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL OUT IN THE AREA.YOU CAN SEE HERE AS WELL ON THE MAP, THE KIND OF DARK GREEN LINES, THOSE ARE YOUR CREEKS AND YOUR WATERWAYS THROUGH THE COMMUNITY. YOU PUT THAT ON THE MAP TO HELP GEST THE OPPORTUNITY IS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT DOES OCCUR. HE WILL MONITOR THE DEVELOPMENT AWAY FROM THAT POSSIBLE. WE KNOW THAT. WILL ALLOW DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE FLOODPLAIN HERE, BUT THINKING IN CONSIDERATION OF THE OVERALL INFRASTRUCTURE AND EVERYTHING ELSE, WE WILL PUT THOSE ON THE MAP TO HELP GUIDE AND DIRECT DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS OF THE FUTURE AS WELL. .
>> ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR BRANDON? TIM, ANY OF THE
STAFF? >> DON'T HAVE ANY PARTICULAR QUESTION AT THIS POINT. I GUESS I WAS JUST THINKING AS WE CONSIDER HOW THIS ULTIMATELY ENDS UP, I MEAN, WE HAVE RUN INTO A LOT OF ISSUES AND PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET INTO THESE AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED THEIR CHALLENGES WITH OUR CURRENT LAND USE.
AS BEING VOLUNTEERS, I GUESS I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE OR MAKE A RECOMMENDATION THATYOU GUYS AND TIM GET WITH OUR INDUSTRY GUYS WHO RE DOING THIS DAY IN AND DAY OUT, MAKING SURE THEY DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT'S TOO FAR OFF. NOT THAT THERE WOULD BE ANYTHING TOO FAR OFF, BUT IF THERE ANYTHING THEY SEE THAT WE MAY NOT PICK UP ON, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
>>.[INDISCERNIBLE] WHEN THE TREND NINE WAS WORK REVIEWING THIS, WE DID SEVERAL LOCAL ENGINEERING GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY. WE WORKING WITH THE LEADERSHIP TEAM WITH ADDITIONAL REVIEW THAT WAS DONE BY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AS WELL TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS CONSISTENCY WITH THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS THAT THEY ARE IN THE COMMUNITY. I FEEL COMFORTABLE IN THAT RECOMMENDATION THAT HAS BEEN VETTED BY THE COMMUNITY OUT HERE. A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DO THE DEVELOPMENT HERE WITHIN ABILENE TODAY. BACK TO THE SECOND PIECE, I THINK ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS FOR COMMUNITIES TO LESSEN THE PEE DEE, THE LESSON THAT THE VARIOUS AND OR EVERYTHING ELSE IS TO UPDATE THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE WHICH I KNOW IS THE PRIORITY, I THINK. EVEN WHEN WE STARTED THIS PLANNING PROCESS, WAS THE CITY LOOKING AT UPDATING LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE. SO NOW THAT HOPEFULLY WE HAVE THE ADOPTION OF THIS PART TWO COULD BE TO ALIGN THE TWO FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
>> THANK YOU. >> A SEE ONE PHOTOGRAPH IN HERE THAT INCLUDES CLINT. KIND OF AS A NEWBIE ON THIS COMMISSION, I THINK I HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS AND DECIDE WHETHER I TRUST THE PROCESS THAT WENT INTO IT. I THINK RATHER THAN TRY TO REDO THIS AND PICK THIS THING APART, I SEE THE FREE PEOPLE WERE ENGAGED AND I HAVE A LOT OF TRUST AND A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE IDENTIFIED HERE. SO I THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK YOU DID. I THINK THAT THIS REFLECTS A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT EFFORT THAT WENT INTO IT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE.
>> ANYTHING ELSE FOR BRANDON? THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU. >> I WILL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC HEARING. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY HERE THAT GOT TO COME UP AND TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS OR WATSON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OR MAKE ANY KIND OF COMMENT? DON'T EVERYBODY JUMP UP! ALL RIGHT. I WILL CLOSE THE PEOPLE CURING. I GUESS MY LAST -- TIM, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE MYSTERIES WANTS TO ADDRESS THIS, IS AFTER THIS IS IMPLEMENTED BY THE CITY, HOW IS IT USED? HOW TO USE IT ON A DAILY BASIS?
>> ANYTIME THEY REQUEST GOVERNMENT STAFF WILL RETURN REFER TO THE CONFERENCE OF PLAN, THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP A TON AND SEE IF IT IS WITHIN THOSE PARAMETERS. AND THAT'S HOW WE MAKE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS TO YOU GUYS.
