* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:04] FORUM. WE DO. I GOT A GAVEL, SO I'M GOING TO USE IT. , [Call to Order] UM, . GOOD AFTERNOON. IT IS TWO 30 ON THURSDAY, MAY 25TH, I'M SORRY, ON THURSDAY, JUNE 8TH, 2023. UH, THIS IS THE HOUSTON PLANNING COMMISSION. I'M THE CHAIR. MARTY STEIN. WE'RE CALLED TO ORDER TO VERIFY OUR QUORUM. I'M GONNA CALL THE ROLE THE CHAIR IS PRESENT. VICE CHAIR GARZA. PRESENT. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER ALLMAN WILL BE ABSENT. COMMISSIONER BALDWIN PRESENT. COMMISSIONER CLARK. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER COLVARD. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER? HE PRESENT. COMMISSIONER HINES? PRESENT. COMMISSIONER JONES? PRESENT. COMMISSIONER. MODEST PRESENT. COMMISSIONER NELSON. I SAW HE'S HIDING BEHIND THE CHAT THERE. I SEE HIS, I SEE HIS HAND. YEAH. DO YOU HAVE, WE HAVE TO HAVE YOU AUDIO COMMISSIONER. OKAY. TRY. YEAH. WE CAN COME BACK TO HIM IF HE'S PRESENT, BUT WE'LL CALL HIM. UM, WE'LL WAIT. WE WON'T COUNT HIM IN THE COUNT, BUT HE'S GONNA BE VIRTUAL COMMISSIONER. POROUS PERLE IS PRESENT. COMMISSIONER ROBBINS? HERE PRESENT. COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG PRESENT RIGHT. COMMISSIONER SIGLER. PRESENT. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER TAHIR IS NOT PRESENT. COMMISSIONER VICTOR. PRESENT, PRESENT. COMMISSIONER BLAND, VIRTUALLY PRESENT IS PRESENT VIRTUALLY. COMMISSIONER KANE IS NOT PRESENT. COMMISSIONER DALTON PRESENT, VIRTUALLY PRESENT VIRTUALLY. COMMISSIONER AMANDA PKA IS NOT PRESENT. AND DIRECTOR MARGARET WALLACE BROWN. PRESENT. CAN WE FIND NELSON AGAIN IS PRESENT? SO, UH, COMMISSIONER NELSON, ARE YOU AUDIO? ARE YOU, CAN WE HEAR YOU YET? THAT WOULD BE A NO. HE'S WAVING . SO CAN WE COUNT HIM FOR QUORUM IF WE CAN SEE HIM AND HE'S WAVING TO US. NO, WE CANNOT. NO. THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT SAYS HE HAS TO BE VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE. SO CLOSE YET SO FAR. OKAY, SO WE HAVE 17 HAVE RESPONDED TO ROLL CALL VERBALLY, AND ONE HAS RESPONDED BY WAIVING. MADAM CHAIRMAN, WE HAVE COMMISSIONER RIS PER HAS JOINED US. YEAH, SHE, OH, I'M SORRY. RESPONDED TO ROLL CALL IS. OKAY. OKAY, SO WE HAVE A QUORUM. UM, WE'RE, I'M GONNA SORT OF CUT TO THE CHASE TODAY BECAUSE WE HAVE A HUGE LONG AGENDA. UM, I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS WHERE THEY CAN GET THE FINAL AGENDA ON THE STAFF'S WEBSITE. KEEP YOUR PHONE, YOUR DEVICE ON MUTE UNTIL YOU ARE CALLED ON TO SPEAK AND KEEP YOUR CAMERA OFF IF YOU'RE NOT ON THE COMMISSION UNTIL YOU'RE CALLED ON TO SPEAK AS WELL. UM, STAR SIX, IF YOU'RE ON A, ON A PHONE IS THE BEST WAY TO UNMUTE. AND THAT'S IT. WITH THAT, WE'LL GO TO THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT. DIRECTOR MARGARET WALLACE BROWN IN DEFERENCE TO TIME. I DON'T HAVE A REPORT TODAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. THEN WE WILL GO [Consideration of the May 25, 2023 Planning Commission Meeting Minutes] [Consideration of the May 11 MTFP Workshop and the May 25, 2023 Planning Commission meeting minutes] TO CONSIDERATION OF TWO SETS OF MINUTES. WE HAVE TO APPROVE THE MAY 11TH MAJOR THOROUGHFARE AND FREEWAY PLAN AMENDMENTS, WORKSHOP MINUTES, AND THE MAY 25TH PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES. BOTH WERE IN YOUR PACKET. ARE THERE CORRECTIONS OR ADDITIONS TO EITHER SET OF MINUTES? HEARING NONE. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE BOTH OF THOSE MINUTES? MOTION GARZA. GARZA. IS THERE A SECOND? CLARK. CLARK. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. WITH THAT [I. Consideration of the proposed Chapter 42 overall housing amendments (Suvidha Bandi)] WE GO TO ROMAN NUMERAL ONE CONSIDERATION OF THE PROPOSED CHAPTER 26 AND CHAPTER 42, OVERALL HOUSING AMENDMENTS. UH, MS. UM, VANDY WILL MAKE A PRESENTATION AFTER WHICH THIS ISN'T A PUBLIC HEARING TODAY, BUT BY STATE LAW, WE MUST HEAR FROM ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON ANYTHING POSTED ON THE AGENDA. WE HAVE QUITE A FEW SPEAKERS. WE'LL HEAR THEM, AND THEN THE COMMISSION WILL HAVE AMPLE TIME TO, TO DELIBERATE AND DISCUSS AFTERWARDS. SO THAT'S OUR PROGRAM. MS. BANDY. HI. I ALWAYS FORGET. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS VIDA BANDY AND I'M HERE TODAY TO PRESENT TO YOU THE LIVABLE PLACES, UH, HOUSING RECOMMENDATIONS. AND BEFORE I START, DIRECTOR, WOULD YOU MIND MAKING A COMMENT? UH, THANK YOU. I I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU, UM, TO OUR CO-CHAIRS, SONNY GARZA AND LISA CLARK. WITHOUT WHO'S WONDERFUL LEADERSHIP, WE WOULD NOT BE HERE. AND I ALSO WANNA THANK THE COMMITTEE. IT, IT HAS BEEN A THREE YEAR PROCESS WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN SERIOUS DELIBERATIONS, [00:05:01] VERY, UM, INTENSIVE CONVERSATIONS. AND I AM GRATEFUL ON BEHALF OF ALL HOUSTONIANS THAT WE HAVE SUCH COMMITTED HOUSTONIANS TO HELP US THROUGH THIS PROCESS. AND I ALSO WANNA THANK THE TEAM FOR THEIR HARD WORK ALONG THE WAY. WE'RE VERY PROUD OF WHAT WE'RE PRESENTING TODAY AND WE HOPE YOU LIKE IT AS WELL. SO THANK YOU BOTH. THANK YOU. GO RIGHT AHEAD. OKAY, SO LET'S GET STARTED. THE PURPOSE OF LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE IS TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN OUR DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS THAT ENCOURAGE HOUSING VARIETY AND AFFORDABILITY. MOST NOTABLY, LIVABLE PLACES WILL CREATE GREATER VARIETY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS FOR ALL HOUSTONIANS. AND BY AFFORDABLE, WE MEAN SOMETHING MORE ATTAINABLE WITHOUT NEEDING THREE JOBS TO PAY FOR. THESE ARE SERIOUS WORK OBTAINABLE GOALS DERIVED FROM VARIOUS PLANS LIKE PLAN HOUSTON, RESILIENT HOUSTON AND OTHERS. THE OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED WITH THESE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS ARE TO PROMOTE VARIETY OF MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING TYPES, INCENTIVIZE SMALLER UNITS, MAKE STREETS SAFER AND WALKABLE, CONSISTENT RULES ACROSS ALL DEVELOPMENT TYPES, AND PROMOTE USE OF OTHER MODES OF TRANSIT AND TRANSIT RICH AREAS. SO HERE ARE THE FOUR HOUSING TYPES THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THESE AMENDMENTS, ALONG WITH THE PROPOSAL ABOUT MARKET-BASED PARKING. I WILL WALK VERY QUICKLY THROUGH MY PRESENTATION IDENTIFYING CHANGES MADE BASED ON THE PUBLIC COMMENTS RECEIVED. AND PLEASE STOP ME IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION ON ANY OF THESE. FOR MOST OF THESE HOUSING TYPES, CHANGES WERE NEEDED IN IDM TO MAKE THESE PROPOSALS FEASIBLE. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE PUBLIC WORKS TEAM FOR THEIR EXTENSIVE COLLABORATION AND THE LEADERSHIP IN MAKING THE REQUIRED CHANGES TO IDM. I WILL SUMMARIZE THE IDM CHANGES IN THE END OF MY PRESENTATION. UM, SO THE FIRST ONE IS SECOND DWELLING UNIT MEANS THAT THE SECOND DETACHED UNIT THAT CAN BE ADDED ON A SINGLE FAMILY LOT WHEN NOT PROHIBITED BY DE RESTRICTIONS. THE PROPOSAL WAS TO NOT HAVE A SIZE LIMIT FOR THE SECONDARY DWELLING UNIT. BUT AFTER HEARING THE COMMUNITY PLANNING'S PROPOSAL IS TO HAVE A SIZE LIMIT OF MAXIMUM 1500 SQUARE FEET WITH ONE CURB CUT PER STREET FRONTAGE. IF THE FIRST UNIT ALREADY HAS TWO PARKING SPACES, NO ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACES ARE NEEDED FOR THE SECOND UNIT AS LONG AS IT STAYS THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OR LESS. ONE ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACE WILL BE REQUIRED IF THE UNIT IS GREATER THAN THOUSAND SQUARE FEET AND LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 1500 SQUARE FEET. SO THAT'S SECOND DWELLING UNITS. THE NEXT ONE IS MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL MEANS A SMALL SCALE MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT WITH NO MORE THAN EIGHT UNITS. ON AN UNRESTRICTED PROPERTY, THE MINIMUM SITE SIZE IS 3,500 SQUARE FEET WITH THE DEPTH OF NO MORE THAN ONE 50 FEET. THE PROPOSAL WAS TO ALLOW MAXIMUM OF EIGHT UNITS ALONG ALL STREET TYPES. BUT AFTER HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY PLANNING PROPOSES NO MORE THAN FOUR UNITS ALONG THE LOCAL STREETS. AND THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 30 FEET WILL BE MEASURED AS DEFINED IN THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE. ONE CURB CUT PER STREET FRONTAGES ALLOWED AND ULAR ACCESS CAN BE FROM AN NEIGHBORING ALLEY ONE WAY. DRIVEWAYS ARE ALSO ALLOWED ON AND CAN BE, UM, AND CAN BE 12 FEET WIDE. UM, STRUCTURES ALONG THE STREET MUST FACE THE STREET WITH AN ENTRY FEATURE AND REDUCE BUILDING LINES ARE ALLOWED AFTER COMMUNITY FEEDBACK. PLANNING PROPOSES THAT ONE PARKING SPACE FOR UNITS THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OR LESS, AND TWO PARKING SPACES ARE NEEDED FOR UNITS GREATER THAN THOUSAND SQUARE FEET. SO THERE IS A CHANGE HERE IN THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS. ORIGINALLY IT WAS 1500, WE DROPPED THAT SIZE, 2000 SQUARE FEET. PARKING MUST BE LOCATED IN THE SIDE OR REAR OF THE SITE, AND MARKET BASED PARKING IS ALLOWED, BUT ONE BIKE PARKING PER UNIT WILL BE REQUIRED IN CASE MARKET BASED PARKING IS CHOSEN FOR THESE TYPES OF DEVELOPMENTS. UH, NEXT ONE IS COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENT. COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS CLUSTERS OF LOTS LOCATED AROUND THE COMMON GREEN SPACE AND DO NOT NEED A STREET FRONTAGE. THIS IS A NEW STYLE OF DEVELOPMENT THAT IS BECOMING POPULAR WITH SMALLER HOMES AND PARKING IS DETACHED FROM THE UNITS AS LONG AS THERE IS AN AGREEMENT FOR THE COMMON MAINTENANCE OF THE COMMON AREAS. THERE IS NO MINIMUM LOT SIZE OR LOT WIDTH REQUIREMENT FOR THESE LOTS WITHIN THE COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENT. BUT THERE IS [00:10:01] A MAXIMUM LOT SIZE OF 3,500 SQUARE FEET AND MAXIMUM UNIT SIZE OF 1500 SQUARE FEET TO KEEP THE HOMES SMALLER. ALSO, THERE IS NO MAXIMUM DENSITY, BUT EACH LOT WITHIN THE DEVELOPMENT MUST PROVIDE ONE 50 SQUARE FEET OF GREEN SPACE FOR THE COURTYARD. THE PROPERTY DEPTH CANNOT EXCEED ONE 50 FEET AND HEIGHT OF THE STRUCTURES CANNOT EXCEED 30 FEET AS MEASURED PER THE FIRE CODE DUE TO FIRE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS. ACCESS TO THE PARKING SPACES WILL BE PRO PROVIDED VIA A COURTYARD ACCESS DRIVE. STRUCTURES ALONG THE STREET MUST FACE THE STREET AND THE ENTRY FEATURE, UM, CAN BE WITHIN THE REDUCED BUILDING LINE. ONE PARKING SPACE IS REQUIRED FOR A THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OR SMALLER, AND TWO SPACES ARE NEEDED FOR UNITS GREATER THAN A THOUSAND SQUARE FEET. AGAIN, PARKING MUST BE IN THE BACK AND ONE GUEST PARKING SPACE IS REQUIRED FOR EVERY SIX UNITS. UM, AND MARKET-BASED PARKING IS ALLOWED IN THESE DEVELOPMENTS AS WELL. NEXT ONE, THE FAVORITE NARROW LOTS ARE ALLOWED TODAY. SO THE NEXT TYPE IS NARROW LOTS, AND THESE LOTS ARE ALLOWED TODAY. OVER THE YEARS, PLANNING COMMISSION HAS SEEN AREAS QUICKLY CHANGE FROM TYPICAL 50 BY HUNDRED LOTS WITH NARROW DRIVEWAYS TO 25 BY A HUNDRED FEET WIDE LOTS WHERE THE ENTIRE FRONTAGE IS TAKEN UP BY A WIDE DRIVEWAY. DUE TO THE CURRENT ORDINANCE REQUIREMENTS PLANNING COMMISSION TASKED LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE TO FIND A SOLUTION TO THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THESE TYPICAL LOTS INTO NARROW LOTS WITH WIDE CONTINUOUS DRIVEWAYS. AFTER ASSESSING THE NEED FOR HOUSING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING THE PEDESTRIAN ROLE COMMITTEE ARRIVED AT THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED WITH THESE AMENDMENTS ARE TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF DRIVEWAY CUTS, MAKING STREETS SAFER FOR OTHER ALL USERS, REDUCE IMPERVIOUS COVER WITHIN THE CITY RIGHT OF WAY FOR WHICH DETENTION VOLUME IS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR AND PRESERVE ROOM FOR STREET PARKING FOR EVERYONE. NARROW LOT IN THE ORDINANCE IS DEFINED, UH, IN THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE IS DEFINED AS LOTS LESS THAN 40 FEET WIDE ALONG THE STREET. ALL PROPERTIES THAT ALBERT AND ALLEY MUST TAKE ALLEY ACCESS AND CORNER PROPERTIES CAN USE ALLEY ACCESS OR TAKE LAR ACCESS FROM THE SIDE STREETS FOR MIDBLOCK PROPERTIES. IF CREATING LOTS 40 FEET OR WIDER INDIVIDUAL DRIVEWAYS ARE ALLOWED AS LONG AS 22 FEET CURB SPACE IS PRESERVED. IF CREATING LOTS NARROW THAN 40 FEET REFERRED TO AS NARROW LOTS, LAR ACCESS MUST BE VIA FLAGSTAFF OR SHARED DRIVEWAY OR A PRIVATE ACCESS EASEMENT. LAR ACCESS IS ALL CAN ALSO BE PROVIDED, PROVIDED VIA A COMBINED DRIVEWAY APPROACH FOR LOTS THAT ARE NARROW THAN 40 FEET ON A SITE THAT IS SMALLER THAN 1500 SQUARE FEET. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO HERE IS A STREET CAPE STREET SCAPE EXHIBIT THAT SHOWS HOW CORNER LOTS OR MIDBLOCK LOTS CAN BE REDEVELOPED BASED ON THE ABOVE PROPOSED RULES USING ALLEY ACCESS OR SHARED DRIVEWAY OR FLAG LOT OR COMBINED DRIVEWAY APPROACH. SO THIS EXHIBIT KIND OF SHOWS ALL OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES YOU CAN DEVELOP THE PROPERTY, UM, PER THE PROPOSED RULES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. FOR NARROW, LOTS LESS THAN 40 FEET WIDE COMBINED DRIVEWAY APPROACH WIDTH WE ARE PROPOSING IS MAXIMUM 24 FEET AND IT CAN BE SPLIT AS 12 FEET PER EACH LOT AND THERE IS NO COMMON, UM, ACCESS AGREEMENT NEEDED FOR THESE KIND OF DRIVEWAYS. HERE IS AN EXHIBIT TO SHOW HOW THE COMBINED DRIVEWAY WORKS WHEN PROPOSING THREE LOTS BASED ON THE PROPOSED RULES. ALSO IN THE RIGHT IMAGE, YOU CAN SEE LOTS WIDER THAN 40 FEET WITH INDIVIDUAL DRIVEWAYS, BUT PRESERVING CURB SPACE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. HERE IS A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CURRENT DRIVEWAYS VERSUS PROPOSED DRIVEWAYS ON A PROPERTY THAT IS, UM, 1500 SQUARE FEET, UH, SORRY, ONE 50 FEET BY A HUNDRED FEET. SO THE IDEA OF COMBINING THE DRIVEWAYS TWO IS TO PRESERVE THE ON STREET PARKING, REDUCE THE NUMBER OF DRIVEWAY CUTS, UM, AND, UH, MAKE THE MAKE THE STREETS AVAILABLE FOR PARKING. ADDITIONAL STANDARDS REQUIRE THAT AT LEAST ONE THIRD OF THE STRUCTURE ALONG THE STREET MUST BE LOCATED WITHIN NINE FEET AHEAD OF THE GARAGE BUILDING LINE, OR FOUR FEET BEHIND, UM, FOUR FEET BEHIND THE GARAGE BUILDING LINE FOR LOTS LESS THAN 40 FEET WIDE, IF NOT ABLE TO MEET THE ONE THIRD REQUIREMENT. THERE ARE TWO OPTIONS, EITHER PROVIDE FUNCTIONAL BALCONIES [00:15:01] ON THE SECOND FLOOR OR 36 FEET WINDOWS FACING THE STREET MUST BE PROVIDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WINDOW OF THREE FEET BY FIVE FEET SIZE. NEXT SLIDE. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OR EXHIBIT SHOWING THE ONE THIRD FRONTAGE REQUIREMENT. AND NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. AND HERE ARE IMAGES TO SHOW THE COMBINED DRIVEWAY APPROACH AND THE OPTIONS OF BALCONIES AND WINDOWS IN THE FACING THE STREET. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. IN THE ADDITIONAL STANDARDS FOR SIZE AND RAILROADING, LOTS UNITS ALONG THE STREET MUST FACE THE STREET WITH AN ENTRY FEATURE AND GUEST PARKING SPACES MUST BE LOCATED WITHIN PRIVATE PROPERTY. PARKING IS AGAIN BASED ON THE UNIT SIZE FOR ALL NARROW LOTS. IF THE UNIT SIZE IS SMALLER THAN 1500 SQUARE FEET, ONLY ONE PARKING SPACES REQUIRED. IF THE UNIT SIZES ARE GREATER THAN 1500 SQUARE FEET, THEN TWO PARKING SPACES ARE REQUIRED. SO OVERALL, FOR ALL SINGLE FAMILY LOTS, WE ARE REDUCING THE PARKING BASED ON THE UNIT SIZE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE SHOWING THE ENTRY FEATURE AND HOW THE UNIT CAN FACE THE STREET. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. UM, IN TERMS OF INCENTIVES, INCENTIVES FOR SIDE AND RAILROADING LOTS ARE ADDITIONAL DENSITY IS ALLOWED AND THERE IS AN ALLOWANCE TO ENCROACH INTO THE VISIBILITY TRIANGLE ABOUT 10 FEET AND REDUCED BUILDING LINE IS ALLOWED ALONG THE MAJOR 80 FEET OR LESS. NOW I'M GETTING TO THE LAST PIECE, UM, ABOUT MARKET-BASED PARKING, WHICH MEANS THAT CITY DOES NOT HAVE A MINIMUM PARKING REQUIREMENTS AND PROPERTY OWNER CAN DECIDE HOW MUCH PARKING IS NEEDED BASED ON THE MARKET. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. UM, HERE IS THE REVISED MARKET-BASED PARKING BOUNDARY AFTER PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT PLANNING PROPOSES. THE BUFFERS THAT YOU SEE IN BLUE ARE WALKING DISTANCE BUFFERS, WHICH ARE HALF MILE FROM RAIL STATIONS OR BUS RAPID TRANSIT STOPS QUARTER MILE FROM HIGH FREQUENCY BUS STOPS WITH 15 MINUTE HEADWAY, QUARTER MILE FROM BLUE ROUTE BUS STOPS WITH 30 MINUTE HEADWAY IN OPPORTUNITY ZONES. AND ALSO THAT ARE LOCATED WITHIN, UM, A CENSUS TRACK WITH 25% OR HIGHER, ZERO CAR OWNERSHIP AND QUARTER MILE FROM PROTECTED BIKEWAYS UNLESS LOCATED FURTHER THAN TWO MILES FROM THE ABOUT THREE BUFFERS. SO BASED ON THIS CRITERIA THAT YOU GO BACK, PLEASE, BASED ON THE BUFFERS THAT I IDENTIFIED, WE CAME UP WITH THIS MAP THAT IDENTIFIES ALL OF THE AREAS WHERE THERE WILL NOT BE ANY CITY MINIMUM REQUIRED. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO JUST TO SUMMARIZE THE CHANGES BASED ON THE COMMENTS. SECOND ROWING UNITS, WE CHANGED THE SIZE OF THE UNIT. WE ESTABLISHED A SIZE LIMIT OF 1500. IN U WE ARE RESTRICTING ONLY UP TO FOUR UNITS ALONG LOCAL STREETS, AND THE PARKING IS ONE PER THOUSAND SQUARE FEET UNIT AND MORE THAN A THOUSAND, IT'S TWO SPACES. AND THE HEIGHT HAS BEEN MATCHED TO THE FIRE CODE IN COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENT. WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE HEIGHT MATCHING THE FIRE CODE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. IN THE NARROW LOT DEVELOPMENTS, THERE ARE TWO CHANGES WE MADE TO ALLOW WINDOWS IN LIEU OF BALCONIES WHEN THE LOTS ARE NARROW AND ALLEY ACCESS REGULATIONS WERE MADE CLEAR, UM, WITH ADDED LANGUAGE ABOUT DIRECTOR DISCRETION IN MARKET BASED PARKING, WE REVISED THE BOUNDARY, UM, WITH WALKING DISTANCE BUFFERS. PLEASE NOTE THAT PER HARRIS COUNTY, FORT BEND COUNTY AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY REQUESTS, THE NEW RULES WILL NOT APPLY IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON'S EJ SORRY, EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. NOW THE, UM, SYNOPSIS OF WHAT THE IDM CHANGES ARE, UM, HERE IS A SNIPPET OF BROADLY IDENTIFYING THE CHANGES THAT ARE, THAT ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY HAPPENING IN IDM CHAPTER NINE. THE DETENTION EXEMPTION IS ALLOWED ON ALL SITES THAT ARE 15,000 SQUARE FEET OR SMALLER. DETENTION REQUIREMENTS ARE MADE CONSISTENT ACROSS ALL TYPES OF DEVELOPMENTS. 97 50 SQUARE FEET DETENTION EXEMPTION FOR TRACKS BETWEEN THOUSAND, 15,000 SQUARE FEET TO LESS THAN ONE ACRE TRACKS, AND NO DETENTION IS CALCULATED FOR ALLEY IMPROVEMENTS. IN CHAPTER NINE, UPDATED, THERE ARE UPDATES TO ALLEY ACCESS REQUIREMENTS. PAVING WIDENING IS NEEDED FOR ALL SUBSTANDARD STREETS FOR ALL DEVELOPMENTS. AND UPDATED NO PARKING SIGN INSTALLATION PROCESS [00:20:02] IN CHAPTER 15 DEFINE THE COMBINED DRIVEWAY APPROACH IS ALSO CALLED JOINT ACCESS IN IDM AND THERE IS NO ACCESS AGREEMENT NEEDED FOR THAT COMBINED PORTION. NARROW DRIVEWAY APPROACHES ARE ALLOWED. PREVIOUSLY 12 FEET DRIVEWAYS WERE THE MINIMUM, NOW IT'S 10 FEET, IT WILL BE 10 FEET FOR SINGLE FAMILY. AND MUR DEVELOPMENTS, SHARED DRIVEWAYS ARE CLASSIFIED AS RESIDENTIAL DRIVEWAYS. PREVIOUSLY 18 FEET. UM, THE DRIVEWAY OPENING HAD TO BE 18 FEET REGARDLESS, EVEN IF THE SHARED DRIVERS WAS 16. SO THAT'S CHANGING. AND 20 FEET TANGENTIAL DISTANCE FROM THE STREET RIGHT OF WAY IS BEING CHANGED TO EIGHT FEET WITHIN THE PROPERTY. SO THIS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES THE ABILITY TO PUT LOTS ON THE FRONT PROPERTY WHEN DOING SHARED DRIVER DEVELOPMENT. WITH THAT, UM, HERE IS THE TIMELINE OF VARIOUS MILESTONES. UM, LPSC ESTABLISHED CONSENSUS IN MAY AND JUNE, 2022. WE MET WITH IN THREE ORGANIZATIONS FOR OVER A PERIOD OF 10 MONTHS FROM JULY, 2022 TO APRIL, 2023, LPAC. REVIEWED THE OR DRAFT ORDINANCE ON FEBRUARY 21ST OF THIS YEAR. PLANNING, COMMISSION PRESENTATION AND PUBLIC HEARING WAS DONE ON MARCH 16TH. SURVEY AND PUBLIC COMMENTS WE, UM, TOOK FROM MARCH 16TH TO APRIL 27TH, AND TODAY WE ARE HERE FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION ON JUNE 8TH. NEXT STEPS WILL BE TO GO TO THE QUALITY OF COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON JUNE 13TH AND THEN ON TO CITY COUNCIL, WHICH IS A TENTATIVE DATE. THE NEXT STEPS, LIKE I MENTIONED AFTER THIS, IS TO PRESENT TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE ON JUNE 13TH, ANTICIPATING A POSITIVE VOTE. ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT THESE AMENDMENTS IS ON LET'S TALK HOUSTON WEBSITE AND ALL OF THE ATTACHMENTS ARE ALSO PROVIDED THERE. UM, I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT ALL THE COMMENTS FROM THE COMMENTS MATRIX THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED IN THE DRAFT ORDINANCE ALREADY. WE HAVE RECEIVED SEVERAL SUPPORT LETTERS, UM, WHICH HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU AS A PACKAGE AND, UM, MOST OF THEM HAVE FULL SUPPORT, BUT SOME OF THEM HAVE IDENTIFIED LIMITED SUPPORT. I WOULD JUST, UH, WOULD LIKE TO READ, UM, THE AGENCIES OR GROUPS THAT HAVE GIVEN US, UM, A A RP AGAPE HOMES BLUEPRINT, HOUSTON CNU HOUSTON GREATER INWOOD SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, SINCE STEPHEN EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL, TEXAS A PA, HOUSTON LAND BANK, HOUSTON SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE, METRO MONTROSE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY HAS PROVIDED, SORRY, ALL THE 10 ABOVE HAVE PROVIDED FULL SUPPORT. MONTROSE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY HAS PROVIDED, UM, PARTIAL SUPPORT. UM, THERE IS, SO THE EXCLUDED PORTION WAS THE NARROW LOTS FOR THE MONTROSE. GHBA HAS PROVIDED, UH, HAS OPPOSED, HREC HAS PROVIDED SUPPORT EXCEPT FOR NARROW LOTS, MERITAGE HOMES HAS OPPOSED THE AMENDMENTS. UM, WE ALSO HAVE RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM INDIVIDUALS, ROBIN HALER AND TRUMAN ADMINISTER. SO THESE ARE ALL THE DIFFERENT SUPPORT LETTERS THAT YOU'RE SEEING IN YOUR PACKAGE. UM, WITH THAT I CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION AND I'M READY FOR QUESTIONS. OKAY. UM, I THINK WE WILL GO AHEAD AND, UM, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR THAT GREAT PRESENTATION AS WELL AS ALL YOUR WORK FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS. THANK YOU. YOU HAVE BEEN JUST DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB AND WE APPRECIATE YOU. UM, I THINK WHAT WE DO, IF UNLESS SOMEBODY HAS A SPECIFIC BURNING QUESTION THAT THEY'D LIKE TO ASK NOW, I'D LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND HEAR FROM OUR PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND THEN CALL MS. BANDY UP, MS. MATER AT THE END FOR YOUR QUESTIONS AND WE'LL, BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME DISCUSSION AMONGST THE COMMISSION ON THIS. SO, UM, MADAM CHAIR. OH, YAY. YAY. OKAY. PLEASE NOTE THAT COMMISSIONER NELSON IS PRESENT AND WE'VE ALSO BEEN JOINED BY COMMISSIONER MON AKA AND COMMISSIONER TAHIR. WE HAVE A FULL HOUSE TODAY, WHICH IS GREAT. THANK YOU. UM, SO UNLESS, IS THAT OKAY? IS THAT A PLAN? SURE. OKAY. HEARING NO OBJECTIONS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. BUT SIT THERE, WE'LL BE CALLING YOU BACK. UM, OKAY. I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND CALL EVERYONE WHO IS ON MY LIST TO SPEAK IN PERSON WHO SIGNED UP IN ADVANCE. THEN I'M GONNA CALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ACTUALLY, WE KNOW ARE HERE TO SPEAK. AND THEN I'LL GO BACK AND CALL THE PEOPLE WHO SIGNED UP IN ADVANCE TO BE VIRTUAL. SO THAT'S JUST, THAT'S THE PLAN. IF IT SEEMS LIKE WE'VE MISSED YOU, IT WILL GET TO YOU. OKAY. SO OUR FIRST SPEAKER, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES EACH [00:25:01] IS, UH, AHMED TURTON. AHMED TURTON. T-U-R-B-I-N-T-O-N DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT. UM, NEXT WOULD BE, I'M SORRY, CHRISTA STONEHAM. I THINK I SAW HER. I THINK I SAW HER. CHRISTA STONEHAM. YEAH, SHE'S COMING UP. OH YEAH, BECAUSE SHE'S SO TALL. , WE MISS SEEING YOU HERE. WE DO. I MISS OUT TOO. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS KRISTA STONEHAM. SOME OF Y'ALL MAY REMEMBER ME AS A FORMER STAFF MEMBER WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, AND THEN MOVED TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. AND NOW I'M PROUD TO SERVE AS THE CEO AND PRESIDENT OF THE HOUSTON LAND BANK. FOR THOSE THAT MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH THE HOUSTON LAND BANK, IT WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS LAURA, WHICH STOOD FOR THE LAND ASSEMBLAGE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. WE WERE CREATED BY THE CITY OF HOUSTON IN ORDER TO CREATE COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS FOR HOUSTON'S MOST UNDERSERVED, AND I LIKE TO SAY UNDERESTIMATED NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE LIVABLE PLACES, UH, INITIATIVE WOULD MAKE MY JOB SO MUCH EASIER. UM, WE REALLY OWN SO MANY UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. WE OWN OVER A HUNDRED PARCELS THAT ARE 25 BY A HUNDRED FEET LONG, AND, UM, WE ONLY EXCLUSIVELY SERVE LOW TO MODERATE INCOME POPULATIONS. UM, SPECIFICALLY 120% AND BELOW OF THE AREA MEDIAN INCOME, WHICH COULD EASILY BE CITY EMPLOYEES, UM, IT COULD BE A STAFF, IT COULD BE TEACHERS. UM, AND REALLY JUST WANTED TO, UM, COME HERE TO SHARE MY SUPPORT AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STAFF FOR THEIR HARD WORK. UM, I DID PROVIDE A LETTER, BUT UM, JUST WANTED TO SHOW MY FACE IN PERSON TO ALSO JUST STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TIMELINESS OF THIS. UM, IN TERMS OF HOUSTONIANS PAYING, UM, JUST WAY MORE THAN WHAT THEY CAN AFFORD, I BELIEVE THERE'S OVER 500,000 HOUSEHOLDS THAT ARE, ARE COST BURDEN RIGHT NOW ACCORDING TO RECENT'S REPORTS. UM, AND DEFINITELY WHERE THE MARKET IS. WE REALLY NEED MORE INNOVATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR ALL HOUSTONIANS WHO REALLY JUST DESERVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HOME OWNERSHIP. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. MM-HMM . UH, NEXT IS DANIEL O COREY, K-O-R-I-E. DANIEL O DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT. UM, THEN, UH, JASON CONWAY. JASON CONWAY NOT PRESENT. UM, JEFF, UH, TURNO, T-E-R-N-O-I-S. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'VE GOT A LITTLE HANDOUT. I'M GONNA TRY AND PASS IT THAT WAY. IF YOU GUYS CAN HELP ME OUT. YOU GIVE IT TO THE, THE GUY RIGHT OVER YOUR LEFT SHO RIGHT SHOULDER. THANK YOU. HOPEFULLY I'VE GOT ENOUGH. WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS JEFF AL. I'M A HOME BUILDER HERE IN HOUSTON. UH, I COME TO YOU TODAY TO DISCUSS THE SHARED DRIVEWAY PROPOSITION. UM, SO THE CURRENT PROPOSED CHANGES ARE INTENDED TO CLEAR SIDEWALKS AND PROVIDE EXTRA STREET PARKING. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THESE CHANGES DO NEITHER. LET ME EXPLAIN. THE IMAGE TO THE LEFT AS HE PASSES IT OUT, SHOWS THE PROPOSED CHANGES FOR THE SHARED DRIVEWAY. UH, RIGHT NOW IT PROVIDES 13 FEET OF SPACE IN BETWEEN THE INTERN AND THE EDGE OF THE LOT. YOU WANT US TO PUT THIS UP ON THE DOCUMENT CAMERA? IF YOU CAN, THAT'D BE GREAT. YOU CAN SEE IT. CAN WE DO THAT QUICKLY HERE, JEFF IS SORRY FOR THE FOLKS AT HOME. OH, GO AHEAD. KEEP TALKING. OKAY. SO RIGHT NOW WITH THE SHARED DRIVEWAY CHANGE, IT PROVIDES 13 FEET OF SPACE IN BETWEEN THE INTERN AND THE EDGE OF THE LOT. SO THAT GIVES YOU, ON A FOUR HOUSE PROJECT THAT GIVES YOU ONE PARKING SPACE THAT'S 26 FEET WIDE ON THE STREET, THAT'S ONE SPACE FOR FOUR HOUSES. THE IMAGE ON THE RIGHT SHOWS HOW WE CAN CURRENTLY BUILD WHAT TODAY'S ORDINANCE IS IN PLACE. AND WITH THE CENTER HOUSES, WITH THOSE FOUR PLANS SWAPPED, YOU GET THE, UH, WALKWAYS ON THE INSIDE OF THE LOTS THAT PROVIDES AN 18 FOOT PARKING SPACE FOR FOUR HOUSES. SO WE SOLVE OUR PROBLEM WITH TODAY'S ORDINANCES JUST BY REQUIRING THE TWO MIDDLE HOUSES TO BE SWAPPED. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO IS EIGHT FEET OF PARKING ON THE STREET, AND YOU CAN'T FIT ANOTHER CAR IN THERE. SO WHAT WE GAIN IS A PARKING SPOT IN BOTH SCENARIOS. AND WHAT WE LOSE IN THE SHARED DRIVEWAY SCENARIO IS THE SECOND PARKING SPOT ON THE DRIVEWAY. AND SO NOW YOU CAN ONLY PARK ONE SPOT ON THE DRIVEWAY BECAUSE IT'S TOO NARROW. THAT EDGE OF THE DRIVEWAY IS TOO FAR AWAY FROM THAT INTERN. AND SO, UH, WE CAN SOLVE THIS ISSUE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE WITH TODAY'S ORDINANCES IN PLACE, AND WE WON'T BE LOSING A PARKING SPOT ON THE DRIVEWAYS. IF YOU COULD JUST TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND TELL ME IF I'M WRONG AND SEEING THIS, IF WE'RE [00:30:01] NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM, GIVEN TODAY'S LAYOUT. OKAY. BECAUSE TO ME IT LOOKS LIKE WE DO. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY, AND WE'LL PROB REFER TO THIS WHEN WE HAVE SOME DISCUSSION. THANKS. THANK YOU. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS JOE DUNHAM, D-U-N-H-A-M, JOE DUNHAM. HELLO. OH, THERE YOU ARE. THANK YOU. DOING AN EMAIL TOO MUCH AT THE SAME TIME. THANKS FOR LISTENING TO ME. UM, I CAME OUT TO TALK ALSO ABOUT THE SHARED DRIVEWAYS. UM, SEVERAL OF Y'ALL MIGHT REMEMBER ME FROM LAST TIME, UH, WAS JOKING ABOUT CHILDREN, HAVING KIDS OVER, HAVING FAMILY OVER. UM, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE IN THIS SHARED DRIVEWAY SITUATION, THANKSGIVING OR FAMILY DINNER NIGHT AND HAVING TO TELL YOUR FAMILY TO PARK AROUND THE CORNER AND UBER DOWN TO MY HOUSE BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH PLACES TO PARK. UM, SO I, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A REALITY IF YOU CAN ONLY PARK ONE CAR AT YOUR HOUSE. UM, TALKING ABOUT MOVING EVERYTHING TOWARDS PRESERVING STREET PARKING. UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH Y'ALL DRIVE AROUND THE HEIGHTS, BUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE STREET PARKING PUT THESE HUGE BOULDER ROCKS LIKE OUT AT THE ROAD 'CAUSE THEY DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO PARK THERE. UM, THEY ALSO PUT THOSE LITTLE STAKES THAT ARE REFLECTIVE, YOU KNOW, SO THAT THEY'LL HIT YOUR CAR JUST TO GENTLY REMIND YOU, HEY, I DON'T WANT YOU TO PARK HERE. UM, YOU ALSO SEE PEOPLE PUT UP THESE ILLEGAL SIGNS ALL THE TIME THAT SAY NO PARKING. 'CAUSE THEY CLAIM IT. PEOPLE REALLY DON'T WANT MORE PARKING IN THE STREET IN FRONT OF THEIR HOME. I CAN SEE HOW PEOPLE WHO MAY BE TRYING TO GO TO BUSINESS SAY, HEY, THERE'S NOWHERE TO PARK. THOSE PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING. BUT ON YOUR RESIDENTIAL STREETS WHERE PEOPLE LIVE, THEY WANNA PARK IN THEIR DRIVEWAY. UM, THEY DON'T WANNA PARK IN THE STREET AND THEY DON'T WANT OTHER PEOPLE PARKING IN THEIR HOUSES IN FRONT OF THE STREET. UM, I LOVE A GOOD ALLEYWAY. THERE ARE NOT VERY MANY OF 'EM IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. UM, WHEN YOU DRIVE DOWN ONE, IT'S AWESOME. UM, WE'RE ACTUALLY BUILDING ON ONE RIGHT NOW, AND THE PEOPLE HAVE ALL REACHED OUT TO ME. THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT A PRIVATE ALLEYWAY. TRYING COULD TRY AND EXPLAIN TO HIM YOU CAN'T DO THAT. BUT THE COST TO IMPROVE AN ALLEYWAY OFTENTIMES WOULD BE AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE THAN THE IMPROVEMENTS THEY'RE MAKING TO THE HOUSE, THE REMODELING OR THE NEW CONSTRUCTION MAKING, BUILDING ON A STREET WITH AN ALLEYWAY, UH, JUST NOT POSSIBLE FOR YOUR AVERAGE BUILDER. UM, AND, UH, OH, JUST, JUST AS QUICK AS I COULD ABOUT THE, THE ONE THIRD FRONTAGE FACING THE STREET, UM, THAT OPPORTUNITY, IT DOES LOOK BEAUTIFUL, BUT WHAT THAT DOES IS IT'S GONNA MAKE PEOPLE CANNOT HAVE A TWO CAR GARAGE. YOU CAN HAVE A ONE CAR GARAGE AND HAVE A NICE PRETTY THIRD FRONT FACING WHEN YOU HAVE ONE HOUSE PER PROPERTY. UM, BUT PEOPLE DON'T WANT SINGLE CAR GARAGES. SO ANYWAY, THANKS FOR HEARING ME OUT. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS CLAVER PCHA, UH, PITA. CAN YOU HOLD THESE? UM, HI THERE. UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. UH, FIRST AND FOREMOST, UM, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU ALL TODAY. UM, MY NAME IS, UH, CLA PITA. I AM A REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL HERE IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. UM, I AM HERE AS A HOUSTONIAN WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE, UH, SHARED DRIVEWAY IDEA, UM, THAT DOES NOT TAKE, UH, AFFORDABILITY INTO ACCOUNT. UM, I WANNA BE FRANK WITH YOU ALL IN THAT IN CHAPTER 42, THERE ARE SOME IDEAS THAT I, THAT I THINK ARE GOOD. UM, I THINK THEY CAN BE DEVELOPED, THEY CAN BE EXPANDED ON. UM, HOWEVER, FORCING, UH, 40 FOOT WIDE LOTS INTO BUILDING A SHARED DRIVEWAY FOR TWO HOMES IS SOMETHING THAT ONLY ADDS, UM, UH, A HUGE PROBLEM TO THE, TO THE ALREADY BIG PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE WHEN IT COMES TO AFFORDABILITY FOR BUYERS. UM, FACT IS A SHARED DRIVEWAY DEVELOP SHARED DRIVEWAY HOMES, UM, SORRY, PRIVATE DRIVEWAYS, UM, ARE MORE DESIRED BY BUYERS. UM, ALL AROUND THE CITY OF HOUSTON. THEY SH THEY, UH, SELL AT A FASTER RATE THAN SHARED DRIVEWAY DEVELOPMENTS. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SEE AND THAT WE KNOW. UM, AND IF WE, UM, IF WE'RE ONLY FORCING, I GUESS THE, UH, THE BUILDERS TO, TO, TO DO THIS SHARED DRIVEWAY IDEAS IN 40 FOOT FEET OR, OR, YOU KNOW, WIDE FOOT LOTS OR LESS, UM, IT'S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, ADD TO THIS, UH, AFFORDABILITY PROBLEM, FORCING BUYERS TO ONLY LOOK AT LOTS THAT IS, THAT ARE 40 FOOT WIDER OR BIGGER. UM, I THINK THAT THERE'S ONLY A SELECT, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO, UH, I'M SORRY THAT I'M JUMPING AROUND EVERYWHERE, BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, A 2,500 SQUARE FOOT LOT THAT DOES PRODUCE A, A PRIVATE DRIVEWAY, IT'S ALREADY UNAFFORDABLE TO A LOT OF HOUSTONIANS, A LOT OF BUYERS, COLLEGE GRADUATES, UM, AND, AND FORCING THEM TO LOOK AT, UH, 40 FEET OR WIDER LAWS, THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY, THAT THEY'RE LITERALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST CANNOT AFFORD. UM, I THINK THAT THIS IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT, THAT WILL ADD ONTO THAT ISSUE. ASIDE FROM, FROM PACKING THE STREET WITH CARS, UM, MAKING IT MORE DANGEROUS FOR PROBABLY KIDS. UM, I THINK THAT THEY, THAT THAT THERE'S A HUGE ISSUE TO TALK ABOUT HERE BEING THAT AFFORDABILITY FOR A LOT OF BUYERS AS IT IS TODAY, UM, BEING THE CURRENT TIME THAT, THAT WE ARE, UM, A LOT OF THIS FRONT LOADERS ARE ALREADY UNAFFORDABLE FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND FORCING THOSE TO BE ONLY 45 FOOT OR WIDER WILL ONLY MAKE IT WORSE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME TODAY. APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. OKAY. I'M GONNA GO BACK TO DANIEL [00:35:01] OCO BECAUSE APPARENTLY HE IS HERE. OKAY. AND IT'S O-K-O-R-I-E, CORRECT. THANK YOU. GO RIGHT AHEAD. THANK Y'ALL FOR HAVING ME. I APOLOGIZE FOR MY TARDINESS. UM, THANKS AGAIN FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK. UH, MY NAME IS DANIEL COREY. I'M THE MANAGER OF, UH, NEXT GENERATION HOMES. UH, WE BUILD PRIMARILY IN SUNNYSIDE, UH, HOUSTON, TEXAS. AND, AND, UH, I, ALONG WITH A LOT OF OTHER BUILDERS ARE TRYING TO REVITALIZE THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND MAKE IT A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN STILL BUY AN AFFORDABLE HOME. I'VE BEEN PART OF THE LAND BANK PROGRAM IN THE PAST, AND I KNOW HOW TO BUILD AFFORDABLE SINGLE FAMILY AND DUPLEXES FOR THE CUSTOMERS THAT BUY IN SUNNYSIDE. UM, I'M HERE TODAY TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE NARROW LOT PROVISIONS BEING PROPOSED HERE TODAY. UM, IT'S NOTHING THAT MY BUYERS WANT AND IT'S NOT GOING TO, IT WON'T HELP, UH, THE CURRENT, UH, SITUATION IN TERMS OF, UH, AFFORDABILITY. UH, EVERYONE WANTS THEIR OWN DRIVEWAY TO PUT TWO CARS ON, AND THIS ELIMINATES AT LEAST ONE SPACE. NOT TO MENTION IT DOESN'T LOOK, UH, YOU AESTHETICALLY, IT'S NOT A GOOD LOOK. UH, MANY OF THE LOTS ARE 50 FOOT WIDE, UH, AND WHERE WE CAN, WE TRY TO SUBDIVIDE 'EM INTO TWO, UM, TO REDUCE THE PRICE OF THE HOMES TO MAKE IT MORE AFFORDABLE. UM, AND THIS, YOU KNOW, DOES NOT HELP THAT, UH, SITUATION. UH, SUNNYSIDE IS, UH, MOSTLY OPEN DITCH, AND I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, I, AND ALSO THE NEIGHBORS THAT ALSO LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, DON'T WANT PARKING ON THE STREET. UH, IT'S, IT WON'T LOOK GOOD. UM, IT DESTROYS THE DITCHES. IT'S ALSO A SAFETY HAZARD AND IT'S, IT MAKES IT UNSAFE TO BIKE OR WALK, UM, UH, DOWN WHERE, UH, WHEN CARS ARE PARKED. UM, THERE'S ALSO A CHANGE, UM, ON FLAG LINES THAT I'M ALSO OPPOSED TO. UM, AS I'M SURE YOU ALL KNOW, A LOT OF BUILDERS TRY TO RAM IN A LOT OF, UH, UH, RELAS, UH, RECENTLY, WHICH HAS CAUSED SOME DELAYS THERE. UM, SO RIGHT NOW, UH, WE CAN HAVE ONE UNIT COME OFF THE STREET AND THE REAR UNIT COME OFF THE FLAG. UH, NOW BOTH UNITS OR DUPLEXES NEED TO HAVE ACCESS OFF THE FLAG, UH, BASED ON THIS CURRENT PROPOSED, PROPOSED, UH, REVISION OR AMENDMENT, UH, WHICH WILL REDUCE WHAT, UH, I CAN BUILD OR BUILDERS IN THE AREA CAN BUILD. UM, THIS NEEDS TO STAY THE WAY IT IS. OR I WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO JUST BUILD TWO UNITS, UH, AT A MUCH HIGHER PRICE. UH, THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. UH, PLEASE VOTE AGAINST THESE PROVISIONS TODAY AND ASK THE PLAN DEPARTMENT TO MAKE CHANGES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS LISA HUNT, HUNT IS LISA HUNT PRESENT. SHE IS NOT PRESENT. UH, THE NEXT IS, UH, PETER ECKLES, E-C-C-L-E-S. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS PETER ECKLES AND I'M HERE TODAY REPRESENTING BLUEPRINT HOUSTON IN SUPPORT OF ITEM ONE, THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO CHAPTERS 26 AND 42. BLUEPRINT HOUSTON IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO PROMOTE THE EVOLUTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PLAN HOUSTON AS THE BASIS FOR THE CITY'S PLANNING FUTURE ADOPTED IN 2015 IS HOUSTON'S FIRST GENERAL PLAN. HU PLAN HOUSTON IDENTIFIES A COMMUNITY DRIVEN VISION AND GOALS FOR HOUSTON'S LONG, LONG-TERM FUTURE, AND PRO PROPOSES CORE STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS TO ACHIEVE THEM. WE HAVE REVIEWED THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO CHAPTERS 26 AND 42 AND HAVE FOUND NUMEROUS AREAS OF ALIGNMENT WITH PLAN HOUSTON. WE'VE GONE INTO GREATER DETAIL ABOUT THESE IN A LETTER THAT SHOULD BE IN YOUR PACKET. BUT TO SUMMARIZE THE CHANGES ALIGNED WITH THE FOLLOWING, THE CORE STRATEGY TO SPEND MONEY WISELY THE CORE STRATEGY TO GROW RESPONSIBLY, THE CORE STRATEGY TO SUPPORT OUR GLOBAL ECONOMY AND THE CORE STRATEGY TO FOSTER AN AFFORDABLE CITY. SINCE PLANNING HOUSTON WAS ADOPTED IN 2015, BLUEPRINT'S GOAL IS TO ENSURE ITS ACTIONS ARE TAKEN TO THE NEXT LEVEL BY DEFINING SPECIFIC POLICIES, PLANS, AND PROGRAMS THAT CAN BE APPLIED ON THE GROUND. WE BELIEVE THAT THIS ORDINANCE CHANGES ARE THOSE SPECIFIC POLICIES AND WILL HELP PLAN HOUSTON'S VISION, HELP REALIZE PLAN HOUSTON'S VISION FOR A HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS FUTURE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, NEXT SPEAKER IS RICHARD ZAINO. MR. ZAINO IS NOT PRESENT. UM, OKAY. SORRY. RUBEN GARZA. MR. GARZA, G-A-R-Z-A DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT. NOPE, NOPE. I'M RIGHT HERE. HEARING VIRTUALLY. OH, SORRY. OKAY. DARN IT. I DIDN'T MEAN TO CALL ON YOU, BUT GO RIGHT AHEAD. , YOU'RE VIRTUAL. I'LL BE, I WAS GONNA WAIT ON THE VIRTUAL PEOPLE. OKAY, GO AHEAD. WELL, NO, NO WORRIES. I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT AND I'LL BE VERY QUICK. UH, I WOULD JUST WANT TO SAY QUICKLY THAT, UH, I MEAN I LIVE ON THE EAST SIDE OF HOUSTON AND I'M VERY MUCH IN SUPPORT OF THE PLANS THAT ARE, UH, BEING PROPOSED TODAY. AS IT STANDS TO BE IN THE THEME OF WHAT I'M SPEAKING OF, MOSTLY IN, UH, TERMS OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AS IT STANDS BEING A PEDESTRIAN. HOUSTON IS, UH, SEEMINGLY FORGOTTEN. SIDEWALKS ARE EITHER NON-EXISTENT OR HAVE HUGE GAPING HOLES AND PUT, AND OUR AURA PUT DIRECTLY NEXT TO LOUD OR HIGH SPEED TRAFFIC. [00:40:01] UH, GOING FOOT FOR MANY HOUSTONIANS IS THE LAST CHOICE. AUTOMOBILES, RATHER THAN BEING A TOOL OF TRANSPORTATION, HAVE BECOME THE CENTER OF OUR CITY WITH ALL FORMS OF TRANS REDUCED AFTERTHOUGHTS. UM, THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 42, UH, REPRESENT A POWERFUL STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR CHANGING THIS. FOR ONE, THEY STRIPPED BACK THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS, WHICH ARE A BIG REASON WHY OUR CITY LOOKS LIKE IT WAS DESIGNED FOR CARS FIRST AND PEOPLE SECOND. UH, THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS FORCED DEVELOPERS TO BUILD THINGS THAT CONSUMERS DON'T WANT. PARKING REQUIREMENTS THAT MANDATE PARKING SPACES WHERE THEY AREN'T NEEDED AND REGULATE EXACTLY THE ORDERING OF THESE SPACES, REDUCE FLEXIBILITY IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. I APPRECIATE, WHAT I APPRECIATE IS THE PROMOTION OF SHARED DRIVEWAYS, COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENT, AND ALLEYWAY PARKING. WITH THESE PROVISIONS, WE CAN MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR FAMILIES IN HOUSTON TO WALK AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ENGAGE WITH OTHERS WITHOUT HAVING TO CONSTANTLY FEAR A CAR, PULLING OUT AND HITTING THEM OR HAVING TO DODGE CARS, WHICH ARE BLOCKING THE SIDEWALK. UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS RYAN DAY, DAY DOCUMENT CAMERA. PLEASE GO AHEAD. YOUR TIME'S RUNNING. FANTASTIC. UH, RYAN, DAVE, MARY DE JONES. UH, AS YOU CAN SEE ALMOST ON THE MAP HERE, WE HAVE A KIND OF A TALE OF TWO CITIES, UH, 90 OR UH, 49 PAGES OF THE 50 PAGES WORTH OF REVISIONS HAVE TO DO WITH, UH, THE AREA THERE IN YELLOW, THAT'S HIGH DENSITY REDEVELOPMENT AREAS I'M CONCERNED ABOUT ONE PAGE, IT'S PAGE 33, UH, IN THE REVISIONS THAT HAS TO DO WITH GREENFIELD DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREAS IN RED THAT YOU SEE ON THE MAP HERE. THOSE AREAS ARE AREAS THAT WE'RE USING DPC AND TURS IMPACT FEE WAIVERS, UH, IN ORDER TO GET AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON THE GROUND IN CITY OF HOUSTON. NEXT SLIDE, IF YOU DON'T MIND. THIS IS THAT PAGE 33 THAT WE'RE CONCERNED WITH. UH, IT REQUIRES A 22 FOOT UNOBSTRUCTED CURB IN FRONT OF 40 FOOT LOTS AND LARGER. UH, A BIT OF, UH, CONFUSION FOR US AT LEAST WAS ON THE EXHIBIT THAT'S SHOWN THERE. THERE'S ACTUALLY A 50 FOOT LOT, NOT A 40 FOOT LOT, SO, UH, IT, UH, IT MAKES IT LOOK LIKE THERE'S NOT GONNA BE AN ISSUE, BUT THERE ACTUALLY IS AN ISSUE AS WE'LL SEE ON THE NEXT SLIDES. ONE OF THE ISSUES IS, UH, REGARDING CUL-DE-SACS. THIS IS A CUL-DE-SAC LOT, LOT. NEXT SLIDE. THIS IS A ZOOMED IN VERSION OF THAT SAME CUL-DE-SAC LOT. WE ONLY HAVE 26 FEET OF CURB TO BEGIN WITH. IF WE HAVE TO PROVIDE 22 FEET OF UNOBSTRUCTED CURB, THAT LEAVES FOUR FEET, UH, FOR OUR DRIVEWAY PHYSICALLY JUST NOT POSSIBLE. NEXT SLIDE. THIS IS, UH, TYPICALLY WHAT WE SEE CURRENTLY. THIS IS MY SITUATION. WE HAVE TWO CARS, ONE IN THE GARAGE, UH, ONE IN THE DRIVEWAY. THE CAR IN THE GARAGE CAN EXIT THE DRIVEWAY WITHOUT THE SECOND CAR MOVING. NEXT SLIDE. WHAT THE RECOMMENDATIONS CAUSE, AND IT'S KIND OF HARD TO SEE, THERE IS A SHORTER DRIVEWAY IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THE 22 FEET IN FRONT OF THE 40 FOOT LOT, A, UH, SHRINK DOWN A LESS WIDE DRIVEWAY, WHICH CAUSES CAR NUMBER TWO TO BE MOVED, UH, IF YOU WANT TO ACCESS CAR NUMBER ONE. AND SO ONE OF THE CONCERNS IS SAFETY ON THE SIDEWALK. IN MY MIND, WE WANNA LIMIT THE NUMBER OF, UH, PASSAGES OF THAT SIDEWALK. THE PREVIOUS SLIDE TO GET CAR NUMBER ONE, YOU GO ACROSS THE SIDEWALK. ONE TIME HERE YOU HAVE TO REMOVE CAR NUMBER TWO. THAT'S ONE. YOU HAVE TO GET CAR NUMBER ONE OUT, THAT'S TWO. AND THEN YOU HAVE TO PUT CAR NUMBER TWO BACK IN. THAT'S THREE CROSSINGS OF THE SIDEWALK. THAT'S NOT SAFE. OKAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND I'M GONNA ASK STAFF TO KIND OF GET, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THESE AND WHEN WE WERE DISCUSSING, MAYBE WE WILL COME BACK TO THAT, TO THE DETAILS OF THAT. UM, OKAY, THE NEXT PERSON WHO'S IN PERSON IS SPENCER HUCK. MR. HUCK AYE. HEY COUNSEL, HOW ARE YOU? UM, I WAS HERE LAST TIME, UM, SPEAKING OUT AGAINST, UH, THE PROVISIONS IN THE NARROW LOTS WITH CHAPTER 42. UM, A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND MYSELF, AGAIN, WORK WITH CITY QUEST PROPERTIES WHERE A NEW CONSTRUCTION BROKERAGE THAT REPRESENTS ABOUT 20 DIFFERENT DEVELOPERS IN THE INNER CITY. UM, I HAVE A HEAVY FOCUS ON LAND ACQUISITION AND LAND PLANNING WITH THOSE DEVELOPERS. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, CONSTANTLY ANALYZING LOTS AND WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THEM. MY BIGGEST CONCERN AND WHAT I'M HEAR A LOT, YOU KNOW, FROM EVERYONE THAT'S SPEAKING UP IS AGAIN, AGAINST THESE NARROW LOTS BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO EVENTUALLY STALL DEVELOPMENT, RIGHT? UM, I HEARD LAST TIME, UM, SOMETHING SAID OF THE SORTS OF, YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE ABLE TO LEARN, YOU KNOW, WE'LL ADAPT, RIGHT? MM-HMM . YOU'RE ALREADY SEEING DEVELOPERS LEAVE THE CITY FOR NUMEROUS UH, REASONS. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL REALLY AFFECT CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS. IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S SO BROAD THAT'S ALL AROUND THE CITY. AND, YOU [00:45:01] KNOW, IN AREAS THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, CHANGING, WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, UH, GIVE THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING ASPECT OF IT. YOU KNOW, THE SAFETY ELEMENT IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK THAT IS, IS REALLY BEING MISSED HERE. WITH THE LACK OF SPACE FOR THE CARS ON THE DRIVEWAYS. YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO BE SAFE IN YOUR HOME. AND A LOT OF THESE AREAS, LIKE I SAID, THESE ARE CHANGING AREAS. BUYERS WANNA BE ABLE TO PARK IN THEIR GARAGE AND IN THEIR DRIVEWAYS, AND THEY DO NOT WANT TO BE ABLE TO BE FORCED ONTO THE STREET DUE TO THE LACK OF PARKING. UM, SAFETY IS ANOTHER THING. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE PULLING OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY AND YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO SEE. SAME THING WITH KIDS, YOU KNOW, PLAYING IN THE DRIVEWAY. THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO SEE 'CAUSE CARS ARE GONNA BE BLOCKING, RIGHT? SO I THINK WHAT I ASK OF Y'ALL IS TO REALLY RECONSIDER AND POOL THIS, UH, ASPECT OF CHAPTER 42. I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE IN SUPPORT OF, UM, THAT Y'ALL HAVE PROPOSED, AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF Y'ALL'S TIME THAT Y'ALL PUT INTO IT. UM, I JUST REALLY HOPE THAT YOU RECONSIDER THE NARROW LOT THING AS IT'LL AFFECT NOT ONLY THE END CONSUMERS. UM, IT'LL ALSO AFFECT THE BUILDERS AS WELL AS THE LANDOWNERS, RIGHT? BECAUSE DEVELOPERS ARE NOT GONNA PAY THE SAME PRICE FOR THE LAND BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA GO IN AND, UH, THE SALES PRICES AT THE END ARE NOT GONNA BE AS HIGH AS IF THEY HAD A PRIVATE DRIVEWAY. IMAGINE YOU'RE IN THE HEIGHTS SPENDING $1.2 MILLION ON A HOUSE WITH A PRIVATE DRIVEWAY. YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO HAVE ONE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU ALLALL SO MUCH YOUR TIME. APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. I HOPE YOU RECONSIDER. THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, THOSE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE I HAD SIGNED UP IN ADVANCE. NOW I'M GONNA GO TO PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY IN THE ROOM BECAUSE WE HAVE LITTLE PIECES OF PAPER. UH, TAMARA BELL. GOOD AFTERNOON. THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY EYE-OPENING BECAUSE THE ONE THING THAT I DO AGREE WITH IN THIS ENTIRE ORDINANCE IS THE NARROW DRIVEWAYS, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THE CITY SHOULD ALLOW DEVELOPERS TO PIMP THE PUBLIC AND TAKE THE PUBLIC RIGHT AWAY AND MAKE THAT A PART OF THAT PROJECT. I THINK EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ABLE TO WALK DOWN THE STREET WHO LIVE ON THE STREET, NOT JUST FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO LIVE IN THAT ONE UNIT. SO I DO THINK YOU ALL NEED TO SNATCH BACK YOUR PUBLIC RIGHT AWAY AND STOP GIVING IT AWAY. THAT'S THE ONLY THING I PRETTY MUCH AGREE WITH IN THERE, BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE COURTYARDS, I CALL COMPOUNDS, WHICH IS WHAT THEY GOING TO END UP BEING. THEY REMIND ME OF THE TENEMENT DEVELOPMENTS THAT USED TO BE ON THE EAST COAST WHERE THEY USED TO LET THE WIDTH OF THE BUILDING BE THE SIZE OF ONE ROOM, AND THEN THEY WENT WAY UP, WAY UP, AND THEY ALL TURNED INTO GHETTOS. SO THAT ONE SCARES THE CRAP OUT ME. NOW, WHEN YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT ALLEYWAYS, YOU KNOW GOOD AND WELL, THE CITY DON'T CLEAN UP. DON'T GO IN, DON'T CARE ABOUT ALLEYWAYS. SO HOW YOU GONNA TELL PEOPLE THEY CAN USE ALLEYWAYS WHEN EACH NEIGHBOR WHOSE HOUSE IS BEHIND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT PART OF THE ALLEYWAY? IN MCGREGOR WHERE I LIVE, WE GOT BILLIONS OF ALLEYWAYS. PEOPLE HAVE TO CLEAN UP THEIR OTHER NEIGHBOR'S ALLEYWAY IF THEY WANT TO USE THE ALLEYWAY. SO HOW YOU GONNA SAY THEY SHOULD BE A PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT? I WAS A PART OF PLAN HOUSTON. I, UNTIL THE MAN BROUGHT UP BLUEPRINT HOUSTON, I DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THAT I WAS THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD PRESIDENT WHEN WE DID THAT. I DO BELIEVE IN AFFORDABILITY. AND WHEN CHAPTER 42 UNDERNEATH PARKER WAS EXTENDED SO THAT YOU COULD DENSIFY, THEY SAID, OH, THIS IS GONNA INCREASE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN HOUSTON. THAT'S A LIE. EVERYTHING THEY BUILT, EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEXT DOOR COULD NOT AFFORD. SO IF YOU ARE TRULY SERIOUS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT YOU DEAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING, YOU GONNA HAVE TO DO A HELL OF A LOT BETTER THAN PUTTING IN RESTRICTIONS THE WAY Y'ALL PUTTING IT. THAT'S IT FOR ME. HAVE A GOOD DAY. THANK YOU MS. BELL. OKAY, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS CLINT HERBERT FROM METRO. WELCOME. GO RIGHT AHEAD. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS CLIN HARBERT. I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR SYSTEM AND CAPITAL PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES AT METRO. I WANNA THANK THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR INVITING US OVER TO PROVIDE COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED PROVISIONS TO, TO CHAPTER 42. METRO FULLY SUPPORTS THE, UH, UH, THE CHANGES THAT ARE BEING RECOMMENDED. WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT THESE CHANGES STRONGLY ALIGN WITH THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES THAT WE, UH, INCLUDED IN THE METRO NEXT GOING FORWARD PLAN, WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY AROUND 70% OF THE, UH, SERVICE AREA VOTERS IN 2019 TO ADVANCE, UH, A PORTFOLIO OF PROJECTS THAT ARE, ARE MEANT TO ENCOURAGE THE TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT AND MOVE PEOPLE AROUND THE CITY THAT, THAT WE WANT TO SEE. UH, WE HAVE RECENTLY ALSO, UH, UPDATED AND ADOPTED CHANGES IN OUR TOD AND JOINT DEVELOPMENT POLICY AT METRO. WE MADE THESE CHANGES SO THAT AGAIN, WE COULD, UH, BETTER WORK WITHIN THE ORDINANCES THAT THE CITY OF HOUSTON HAS BEEN ADVANCING OVER THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS, INCLUDING BOTH THE TRANSIT CORRIDOR ORDINANCE AS WELL AS, UH, WALKABLE PLACES. WE WANNA BE ABLE TO WORK WITH, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS. WE WANNA WORK WITH OTHER AGENCIES AND, AND OTHER PARTNERS TO ACHIEVE THE TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE. AND I THINK THAT THE CITY WOULD LIKE TO SEE AROUND THE MAJOR INVESTMENTS THAT WE ARE ALL MAKING TOGETHER. LAND USE AND TRANSIT POLICY ARE INTRINSICALLY CONNECTED, AND WHEN ADVANCED INTENTIONALLY TOGETHER CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT [00:50:01] THAT SUPPORTS AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE, UH, RESILIENT CITIES, UH, GOALS THAT BOTH METRO AND, UH, THE CITY OF HOUSTON SHARE, WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE CHANGES IN THE PARKING ORDINANCE WILL BETTER UTILIZE LAND THAT IS AVAILABLE AROUND MANY OF THE STATIONS AND FACILITIES THAT WE HAVE. SO AGAIN, WE'RE, WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO SUPPORT ALL OF ALL OF THESE, UH, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS. THE ONE THING AND THAT I DID WANNA MENTION TODAY THAT WAS NOT IN OUR LETTER, WE ARE ADVANCING A, A BUNCH OF PROJECTS RIGHT NOW, TWO OF WHICH, UH, ARE, ARE VERY LARGE PROJECTS. WE HAVE, UH, GULFTON AND THE UNIVERSITY, UH, REGIONAL, UH, BUS PROJECTS, THE BUS RAPID TRANSIT PROJECTS, THE CRITERIA BY WHICH THESE PROJECTS ARE JUDGED FOR FEDERAL FUNDING ARE SUPPORTED BY THE TYPES OF CHANGES THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT MAKING TODAY. SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE, AND I APPRECIATE THE TIME TO COMMENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR COMING MR. HARVARD. APPRECIATE IT. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS, UM, HAVING A HARD TIME READING THE WRITING. IS IT, UH, AC PAN? UH, PONDER. PONDER. P-A-N-D-H-E-R. AH, OKAY. CORRECT US CORRECT MY PRONUNCIATION, IF YOU WOULD FROM THERE. THANK YOU. GO RIGHT AHEAD. RIGHT. SO, UM, IN THE PAST DECADE, THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA HAS SEEN HOUSING PRICES INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY, AND, UH, LEGAL RESTRICTIONS ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING SUCH AS, UH, ADUS OR MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENTS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THIS, UM, TO THE RISING COSTS. AND I'M VERY EXCITED TO SEE THESE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 42. WOULD, THEY WOULD SCALE BACK THESE HARMFUL REGULATIONS LIKE AS A YOUNG, AS A YOUNG STUDENT MYSELF AND I KNOW MANY OTHERS, UM, WHO ARE PLANNING TO EVENTUALLY MOVE OUT A STUDIO ABOVE A GARAGE OR A UNIT IN A COZY NEIGHBORHOOD. AND MULTIPLEX WOULD BE A MUCH PREFERABLE OPTION TOWARDS LIKE AN EXPENSIVE SINGLE FAMILY HOME OR A, OR A LARGE APARTMENT COMPLEX WHERE, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT FEEL TOO CROWDED, TOO CRAMPED, UH, AND AND RELATING TO THE EMBRACE OF MARKET BASED PARKING, I URGE THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL, UM, MARKET BASED PARKING MAP IN ITS, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS. PARKING MANDATES HAVE BEEN DETRIMENTAL TO OUR CITY AS RESEARCHERS AT THE A PA HAVE NOTED PARKING REQUIREMENTS REDUCE WALKABILITY AND TRANSIT ACCESS, AS WELL AS INCREASE HOUSING COSTS, INCREASE THE COST OF GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, AND INCREASE CARBON EMISSIONS. SO REDUCING THEM IS NOT ONLY A GOOD IDEA, IT'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THIS PLANNING COMMITTEE COULD DO TO, UH, INCREASE THE TRAJECTORY, UM, FOR DEVELOPMENT IN OUR CITY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU MR. PUNAY. I APPRECIATE IT. NEXT SPEAKER IS TROY ALLEN WITH GHBA. MR. ALLEN, THERE YOU ARE. SORRY, I I DO HAVE TWO . IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO DO. UM, AND I DO NEED ONE DOCUMENT. SO THIS IS GONNA BE OUR LETTERS. THIS IS THE DOCUMENT. CAMERA, PLEASE. YES. THANK YOU. PLANNING AFTERNOON. MY NAME'S TROY ALLEN WITH THE GREATER HOUSTON BUILDERS ASSOCIATION. THANK YOU YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY. UM, I WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT THE, UM, CHAPTER FOUR, TWO RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE NARROW LOT, UM, SPECIFICALLY THE NARROW LOT AND THE SHARED APPROACH, UM, ISSUE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. UM, JUST A SMALL CORRECTION FROM EARLIER. THERE WAS, UM, STATEMENTS THAT GHPA OPPOSED THE FULL ORDINANCE IN OUR LETTER THAT WE HAVE SENT OUT DATED ON MAY 2ND. AND IT'S BEING SHARED WITH YOU AGAIN. WE DO, UM, WE DO SUPPORT MANY OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS THAT THE CHAPTER 42 ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE, BUT THE MAIN CONCERN IS GONNA BE OUR SHARED DRIVEWAY ISSUE. UM, YOU ALL HAVE HEARD OF A LOT OF THE ISSUES THAT WE'VE HAD WITH THIS. SO WHAT I WANTED TO DO TODAY WAS TO BE COMPLETELY FAIR AND SHARE SOME OF THE PICTURES THAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT CAME UP WITH AS FAR AS THAT YOU HAVE THESE ON YOUR, ON, ON YOUR TABLE ALREADY AS WELL. SO THE FIRST PICTURE TO THE FAR LEFT IS WHAT A SHARED DRIVEWAY CONCEPT IS SHOWED TO LOOK LIKE ON THE SUMMARY THAT YOU WERE GIVEN TODAY OF WHAT THEY WOULD LOOK LIKE. SO YOU SEE, IF YOU SEE IT, YOU HAVE THE DRIVEWAY, YOU HAVE THE GARAGE, YOU HAVE THE DRIVEWAY BEING PAVED OUT COMPLETELY. BUILDERS CANNOT CURRENTLY BUILD THAT. YOU WOULD HAVE TO, UM, COMPLY WITH THE DESIGN MANUAL AND MAKE SURE THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF GRASS AND CURVE ON INSIDE, ON THE INSIDE OF THAT FOUR FOREFOOT TURN, TURN RADIUS. SO BASICALLY WHAT YOU'RE SHOWING THERE IS THAT BASICALLY ONCE WE BUILT THIS, PEOPLE AND PRIVATE CITIZENS WILL GO IN AFTERWARDS AND PAVE THAT OVER THEMSELVES. SO THAT MEANS THAT THEY'RE PAVING OVER WHERE THERE'S SIDEWALK AND WHERE THERE'S, UM, COMPLETE DRIVEWAY. SO THEN OUR ISSUE OF TRYING TO STOP PEOPLE FROM PARKING OVER THE SIDEWALK, WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE CREATING A DRIVEWAY THAT ENCOMPASSES MORE OF THE SIDEWALK OVER THERE WHENEVER WE TRY TO DO THE SHARED DRIVEWAY CONCEPT INSTEAD OF CENTERING ON THE GARAGE. ADDITIONALLY, THE OTHER PART OF THAT PICTURE THAT WAS SHARED IN YOUR SUMMARY [00:55:01] AS WELL IS THAT THAT GREEN PART RIGHT THERE IN MOST OF THE CITY THAT'S CONSIDERED DITCH. SO THE PART THAT OF THE DRIVEWAY THAT'S INTERSECTING WITH THE SIDEWALK THAT'S THEN BEING LAID OVER A DITCH. WHENEVER YOU'RE BACKING OUT OF THERE, YOU HAVE 12 FOOT ON EACH PROPERTY AS FAR AS THE SHED APPROACH, YOU'RE MOST LIKELY DRIVING INTO THAT DITCH. UM, THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT WE DID CREATE, WE DID CREATE A, UM, MOCK UP OF WHAT THE SHARED DRIVEWAY CONCEPT WILL LOOK LIKE. WE'LL, LIKE TO INVITE YOU GUYS TO DRIVE IT. JUST, UM, TO WRAP UP VERY QUICKLY, THIS IS THE TWO OTHER PICTURES, THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE, AND THEN THE ONE ON THE END ARE THE PICTURES THAT WERE SHARED IN THE ORDINANCE TO SHOW THAT YHA DRIVEWAY WILL LOOK LIKE, TO SHOW THAT IT DOES NOT WORK AS SIMPLY AS IT SEEMS TO WORK INSIDE THE, UM, INSIDE THE, UM, PICTURE THAT I WAS SHARED WITH YOU ON THE SUMMARY. AND THE SECOND PICTURE IN THAT DOCUMENT IS ALSO THE TURN RADIUS THAT'LL TAKE TO TURN THERE WITH NO CARS PARKING ON THE STREET. THANK YOU GUYS VERY MUCH. THANK YOU MR. ALLEN. UH, MICAH ERON. ALRIGHT THIS TIME. YAY. I REMEMBER YOU. I TRIED TO DRESS A LITTLE BIT BETTER THIS TIME. OKAY, SO I HAD TO ADD A LITTLE BIT TO THIS, SO I'M GONNA HELP TRY TO NOT GO OVER MY TWO MINUTES BECAUSE I NOTICED THERE WERE SOME CHANGES, UH, SINCE LAST TIME. UM, BASICALLY, UH, ALSO MY NAME IS MICHAEL HAN, UH, PRESIDENT OF CNL HOUSTON, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T REMEMBER ME. UM, SO ALMOST ALL THE MODIFICATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE ORIGINAL PLAN IN REGARDS TO REDUCED A DU SIZES RAISE PARKING MINIMUMS FOR ADU, THE DECREASED UNIT CAPS, THE DROP IN SQUARE FOOTAGE REQUIRED TO TRIGGER PARKING REQUIREMENTS, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, ARE UNAMBIGUOUSLY BAD. UM, I LOVE THE LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE. I THINK YOU GUYS ARE FANTASTIC WHEREVER YOU ARE. UM, AND, AND I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE DESIRE TO ACQUIESCE THE DEMANDS OF THOSE WHO OPPOSE A MORE LIVABLE HOUSTON. UH, BUT THESE FOLKS THAT YOU GUYS ARE HEARING FROM IN NO WAY REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITY. UH, THE SURVEY CREATED BY THE LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE GOT RESPONSES IN THE HUNDREDS. WHILE WE HAVE A CITY THAT HAS A POPULATION IN THE MILLIONS, IT IS UP TO YOU MEMBERS TO DETERMINE WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MOST IN LINE WITH THE DESIRES AND INTEREST OF THE GENERAL POPULATION, NOT JUST THE HIGHLY MOTIVATED FRACTION OF A PERCENT OF OUR POPULATION. OKAY, BACK TO MY SPEECH. SINCE 2010, THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA HAS SEEN RENT INCREASE BY ABOUT 54%. THAT'S ABOUT 15 PERCENTAGE POINTS MORE THAN CPI INFLATION OVER THAT SAME TIME PERIOD. THAT'S BAD. AS YOU KNOW, OUR CITY IS CURRENTLY IN THE MIDST OF RAPID POPULATION GROWTH AND JUST THE LAST FIVE YEARS, THE HOUSTON METRO AREA HAS SEEN ITS POPULATION GROW BY 600,000 PEOPLE. UNFORTUNATELY, HOUSING SUPPLY, ESPECIALLY THE SUPPLY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS, JUST IS NOT KEEPING UP A SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTOR TO THESE PRICE INCREASES ARE THE LEGAL PROHIBITIONS WHICH EXIST ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING TYPES. ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS ARE UNJUSTIFIABLY RESTRICTED AND VARIOUS KINDS OF MULTIFAMILY HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS SHARE THAT STATUS. THANKFULLY, THESE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS MAKE PROGRESS ON THOSE FRONTS IN REGARDS TO THE PROPOSED PARKING MEASURES. I URGE YOU WONDERFUL MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL PLAN SCOPE OF MARKET-BASED PARKING RECOMMENDATIONS. NOT THE SEVERELY DOWNSIZED VERSION. PARKING MANDATES FOR A CITY HAVE BEEN AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER. THEY, IN LARGE PART, ARE THE REASON THAT OUTSIDE OF DOWNTOWN OUR COMMUNITIES ARE DOMINATED BY UGLY SEAS OF CONCRETE THAT WE CALL PARKING LOTS RATHER THAN LIVABLE SPACES WHERE SOCIAL INTERACTION CAN SAFELY PROSPER. MR. OR FINE, YOU'VE, YOU'VE FINISHED IN TWO MINUTES. WELL, I HAD, I HAD LIKE THREE MORE PARAGRAPHS, BUT IT'S OKAY. OH, WE GET IT THOUGH. THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOUR, APPRECIATE YOUR PASSION. UM, I THINK I HAD CALLED LISA HUNT, UH, REVEREND HUNT BEFORE AND I DON'T THINK YOU WERE HERE, SO I'M GONNA GO BACK AND CALL YOU. HI, MY NAME IS LISA HUNT. I'M THE RECTOR AT ST. STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE MONTROSE. I ALSO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING ON THE TS FOR MONTROSE AND I CHAIR THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE. UM, BUT I'M HERE THIS, UM, AFTERNOON IN MY CAPACITY AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN AS WELL AS THE RECTOR OF ST. STEPHENS. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ECHO MY FELLOW CITIZEN ABOUT THE WOEFUL, UH, LACK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN OUR CITY AND THE RACIAL DISPARITIES AND THE ECONOMIC DISPARITIES, UM, THAT OUR HOUSING POLICY HAS EMBEDDED. I THINK ONE OF THE HISTORICAL FACTS OF HOUSTON THAT WE'VE NOT ACKNOWLEDGED IS THE IMPACT OF REDLINING AND THE WAY PARKING HAS BEEN TIED TO DIFFERENT HOUSING TYPES. HISTORICALLY, I THINK MONTROSE HAS THE BLESSING OF HAVING A VARIETY, A VESTIGIAL, UH, HOUSING VARIETY OF, UM, SMALL APARTMENT UNITS, DUPLEXES, GARAGE APARTMENTS, AS WELL AS SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS. BUT OUR PARKING POLICY HAS, UM, SEVERELY CURTAILED AND MADE IN FACT, MADE IMPOSSIBLE. THE INFILL OF AFFORDABLE UNITS IN PLACES IN THE CITY WHERE THE LAND VALUES HAVE SKYROCKETED, IT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE CITY TO HAVE CONCENTRATIONS OF POVERTY OR WEALTH. WE WOULD BE A MUCH HEALTHIER, LITERALLY HEALTHIER CITY WITH GREATER, UM, AFFORDABLE HOUSING. IN TERMS OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, HOUSING IS A BEDROCK FOR EDUCATION, A BEDROCK FOR HEALTH, [01:00:01] A BEDROCK FOR COMMUNITY COHESION. AND IF WE ARE GOING TO BE COMPETITIVE ECONOMICALLY AS A CITY AND AFFORDABLE AS A CITY TO CREATE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO HOUSE. ALL OF US STREETS ARE NOT MY STREETS OR YOUR STREETS. THEY ARE OUR STREETS. AND SO PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY NEEDS TO BE SEEN AS A PUBLIC GOOD AND NOT AS AN EXTENSION OF MY PRIVATE PROPERTY. I WANNA APPLAUD THIS COMMISSION AND THE WORK OF OUR PUBLIC WORKS. UM, I MEAN, OUR PLANNING COMMISSION FOR BEING BOLD. I HOPE YOU ARE TOO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE. UH, NEXT IS STEVEN MCGEE. MR. MCGEE, GOOD AFTERNOON AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING ALL OF US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK THIS, UH, TODAY. UM, I'M A PRIVATE CICI CITIZEN IN THE MACHOS AREA, AND TODAY I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT A VITAL STEP OUR CITY IS CONSIDERING WITH THESE REVISIONS TO CHAPTER 42, UH, MOVING ESPECIALLY, AND, AND SPECIFICALLY HOW IT PERTAINS TOWARDS MOVING TOWARDS A, A MARKET BASED PARKING IN MUCH OF THE CITY. I BELIEVE THE STEP IS NOT ONLY BENEFICIAL, BUT ESSENTIALLY IF WE WANT TO MAKE OUR CITY MORE WALKABLE, UH, AND TO COMBAT H UH, RISING HOUSING, UH, HOUSING PRICES, WE MUST ADOPT IT. UH, FIRSTLY, MARKET BASED PARK, UH, PARKING PROMOTES ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY. UH, TRADITIONAL METH METHODS, INCLU INCLUDE ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT SET, GOVERNMENT SET PARKING MINIMUMS, WHICH MAY LEAD TO AN OVER ABUNDANCE OF PARKING SPACES, COULD CONTRIBUTING TO DRAMATICALLY INEFFICIENT LAND USE. BY ALLOWING THE MARKET TO DICTATE, WE ENSURE PARKING IS PROVIDED WHERE IT'S TRULY NEEDED. SECONDLY, THIS APPROACH CAN HELP US COMBAT URBAN SPRAWL. OFTEN IN THE CITY, WE, WE SEE VAST, VAST SWATHS OF URBAN AREAS C COVERED IN PARKING SPACES THAT ARE UNDERUTILIZED SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAD TO BE BUILT TO MEET LEGAL REQUIREMENTS. MARKET-BASED PARKING CAN HELP US RECLAIM OUR CITYSCAPE, ALLOWING US ALLOWING FOR MORE ROOM FOR HOUSING, GREEN SPACES, OR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS. MOREOVER, MARKET-BASED PARKING CAN ALSO LEAD TO MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. CURRENT REQUIREMENTS FOR A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES PER HOUSING UNIT, OFTEN INFLATE HOUSING COSTS. BY ELIMINATING THESE, WE CAN LOWER THE COST OF DEVELOPMENT, UH, SAVINGS, WHICH CAN BE POTENTIALLY PASSED ON TO RESIDENTS, UH, THUS MAKING HOUSING MORE AFFORDABLE. AND THEN LASTLY, MARKET-BASED PARKING ENCOURAGES SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION BY NOT ARTIFICIALLY INFLATING THE SUPPLY SUPPLY OF PARKING. WE INCENTIVIZE PUBLIC TRANSIT CYCLING AND WALKING ALL MORE SUSTAIN, SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHIER ALTERNATIVES TO DRIVING. FOR ALL OF THESE REASONS, I WOULD LIKE TO, I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER MY DEEPEST SUPPORT FOR THE, FOR THE BROADEST APPLICATION OF MARKET-BASED PARKING IN OUR CITY AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. UH, JENNIFER CURTIS. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR COMMISSIONERS. I'M JENNIFER CURTIS WITH META PLANNING AND DESIGN. UM, I'M NOT GONNA BELABOR A LOT OF STUFF THAT OTHER PEOPLE ALREADY SAID. I JUST HAD A COUPLE OF POINTS THAT I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT. UM, I KNOW THAT SAVITA SAID THAT THE CHANGES THAT ARE PROPOSED TODAY ARE NOT GONNA APPLY IN THE ETJ, BUT I'VE JUST BEEN FLIPPING THROUGH THIS DRAFT, AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO SAY THAT ANYWHERE. IT'S READS AS IF IT'S APPLICABLE EVERYWHERE. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS CHECKED AND CONFIRMED BEFORE THIS GOES ON TO CITY COUNCIL. UM, AND THE SECOND THING, UM, RYAN DAY ALLUDED TO IT, UM, ON CUL-DE-SACS, IF YOU'RE MEASURING 40 FEET OF FRONTAGE, BY THE TIME YOU GET TO THE BUILDING SETBACK, YOU'RE LOOKING AT LIKE 56 FEET, EVEN ON A CURVED STREET, IF IT, YOU KNOW, SAY IT'S AN 800 FOOT RADIUS OR A THOUSAND FOOT RADIUS, 40 FEET AT THE FRONT, 42, 43, 44 FEET AT THE BUILDING LINE. ARE WE SURE THAT FRONTAGE IS THE WAY WE WANNA MEASURE THAT? THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU. WE WILL DISCUSS IN A LITTLE BIT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, NEXT IS, UH, JEFF B . GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. UM, YOU'LL BE HEARING MORE FROM YOU LATER AS AN APPLICANT, BUT, UM, I'M HERE RIGHT NOW JUST AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN FROM HOUSTON. UM, NOT REPRESENTING ANY COMPANY OR ORGANIZATION. UM, I'M ALSO NOT GOING TO STRESS EXPRESS A STRONG OPINION ON THE NARROW LOTS OR SHARED DRIVEWAY. I THINK YOU'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT THAT. UM, I HOPE THAT YOU AND CITY COUNCIL WILL CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO OUR BUILDER COMMUNITY, WORK WITH THEM ON A COMPROMISED SOLUTION PERHAPS. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO INSTEAD EXPRESS MY SUPPORT FOR THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO CHAPTER 42, WHICH ALLOW FOR MORE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND TYPES, ESPECIALLY THE INCREASE IN DENSITY, THE REDUCED PARKING REGULATIONS IN THE COURTYARD STYLE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES. UM, I'D ESPECIALLY LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THIS BODY TO CONSIDER RAISING THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED SQUARE FOOTAGE FOR SINGLE FAMILY UNITS ON THE COURTYARD STYLE HOMES, UM, TO AT LEAST 1800 FEET, UH, 1800 SQUARE FEET, OR EVEN MORE. UM, I DON'T KNOW WHY THERE'S NECESSARILY A CAP ON THOSE. I UNDERSTAND THAT WE WANT, WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT DENSITY AND THERE'S NO CAPITAL ON DENSITY THERE, BUT IT [01:05:01] WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT IT COULD BE THE DIFFERENCE, A 1500 VERSUS AN 1800 SQUARE FOOT HOME. IT COULD BE THE DIFFERENCE FOR A LARGE FAMILY BETWEEN A THREE AND FOUR BEDROOM UNIT. AND I DON'T WANT TO DO, DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD DISCOURAGE FAMILIES, UH, FROM MOVING NEAR TO THE CITY AND TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES THERE. UM, UM, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ENCOURAGE EXTENDING THAT COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENT TO, TO PROPERTIES THAT ARE DEEPER THAN 150 FEET. UM, I KNOW THIS CAN'T BE NECESSARILY DONE TODAY, BUT PERHAPS IN A LIVABLE PLACES COMMITTEE TOO, WHICH I GUESS I'M VOLUNTEERING FOR, I'D LOVE TO HELP OUT WITH. UM, AND THEN LASTLY, I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO READ AND CONSIDER THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THIS BOOK CALLED STRONG TOWNS, UM, A BOTTOM UP REVOLUTION TO REBUILD AMERICAN PROSPERITY. UM, IT'S A PLAN TO REINVEST IN AND CAPITALIZE ON THE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE IN OUR CITY LIMITS. UM, AND HOUSTON IS FAMOUS FOR NOT HAVING ZONING, WHICH I THINK MEANS WE ARE MORE FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE WHEN IT COMES TO CHANGING OUR DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS, UM, TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THE THINGS IN THIS BOOK. AND I THINK WE REALLY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD THE WAY AS ONE OF THE LARGEST AMERICAN CITIES TO DO THAT. AND SO I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU WOULD STRONGLY READ THIS BOOK AND CONSIDER IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. UH, CHERYL O'BRIEN. HI, GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS CHERYL PALMER OR O'BRIEN. I'M THE CURRENT CHAIR OF THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE, OR THE SNA. I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY THIS PAST YEAR TO SERVE ON THE LIVABLE ACTIONS PLACE COMMITTEE. UM, DURING MY, UH, TENURE THIS YEAR, I HAVE HEARD CONCERNS REGARDING PARKING FROM RESIDENTS IN VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS, SEVERAL OF WHICH WERE HERE TONIGHT, UM, THIS AFTERNOON. I FEEL MANY OF THOSE ISSUES ACTUALLY RELATE TO ENFORCEMENT AND NOT ORDINANCE. UM, AND SO WE NEED TO D DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN ENFORCING EXISTING REGULATIONS AND CHANGING ORDINANCES. UM, THE, THAT'S, NO ORDINANCE IS PERFECT. BUT THAT SAID, I'M HERE TO STATE THAT I PERSONALLY SUPPORT THE, UM, ATTEMPTS TO MAKE THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO 42 AND 26, AND I URGE YOU TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. UH, NEXT IS MR. MJ. THAT'S A NICKNAME. UH, IT'S MR. ZADARA GUY. COME ON UP. GIMME ONE SECOND HERE. GO RIGHT AHEAD. GO AHEAD. GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS MJ ZERA. I'M A RESIDENT OF THE THIRD WARD, A STUDENT AT, UH, AND A MEMBER OF CNL HOUSTON, OUR GROUP OF YOUTHFUL NERDS AND COMMUNITY ADVOCATES. I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE ACTIONS OF THE LIVABLE PLACES COMMITTEE CLOSELY AND STRONGLY SUPPORT ITS GOOD WORK. HOUSTON HAS LONG BEEN A BASTION FOR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND ACCESS, WHILE THE REST OF THE NATION HAS CONTINUED DOWN A DARK PATH OF LOW DENSITY HOUSING, HIGH PRICES, AND LOW HOME INVENTORY. HOWEVER, THE LIGHTHOUSE THAT HOUSTON HAS BECOME IN THE BATTLE FOR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY HAS STARTED TO DIM. AND WE CANNOT, AS CITIZENS OF THIS PROUD CITY, LET THAT DIE. DUE TO THIS HISTORIC AFFORDABILITY, HOUSTON'S HOUSING MARKET IS HOTTER THAN EVER, WHICH HAS MEANT THAT NOW PEOPLE ARE PAYING SKYROCKETING PRICES FOR DECLINING INVENTORY OF HOMES AND APARTMENTS. AND THE AFFORDABILITY GAP IS GETTING WORSE AND WORSE. YOU'VE HEARD PREVIOUS PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THIS. I'M JUST CONTINUING THESE CONCERNS. WE MUST ACT QUICKLY TO KEEP THIS HOUSING MARKET TOGETHER, WHILE ALSO ENSURING AFFORDABILITY, ACCESS AND A WAY OF LIFE, WHICH ALLOWS ALL DEMOGRAPHICS FROM STUDENTS TO THE ELDERLY. TO COEXIST IN A CITY BUILT FOR ALL THIS ENDEAVOR IS FAR FROM EASY. IT NECESSITATES A SHIFT IN NOT ONLY THE TYPES OF HOUSING BEING BUILT, CONSTRUCTED, BUT ALSO THE INCENTIVES THAT DISCOURAGE, THAT DISCOURAGE CERTAIN KINDS OF HOUSING. IT CALLS FOR AMENDING THE ORDINANCES THAT GOVERN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, ABOLISHING ECONOMIC AND BUREAUCRATIC BARRIERS THAT INHIBIT DEVELOPERS FROM PROVIDING A DIVERSE ARRAY OF HOUSING AND PARKING STRUCTURES. AND MOST OF ALL, IT REQUIRES A CHANGE IN THE MINDSET BEHIND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT THAT HOUSTON HAS HAD. WE NEED TO EMPOWER EVERY HOUSEHOLD MOVING TO HOUSTON TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE THE KIND OF URBAN LIFE THAT THEY PREFER. WE FOUND OURSELVES IN A CROSSROADS. WE CANNOT CONTINUE WITH THE PERCEPTION THAT IF THE CITY CEASES TO BE AFFORDABLE, ONE CAN ALWAYS DRIVE TOWARDS THE WEST, EAST, NORTH, OR SOUTH UNTIL THEY REACH AFFORDABLE SUBURBAN AREAS. WE MUST TRANSFORM THIS HERE, THIS INNER CITY ZONE, INTO THAT AFFORDABLE AREA, ENTICING PEOPLE TO DRIVE IN RATHER THAN DRIVE OUT. CHAPTER 42 IS GETTING A MUCH NEEDED FACELIFT WITH A FOCUS ON INCENTIVIZING A BROAD RANGE OF MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING TYPES, SMALLER UNITS WITH ADJUSTABLE PARKING REQUIREMENTS AND REAR SHARED ACCESS OF NARROW LOTS. THESE STEPS ALL ENHANCE WALKABILITY, PRESERVE, CURB, CURB SPACE, AND INCREASE AFFORDABILITY, BUT ALSO REFLECT THE DIVERSITY IN THE HOUSING NEEDS OF HOUSTON'S VIBRANT POPULATION. THANK YOU. PERFECT. PERFECT. . OKAY. LINDSAY WILLIAMS. LINDSAY WILLIAMS. THERE YOU ARE. [01:10:08] HELLO, MADAM CHAIR AND ALL OF THE BOARD. I AM LINDSAY WILLIAMS. I'M THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE HOUSTON LAND BANK. I ALSO SIT ON THE BOARD FOR THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS HOUSTON CHAPTER. BUT I'M HERE TODAY AS A BUILT ENVIRONMENT EQUITY ADVOCATE. I AM A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND STAND IN SUPPORT OF THE CHANGES PRESENTED HERE TODAY. HISTORICAL DISINVESTMENT, PREDATORY LENDING PRACTICES, REDLINING DEVELOPMENT, VOID OF COMMUNITY INPUT AND CONTRACT SELLING HAVE LEFT VACANT LOTS WHERE COMMUNITIES ONCE THRIVED VACANT PARCELS ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY PRESENT IN HOUSTON'S MOST UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. THE VACANT PARCEL GAPS ARE LIKE MISSING TEETH WITHIN RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS, BUT ARE A STARK REMINDER OF THE COMMUNITY'S DISPLACED AND DISENGAGED LOWER MIDDLE CLASS. THESE CHANGES ALLOW FOR MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING TYPOLOGIES TO ENTER BACK INTO THE HOUSTON MARKET. NEARLY HALF A MILLION HARRIS COUNTY RESIDENTS ARE LIVING IN HOUSING THEY CAN AFFORD. ACCORDING TO THE KINDER INSTITUTE HOUSING STUDY, TO MEET THE DEMAND, THE COUNTY WOULD NEED TO PRODUCE 20,000 HOMES A YEAR. THE AFFORDABILITY GAP CONTINUES TO WIDEN AND HOUSING PRI PRICES CONTINUE TO WI RISE. SMALLER PARCELS OF VACANT LAND ARE OFTEN MORE COSTLY AND CHALLENGING TO DEVELOP THAN SUBURBAN PARCELS. SMALL PARCELS, OLD SITES AND ADHERENCE TO CITY DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS, THE OLD ONES HAVE CAUSED THE COST AND CONTRIBUTE TO D DWINDLING SUPPLY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOMES THAT OFFER ACCESS TO JOBS, TRANSIT AND CULTURAL AMENITIES ARE VASTLY NEEDED. I ALSO BELIEVE THE COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENT IS A GREAT WAY TO PUT COMMUNITY BACK INTO DEVELOPMENT. WE'VE HEARD THE TERM AFFORDABLE, BUT I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO ASK AFFORDABLE FOR WHO? THE A MI LEVEL AS THE HOUSTON LAND BANK SERVES IS 120% BELOW. I'M A FORMER PLANNER FOR THE COMPLETE COMMUNITIES. WHEN WE DID THE DATA STUDY, WE FOUND THAT MOST OF THOSE RESIDENTS ARE WITHOUT THEIR OWN PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION. I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK AT THESE OPPORTUNITIES TO ACTIVATE HOUSTON'S MOST UNDERUTILIZED AREAS IN THE UNDERSERVED PLACES OF OUR COMMUNITIES OF NEED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. UH, CASEY BRAND. CASEY BRAND. AYE. I MAKE IT QUICK. UM, THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR AND COUNCIL PEOPLE FOR THIS, UM, OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THAT. THIS IS BASICALLY JUST FOR THE SHARED DRIVEWAY. YOU'VE HEARD IT FROM EVERYBODY BEFORE ME, BUT I AM OPPOSE IT FROM A COUPLE DIFFERENT REASONS. UM, I'M AN INTERIOR DESIGNER, SO MY BUSINESS IS BUILDING HOUSES FOR PEOPLE AND ALSO ACTUALLY ALSO IS A CONSUMER WHO IS LOOKING TO LEAVE THE SUBURBS AND COME INTO TOWN ONCE THEIR KIDS ARE AT SCHOOL. UM, THE SHARED DRIVEWAY IS DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING THAT OUR END USER IS GOING TO WANT TO PURCHASE. IT, UM, TAKES THE HOME VALUE DOWN CONSIDERABLY. AND NOT TO MENTION JUST THE SAFETY OF IT, HAVING TO GO AROUND CARS BECAUSE THEY'RE PARKED ON THE STREET, KIDS RIDING BIKES, THAT SORT OF THING IS JUST, IT'S A SAFETY CONCERN FOR MYSELF. AND PARKING ON THE STREET, NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE IN HOUSTON, THE POSSIBILITY OF GETTING BROKEN INTO IS EXPONENTIAL. IT JUST IS. I'M SURE YOU'VE ALL SEEN THE CARS ON BLOCKS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS. SO THAT, ASIDE FROM JUST, UM, THE WALKABILITY PORTION, WE LIVE IN A CITY, UNFORTUNATELY THAT WASN'T THOUGHT ABOUT TO BE A WALKABILITY CITY, A WALKABLE CITY EARLY ON, AND WE CAN'T REALLY MAKE IT INTO ONE. I CAME FROM SAN FRANCISCO, THIS IS NOT THAT. SO THAT WHOLE CONCEPT, ALTHOUGH IT WOULD BE AMAZING, THIS ISN'T GONNA CURE THAT. 