LIKE BRENDAN ALLUDED TO, MORE IMPORTANTLY WITH THIS DOCUMENT
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IS THE REWRITE OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE WHICH WOULD AFFECT THE STAKEHOLDERS IN WHICH THAT'S THE NEXT PROCESS AFTER WE GET THIS ADOPTED. THAT IS WHERE ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS WILL BE INVOLVED IN THAT REWRITE. AND THAT IS OTHER DISTRICTS, LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT, FAR AS FIVE BEFORE, STUFF LIKE THAT WHICH WOULD HELP THEM IN SOME OF THEIR RESTRAINTS AND OTHER INSTANCES WHERE WE WOULD REWRITE AND WE LOOK AND MAKE THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.HE DOES NEED TWEAKING. THEIR WEAK SPOTS AND THERE AS YOU ALL HAVE SEEN. AND IT CAN BE DONE BETTER. BUT THIS IS A GUIDING DOCUMENT FOR A STAFF AND IT'S THE GUIDING DOCUMENT FOR THE COMMUNITY TO USE TO SEE HOW OUR BEST PREDICTION OF GROWTH WILL BE, HOW WE CAN KIND OF -- OUR BEST PREDICTION OF HOW WE VISION OR EVERYTHING IS GOING TO GO. OF COURSE DEVELOPMENT WILL DICTATE IN THE END, IT COULD SHIFT A LITTLE BIT IF THAT IS WHETHER DEVELOPMENT GOES, BUT THIS IS KIND OF OUR GUIDING DOCUMENT INTO MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS TO YOU GUYS.
>> SO IF THE DEVELOPER COMES IN AND THE DEVELOPER IS KIND OF AT ODDS WITH THE CONFERENCE OF PLAN, COACHING TOWARDS THE CONFERENCE OF PLAN WHERE YOU COACHING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
TOWARDS THE DEVELOPER? >> WE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THE CONFERENCE OF PLAN AND THEN WE LET YOU WILL MAKE THAT DECISION. AND THEN YOU'LL MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION.
>> COUNCIL CAN MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION.
>> SO ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY CONVERSATION? I MEAN, I THINK A LOT OF HARD WORK WAS PUT INTO THIS. I THINK IT'S BEEN NEED TO BE DONE SINCE IT'S ALMOST 20 YEARS OLD AND A LOT OF THINGS HAPPENED, ESPECIALLY IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA SINCE THAT TIME AND GROWTH OUT TO THE SOUTH. SO THE TIMING WAS APPROPRIATE, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT WITH OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES. BUT I THINK THAT'S, HAVING MORE DISCUSSION, WE CAN MOVE IT ONTO COUNCIL AND THEN THEY CAN DO THEIR THING WITH IT.
SO IS THERE A MOTION TO MOVE FORWARD OR APPROVE, I GUESS?
>> SO MOVED. >> SO MOVED INTO SECOND.
>> MR. BARNETT, MR. BINGHAM. >> YES.
>> MS. FLEMING.> YES. >> MR. ROSANBALM.
>> YES. >> AND THE LAST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS THE ELECTION OF THE SECRETARY FOR THIS GROUP AND AS IN THE TYPICAL LIBERAL FASHION THAT WE DO, I WILL NOMINATE THE GOOD REVEREND AS THE SECRETARY UNLESS REVEREND HAS A
DISAGREEMENT WITH THAT. >> ACCEPT.
>> HE ACCEPTS. SO HOW -- DO WE VOICE VOTE? DO WE JUST VOICE
VOTE? KELLY, DO YOU KNOW? >> I DON'T THINK THERE WAS A RULE TO ADDRESS EITHER WAY, JUST FOR CLARITY. MAYBE JUST
ROLL CALL. >> OKAY, JUST ROLL CALL. DO WE
NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND? >> WELL, I GUESS WE COULD HAVE
THE SECOND. YOU NOMINATED. >> I NOMINATE.
>> WE HAVE A NOMINATION AND A SECOND.
>> MR. BARNETT, MR. BINGHAM. >> YES.
>> MOTION CARRIES.>> RIGHT. THANK YOU ALL FOR HANGING IN THERE. THIS IS ONE OF THE LONGEST SESSIONS WE HAD IN A WHILE. APPRECIATE EVERYONE COMING. BRANDON, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY AND MAKING A PRESENTATION. GOOD LUCK WITH COUNSEL ON THURSDAY. WE ARE ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.