'CAUSE YOU'RE STILL GONNA HAVE THIS, THE FRONT LOADING HOMES NEXT DOOR TO THESE, WHICH IS GONNA BE KIND OF AN EYESORE AS WELL AS A DESIGNER THAT JUST THE AESTHETIC. SO THAT'S ALL I GOTTA SAY. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. UH, GILBERT, UM, KORO KO, AM I PRONOUNCING THAT CORRECT? IT'S, UH, O-K-O-R-O-N-K-W-O GILBERT. ARE YOU THERE? IS NOT PRESENT. OKAY. UM, ERIC OLA, UH, BROAN. HI. HELLO EVERYBODY. THANK YOU FOR, UH, HAVING ME HERE TODAY. SO I WORK WITH CITY QUEST PROPERTIES. I'M A REALTOR OR A PROFESSIONAL REALTOR HERE IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. AND I, I'LL KEEP IT VERY BRIEF BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I HEAR A LOT OF THE SAME THINGS, UM, OVER AND OVER. BUT IT'S A, IT'S A REALLY BIG ISSUE. AND I THINK THE AESTHETIC, IT'S JUST, IT'S NOT PLEASING, [01:15:01] RIGHT? UH, IT INTERFERES WITH THE ARCHITECTURAL AESTHETIC OF THE COMMUNITY AND IT CAUSES MANY DIFFERENT PROBLEMS, UH, MANY OF WHICH THAT I'VE HEARD REPEATED, UM, TODAY. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. I REALLY URGE YOU NOT TO, UH, NOT TO DO THIS. AND OF COURSE, THIS IS FOR CHAPTER 42, THE, UH, SHARED DRIVEWAYS. OKAY. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. OH, WE GOT A LATE ARRIVAL HERE. UM, SAM SEIDEL, IS IT POSSIBLE TO WRITE AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME? I DON'T THINK SO. WHAT'S THAT? NOT THAT ADVANCED. NOT THAT ADVANCED. OKAY. SO, I'M SAM SEIDEL. I'VE BEEN DOING, UH, INFIELD DEVELOPMENT IN HOUSTON FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS. SO SINCE I CAN'T WRITE, I JUST WANT TO PRESENT, UM, KIND OF SOME BASIC FACTS. 'CAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF WORDS THAT HAVE GONE AROUND AND AFFORDABILITY IS ONE OF THEM. SO, O BASICALLY, DEVELOPMENT IS A PRETTY SIMPLE GAME. YOU HAVE COSTS FOR LAND, YOU HAVE SOFT COSTS, AND YOU HAVE CONSTRUCTION COSTS, RIGHT? THOSE THREE THINGS ADD UP TO A TOTAL NUMBER. THAT TOTAL NUMBER HAS TO BE, YOU HAVE TO RECOVER THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY, PLUS A LITTLE BIT OF PROFIT, SORRY, EVERYONE, IN ORDER TO PUT HOUSING ON THE GROUND IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON. SO, IF I'VE GOT A PIECE OF LAND, WHICH IS NOW MORE EXPENSIVE THAN IT WAS LAST YEAR, I'VE GOT FIXED SOFT COSTS, WHICH I'M ALWAYS TRYING TO WORK TO REDUCE. UM, AND I COULD BUILD IT THIS WAY EIGHT YEARS AGO, BUT NOW BECAUSE OF FLOOD REGULATIONS, UM, ENERGY REGULATIONS, UM, NONSENSICAL DRIVEWAY REGULATIONS, I NOW HAVE TO BUILD IT THIS WAY. WELL, WHEN I BUILD IT THIS WAY, IT COSTS MORE, WHEN IT COSTS MORE TO BUILD THE PUBLIC HAS TO PAY MORE TO BUY IT OR TO RENT IT. SO I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE A SIMPLE CONCEPT BECAUSE THERE'S ALL OF THESE STUDIES AND THERE'S ALL OF THESE WORDS AND THERE'S ALL OF THIS INFORMATION THAT FLIES AROUND EVERYWHERE WHEN SIMPLY COSTS DRIVE, AFFORDABILITY, REGULATIONS, DRIVE COSTS, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD KEEP THAT IN MIND. THANK YOU. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, I'M, NOW THAT'S, THAT'S EVERYBODY I'VE HEARD I HAVE. WHO IS IN THE ROOM. UM, AND SO I'M GONNA START ON THE PEOPLE THAT SIGNED UP TO BE VIRTUAL. AND THE FIRST ONE I'VE GOT IS CHRISTOPHER FORD. CHRISTOPHER FORD. ARE YOU THERE? CHRISTOPHER FORD DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT. CURTIS DAVIS? UH, I'M HERE. OH, GOOD. GO AHEAD, MR. DAVIS. NO, I THINK THAT'S MR. MR. FORD. OH, ARE YOU MR. FORD? YES, MA'AM. OH, GO RIGHT AHEAD. WELL, OKAY. I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF THE CHAPTER 42 PROVISIONS. UM, I, I THINK THAT THE INCREASED DENSITY OFFERS, UH, PEOPLE AFFORDABLE OPTIONS. I MEAN, YOU TAKE A LOOK AT A 5,000 SQUARE FOOT LOT, UH, AND YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, UNDER THE CURRENT RULES, I MEAN, WE CAN REPL THAT AND BUILD, YOU KNOW, A DUPLEX ON IT OR TWO TOWN HOMES. BUT UNDER THE CHAPTER 42 PROVISIONS, I MEAN, YOU TAKE A 5,000 SQUARE FOOT LOT AND YOU CAN NOW BUILD A FOURPLEX ON IT. AND THAT'S MORE, MORE ADVANTAGEOUS FOR A BUYER. UH, AND RIGHT NOW IN THIS CURRENT MARKET, UH, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ARE JUST GETTING ASTRONOMICALLY UNAFFORDABLE. AND I THINK THAT DUPLEXES AND FOURPLEXES ARE THE ONLY, UM, AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTION THAT PEOPLE HAVE IN THIS CURRENT MARKET. SO I THINK THAT THIS, THE, THESE PROVISIONS WILL BE BENEFICIAL TO HOUSTONIANS AS A WHOLE. UM, JUST BEING ABLE TO BUILD MULTI-FAMILY UNITS, UH, GIVES BUYERS MORE FLEXIBILITY, UH, WITH THE INCREASED LAND VALUE, UH, VALUES. I MEAN, IT'S ONLY GONNA GET MORE EXPENSIVE. AND I MEAN, IF YOU LOOK AT THE BEST USE OF A PROPERTY, BUILDING A FOURPLEX OR THREEPLEX WOULD BE MORE ADVANTAGEOUS FOR BUYERS. SO I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF THE PROVISIONS. HEY, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS CURTIS DAVIS. UH, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. HI. UM, AS A MEMBER OF THE, UH, GREAT. AS A MEMBER OF THE LIVABLE PLACES, UH, ACTION COMMITTEE AND, UH, BOARD MEMBER OF THE HOUSTON HOUSING COLLABORATIVE, I'D LIKE TO STRONGLY ENDORSE [01:20:02] THE ADOPTION OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 26 AND 42. OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, THE PLANNING DIRECTOR AND OUR STAFF HAVE DONE A REALLY STELLAR JOB IN MANAGING A PUBLIC DIALOGUE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. AS THIS MEETING TODAY ALSO ILLUSTRATES, UH, IT'S, I I THINK THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO PUT FORWARD THEIR POSITIONS ON THIS IS, IS REALLY GREAT. AS WE ALL KNOW, IT IS NOT A SIMPLE MATTER IN REGULATING THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY. UM, THIS IS A SHARED ENVIRONMENT, AND THE REGULATIONS PROVIDE RULES OF THE ROAD FOR HOW WE WORK TOGETHER, HOW WE EARN MONEY, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HOW WE BUILD A QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE CITY THAT MAKES IT A THRIVING PLACE. UM, SO I WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THE TYPE OF DIALOGUE THAT HAS OCCURRED, EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, ENCOURAGE THE KINDS OF COMPROMISES THAT WE NEED IN ORDER TO BUILD A MORE LIVABLE CITY. THANKS. THANK YOU. AND, AND THANK YOU ESPECIALLY FOR YOUR SERVICE ON THE COMMITTEE. YOU WERE, WERE A GREAT PART OF THAT EFFORT. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER, I GUESS WHO IS IN THE ROOM IS, UM, VINAL. DEMAR. THANK YOU, DR. BROWN IN THE HOUSE. OKAY. I'M GONNA DELETE THE FIRST PORTION OF MY COMMENTS BECAUSE IT HAS TO DO WITH DIRECTIONS. AND ALL THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM JUST NEED TO KNOW WEST MONTGOMERY ROAD, FERGUSON STREET OF FERGUSON WAY, ZIP CODE 7 7 0 8 8. SO IT WAS INCORRECT SEEMINGLY ON THE LETTER I RECEIVED, SO I'M NOT GONNA GO GO INTO THAT. BUT THAT'S THE DESCRIPTION. MS. DEMAR, WE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AN ITEM THAT'S ON OUR REGULAR AGENDA. WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THAT POINT IN THE MEETING. NO. WE ARE NOW TALKING ABOUT ITEM NUMBER ONE. NO. SO YOU HAVE A, A LITTLE WHILE TO WAIT. DO, DO YOU KNOW THE NUMBER, NUMBER OF THE ITEM YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? THE WHAT? DO YOU KNOW THE NUMBER OF THE ITEM? WELL, I HAVE 2 0 2 3 DASH 0 9 4 6. OKAY. LET ME ASK STAFF TO KIND OF GET WITH YOU AND HELP YOU. THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS, OTHERWISE WE'LL BE HAPPY TO CALL, CALL YOU BACK WHEN WE GET TO YOUR ITEM. OKAY? OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR LISTENING TO ME. I'M, I'M SORRY. OKAY. THEN WE GO FORWARD WITH, UH, GABE ZARE. GABE ZARE, ARE YOU THERE? GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAME CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. I'M GABE ZARE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LINK HOUSTON. WE'RE A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT ADVOCATES FOR A ROBUST AND EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK, SO ALL HOUSTONIANS CAN REACH OPPORTUNITY. AND I'M HERE TODAY TO URGE YOU TO SUPPORT THE CHANGES BECAUSE WE, IT WILL BRING US CLOSER TO LINK HOUSTON'S VISION OF A CITY WHERE IT'S POSSIBLE TO BE A FIRST CLASS RESIDENT WITHOUT OWNING A CAR. OUR OWN RESEARCH DEMONSTRATES THAT ONLY ONE IN THREE AFFORDABLE DWELLINGS ARE NEAR HIGH QUALITY, AFFORDABLE TRANSIT LIKE SIDEWALKS, BIKEWAYS, AND TRANSIT. WE APPLAUD THE CITY'S EFFORTS TO MAKE A BROADER RANGE OF HOUSING TYPES AVAILABLE IN AREAS WHERE THEY'RE NEEDED THE MOST. THESE CHANGES WILL ALSO IMPROVE THE PUBLIC REALM FOR PEOPLE WALKING AND BIKING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. EVERY DRIVEWAY IS A POTENTIAL POINT OF CONFLICT BETWEEN A PERSON IN A CAR AND A PERSON OUTSIDE OF A CAR. WE APPLAUD THE CITY EFFORTS OF CONSOLIDATING AND REDUCING THESE CONFLICT POINTS. IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT THESE CHANGES WILL CAUSE MORE PEOPLE TO PARK THEIR CARS ON THE STREET. WHAT IS CLEAR IS THAT ON STREET PARKING MAKE STREET SAFER. MULTIPLE STUDIES FROM THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION TO THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS CONFIRM A SIMPLE CONCEPT. STREETS THAT ARE NARROWED BY THE PRESENCE OF PARKED CARS CAUSE PEOPLE TO DRIVE SLOWER. THESE CHANGES CAN'T WAIT. AND THEY WILL MAKE IMPROVEMENTS FROM THE DAY THAT THEY TAKE EFFECT, BUT THEY ARE NOT SUBSTITUTES FOR THE LONG LIST OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE RIGHT OF WAY THAT MUST BE MADE FOR THE FOR CITYWIDE. WE CALL ON THE CITY TO PROVIDE ALL HOUSTONIANS WITH [01:25:01] SAFE, ACCESSIBLE SIDEWALKS AND SLOWER NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION. WE'VE ALSO SUBMITTED A LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR IN SUPPORT OF CHAPTER 26 AND CHAPTER 42 CHANGES. I HOPE THAT IT IS CIRCULATED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION. THANK YOU MUCH VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU FOR, FOR PARTICIPATING TODAY. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS GARLAND HARRIS, JR. MR. HARRIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT. UM, JAMES LAMAS, JAMES LLAMA IS NOT. HELLO? HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, GO RIGHT AHEAD. HI THERE. UH, MY NAME IS JAMES LLAMA. I PREVIOUSLY SERVED ON THE PLANNING COMMISSIONAL WALKABLE PLACES SUBCOMMITTEE. I'M PROUD OF WHAT WE ACCOMPLISHED WITH WALKABLE PLACES IN 2020, AND I STRONGLY SUPPORT THE LIVABLE PLACES PROPOSAL AS THE NEXT STEP FOR AFFORDABILITY, WALKABILITY, AND DIVERSITY OF HOUSING OPTIONS. IN THE DIRECTOR'S REMARKS ON YOUTUBE, SHE MENTIONED THAT IF YOU WENT TO COLLEGE IN HOUSTON, YOU PROBABLY LIVED IN A DUPLEX, FOURPLEX, OR OTHER SMALL APARTMENT BUILDING. THAT WAS EXACTLY MY EXPERIENCE IN MY YEARS OFF CAMPUS. I WAS FORTUNATE TO FIND A DUPLEXES, UH, EXCUSE ME, AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS THE SLANTY SHANTY THAT I SHARED WITH SIX OF MY FRIENDS. IT HAS SINCE BEEN TORN DOWN, WHICH IT NEEDED TO BE, BUT AS THE DIRECTOR NOTED, WE HAVEN'T BUILT NEW ONES IN YEARS. SO THEY'RE BECOMING HARDER TO FIND PEOPLE STARTING OUT LIKE WE WERE IN COLLEGE. NEED THOSE OPTIONS. THIS CODE UPDATE IS ABOUT ENABLING A GREATER VARIETY OF HOUSING TYPES THAT SUIT PEOPLE IN ALL DIFFERENT SITUATIONS THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES. AS POLICY MAKERS, YOU MUST MAKE A DECISION ABOUT PRIORITIES. ARE WE FOCUSED ON BUILDING HOUSING FOR HOUSTONIANS OR FOR CARS? IN ADDITION, AS SOMEONE WHO WALKS BIKES AND RIDES TRANSIT? EVERYWHERE I GO, I'M VERY CONFUSED BY THE SAFETY WASHING OF THE OPPOSITION TO THE SHARED DRIVEWAY PROPOSALS. THE BIGGEST SAFETY ISSUE IN NEIGHBORHOODS RIGHT NOW IS WHEN, UH, KIDS AND ELDERS ARE FORCED INTO THE STREET BY VEHICLES BLOCKING THE SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF FRONT LOADING HOMES. TOWN HOME NEIGHBORHOODS CAN BE LOVELY, SAFE AND NEIGHBORLY IF WE PUT THE STANDARDS IN PLACE TO MAKE THEM. SO I ENCOURAGE THE COMMISSION TO STAY STRONG ON SHARED DRIVEWAYS AND ALLEYS. SO WE MAY HAVE THE FUNCTIONAL SIDEWALKS AND FRIENDLY PEOPLE ORIENTED NEIGHBORHOODS WE WANT. I'VE HEARD SOME DEFEATIST MINDSET TODAY OF HOUSTON CAN'T BE WALKABLE, BUT THAT'S JUST PLAIN WRONG. HOUSTON WAS HERE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AND WAS VERY DIFFERENT. HOUSTON WILL BE HERE A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW AND WILL BE DIFFERENT. THE QUESTION IS JUST HOW DIFFERENT WE'D LIKE IT TO BE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR. LAMAS. APPRECIATE IT AND APPRECIATE YOUR WORK ON WALKABLE PLACES TOO. YOU ARE A GREAT PART OF THAT COMMITTEE. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS KEVIN SHELTON. KEVIN SHELTON IS NOT PRESENT. UM, MADAM CHAIR. OH, HELLO? YES. OH, UM, SORRY TO INTERRUPT. UM, ONE OF THE EARLIER SPEAKERS, GARLAND HARRIS JR. WAS CALLED ON, UM, HIS MICROPHONE WASN'T WORKING, BUT HE IS HERE NOW. OKAY. GARLAND HARRIS, JR. GO RIGHT AHEAD. YES. CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN. GREAT. THANK YOU GUYS. UH, I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE, MARGARET AVITA. THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT, UH, YOU HAVE DONE WITH CREATING THIS ORDINANCE AND CREATING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR HOUSTONIANS TO HAVE HOUSING TYPES. UM, I RUN A, UH, DESIGN FIRM HERE IN MIDDLE HOUSING DESIGN CODE. WE DESIGN A LOT OF PROJECTS AROUND THE CITY, THIRD WARD, FIFTH WARD, SUNNYSIDE, SOUTH PARK, UM, HOLLAND HEIGHTS. AND, UH, BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE PEOPLE WITH OTHER OPTIONS OUTSIDE OF JUST TOWNHOUSES AND DUPLEXES IS SOMETHING THAT WE GREATLY ARE EXCITED ABOUT. AND I'M IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE ORDINANCE. UM, WE'RE ESPECIALLY EXCITED ABOUT BEING ABLE TO BUILD THE MUR PROJECTS AND EVEN THE COURTYARD PROJECTS AND ARE EXCITED TO GIVE HOUSTONIANS THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOMETHING ELSE THAN JUST A THREE STORY TOWNHOUSE OR AN OVERSIZED DUPLEX. SO, THANK YOU GUYS. OH, THANK YOU. UH, NEXT IS CRYSTAL CASEY. CRYSTAL CASEY, MS. CASEY DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT. UM, MARIE CARLISLE. MARIE CARLISLE, I'M HERE. OKAY, GO RIGHT AHEAD. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR AND COMMISSIONERS. MY NAME IS MARIE CARLISLE AND I LIVE IN THE TIMBER GROVE AREA OF HOUSTON. AND I WOULD LIKE TO FIRST START BY THANKING ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE, OF THE LIVABLE, LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE WHO PUT IN NUMEROUS HOURS ON THE PROJECT, AND THEN IN RESPONSE TO ALL OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS, THOUGHTFULLY AND RESPECTFULLY REVISED SOME OF THOSE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. I KNOW IT WITH A LOT OF WORK, AND I TRULY DO APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORTS. [01:30:01] THAT SAID, I AM ANOTHER PERSON HERE IN OPPOSITION TO THE MARKET-BASED PARKING AND THE SHARED DRIVEWAY PROVISIONS OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS, BECAUSE I BELIEVE BOTH WILL SERVE TO WORSEN THE PARKING PROBLEMS FACED IN MANY AREAS OF HOUSTON AND WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT SAFETY AND WALKABILITY FOR THOSE OF US WHO LIVE THERE. MANY OF MY REASONS HAVE BEEN ALREADY SAID TODAY, AND THEY'LL PROBABLY BE MORE BEHIND ME. SO I'M TRYING NOT TO REHASH THEM OR GO INTO DETAILS. BUT FIRST OF ALL, AS MUCH AS WE WANT IT, I DON'T THINK IT'S REALISTIC TO EXPECT THAT ALL HOUSTONIANS ARE GONNA GIVE UP THEIR VEHICLES. AND EVEN IF THE HOMEOWNERS THEMSELVES, THE RESIDENTS DON'T HAVE VEHICLES, THEIR GUESTS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL STILL NEED PLACES TO PARK. AND WE'VE SEEN, UH, SEVERAL TIMES IN MY COMMUNITY, IN MY AREA WHERE ALL OF THE ROADS BEING FILLED WITH VEHICLES FROM ALL OF THOSE RESIDENTS CAUSES SAFETY ISSUES FOR RUNNERS, FOR CYCLISTS, FOR KIDS WALKING TO SCHOOL. UM, AND WE'VE SEEN HOW THAT THE DENSER DEVELOPMENT ON THESE NARROW TWO LANE STREETS COMBINED WITH THIS LACK OF PARKING OR ONLY STREET AVAILABLE PARKING, HAS NEGATIVELY IMPACTED SEVERAL AREAS OF OUR COMMUNITY. UM, COTTAGE GROVE AND SHADY ACRES ARE TWO PRIME EXAMPLES. I THINK THAT MARKET-BASED PARKING IN SIMILAR COMMUNITIES WILL ONLY EXACERBATE THESE SAFETY ISSUES. AND SECOND OF ALL, WHILE I ABSOLUTELY APPRECIATE AND LA THE OBJECTIVE OF MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THIS CITY, I DON'T BELIEVE THESE PROPOSED REVISIONS WILL ACCOMPLISH THAT OBJECTIVE. YOU ALL SITTING HERE HAVE HAD A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE INCREASING NUMBER OF LOTS COMING BEFORE YOU THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY HELD ONE HOME THAT ARE BEING SUBDIVIDED TO ALLOW FOR THREE OR FOUR HOMES. AND YOU ROUTINELY RULE ON VARIANCES THAT APPEAR, AT LEAST FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, TO BE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF ALLOWING DEVELOPERS TO PUT MORE HOMES ON A PROPERTY. AND MOST, IF NOT ALL OF THOSE HOMES BEING BUILT IN MY AREA THAT ARE THREE OR FOUR HOMES ON A LOT ARE $350,000 AND UP. AND THOSE ARE CERTAINLY NOT AFFORDABLE FOR THE AVERAGE TWO. MS. CARL, YOUR TIME IS UP. CAN WRAP UP PLEASE? UH, YES, MA'AM. I JUST WANNA SAY, SO I, I JUST DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S, WITHOUT A TIE OR AN INCENTIVE REQUIRING THESE HOMES, I JUST DON'T SEE THAT IT WILL, UM, HELP WITH THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING ISSUE. AND FINALLY, MY OTHER MINOR COMMENT IS I WOULD ASK THAT YOU RE-LOOK AT THE DEFINITION OF, UM, MARKET-BASED PARKING TO REMOVE CYCLING. I JUST DON'T THINK WITH OUR WEATHER AND THE, THE, THE BREADTH OF OUR CITY THAT CYCLING IS A REASONABLE ALTERNATIVE, UM, TO A VEHICLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH AGAIN FOR YOUR TIME TODAY. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. UH, OKAY. MIKE BERGER. MR. BERGER, ARE YOU THERE? YES, I AM. GREAT. GO RIGHT AHEAD. UH, MIKE BERGER, I'M THE OWNER OF SAN CASTLE HOMES AND THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE GREATER HOUSTON BUILDER ASSOCIATION AND A MEMBER OF THE LIVABLE PLACES COMMITTEE. UH, AS I SAID BEFORE, I AM FOR ALMOST EVERYTHING IN THIS, UH, CHAPTER 42 THAT WE WORKED ON FOR THE LAST, UH, TWO OR THREE YEARS, EXCEPT FOR SOME OF THE PROVISIONS IN THE NARROW LOTS. I KNOW PEOPLE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, UH, DRIVEWAYS. WE ACTUALLY BUILT A MOCKUP IN, UH, HEIGHTS ON A PIECE OF PROPERTY. WE HAD SOME CONCRETE, YOU KNOW, SKETCHED OUT SOME LINES. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO GET OUTTA YOUR, UH, DRIVEWAY ON THAT ONE SIDE. THE, UH, THE SIDE, THE OUTSIDE SIDE BECAUSE OF THE, UH, TURN AND THE, UH, CONCRETE. YOU'LL EITHER GO IN THE DITCH CROSS, YOU'LL DEFINITELY CROSS THE SIDEWALK TRYING TO GET OUT, AND YOU'RE WORRIED MORE ABOUT HITTING YOUR CAR AGAINST YOUR HOUSE OR THE OTHER CAR PARKED IN THE GARAGE THAN YOU ARE ABOUT PEDESTRIANS ON THE SIDEWALK. SO IT'S, I THINK IT'S A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. UM, MY, MY BIG, YOU'VE HEARD ALL THE OTHER COMMENTS ABOUT NARROW DRIVE. MY QUESTION TO THE PEOPLE ON THE COMMISSION, WOULD YOU BUY THIS HOME WITH THAT DRIVEWAY? WOULD YOU LIVE IN THAT HOME BECAUSE YOU'RE, YOU'RE MAKING A DECISION FOR PEOPLE ALL ACROSS HOUSTON THAT YOU MAY NOT DECIDE TO LIVE IN IT. BUT I, I THINK THE ANSWER PROBABLY IN YOUR MIND IS REALLY, I WOULD NEVER BUY THAT HOME. AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN. WE'LL STOP SUBDIVIDING SOME OF THESE LOTS AND WE'LL JUST PUT MILLION DOLLAR HOMES ON 'EM. AND THAT JUST WAS, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST THE ECONOMICS OF IT. 'CAUSE I CAN'T SELL THAT HOME. UM, GHBA DID PUT FORTH ANOTHER PROPOSAL EARLIER THIS WEEK WHERE WE TOOK THOSE, TOOK THAT SHARED DRIVEWAY, MADE IT A LOT CLOSER TO THE PROPERTY LINES, BUT KEPT THEM SEPARATED. AND IT GAVE YOU 18 FEET TO PARK ON THE STREET. IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT, THAT WOULD, IT WOULD BE A LOT SAFER. SO WE DID PRESENT THAT. UM, THE OTHER PART IS THE ALLEYWAY PROPOSALS. UH, AGAIN, I SAW A WHOLE LIST OF ALL THESE THINGS THAT PUBLIC WORKS IS GONNA CHANGE ALL THESE PROVISIONS IN CHAPTER NINE AND CHAPTER, ALL THE DIFFERENT CHAPTERS. I HAVE SEEN NONE OF THAT. I ACTUALLY CALLED PUBLIC WORKS YESTERDAY. I CANNOT EVEN COMMENT ON CHAPTER NINE 'CAUSE IT'S UNDER TO REVIEW NOW. SO YOU GUYS SHOULD VOTE AGAINST THIS TODAY AND SAY, TAKE OUT SOME OF THESE PROVISIONS. THE ALLEYWAYS FOR SURE, UNTIL PUBLIC WORKS ACTUALLY PUTS IT INTO WRITING AND GETS INTO AN IDM MANUAL. BUT I DON'T TRUST THAT YOU'RE PUTTING PARTY OF THIS ORDINANCE CHAPTER FOUR TWO BASED ON SOME ORDINANCES THAT MAY OR MAY NOT CHANGE. 'CAUSE THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE ANYTIME THEY WANT. AGAIN, IT'S NOT EVEN UP FOR, UH, ANYBODY THE PUBLIC CAN LOOK AT UNTIL AUGUST 1ST. THANK YOU, [01:35:01] UH, MIKE, AND WE, YOUR TIME IS UP. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. WE DO HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM PUBLIC WORKS HERE. WE'RE GONNA HEAR FROM IN A LITTLE WHILE WHEN WE GET TO, TO THE COMMISSION'S CONSIDERATIONS. SO I KNOW YOU'LL STAY TUNED. BUT I DID WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIRELESS HELP AND WORK ON THIS COMMITTEE FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS. WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU. UH, OKAY, I THINK WE HAVE ONE MORE SPEAKER. UM, AND THAT IS STEPHANIE GOLDSBY. STEPHANIE GOLDSBY IS NOT PRESENT. UM, MOM CHAIR. OH, YES. UM, A PREV, UH, SPEAKER WHO WAS CAUGHT ON PREVIOUSLY, UM, IS NOW HERE. UM, THEIR MIC WAS JUST NOT WORKING. WHO IS IT? UM, GILBERT KO RONCO. OKAY. YES. GILBERT. OO SAY IT AGAIN. KO RONCO. YES. OKO. VCO. YEAH. OKAY. GO AHEAD. GILBERT. GILBERT, ARE YOU THERE? OKAY. I GUESS HE IS STILL HAVING TROUBLE. UM, OKAY. UH, IT IS WONDERFUL THAT WE HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO, UM, PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEBATE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUES. AND IT SHOWS WHAT AN IMPORTANT ISSUE WE'RE ABOUT TO CONSIDER. I'LL SPEAK FOR THE PLANNING COMMISSION. WE ARE REALLY EAGER TO GET DOWN TO WORK AND TALK ABOUT THIS OURSELVES. BUT I WILL ASK JUST ONE FINAL, IS THERE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM THAT WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM? I HAVE TWO SPEAKERS NOW WHO SIGNED UP. OKAY, GO AHEAD. FIRST ONE, UM, TYRON MCDANIEL. OKAY. TYRON TYRONE OR TYRON TYRON MCDANIELS COMMITTEE. OKAY. YES, MA'AM. YES, GO AHEAD. CAN YOU HEAR ME AHEAD? YES. UM, I'M ON THE LIVABLE PLACES COMMITTEE AS WELL, AND WE'VE DONE A, A GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT, UH, TRYING TO GET TO THIS POINT. I JUST WANNA SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE WITH CHAPTER 42 AND DIFFERENT CHANGES THAT WE'RE MAKING. TITLE 42, EXCUSE ME. UM, PRIMARILY BECAUSE I WORK IN INNER CITY COMMUNITIES, FIFTH FORWARD, THIRD WARD, SUNNYSIDE, UM, INDEPENDENCE HEIGHTS. AND IN SOME OF THESE AREAS, THESE CHANGES WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR US TO PROVIDE HOUSING THAT'S MORE INCLUSIVE. UM, WE'VE HEARD COMMENTS AND COMMENTARY ON POOR AND AGAINST SOME OF THE CHANGES. UM, A LOT OF THE, UM, FEEDBACK ARE FROM AREAS THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY AFFORDABLE ALREADY. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR US IS TO HEAR AND TAKE INSIGHT AND COMMENTARY FROM NOT ONLY ISOLATED SEGMENTS OF OUR SOCIETY HERE IN HOUSTON, BUT ALSO TAKE COMMENTARY FROM THOSE OF US THAT LIVE IN SOME OF THE OTHER AREAS THAT AREN'T QUITE AS AFFLUENT, THAT ALREADY AREN'T AFFORDABLE AND PROBABLY WILL NEVER BE AFFORDABLE AGAIN. SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THINGS THAT WILL ALLOW OUR CITY TO BE INCLUSIVE AND WE CAN CREATE MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO HERE. I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE'VE CREATED A PERFECT SOLUTION, BUT I DO THINK IT'S ONE STEP BETTER AND IT'S ONE STEP TOWARDS HAVING A MORE PROGRESSIVE CITY THAT EVERYONE CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD TO LIVE IN A CALL HALL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU TYREN. AND, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE ON THE COMMITTEE. THAT WAS IMPORTANT. APPRECIATE IT. OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ELSE? YES. GEORGE FREY. FREY. OKAY. GEORGE FREY. OH, FREY. SORRY. YES. HELLO. BEFORE I SPEAK, I WANNA JUST CLARIFY, AVITA MENTIONED THAT SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE ISSUED A LETTER OF SUPPORT. CAN YOU YOU CLARIFY THAT? 'CAUSE I HEARD SEVERAL MEMBERS WITH, WITH CONTRADICTING OPINIONS. YES, MA'AM. WE RECEIVED A SUPPORT LETTER FROM SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE LEADERSHIP. DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, MR. FRY? WE DID RECEIVE A LETTER THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, MY NAME IS GEORGE FRY. I'M THE PRESIDENT OF SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 14 LAZY BROOK, TIMBER GROVE, MY SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL OF US WHO HAVE BEEN ALONG THE, UH, FOR THE RIDE. UH, SINCE EARLY ON. WE'VE ATTENDED MANY OF THE MEETINGS. WE'VE CALLED IN TO, TO MANY OF THEM OFFERED OUR OPINIONS AT THE PUBLIC COMMENT. AT THE END OF OF THE MEETINGS, WE'VE PARTICIPATED IN THE HOMEWORK. WE'VE SUBMITTED SURVEYS, WE'VE TOURED OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, ALONG THE LINES WITH, UH, DIPTY MATHER, HECTOR RODRIGUEZ, AND DIRECTOR MARGARET WALLACE BROWN. SO WE'VE, WE'VE TRIED TO BE ENGAGED AND WE THANK EVERYBODY FOR YOUR SUPPORT. WE LOVE THE IDEAS THAT ARE, THAT ARE COMING OUT AND THE, THE DISCUSSIONS THAT ARE, THAT ARE BROUGHT UP, UH, EVEN . I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU AS WELL. EVERY TIME I ASK YOU A QUESTION, YOU GIVE ME ALL THE DETAILS AS AS THEY COME OUT. SO IT'S, IT'S BEEN VERY HELPFUL. UM, REGARDING OUR OPINION FOR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 14. WE, WE DON'T HAVE A STRONG OPINION FOR THE VARIOUS TYPES OF ADDITIONAL HOUSING 10 DAY PACKAGE. JUST, [01:40:03] WE, WE DON'T HAVE A STRONG OPINION FOR THE VARIOUS NEW TYPES OF, OR THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSES, HOUSING OPTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE. HOWEVER, WE HAVE REPEATEDLY ISSUED OUR CONCERNS REGARDING, UH, THE, THE MARKET BASED PARKING AND, UH, LACK OF VISIBILITY, UH, ORDINANCES BEING UPDATED. SO SPECIFICALLY WE SEE WHEN, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE TOURED THE AREA WITH DIRECTOR MARGARET WALLACE BROWN GOING THROUGH SHADY ACRES. UH, WRAP UP PLEASE. YOUR TIME'S UP. BUT GO AHEAD AND FINISH YOUR THOUGHTS. THERE IS, THERE IS REPEAT VIOLATION IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. UH, AND WHICH CREATES ADDITIONAL SAFETY ISSUES FOR, FOR THE, THE AREA. SO I'D LIKE TO JUST HIGHLIGHT THAT WE ARE IN OPPOSITION. UH, WE DO NOT RECOMMEND FOR PUSHING THIS FORWARD WITH ITS CURRENT STATE, UH, UH, WITHOUT BETTER ENFORCEMENT OF THE, UH, PARKING AND VISIBILITY ISSUES THAT, THAT THIS WILL CREATE WE WE'LL FURTHER EXACERBATE. OKAY. THANK YOU MR. FRY. THANK, I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ELSE IN THE CHAT? CHAT? WE HAVE ONE MORE SPEAKER. IVA. JOHN JOCK. J-E-A-N-J-A-C-Q-U-E-S. OKAY. IVAN JOHN JOCK? YES, MA'AM. HOW YOU DOING? HI, GO AHEAD. GOOD. I WOULD, HI. I'D LIKE TO ASK, UM, ONE QUESTION FIRST. HAVE THIS, HAVE THESE RECOMMENDATIONS BEEN APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL? NO, NOT YET. OKAY. SO, WHEN LEE BROWN CAME UP WITH THE WALKABLE AND BIKEABLE INITIATIVE, HE DID NOT SUGGEST TO CHANGE THE CHARTER TO MEET THE NEED. HE ONLY SUGGESTED TO EXECUTE THE INITIATIVE WHEREVER IS POSSIBLE. I LIVE IN SUNNYSIDE, AND WHAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS AFFORDABLE HOMES IS FOR THE CITY AND THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT TO PARTNER WITH HUD, HCHA AND TEXAS LAND BANK TO USE THE CITY LAND OR PURCHASE LAND PARTNER WITH BUILDERS WHO KNOW HOW TO BUILD LOW, UM, HOUSE FOR LOW INCOME OR VERY LOW INCOME, UM, CITIZENS LIKE THE GUY WHO SPOKE EARLIER. UM, SO RESIDENTS CAN'T AFFORD, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO PACK US, I SEE THIS AS A WAY OF PACKING US TO MAKE MORE HOMES AVAILABLE FOR OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE WELCOME INTO THE CITY. BUT I THINK THAT THE CITIZENS OF HOUSTON, TEXAS SHOULD COME FIRST. SOMETHING THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE IN YEARS. OKAY. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. OKAY. WITH THAT, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY MORE SPEAKERS. I'M GONNA TAKE A LITTLE BREAK HERE AND ASK OUR LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE KIM MICKELSON, HOW TO ASKED TO, UH, INTRODUCE HER INTERN AND I FORGOT ABOUT IT. OH, OKAY. IT'S A LITTLE OUT OF ORDER, BUT I DID WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO INTRODUCE, UM, THE REAL ESTATE SECTION LEGAL INTERN, DVH MANN, WHO IS HERE TODAY. HE WILL BE A THIRD YEAR LAW STUDENT AT SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW. HE'S VERY INTERESTED IN THE WAY THAT POLICY AND, UM, DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGULATIONS WORK TOGETHER. SO I'M THRILLED TO HAVE HIM. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, HE'S BEEN TAKING COPIOUS NOTES, I HOPE. GREAT. YEAH. THANK YOU. WELCOME. AND STUDY UP AND COME BACK AND WORK FOR US FULL TIME. THAT'S MY HOPE. . YEAH. YEAH. IT'S LIKE THIS EVERY WEEK. I'M, YEAH. AND DON'T, PLEASE DON'T SCARE HIM OFF. OKAY. WE'RE ALL LIKE THIS. YEAH. EVERY ONE OF THEM. UM, I WOULD LIKE AND I PARTLY OUT OF APPRECIATION TO THEM FOR BEING HERE, BUT WE HAVE SOME EMINENT, UH, REPRESENTATIVES FROM PUBLIC WORKS WHO ARE HERE. UM, I THINK CHRIS BUTLER IS HERE. AND WHO ELSE IS RUDY MORENO? RUDY MORENO AND SUHAIL CONWELL, OUR CITY ENGINEER. UH, COULD YOU JUST EITHER, CAN YOU JUST MAYBE, UM, GIVE US A STATEMENT OF THE PROCESS YOU'RE IN, IN MAKING THESE CHANGES TO THE IDM. CHRIS IS THE, UH, DIRECTOR OF THE HOUSTON PERMITTING CENTER AND, UM, THEY HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY, VERY HELPFUL AND COOPERATIVE IN MAKING CHANGES THAT WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT THESE PRO PROPOSED CHANGES. SO CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE TIMELINE? YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR COMMISSIONERS, UH, ONCE AGAIN, MY NAME IS CHRIS BUTLER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS, DIRECTOR OF THE HOUSTON PERMITTING CENTER. AND YES, MA'AM, YOU ARE CORRECT. WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH, UH, SAVITA AND DEPUTY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW, AND WE'RE MAKING THE CHANGES TO THE IDM CHAPTERS NINE AND 10 THAT WILL REFLECT THE PROPOSED CHANGES THAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAS PROPOSED TODAY. SO WE HAVE BEEN WORKING HAND IN HAND OVER THE LAST, I DON'T HAVE MANY MONTHS, BUT IT'S BEEN, IT IS BEEN A WHILE. AND SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER. AND SO WE DO SUPPORT THESE CHANGES THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED AND WE ARE AMENDING THE IDM TO REFLECT THOSE CHANGES. OKAY. ANY QUESTIONS [01:45:01] OR COMMENTS? CAN YOU CONFIRM THAT IT WILL BE EASIER TO BUILD IN AN ALLEY? NO, I CANNOT COMPLETE THAT. . CAN WE TRY AND KEEP WORKING ON THAT OBJECTIVE? WE HAVE BEEN TRYING AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK TOWARDS THAT OBJECTIVE. OKAY. COMMISSIONER CLARK. SO FIRST I WANNA SAY THANK YOU. I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THE STAFF AND WE APPRECIATE THAT. UM, WHAT ASSURANCES CAN YOU GIVE US THAT WHEN YOU CHANGE THE IDM TO MEET, IF THIS PASSES TO MEET REQUIREMENTS SO THAT THESE PRODUCTS CAN BE BUILT, WHAT ASSURANCE CAN YOU GIVE US THAT THAT WON'T CHANGE? WELL, THE IDM WILL BE APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL. I CANNOT CONTROL WHAT A NEW ADMINISTRATION WILL OR WON'T DO. BUT THIS WILL BE APPROVED BY THIS MAYOR AND THIS CITY COUNCIL. BUT IT AGAIN, COULD CHANGE AT ANY TIME. CORRECT. YEAH. GOT IT. IT'S JUST ASKING A QUESTION. MM-HMM . UM, BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA RECORD THIS IN AN ORDINANCE, AND SO THIS IS GONNA BE SET FOR THE CITY REGULATIONS FOR BUILDING, AND WE'RE GONNA FORCE THEM TO BUILD SOMETHING THAT IF THE IDM CHANGES, THEN I THINK HE MEANT, UM, IT WON'T BE POSSIBLE. SO AS CO-CHAIR OF THIS COMMITTEE, I'VE ASKED FOR THREE YEARS THAT ANY CHANGES WE MAKE IN TANDEM WITH PUB PUBLIC WORKS, COULD WE INCLUDE IN THE ORDINANCE, AND THIS IS PROBABLY A KIM QUESTION LANGUAGE IN THE ORDINANCE THAT AT LEAST TIES IT SOMEWHAT, THAT WOULD KEEP IT PART OF THE ORDINANCE. AND I KNOW I'VE ASKED DIRECTOR BROWN, AND SHE'S PROBABLY OVER THERE THROWING, UH, INVISIBLE DAGGERS AT ME. . . YEAH. I'M GONNA LEAN UP SOME, MAYBE SHE'LL GET RODNEY. UM, BUT THAT'S JUST MY CONCERN BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA ENFORCE SOMETHING, BUT THEN WE CAN'T ENFORCE IT AND THE BUILDERS AND DEVELOPERS CAN'T DO IT. SO, KIM, THAT MIGHT BE MORE DIRECTED TOWARDS YOU, BUT, UM, IT'S ALWAYS JUST BEEN AN ISSUE AND I WANTED TO BRING IT OUT AND, AND I'LL ADD, YOU KNOW, WE ARE WORKING WITH, UM, IDM CHANGES AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT ALLEYS FOR MAYBE LONGER THAN THE LPAC HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT. OH MY GOD. THESE AMENDMENTS THAT ARE NOW BEFORE US. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE IDM OF COURSE, AS YOU ALL KNOW, IS THERE FOR ENGINEERING STANDARDS. AND YES, THOSE CAN CHANGE FROM, I WON'T SAY DAY TO DAY, BUT, UM, THEY CAN CHANGE MORE FREQUENTLY AND THEY DON'T GO THROUGH THE ORDINANCE AMENDMENT PROCESS. SO THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS WE WANNA KEEP OUT OF THE ORDINANCE, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOU ALL AND WITH, UH, HPW STAFF TO SEE WHERE IT BEST FITS. MAYBE THE BEST I CAN SAY TODAY. I, I APPRECIATE THAT. I JUST WANTED TO PUT IT BACK ON THE RECORD. THANK YOU. GOOD. THANK YOU. AND, AND THANK YOU MR. BUTLER. THANK I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT. APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. THANK CHAIR. OH, OKAY. COMMISSIONER JONES. YEAH, THANK YOU. I'D LIKE TO DIVE A LITTLE BIT DEEPER IN LISA'S, UH, REFERENCE. AND, AND THAT IS TYPICALLY THE IDM REVIEWS, UH, CHANGES PROPOSALS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO PEER REVIEW. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S CRITICAL TO THIS TOWN, TO THE INDUSTRY, TO BUILDERS, DEVELOPERS, ET CETERA, THAT ANY CHANGES MADE BE SUBJECT TO REVIEW BY THE ENGINEERING COMMUNITY, OTHERS. BUT THIS PEER REVIEW, IT HASN'T BEEN IN THE PAST. AND I THINK THAT THAT HAS TO BE PART AND PARCEL WITH THE WHOLE COMMUNITY TO BUY INTO THE PROGRAM. UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER TAHIR. UM, MR. BUTLER, THANK YOU FOR, UH, COMING HERE. I JUST, UH, HAVE A COMMENT AND I'M GONNA USE MY MOMENT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE. UM, IN SPITE OF SHORTAGES AND, AND LACK OF, UH, QUALIFIED PEOPLE AFTER COVID AND INCREASE WORK, UH, I WENT THROUGH A MAJOR REMODEL, UH, OF MY RESIDENTS, AND I WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH YOUR PERMITTING AND INSPECTION AND STAFF. UH, I WANTED TO BE INVOLVED BECAUSE I WANTED TO LEARN THE PROCESS MYSELF. AND I'M MUST COMPLIMENT YOU ON, ON THE WAY YOU ARE TRAINING YOUR PEOPLE AND IN THE WAY YOU ARE USING TECHNOLOGY, ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR INSPECTION AND PERMITTING PEOPLE SO THAT THEY HAVE INFORMATION, UH, AT THEIR FINGERTIPS AND THERE'S CONSISTENCY, UH, THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS. SO I JUST WANTED TO COMPLIMENT YOU ON THAT. THANK YOU. AND I WILL JUST ADD, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO, THE, THE IDM IS NOT, DOES NOT GO TO CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL. IT'S AN ENGINEERING DOCUMENT. THE CODE GOES TO CITY COUNCIL, IT'S OFFICIAL POLICY OF THE CITY. AND SO IT, IT WOULD BEHOOVE THE DEPARTMENTS TO WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE HAVE AS OFFICIAL POLICY IS ALLOWED THROUGH THE IDM AND STAYS, YOU KNOW, RATHER, UH, PREDICTABLE AND AND CONSISTENT. DID YOU WANNA ADD SOMETHING? UH, I'LL JUST ADD, AND, AND MR. BUTLER MADE THE COMMENT THAT THIS MAY GO TO CITY COUNCIL, AND IT'S TRUE, THE IDM TYPICALLY DOES NOT GO TO CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL BECAUSE THEY ARE TECHNICAL STANDARDS. RIGHT. UM, [01:50:01] BUT IF YOU ALL WERE RECALLED WHEN WE, UH, ADOPTED THE NEW CHAPTER 19 FLOODPLAIN REGULATIONS, THE IDM CHANGES THAT WENT ALONG WITH THAT, DID GO TO CITY COUNCIL UHHUH 'CAUSE THEY WERE SUCH A BIG CHANGE. AND IT MAY BE THAT THESE ARE OF THE SAME MAGNITUDE, SO THEY MAY ACTUALLY BE PART ALONG WITH WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING. MAY MAY IN FACT BE A DEPARTMENT DECISION TO TAKE THIS YEAH. TO THEM SO THEY KNOW. AND THAT MIGHT GIVE PEOPLE SOME COMFORT THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE THERE. YEAH. OR, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TO BY, BY ORDINANCE. WE UNDERSTAND. OKAY. THANK YOU CHRIS. APPRECIATE SO MUCH. OKAY. UM, SO COMMISSION, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT AT THIS POINT? WHO WANTS TO WEIGH IN? I BET IT'S, I BET IT'S COMMISSIONER BALDWIN. I ALWAYS HAVE A COMMENT. I'M JUST GUESSING. COMMISSIONER BALDWIN. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I THINK TODAY'S A HISTORIC DAY. I THINK FOR EACH OF US. I BELIEVE OUR VOTE TODAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT VOTE THAT WE WILL MAKE WHILE WE WERE ON THIS PLANNING COMMISSION, BY FAR, IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT VOTE IN THE LAST SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS THAT I HAVE BEEN HERE. AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK SONNY AND LISA FOR THE HARD WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE AND FOR THE VICTORIES THAT WE'VE ALREADY PASSED AT PLANNING COMMISSION, WHICH HAVE ALREADY BEEN ADOPTED BY CITY COUNCIL. AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THOSE THAT YOU SHOULD BE SO MUCH COMMENDED FOR. THE RECOMMENDATIONS TODAY. FURTHER, THE NURSE, THE NOTION THAT ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL THAT WE UNDERSTAND AT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION, THE NEED FOR FLEXIBILITY, THE NEED FOR LESS STRINGENT REGULATIONS, AND TO ENCOURAGE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING THAT WILL MAKE IT MORE AFFORDABLE AS WE GO FOR, FOR FUTURE AS A CITY. MOST OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS TODAY HERE WERE GENERALLY AGREED UPON BY THIS GROUP AND THE ACTION COMMITTEE. THE SHARED DRIVEWAY IS NOT THE SOLUTION. NEITHER SIDE LIKES IT, AND IT REALLY DOES NOT SOLVE OUR PROBLEM. AND I BELIEVE WE THIS BODY CAN CONSIDER A BETTER SOLUTION. A POINT I'D LIKE TO MAKE TO THIS COMMISSION AND TO THE PUBLIC IS THAT MANY MUCH OF OUR CITY DOES HAVE DEED RESTRICTIONS IN OUR CITY THAT DO NOT ALLOW FOR SUBDIVISION INTO NARROW LOTS. AND WE INCREASINGLY SEE SPECIAL MINIMUM LOT SIZE THAT THE MAIN MOTIVATION IS TO NOT ALLOW THE SUBDIVISION INTO NARROW LOTS. NARROW LOTS ARE A CONCERN OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY THAT WE SERVE. FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS. THE MAJORITY OF THE SUBDIVISIONS INTO NARROW LOTS ARE IN UNDERSERVED NEIGHBORHOODS. NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE NOT WELL ORGANIZED, THAT ARE NOT AFFLUENT, AND THAT ARE OVERWHELMINGLY MINORITY NEIGHBORHOODS. THOSE FOR THE SAME NUMBER OF YEARS, THESE NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE BEEN COMING TO US, ASKING AND BEGGING US FOR HELP TO STOP THESE SUBDIVISIONS AND TO STOP THE MODIFICATIONS TO THE CHARACTER OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. AND WE, FOR YEARS HAVE SAID, THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO. THIS IS IN THE ORDINANCE TODAY. WE CAN SAY THERE IS SOMETHING WE CAN DO. WE CAN TAKE AN ACTION THAT WILL HELP THESE COMMUNITIES THAT OTHERWISE HAVE NOT HAD A VOICE OR AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE SAME LEVEL OF RESTRICTIONS AS THOSE WITH DEED RESTRICTIONS AND SPECIAL MINIMUM LOT SIZE. WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THESE RULES TODAY AND TO HELP PRESERVE THE CHARACTER OF SO MANY OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS WHO ARE BEING THREATENED. OUR ROLE IS TO SERVE THE PUBLIC AND ALL THE PEOPLE AND THE PUBLIC REALM. AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE COMMENTS THAT WE HAD TODAY, BUT MANY OF THEM ARE SELF-SERVING FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN THEIR PROJECTS, NOT THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. AND I HOPE TODAY AS WE CONTINUE TO DEBATE THIS, THESE CHANGES THAT WE WILL UNDERSTAND OUR ROLE IS TO PROTECT AND GIVE THESE COMMUNITIES A VOICE THAT THEY OTHERWISE WOULD NOT HAVE. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, COMMISSIONER CLARK, VERY ELOQUENT. UM, APPRECIATE THAT. COMMISSIONER BALDWIN. UM, SO AS CO-CHAIR, I WANT TO THANK SONNY AND I WANNA THANK STAFF AND THE DIRECTOR AND ALL OF THE, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT SPENT MANY, MANY, MANY HOURS OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, UH, GETTING US TO THIS POINT. AND THIS POINT, THERE'S SO MANY GOOD THINGS THAT ARE PART OF THESE CHANGES. BUT WITH COMMISSIONER BALDWIN, I, AND THIS IS HARD FOR ME TO SAY BECAUSE I AM CO-CHAIR AND I'VE WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS, THESE, THE WAY THE SHARED DRIVEWAYS ARE PUT BEFORE US, I, I DON'T PERSONALLY FEEL, AND I KNOW YOU SAID THIS FOR PERSONAL REASONS, I DON'T BUILD IN THE CITY. I AM A DEVELOPER FOR ANYONE THAT DOESN'T KNOW THAT. BUT I DON'T DEVELOP OR BUILD IN THE CITY, BUT I LIVE IN THE CITY AND I LOVE THIS CITY. AND THAT'S WHY I WORK SO HARD TO TRY TO DO THINGS THAT HELP THE CITY THAT MAKE US A BETTER CITY. EVERY DAY THAT WE'RE HERE, I DON'T THINK THE SHARED DRIVEWAYS DO THAT. IT DOES FORCE MORE PARKING ON THE STREET. IT DOES ELIMINATE PARKING IN THE [01:55:01] DRIVEWAYS. YOU, I LIVED IN A TOWN HOME, YOU CANNOT GET OUT WITH THAT TYPE OF DRIVE. AND I JUST HAVE ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WHO'S NOW HEALING FROM TWO BROKEN WRISTS. SHE HAS TWO, TWO T PLATES, ONE IN EACH ARM FROM A FALL BECAUSE ALL THE CARS WERE PARKED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE NARROW STREET TO SLOW THE TRAFFIC DOWN. DIDN'T SLOW THIS WOMAN DOWN. SO SHE STEPPED OUT AND HAD A NEAR FATAL HIT. SHE HAD TO GO BACKWARDS AND IN DOING SO, FELL AND BROKE BOTH WRISTS, GAVE HERSELF A CONCUSSION. I STAND BY, I'M NOT SURE. THESE ARE, THESE ARE MORE SAFE THAN WHAT WE HAVE OUT THERE TODAY. WE HEAR ALL KINDS OF OFFERS OF SUGGESTIONS. I KNOW THAT WE'VE VETTED THIS SOME, AND SAVITA, YOU'VE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB. I'M JUST NOT SURE IF WE'RE THERE YET WITH THE SHARED DRIVEWAYS. SO I'LL END MY LITTLE SPEECH, UM, WITH, I, I HAVE IT IN MIND THAT I'M GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO TAKE THE SHARED DRIVEWAYS OUT OF THIS SUBMITTAL. AND LET'S CON I I'LL VOLUNTEER MY TIME. WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK ON THIS UNTIL WE CAN PERFECT IT SO THAT IT FITS THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY. UM, AND IT'S NOT FOR, YES, I AM A I'M A DEVELOPER. IT'S NOT BECAUSE I'M IN THAT INDUSTRY. I DON'T BUILD IN THE CITY. REMEMBER THAT. IT IS FOR THE SAFETY AND THE USABILITY OF PEOPLE'S PRIVATE HOMES AND THE PUBLIC REALM. SO I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO KNOW WHERE MY MINDSET IS. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER GARZA. UM, YES, THANK YOU SO MUCH, LISA. WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY, VERY CLOSELY TOGETHER ON THIS PROJECT FOR SOME ODD YEARS. AND AS, AS WE'VE SAID, I THINK THE BEAUTY OF THIS, UM, ACTION COMMITTEE IS THAT LISA HAS BEEN WORKING THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. AND I HAVE NOT. AND THAT WAS PART OF WHAT WE WANTED TO DO, TO GET SOME BALANCE SO THAT WE MADE SURE THAT ALL VOICES WERE HEARD. SO I HAVE ACTUALLY, I GUESS A TECHNICAL QUESTION, WHICH WOULD BE IT. WE, UH, YOU KNOW, AS WE'VE BEEN GOING ALONG, COMMISSIONERS, UH, THE LANGUAGE, UH, OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE ORDINANCE HAVE BEEN CHANGING OVER TIME BASED ON COMMUNITY INPUT. SO NONE OF THIS WAS EVER SET IN STONE AS WE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY. TWEAKS WERE MADE, CHANGES WERE MADE. AS AN EXAMPLE, THE BALCONY FRONTS WAS KIND OF TOSSED OUT. WE GOT A LOT OF PUSHBACK AND NOW WINDOWS ARE IN THAT PLACE. SO I HAVE THIS QUESTION, AND MAYBE THIS IS LEGAL OR THIS MIGHT BE FOR THE DIRECTOR, AND IT IS, I WANT TO SEND THE WHOLE THING TO CITY COUNCIL. I DON'T WANT US TO PARSE IT, PULL IT APART, PICK OUT LITTLE PIECES AND SAVE THEM FOR LATER. MY QUESTION IS, I KNOW THAT WHEN WE GOT THE PUSHBACK FOR THE, THE NARROW LOT DEVELOPMENT AND THE Y SHAPED DRIVEWAY, UH, THAT THE DEPARTMENT WAS WORKING ON VARIOUS, MAYBE ALTERNATIVES AND ONE OF THOSE, I BELIEVE DIRECTOR WAS THE 33 A FOOT WIDE LOT. SO THAT IF YOU HAD TWO LOTS, TWO FIFTIES, YOU COULD PUT THREE DEVELOPMENTS ON IT VERSUS TODAY'S FOUR. CORRECT. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO PULL OUT THE LANGUAGE OF THE 25 AND REPLACE IT WITH LANGUAGE FOR THE 33 DEVELOPERS STILL GET TO DEVELOP? IT'S A NARROWER LOT. THERE ARE NO SHARED DRIVEWAYS. IT IS A DRIVE, UH, YOU KNOW, A FRONT LOADER, UNLESS OF COURSE THE BUILDER DECIDES OTHERWISE, BUT IT WOULD SOLVE, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN THE PAST, IT'S AN ELEGANT SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM THAT HAS NO REAL SOLUTION, AT LEAST THE ONE THAT WE'RE PRESENTING. UM, NO ONE SEEMS TO, LIKE I AM OF THE FEELING THOUGH, THAT IF I WANNA LIVE IN A CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOOD AND A HOUSE WITH A Y SHAPED DRIVEWAY IS THE ONLY ONE AVAILABLE IN MY PRICE RANGE, I WILL BUY IT. YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO MATCH THE BUYER TO THE HOUSE. SO I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S REALLY THE PROBLEM, BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IF WE COULD, I WOULD LIKE TO, AS MY CO-CHAIR SAID, UH, COMMISSIONER CLARK EXCISE THE 25 AND PERHAPS INSERT A 33. DO YOU THINK EXCISE 40? YES. INSTEAD OF 40? YEAH, INSTEAD OF 40 INSTEAD OF FOUR. I'M SORRY, YES. 33. THE 40 GOES TO 33. COMMISSIONER CLARK. SO IF YOU ARE, JUST FOR CLARITY, IF YOU HAVE A, YOU MUST HAVE A MINIMUM 33 FOOT LOT IN ORDER TO HAVE A FRONT LOADING DRIVEWAY. YOU CAN HAVE A NARROWER LOT WITH SIDE DRIVEWAYS AND ALL THAT, THE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES. BUT FOR A, SO YOU'D SHOW ON THE FLAG LINE YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. OR THREE UNITS. WELL, YOU, YES, BECAUSE I, I WANT YOU TO EXPLAIN THE THREE UNITS. THE TWO WOULD HAVE A SHARED, THE ONE WOULD HAVE ONE. TELL US HOW THAT WOULD WORK IF THAT WAS DONE THAT WAY. SO WITH A 33, SO CURRENTLY WHAT THE DRAFT SAYS AND SAVITA ISS GOING TO, AVITAS GONNA CORRECT MY LANGUAGE. 'CAUSE I'M NEVER GONNA GET IT EXACTLY RIGHT. BUT BASICALLY WHAT THE DRAFT CURRENTLY SAYS IS NO FRONT DRIVEWAYS ON LOTS LESS THAN 40 FEET. MM-HMM . UNLESS THEY'RE THE Y SHAPED DRIVEWAY. WHAT I THINK I'M HEARING MM-HMM . FROM YOU ALL IS NO FRONT LOADING DRIVEWAYS ON LOTS LESS THAN 33 FEET [02:00:01] PERIOD. NO Y SHAPED DRIVEWAY OPTION. THAT IS WHAT I'M SAYING. 33 AND ABOVE. YEAH. SORRY. 33 AND ABOVE WOULD NOT HAVE, THEY'D HAVE THEIR OWN DRIVEWAY. YEAH. SO WE'RE MOVING THE 40 DOWN TO 33. AND THERE IS NO SHARED DRIVEWAY, NO Y SHAPED DRIVEWAY OPTION PERIOD. YES. IF YOU'RE LESS THAN 33 FEET, YOU'VE GOTTA TAKE ACCESS FROM THE REAR, THE SIDE, THE ALLEY, THE WHATEVER ELSE, BUT, OR 33 AND ABOVE. YOU CAN HAVE YOUR OWN DRIVEWAY. BUT 32 AND BELOW, COULDN'T YOU DO STILL DO A SHARED DRIVEWAY? YOU DO A SHARED DRIVEWAY. I'M SORRY. YES. YES. SO TELL ME IF I TOOK, IF I TOOK A 90 FOOT COMBINED, TWO LOTS, THEY'RE NOT 90 FOOT WIDTH, SO I DIVIDE 'EM INTO 30 FOOT. NOW I HAVE TO DO A SHARED DRIVEWAY, BUT I ONLY HAVE THREE LOTS. DO I DO A SHARED DRIVEWAY ON TWO OF 'EM AND ONE SINGLE? HOW DOES, HOW DO WE THINK THAT MIGHT WORK? I THINK YOU'VE GOTTA DO WITH THE SHARE ON THREE OF THEM. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS DIPTI MATHUR. SO IN YOUR SCENARIO, COMMISSIONER CLARK, IF THE LOT IS 90 FEET WIDE AND THEY'VE BEEN DIVIDED INTO 30 FEET WIDE LOTS, IF WE ARE, SAY, IF YOU ARE, UH, TRYING TO MAKE A MOTION FOR 33 FEET OR GREATER, ALL THESE 30 FEET LOTS MUST TAKE ACCESS FROM REAR OR HAVE A SHARED DRIVEWAY, NOT THE ONE THAT WE ARE ALL DISCUSSING. SHARED DRIVEWAY IN THIS CASE IS THE SHARED DRIVEWAY, WHICH WILL HAVE A HOA AND ALL OF THAT. SO COULD THEY DO A U-SHAPED DRIVE IF THE THREE LOTS COMBINE THEIR DRIVEWAYS INTO A SHARED DRIVEWAY, WHICH IS DEFINED IN THE ORDINANCE, A SHARED DRIVEWAY. SO I JUST WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT Y DRIVE, ALTHOUGH BEING CALLED AS SHARED DRIVEWAY OR COMBINED DRIVE, IS A, LET'S CALL IT A Y DRIVE TO KEEP IT SIMPLE. A Y DRIVE IS NOT A SHARED DRIVEWAY BECAUSE SHARED DRIVEWAY REQUIRES A COMMON AREA AGREEMENT. Y DRIVEWAY DOES NOT. SO IN THE 30, 30, 30 FEET CONFIGURATION, THEY CAN DO A SHARED DRIVEWAY WHERE THEY HAVE AN HOA, THEY CAN OF COURSE DO THAT. MM-HMM . YES, THAT WILL BE ALLOWED. BUT, BUT MY QUESTION, 'CAUSE I KNOW THERE'S ALWAYS A QUESTION ON CURB CUTS. ONE CURB CUT, OR CAN I DO A U-SHAPE GO IN ONE SIDE, COME OUT THE OTHER ONE CURB CUT BECAUSE THERE'S NO ALLOWANCE FOR UNDERSTOOD. A SHARED, SHARED DRIVEWAY TO BE, IT WON'T WORK. I THINK WHETHER YOU 16 FEET GOING ALL THE WAY MM-HMM . IT'LL JUST TAKE UP TOO MUCH OF PROPERTY TO DO THAT. AND SO THAT'S, THAT WAS MY SECOND QUESTION. WHAT IS THE WIDTH OF THE SHARED DRIVEWAY ON ANYTHING UNDER 33 WIDTH? WHAT'S THE WIDTH THAT THE STREET 12 FEET CHAIR DRIVEWAY IS 16 FEET MINIMUM. OKAY. DOES THAT GO ALL THE WAY TO THE STREET? YES. 16 ALL THE WAY TO THE STREET. RIGHT. ALL WAY. OKAY. YEAH. BUT FOR A 32 FOOT LOT WITH AN, UH, A FRONT LOADING DRIVEWAY, YOU WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED. IT WOULD BE A 12 FOOT DRIVEWAY. CORRECT. SO 32 FEET WIDE LODGE, YOU WOULD BE ALLOWED A FRONT LOADING. I'M SORRY, BUT IF IT'S 33 FEET YES. YES. SO IT'LL BE, I I THINK WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ONE CAR DRIVEWAY APPROACH. RIGHT. SO THEN IT'LL BE 12 FEET WIDE FRONT LOADING ON A 33 FEET WIDE LOT. YEAH. SO YOU, THAT CAN FLARE TO WHATEVER SIZE. YOU COULD HAVE A TWO CAR GARAGE WITH ALL THE PRIVATE PROPERTY PAVED YOU COULD, BUT THE CITY'S RIGHT OF WAY WOULD HAVE LESS IMPERVIOUS COVER. THERE WOULD BE LESS, UH, INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PEDESTRIANS AND CARS. AND IT WOULD LESS INTERRUPTIONS IN THE SHEET FLOW IN THE DRAINAGE FLOW IF WE MAINTAIN THE 12 FEET. RIGHT. OKAY. OKAY. SO THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION. AND SO COMMISSIONER GARZA ASKED ME A QUESTION IF THAT WOULD WORK FOR ME. IT GIVES ME LESS HEARTBURN. IT DOESN'T RESOLVE MY HEARTBURN. I THINK I NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE TUMS FOR THAT. BUT WHAT, WHAT I DO THINK IS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR AN EXTREMELY LONG TIME, AND I THINK WE'VE GOTTEN TO A POINT WITH STAFF AND WITH EVERYONE. I MEAN, WE HAVE BEAT THIS HORSE UNTIL IT IS BEYOND DEAD. AND SO WHAT ELSE CAN WE ACCOMPLISH? THIS NEEDS, IN MY OPINION, NEEDS TO GO TO CITY COUNCIL BECAUSE THAT'S THE BODY THAT CAN FINALIZE THESE DETAILS AND DECIDE IF THIS ALL MOVES FORWARD, IF A PORTION OF IT MOVES FORWARD, IF SOMETHING IN IT CHANGES AND MOVES FORWARD. I JUST, I, I'M JUST OF THE OPINION THAT, THAT AFTER, AND IT'S BEEN OVER THREE YEARS BECAUSE WE DID A LOT OF PRE-WORK LEADING UP TO THIS, I'M NOT SURE WHAT ELSE WE COULD DO. I MEAN, I COULD PICK IT TO DEATH IF YOU GAVE ME TIME, BUT THAT I'M JUST OF THAT OPINION THAT I THINK THAT THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO GO. OKAY. COMMISSIONER HEIS Y YEAH. THANKS MADAM CHAIR. I, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, I MEAN THE LIVABLE ACTION, UH, COMMITTEE HAS DONE GREAT WORK. IT'S BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR THREE YEARS. WE'VE BEEN PROVIDED SOME GREAT EXHIBITS TODAY TO HELP US WITH THIS. AND THEN HERE IN 10 MINUTES, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA REVISE, UH, THE MINIMUM MOD SIZE. SO IN ALL DUE RESPECT TO COMMISSIONER GARZA, I, I [02:05:01] THINK WE DO NEED TO PARSE THIS OUT AND GIVE THIS SOME MORE CONSIDERATION AND DON'T HOLD UP EVERYTHING ELSE. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE? COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, JUST SO, JUST SO I'M ON THE SAME PAGE, WHAT YOU GUYS ARE BASICALLY SAYING IS, IS YOUR MIC ON? THANK YOU. SO THE PROPOSAL WAS PUSHED ON THE TABLE WAS BASICALLY TAKING THE SIDE BY SIDE UNITS OUT OF THE DEVELOPMENT MODEL WORLD, NO MORE SIDE BY SIDE. OKAY. THEN IF THERE'S NO WIDE DRIVEWAY, YOU ONLY HAVE TWO CHOICES. THREE STANDARD, THREE PACK OR FLAG. HOW DO YOU DEVELOP THE TWO? 'CAUSE WHILE I DON'T HAVE ACCOUNT, A LOT OF LOTS ARE 50 BY A HUNDRED THAT COULD DEVELOP. SO YOU DON'T GET TWO LOTS SIDE BY SIDE. YOU DON'T HAVE THIS CHOICE. AND SO YOU'RE ELIMINATING A DEVELOPMENT MODEL. I WANNA MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND THIS. AND YOU KNOW, PERSONALLY, I HATE THOSE THINGS. BUT FROM A, A STANDPOINT OF, AS MY FELLOW COMMISSIONER STATED, YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR THREE YEARS, AND THEN AT THE LAST SECOND, ELIMINATE SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN VERY DIVISIVE. AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND IT COMPLETELY. LET, LET COMM UH, DIRECTOR, WILL YOU RESPOND. YOU'VE STILL GOT PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY TO DO 25 FOOT WIDE LOTS. YOU HAVE, AND ZOOM THAT BACK OUT AGAIN. YOU'VE JUST ZOOMED IN THE PICTURE A LITTLE BIT MORE. YOU'VE GOT REAR ACCESS AS SHOWN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THAT DRAWING. YOU'VE GOT, MOST NEIGHBORS DON'T HAVE ALLEYS. THOSE DON'T HAVE ALLEYS. MOST OF, WAIT, THAT'S A CORNER, THAT'S A REAR DRIVEWAY. THAT'S NOT AN ALLEY. OKAY. I'M MY QUESTION SPECIFICALLY 50 FOOT WIDE LOTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF HOUSTON, MOST OF THEM ARE BETWEEN TWO CORNERS. THEY COME THROUGH HERE QUITE ROUTINELY. SO YOU HAVE A SINGLE 50 BY A HUNDRED LOT. WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING IS THE ONLY WAY TO DEVELOP THAT WILL BE FLAG OR SHARED DRIVE WITH THREE PACK OR AN MUR PUTS IT OR MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL. 'CAUSE YOU CAN PUT BUT THAT'S A, THAT'S A CONDO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I'M TALKING ABOUT FREESTANDING SINGLE FAMILY HOMES OR A COURTYARD. COURTYARD. HOW DO YOU DO A COURTYARD ON A 50 BY A HUNDRED LOT? YOU CAN. SO, SO COM SO COMMISSIONER, AND IF YOU HAVE TWO 50 FOOT LOTS, THAT'S NOT, THEN YOU CAN DO THREE. THE ISSUE, MOST OF THE THINGS I SEE COME THROUGH HERE ARE 50 BY HUNDRED STANDALONE LOTS. YES. BECAUSE THAT'S THE ORDINANCE. THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT THE ORDINANCE DICTATES AND THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE BUILD. WELL, NO, IT'S HOW PROPERTY SOLD. NO, NO, NO. I REALIZE THAT. AND YOU KNOW THIS, UH, I'M NOT GONNA ARGUE. I'M JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW. YEAH. I THINK WHAT IF YOU BUY A 50 BY, NOT TO INTERRUPT YOU, BUT I THINK WHAT, WHAT, UH, COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG IS TRYING TO SAY, TRULY, MOST OF THE LOTS IN HOUSTON ARE 50 FOOT WIDE MM-HMM . AND SO THE QUESTION IS HOW DO YOU TREAT THAT? IF YOU DIVIDE IT IN TWO, THE ONLY OPTIONS ARE SHARED DRIVEWAY, OR YOU DO A DRIVEWAY, YOU BUILD AN ALLEY, BASICALLY, WHICH IS A SHARED DRIVEWAY IN THE BACK AND ENTER IT FROM THE SIDE. THAT OR A FLAG AND THAT'S IT. YEAH. OR AN MUR. WELL, MURI AGREE WITH COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG. THAT'S NOT A SINGLE FAMILY STANDALONE HOME. TYPICALLY IT'S GONNA BE DUPLEX, TRIPLEX, FOURPLEX. SO I'M JUST TRYING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ON STANDALONE SINGLE FAMILY. SO THAT'S YOUR OPTIONS. SO SOMETHING THAT'S GONE THROUGH A PROCESS FOR THREE YEARS AND BEEN THIS DIVISIVE COMES OFF THE TABLE. IS THAT WHAT Y'ALL ARE? IS THAT WHAT'S BEING DISCUSSED? NO, I THINK WHAT WE ARE, WHY LIE? THIS SOUNDS TO ME LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF A COMPROMISE. I, IT, I MEAN, IT, IT GETS US IN THE DIRECTION WE'RE GOING. WE'VE ALL BEEN, I THINK A LOT OF US HAVE BEEN CONVINCED THAT THE Y DRIVEWAY IS A NON-STARTER. AND SO WE'RE, UH, YOU KNOW, I I THINK, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE WILLING TO SAY, LET'S, LET'S NOT DO THAT. WE AT LEAST WANNA DO SOMETHING TO TRY TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF FRONT LOADING TOWNHOUSES, WHICH WE SEE WEEK, YOU KNOW, MEETING AFTER MEETING WITH NEIGHBORHOODS, BEGGING US TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM. AND WE'RE SAYING, SORRY, THIS IS A SHALLOW PROOF. SO WE'RE, WE'RE MITIGATING THAT A LITTLE BIT, I THINK. I MEAN THAT'S, YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I GET. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE, AND REMINDER, THEY WOULD BE ALLOWED TO HAVE A VARIANCE IF THERE'S AN OVERWHELMING COMPELLING REASON AND CAN COME TO US. WE COULD GRANT 25 FOOT WIDE FRONT LOADING GARAGES, JUST LIKE WE GRANT VARIS FOR OTHER THINGS. YEAH. WHAT WOULD BE THAT COMPONENT? UH, THEY OWN A 25 FOOT WIDE LOT, AND NOW THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A DRIVEWAY. AND WE WOULD HAVE TO GRANT THEM A VARIANCE FOR THAT. THAT'S JUST AN EXPENSIVE PROCESS FOR SINGLE HOME. I THINK COMMISSIONER JONES HAS COMMENTS. UH, MADAM CHAIR. YES, I DO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. FIRST [02:10:01] OF ALL, I, I APPLAUD THE, THE, THE COMMITTEE. THIS IS INCREDIBLE. I KNOW THE EFFORTS THAT HAVE GONE IN HAVE JUST BEEN OVERWHELMING AND I'M, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY RECOGNIZES THAT. SO I WON'T CARRY THAT ANY, UH, MUCH FURTHER. BUT, UH, MY HAT IS OFF TO YOU ALL DEFINITELY FOR THE TIME IN THE EFFORT. UH, I WANNA BRING UP A COUPLE OF POINTS. ONE IS DEALING WITH THE ALLEYS, THREE OF THE FOUR OPTIONS, ADDRESS ALLEYS AS THE PRIMARY, BUT YET, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT ALLEYS AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NEVER MAINTAINED, BEEN NEGLECTED, UH, ENCROACHED, UH, YOU KNOW, GRASPED OVER, YOU KNOW, GRAVELED OVER WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE. AND I FIRMLY BELIEVE THE CITY NEEDS TO TAKE IT BACK. ITS ALLEYS SO THAT WE IN FACT HAVE THESE THREE OPTIONS FOR THE ALLEYS. IT'S, THEY'RE THERE, IT'S PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. BY GOLLY, WE, WE NEED TO PUT FORTH THE EFFORT AND, AND TAKE THE ALLEYS AND APPLY THE ALLEYS. AND WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE A, THAT MUCH OF A CONCERN HERE OVER A DRIVEWAY CUT. UM, AND, AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE SUBDIVISION, BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE THAT REAR ALLEY ACCESS. I THINK WE'VE GOT TO DO THAT. SECONDLY, IT HAS TO DO WITH THE 19 FOOT BUILDING LINE. AND THAT IS, WE'VE, WE'RE ADOPTING THAT IN, IN THIS DOCUMENT TODAY, OR CONSIDERING FOR CITY COUNCIL. THAT 19 FOOT, FROM MY READING AND FROM FURTHER CONFI CONFIRMATION FROM STAFF IS, IS UNIFORM ACROSS THE CITY. NOT JUST IN THESE FOUR OPPORTUNITIES, BUT IN FACT, THE 17 FOOT BECOMES 19 FEET PERIOD EVERYWHERE. YOU KNOW, AND YOU A COUPLE OF TIMES, THREE TIMES, YOU KNOW, I HAVE ECHOED WHERE YOU'VE GOT A 60 FOOT RIDE OF WAY, 28 FOOT PAVEMENT, THAT YOU'VE GOT ADEQUATE ROOM FOR A DRIVEWAY WITHOUT ENCROACHING ON A SIDEWALK. YOU HAVE 18 FEET. NOW WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED IS GONNA PUSH IT BACK A, A COUPLE MORE FEET. AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT WAS THE INTENT. AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT SHOULD BE APPLIED HERE. I THINK THE 19 FEET, IF IT'S GONNA GO FORWARD, SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE MINIMUM PLACES INITIATIVE. EVERY, THE, A LIVABLE PLACES INITIATIVE AND NOTHING MORE. WE CAN'T TAKE THIS GLOBAL ACROSS, YOU KNOW, CHAPTER 42. I'M, I'M OPPOSED TO THAT. AND, AND I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THAT NEEDS TO COME OUT. WE NEED TO LEAVE IT AT 17 OTHER THAN THE LIVABLE PLACES OPTIONS. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER . I'M JUST A LITTLE CONFUSED. UM, 19 FEET IS A STANDARD PARKING SPACE IN THE IDM MM-HMM . RIGHT? IT'S 20. OKAY. UM, SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH 19 FEET? 17 IS WHAT WE HAVE. AND 17 WORKS. YOU KNOW, I, I'VE PROVED THAT, I'VE SHOWN THE MATH A FEW TIMES TO THIS COMMITTEE, TO THIS ORGANIZATION, THIS COMMISSION THAT IT WORKS. AND, AND YOU KNOW, I'M A PRIME EXAMPLE WHERE I LIVE, YOU KNOW, WHERE NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN I'M ON A, I'M ON A CORNER AND I, IF I WERE TO EN ENLARGE MY HOME BY 25%, TEAR DOWN AND REBUILD, I'D BE SUBJECT TO A FURTHER SIDE SETBACK, YOU KNOW, OR GO THROUGH THE VARIANCE PROCESS, YOU KNOW, WHICH IS, I CAN'T SAY IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A GUARANTEE. WE KNOW THAT IT'S SUBJECT TO COMMUNICATION AND, AND A CONSIDERATION BY THIS GROUP. I JUST THINK WE NEED TO HOLD FIRM WITH THE 17 THAT WE ADOPTED. OKAY. AND THAT THE LIVABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM THIS, THIS PLAN, OR IT RUNS TO 19. AND I BELIEVE THAT IS APPLICABLE TO THE SHARED DRIVEWAY APPROACH. THAT'S WHERE IT CAME FROM. THAT'S WHERE IT APPLIES, AND THAT'S WHERE IT SHOULD STAY. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT IT SHOULD APPLY EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE CITY, YOU KNOW, IN A SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE, CHAPTER 42. OKAY. COMMISSIONER MORRIS. UM, SO I KIND OF WANTED TO MAYBE BRING A PERSPECTIVE THAT I DON'T THINK I'VE HEARD A LOT OF IN THE CONVERSATION TODAY. UH, WHICH IS MYSELF, WHICH IS, I'M A SINK. I'M A SINGLE INCOME NO KID. SO THAT WORKS FOR ME. AND IT WORKS FOR MANY OTHER BUYERS THAT ARE LIKE ME, THAT NEED TO BE SINGLE INCOME. WHETHER IT'S A NICE INCOME OR NOT. WE'RE STILL SINGLE INCOME AND WE NEED TO, WE WANT A SINGLE RESIDENCE HOME THAT'S WITHIN A CERTAIN PRICE POINT. UM, EVEN FOR ME, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO KIND OF AFFORD A HOME WITHIN THE BOAT WAY LOOP, QUITE FRANKLY. UM, SO I KNOW WE TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MOVING THREE, FOUR CARS AND ALL THAT, AS WE'VE MENTIONED, I KNOW MR. GAR HAS MENTIONED MAYBE THAT'S NOT FOR THAT BUYER, BUT FOR A BUYER SUCH AS MYSELF THAT WORKS, AND THAT IS MORE THAN ADEQUATE. UM, AND QUITE FRANKLY, THE TRENDS ARE POINTING IN THAT DIRECTION. THERE ARE A LOT MORE OF ME OUT THERE THAN THERE USED TO BE A COUPLE DECADES AGO. UM, SO I, I KNOW THAT IT DOESN'T WORK FOR EVERYBODY, BUT IT WORKS FOR A GOOD AMOUNT OF POPULATION. AND, AND IF YOU ARE A, I WOULD SAY, I CONSTANTLY [02:15:01] SAY I'M A HOUSEHOLD, I JUST HAPPEN TO BE A SINGLE PERSON HOUSEHOLD, BUT I AM STILL A HOUSEHOLD AND I NEED TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD A CERTAIN PRICE POINT. UM, SO SURPRISINGLY, I FEEL LIKE I'M ALWAYS KIND OF A LITTLE BIT MORE CONSERVATIVE, BUT I'M, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THIS AT ALL BECAUSE I THINK IT GIVES A LOT OF YOUNG SINGLE PROFESSIONALS AN OPTION THAT THEY WOULD AND OTHER WISE HAVE. UM, AND MY ONLY OTHER COMMENT ON THE CHANGES OF RECOMMENDATION, UM, IS THE FACT THAT WE PUT A MAXIMUM ON THE UNIT, ON THE COURTYARD. BECAUSE AS IT SO HAPPENS, I'M SOMEBODY WHO LIVES IN A COURTYARD COMMUNITY AND THE HOUSE IS OVER 2000 SQUARE FEET AND IT WORKS BEAUTIFULLY. UM, AND WE LOVE IT. AND IT'S ACTUALLY, YOU HAVE TO BE QUITE AGGRESSIVE TO GET INTO THAT COMMUNITY, UM, AND ENJOY IT. SO I, I WISH WE DIDN'T HAVE A MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF UNIT SIZE ON THE COURTYARD. I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, HOUSES IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. SO WITHIN A WEEK, LIKE PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO BE IN THAT COMMUNITY. AND SO, UM, I WOULD PREFER THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE A MAX UNIT ON A COURTYARD. UM, TO CLARIFY FOR COMMISSIONER MYERS, THE, THE MAXIMUM IS ONLY ON LOTS 15,000 SQUARE FOOT AND LESS. SO THIS IS FOR THE COURTYARD DEVELOPMENT, THE, THE LARGER DEVELOPMENTS LIKE YOURS, THERE IS NO RESTRICTION ON THE SIZE. IS THAT NOT CORRECT? IT'S JUST FOR 15,000 SQUARE FOOT LOTS OR LESS WHERE YOU'RE TRYING TO PUT MULTIPLE UNITS? WELL, IT'S NOT CLARIFIED HERE, I GUESS. OH, IF I MAY, YES. SO FOR COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENTS, THE CONCEPT ORIGINALLY, UM, FROM THE START WAS TO ALLOW MORE SMALLER HOMES. SO YES, YOU CAN BUILD A 2000, YOU JUST HAVE TO, UM, 2000 SQUARE FEET, BUT YOU JUST HAVE TO PROVIDE TWO PARKING SPACES. THAT'S THE RELATIONSHIP. YOU CAN HAVE LARGER UNITS UP TO, UM, 15, OH NO, WE, WE SAID 1500 SQUARE FEET. BECAUSE THE IDEA IS WE WANT SMALLER HOMES, COURTED STYLE HOMES IN THE COURTYARD DEVELOPMENT. SO, UH, THAT'S WHAT WE ARE SEEING ACROSS THE NATION. ALSO, WE HAD A SPEAKER WHO SUGGESTED WE DO 1800 BECAUSE IT WAS A A POINT AT WHICH YOU WOULD HAVE AN EXTRA BEDROOM. WHAT A WOULD, HOW WOULD THAT WORK IF WE DID 1800? IF COMMISSION WOULD WANT TO PROPOSE THAT CHANGE, WE CAN GO WITH THAT CHANGE. I'LL MAKE, I'LL MAKE THAT. I JUST KNOW THAT IT, IT WORKS. I MEAN, THIS COMMUNITY'S BEEN THERE 20 YEARS. IT WORKS VERY WELL. IT'S VERY, UM, LIKE I SAID, ACTUALLY PRETTY SOUGHT AFTER. AND, UH, I HAVE TO LOVE LIVING IN A COURTYARD COMMUNITY. SO COMMISSIONER SIGLER, UM, YEAH, BEFORE SOME OF THE, UM, THE, THE NEW IDEAS WERE PUT ON THE TABLE, I DID HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE, UM, UNOBSTRUCTED CURB, THE 22, UM MM-HMM . FOOT AND OBSTRUCTED CURB, AND THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED AND EVEN REALLY CONSIDERED MORE NOW THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A 33 FOOT LOT AND WHAT THAT WILL DO WITH THE UNOBSTRUCTED CURB. UM, IF I MAY ANSWER, UM, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME TELL YOU HOW WE CAME UP WITH THE 22 FEET. SO ON A 40 FEET WIDE LOT WITH 16 FEET, UM, SORRY, WITH 10 FEET DRIVEWAY, WHICH IS THE MINIMUM DRIVEWAY PER IDM AS OF PROPOSED. SO 10 FEET DRIVEWAY, FOUR FEET CURVE RADIUSS, THAT'S A TOTAL OF 24 FEET, PLUS 20, UM, 20, 20 18, 22, SORRY, 10 PLUS EIGHT, 18 PLUS 22 FEET OF CURB SPACE TO PARK. ONE CAR GIVES US 40 FEET. THAT IS HOW WE CAME UP WITH THAT. UM, 40 FEET SIZE. NOW, IF WE WANT TO CHANGE THAT TO 33, WE CAN REMOVE THAT CURB SPACE. WE COULD REMOVE THAT CURB SPACE OPTION AND SAY THAT, UM, UNTIL WE REACH THE POINT WHERE WE CAN PRESERVE ONE ON STREET PARKING, WE CAN CONTINUE WITH ONE CAR WIDE DRIVEWAY APPROACH THE DRIVEWAY. IT'S ALL ABOUT DRIVEWAY APPROACH THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE DRIVEWAY CAN FLARE HOWEVER YOU WANT BECAUSE IT IS WITHIN THE PRIVATE PROPERTY. AS LONG AS THE APPROACH AT THE PUBLIC STREET LEVEL IS NARROWER, WE ARE REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF INTERRUPTIONS, THE PEDESTRIAN , UM, INTERRUPTION, AND ALSO THE PAVING IMPERVIOUS COVER FOR WHICH NOBODY IS PAYING FOR DETENTION. SO THOSE ARE THE ASPECTS WE LOOKED AT WHEN WE PROPOSED THIS. SO IT IS POSSIBLE TO KIND OF RESTRICT THE SIZE, LET'S SAY 45 FEET OR 46 FEET ONLY. THEN YOU CAN GET A 16 FEET WIDE DRIVEWAY UNTIL THEN FROM 33 FEET TO 45 OR 44, WHATEVER THAT SIZE IS, YOU CAN HAVE A 12 FEET DRIVEWAY THAT FLARES INSIDE TO HOWEVER YOU WANT, AND YOU CAN REMOVE THAT. IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD, UM, MAYBE WORK ON BETWEEN NOW AND IT GOING TO COUNCIL IF IT DOES PASS TODAY? YEAH, SURE, SURE, DEFINITELY. OKAY. AND I THINK THE CUL-DE-SACS WERE ANOTHER ISSUE THAT PROBABLY REALLY UNDERSTOOD. DO NEED TO BE LOOKED AT. UNDERSTOOD. WHEN THE CULDESAC WAS BROUGHT UP, WE, WE DID TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT. SO IF COMMISSION IS GOING FORWARD WITH 33 FEET, IT IS DEFINITELY WORKABLE BEFORE WE GO TO THE COUNCIL. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. COMMISSIONER GARZA. AND, AND I JUST WANNA, UH, MAKE THE POINT THAT THIS IS NOT JUST COMING UP AT THE LAST MINUTE. IT HAS BEEN VETTED THROUGH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. [02:20:01] THEY HAVE LOOKED AT THE 33, UM, BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT IT MIGHT, WELL, THEY KNEW QUITE FRANKLY, I WAS GONNA BRING IT UP. AND SO I SAID, IF THERE'S AN ALTERNATIVE BECAUSE THE 25 IS NOT WORKING, WHAT OTHER SOLUTIONS CAN WE FIND TO THIS PROBLEM? AND THIS WAS THE ONE, SO IT HAS BEEN VETTED. IF NOT, YOU MAY BE SEEING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME HERE, BUT IT HAS GONE THROUGH, UM, ALL THE PEOPLE, SO TO SPEAK, YOU KNOW, SO, UM, AND AGAIN, I WILL REMIND YOU THAT AS SAVITA SAID, AS WE GOT INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY, TWEAKS AND CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORDINANCE ALL ALONG. SO THIS IS NOT NEW. SO I JUST WANNA REMIND YOU OF THAT. UM, I DUNNO IF WE HAD ANYONE ELSE WHO NEEDED TO SPEAK. DOES ANYBODY ELSE WANNA SPEAK? IS I I DO. YES. COMMISSIONER HINES. I JUST HAVE A QUESTION AND, UM, IF YOU COULD JUST SHED SOME COLOR ON, UM, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THIS TO BE ARBITRARY BECAUSE SOMEONE SAID, HEY, AT ANOTHER 300 SQUARE FEET, UH, IF YOU COULD WALK THROUGH SORT OF HOW IT WAS ARRIVED AT THE 1500 SQUARE FEET CAP FOR THE COURTYARD, UM, STYLE, UM, RESIDENCE AND 1500 SQUARE FEET AND 300 MORE, OR 500 MORE SQUARE FEET. WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE IMPACT? SO, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. UM, WHEN WE COME, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SIZES, WE ALWAYS HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE. WE ENCOUNTERED THE CHALLENGE NOT ONLY FOR THIS, BUT ALSO FOR ADUS. LIKE WHY 900? NOBODY KNOWS THE REASON NOW, WHY A THOUSAND? NOBODY KNOWS THE REASON. AT SOME POINT WE HAVE TO ESTABLISH A SIZE REQUIREMENT. SO WE LOOKED AT FLOOR PLANS, AND IN LOOKING AT FLOOR PLANS, UM, A 1500 SQUARE FEET IS A GOOD SIZE. THREE BEDROOM, TWO BATH, OR FOUR BEDROOM, TWO BATH, UM, TWO AND A HALF BATH KIND OF FLOOR PLANS. SO THAT'S WHY, BECAUSE THERE IS NEED FOR SMALLER HOUSEHOLDS, BECAUSE THE HOUSEHOLDS SIZES ARE SHRINKING, UM, BASED ON THE PROJECTION. SO TO ADDRESS THAT SITU, THAT NEED OF SMALLER HOMES, WE ESTABLISHED A SIZE LIMIT OF 1500. AND YES, COMMISSION CAN DECIDE TO CHANGE THAT NUMBER, BUT THAT'S HOW, BASED ON THE FLOOR PLANS WE CAME UP WITH THAT 1500 AND A 20% INCREASE, 300 VERSUS A, YOU KNOW, 33% INCREASE, UM, YOU KNOW, 500, WHAT ARE WE DOING? I, I WANNA UNDERSTAND, RIGHT? IT'S WHAT THAT MEANS. IF WE'RE ADDING A BEDROOM THAT'S, UH, A BUCK 50 IN SIZE PLUS SOME CIRCULATION, MAYBE WE'RE AT 200. UH, I JUST WANT SOME THOUGHT BEHIND THAT 300. AND IT CANNOT BE ARBITRARY COMMISSIONER IF, IF WE, EVEN IF THE COMMISSION FEELS THAT 1800 IS A DECENT THREE, FOUR BEDROOM SIZE, THAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO LIVE IN A COURTYARD STYLE WHEN WE WERE, I, I THINK THEY CAN, THEY CAN COMPLETELY GO FOR THAT. THE REASON WE HAD TO COME TO A LIMIT WAS AT THAT TIME WE WERE EVOLVING COURTYARD STYLE AND WE WERE WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS STILL WITHIN, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERS. BUT WE HAVE PLACED OTHER REQUIREMENTS ON COURTYARD STYLES SUCH AS A HEIGHT AND, UH, UH, THE DEPTH OF THE PROPERTY AND THE REQUIREMENT OF THE COURTYARD SPACE WITH ALL OF THOSE, THERE ARE ENOUGH PROTECTIONS THAT THIS WILL NOT GO OUT OF CONTROL. THAT IT'LL BECOME SO BIG THAT, UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, IT WON'T FIT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SO AT THE TIME WHEN WE WERE COMING UP WITH A SIZE, WE DID NOT HAVE ALL THESE STRONGER, UM, THINGS IN PLACE. AND AS NOW WE HAVE ALL THESE THINGS IN PLACE, IF THE COMMISSION SO CHOOSE, I, WE DON'T THINK PLANNING STAFF DOESN'T THINK THAT INCREASING IT FROM 1500 TO THE NUMBER THAT YOU ARE THINKING 1800 WOULD DRASTICALLY, UH, CHANGE HOW COURTYARDS WILL BE DEVELOPED. AND, AND IF WE MENTION 500, UM, DO YOU STILL HAVE THE SAME POSITION THAT IT WILL NOT DRAMATICALLY, OR ARE WE APPROACHING A RED LINE? I THINK WHERE IT, IT WOULD BECOME A PROBLEM IS WE CURRENTLY HAVE A PARKING REQUIREMENT BASED ON, UH, THE SIZE OF THE, UH, UNITS. AND AS WE INCREASE, THEN AT SOME POINT YOU HAVE TO THINK THAT SHOULD WE ADD THE PARKING SPACE REQUIREMENT? SO I THINK TILL YOU ARE TILL 1800, WE, WE ARE SAFE WITH THE TWO PARKING SPACES. AGAIN, IT ALL GOES BACK TO THE CONCEPT OF COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENTS. LIKE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IF YOU SEE COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENTS, IT IS ALWAYS REFERENCED TO SMALL COURTED STYLE. AND ALSO LOOKING AT THE MARKET OF, DO WE HAVE AS MANY THREE BEDROOM AND TWO BEDROOM KIND OF HOMES? THAT'S WHAT IS SHORTAGE IN THE MARKET VERSUS A FOUR BEDROOM HOME. YOU CAN BUILD THOSE TODAY IN A PRIVATE STREET DEVELOPMENT ALREADY. SO THAT'S WHY KEEPING THE CONCEPT IN MIND, WE LIMITED THE SIZE TO 1500. I JUST WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW WHAT WAS THE THOUGHT PROCESS BEHIND IT? COULD SOMEONE, UH, UH, GET A VARIANCE TO, TO INCREASE? YEAH, DEFINITELY. SO WE COULD KEEP IT AT AT 15 [02:25:01] THAT BASED ON THE WISDOM AND THEN LET IT EACH CASE. YES, DEFINITELY. VARIANCE IS A POSSIBILITY. OKAY. COMMISSIONER MODEST. OH, I'M SORRY. COMMISSIONER CLARK. WELL, I, I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THE 1500 IS A LITTLE BIT TOO SHY. UM, PART OF THE COMPANY THAT I WORK FOR, THEY DO BUILD TO RENT AND, UM, WE TRY TO KEEP IT AS AFFORDABLE AS POSSIBLE. AND WHAT THE DEMAND IS, IS TYPICALLY A FLOOR OF 1800 SQUARE FEET IS WHERE MOST OF US START, WHETHER IT'S BUILD TO RENT OR WHETHER IT'S BUILDERS THAT I'M WORKING WITH ON MASTER PLAN COMMUNITIES. TYPICALLY THE LOW RANGE OF SQUARE FOOTAGE IS 1800 TO FIT THE KIDS, TO FIT THE BATHROOMS, TO FIT THE OFFICE, UM, WITHOUT BEING TOO LARGE. SO, SABINA, JUST TO EXPLAIN, UM, THE PARKING 1600 SQUARE FEET, THE PARKING, EXCUSE ME, 1800 SQUARE FEET WOULD BE SEPARATE APART FROM THIS IS WHAT DIFFERENTIATES THE, THE COURTYARD IS YOU DON'T PULL INTO YOUR GARAGE, YOU HAVE SEPARATE PARKING. YES. SO IF YOU HAVE A 1500 SQUARE FOOT TOWNHOUSE, THEN WHAT IS CURRENTLY YOUR GARAGE IS A BEDROOM. WE DON'T COUNT THAT SQUARE FOOTAGE IS LITTLE. NO, NO, NO. BUT I MEAN, YOU, YOU WOULD CONVERT IT FROM GARAGE INTO LIVABLE SPACE. YEAH. BUT BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T BE PARKING ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY. BUT IF I'M COUNTING LIVABLE SPACE OF 1800 WITH A GARAGE THAT'S NON LIVABLE SPACE. YEAH. GETTING RID OF THE GARAGE DOESN'T DO ANYTHING. NO, NO, NO. UH UH. OKAY. UM, I HAVE A, I HAVE A 1600 SQUARE FOOT, UH, TOWNHOUSE. IT HAS TWO BEDROOMS UPSTAIRS AND A TWO CAR GARAGE. BUT IF THE GARAGE, IF THE PARKING IS IN FRONT OF MY BUILDING AND SEPARATE AND COMPLETELY APART FROM MY, MY HOUSEHOLD, MY TOWNHOUSE, THAT SPACE THAT IS CURRENTLY GARAGE COULD IN FACT BE MOTHER-IN-LAW SUITE. IT COULD, IT COULD BE. IT'S, IT'S ANOTHER BEDROOM AND A BATHROOM, ACTUALLY. SO I'M JUST SAYING THAT IF IT'S ALL ENCLOSED, YOUR PARKING IS OVER THERE. 15, 1600 SQUARE FEET IS A GOODS SIZE. THREE BEDROOM, THREE BATH HOUSE. DIRECTOR OF WALLS. I AROUND. DON'T, I DON'T DISAGREE. IT'S HOW THE SQUARE FOOTAGE IS COUNTED. IS COUNTED. NO, I AGREE ON A PLAN SAYS IT'S A HOUSE PLAN SAYS LIVABLE SPACE. YEAH. GARAGE SPACE. NO, NO, NO. I UNDERSTAND THAT. YEAH. DIRECTOR, IF I, IF I CAN ADD, I THINK, I THINK GOING TO 18 IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE GIVEN THE, THE REQUIRED DISTANCE. MM-HMM . THE REQUIRED DEPTH OF THESE PROPERTIES. I THINK GOING TO 2000 MEANS THAT YOU'RE PROBABLY PUTTING FEWER LOTS OR AND FEWER HOMES ON THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT. AND WE REALLY DO WANNA ENCOURAGE SMALLER UNITS. I WILL SAY THAT 1500 IS NOT THE FLOOR FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BUILDING THESE. WE'VE GOT SEVERAL OF THESE THAT HAVE, THAT. WE'VE BEEN APPROACHED BY DEVELOPERS WHO ARE BRINGING US 900 SQUARE FOOT HOMES THAT THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT THEY WILL SELL. AND THAT THEY WILL, THEY WILL, THEY WILL HOUSE FAMILIES. IT'S NOT THAT 900 SQUARE FEET IS NOW A ONE PERSON HOME. THE, THESE DEVELOPERS ARE BRINGING THIS BECAUSE THEY FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THIS IS A FAMILY S SIZE HOME LOVE AND NO COMMISSIONER ROSE. NO. IT'S WHAT IS AFFORDABLE. OKAY. COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG. IT'S LIKE TINY HOMES. BASICALLY THE CONCEPT WAS FOR, FROM, UH, THE REQUEST THAT WE GOT AT THE BILLING PERMITS OFFICE THAT I WANT TO BUILD A TINY HOME, YOUR SIZE REQUIREMENT OF A LOT IS 1400, BUT I ONLY WANT TO BUILD 500 SQUARE FEET HOME. SO IT DIDN'T MATCH. SO THAT'S WHY WE CREATED THIS DEVELOPMENT FOR SMALLER LOTS WITH SMALLER UNITS. NO, I, I THINK IT'S GREAT. SAVITA, DON'T TAKE ME WRONG. I'M JUST SAYING THAT WE SHOULD MAX IT OUT OKAY. AT 18, NOT START IT AT 18 AND FINISH IT AT 2200. OKAY. YEAH. THE COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG AND THEN VICTOR, I MUST BE REALLY SLOW TODAY 'CAUSE I'M NOT ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH ALL THE JUMPING BACK BEFORE BETWEEN TOPICS WAS THE CONVERSATION TAKING THE A DU FROM A THOUSAND TO 15, WHAT EXACTLY ARE WE TALK? I THOUGHT THAT'S WHERE WE WERE. YEAH. ANSWER THE COURTYARD DEVELOPMENT, LETTING THEM GO FROM MAX 15 TO A MAXIMUM. CURRENTLY THE PROPOSAL IS THAT THE LARGEST COURTYARD DEVELOPMENT HOME YOU COULD BUILD IS 1500 SQUARE FEET. AND THE COMMISSION IS TALKING ABOUT MAKING THAT 1800 AS THE MAXIMUM SIZE. BUT WE'RE NOT, BUT WE'RE SAYING IT WOULD STILL NEED TWO CAR SPOTS. RIGHT? HOW MANY CAR PARKING SPOTS? YES. TWO SPACES. TWO SPACES. TWO SPACES. ALL RIGHT. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE. TWO SPACES FOR 1800 SQUARE FEET. YEAH. BECAUSE I MEAN, I'M, I'M, YOU KNOW, AFFORDABLE HOUSING YOU BUILD THESE DAYS YOU'RE GETTING THREE BEDROOM HOMES AND 1200 SQUARE FEET. SO BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, 1200 AND 1800, THOSE ARE PRETTY BIG HOMES IF YOU WANT. SO, UM, IF THE IDEA IS TO CREATE SMALLER HOMES, WHAT IS THE PUSH TO GO TO 1800? JUST, JUST FOR FLEXIBLE OPTIONS? I, I ONLY BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE A SPEAKER BROUGHT IT UP AND ASKED US TO DISCUSS IT, SO I, I WANTED TO PUT IT ON THE TABLE. I THINK COMMISSIONER VICTOR IS NEXT. ALRIGHT. I'LL MAKE IT VERY QUICK, BUT THANK YOU SUNNY AND LISA [02:30:01] AND ILLA AND THE STAFF, UH, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT WORK. UM, THIS IS, THE CITY IS CHANGING QUITE DRASTICALLY, AND IF WE DON'T CHANGE, THIS IS THE RIGHT PATH FORWARD. SO I TOTALLY, TOTALLY AM GRATEFUL FOR YOU GUYS TO TAKE THE LEADERSHIP IN DEVELOPING THIS PLAN. UM, I KIND OF GOT CONFUSED A LITTLE BIT IN THIS, ALL THIS DISCUSSION. UM, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT GETTING RID OF SHARED DRIVEWAY COMPLETELY OR ARE WE TALKING ABOUT JUST FOR LOTS? 33. SO THE Y DRIVEWAY GOES AWAY, THE Y DRIVEWAY IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GETTING WITH, BUT THE SHARED DRIVEWAY CAN STILL EXIST YES. YES. FOR OTHER LOTS, YES. OKAY. CORRECT. SO IS THAT, IS THAT SOME SOMETHING ON THE TABLE OR ARE WE TOTALLY TAKING OUT, CAN WE VOTE ON THIS ONE INDEPENDENTLY? YES. CAN WE, CAN WE HAVE AN ACTUAL MOTION FROM SOMEBODY? YES, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. THANK YOU. OKAY. OKAY. ONE COMMENT AND THEN WE'RE GONNA CALL REGARDS. SO MY PURPOSE IN, UH, INCREASING THE MAXIMUM TO 18 DOESN'T MEAN EVERY UNIT WILL BE 18. ONE COULD BE 901 COULD BE 11, ONE COULD BE 15, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS HOUSING TYPE WAS WE WANT DIVERSITY, WE WANT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF, OF HOUSING AFFORDABILITY. AND YOU KNOW WHAT, UH, I MAY WANNA LIVE IN A, A COURTYARD, BUT 900 IS NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR ME. BUT 18 WOULD BE COMMON SOLELY BASED ON MAKING SURE Y'ALL WEREN'T TALKING ABOUT THE A DU 'CAUSE THE A DU REQUIRED NO ADDITIONAL PARKING. I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THE A DU WASN'T GOING UP IN SQUARE FOOTAGE. NO, NO COMMENT. NO, I'M, I'M FINE. THAT'S WHY I ASKED FOR CLARIFICATION. NO, I JUST WANNA KIND OF WANTED TO CLARIFY IT FOR THE AUDIENCE. JUST, I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT ONE THING. 'CAUSE THIS HAS NOT BEEN CONSIDERED BEFORE. AGAIN, I SEE A LOT OF HOMES. I LIVE IN THE INNER CITY, 50 BY A HUNDRED LOTS. THAT'S A VERY FREQUENT BILL. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT. SO YOUR CHOICE IS A FLAG LOT, WHICH MAY HAVE VISITOR PARKING. IF YOU LOOK AT THE DRAWING, OR A THREE PACK. THREE PACK IS SIX, SIX SPACE FOR SIX CARS ON A LOT. ZERO VISITOR. YOU'RE PROVIDING ONE VISITOR ON THE STREET. I'VE NOT BEEN ONE WHO'S SYMPATHETIC AT ALL ABOUT NOT GETTING FOUR CARS IN A DRIVEWAY OF A Y LOT THAT, THAT'S NOT RELEVANT. BUT WHEN YOU CAN HAVE TWO CARS WITH A Y DRIVE, YOU SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE PAVING. YOU SIGNIFICANTLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO INCREASE PERVIOUS COVER, AND YOU GET SIX CARS, TWO IN THE GARAGE, AND ONE ON THE DRIVE. AND IF YOU NARROW DOWN THE DRIVEWAY, YOU COULD GET SPACES IN BETWEEN. I JUST THINK IT'S A MISTAKE TO TAKE THE FLEXIBILITY OUT OF A Y LOT BECAUSE YOU'RE, YOU'RE ELIMINATING, AGAIN, I HATE 'EM, I HATE STARING AT GARAGE DOORS. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO FLEXIBILITY, SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED THIS LONG AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARGUING ABOUT THE Y LOT LOSING ONE SPOT, WILL WE BE ELIMINATING AN ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT MODEL IN THIS CITY? AM I WRONG? I THINK SO. IN THE SHARED DRIVE DEAL, YOU HAVE SIX PARKING SPOTS IN THE GARAGES, AND YOU HAVE TWO EXTRA SPOTS AT THE END OF THAT LOT. PLUS YOU HAVE AMPLE SPOT ON THE STREET. YOU HAVE MORE SPOTS THAN YOU HAD WITH TWO SHARED DRIVES THE WAY WE HAVE IT NOW. YEAH, BUT YOU, YOU, YOU'RE NOT ADDING THE THIRD HOUSE. BUT NOT EVERYONE NEEDS THAT MANY CARS. LYDIA DOESN'T, I DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOU, I DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOU, BUT WHEN THEY'RE PRIVATE GARAGES, YOU CAN'T, YOU'RE NOT GONNA PARK IN YOUR NEIGHBOR'S GARAGE. NO. YOU HAVE TWO PARKING SPOTS FOR YOUR UNIT AND YOU HAVE AN ALL STREET SPOT. PLUS THERE ARE TWO PARKING SPOTS AT THE END FOR GUEST PARKING. YOU STILL HAVE MORE PARKING IN THIS THREE PACK THAN YOU HAD WITH THE 2 25 FOOT WIDE. HAS, HAS ANYBODY ON THIS COMMISSION LIVED IN THREE PACK? I I SELL THEM EVERY MONTH. I MEAN, THEY'RE ALL, I'VE LIVED THEM ONE, AND THERE'S NOTHING WORSE THAN WALKING DOWN THAT SIDEWALK ON A DRIVEWAY TO GET TO THAT THIRD UNIT. THEY'RE NOT INCREDIBLY URBAN. UM, AGAIN, I I JUST SEE IT AS A BIG SHIFT FROM WHAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED IN HERE TO TOTALLY REMOVING A DEVELOPMENT MODEL THAT HAS HAD A LOT OF CONSTERNATION AND A LOT OF CONCERN AND A LOT OF PUSHBACK. AND NOW THE ANSWER TO THAT IS, WELL, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, WE JUST WON'T ALLOW YOU TO BUILD IT AT ALL. IT'S, THAT IS WHAT I'M HEARING BY THE PROPOSAL. CORRECT. WELL, MAY I RES PLEASE GO AHEAD. YES. THAT IS ACTUALLY WHAT YOU'RE HEARING. OKAY. COME. AND IT, AND IT'S NOT THE TONE, YOUR TONE OF VOICE GIVES ME A LITTLE BIT OF PAUSE FOR WHY I, FOR ANSWERING THAT. BUT THE Y DRIVEWAY WAS WHAT WE BELIEVED A COMPROMISE MM-HMM . THAT WE REACHED MORE THAN A YEAR AGO. RIGHT. AT THE TIME WE DIDN'T LOVE IT. WE, BEING THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND, AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, WE THOUGHT THAT WE HAD AN AGREEMENT, WE WERE WRONG, AND NOW WE DON'T HAVE AN AGREEMENT. AND NOW THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT DOESN'T LOVE IT AND THE CUSTOMERS DON'T [02:35:01] LOVE IT. WHY KEEP IT? WHO'S THE CUSTOMER? WELL, THE, THE BUILDERS ARE THE, THE, THE PEOPLE WE THOUGHT WE HAD THE AGREEMENT WITH. SO THE QUESTION MAY I FINISH PLEASE. SO, SO THIS I BELIEVE IS A BETTER SOLUTION. IT'S, UM, MORE UNDERSTANDABLE FOR THE PUBLIC. IT'S, IT'S BETTER FOR THE PUBLIC. IT'S GOOD FOR THE, FOR OUR CUSTOMERS. FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS. IT'S BE SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND THE, AND THAN WHAT WE HAVE TODAY. TO ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS YES, BUT NOT WITH THE TONE OF VOICE THAT YOU HAD. IT'S, IT'S A, WE BELIEVE THIS IS A BETTER SOLUTION. SORRY IF MIKE, I, I'M JUST, THAT'S CONFUSED AND, AND THAT'S, I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T WANT IT TO SOUND LIKE WE SAID YOU DON'T LIKE IT. WE'RE GONNA DUMP IT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A THING. WELL, MY MY REASON I'M ASKING IS THEY'RE, THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT BECAUSE THEY WERE LOSING A PARKING SPOT, BUT NOW THEY'RE LOSING AN ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT MODEL. I THINK IF THAT CONVERSATION WAS GOING FOR THE LAST YEAR, IT WOULD'VE BEEN VERY DIFFERENT CONVERSATION. AND I'M JUST COMING AT IT FROM SOMEBODY WHO'S HAD TO DO BOTH SIDES, LIVING IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT, SEEING THESE DESIGN, I MEAN, I HATE DRIVING DOWN THE STREETS, STARING A GARAGE DOORS THAT, BUT THIS ISN'T A PERSONAL DECISION FOR ME. YEAH. THIS IS, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE CITY AS A WHOLE, UM, I JUST HAVE CONCERN THAT THE CONVERSATION WAS ARGUING OVER OUR CAR IN A DRIVEWAY AND NOW THE MODEL IS OFF THE TABLE. TOTALLY. AND THAT JUST SEEMS A LITTLE DISINGENUOUS TO ME FROM THIS WHOLE NEGOTIATION THAT'S BEEN LASTING A YEAR. AND AGAIN, I'M NOT ARGUING I LIKE THESE, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET TO THE, THE PURPOSE OF WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR. I JUST CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THAT WOULD MAKE THE PROCESS LOOK. THAT'S COMMISSIONER VICTOR. SO I WAS JUST GONNA ASK ONCE, LET'S SAY WE APPROVE THIS OR EVERYBODY AGREES TO THIS OU COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL STILL HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DECLINE IT. ABSOLUTELY. AND SO THE BUILDERS COULD POTENTIALLY GO AND TALK TO THEM AND CORRECT. AND I WANT ABSOLUTELY SECOND WHAT COMMISSIONER, WHAT COMMISSIONER CLARK SAID IS, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE ARE GOING TO COME UP WITH ANY OTHER BETTER SOLUTION AT THIS POINT. WE ARE TRYING TO CALL TOGETHER, MOST OF THIS PROPOSAL IS WILDLY ACCEPTED BY EVERYBODY, AND WE WANNA GET THAT TO THE POLICY MAKERS IN OUR CITY. AND THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE AN INTEREST ON EITHER SIDE OF THE CONTINUUM WILL HAVE PLENTY OF OPTIONS TO, YOU KNOW, TO WORK WITH THEM. RIGHT. BUT I'D LIKE TO, I I DON'T WANNA THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER HERE. YEAH, NO, THIS IS A HUGE, HUGE, HUGE STEP FORWARD. RIGHT. SO I, I WANNA, AND ANOTHER QUESTION, QUICK QUESTION. THE ETJ QUESTION THAT MS. CURTIS HAS BROUGHT UP, UM, IT'S, IT WILL NOT APPLY IN THE ETJ, BUT IS THAT CLEAR IN THE LANGUAGE? IT, IT WON'T APPLY IF WE WILL BE LOOKING AT THE ORDINANCE IN CASE WE NEED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR, BUT I THINK STATE LAW IS FAIRLY CLEAR, ESPECIALLY AS THE LEGISLATURE HAS AMENDED. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU KIM. MADAM CHAIR. OKAY. I DON'T WANNA WAIT NOW. SORRY. I'M SORRY. COMMISSIONER VAR WAS AHEAD OF YOU IN LINE. OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THIS IS, UM, DEFINITELY A CHALLENGE AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE, UH, THE THOUGHT THAT'S GOING INTO US, ALL OF THE WORK AND THE PUBLIC COMMENTS AS WELL. UM, I JUST WANNA SAY, UM, YOU KNOW, REGARDING THE, THE SHARED DRIVE OR THE JOINT ACCESS DRIVE, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M REALLY KIND OF THINKING, UM, VERY CAREFULLY ABOUT IT. UM, I, I COULD SEE BOTH SIDES WHERE, YOU KNOW, ON ONE HAND IT DOES, IT WOULD SLOW DOWN TRAFFIC. ON THE OTHER HAND, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOMEBODY WHO USES A WHEELCHAIR OR CHILDREN THAT ARE AT A DIFFERENT HEIGHT LEVEL, YOU CANNOT TO, TO COMMISSIONER CLARK'S POINT, YOU CANNOT SEE, UM, ANYBODY AT MY HEIGHT, YOU KNOW, A MOTORIST CAN'T SEE ME. THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN'T SEE CHILDREN AND SO FORTH. SO I JUST WANT US ALL TO ALSO CONSIDER THAT. UM, AND THAT'S WHERE I'M FEELING VERY AMBIVALENT ABOUT, ABOUT THOSE SORTS OF SCENARIOS. SO THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. NOW MODEST. NO, I WAS GONNA SAY, I DON'T WANNA BEAT A DEAD HORSE, BUT I KINDA ECHO, UH, COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG AND THAT IT KIND OF JUST FEELS LIKE IF WE'RE, WE'RE AIMING FOR DIVERSITY, WE'RE NOW TAKING AN OPTION AWAY. SO I DUNNO, HOW DO YOU KEEP THAT OPTION IN WITHOUT FORCING THE OPTION? AND I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER TO THAT IS, BUT, ALRIGHT. I MEAN, IF WE'RE WILLING, WE COULD SEND IT FORWARD TO COUNSEL. EXACTLY THE WAY EXACTLY WE GOT IT. I THINK THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE Y DRIVEWAY REQUIREMENT THAT IS IN THIS PACKAGE, A REQUIREMENT FOR A FRONT LOADING 25 FOOT WIDE LOT. AND A NUMBER OF US HAD ISSUES WITH THAT. AND WE, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK COMMISSIONER BALDWIN SPOKE CLEARLY ABOUT IT. UM, SO WITH THAT, WE WERE TRYING TO THINK WHAT, WHAT DO WE HAVE THAT WOULD MAKE PEOPLE MORE COMFORTABLE? AND THIS WAS AN OPTION, BUT, YOU [02:40:01] KNOW, WE CAN, WE CAN MAKE ANY KIND OF MOTIONS WE WANT. I'M GONNA, COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG HAS HIS HAND UP AGAINST, OKAY. I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE. MY, THAT WAS CONFUSION. NOT ANYTHING ELSE I WAS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND. AND, UM, SOMETIMES A LITTLE BIT SLOW. I WANT TO GO TO THE END RESULT HERE. 'CAUSE COMMISSIONER VICTOR KIND OF STARTED WHERE I WAS PLANNING TO GO NEXT. THERE'S JUST SO MUCH WORK IN HERE. MY CONCERN IS YOU NUKE THE WIDE DRIVE UPHEAVAL, NOTHING GETS PASSED WHEN THIS GOES TO CITY COUNCIL. WE GOT NOTHING. RIGHT. I LOVE THE 33 FOOT THING. I THINK THAT'S AMAZING. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WILL ARGUE WITH THAT. BUT IF YOU PULL THE 25 Y DRIVE OUT, AND NOW I GUESS THEY'VE HEARD IT, IT GOES FORWARD WITHOUT THE DRIVE. WE LET CITY COUNCIL TAKE A CHANCE AND NOT GET ANY, GET ANY OF THIS PASSED, OR YOU ADD THE 33 DRIVE. IT'S NOT A PERFECT Y DRIVE. YOU SEND THAT TO CITY COUNCIL AND LET THEM MAKE THE CHOICE. MY MY MY CONCERN IS YOU TAKE THE Y OUT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT MORE PEACE P****D OFF PEOPLE APPROACHING THEIR C CO COUNCILMAN. I I DISAGREE. I, I I DISAGREE. OKAY. NO, NO, I'M, I'M BRINGING THAT OUT. YEAH, THAT'S MY CONCERN. THAT, I MEAN, YEAH, LET'S, LET'S HEAR FROM PEOPLE I THINK COMMISSIONER CLARK AND THEN BALDWIN. SO I THINK, I AGREE WITH YOU. I DON'T LIKE TO CHANGE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED AND YOU KNOW, THAT WE HAVE A GENERAL CONSENSUS ON. BUT WE HAVE SUCH DISRUPTION AND UPHEAVAL ABOUT THIS THAT I THINK, AGAIN, I DON'T WANT ANY OF THE SHARED DRIVEWAYS AT AS IT IS SET. BUT I THINK THAT IF WE LOWER IT DOWN TO 33, WE'RE NOT REALLY THROWING THE BABY OUT WITH A BATH WATER. WE'RE SAYING, OKAY, WE'VE SHOWN, WE HAVE SEEN EXHIBITS AND LIVE EXAMPLES OUT IN THE FIELD THAT SHOW THAT THAT WIDE DRIVEWAY DOES NOT WORK. AND SO PLANNING DEPARTMENT WENT BACK AND SAID, OKAY, WE KNOW THAT WE WANNA REDUCE THE CURB CUTS. SO WHAT CAN WE DO AS A COMPROMISE? AND THAT'S THE WAY I TAKE, UH, SONNY'S, UH, PROPOSED MOTION IS THAT THIS IS A COMPROMISE TO AGAIN, CONTINUE TO REDUCE THE CURB CUTS WITH THAT, WE'LL CALL IT JOINT, I CALL IT SHARED, MAYBE NOT LEGAL NAME, BUT WHATEVER YOU'RE SHARING A DRIVEWAY AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THAT WOULD WORK. BUT QUITE FRANKLY, IT'S ALSO POSSIBLE THAT THE INDUSTRY AND THE RESIDENTS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS WILL GO TO CITY COUNCIL BECAUSE THEY ARE TALKING TO CITY COUNCIL NOW AND COME UP WITH A TOTALLY DIFFERENT SOLUTION. RIGHT. UM, AND SO THAT WAS MY REASON FOR SAYING I THINK WE'RE JUST AT A POINT WHERE WE'VE SHOWN, 'CAUSE IT'S FIVE 15, WE'VE ONLY GOTTEN TO ITEM ONE ON THE AGENDA, UM, THAT WE COULD TALK ABOUT THIS FOR DAYS AND WE WOULD BE RIGHT WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. SO COMMISSIONER BALDWIN, I, I DID OWE AND I, I THINK WE HAVE TO MOVE ON. SO I'M GONNA MOVE A MOTION TO ELIMINATE THE SHARED DRIVES AND MAKE THE MINIMUM 33 FEET WIDE DRIVE WIDE DRIVE AND MAKE THE MINIMUM 33 FEET WITH NO CURB CUTS AS WE'VE DISCUSSED. AND INCREASE YOUR COURTYARD DEVELOPMENT TO 1800 SQUARE FEET PER MAXIMUM. HEY, WE HAVE A MOTION. GOD, WE GOTTA MOVE ON HERE GUYS. CAN YOU, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I WILL SECOND THAT MOTION. BEFORE, BEFORE THE COMMISSION STARTS TO WHAT? UH, FOR THE MOTION COULD, COULD YOU CLARIFY THE WIDTH OF THE DRIVEWAY THAT WILL BE THERE ON LESS THAN 33 FEET? THERE IS NO DRIVE ON LESS THAN 33 FEET. YEAH, SO SORRY. LET'S DO IT. NO, WHY? OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION. DO YOU WANNA RESTATE YOUR MOTION? WE HAVE A MOTION FOR A BALDWIN SECOND. GO AHEAD. DO YOU NEED ME TO RESTATE IT? I MEAN, THERE, THERE WOULD BE NO CURB CUTS ON 33 FEET, 50 FEET. YOU COULD DIVIDE INTO A FLAG LOT OR THE THREE LOTS THAT WE CALL SHARE DRIVE ON THE 50 FOOT LOT THERE. AND THEN THERE'D BE NO CURB CUTS AT 33. LESS THAN 30, LESS THAN THREE, LESS THAN THREE. 33 AND 33 WOULD BE A CURB. THERE'S A CURB CUT. NOT AT THE 33 ON THE 50. NO, YOU'D BE ONE ACCESS THE PROPERTY. IT'D BE ONE. WHATEVER THE IDM REQUIRES, I'M NOT GONNA SET THAT CURB THAT WITH THAT DEAL. 'CAUSE IT COULD BE 10, 11 OR 1212. 12. 12. MAXIMUM OF 12. YOU WANT ME TO SAY THE MAXIMUM? OKAY. MAXIMUM OF 12. YES, I WOULD. YES. YES. YOU WANT TO INCLUDE THAT? NO, I WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE IT THE IDM. THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING. MAY YEAH, IT CHANGES ALL THE TIME. IDM IDM WOULD ALLOW, UH, A 16 FEET DRIVEWAY ON A 33 FEET LOT. SO IF, IF THE, WE'LL ALLOW 12. 12. SO OUR, OUR, IF OUR PLANNING COMMISSION DECIDES THE MOTION COULD INCLUDE A MAXIMUM OF 12 FEET DRIVES. RIGHT. CAN I SAY FROM 10 TO 12? 'CAUSE I WANNA MAKE SURE I CAN GET THE 10. OH YEAH. BECAUSE I NEED A 10. 12 IS 12 IS MAXIMUM. THREE AND 12. IT'S THE APPROACH TO THE PROPERTY LINE. PROPERTY LINE YOU CAN PAVE FOR YOUR BRAIN. IT'S A WHOLE THING. YEAH. 10 TO 12. YES. IS MY MOTION. OKAY. 33 AND 10 TO 12. IS THERE A SECOND SQUARE FOOT AND THE SQUARE FOOT [02:45:01] ON THE COURTYARD DEVELOPMENT. OKAY. AT 1800. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER BALDWIN, SECOND COMMISSIONER GARZA. IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION? THIS IS COMMISSIONER DALTON. I JUST WANNA REITERATE, UM, WELL FIRST THANK STAFF FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE ON THIS. BUT, UM, AS MS. CURTIS MENTIONED, AND I BELIEVE AS MS UM, VICTOR HAD MENTIONED, I WOULD LIKE TO GET CLARIFICATION THAT THESE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ARE NOT GONNA BE APPLICABLE IN THE ETJ. THAT'S CORRECT. WE JUST, WE JUST DISCUSSED THAT. YEAH. COMMISSIONER DALTON. THANK YOU. KIM MICKELSON FROM LEGAL AND YES, I HAD CONFIRMED THAT. I'M SORRY. YOU MAY NOT HAVE, MAY, MAY NOT HAVE HEARD THAT, BUT, UM, I THINK THAT UNDER THE STATE LAW AND THE CHANGES MADE THAT WILL NOT, WE WILL LOOK AT THE ORDINANCE TO MAKE SURE IF THAT NEEDS TO BE CLARIFIED. RIGHT? YEAH. 'CAUSE I KNOW SOME OF THE SECTIONS SPECIFICALLY STATE IN THE CITY AND THESE NEW ONES DON'T NE NECESSARILY REFERENCE CITY OR ETJ. BUT THANK YOU. WE WILL MAKE THAT VERY CLEAR IN THE ORDINANCE. 'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST IN THAT. OKAY. UH, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO AMEND THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN WE'LL HAVE TO VOTE ON THE PACKAGE AS AMENDED. SO IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE AMENDMENTS? HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED THE MOTION. OKAY. WE HAVE ONE. NO VOTE. COMMISSIONER, UH, ROSENBERG, THE MOTION CARRIES. CONGRATULATIONS. OKAY, NOW WE ARE GOING TO, UH, CONSIDER THE, WE'RE GONE. I'M SORRY, WE'RE OUTTA YEAH. AND YOU STAY HERE. WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THE CONSIDERATION OF THE PROPOSED CHAPTER 26 AND CHAPTER 42, OVERALL HOUSING AMENDMENTS. AS AMENDED. AS AMENDED. AND THE, UM, THE, THE MOTION WOULD BE TO, TO APPROVE IT AND SEND IT TO CITY CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL FOR REVIEW AND ADOPTION. IS THERE A MOTION? MADAM CHAIR? YES. COMMISSIONER NELSON. I, UH, JUST TO MAKE THIS MORE COMPLEX THAN WE ALREADY HAVE BEING, UH, THAT WE CAN'T, THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO THE ETJ. DOES THAT MEAN I SHOULD NOT VOTE? OH, NO, NO, NO. YOU CAN VOTE. YEAH. OKAY. THAT'S ALL I I WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT. OKAY. THANK YOU. YES. SO TO MAKE THE MOTION, DO I HAVE TO RESTATE EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID? NO. NO. YOU'RE JUST AS AMENDED. OKAY. I MAKE THE MOTION AS AMENDED. I SECOND THAT MOTION. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION. CLARK SECOND GARZA ALL, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? AYE. AYE. OKAY, WE HAVE ONE, JUST ONE NOTE. COMMISSIONER JONES ROSEBERG. THAT WAS IT. ROSEBERG ROSENBERG? NO, NO, IT WAS JONES. THIS ONE. OH, I'M SORRY. WAS JONES. I VOTED AGAINST THE PART I HAD AN ISSUE WITH. RIGHT? HE'S ALL RIGHT YOU GUYS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE AMEN. JUST TO CITY COUNCIL FOR THEIR, UH, THEIR REVIEW AND, AND, UH, DECISION. YEP. UM, IS THERE, WOULD, WOULD PEOPLE PREFER TO JUMP RIGHT INTO THE REST OF THE AGENDA OR DO YOU WANT A FIVE MINUTE BREAK? I THINK PERSONALLY A FIVE MINUTE, BECAUSE EVERYONE WILL COME BACK. OKAY. IT IS, WHEN WE SAY FIVE, IT'S, IT IS FIVE 18. WE ARE COMING BACK AT 5 23. I DRANK THIS WHOLE THING. ALL RIGHT, MADAM CHAIR, I JUST WANNA THANK THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND THE LEADERSHIP AND MY TEAM WHO WORKED ON THIS AND APPRECIATE ALL OF THE SUPPORT. THANK YOU. ON TO 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. WE HAVE A QUORUM. WE ARE RESUMING THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING AND [Platting Activities a & b] WE ARE ON ROMAN NUMERAL TWO. WOW. PLANNING ACTIVITY. YES, MR. CALVERT. GOOD. UM, EVENING MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION SECTIONS A AND B ARE PRESENTED AS ONE GROUP, WHICH INCLUDES CONSENT AND REPL. ITEMS NOT REQUIRING NOTIFICATION. SECTIONS A AND B ARE ITEMS ONE THROUGH 1 48 SECTION A. CONSENT ITEMS ARE NUMBERED ONE THROUGH 76 AND SECTION B REPL ITEMS ARE NUMBER 77 THROUGH 1 48. NO ITEMS NEED TO BE TAKEN OUT OF ORDER AND THERE ARE NO CHANGES TO STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS MADAM CHAIR, IF THERE ARE NO INDIVIDUALS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THESE ITEMS, THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REQUESTS THE APPROVAL OF ALL STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONSENT AND REPL ITEMS NOT REQUIRING NOTIFICATION. OKAY. UH, COMMISSIONERS, ARE THERE ITEMS IN A AND B THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER SEPARATELY? COMMISSIONER SIGLER? YES. ITEM 1 10 24 THROUGH 34, 94 AND 95. OKAY. COMMISSIONER HY? YES. 2, 3, 6 7 8 37 47. 73. 94 95. OKAY. ANYBODY ELSE? UM, OKAY, I DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED TO SPEAK ON ANY OF THE ITEMS FROM ITEM ONE TO 1 29. NO ONE WHO'S IN THE CHAT. IS THERE ANYONE LISTENING [02:50:01] WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON ANY OF THE ITEMS IN SECTION A AND B HEARING NO RESPONSE? WE'LL GO AHEAD AND, UM, ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR ALL ITEMS. STAFF RECOMMENDATION FOR ALL ITEMS IN SECTIONS A AND B. EXCUSE ME. SAVE. AND EXCEPT FOR ITEMS 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 24 TO 34, 37, 47, 73, 94 AND 95. IS THERE A MOTION MA? IS THERE A SECOND? VICTOR? VICTOR, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? AYE. THE MOTION CARRIES. AND THEN ON THE REMAINDER, WHICH I WILL NOT REPEAT, IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION FOR POROUS PER A SECOND. GARZA. GARZA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES NOTING THAT COMMISSIONERS, HE AND SIGLER ABSTAINED. OKAY, THAT WILL TAKE [c. Replats requiring Public Hearings with Notification (Dorianne Powe-Phlegm, Wilson Calvert, Aracely Rodriguez, and John Cedillo)] US TO, UH, NUM LETTER C UH, PUBLIC HEARINGS. AND I NEED TO ANNOUNCE I DIDN'T DO IT EARLIER, THAT A NUMBER OF ITEMS HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN. THERE WILL BE NO DISCUSSION ON THE FOLLOWING ITEMS IN PUBLIC HEARINGS AND NO OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. 1 33. UH, CHARLES MONTE STATES 1 36 DEEP ENCLAVE, 1 38 EDGEWOOD TERRACE, 1 44 SOUTH PARK AND 1 47 WILFORD PLACE. MS. FL. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAME CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS DORIAN FL. ITEMS 1 31 32, 1 37 AND 1 42 HAS ALL BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR A DEFERRAL. UM, ITEM ONE 30 IS, UM, THERE IS A VARIANCE THAT'S BEING REQUESTED WITH THIS I ITEM, BUT WE ARE RECOMMENDING, UM, DEFERRAL FOR THIS FOR ALL FOUR OF THESE ITEMS. AND IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY DEFER THESE ITEMS. HOWEVER, BECAUSE THERE ARE PUBLIC HEARINGS, WE HAVE TO OPEN AND CLOSE, UM, EACH ITEM. YES. OKAY. HOLD ON A SECOND. OH, NO. OKAY. UM, MS. GEISER, I THINK YOU HAD A STACK OF SPEAKERS FOR THIS THAT I ASKED YOU TO HOLD ON SO I DIDN'T MIX THEM UP. NO. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. 1 32. OKAY. OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. SO I THINK IT MIGHT JUST BE EASIER TO OPEN AND, WELL, I, I WAS GONNA SUGGEST PROCEDURALLY THAT YOU COULD OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARINGS ON ALL FOUR ITEMS NOW THAT THEY HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED. OKAY. AND THEN CONTINUE ALL FOUR. SO NOT CLOSE THEM, BUT CONTINUE. OKAY. AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY SPEAKERS ON ANY OF THESE FOUR ITEMS. IS THE ONLY THERE ARE, YEAH. OKAY. SO WITH THAT, WE'RE GONNA OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ITEM ONE 30. WELL, DO YOU, DO YOU NEED TO PRESENT YOUR LITTLE SPIEL ON EACH ONE? YEAH, IT JUST DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH YOU ALL WANT TO HEAR ON. ARE THERE SPEAKERS ON ALL ITEMS? UH, ON ALL FOUR? NO. THERE. OKAY. THERE ARE, UM, QUITE A FEW ON 1 32 AND I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANYBODY ON 1 37. WE DO ON 1 42 AND I DON'T HAVE ANYBODY ON ONE 30. SO LET, LET'S DO 'EM INDIVIDUALLY. LET, LET'S DO EM, LET'S, OKAY. YEAH. UH, SO GO AHEAD WITH ITEM ONE 30 ONLY. OKAY. ITEM ONE 30 IS ANTE, PARTIALLY PLA NUMBER ONE AND EXTENSION. THE SITE IS LOCATED THERE. THE NORTHEASTERN INTERSECTION OF AL EDA ROAD, ALAMEDA GENO ROAD AND ALAMEDA ROAD IN HOUSTON. CORPORATE LIMITS. THE REASON FOR RE PLAT IS TO CREATE 31 LOTS AND TWO RESERVES. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO REPL LANDSCAPE AND INCIDENTAL UTILITY RESERVES INTO LOTS AND REDUCE MINIMUM LOT SIZE IN THE CITY. THE APPLICANT IS CREATING LOTS ALONG A TYPE 2 28 FOOT PAE. ADDITIONAL PARKING IS REQUIRED PER THE ORDINANCE FOR THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS FILED SEPARATELY. ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS HAVE BEEN MET. STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM STAFF'S. RECOMMENDATION DE FURTHER PLAT FOR FURTHER STUDY AND REVIEW AND ALLOW THE APPLICANT TO PROVIDE REVISED INFORMATION CONCERNING THE VARIANCE REQUEST BY NOON. NEXT WEDNESDAY. MADAM CHAIR, PLEASE COMMISSION. YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM. AT THIS TIME, THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ONE 30 IS OPEN. UM, I DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ONE 30? IF NOT, IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER THE ITEM AND CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING MOTION GARZA GARZA, MOISH. [02:55:01] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. UM, ITEM 1 31. ITEM 1 31 IS ALLENDALE TOWN SITE SECTION EIGHT PARTIAL RELAID NUMBER EIGHT, THE SIZE LOCATED ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 2 25 AND ALLEN GENOA AND HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS. THE REASON FOR PLAT IS TO CREATE ONE COMMERCIAL RESERVE. THERE ARE NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM. THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WOULD NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF PLATTER. THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO, UH, APPROVE THE PLA PER THE CBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. MADAM CHAIR, PLEASE TO COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM. AT THIS TIME, THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 31 ALLENDALE TOWN SITE IS OPEN. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. NO ONE IN THE CHAT. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON 1 31 STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION? OH, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS THEN CLOSED. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS. IS THERE DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION SECOND AYE. OKAY. POROUS PER, AND ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? AYE. SORRY, . SORRY. DAMN IT. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 1 32. ITEM 1 32 IS CANDY LAND. THE SITE IS LOCATED WEST ALONG AMORE STREET, WEST OF SOUTH MCGREGOR WAY IN HOUSTON. CORPORATE LIMITS. THE REASON FOR RE PLAT IS TO CREATE ONE LOT AND REMOVE A A THREE FEET INTERIOR BUILDING LINE. THERE ARE NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS PLAT. THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WOULD NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON A FA OF PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER THE PLAT PER COUNCIL MEMBERS, DR. CAROLINE, CAROLYN, EVAN SEBAS REQUEST STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER THE PLAT PER THE COUNCIL MEMBER'S REQUEST. STAFF HAS RECEIVED ADVANCED COMMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTH MC GREGGOR CIVIC CLUB THAT THIS PLAT IS A VIOLATION OF D RESTRICTIONS AND COMPLAINTS OF PARKING ISSUES AND OPERATING. AND THE, UM, THE OWNER OPERATING THE, THE PROPERTY AS A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS. MADAM CHAIRMAN, PLEASE THE COMMISSION. YOU MAY CONTINUE TO, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. OKAY. THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING IS OPEN FOR, UH, 1 32 CANDY LAND. UH, THE FIRST SPEAKER, SPEAKER IS MICHAEL BILLETT. MR. BILLETT. OKAY. I'LL HAND TO DOCUMENT. CAMERA PLEASE. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU. I'M, UH, RELATIVELY NEW AT YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PRESENTING, BUT, UH, MAYBE I CAN HASTEN AND WITH THE CAVEAT THAT I'M SURE THAT MOSES COULDN'T HAVE EXPLAINED THE 10 COMMANDMENTS IN TWO MINUTES. OKAY. UM, THE PROPOSAL FOR THIS KIND OF COMES AT A TIME THAT SURPRISED US IN AN AREA THAT'S REALLY UP FOR A HISTORIC DESIGNATION. WE HAVE DEED RESTRICTIONS IN PLACE. THERE'S A DEFINITE NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECT CHARACTER. THE HOMES HAVE BEEN THERE SINCE 1935. THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THIS LADY MOVES IN, BRINGS, UM, HER PURCHASE OF TWO PROPERTIES ADJACENT AND PARKS A 35 FOOT RV IN BETWEEN THEM, PLUGS THE RV IN AND CONDUCTS BUSINESS, AND HER EMPLOYEES DRIVE IN AND WORK IN THE RV AS A COMMERCIAL LOCATION. AND WE ARE OBJECTING TO IT. YES. HERE IT'S VERY QUICK PICTURES OF THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE PROPOSED FOR CANDY LAND. YOU CAN SEE THE RV BETWEEN THE TWO PROPERTIES. YOU CAN SEE THE FENCE THAT SHE'S PUT UP, WHICH NOBODY UNDERSTANDS. THIS FENCE ALSO GOES ACROSS THE WHOLE FRONT OF THE PROPERTY. NO OTHER HOMES IN THE ENTIRE SUBDIVISION HAVE THIS FENCE OUT AT THE CURB. I DON'T KNOW IF A COMMIT WA A PERMIT WAS ASKED FOR, DON'T KNOW IF ONE WAS GOTTEN JUST OFFENSIVE AND IT LOOKS LIKE AN INDUSTRIAL CATTLE FENCE. NUMBER TWO, ANOTHER VIEW OF THE PROPERTY SO THAT YOU CAN SEE THE HOUSE THAT SITS EMPTY NOW. AND THEN PICTURE NUMBER THREE IS, UM, OKAY. VERY QUICKLY WHAT I WANNA SHOW YOU IN A SERIES THAT HE CAN, UH, PUT UP AT HIS OWN DISCRETION AND SPEED. THESE ARE COMPARABLE HOUSES WITHIN SIX EIGHT PROPERTIES OF THIS PLACE. THE ONE IS 288,001 338,001 [03:00:01] 605,001 378,001 678,000. AND SHE WANTS TO RUN A BUSINESS. MY LAST POINT IN DEFERENCE TO YOUR, UH, TIME RESTRICTION IS THIS SAME LADY BOUGHT AN X MOTEL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BAYOU. PUTS HER SIGN UP AS THE PINK INSURANCE LADY. SHE'S EXPANDING IT WITH 15 OFFICE SPACES. THERE'S 35 X MOTEL ROOMS THAT ARE BEING MODIFIED, AND YET SHE WANTS TO USE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO RUN HER BUSINESS. OKAY. I APOLOGIZE FOR RUNNING OVER MR. BILL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YEAH. AND, UH, OUR STAFF THERE ARE RECOMMENDING IT BE DEFERRED, SO WE WILL BE LOOKING INTO ALL OF THESE ISSUES. I THINK THAT WOULD BE THE LEAST RECOMMENDATION WE WOULD HOPE FOR. OKAY. THANK YOU TO THE PANEL MEMBERS AND I CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR SERVICE TO, UH, THE CITY. I'VE NOTICED THE LOOKS ON YOUR FACES AS YOU SIT HERE DOING YOUR DUTY. AND, UH, I COMMEND YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT, CAN WE GET CLARITY THAT THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO, ARE, IS IT STILL RESIDENTIAL? WHAT ARE THEY DOING? THEY'RE JUST COMBINING TWO LOT TWO RESIDENTIAL LOTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PLATING MS, WE UNDERSTAND WE, THE PLANS ARE THAT SHE WANTS TO JOIN TWO PROPERTIES YEAH. AND USE IT AS A BUSINESS OPERATION. YEAH. THEY'RE JUST COMBINING, UH, PORTIONS OF LOTS INTO ONE LOT THAT ARE RESTRICTED FOR RESIDENTIAL. YES. YES. AND IF THEY'RE IN VIOLATION OF THAT, THEY'RE JUST IN VIOLATION THAT YOU JUST REPORT. YES. WE ARE REVIEWING THIS RATHER CLOSELY. OF COURSE. UM, THE INITIAL DETERMINATION, I BELIEVE THE APPLICATION SAYS SHE WANTS TO BUILD A ONE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE ON IT. COMBINING THE TWO LOTS DOES NOT. AND BUILDING A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE DOES NOT APPEAR TO, TO VIOLATE ANYTHING IF THERE IS A VIOLATION BECAUSE OF EITHER A BUSINESS THAT IS IN PLACE NOW, THE NEIGHBORS CERTAINLY HAVE AN AVENUE TO TALK TO NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES. SO WE'RE INVOLVING THEM. I BELIEVE WE'RE ALL MEETING WITH THE COUNCIL COUNCILWOMAN IN RESIDENCE NEXT WEEK. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS AL LLOYD. MR. LLOYD IS NOT PRESENT. ELIZABETH BRAY. ELIZABETH BRAY IS NOT PRESENT. UM, LIONEL CASTRO. OKAY. AND LYNN HENSON. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. GO AHEAD. BEING, BEING THAT THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS A DEFERRAL, I WOULD PREFER TO WAIT FOR FUTURE PLANNING COMMISSION TO SPEAK IF THIS ITEM COMES BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION AGAIN. OKAY. UM, THANK YOU MS. HENSON. UM, JOYCE OWENS, UH, IS THE APPLICANT. JOYCE DID, DID YOU WANNA SPEAK OR JUST QUESTIONS? OH, YOU'RE HERE. SORRY. AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS. OKAY. AND I THINK, UM, SHAUNA BLACKMAN IS ALSO HERE FOR QUESTIONS. NO. OKAY. UM, I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER SPEAKERS. IS THERE ANYBODY? I AM HERE FOR QUESTIONS. HELLO? YES, I AM HERE FOR QUESTIONS. OKAY. YES, THIS IS SHAUNA BLACKMAN. I'M HERE. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, DO WE HAVE ANYBODY IN THE CHAT? IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE LISTENING WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 32? CANDY LAND STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO, UH, DEFER. SO IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER THE ITEM AND CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING MOTION TO CLARK? CLARK? IS THERE A SECOND? I WOULD LIKE TO DE FIRST PLEASE. I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK FIRST, PLEASE. WHO IS SPEAKING PLEASE? SHAUNA BLACKMAN. OH, OKAY. I AM SORRY. I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU JUST WERE HERE FOR QUESTIONS. THAT'S NO, I SIGNED UP FOR SPEAKING. OKAY. UM, GO RIGHT AHEAD. ALRIGHT, PERFECT. UM, SO AGAIN, MY NAME IS SHAUNA BLACKMON, AND NO MA'AM, I DO NOT RUN A BUSINESS OUT OF MY HOME. UM, A MATTER OF FACT, I'M 56 YEARS OLD, I'M RETIRING FROM MY BUSINESS. UM, AND I DO HAVE AN RV, UM, THAT HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED FOR THE REAL INSURANCE LADY. AND YES, WE DID AS A BUSINESS PURCHASER, UH, THE ETTE AND WE INTEND, AND THE RV WILL BE PARKED AND HOUSED OVER THERE AT THAT TIME WHEN WE DO SOLD DEEM IT. BUT THE PROPERTY THAT THE RV IS PARKED ON, IT'S NOT VIOLATING ANY RULES. THERE IS NO BUSINESS BEING CONDUCTED IN MY HOUSE OTHER THAN ME WORKING FROM HOME. AND, UM, AND, AND AS FAR AS ALL OF THIS, YOU KNOW, OTHER STUFF, WHAT HE DIDN'T SHOW IS I COPIED MY EXACT FENCE FROM THE NEIGHBOR TO THE LEFT OF THE FIRST HOUSE THAT HE SHOWED YOU. THAT EXACT SAME FENCE IS EXACTLY THE SAME FENCE. AND SO THE REASON THAT I IN DID THAT IS BECAUSE MR. MICHAEL HAS BEEN STALKING ME AND THERE'S NO, I PLAN TO [03:05:01] MOVE MY PARENTS, MY 79-YEAR-OLD FATHER AND MY 76-YEAR-OLD MOTHER NEXT DOOR SO THAT I CAN MAKE SURE, BECAUSE THEY CURRENTLY LIVE APPROXIMATELY 30 MILES AWAY FROM ME AND I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THEM. AND MY FATHER HAD A BRAIN ANEURYSM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE MY PARENTS NEXT DOOR SO THAT I CAN HAVE A CLOSE EYE ON THEM AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE SAFE AND SECURE. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. IT'S A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE. I HAVE FIVE OFFICES AROUND HOUSTON. I HAVE OFFICES IN MULTIPLE STATES. I NEED TO HAVE AN OFFICE HERE AT MY HOME. I WANT MY PRIVACY. AND THAT STARTS WITH MR. MICHAEL LEE MINDING HIS BUSINESS AND STOP TAKING PICTURES OF MY HOUSE. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR, THAT PERSPECTIVE. WE APPRECIATE IT. UM, AS WE SAID, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO DEFER THE ITEM. UM, SO WE HOPE THAT YOU CAN BE WITH US AGAIN NEXT, NEXT TIME IN TWO WEEKS. UM, ABSOLUTELY. AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT HE NO LONGER MISREPRESENT HIMSELF AND, AND INFRINGES UPON MY PRIVACY, GETTING COPIES OF MY PLANS BY MISREPRESENTING HIMSELF AS BEING THANK YOU. A PART OF THE THANK. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. OKAY. UM, THANK YOU. I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY OTHER SPEAKERS. WE DO HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO DEFER AND CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. IT IS DEFERRED. 1 33 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN. 1 34. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS WILSON CALVERT NUMBER 1 34 IS CHARLES MONTE VILLAS. THE SUBJECT SITE IS A 11,657 SQUARE FOOT PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CORPORAL LIMITS ALONG CHARLES MONT, SOUTH OF PARKER ROAD AND NORTH OF TIDWELL. THE PURPOSE OF THE PLAT IS TO CREATE TWO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS TAKING ACCESS FROM AN 18 FOOT SHARED DRIVEWAY. THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM, AND THE PLAT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THE PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS REGARDING THE PLAT STAFF. RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 34 CHARLES MONT VILLAS IS OPEN. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED. THERE'S NO ONE IN THE CHAT. UM, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION, UH, AND HEARING IF NO ONE WISHES TO SPEAK, I'M SORRY. I'M LOSING IT HERE. IF NO ONE WISHES TO SPEAK ON 1 34, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS. IS THERE DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION AYES HEINS. SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 1 35. NUMBER 1 35 IS CHAVA HOMES. THE SUBJECT SITE IS A 6,600 SQUARE FOOT PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CORPORAL LIMITS WEST OF AIRLINE AND NORTH OF LOOP SIX 10. THE PURPOSE OF THE RE PLAT IS TO CREATE THREE LOTS. THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM AND THE PLAT HAS NOT MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. THE WRONG DATE WAS POSTED ON THE SIGNS ON THE PROPERTY. REVIEW BY LEGAL DEPARTMENT INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT DOES VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. ONLY ONE RESIDENCE CAN BE CONSTRUCTED ON EACH LA LOT AS SHOWN ON THE ORIGINAL PLAT MAP. WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THE PLAT STAFF. RECOMMENDATION IS TO DISAPPROVE THE PLAT MADAM CHAIR. IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 35 CHATTA HOMES IS OPEN. UM, THE APPLICANT IS HERE. IS IT FRANK? UH, SOUTHUM, DID I GET THAT RIGHT? YES, MA'AM. IT'S SOUTHALL. YES, MA'AM. SO IT'S FRANK SOUTHALL WITH COBALT ENGINEERING, AND, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE DOING, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. I DO APPRECIATE, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO, UH, KIND OF PLEAD MY CASE HERE. SO, UM, WE DO A LOT OF, UH, A LOT OF DIFFERENT HOMES. WE'RE WORKING IN ABOUT 50 DIFFERENT COUNTIES AND SO WE'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO REMEMBER, UH, THE D THE ORDINANCE AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT. NOW WITH THIS PARTICULAR ONE, UH, THE DEED IS FROM 1942. AND SO MOST OF THE RESTRICTIONS IN THERE HAD TO BE STRICKEN FROM THE DEED, HAVING TO DO A RACE OR COLOR CREED, DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT, UH, SO IT IS, IT IS AN OLDER, IT IS AN OLDER DEED, BUT WHAT IT WAS RESTRICTING IS THAT ONE SINGLE FAMILY HOME BEYOND THE LOT. SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. IT WASN'T THAT IT WAS RESTRICTING, UH, UH, THAT IT, THAT THAT THE LOT COULD BE SPLIT. IT WAS JUST RESTRICTING THAT THERE NOT BE ANY MULTI-FAMILY HOME, ANY COMMERCIAL, UH, FAMILY OR, OR, UH, RESIDENCE OR OUR BUILDING. AND SO THIS [03:10:01] IS WHAT WE WERE ASKING IS, UH, SPLITTING, UH, THE, UH, THE PORTION OF TWO LOTS INTO THREE DIFFERENT LOTS. AND SO IF I, I HAVE THIS ONE PARTICULAR, UH, THIS IS THE TAX MAP I'D LIKE TO SHOW AND UM, OKAY. I GIVE IT TO YOU. GO AHEAD AND TO PUT THAT UP. I DO, I WANNA CAUTION YOU YES. IF I UNDERSTAND IT, THERE WAS A NOTICE ISSUE WITH THIS MM-HMM . WHICH IS USUALLY OF GROUNDS THAT WE DENY. YES, MA'AM. UM, AND IF WE WERE BEING TOLD DEED RESTRICTIONS ARE AN ISSUE, WE HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO OVERRIDE THAT. OKAY. SO EVEN IF YOU, IF YOU PRESENTED COMPELLING EVIDENCE, WE CAN'T DO THAT. OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT IS TELLING US, SO, OKAY. WE'RE IN A POSITION WHERE WE, WE REALLY NEED TO, TO DENY THIS. IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T COME BACK AND DO THE CORRECT NOTICE AND PERHAPS ARGUE YOUR CASE WITH THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT. OKAY. THAT IT DOES. BUT WE, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO HELP YOU. OKAY. AND THAT'S THE MAIN THING THAT WE'RE HOPING FOR IS JUST THAT WE HAVE, UH, I THINK THERE IS, UH, COMPELLING EVIDENCE THAT IT'S BEEN SPLIT PER THE TAXES, BUT JUST LOOKING AT THE RIGHT CHANNELS OF ADDRESSING IT. YEAH. SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE CONSIDERING THE NOTICE ISSUE IS, IS THE KILLER. SO, UM, I I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY ROOM, WIGGLE ROOM HERE AND THEN THAT'LL MAYBE GIVE YOU SOME TIME TO GO BACK AND ARGUE WITH IT. THAT'S, WE, WE DID HAVE THE NOTICE OUT THERE, BUT IT WAS FOR PREVIOUS, I'M SORRY, THE PRIOR DAY. YEAH, THAT HAPPENS. BUT WE, WE KEPT KIND OF A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY, SO, ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR WAITING SO LONG HERE. YES MA'AM. OKAY. UM, SO LET ME, UH, ASK IF THERE'S ANYBODY ELSE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK. YES, CAMERA AHEAD. THANK YOU. STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE. MY NAME IS JAY CHATHA AND THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK. UM, IN TERMS OF NOTICE, THE NOTICE WAS POSTED FOR THE DATE THAT WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE DOCKET. THE CITY MOVED THE DATE. OKAY. THE PICTURES WERE SENT. WE HAVE EVIDENCE OF, UH, PICTURES BEING SENT TO THE CITY, UH, ON MAY 4TH. THIS SUPPOSED TO BE ON FOR MAY 24TH, WHICH WAS MOVED. YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE DATE ON THE SIGN. SO EVERY TIME THE CITY DECIDES TO MOVE, YOU GOTTA HAVE TO YEAH, PRETTY MUCH. YEAH. YEAH. YOU JUST PUT A STICKER ON IT, BUT EVERY, THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE DO. YEAH. UNFORTUNATELY IT IS FOR NOTICE FOR THE PUBLIC. SO THE PUBLIC CAN COME AND SPEAK TO YOUR ITEM. AND SO IF THEY HAVE THE WRONG DATE, REGARDLESS OF WHO CHANGES IT, THEY DON'T KNOW WHEN TO COME AND SO THEY LOSE THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO, TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSION. SO, UH, WHETHER IT'S FAIR OR NOT IS NOT OF ANY IMPORT AT THIS POINT IN TIME. IT'S WHAT'S REQUIRED. APOLOGIES IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THIS TO THE NEXT, UH, HEARING DATE. WELL, WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION. YEAH. AND THE NOTICE ISSUE IS FOR US A DISAPPROVE, SO WE, WE NEED TO DISAPPROVE IT. OKAY. ANY OTHER SPEAKERS ON THIS ITEM? UM, WITH THAT I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DISAPPROVE. IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION? COMMISSIONER? MODEST? NO. OKAY. MOTION TO DISAPPROVE. COMMISSIONER MAS, I JUST HAVE ONE COMMENT. OH, GO AHEAD. SO I WOULD ASK, UH, IF YOU WOULD PLEASE GET WITH THE APPLICANT AND EXPLAIN TO THEM WHAT THEY NEED TO DO NEXT IN THE PROCESS. OKAY. YES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT'S A GOOD POINT. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND, VICTOR. UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION TO DISAPPROVE, SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 1 36 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN. ITEM 1 37. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR MEMBERS FOR THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS A RODRIGUEZ, ITEM 1 37 EAST SIDE TERRACE. THE SITE IS LOCATED ALONG FREEMAN STREET, EAST OF NORTH MAIN STREET. THE PURPOSE OF THE WE PLOT IS TO CREATE, UM, A SHARED DRIVEWAY DEVELOPMENT WITH SICK LOT AND ONE PARKING RESERVE. NO VARI ANSWERS ARE BEING REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM AND THE APPLICANT MET ALL THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MAY BE BY LEGAL INDICATE THAT THE PLA WILL NOT VIOLATE APPLICABLE ATTRITION AND STATE RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER THE PLAT FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT IS NEEDED ON THE REMAINDER PORTION OF LAW. THREE AND FOUR STAFF DID NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT. IN EVENT, MADAM CHAIR IT, APPRECIATE THE COMMISSION. YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 37 EAST SIDE TERRACE IS OPEN. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK, NOR IS THERE ANYONE IN THE CHAT. IS THERE ANYONE LISTENING WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 37? UH, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS [03:15:01] TO DEFER IF THERE'S NO DISCUSSION, IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER AND CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING? I, I MAKE THE MOTION, BUT I WANNA QUESTION, UM, WHAT IS IT WE'RE LOOKING FOR FOR LOT THREE AND FOUR? I'VE MISSED IT. THIS IS, UM, PLANNING PORTION OF LOT THREE AND FOUR. OKAY. AND THE REMAINDER PORTION THREE AND FOUR IS CURRENTLY BEING LANDLOCKED. SO THE APPLICANT IS TRYING TO GIVE US CONVEYING INFORMATION THAT THEY DON'T OWN IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO I MAKE THE MOTION, UH, WITH STAFF RECOMMENDATION. OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION CLERK TO DEFER. SECOND. SECOND. AYE ISH. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. UH, 1 38 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN. 1 39 HESTER CRASH. 1 39 HESTER CHILD PARTIAL AT NUMBER ONE. THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE ETJ IN HARRIS COUNTY WEST OF COPE ROAD AND NORTH OF FARM MARKET 29 20. THE PURPOSE OF THE WE PLA IS TO CREATE THREE SINGLE FAMILY HOME FOR, FOR TO PUT WITH TWO EXISTING HOME AND ONE NEW HOME AND ONE OPEN SPACE THAT IS GONNA BE USED FOR ADEQUATE COTER USES. UM, THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARI TO NOT PROVIDE AN EAST WEST STREET THROUGH THE SIDE AND THAT IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THE DISTANCE ALONG COP ROAD IS ABOUT 7,320 FEET. SO THEY, THEY'RE REQUIRED TO PUT IT EAST WEST STREET BY PROVIDING THE EAST WEST STREET IT WOULD BY SET, UM, IN ASSISTING AGRICULTURAL TRACK AND AN ALL RECORDED SUBDIVISION WHICH ARE HIGHLY QUICK TO THE WE, WHICH MAKE IT AN IMP IMPACTABLE DEVELOPMENT. SO, UM, PER LEGAL REVIEW INDICATES THAT THE PROPOSED WE PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTION. STAFF DID NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT IN ADVANCE AND NO OPPOSITION WAS SUBMITTED IN WRITING. THEREFORE, STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLA SUBJECT TO THE CCPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITION, UM, WARMER THEN THAT ALSO RECEIVE, UM, NO OBJECTION FROM HARRIS COUNTY AND THEY ALSO SUBMIT A LETTER THAT THE PROPERTY IS IN COMPLIANT WITH AND PERMITTING PROCESS. OKAY, THANK YOU. UH, SO THE PUBLIC HEARING IS OPEN FOR ITEM 1 39 HESTER TRACK. UM, THE APPLICANT IS AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS. I DON'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE SIGN. NO ONE IN THE CHAT. DOES ANYONE ELSE WISH TO SPEAK ON 1 38? I'M SORRY, 1 39? OR ARE THERE QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT? HEARING NONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS. ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION? MY MOTION? MANUS SECOND SIGLER. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES ITEM ONE 40, ITEM ONE 40 LUXURY. HI, HIDDEN HOMES. THE SITE IS LOCATED SOUTH OF ALONG FERGUSON WAY AND EAST OF MONTGOMERY ROAD. THE PURPOSE OF THE WE PLA IS TO CREATE 11 SINGLE FAMILY LOT AND ONE RESERVE ALONG A SHARED DRIVEWAY. THERE ARE NO VARIANCE OF BEING REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLOT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTION AND THAT RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLA SUBSTITUTE THE CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITION. MADAM CHAIR IS TO PLEASE THE COMMISSION. YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ONE 40 LUXURY HIDDEN HOMES IS OPEN. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS, UM, MS. AL WHO'S WAITED THE WHOLE TIME. WE APPRECIATE YOU STICKING IT OUT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. YOU'RE KIND, UM, AS I TRIED TO STATE EARLIER, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. OKAY. AS I TRIED TO STATE EARLIER, UH, THE DESCRIPTION THAT WAS LISTED ON THE LETTER THAT I RECEIVED, UH, IS INCORRECT IN MY OPINION, BUT I WILL NOT GO THROUGH THE CORRECT DESCRIPTION BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS. YOU, YOU CAN FIND WHAT IT IS. BUT THE CONCERN I HAVE IS THE TRAFFIC. ONCE THESE, UH, 11 UNITS ARE GOING TO BE BUILT AND OPEN, UH, THE POTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION IMPACT OF FERGUSON WAY POTENTIAL CONGESTION IMPACT AS A RESULT OF INCREASED VEHICULAR PRESENCE UTILITIES, THE CITY OF HOUSTON HAS A LIFT STATION IMMEDIATELY TO THE WEST OF THE PROPOSED SITE. THE LIFT STATION IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING SIGNIFICANT UPGRADES. WHAT WILL BE THE ANTICIPATED IMPACT OF THE LIFT STATION DURING AND POST CONSTRUCTION? CURRENTLY THERE HAS BEEN POWER OUT JUST REPORTED THE LAST WEEKS OF MAY, 2023 AND CONTINUING IN JUNE, 2023. THE CURRENT RESIDENTS LIVING ON FERGUSON WAY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE INTERRUPTIONS HAPPENING [03:20:01] SO OFTEN WITH THE CLIMATE CHANGE IN MANY AREAS OF HOUSTON. AS A HOMEOWNER, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A POTENTIAL RETENTION POND BEING CONSIDERED FOR MORE, UH, HOUSING UNITS BEING CONSTRUCTED ON THE DESIGNATED LOTS. THIS COULD OR SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BEFORE A BUILDING. DRAINAGE OF TOO MUCH WATER IS BEING CONSIDERED CONCERNED WITH THE PROPERTY VALUE DECREASING WITH THE PROPOSED BUILDING OF THESE 11 SINGLE UNITS ON FERGUSON WAY IN ONE AREA, ONE PLAQUE WITH ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT, WHICH POSSIBLY HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY PROPERTY VALUE AND INCOME BY THE KINDS OF DWELLINGS BEING BUILT AND THEIR OCCUPANCY. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK AT THIS TIME. I OPPOSE. I'M ELLE HOUSTON DEMAR, THANK YOU FOR, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TODAY. I HAVE ANOTHER SPEAKER, SO LET ME CALL THAT AND THEN WE CAN MAYBE ADDRESS YOUR QUESTIONS. UM, JULIE OR SAMUEL ARDS, A RDS. ARE YOU THERE? YES, MA'AM. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. GO RIGHT AHEAD. YES, MA'AM. UH, I AGREE WITH, UH, MS. BANER, UM, WITH THE CONGESTION. UM, HELLO? YEAH, GO AHEAD. YES, MA'AM. YES, I, I AGREE WITH HER, WITH THE CONGESTION, UM, WITH THE 11, UH, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AS FAR AS THE, UM, ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT. UH, AND ALSO I'M ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRIVACY OF MY BACKYARD. UM, I SEE THAT ON THE, UH, ON THE BLUE PLANT THAT, UH, THAT THERE BE HOMES THAT'S GONNA BE ON MY PROPERTY LINE, ON MY GATE. AND I'M JUST CONCERNED ABOUT MY PRIVACY AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, IN MY BACKYARD. AND ALSO, LIKE SHE SAID, WITH THE CONGESTION WITH ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT, THAT, THAT'S IT, . OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. UM, DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON ITEM, UH, ONE 40 LUXURY HIDDEN HOMES? IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE LISTENING? OKAY. UM, SO THIS, UM, I'LL ASK MS. RODRIGUEZ TO CONFIRM THIS IS 11 SINGLE FAMILY HOUSES YES. MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF CHAPTER 42. YES. SO IT, IT'S A SHALL APPROVE, BUT, UM, IS THE APPLICANT PRESENT OR AVAILABLE OR, I HOPE, I'M NOT SURE. MAYBE VIRTUALLY, BUT I, I DON'T THINK SO. OKAY. YES. COMMISSIONER GARZA. YES. MS. RODRIGUEZ, WOULD YOU JUST MAKE SURE THAT, UM, UM, OUR SPEAKER HAS CONTACT WITH SOMEONE IN THE DEPARTMENT SO THAT QUESTIONS CAN BE ANSWERED AND MAYBE PEOPLE IN PUBLIC WORKS COULD BE, SHE COULD BE DIRECTED TO PEOPLE IN PUBLIC WORKS TO GET HER QUESTIONS ANSWERED. YEAH. THANK YOU SIR, VERY MUCH. SURE. YEAH, I, THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE I WAS GOING. OH, I'M SORRY, . NO, NO, BUT JUST WE NEED TO FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF HOW, WHAT PERMITTING REVIEWS WILL BE MADE GOING FORWARD ON THE ITEMS. SO WE'D APPRECIATE IF YOU DO THAT AND PERHAPS PUT THEM IN TOUCH WITH THE, WITH THE APPLICANT BECAUSE OF THE PRIVACY ISSUE. ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? OKAY. UM, WELL WITH THAT THEN, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED AND STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS. ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION GARZA GARZA. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. CLARK. CLARK. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? OPPOSED. THE MOTION CARRIES ITEM 1 41. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS JOHN PHILLIPS OF THE U. ITEM 1 41 IS MONARCH OAKS, SECTION TWO PARTIAL REPL NUMBER ONE. THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE ALONG HUGE OAK STREET IN THE CITY LIMIT SOUTH OF LONGWOOD DRIVE AND NORTH OF WESTWOOD DRIVE. THE PURPOSE OF THE RE PLAT IS TO CREATE EIGHT, OH, SORRY, THREE SINGLE FAMILY LOTS. THERE ARE NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM. AND LEGAL REVIEW HAS STATED THAT THERE ARE, THIS DOES NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY, I RECOMMENDS APPROVING THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CCP C 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. MADAM CHAIR WOULD PLEASE THE COMMISSION. YOU CAN OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. YOU, THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 41 MONARCH OAKS IS OPEN. WE HAVE A SPEAKER. MEREDITH POWELL. MEREDITH POWELL. I'M HERE. OH, GO FOR IT. BY THE WAY, THE DISCUSSION, THE DISCUSSION FOR THE LAST, UH, FEW HOURS ABOUT LIVABLE PLACES WAS PRETTY INFORMATIVE TO ME. SO I'LL [03:25:01] FOLLOW UP WITH STAFF ON SOME QUESTIONS I HAVE ABOUT OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. UM, BUT MY NAME'S MEREDITH POWELL. I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE MONARCH CIVIC ASSOCIATION. I WAS IN FRONT OF YOU TWO WEEKS AGO REGARDING A SIMILAR REPLAY APPLICATION. WE'RE SUPPORTIVE. EACH STREET IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS ITS OWN SET OF DEED RESTRICTIONS, WHICH ARE STRICTLY ENFORCED. THE MAJORITY OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS ON THE STREET HAVE APPROVED AN AMENDMENT TO OUR DEED RESTRICTIONS TO ALLOW FOR THE REPL SOLELY OF THIS PROPERTY ON HUGE OAK. AND IT'S LOCATED ON THE NORTH END OF THE STREET NEXT TO COMMERCIAL. SO WE ARE SUPPORTIVE. OKAY, THANK YOU. YOU HAVE A GREAT PROCESS THERE IN MONACO. , WE, YOU, YOU WERE IMPRESSED US AGAIN . UM, THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE SPEAKER? DO WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE LISTENING OR WITH US WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 41? IF NOT, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS. IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION SIGLER SECOND MODEST. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. UH, ITEM 1 42 NAVAJO PLACE. ITEM 1 42 IS NAVAJO PLACE, SECTION ONE PARTIAL FL NUMBER ONE. THE SITE IS LOCATED ALONG NAVAJO PLACE DRIVE AND EAST OF HUFFMAN CEMETERY ROAD. THE PURPOSE OF THE RE PLAT IS TO CREATE EIGHT, I'M SORRY, FOUR SINGLE FAMILY LINES. I DON'T HAVE THAT EIGHT NUMBER IN MY HEAD. , THERE ARE NO RANGES REQUEST WITH THIS ITEM. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THE PLAT DOES NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONAL THE PLACE OF THAT THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. HOWEVER, STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER THE PLAT FOR TWO WEEKS TO ALLOW MORE TIME FOR THE APPLICANT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL REQUIRED, UH, DOCUMENTATION FOR REVIEW OF THE PLAT MAD CHAIR. IF THIS PLEASE THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 42 NAVAJO PLACES OPEN. THE ONLY SPEAKER I'VE LISTED IS THE APPLICANT. MIKA HODGES. DID YOU WANNA SPEAK OR JUST QUESTIONS? UH, WANTED TO SPEAK MADAM CHAIR. GO AHEAD. UH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. UM, MICALA HODGES LIQUIDITY ENGINEERING THE APPLICANT FOR THIS PROJECT AND I WANTED TO REQUEST THE COMMISSION APPROVE THIS, UH, PARTIAL REPL. THE, UH, STAFF REQUESTED TWO PIECES OF INFORMATION YESTERDAY. WE PROVIDED, UM, THE OWNER'S AFFIDAVIT FOR ONE OF THE LOTS, WHICH WAS INADVERTENTLY, UM, NOT SUBMITTED. AND WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO CONFIRM STAFF'S RECEIPTS SINCE YESTERDAY OF THIS INFORMATION. THE OTHER, UM, PIECE DOCUMENT THEY REQUESTED WAS A SURVEY AND WE WANTED TO ASK THEM WHY, BECAUSE THIS IS A PARTIAL REPL OF A RECORDED LOT. THE ORIGINAL, IF YOU CAN SWITCH BACK TO THE, THE ORIGINAL PLAT, THIS IS ALL OF LOT THREE. UH, IT WAS RECORDED IN 2005 AND SOMEHOW THE THEN OWNER WAS ABLE TO BUILD FOUR SEPARATE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES. AND THIS LOT THREE WAS SUBDIVIDED BY MEETS AND BOUNDS AND SOLD. SO NOW WE HAVE FOUR DIFFERENT HOMEOWNERS WITH FOUR DIFFERENT FOUR DETACHED SINGLE FAMILY, UM, HOMES ON ONE RECORDED LOT. SO THIS PARTIAL REPLY IS JUST TO BRING THIS ENTIRE PROPERTY INTO COMPLIANCE. SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT, UM, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION STAFF IS LOOKING FORWARD WITH A SURVEY, BUT THE OTHER PIECE, THE OTHER DOCUMENT THAT THEY REQUESTED WE HAVE SENT TO THEM. SO WE ARE JUST ASKING IF IT CAN BE APPROVED THIS EVENING. OKAY, THANK YOU. WE'LL, I'LL ASK STAFF, ARE YOU WILLING TO RECONSIDER YOUR, UM, I'M, I'M STEPPING IN FOR ANOTHER PLANNER, SO I I'VE NOT THE ORIGINAL REVIEWER, I DO NOT HAVE THOSE DOCUMENTS THAT ARE, WOULD BE REQUIRED AS PART OF A REVIEW FOR A PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS, UNFORTUNATELY, UM, UH, WE DO WHAT WOULD TYPICALLY REQUIRE SURVEY WHEN IT COMES TO LAWS BEING DEVELOPED MORE TYPICALLY. SO IN THE CITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CONSIDERATION OF HOW FOUR HOMES WERE BUILT ON A PROPERTY THAT WAS NOT LEGALLY SUBDIVIDED. SO, UM, WITH THAT I WOULD HAVE TO DEFER TO, YEAH. MS. MACHER, DO YOU HAVE ANY INPUT HERE? SHE'S KEEPING HER HEAD DOWN. SORRY. COMMISSION MEMBERS? UM, I MEAN, UH, THE APPLICANT, UM, IS LETTING US KNOW THAT THEY MAY HAVE SENT IT HOWEVER WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO IT AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS PROBABLY NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR A DEFERRAL, BUT THE STAFF, WITHOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE'VE SEEN THE AFFIDAVIT, UM, IT, IT, IT'S, IT'S DIFFICULT FOR STAFF TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL. OKAY. WE JUST WERE, THAT'S WAS THE QUESTION. OKAY. UM, WELL, UH, DIPTI, SORRY, UH, Y'ALL WOULD NEED THE SURVEY. I MEAN, I'M ASSUMING Y'ALL NEED THE SURVEY REGARDLESS OF [03:30:01] WHAT INFORMATION THEY WOULD'VE SENT IN EARLIER AND THE SURVEY WAS NOT SENT IN. SO Y'ALL ARE REGARDLESS, Y'ALL ARE STILL MISSING SURVEY. YES, WE ARE MISSING DOCUMENTS THAT WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD LOOK AT BEFORE COMING TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION WITH THE RECOMMENDATION. OKAY. UM, OKAY. UH, DID, DID YOU HEAR THAT MS. HODGES? I DID. OKAY. UM, THE SURVEY IS A, IT'S A NEW ITEM FOR ME. IT, LIKE I SAID, IT'S A RECORDED LOT THAT WE ARE JUST REPLATING TO BRING INTO COMPLIANCE. YEAH, IT'S NOT RAW ACREAGE BUT IT'S A REQUIREMENT SO THAT'S WHY I ASKED. BUT IT IS A REQUIREMENT. THE REASON IS THERE ARE FOUR HOMES CURRENTLY, UH, ON IT AND THE SURVEY IS NEEDED FOR US TO VERIFY THOSE THAT THERE ARE FOUR HOMES AND IF THEY'RE PLOTTING IT INTO A SINGLE FAMILY LOT, THERE ARE FOUR STRUCTURES ON IT, WHICH WOULD, UM, AND WE JUST WANNA VERIFY THAT THAT'S WHAT IS THERE. OKAY. ALRIGHT. UM, THANK YOU. I WILL SAY THAT STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER AND CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING. UM, IF THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, IS THERE A MOTION OF SOME KIND? MOTION? OKAY. SO WE HAVE A MOTION TO DEFER SECOND JONES, SECOND MODEST. UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. THE ITEM IS DEFERRED. THANK YOU. UM, ITEM 1 43 RO ROYDEN OAKS. YES. ITEM 1 43 IS ROYDEN OAKS, PARTIALLY FLAT NUMBER TWO. THE SUBJECT SIDE IS AN OVER 15,000 SQUARE FOOT PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CITY LIMITS SOUTH ALONG LLE LANE, EAST OF WILLOW WICK ROAD, AND SOUTH OF SAN FELIPE STREET. THE PURPOSE OF THE RE PLAT IS TO CREATE TWO 12,000 SQUARE FOOT PLUS SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS. THERE ARE NO BRANCHES REQUESTED FOR THIS ITEM AND THE PLAT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. REVIEW ALGO STATES THAT IT DOES NOT VIOLATE THOSE ON THE, THE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACEBOOK THE PAD. ARE THOSE FILED SEPARATELY? WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS. STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS TO APPROVE THE PLA SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. MADAM CHAIR, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME, THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 43 ROYDEN OAKS IS OPEN. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED EXCEPT FOR THE APPLICANT WHO IS HERE FOR QUESTIONS? DEIRDRE UH, BROCK, UM, IS THERE ANYONE IN THE CHAT FOR THE ITEM? I GUESS NOT. OKAY. UM, IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 43? UH, IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT, I'LL GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS. ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION? BALDWIN SECOND. AYE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. 1 44 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN. 1 45 IS WATERLOO CROSSING THE SITE LOCATED IN THE CITY NORTH OF ANDERSON ROAD AND WEST ABOVE ME ROAD. THE PURPOSE OF THE WE PLAT IS TO CREATE ONE UNRESTRICTED RESERVE. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANT TO REPL SINGLE FAMILY. LOG INTO THIS UNRESTRICTED RESERVE THAT IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THE PLA IS A WE PLAT ON A PORTION OF A RESURVEY OF FOODLAND ADDITION AND A PORTION OF WATERLOO HOME. WATERLOO HOME WAS PLOTTED WITH SEVEN LOADING LOT WITH SINGLE FAMILY PLA RESTRICTION PER 1 93. WHEN WE PLOT IN A PORTION OF SUBDIVISION CONTAINING LOT RESTRICTED TO SINGLE FAMILY BY PLA, THE LOT CAN ONLY BE AMENDED TO OPEN SPACE, LANDSCAPE PARK, RECREATIONAL OR DRAINAGE. HOWEVER, THIS LOT OF WATERLOO, UM, HOME WOULD NEVER DEVELOP IN THE PAST FEW YEARS. AND NOW THE ABDOMEN WANT TO E PLA LOT THREE TO SEVEN TO CREATE A MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS A RESIDENTIAL YOUTH THAT WILL NOT BE INJUS TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY. AND THERE ARE OTHER USES ALONG THE BLOCK. ALSO, THE ASSISTANCE TREE PATTERN IN THIS AREA WAS CREATED BY THE FIRST PLAT, WHICH SHOULD RESURVEY WITH AN ADDITION IN 1910. SO THE SUBSIST SITE AND THE REMAINDER LOG ONE AND TWO WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO THIS STREET NETWORK MEETING YEAR 10 OF THE ORDINANCE. SO REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLA WILL NO LONGER VIOLATE APPLICABLE RESTRICTION. THAT RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE AND PUT THE PLA SUBJECT TO THE CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITION. STAFF DID NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT IN EVENT AND NO OPPOSITION WAS SUBMITTED IN WR IN WRITING. SO MADAM CHAIR IS TO APPRECIATE THE COMMISSION. YOU MAY CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. UH, THE PUBLIC HEARINGS CONTINUED FOR 1 45 WATERLOO CROSSING. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. WE HAVE NO ONE IN THE CHAT. DOES ANYONE WISH TO SPEAK ON 1 45 HEARING NO RESPONSE. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS BEFORE YOU ON THE SCREEN. UH, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION CLARK. CLARK. IS THERE A SECOND? VICTOR? VICTOR. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. [03:35:01] OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES 1 46. ITEM 1 46 IS WEST HAVEN PLACE. THE SUBJECT SIDE IS A NEARLY 26,000 SQUARE FOOT PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS EAST ALONG POTOMAC DRIVE SOUTH OF SAN FELIPE AND WEST OF FOUNTAIN VIEW DRIVE. THE PURPOSE OF THE RE PLAT IS TO CREATE SIX SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS AND A PARKING RESERVE ALONG A SHARED DRIVEWAY. THERE ARE NO VARIANCE REQUESTS WITH THIS ITEM AND IT HAS HAD ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. REVIEW B LEGAL, THE CASE OF THE PLAT DOES NOT VIOLATE ANY RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. AND WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THE APPLICATION. STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CP C 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS MADAM CHAIR, EVER PLEASE THE COMMISSION. YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 46 WEST HAVEN PLACE IS OPEN. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED. IS ANYONE WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 46 HEARING? NO RESPONSE TO PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE SUBJECT CONDITIONS. ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION SIGLER. SECOND. FOR ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. A. A OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. 1 47 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN. 1 48. ITEM 1 48 IS WILLOW CREEK RANCH, SECTION 12. THE SUBJECT SIDE IS A 39 ACRE PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HARRIS COUNTY EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION NORTH OF 99 GRAND PARKWAY AND EAST OF EE ROAD. THE PURPOSE OF THE RE PLAT IS TO CREATE 15 RESIDENTIAL LOTS AND THREE LARGE RESERVES FOR LANDSCAPE AND DETENTION AS PART OF A TYPE TWO PAE DEVELOPMENT. THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM AND THE PLAT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THE PLAT DOES NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. AND WE'VE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THE APPLICATION. STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CCP C 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS MADAM CHAIR FOR PLEASES THE COMMISSION. YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 48 WILLOW CREEK IS OPEN. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED. UH, ANY ANYONE WISH TO SPEAK ON 1 48 HEARING NO RESPONSE. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE IF THERE'S NO DISCUSSION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION MANKA SECOND MODEST. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. TRUE. OKAY, [d. Subdivision Plats with Variance Requests (Aracely Rodriguez, Tammi Williamson, Geoff Butler, and Petra Hsia) ] WE MOVE ON TO VARIANCES NOW IN THIS CASE. I THINK WE CAN CORRECT. CAN WE TAKE ALL THE DEFERRALS TOGETHER AND LET'S ASK 1 55. UM, IT HAS TO BE CONSIDERED SEPARATELY BECAUSE WE HAVE A SPEAKER. OKAY. UM, YES, I HAVE A SPEAKER ON 1 55. I DO. UM, IS THERE BUT I NEED TO ASK IF THERE'S ANYONE PRESENT. LET ME DO A, A BLANKET ASK. OKAY. IS THERE ANYONE LISTENING OR WITH US WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 49? APOL ESTATES ONE 50 CROSS TIMBERS PLACE. UM, 1 54 HOR HORIZON AT CYPRUS. 1 56 RUSSELL PROPERTIES AT 1 57 SAN JACINTO RIVER AND RAIL POWER FACILITY. IF WE DON'T HAVE ANY SPEAKERS ON THOSE ITEMS AND IF NO ONE ON THE COMMISSION WANTS TO HEAR A BRIEFING ON THEM, WHICH WE CAN DO, THEN WE COULD DO A BLANKET, UM, DEFERRAL ON THOSE ITEMS. BALDWIN, SO MOVE. SO MOVE BALDWIN. IS THERE A SECOND? JONES? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. ALRIGHT, SO, AND WE WILL DO 1 55 IN A MOMENT. SO WE'RE ON 1 51. GOOD AFTERNOON MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS TAMMY WILLIAMSON. ITEM 1 51 IS CYPRESS TRAILS AT BAUER LANDING SECTION ONE. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON'S ETJ IN HARRIS COUNTY AT THE NORTHWEST INTERSECTION OF FM 29 20 AND BAUER ROAD SOUTH OF SPRING CREEK. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING 128 LOTS FOR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE FOR 10 LOTS TO HAVE SOLE FRONTAGE AND ACCESS FROM 22 FEET. PRIVATE ALLEYS STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. A SMALL AREA ON THE SOUTH. PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT IS PROPOSING 22 FEET WIDE PRIVATE ALLEYS OFF OF THE PUBLIC STREET SYSTEM WHERE 16 LOTS WILL HAVE THEIR SOLE ACCESS FROM THE ALLEYS. THE ORDINANCE DOES NOT ALLOW SHARED DRIVEWAY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ETJ, WHICH THIS DEVELOPMENT IS APPROXIMATING. HARRIS COUNTY ENGINEERING HAS STATED THAT THIS WOULD MEET FIRE CODE REQUIREMENTS AND THEY ARE IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THEREFORE, STAFF RECOMMENDS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED PUBLIC COMMENTS AND THIS CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? DOES ANYONE WANNA SPEAK ON ITEM 1 51? IF NOT, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS BEFORE [03:40:01] YOU ON THE SCREEN. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION? MINE PACA. I THANK YOU. AMANDA PACA SECOND CLARK. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 1 52. GOOD EVENING. JEFF BUTLER WITH STAFF. ITEM 1 52 IS DYKEMAN HISTORIC PRESERVATION EDITION. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON'S CORPORATE LIMIT WITHIN THE FRIEDMANS TOWN. HIS HERITAGE DISTRICT. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO ALLOW FOR A ONE AND A HALF FOOT BUILDING LINE ALONG GILLETTE AND BAILEY STREETS TO ALLOW RESTORATION OF HISTORIC HOMES ON THE SITE. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THIS REQUEST. THE SITE IS LOCATED ALONG VICTOR STREET, BETWEEN GILLETTE AND BAILEY STREETS. THIS BLOCK REPRESENTS ONE OF THE LAST BLOCKS OF INTACT HOMES WITHIN THE FREEDMAN'S TOWN COMMUNITY. THE RESTORATION INVOLVES REPLACING REPATRIATING THREE HOMES THAT WERE MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION. THE REQUEST WOULD RESULT IN RESTORATION OF A SIGNIFICANT HISTORIC ASSET OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. IN ADDITION, THE REQUEST IS CONSISTENT WITH THE INTENT OF THE BUILDING LINE REQUIREMENT, WHICH SHOULD ALLOW FOR QUALIFYING STRUCTURES TO ENCROACH. STAFF RECOMMENDS GRANTING THE VARIANCE AND APPROVING THE PLAT FOR THE CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. STAFF HAS RECEIVED NO ADVANCE WRITTEN COMMENTS. THIS ITEM, THIS CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? UM, I DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 52? UH, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLOT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS. ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION BALDWIN BALDWIN. SECOND GARZA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 1 53 MADAM CHAIR, I'M GONNA RECUSE FROM THIS ITEM. OKAY. NOTE THAT COMMISSIONER, HE WILL RECUSE ON THIS ITEM. THIS I'M, I'M SORRY. THIS SITE IS LOCATED IN HOUSTON, ETJ IN HARRIS COUNTY EAST OF GRAND PARKWAY. THE APPLICANT WITHDREW THE, UH, THE VAN REQUEST AND SUBMITTED A REVISED GP MEETING ALL CHAPTER 42 REQUIREMENT. THE STEP RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE GP SUBSTITUTE, THE CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITION. OKAY. UM, I DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 53? NO STASH RECOMMENDATION? I GUESS THE VARIANCE IS, HAS GONE MM-HMM . AND WE ARE JUST VOTING TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS. ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION MANKA? IS THERE A SECOND? MODEST. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. UM, AND THEN THAT TAKES US TO 1 55 NEWPORT GROVE. ITEM 1 55 IS NEWPORT GROVE GP. THE SITE IS LOCATED IN HOUSTON'S ETJ IN HARRIS COUNTY WEST AND ALONG FM 2100 NORTH OF NORTH DIAMONDHEAD BOULEVARD. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A GENERAL PLAN FOR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND IS REQUESTING ONE SPECIAL EXCEPTION TO EXCEED 150 LOTS WITH A SINGLE POINT OF ACCESS AND TWO VARIANCES TO EXCEED INTERSECTION SPACING ALONG FM 2100 BY NOT PROVIDING AN EAST WEST THROUGH STREET AND TO EXCEED INTERSECTION SPACING ALONG THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY. STAFF RECOMMENDS TO DEFER THE APPLICATION FOR TWO WEEKS TO ALLOW TIME FOR THE APPLICANT TO REVISE THE PLAN IN VARIANCE REQUESTS. STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND WE HAVE THE APPLICANT AS A REQUESTED TO SPEAK. YES. ANY QUESTIONS FOR, UM, STAFF BEFORE I CALL THE SPEAKER? WHO IS THE APPLICANT? NO. JENNIFER CURTIS. JENNIFER CURTIS. I THOUGHT SHE LEFT. OH, DOES NOT. I BELIEVE JENNIFER. I BELIEVE JENNIFER HAD TO STEP AWAY. UH, MY NAME'S COLIN DAVIDSON. UH, I'M ALSO WITH META PLANNING AND DESIGN AND I, I AM, I'M HERE AND I CAN ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS AND SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, OUR REQUEST, IF THAT'S OKAY? SURE. GO AHEAD. CAN YOU STATE YOUR NAME AGAIN FOR THE RECORD? UH, COLIN DAVIDSON. OKAY. UH, LAST NAME. D-A-V-I-D-S-O-N. OKAY, GREAT. GO RIGHT AHEAD. UM, YEAH, SO THE, THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION OR REQUESTING IS TO EXCEED, UH, THE 150 LOTS AND ONE POINT OF ACCESS, UM, FM 2100, UH, WHICH IS WHERE WE'RE TAKING, UH, A, THE ONE POINT OF ACCESS FROM, UH, TXDOT, UM, REGULATED, UH, ROAD. UM, AT THIS POINT WE, UH, ARE NOT SURE IF WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET A, A SECOND PERMIT FOR ACCESS THERE. UM, AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, UM, IF WE WERE TO PUT A, A SECOND POINT OF ACCESS, WE'D HAVE TO THEN REQUEST ANOTHER VARIANCE FOR, UM, INTERSECTION SPACING, A MINIMUM INTERSECTION SPACING. UH, AND I UNDERSTAND THERE'S A, A HARRIS COUNTY [03:45:01] FLOOD ALSO, UH, REQUESTED A DEFERRAL FOR SOME, SOME UPDATED, UM, LABELS IN THE FLOODWAY THERE. UH, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE PLANNING COMMISSION, UH, AWARE OF THE, THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION AND PROVIDE A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT, UH, TO THE REQUEST. OKAY. UH, DOES THAT CONCLUDE YOUR REMARKS? YES, IT DOES. OKAY. ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE, FOR THE SPEAKER? WELL, WHAT WAS THE NUMBER OF LOTS? I'M SORRY. ONE FIFTY ONE A HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT. 188. OKAY. YEAH. UH, MS. WILLIAMSON, DO YOU WANNA RESPOND? YEAH. SO, UM, STAFF IS NOT IN SUPPORT OF EXCEEDING 150 LOTS. UM, IT'S, THERE WOULD BE NO HARDSHIP ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. UM, HAVING A SECOND POINT, I THINK PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT THERE IS A CURRENT MEDIAN OPENING THAT TEXDOT HAS, WHICH IS WHERE THEY'RE SHOWING THEIR ENTRY. UM, AND IF TDOT WON'T ALLOW IT TO SHIFT, AND THEN IT KIND OF LIMITS WHERE THAT SECOND POINT CAN GO. UM, AND SO IT'S JUST ABOUT KIND OF COORDINATING IF THEY WANT TO EXCEED ONE 50, HOW CAN THAT HAPPEN? OKAY. SO YOU HAVE SOME WORK TO DO ON IT. OKAY. UM, ALL RIGHT. UH, I DON'T THINK, UH, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER, IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER MOTION AKA MANDUKA? IS THERE A SECOND? GARZA. GARZA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. 1 55 IS DEFERRED. UH, THAT'LL [f. Reconsiderations of Requirement (Geoff Butler and John Cedillo)] TAKE US TO SECTION F RECONSIDERATION OF REQUIREMENTS. GOOD AFTERNOON MA'AM. CHAIR MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. OH, GOOD EVENING. UM, MY NAME IS PETRA SHAW. ITEM 1 58 IS BEAGLE ACRES. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE HOUSTON ETJ HARRIS COUNTY, SOUTH OF FM 29 20, AND WEST OF ROSE HILL CHURCH ROAD. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING AN UNRESTRICTED RESERVE IN THREE LOTS ALONG A 30 FOOT PAE. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM 1400 FEET. LOCAL INTER LOCAL STREET INTERSECTION SPACING ALONG ROSE HILL CHURCH ROAD BY NOT PROVIDING AN EAST, WEST STREET THROUGH THE PROPERTY. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THE SURROUNDING AREA IS LOW DENSITY CONSISTING OF UNDEVELOPED UNPLED PARCELS OF LAND AND RESIDENTIAL LOTS OVER AN ACRE AND SIZE. THE SITE ITSELF CONTAINS AN EXISTING STRUCTURE THAT IS USED BY A NON-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION TO HOUSE ELDERLY BEAGLES. BASED ON THE PROPOSED USE OF THE SITE, REQUIRING AN EAST WEST PUBLIC STREET AT THIS LOCATION WOULD NOT PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT TO INTERNAL TRAFFIC CIRCULATION DUE TO THE NARROWNESS OF THE PLA WITH AND WOULD BE IMPEDED BY AN EXISTING STRUCTURE ON THE PROPERTY. HARRIS COUNTY HAS EXPRESSED NO OBJECTIONS. STAFF RECOMMENDS GRANTING THE VARIANCE IN APPROVING THE PLAT PER THE CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. BEAGLES, ANYTHING WE CAN DO FOR ELDERLY, ELDERLY BEAGLES? OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 58 BEAGLE ACRES? IF NOT, UM, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLAT. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? IF NOT, IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION EXCUSE EVERYBODY. ME. ME. OKAY. WHO MADE IT? CLARK AND BALDWIN. CLARK AND BALDWIN. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? DEMOTION CARRIES. WELL THAT JUST GAVE US A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. OKAY, WE CAN GO ON. ITEM 1 59. ITEM 1 59 IS BLUE RIVIERA DRIVE STREET DEDICATION SECTION ONE. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE ETJ. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE SEGMENT CONNECTING HUFFMAN CLEVELAND WITH FM 2100. THE RE THEY'RE REQUESTING RECONSIDERATION WITH A SPECIAL EXCEPTION TO ALLOW FOR AN 1800 FOOT CURVE RADIUS RATHER THAN REQUIRED 2000 STAFF IS IN SUPPORT. THE DESIGN OF THE STREET IS COMPLIANT WITH THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE AND FREEWAY PLAN AND THE APPLICANT IS COORDINATED WITH OUR TRANSPORTATION OFFICE IN HARRIS COUNTY FOR THE REDUCED CURVE. STAFF RECOMMENDS GRAIN THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION IN APPROVING THE PLAT FOR THE CPC 1 0 1 FORM. CONDITIONS WE'VE RECEIVED NO ADVANCE WRITTEN COMMENT. THIS ITEM, THIS INCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION. OKAY. UM, ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. BUTLER? DO WE HAVE ANYBODY SIGN? WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 59? UM, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION THEN IS TO GRANT THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION AND APPROVE THE PLAT. ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION MANKA? IS THERE A SECOND? JONES? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. ITEM ONE 60, ITEM ONE 60 IS RECOMMENDED FOR DEFERRAL. THIS IS A LOCAL STREET DEDICATION SEGMENT. UH, WE'RE REQUESTING DEFERRAL TO ALLOW TIME FOR AN UPDATED GENERAL PLAN AND FURTHER COORDINATION WITH THE COUNTY. OKAY. DOES ANYBODY WISH TO SPEAK ON ONE 60? [03:50:01] UM, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER ANY QUESTIONS? IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER? MOTION MANKA? IS THERE A SECOND? MAD? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES 1 61. ITEM 1 61 IS FUQUA ESTATES. THE SUBJECT SIDE IS A FIVE ACRE PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CITY LIMIT SOUTH ALONG FUQUAY STREET AND EAST OF WAYSIDE DRIVE. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING 42 SINGLE FAMILY LOTS WITH PARKING, OPEN SPACE AND DETENTION RESERVES, AND HAS WITHDRAWN THE REQUEST REQUESTED VARIANCE AND IS AND IS PROVIDING A 50 FOOT WIDE NORTH SOUTH STREET, UH, THROUGH THE PROPERTY MEETING. CHAPTER 42 REQUIREMENTS. STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAN SUBJECT TO CCP C 1 0 1 CONFORM CONDITIONS. MADAM CHAIR, THIS CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION. OKAY. ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. CILLO? UH, THE VARIANCE HAS BEEN DROPPED. UM, I DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE ON 1 61. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT. IS THERE DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION CLARK SECOND. VICTOR. VICTOR, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT MOVES [Platting Activities g - i] US TO SECTIONS G, H AND I. GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIR. MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, STAFF WOULD LIKE TO TAKE SECTIONS. G, H AND I IN ONE GROUP. OH YEAH. . UM, SECTION G EXTENSIONS OF APPROVAL CONSISTS OF ITEMS 1 62 THROUGH 1 77. SECTION H NAME CHANGES CONSISTS OF ITEMS 1 78 AND 1 79 AND SECTION I CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE. 'CAUSE SINCE OF ITEMS 180 AND 180 1 PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REQUEST THE APPROVAL OF ALL STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SECTIONS GH AND I. THERE ARE NO ITEMS TAKEN OUT OF ORDER AND NO CHANGES IN STAFF RECOMMENDATION. THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, I THINK, UH, COMMISSIONER HEIS, WILL YOU BE ABSTAINING FROM ONE? UH, UH, ONE I 1 65. OKAY. IF I CAN GET IT OUT. OKAY. I KNOW THE FEELING. UM, ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVAL, SAY AYE. AYE. A NO MOTION. OH, SORRY. MOTION IN A SECOND. OKAY. ALRIGHT. WE NEED A MOTION. DISTRACTED YOU. MODEST GARZA. GARZA. NOW ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES WITH COMMISSIONER ISHA ABSTAINING ON 1 65. [k. Development Plats with Variance Requests (Geoff Butler)] UH, SECTION K DEVELOPMENT PLOTS WITH VARIANCE REQUESTS 180 2. ITEM 180 2 IS 1 1 3 3 EAST SEVENTH AND A HALF STREET. THE SITE IS LOCATED ALONG STUDEWOOD STREET NORTH OF WHITE OAK DRIVE. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO ALLOW A 10 FOOT BUILDING LINE IN LIEU OF THE ORDINANCE REQUIRED 25 FOOT BUILDING LINE ALONG STUDEWOOD STREET, A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE FOR A NEW SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE. A PREVIOUS APPLICATION FOR THIS SITE INCLUDED TWO VARIANCE REQUESTS, A REDUCED BUILDING LINE, AND TO ALLOW DIRECT VEHICULAR ACCESS FROM A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE. THIS ITEM WAS DISAPPROVED BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION. THE APPLICANT HAS SINCE REDESIGNED THE PLAN AND STAFF IS NOW IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. IT WAS PLATTED WITH THE NOR HILL EDITION IN 1922 WITH NO BUILDING LINES ON EITHER STREET. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A NEW TWO STORY 4,500 SQUARE FOOT SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH ATTACHED GARAGE. THE MORE THAN 20 FEET BACK OF CURB TO PROPERTY LINE, UH, DIMENSION ALONG STUDEWOOD JUSTIFIES SUPPORT THE BUILDING LINE REDUCTION. THE GARAGE IS ORIENTED TO TAKE VEHICULAR ACCESS ALONG EAST SEVENTH AND HALF STREET. AND THE EXISTING CURB CUT ALONG STU WOOD WILL BE CLOSED IN. THEREFORE, STAFF RECOMMENDS TO APPROVE THE REQUESTED VARIANCE DEVELOPMENT PLAID VARIANCE TO ALLOW A 10 FOOT BUILDING LINE ALONG STU WOOD STREET AND STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS IN ADVANCE. THIS CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. QUESTIONS FOR MS. WILLIAMSON? I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK. THE APPLICANT IS HERE. CHAIR. UM, THERE IS A SPEAKER IN THE CHAT. OKAY. WHO STATE, UM, FREDERICK GER, CORRECT? YES. HER NAME IS FRED GER. I'M A A SEVEN AND A HALF STREET RESIDENT. THE, I, I SAW THE ORIGINAL PLAT AND, AND I LIKED IT. THIS NEW, UH, PLAT NOW BY REMOVING THE CURB CUT IN THE GARAGE ON STUDIO WOOD, MOVES IT TO SEVEN AND A HALF STREET. SO IT, IT ADDS THE, UH, THE CURB CUT ON SEVEN AND A HALF. BUT IT ALSO, BY DOING THAT, ELIMINATES TWO PUBLIC PARKING SPACES THAT ARE USED FREQUENTLY. WE'RE RIGHT BY STUDIO WOOD AND A LOT OF THE BUSINESS THERE PEOPLE PARK ON, ON OUR STREET, WHICH IS NOT A PROBLEM. BUT NOW THESE TWO SPOTS ARE BEING ELIMINATED BY THAT ONE DRIVEWAY THERE BECAUSE A STOP SIGN THERE, THIS 30 FOOT, UH, SPACING FROM THE STOP SIGN TO PARK, IT LEAVES ONLY ABOUT EIGHT TO 10 FEET. YOU COULD MAYBE GET A MOTORCYCLE IN, BUT NOW THEY'LL HAVE NO, NO PUBLIC, UH, STREET PARKING, UH, BY THIS RESIDENCE. [03:55:02] AND THAT'S ALL I WANNA SAY. I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE SETBACK. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR, FOR YOUR COMMENTS. UH, WE'RE KIND OF, THIS IS A CHALLENGE FOR US BECAUSE WE, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA END THE CURB CUTS ON MAJOR THOROUGHFARE LIKE STUA WOODS. SO THIS WAS AN ALTERNATIVE THAT, THAT WE ACTUALLY ASKED THE APPLICANT TO DO. AND I DON'T THINK JENNIFER CURTIS IS THE APPLICANT. SHE IS, I THINK GONE. WE DETERMINED. SO, UH, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO RESPOND. SHE'S PRESENT NOW. SHE'S BACK. SHE'S OH, OH, OKAY. SCIENCE. YEAH. MS. CURTIS, DID YOU WANNA SPEAK? WELL, I, I MISSED THE, UM, WHOEVER WAS SPEAKING JUST NOW, I JUST LOGGED IN LIKE FIVE SECONDS AGO. SO, UM, MR. KISSINGER SAID IF THERE'S A QUESTION I CAN ANSWER, WELL, HE, HE STATED THAT HE, THE CURB CUT ON SEVEN AND A HALF STREET WOULD TAKE OUT TWO PARKING SPACES AND HE OBJECTED TO THAT. BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE REALLY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. IT IS WHAT WE ASKED THEM TO DO. OKAY. IT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ASKED YOU TO DO. IT'S, AND WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING BACK. SO THANK YOU. YES. OKAY. UH, WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. UH, SO, UH, WE ARE READY FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE. IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. BALDWIN, BALDWIN MAD. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. THAT'LL TAKE US TO [III. Establish a public hearing date of July 13, 2023] ROMAN NUMERAL TWO, THREE. THREE, SORRY. MM-HMM . WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT? OH, OKAY. TWO. UM, TO ESTABLISH A PUBLIC HEARING DATE OF JULY 13TH, 2023 FOR, UM, THE PLOTS THAT ARE BEFORE YOU ON THE SCREEN, EVERYBODY CAN READ. IS THERE A MOTION TO DISCUSS? I MEAN, TO SET THE HEARINGS MOTION BALDWIN. IS THERE A SECOND? CLARK? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES. HANG IN THERE. YOU GUYS. YOU VIRTUAL GUYS? OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. WE'RE ALL GETTING A LITTLE PUNCHY HERE. . UM, CONS, UH, ROMAN [IV. Consideration of an Off-Street Parking Variance at 3236 Summer Street (Geoff Butler)] NUMERAL FOUR IS CONSIDERATION OF AN OFF STREET PARKING VARIANCE FOR 32 36 SUMMER STREET, AND WE DO HAVE QUITE A FEW SPEAKERS. COURSE THIS ITEM WAS DEFERRED AT THE PREVIOUS TWO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETINGS. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON'S CORPORATE LIMIT ALONG SUMMER STREET WEST OF MONT AND SOUTH OF I 10. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES A SOCCER TRAINING FACILITY ON COMMERCIAL RESERVES. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO PROVIDE 26 OFF STREET PARKING SPACES AS OPPOSED TO REQUIRED 51. OKAY. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THIS REQUEST. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN AN AREA FEATURING A NUMBER OF CHARACTERISTICS THAT JUSTIFY FLEXIBLE APPLICATION OF THE PARKING STANDARD. THESE INCLUDE A RELATIVELY HIGH NUMBER OF RESIDENCES WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE, NEARBY TRAILS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. THE SITE IS WITHIN A COMFORTABLE WALK TO A PLANNED BOOST CORRIDOR ALONG MONT AND THE PLANNED BUS RAPID TRANSIT STATION ALONG I 10. THE SITE WILL LIKELY QUALIFY FOR 50% PARKING REDUCTION ONCE PLANS FOR THE BRT PLATFORM ARE FINALIZED. STAFF VISITED TWO SIMILAR FACILITIES DURING PEAK AND OFF PEAK TIMES. WE OBSERVED AN ABUNDANCE OF AVAILABLE ONSITE PARKING IN EACH VISIT. STAFF ALSO NOTED THE LACK OF ANY SIGNIFICANT, SIGNIFICANT DISRUPTION IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS RELATED TO OVERRULED PARKING TRAFFIC AND LITTLE TO NOISE CAUSED BY THESE SITES. STAFF ALSO FINDS THAT THE LACK OF DIRECT STREET CONNECTIONS AND MANAGED PARKING WOULD LIKELY DISCOURAGE DISRUPTION IN THE MOSTLY SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS TO THE WEST. THE CITY OFF ALSO OFFERS A NUMBER OF MANAGED PARKING SOLUTIONS THAT WOULD ALLEVIATE PARKING ALONG SUMMER, INCLUDING TIME LIMITS AND PARKING METERS. FURTHERMORE, THE REQUEST IS CONSISTENT WITH NUMEROUS LOCAL INITIATIVES THAT CALL FOR FLEXIBILITY OF PARKING REQUIREMENTS IN AREAS THAT ARE CLOSE TO HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT AND TRAIL SYSTEMS. THESE INITIATIVES ARE CRAFTED WITH RIGOROUS PUBLIC INPUT AND REFLECT THE COMMUNITY'S DESIRE FOR MORE TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS AND MORE AMENITIES WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THIS APPLICATION DOES NOT VIOLATE CONDITIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. STAFF RECOMMENDS GRAIN THEIR REQUEST TO PROVIDE 26 ON ONSITE PARKING SPACES AS OPPOSED TO REQUIRED. 51 STAFF HAS RECEIVED MULTIPLE WRITTEN COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC OBJECTING TO TRAFFIC PARKING, AND THE IMPACT ON THE ABUTTING CEMETERY. THIS CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION. MADAM CHAIR, I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT WE DID RECEIVE A LETTER FROM ABBY CAYMAN'S OFFICE, AND WHENEVER YOU'RE READY, WE CAN READ IT VERBATIM TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION. OKAY. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ABBY CAYMAN, WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND READ IT? AS THE HOUSTON CITY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT C, I'M RESPECTFULLY COMING [04:00:01] TO YOU TO ELE ELEVATE THE CONCERNS RAISED BY THE BOARD OF DESCENDANTS OF OLIVE WOOD, THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS OF OLIVE CEMETERY, REGARDING THE OFF STREET PARKING VARIANCE REQUEST FOR 32 36 SUMMER. I DO THIS, GIVEN THE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES AND SPECIAL NATURE OF THIS HISTORIC CEMETERY FACING A FLIGHT FOR SURVIVAL DOCUMENT CAMERA, INCLUDING THE VARIANCE ISSUE, W WILL FURTHER ADDS FURTHER STRESSORS IN THE ALREADY HIGHLY, HIGHLY VULNERABLE PRESERVATION EFFORT IN THIS AREA HAS NOT LOST ON ANY OF THE RESIDENTS OR BEFORE THE COMMISSION ON THE EVE OF JUNETEENTH IN 2022, ALLWOOD CEMETERY WAS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC PLACES IN THE COUNTRY BY THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION. FOR DECADES, THE PRESERVATION OF THE CEMETERY HAS BEEN THREATENED AND CHALLENGED BY NEIGHBORING DEVELOPMENT, FLOODING, AND SIGNIFICANT EROSION. DESPITE ALL OF THIS, THESE COMMUNITY LEADERS HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS TO DO ALL THEY CAN TO PRESERVE THIS PRECARIOUS RESTING PLACE. THE DESCENDANTS OF OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT THIS VITAL PART OF HISTORY SHOULD NOT, SHOULD BE NOT ONLY BE CONDEMNED, BUT WE SHOULD BE JOINING THEM. I ASK THAT THE PARKING NEEDS BE CONSIDERED IN THE CONTEXT OF CRITICAL WORK TAKING PLACE NEXT DOOR. THE VARIANCE MAY ADD YET ANOTHER BURDEN TO THE PARKING NEEDS WITH A FACILITY LIKE THIS, OF THIS SIZE, NO DOUBT HOUSTON STONINGS WILL BE COMING FROM ALL OVER PARTS OF TOWN, IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT INITIALLY THE DEVELOPER WAS REQUIRED TO INCLUDE 137 SPACES THAT WAS REDUCED TO 56. TO CUT THAT PRACTICALLY IN HALF FOR THIS VARIANCE OF 26 IS A DRASTIC CHANGE THAT DOES NOT SEEM IN LINE WITH THE EXPECTED ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION IN THIS FACILITY, WHICH WILL BRING HOUSTON'S NOT ONLY FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT FROM ALL OVER. THE FURTHER REDUCTION GOES BEYOND THE SCOPE OF WHAT IS NEEDED. AGAIN, GIVEN CRITICAL NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ALWOOD CEMETERY AND THE FACT THAT ONE OF OUR COUNTRY'S 11 MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC SITES, I WOULD RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOU TO DEFER TO THOSE WHO ARE VOICED, WHO HAVE RESTED ON THIS HOLLOWED GROUND FOR OVER A CENTURY THAT TODAY IS ABOUT PROTECTING OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY AND HIS ACCESS FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. THIS VARIANCE MAY FURTHER EXACERBATE TRAFFIC AND PARKING PROBLEMS IN THE AREA THAT ALREADY LACKS AVAILABLE PARKING FOR NEEDS CRITICAL FOR THE WORK OF OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY. I THANK THE MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THEIR THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION, THE SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCE, AND STAND WITH THE RESIDENTS OF DESCENDANTS OF OLIVE WOOD IN THEIR OPPOSITION WITH ALL RESPECT AND APPRECIATION. ABBY CAYMAN, HOUSTON CITY COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT SATAN. OKAY, THANK YOU. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN ASKED SPECIFICALLY THAT WE READ THAT LETTER INTO THE RECORD, SO THAT'S WHY WE DID THAT. OKAY. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF SPEAKERS, UM, STARTING WITH MARTIN JUST SINCE, UH, JASINSKI, I THINK MARTIN JASINSKI. OKAY. IS HE, IS HE THERE? NO. OKAY. MIKE AL. OKAY. UH, JOHN CADEN HEAD. OKAY. MY NAME'S JOHN CADEN. I'M AN OH, SORRY. THANK YOU. MY NAME'S JOHN CADENT. I'M AN ARCHITECT REPRESENTING THE OWNER. UH, SO I'M CERTAINLY IN SUPPORT OF THE, OF THE PARKING VARIANCE HERE. UH, SO I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT JUST THE NUMBERS TODAY. SO WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR HERE IS INDEED A PARKING VARIANCE. SO WE DO THINK THAT IT IS CONSISTENT, UH, WITH THE TYPE OF FACILITY AND THE LOCATION FOR, UH, FOR THIS PROPERTY. UH, SO I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A VERY LONG TIME, ABOUT 20 YEARS NOW. I'VE DRAWN A LOT OF PARKING SPACES, UM, AND IN MOST CASES VERY EASY. THE, THE CITY ORDINANCE IS VERY CLEAR. UM, IT, IT TELLS US EXACTLY WHAT TO DO. WE GO TO IT, WE SAY IT'S THIS TYPE OF FACILITY. WE PROVIDE EXACTLY THAT AMOUNT OF PARKING SPACES. HOWEVER, EVERY NOW AND THEN WE GET A CURVE BALL IN A FACILITY MAY NOT BE SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSED BY THE ORDINANCES. THIS IS, UH, ONE OF THOSE SUCH CASES. UM, SO IN THAT CASE, WHAT WE DO IS, YOU KNOW, WE GET A BUNCH OF PROFESSIONALS TOGETHER AND WE COME UP WITH A PRESCRIBED NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES, IN WHICH CASE, UH, WE, WE'VE CERTAINLY DONE THAT WITH HELP FROM THE, FROM THE PLANNING STAFF. SO WE, WE'VE LOOKED AT THINGS LIKE PEAK OCCUPANCY ANALYSIS AS, UH, MR. BUTLER HAS ILLUSTRATED. WE LOOKED AT REQUIREMENTS DETERMINED BY COMPARABLE JURISDICTION, JURISDICTIONS, LIKE TOD SITES, UM, PROPERTIES IN MIDTOWN, DOWNTOWN EDO THAT DON'T ACTUALLY REQUIRE ANY PARKING AT ALL. UM, AND THEN LOOKED AT PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR SIMILAR USES, UH, SUCH AS THE EXISTING FACILITY BINGLE. UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, A FEW OTHERS LIKE BOXING GYMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UH, AND WE THINK THAT WE'VE GOT THE NUMBER RIGHT, THE NUMBER THAT WE'VE DETERMINED AFTER ADDING UP ALL OF THE SPECIFIED CLASSIFICATION USE CLASSIFICATIONS AND THEN UNSPECIFIED USE CLASSIFICATIONS. WE'VE COME UP WITH 56 PARKING SPACES, UH, FOR THIS UNIQUE BUILDING. THE OTHER THING THAT WE HAVE TO CONSIDER IS THE UNIQUENESS OF THE SITE. ALL SITES IN HOUSTON ARE DIFFERENT. WE THINK THAT 56 SPACES IS A GREAT CATCHALL FOR PRETTY MUCH ANY PROPERTY, UH, IN HOUSTON SUBURBAN OR, OR WHATEVER. HOWEVER, WE'RE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THIS IS A DENSE URBAN SITE, UH, WITH MANY FUTURE, [04:05:01] UM, UH, TRANSIT OPPORTUNITIES, UH, AVAILABLE. GO AHEAD. TAKING THAT INTO CONSIDERATION, UM, YOU KNOW, SINCE IT SORT OF MEETS THE CRITERIA OF A TRADITIONAL TOD SITE, THAT WOULD CERTAINLY CUT THE, THE PARKING REQUIREMENT IN HALF, TAKING 56 DOWN TO 28 SPACES. AND THEN WE PROVIDED SEVERAL BIKES, BICYCLE PARKING, UH, WHICH WOULD TAKE 10% OF THAT AT 25.2. UH, TODAY WE ARE PROPOSING 26 PARKING SPACES, UH, THREE OF WHICH ARE, UM, UH, ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACES. THEY'RE COVERED PARKING SPACES. UM, AND WE, WE THINK WE'VE GOT IT CORRECT. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. QUESTIONS FOR THE SPEAKER? YES, GO AHEAD. COMMISSIONER COLVARD. SO I UNDERSTAND THAT THE BUILDING WILL BE FIVE STORIES, CORRECT? IS THAT RIGHT? UM, SO I'M CURIOUS, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED ADDING ADDITIONAL PARKING ON THE FIRST LEVEL OR REDOING YOUR DESIGN? YES, WE HAVE. UM, SO, SO CURRENTLY WE'RE PARKING ON THE, ON THE FIRST LEVEL. UM, SO WE HAVE A SMALL LOBBY ON THE FIRST LEVEL, AND THEN THERE'S COVERED PARKING ON THE, ON THE FIRST LEVEL. SO THE, THE BUILDING IS REALLY FOUR STORIES OVER A LEVEL OF PARKING. THE ANSWER TO ADD MORE PARKING IS, IS YES, IT, IT, IT'S CERTAINLY POSSIBLE THE WAY TO DO IT WOULD BE AN ELEVATED PARKING GARAGE, UH, THE ELEVATED PARKING GARAGE. WE DON'T REALLY FEEL AS COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WE DON'T SEE THE REQUIREMENT TO, UH, PROVIDE THAT AND REALLY DON'T THINK THAT IT WOULD, UH, HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT TO THE COMMUNITY OR CERTAINLY THE QUALITY OF LIFE. I MEAN, I I HEAR YOU. UM, IT IS FIVE STORIES, SO IT'S ALREADY IN, IN, IN A NEIGHBORHOOD. SO I, I DON'T KNOW IF I, IN AGREEMENT WITH YOUR, YOUR CONCERN ABOUT THE ELEVATED BEING OUT OF, I'M, I'M JUST WONDERING ABOUT THE IMPACT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND I THINK MY NUMBER ONE CONCERN WOULD BE ABOUT FIRETRUCKS AND SO FORTH GETTING THROUGH, UM, TO THE, TO THE, YOU KNOW, SO WITH ALL THAT PARKING GOING ONTO THE STREET, AND IT'S PROBABLY AT FIVE OR SIX O'CLOCK, OR I GUESS I SHOULD ASK, WHAT TIME DO YOU, WHAT TIME OF DAY DO YOU ANTICIPATE MOST OF YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL BE THERE? UH, AROUND 6, 7, 8 O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING, UH, IS, IS WHAT WE THINK OUR PEAK, UM, PARKING, UM, WW WOULD BE, UM, AS TO ACCESS FOR, UH, EMERGENCY VEHICLES AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, WE ARE ALSO WIDENING THE COURT STREET PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY FROM A 30 FOOT TO A 50 FOOT. UM, WE ARE INSTALLING TWO FIVE FOOT SIDEWALKS ON EITHER SIDE OF THAT TREE LINED SIDEWALKS. SO WE DO BELIEVE THAT WE ARE ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR EMERGENCY ACCESS VEHICLES AND CERTAINLY ACCESSIBLE ROUTES, UH, FOR VISITORS COMING, UH, AND GOING FROM OLIVE, OLIVE WOODS CEMETERY. AND THEN I SAW SOMETHING IN THE PUBLIC COMMENTS ABOUT THIS BEING A, UM, A BURIAL SITE FOR BLACK SLAVES HISTORICALLY. UH, OUR, OUR NEIGHBOR IS OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY. YES. UH, WE ARE OCCUPYING A PRIVATELY OWNED PROPERTY, THOUGH, UM OKAY. FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT. SO YOU'RE NOT AWARE OF ANYBODY BURIED ON THAT PROPERTY? UH, NO, WE DO NOT BELIEVE SO. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER VERA BLAND. COMMISSIONER BLAND. OKAY. COMMISSIONER VERA BLAND, HAVE YOU OR YOUR CLIENT MADE ANY ATTEMPT TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEFENDANTS OF THE OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY, UH, HEAR THEIR CONCERNS OR, OR ATTEMPT TO BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR IN THIS REGARD? UH, YES, WE HAVE. AND, UH, WE HAVE, UH, SOMEBODY FROM OWNERSHIP, UH, HERE WHO SHOULD ALSO BE ABLE TO ANSWER SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS AS WELL. UM, BUT THE SITE HAS BEEN OWNED FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW AND, UM, CONTACT HAS CERTAINLY BEEN MADE WITH OLIVE WOOD. OKAY. DOES THAT CONCLUDE YOUR QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONER VERA BLAND? UH, WELL, IF MAYBE THE OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CAN SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, IT APPEARS SINCE YOU ALREADY OWN THE LAND OR YOUR CLIENT ALREADY OWNS THE LAND AND YOU'VE PROCEEDED THIS FAR INTO DEVELOPMENT DESIGN, UM, IT'S A PRETTY BIG ASSUMPTION TO GET THIS KIND OF PARKING VARIANCE. SO IF IT GETS REJECTED, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO BUILD THE PARKING ANYWAY. CORRECT. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, HAS YOUR CLIENT CONSIDERED THAT THOUGHT ABOUT, WELL, MAYBE BUILD HALF OF A DECK AND THEN COME BACK WITH A LITTLE BIT LESS PARKING? 'CAUSE, YOU KNOW, EITHER WAY, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS WILL PROGRESS IN THE BENEFIT, YOU KNOW, OF THE DIRECTION YOU'RE LOOKING FOR. SO THINKING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, PARKING ON THE STREET, I THINK YOU HEAR SOME SENTIMENT, I THINK I SAID LAST TIME MM-HMM . ABOUT, YOU KNOW, NOT SURE THESE PEOPLE ARE ALL WALKING AND FIVE FOOT SIDEWALKS I'M CONCERNED IS STANDARD CITY SIDEWALK. NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THAT. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THINKING ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF, OF THE PROJECT TO LEAVE HERE AND HAVE TO BUILD [04:10:01] ALL THE PARKING, UM, IF THAT'S WHAT'S REQUIRED BY CODE, UM, YOU MIGHT CONSIDER SOME SORT OF, UH, VISITING WITH STAFF. DO THEY HAVE DEFERRAL LEFT? YEAH, IT CAN BE DEFERRED, DEFINITELY. YEAH. SO IF YOU MAY CONSIDER THAT, AND YOU MAY COME BACK AND HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A VICTORY, BUT, UM, RIGHT. NOT THE WHOLE THING. SO IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO SUGGEST TO YOU GUYS TO THINK ABOUT. THANK YOU. UM, OKAY. NEXT SPEAKER IS, UH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. BRIAN. DON CARLOS. EVENING COMMISSIONERS. UM, MY NAME IS BRIAN DON CARLOS. UH, I'M A PROJECT MANAGER WITH GORY. I'M ALSO ON THE PROJECT. UM, I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE BUILDING AND WHAT'S INSIDE. UM, WHENEVER YOU HEAR A SOCCER TRAINING FACILITY OR YOU HEAR SPORT CLUB, IT COULD BE ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING. UH, SO JUST TO KIND OF EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE OF HOW THE, THE, THE BUILDING'S GONNA FUNCTION. UM, IT IS FIVE STORIES AS, UH, MR. CADEN HAD SAID. FIRST FLOOR IS LOBBY. THE SECOND FLOOR IS WHERE WE HAVE A KIND OF A LOCKER AREA, MOST OF THE RESTROOMS AND THE 5,000 SQUARE FOOT FIELD, THE THIRD FLOOR IS ACTUALLY A MEZZANINE WHERE ALL THE MECHANICAL'S GONNA BE. IT'S A DOUBLE HEIGHT SPACE FOR THE SOCCER FIELD. THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF MECHANICAL NEEDS IN TERMS OF MAKING SURE IT'S PROPERLY COOLED. UM, SO THAT'S WHAT IT IS. IT'S, IT'S MOSTLY A KIND OF A, A DOUBLE HEIGHT EMPTY SPACE. ABOVE THAT IS WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE THE, UM, CARDIO AND SOME WEIGHT EQUIPMENT, AS WELL AS A SMALL WORKOUT ROOM, UH, FOR SOME OF THEIR CLASSES. UH, AS MR. CADEN HAD ALSO SAID, SIX SEVEN EIGHTS WHERE THEY ANTICIPATE PEAK TIME. IF YOU GO ONTO THE SPHERE WEBSITE, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE WHAT CLASSES ARE BEING OFFERED ON WHAT DAYS. IT'S NOT EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT THEY HAVE THESE CLASSES. UM, AND THEN ABOVE THAT, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE THE OFFICES, THIS IS SPHERE HEADQUARTERS, UM, WORLDWIDE. NOW, THERE'S ONLY ABOUT 10 EMPLOYEES TOTAL, BUT, UM, THIS IS WHERE THEY WILL SCHEDULE THEIR EVENTS. THIS IS WHERE THEY'RE GONNA HAVE THEIR OFFICES. THEY DO STUFF ALL OVER THE STATE. UM, THEY ALSO, FOR THE BIGGER CLASSES, THEY DON'T HOLD THEM AT THE FACILITIES. THEY ACTUALLY GO TO PLACES LIKE ELEANOR TINSLEY OR MEMORIAL OR PLACES LIKE THAT, MORE OUTDOORS WHERE THEY CAN HAVE BIGGER PEOPLE. UH, THE, THE CLASSES THAT ARE GONNA BE AT THE BUILDING ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE INTIMATE, UH, AND WHEN MR. KALALA GETS HERE, HE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT. UM, AND THEN ON THE ROOF THERE IS ANOTHER SOCCER PITCH, AND IT'S THE, IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE ROOFTOP, IF THE WEATHER'S NICE, UM, IT'S KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE A SHOWSTOPPER TYPE THING WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE SKYLINE, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE AMAZING VIEWS THAT YOU HAVE AT THAT LOCATION. UM, YEAH, MR. CADEN HAD HIT A LOT OF MY OTHER POINTS, SO, OKAY. UM, COMMISSIONER MATTERS, QUICK QUESTION. HOW MANY CLASS ARE THERE EVER HELD AT ANY GIVEN TIME? IS IT ONLY ONE? IT'S ONLY ONE AT A TIME. THEY'RE 45 MINUTES LONG. OKAY. AND, UH, I KNOW THAT TWO OF YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE, ARE ON ROUTE, I GUESS. YES. APOLOGIZE, . OH, OKAY. WHO IS THAT? ARE YOU THE PERSON WHO CAN, WHO CAN TALK ABOUT YOUR, I KNOW YOU'VE REACHED OUT TO OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY AND IS, CAN SOMEBODY TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT? MIKE, YOU ABLE TO TALK ABOUT REACHING OUT ALL WOOD? UH, YEAH, I CAN A LITTLE BIT, YEAH. OKAY, GREAT. OKAY, SO ARE YOU MIKE KABBALAH OR MARTIN? I'M MICHAEL ALAH, YES, MA'AM. OH, OKAY. YEAH. COME IF YOU'D COME FORWARD. HOW'S WE DOING? HI. YOU GUYS BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE, HUH? YEAH. UM, SO, UH, MY NAME'S MICHAEL ALAH. I USED TO PLAY FOR THE HOUSTON DYNAMO. UM, I MOVED HERE FROM CALIFORNIA IN 2006, UH, THE INAUGURAL SEASON OF THE, THE CLUB. VERY FORTUNATE TO BE A HOUSTONIAN AND HAPPY TO BE HERE. UM, MY BUSINESS PARTNER, RAPHAEL MARTINEZ, UM, HE'S THE ONE THAT PURCHASED THE LAND. UM, MY BEST FRIEND, I MET HIM WHEN I WAS BROKERING NATURAL GAS AFTER I FINISHED PLAYING. BUT, UH, HE'S DONE A LOT OF WORK TIME, UM, DONATING MONEY, UM, CLEANING UP, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE'S JUST A REALLY GOOD HUMAN BEING. SO AS FAR AS LIKE THE AMOUNT OF LIKE CONVERSATIONS AND INTERACTION, I JUST KNOW THAT I HAVE A REALLY TIGHT CIRCLE AND HE'S A REALLY GOOD HUMAN BEING, AND HE'S DONE HIS PART, UH, WITH HIS WIFE AND FAMILY TO JUST CONTRIBUTE. UM, I CAN'T REALLY SPEAK TO MUCH MORE OUTSIDE OF THAT, SO I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL OR NOT. BUT I KNOW THAT EVERYTHING IN HIS BEHALF TO, AS LIKE THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY TO BUILD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY, I GUESS, UM, I KNOW THAT HE'S DONE. OKAY. WE HAD, UM, A, A COMMISSIONER HAD ASKED THE QUESTION BEFORE, AND WE HAD A LETTER FROM THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT THE RELATION OF THE OPERATION OF YOUR FACILITY WITH OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY, WHICH IS KIND OF AN, AN IMPORTANT PLACE OF COURSE FOR HOUSTONIANS. AND I HAD BEEN TOLD THAT YOU, YOU GUYS DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF REACHING OUT TO THEM AND, AND TALKING TO THEM. UH, ARE, WERE YOU INVOLVED IN THAT OR WAS THAT YEAH, I, I HAVE BEEN, UM, I'VE BEEN KINDA JUST WORKING ON THE BUSINESS AND, AND GROWING [04:15:01] IT. UM, FOR THOSE THAT AREN'T AWARE, LIKE I STARTED SPHERE, UM, AFTER I FINISHED, WELL, 2015 REALLY AFTER I STARTED BROKERING GAS, JUST GOT A REALLY HARD TIME MEETING FRIENDS. AND, UH, SPHERE IS A CONCEPT TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER, ADULTS SPECIFICALLY, UM, THROUGH HEALTH, SOCCER, AND FITNESS. THAT WAS MY PASSION. AND, UM, I JUST HAD A REALLY HARD TIME MEETING PEOPLE. SO THIS IS REALLY KIND OF OUR CORPORATE OFFICE. I'VE WORKED OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS TO JUST DEVELOP, I THINK A LOT OF STUFF. IF ANYBODY THAT'S LOOKED AT OUR WEBSITE, IT'S DATED. UM, OUR GOAL IS TO CONNECT THE WORLD. UM, LIKE I SAID, I'M A HOUSTONIAN NOW. HAPPY TO BE HERE AND WE WILL HAVE A FAMILY HERE. UM, THIS IS JUST KIND OF LIKE A, HEY, LET'S PUT OUR FLAG IN THE GROUND AND HAVE A LOCATION. UM, I JUST WAS GOING TO LIKE, SPEND CLASSES IN YOGA, AND I JUST WANTED TO RECREATE THE LOCKER ROOM FEELING OF WHEN WE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN OH SIX AND OH SEVEN, AND THAT FEELING OF LIKE, FEELING LIKE YOU'RE A PART OF SOMETHING ANYMORE. I JUST FELT LIKE THE WORLD WAS SUPER DISCONNECTED AND IT'S KIND OF WHAT I'VE BEEN PLAYING FOR OVER THE PAST YEARS. I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY GRATEFUL, I MET MY BUSINESS PARTNER, AND SO WE JUST GO TO PUB PUBLIC PARKS, AND SO WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER. SO THIS LOCATION IS REALLY KIND OF OUR SYMBOLIC OF LIKE OUR OFFICES. UH, WE'VE, WE'RE IN 60 CITIES NOW AROUND THE COUNTRY AND REALLY MORE THAN ANYTHING, NOT NECESSARILY LIKE A FITNESS STUDIO, IF YOU WILL, BUT MORE OR LESS JUST LIKE OUR BUSINESS LOCATION THAT WE'RE GONNA BE OPERATING. UM, AND I COULD SPEAK INTO THE CLASSES 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT WAS A CONCERN OF PARKING, OBVIOUSLY, WHY WE'RE HERE. BUT, UM, AS FAR AS LIKE, I HAVE NOT PERSONALLY HAD ANY INTERACTION. I'VE JUST BEEN AWAY. UM, ALL RIGHT. YEAH. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONER CLARK? SO LET'S SAY THIS GOES THROUGH AND PUBLIC WORKS GETS COMPLAINTS AND THEY GO PUT NO PARKING SIGNS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET THAT'D KILL YOUR BUSINESS MODEL. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? IT WOULDN'T KILL OUR BUSINESS MODEL. UM, AND I DON'T MEAN THAT SUPER SERIOUSLY, I JUST MEAN THAT, UM, AGAIN, LIKE WHAT WE DO IS WE BASICALLY PASS OUR SPHERE TO OTHER PEOPLE TO BUILD, BUILD COMMUNITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY AND WORLD. UM, WE'RE WORKING ON LIKE EVERY MARKET. AND SO REALLY AGAIN, AS WE GO BACK TO LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING ON THE BUSINESS IS TO ESTABLISH THAT THIS IS OUR HOME AND BEING ABLE TO LIKE ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETHING WHEN PEOPLE COME TO HOUSTON. UM, IT'S JUST LIKE OUR OWN, ESPECIALLY WITH THE WORLD CUP COMING UP AS LIKE A REALLY BIG FOCAL POINT THAT WE'RE LIKE THE GLOBAL LEADER OF HUMAN CONNECTION THROUGH SOCCER AND FITNESS. AS FAR AS LIKE THE CLASSES AND THAT GO, THERE'S 10 TO 12 PEOPLE AT A TIME ON THE FIELD. UM, SO AGAIN, JUST LIKE THE AMENITIES OF LIKE A GYM, UM, IS A REALLY GREAT GYM CALLED THE PRESERVE THAT'S VERY QUAINT SMALL, UM, THAT I, I I VISIT. IT'S VERY SIMILAR AN INSPIRATION. SO IT'S NOT TO BE A MASSIVE LOCATION TO HAVE THE BIGGEST PARTIES AND HAVE LIKE A MASSIVE HOUSTONIAN, UH, GYM MEMBERSHIP. IT'S REALLY TO HAVE A FOCAL POINT FOR US AS A BUSINESS, UM, AFTER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS OF BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS IN THE BACK OF OPTOMETRY PRACTICES AND OUT THE PARKS TO BE ABLE TO HAVE LIKE A LOCATION THAT WE CAN CALL OUR OWN. SO OUR, OUR GOAL ISN'T FOR LIKE YOUTH SPORTS OR TO HAVE LIKE THIS LOCATION WHERE WE'RE JUST RUNNING ALL THESE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROGRAMMING. IT'S BEEN SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON, UH, HELPING ADULTS FIND A PLACE TO CONNECT. RIGHT. I GET THAT, BUT YOU SAID MAYBE 10 OR 12 PEOPLE AT A TIME, MAYBE 10 PEOPLE THAT WORK AT THE CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS, AND IT'S A PRETTY BIG BUILDING FOR JUST HOUSING MAYBE 25 PEOPLE AT A TIME. I MEAN, I'M NOT GOING SIT HERE AND SAY THAT THERE'S ONLY BE 25 PEOPLE IN THERE THAT WOULD BE LYING, RIGHT. ON AVERAGE, TAKING YOUR AVERAGE NUMBERS. SO, I MEAN, MY QUESTION IS WHERE ARE THEY GONNA PARK? YEAH. WELL, I MEAN, I THINK THE BIGGEST PART IN THIS, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THE RISK IS ON US TOO, FOR PUTTING THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE'RE GONNA GO INTO THIS BUILDING, RIGHT? SO BECAUSE OF ALL THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND WE'RE REALLY WEIGHING A LOT ON THE FACT THAT LIKE, PEOPLE ARE GONNA COME FROM THOSE APARTMENTS TO REALLY FIND THIS AS AN, AN EXTRA AMENITY TO THAT AREA, THAT NOTHING EXISTS AS AT THE MOMENT TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER PLACE TO BE ABLE TO WALK OVER AND TO BE PART OF. IF PARKING DOES BECOME A PROBLEM, WHAT, ARE THERE OTHER OPTIONS? DO YOU, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT LOTS THAT YOU COULD BUY OR PLACES YOU COULD RENT? UM, YEAH, YEAH. UM, AS FAR AS LIKE VALET SERVICES, I KNOW THAT THAT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT WE'VE, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEING ABLE TO SHUTTLE SERVICES TO PEOPLE. I KNOW THAT EASTON DOES THAT AS WELL. UM, AND ALSO I JUST KNOW THAT WE'RE SO CLOSE TO THE BAYOU AND WE HAVE SUCH A YOUNG DEMOGRAPHIC OF PEOPLE THAT WE CAN BE ACTIVE AND HEALTHY, THAT THAT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CARPOOLING OR MEETING AND BEING ABLE TO JUST LIKE ACTIVELY WALK OR MOVE TOWARDS THAT LOCATION. OKAY. THANK YOU. YES, MA'AM. QUITE A FEW SPEAKERS. I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND, UM, CALL THE LIST. UM, AND I'LL CALL AGAIN THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SIGNED UP TO BE IN PERSON, UH, KAITLYN CONNOR. HI. GOOD EVENING. UH, I DO HAVE SOME PRINTOUT PICTURES THAT WHO DO I, WE CAN PUT 'EM ON THE SCREEN. DOCUMENT CAMERA. THANK YOU. HI, MY NAME IS CAITLYN CONNOR. I AM A RESIDENT OF A SINGLE HOUSEHOLD, A FEW STREETS OVER FROM WHERE THE CEMETERY SITS. WE ARE PART OF THE OLIVE WOOD COMMUNITY, SO [04:20:01] TO SPEAK. UM, SET ASIDE THAT THERE ARE LIKELY, UM, SORRY, LIKELY UNMARKED GRAPES ON THE SITE. UM, I'M SORRY, I'VE BECOME VERY CONNECTED TO THE CEMETERY AS A RESIDENT, BUT SET THAT ASIDE. UM, THE BIGGEST ISSUES WITH THIS VARIANCE ARE OF THE FIVE THINGS IT'S SUPPOSED TO CHECK OFF, PARKING AND SAFETY ARE NOT CLEAR. UM, WE ARE A GROWING COMMUNITY. WE ARE BEGINNING TO BUILD OUR VOICE. WE ARE GROWING FAMILIES, AND, UM, SEVERAL OF US WALK OUR DOGS AND A LOT OF US HAVE DISABILITIES, AND WE ALREADY HAVE TO REACH AROUND CARS TO SEE IF WE'RE GONNA GET HIT. I AM A VICTIM OF A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT. I'M, I'M SORRY, WE'RE WASTING ANY TIME. I HAVE BEEN HIT BY A CAR. IT'S NOT FUN. I HAVE A LEFT SIDE PROSTHETIC, SO IT MEANS A LOT AS A RESIDENT TO NOT GET HIT BY A CAR. THERE IS DRAG RACING DOWN THE STREETS ALREADY. UM, PARKING IS DEFINITELY AN ISSUE. IT HAS BEEN, WE'VE HAD A HARD TIME GETTING FIRE TRUCKS TO COME TO BUILDINGS ON FIRE. WE'VE HAD BREAK-INS, AND THIS COMMUNITY IS BOTH OLD AND YOUNG. UH, THE CEMETERY HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SUCH A LONG TIME, AND NOW EVERYBODY THAT IS REALLY GETTING ATTACHED TO THIS, THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS STARTING TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT IT MEANS. UH, THIS, THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAS A LOT OF HISTORY AND WE ARE A PART OF THIS HISTORY, AND WE ARE A PART OF THE FUTURE OF THIS HISTORY. AND TO IGNORE THAT AND TO PUT SOMETHING ON TOP OF THIS HISTORY IS PAINFUL TO THE CITY. WE ALREADY HAVE FLOODING THAT PUTS ALL THE FLOODING TOWARDS THE CEMETERY. THIS IS THE LAST LITTLE GREEN SPACE THAT WILL HELP MITIGATE THAT FLOODING. THANK YOU THAT YOUR CONCLUDE YOUR COMMENTS. UM, UM, YOU DID FINE. . YEAH. , THANK YOU. WE, WE ALL JUST LAST FINAL COMMENT. WE, WE ARE ALL IN AGREEANCE ON THESE COMMENTS AS NEIGHBORHOODS AS PER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WE'VE CONVINCED THEM SO THAT WE DON'T KEEP REPEATING THE SAME TOPICS FOR THE COUNCIL IN LIEU OF BEING THE LAST ITEM IN THE AGENDA. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. UM, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS, UH, JASMINE LEE. I DO HAVE SOME PICTURES. ONE PICTURE DOCUMENT CAMERA. THANK YOU. HELLO. GOOD EVENING. I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF OLIVE WOODS CEMETERY. I'M A PART OF THE BOARD AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS, IN THE 148 YEARS SINCE OLIVE WOODS INCORPORATION, THE INGRESS AND EGRESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THREATENED. BROWN ALLEY WAS CLOSED, WHICH IS WAS OUR ORIGINAL ENTRANCE AND EXIT, WHICH HAD CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE. THE PICTURE THAT IS UP THERE IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ARE BUILT RIGHT UP TO THE LAST REMAINING MONUMENTS AND ALL OF THAT BROUGHT LOTS OF TRASH, LOTS OF DESTRUCTION. AND THEN ONCE WE FINALLY THOUGHT THAT WE WERE OUT IN THE OPEN AFTER GROCERY SUPPLY LEFT, WE'RE NOW BEING BOXED IN AGAIN. UM, I DO WANNA SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. WE HAVE HAD ONE MEETING WITH THE BUILDER, ONE MEETING IN 2021, I BELIEVE, AND THAT IS IT. UH, THEY CAME OUT TO VOLUNTEER ONCE. SO IN THAT TIME, WE HAVE BEEN THE ONES TO SEE THE PARKING INCREASE. UH, I'VE BEEN WITH OLIVE WOOD FOR FIVE YEARS AND OR OVER FIVE YEARS NOW. AND IT'S BECOME INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS TO LEAVE IN AND OUT OF OLIVE WOOD, WHERE THE BUILDING, AND I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS JUST A THREE STORY BUILDING, UH, IS AGAIN, BLOCKING OUR VIEW. UH, THE BUILDER DID TALK ABOUT THE AMAZING VIEWS THEY WOULD HAVE, BUT NOW THEY'VE NEGLECTED TO THINK ABOUT OUR VIEWS. AND AS, UH, COUNCILWOMAN CAME IN, POINTED OUT, WE ARE ONE OF AMERICA'S 11 MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC PLACES. WE ARE ALSO A UNESCO SITE OF MEMORY TO COMMEMORATE THE, UH, TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE BECAUSE OVER OR NEARLY A QUARTER OF THE PEOPLE AT RESTON OLIVE WOOD WERE FORMERLY ENSLAVED. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY BRING UP TO US CONSTANTLY WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT OUR EFFORTS OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS AND OUR VOLUNTEERS IN PRESERVING OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY, IS THAT THEY FEEL THAT HOUSTON DOES NOT CARE ENOUGH ABOUT THE CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE OF THEIR CITY TO PROTECT OLIVE WOOD FROM BEING TRAPPED IN AND BUILT UPON. THANK YOU. THANK [04:25:01] YOU. APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. UM, MARGO WILLIAMS. MARGO WILLIAMS. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS MARGO WILLIAMS. I'M THE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE BALL WOOD INCORPORATED. THE COURT APPOINTED GUARDIANS OF OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY. I'M NOT ONLY THOSE TITLES, BUT I AM A GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF ROSA AND STEVEN NELSON, A GRANDDAUGHTER OF KANE, HOWARD NELSON, SENIOR, THE, UH, A AUNT, A NIECE OF GILBERT, JOHN AND, UM, UM, DANIEL NELSON, ALL ENDURED AT OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY AND A HOST OF OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS BURIED AT HISTORIC OLIVE WOOD. THIS YEAR, I CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF HONORING THOSE WHO ARE ENDURED IN OLIVE WOOD. I HAVE READ THE DEEDS, HEARD THE STORIES OF HOW OVER 50 YEARS AGO, OLIVE WOOD WAS DENIED INGRESS AND EGRESS TO BE ABLE TO BURY THEIR LOVED ONES OLIVE WOOD. AND THEY HAD TO FIGHT TO GET THAT RIGHT TO ACCESS TO THE CEMETERY. HOW EVERY TIME A DEVELOPER, THE CITY OF HOUSTON, THE STATE WANTED SOMETHING FROM HOLLYWOOD, A PIECE OF COURT STREET, PART OF THE AREA NEAR THE BAYOU, OR WANTED TO CLOSE OFF COURT STREET SO THAT GROSS SUPPLY COULD EXPAND. THEY HEADED OVER TO HOLLYWOOD AND IT'S STILL THAT WAY TODAY. MAXIMO APPROACHED US TWO YEARS AGO WITH THEIR PLANS WANTING TO CLOSE AND PRIVATIZE COURT STREET SO THEY COULD BILL. WE EXPRESSED OUR CONCERNS ABOUT CLOSING THE REST OF COURT STREET, THAT WE COULDN'T BE PROMISED EVEN IN WRITING, THAT WE WOULD HAVE INGRESS AND EGRESS TO OUR PROPERTY OR HAVE A PLACE FOR OUR VOLUNTEERS TO PARK, THAT THEY COULDN'T ASSURE US THAT THERE WOULDN'T BE MORE CONGESTION ALREADY ADDED TO A OVERWHELMED SITE. TWO YEARS LATER, IN DESCENDANTS OF OLIVE WOOD, THE SURROUNDING OLIVE OIL COMMUNITY ARE JUST NOW SEEING THE PLANS AND HEARING ABOUT THE PLANS WHEN A VARIANCE IS REQUESTED. SAME OLD, SAME OLD. TAKE, TAKE, TAKE MR. BUTLER, THE PLANNING COMMISSION. HOW MUCH MORE, HOW MUCH MORE ARE YOU GONNA ASK FROM HOLLYWOOD? HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU WANT? WE THE DESCENDANTS OF HOLLYWOOD, THE DESCENDANTS OF HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY, SAY NO, NO MORE, NO, TWO YEARS AGO TO MAXIMO. AND WE SAY NO NOW, AND WE ARE ASKING THE PLANNING COMMITTEE TO SAY NO, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, MARYANNE HALEY. HELLO. HI. HELLO, I'M MARYANNE HALEY. I AM A HOMEOWNER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, AROUND OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY. AND I AM VERY CONCERNED THAT THE PROPOSED BUILDING WILL GREATLY IMPACT THE CEMETERY. I VOLUNTEER THERE AT THE CEMETERY. AND, UM, WE DO HAVE, IF I THINK THERE ARE 10 PARKING SPACES, A 10 LITTLE PARKING SPACE, UH, LOT THAT IS NEVER AVAILABLE FOR US. WE HAVE TO PARK IN THE GRASS WHEN WE GO TO CLEAN UP THE CEMETERY OR PLANT WHERE WE'RE GONNA, UM, BUILD A, UM, POLLINATOR GARDEN THERE ON THE CEMETERY. AND THAT WILL BENEFIT THE CITY AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT THE CEMETERY IS BECAUSE THEY JUST BUILT THOSE TWO, TWO HUGE COMPLEX APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND THEN ONE OTHER LARGE COMPLEX, AND NOW THERE'S AN ENORMOUS GAS STATION RIGHT ON THE CORNER OF SUMMER STREET IN EUMONT. IT IS SO CONGESTED, AND ANYONE THAT'S WALKING THERE AROUND ON THERE IS GONNA TAKE THEIR LIFE INTO THEIR OWN HANDS JUST TRYING TO CROSS THE STREET BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE LIGHTS. THEY'RE ZIPPING BY THE TRASH. THE, UM, TRASH IS INCREDIBLY BAD BECAUSE OF ALL THE, UH, TRA STREET TRAFFIC AND THERE ARE CARS THERE ALL NIGHT PARKED ON BOTH SIDES OF SUMMER STREET. IF YOU TRY TO TURN DOWN THERE, IF I, IF THE TRAIN IS COMING ACROSS AND I WANNA CIRCUMVENT THE TRAIN, BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT STOPS AND I MIGHT BE THERE AN HOUR WAITING. AND SO IF I CIRCUMVENT THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, I HAVE TO LIKE REALLY MAKE SURE I'M LOOK LOOKING AT EVERYTHING BECAUSE IT, IT'S JUST REALLY LIKE, IT'S CRAZY. PEOPLE ARE DRIVING CRAZY AND I KNOW THAT THEY, [04:30:01] I, I LOVE SOCCER AND, BUT THIS, THIS IDEA OF THIS, THOSE, ALL THOSE APARTMENTS ALREADY HAVE THE AMENITIES OF GYMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. NO, THEY DON'T HAVE A SOCCER FIELD ON THE ROOF, BUT THEY HAVE AMENITIES. NO ONE'S GONNA PAY EXTRA MONEY TO GO KICK A SOCCER BALL AROUND ON A ROOF. THANK YOU. YOUR TIME'S EXPIRED, BUT APPRECIATE YOUR, YOUR COMMENTS. UM, OKAY, UH, IS VANNY HOUSTON HERE? VANNY HOUSTON, OR IS SHE MOBILE? SHE, SHE WAS ON A PHONE. OKAY, THEN I THINK, WE'LL, I'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL THE THOSE. OH, I'M SORRY. STACEY FAIRCHILD STA OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO IS STACEY FAIRCHILD LISTENING. STACY FAIR. MADAM CHAIR, I AM VIRTUAL. MADAM CHAIR, THIS IS STACY FAIRCHILD AND I AM VIRTUAL. OH, YES. RIGHT. GO RIGHT AHEAD. OKAY. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO YOU TONIGHT. I AM THE PRESIDENT OF SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 22 WASHINGTON AVENUE COALITION MEMORIAL PARK, AND I AM HERE TO EXPRESS THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD'S OPPOSITION TO 32 36 SUMMER STREET'S PARKING VARIANCE FOR ALL THE SAME REASONS OUR COUNCIL MEMBER SUBMITTED TO YOU IN LETTER FORM. AND THE OLIVE OF WOOD COMMUNITY HAS EXPRESSED HERE THIS EVENING. AS A DIRECT RECIPIENT OF BUSINESSES NOT HAVING ENOUGH PARKING AT THE WEST END OF WASHINGTON AVENUE, I EXPECT THE RESIDENTS AND THE DESCENDANTS OF OLIVE WOOD TO EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE THE SAME DIMINISHED QUALITY OF LIFE. THE BUSINESS CONCEPT IS GREAT. I JUST DON'T THINK THERE ARE ENOUGH PARKING SPACES AT THIS LOCATION TO CONNECT THE WORLD. AND IT'S CONCERNING TO HEAR THE OWNER SAY THAT THIS IS A GOAL AT THIS LOCATION. WHEN IT'S NEXT TO A CEMETERY WHERE PEOPLE RESPECTS TO THEIR LOVED ONES THAT HAVE PASSED, WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO PARK? HOW IS THE CITY AND THE BUSINESS GOING TO GUARANTEE CEMETERY VISITORS HAVE A CLEAR PATHWAY IN PARKING IS AVAILABLE TO THEM. AS ALREADY MENTIONED, THIS COMMUNITY ALREADY EXPERIENCES THE STRESSORS, UH, RELATED TO PARKING AND OTHER, YOU KNOW, SAFETY ISSUES. AND IN REALITY, YOU KNOW, THE PUB, THE PUBLIC TRANSIT PROJECTS THE PLANNER IS POINTING TO ARE NOT HERE YET. IN FACT, WE'RE PROBABLY 10 YEARS AWAY. AND REALISTICALLY, HOUSTONIANS AREN'T GOING TO CHOOSE ALTERNATE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION. AND MY OWN NEW NEIGHBORHOOD IS AN, IS A GOOD EXAMPLE. UM, IN RICE MILITARY WHERE I LIVE, UH, OUR CONSTABLE DEPUTY ALONE TOWED 60 VEHICLES ILLEGALLY PARKED LAST WEEKEND IN MY OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. THIS DOESN'T INCLUDE THE TOES BY PARK, HOUSTON AND HPD. SO I EXPECT, AGAIN, THE OLIVE COMMUNITY TO EXPERIENCE THE SAME DISRUPTIONS. AND I'M RESPECTFULLY ASKING YOU TO DENY THE PARKING VARIANCE AS PRESENTED AND GOING FORWARD. MY REQUEST IS, IS THAT THE BUSINESS DEVELOP AN ONGOING DIALOGUE, NOT ONLY WITH THE OLIVE WOOD COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD TO DISCUSS HOW THEY CAN PRESERVE THE COMMUNITY'S QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE CEMETERY. I HAVEN'T HEARD IT YET. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. UM, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS FATIMA HASSAN ALI, WHO IS VIRTUAL FAMI FATIMA. HASSAN ALI DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT. UM, VANNY HOUSTON. VANNY HOUSTON IS NOT PRESENT. AND THEN KATIE HART. KATIE, HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. ARE YOU KATIE HARTT, CAN YOU HEAR ME? I AM. OKAY, GO RIGHT AHEAD. THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO, UH, MY NAME'S KATIE HART. UM, I'M A RESIDENT OF THE CO-OP SUMMER STREET TOWN HOMES, WHICH IS ONE OF THE APARTMENT COMMUNITIES THAT SITS ON SUMMER STREET. UM, I WORK FROM HOME AND I WALK MY DOG ON SUMMER STREET AT LEAST THREE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE DAY, IF NOT MORE. HE IS VERY NEEDY. SO IT COMES FREQUENTLY. UM, I WON'T REPEAT ANY PREVIOUS WORDS ON OLIVE WOOD, AND I THINK THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF FOCUS THERE, BUT I REALLY WANT TO FOCUS ON SOME OF THE OTHER PIECES AFFECTING THE COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY PARKING AND COMMUNITY WITHIN THE AREA. FIRSTLY, I CANNOT ECHO KAITLYN ENOUGH. AS SOMEONE WHO IS SEVEN MONTHS PREGNANT, WALKING ON SUMMER STREET OFTEN FEELS VERY DANGEROUS DUE TO THE VOLUME OF PARKED CARS ON BOTH SIDES, LIMITED SIDEWALKS AND FREQUENT DRIVING TRAFFIC. UM, THROUGHOUT THE DAY, THERE'S CARS PARKED ALONG BOTH SIDES OF SUMMER STREET WITH LIMITED AND OFTEN ZERO SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR ADDITIONAL PARKING. IT CONTINUES THROUGH EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS WHEN CONSTRUCTION IS NOT ONGOING. [04:35:01] AND I OFTEN HORRIFYINGLY SEE FOLKS PARKING IN FRONT OF FIRE HYDRANTS. UM, ON A ACTUALLY FAIRLY REGULAR BASIS, ALL THREE APARTMENT BUILDINGS ALONG SUMMER STREET HAVE RESIDENTS AND GUESTS WHO PARK ON THE STREETS. FOR MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP. THERE HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDATIONS TO POTENTIALLY PLACE TIME LIMITS ON STREET PARKING OR IMPLEMENT PARKING LEADERS TO ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO USE PARKING WITHIN THEIR DEVELOPMENT. HOWEVER, THIS DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE LIMITS OF PARKING WITHIN EACH OF THOSE THREE COMPLEXES, NOR SUPPLEMENTAL GUEST PARKING FOR THOSE RESIDENTS WHO SIGNED LEASES WITH BUDGETARY PLANS TO UTILIZE THE STREET PARKING, WHICH TO THIS POINT HAS HAD NO SIGNS, LIMITED STREET PARKING WOULD NEGATIVELY IMPACT THEM WITH ABSOLUTELY NO RECOURSE. FURTHER, THERE'S VERY LIMITED IF CLOSE TO ZERO ADDITIONAL STREET PARKING WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, ESPECIALLY WITH RECENT IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW SIGNAGE ON HICKS, LAKEN AND EAST STREETS WITHIN THE, THE WESTERN PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO PREVENT STREET PARKING ON THOSE THREE THOROUGH WAYS. OKAY. THANK YOU. IT'S BEEN YOUR TIME EXPIRED. IF YOU COULD PLEASE RACK B. SURE THING. I THINK THE ONE THING I'LL EMPHASIZE ALSO IS THAT WHITE OAK BAYOU TRAIL IS AT THE END OF LAKE STREET, UP A STEEP GRASSY HILL WITH NO EASY ACCESS. AND I WOULD REALLY RECOMMEND THE DEVELOPERS AND CITY COUNCIL REVIEW THIS ACCESS IN PERSON PRIOR TO DIGNIFYING IT AS APPROPRIATE TO REDUCE CAR TRAFFIC. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, THOSE ARE, THIS CONCLUDES THE SPEAKERS I HAVE SIGNED UP. DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS? IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK? OKAY, PLEASE. UH, YES. UH, MADAM CHAIR? YES. UH, YES, MADAM CHAIR. UM, MY NAME IS CORRE MADDOX. I DID SIGN UP, BUT, UM, I'M HERE . OKAY. UH, GO RIGHT AHEAD. I DON'T HAVE YOU ON MY LIST, BUT, OKAY. SORRY ABOUT THAT. I WANTED TO ADD A COUPLE THINGS. UM, DEFINITELY THE PARKING ON SUMMER IS CRAZY RIGHT NOW. UM, THERE'S PEOPLE WITH OPEN CAR DOORS, DOUBLE PARKED, THINGS LIKE THAT GOING ON ALL THE TIME. I MEAN, I COULD SEE A TIME LIMIT, UH, POTENTIAL, BUT THAT WOULD MEAN A BUNCH OF TOWING, YOU KNOW, TOW TRUCKS, AND THAT CAN BE EVEN WORSE. I DID CHECK, UH, I DID A SURVEY, UM, TUESDAY NIGHT AT 7:00 PM THERE WERE ONLY FOUR TO FIVE SPOTS AVAILABLE ON SUMMER STREET. THEY WERE WAY DOWN AT THE END, THE EAST END ALMOST TO, UM, MONT. AND THEN IN ADDITION, UM, ALREADY THERE WERE PAR CARS PARKED IN THE, UM, UM, CEMETERY LOT. THERE WERE FIVE CARS IN THE CEMETERY LOT. THERE'S USUALLY CARS IN THE CEMETERY LOT, UM, IN THE EVENINGS. AND THERE WERE FIVE CARS ON, UM, RICHMOND STREET THAT WERE BLOCKING ONE OF THE TWO LANES. SO YOU COULD ONLY HAVE ONE LANE GET THROUGH THERE. UM, THIS IS VERY TYPICAL. UH, I LIVE AT THE END OF RICHMOND AND, UM, THERE'S NO TURNAROUND AT A CUL-DE-SAC AT THE END. I'VE GOT PROBABLY EIGHT TO 10 PEOPLE EVERY DAY COMING DOWN LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO PARK, TURNING AROUND IN MY DRIVEWAY. SO THIS IS NOT PLEASANT. UM, ALSO I WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT, UM, THE DEVELOPER HAD TOLD ME THERE WOULD BE NO PARTIES. UH, SOUNDED LIKE MAYBE THERE WOULD BE SOME PARTIES. UM, THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF EXTRA PARKING WOULD BE REQUIRED. UH, I HAD TALKED TO ANOTHER, SO SOCCER CLUB, AND THEY ACTUALLY SAID THEY THOUGHT THAT BASED ON THE CRITERIA FOR THIS, THEY WOULD NEED 60 OR 70 SPACES. MS. MADDOX, YOUR TIME, THE DEVELOPER. ARE YOU WRAPPING UP? OKAY, ONE MORE THING. THE DEVELOPER ALSO TOLD ME THAT THERE WOULD BE A SNACK AREA, UM, WITH, WITH THE, UH, FITNESS SPOT, MS. MADDOX, YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED. PEOPLE WOULD BE, WOULD BE HANGING OUT THERE. SO, OKAY. THAT'S IT. I'M SORRY. THANK YOU. YOUR TIME'S UP. AND I, WE HAVE ANOTHER SPEAKER WHO'S HERE. WOULD THE GENTLEMAN IN THE REAR COME, COME FORWARD? AND IF YOU WOULD STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. AYE, MY NAME IS PAUL. HI. TURN MY, YOUR MICROPHONE, MICROPHONE ON. OKAY. I'M SORRY. I DON'T HAVE YOU ON MY LIST. I APOLOGIZE, BUT GO RIGHT AHEAD. THAT'S, I'VE TRIED TO KEEP IT SHORT. I, UH, HAVE BEEN A VOLUNTEER AT OLIVE WOOD CEMETERY SINCE 2009, AND I'M A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE DESCENDANTS OF OLIVE WOOD TODAY. AND, UH, VERY BRIEFLY, OLIVE WOOD IS, UM, WAS INCORPORATED IN [04:40:01] 1875. IT'S A SEVEN AND A HALF ACRE SITE. THERE ARE 4,000 BURIALS THERE. WE HAVE FAMILIES BURIED THERE WHO WERE AT HOUSTON IN 1836 WHEN THE CITY WAS FOUNDED. WE HAVE FAMILIES THAT WERE IN TEXAS WHEN TEXAS WAS STILL A PART OF MEXICO. WE HAVE FAMILIES WHO WERE BORN IN AFRICA AND CAME TO AMERICA ON SLAVE SHIPS. SO IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT SITE, I THINK FOR THE, IN TERMS OF THE CITY, CITY OF HOUSTON AND THE LIFEBLOOD OF OUR, UH, KEEPING THE, THE CEMETERY OPEN, OUR VOLUNTEERS. AND WE HAVE, UH, SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 2000 PEOPLE A YEAR COME TO OLIVE WOOD TO CONTRIBUTE. WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF ORGANIZATIONS, UM, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, BOY SCOUT, TROOPS, COMMUNITY CLUBS, THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ARE KEEPING OLIVE WOOD OPEN AND RUNNING. THEY MOW THE, MOW THE LAWNS, THEY FIX AND CLEAN THE HEADSTONES. WHEN PEOPLE COME IN LOOKING FOR THEIR FAMILIES, THEY'RE THE ONE THAT DIRECTS THEM TO THE PLOTS. SO WE COULDN'T HAVE OLIVE WOOD WITHOUT VOLUNTEERS. THIS SATURDAY, UH, WE HAVE A REGULAR CLEANUP DAY. THE FIRST AND THIRD SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH, Y'ALL ARE INVITED TO COME AND HELP US OUT. AND I WENT DOWN TO OPEN THE CEMETERY AND UH, I GOT THERE IN EVERY LOT IN OUR, UH, LITTLE PARKING SPOT. OUR TIN WAS FILLED. AND WHEN WE GO AHEAD, JUST WRAP UP. GO AHEAD. OKAY. WELL, I'M JUST SAYING THAT, AND WHEN WE CONFRONT PEOPLE ABOUT, WELL, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THIS, THIS PARKING LOT IS FOR THE CEMETERY. THEY SAY, WELL, I COULDN'T FIND A SPOT ON SUMMER, SO I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE OKAY TO PARK HERE. THERE'S NO SIGNS OR ANYTHING. SO WE HAVE TO KIND OF GO THROUGH THAT. SOME PEOPLE TAKE IT WELL, SOME PEOPLE DON'T. YOU KNOW, THAT'S LIFE. UM, BUT WHAT I WOULD JUST WANNA SAY IS THAT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PARKING PRO PARKING PROBLEMS, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT FUTURE PARKING PROBLEMS. THE PARKING PROBLEMS ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, AS YOU HEARD MANY OF THE OTHER PEOPLE SAY. SO THAT'S, THAT'S IT. WE GOT IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU FOR LETTING SPEAK. OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON THIS? I, ONE MORE. I'M MAKE A COME FORWARD. HI. ALRIGHT. UH, MY NAME'S AUSTIN WYLE. I'M A, UH, A RESIDENT OF, UH, HANSINGER STREET NEARBY TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. UM, LIKE MANY PEOPLE IN HOUSTON, UM, I'VE, YOU KNOW, LIVED ALL OVER, BUT NOW CALL HOUSTON, HOUSTON MY HOME. UM, AND UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, CHANGE IS KIND OF PART OF, UH, PART OF A CITY, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, THINGS, THINGS DO DEVELOP. AND THAT'S REALLY BEEN WHAT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS EXPERIENCED SINCE I'VE LIVED THERE IN A PRETTY, UH, PRETTY BRIEF PERIOD. WE'VE SEEN DRAMATIC CHANGES IN THE AREA. WE'VE SEEN TWO FIVE OVER ONES GO UP IMMEDIATELY AS THEY REFERENCE IN THEIR CLAIM. UH, WE SEE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF TOWN HOMES AND STUFF IN THE AREA. AND ONE TREND THAT I DON'T THINK HAS BEEN MENTIONED IS AS THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN BUILT UP, UM, THERE'S BEEN ADDITIONAL OVERFLOW, THERE'S BEEN MORE NO PARKING SIGNS, MORE, UH, THINGS. AND THAT HAS CONTINUED TO PUSH OUT AND HAVE AN EFFECT ON THE AREA. IT'S PRETTY COMMON NOW, AS MANY OF THOSE THINGS ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, I THINK YOU GET A PREVIEW OF WHAT THE FUTURE CHANGES MAY LOOK LIKE. CONSTANTLY THE SIDE ROADS ARE FILLED UP. WHEN I WALK MY DOG AND GO AROUND THE AREA, YOU, YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN'T MANAGE IT. IT'S, IT'S PRETTY, YOU KNOW, UNPLEASANT. NOW THE HOPE IS AS THOSE THINGS COMPLETE, THAT GOES AWAY AND MAYBE, MAYBE WE HAVE A NORMAL RESIDENCE. UM, DON'T . UM, MY CONCERN IS THAT AS THEY PUSH OUT AND AS THESE THINGS, MAYBE IT'S ACTUALLY A PREVIEW OF WHAT, WHAT THIS WOULD LOOK LIKE POTENTIALLY IN THE FUTURE. UM, YOU KNOW, I I ALSO, I WOULD NOTE TOO, I'M ALL, I'M A BIG FAN OF SOCCER. I THINK IT'S VERY, VERY COOL. WE HAVE A, A FORMER DYNAMO PLAYER HERE. UH, ONE NICHE THAT I'M SURE YOU'RE ALL AWARE OF IS NOT EVERYONE IS . IT'S A KIND OF A NICHE SPORT THAT PEOPLE TRAVEL TO. I GO TO PITCH 25, IT'S A GREAT, GREAT VENUE. IT'S A DESTINATION. PEOPLE TRAVEL TO IT. WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO PARK . THIS IS, THIS IS NUTS. UM, AND YEAH, I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S ABOUT ALL I HAD. I DON'T KNOW IF I'M YEAH, I'M RIGHT AT TIME, SO. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ELSE? OKAY, THEN WE WILL. MADAM CHAIR? YES, I HAVE A QUESTION. OKAY. AND IF YOU WANT ME TO STEP DOWN FROM HERE, I WILL , SORRY. ME TOO. UM, I AM GONNA STAND UP. IT'S GOOD TO HAVE SOMEONE WITH TISSUES. . IF THERE'S A LEGAL ISSUE [04:45:01] WITH REGARD TO THIS PARKING VARIANCE, I WILL GET SOMEONE ELSE IN MY OFFICE TO HANDLE IT. I HAVE REPRESENTED THE BOARD OF THE DESCENDANTS OF OLIVE WOOD FOR APPROXIMATELY 15 YEARS. AND I WAS SITTING THERE STEWING THIS WHOLE TIME BECAUSE I WAS CONTACTED BY THEM RECENTLY SAYING, THIS IS GOING ON AND THEY'VE NOT SPOKEN TO US. UM, THE BIGGEST QUESTION FOR ME, YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE PARKING, WHETHER OR NOT YOU ALL GRANT A PARKING VARIANCE IS NOT A LEGAL QUESTION. THAT'S A DECISION YOU ALL MAKE BASED ON THE EVIDENCE YOU HEAR. THE QUESTION THAT I THINK HAS GONE, THAT HAS GONE UN FOCUSED ON IS THE QUESTION THAT COMMISSIONER KOVAR BROUGHT UP. AND IT IS VERY LIKELY, LIKELY AT LEAST, THAT THERE ARE BODIES BEARING ON THIS PROPERTY. THAT WAS AN ISSUE WHEN WE WERE FIRST SECURING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTY. I HELPED THEM THROUGH INCORPORATION 5 0 1 C3, LOOKING AT TITLE AND ALL OF THOSE MATTERS BEFORE. AND SO I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S KNOWN YET, BUT THAT IS AN ISSUE THAT I THINK THE OWNERS OF THAT PROPERTY NEED TO BE VERY AWARE OF AND TO TAKE STEPS TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS NOT THE CASE. UM, BACK IN THE 18 HUNDREDS, PEOPLE WERE BURYING PEOPLE ANYWHERE THEY THOUGHT THE CEMETERY EXTENDED. UM, OFTEN NOT WITH A LOT OF NOTICE, OFTEN NOT WITH A, WITH A MAP LIKE WE HAVE IN CEMETERIES TODAY. SO THAT IS MY BIG CONCERN ABOUT THIS. UM, OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, COMMISSIONER VICTOR, UM, I DO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE, THE, THE, THE PROXIMITY, THE LOCATION OF THE SITE IS CLOSE TO THE CEMETERY, UH, FOR ENGINEERING PROJECTS. WE HAVE ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDIES THAT WE GO THROUGH AND PERMITTING, AND I GET THAT THAT'S PART OF THE PERMITTING PROCESS, BUT I'M ASSUMING THAT WILL HAPPEN FOR THIS SITE AS WELL, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT BUILD IF THERE'S, THERE ARE BODIES UNDERNEATH, UM, THE SITE. CORRECT. IS THAT PART OF THE PERMITTING PROCESS? UM, NOT SURE. IT IS NO FEDERAL, SO NOTHING LIKE FOR A, FOR A, FOR A WATER, IF I WAS BUILDING A WATER PLANT, I WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH FORBIDDING PROCESS TO MAKE SURE THERE'S NO ARCHEOLOGICAL, NO HISTORIC, UH, ARTIFACTS UNDERNEATH THE SITE. IS THERE NOTHING FOR CITY OF HOUSTON? MY, MY EXPERIENCE PERSONALLY SPEAKING IS IF THERE'S NO PUBLIC MONEY, THERE'S NO OBLIGATION. WOW. I'M NOT SURE ANYWAY, BUT, BUT, BUT THE SITE IS PRETTY CLOSE TO A HISTORIC SITE, SO I'M ASSUMING THIS COULD BE A POTENTIAL ONE WHERE YOU COULD OKAY. I JUST, THIS IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT, THE WHOLE DIFFERENT, IT'S FIRST DIFFERENT ISSUE THAT I HAD HEARD ABOUT THIS AND I JUST, UM, I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WILL ACCOMPLISH IN A DEFERRAL, BUT, UM, I'D LIKE TO KNOW FIRM ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS. COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG. YEAH, BUT I WAS GONNA KIND OF REITERATE THE SAME THING YOU WERE SAYING. UM, IT'S A DELICATE BALANCE OF, OF WHAT OUR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE. UM, IT'S PRIVATE PROPERTY AND SOMEONE OWNS IT. UM, AND THEY OWN THE OBLIGATIONS THAT COME WITH IT, LISTENING TO THE OWNER, UM, TALKING ABOUT THE SPHERE AND THE SPIRITUAL SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S A PARTNER THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BELIEVE A LITTLE BIT BETTER. UM, AND I'D ENCOURAGE THEM TO VISIT AND SEE WHAT THEY COULD DO. UM, BECAUSE THIS DOESN'T WORK. SOMEONE ELSE IS GONNA COME ALONG AND THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER DEVELOPER OF THE PROPERTY. WE DON'T HAVE CONTROL. IT'S A, IT'S A HARD THING. UM, YOU KNOW, I BUILT PARKS, I BUILT THE FEDERAL RESERVE ON THE OLD JEFFERSON DAVIS HOSPITAL SITE, AND EVERYBODY TOLD US THERE WERE BODIES THERE. THERE WASN'T A SINGLE BODY. UM, WE, WE HAD TO DO ALL THAT 'CAUSE OF THE PUBLIC MONEY. IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT, VERY DIFFICULT CONVERSATION TO HAVE. BUT ALSO THIS ONE PROJECT CAN'T SOLVE PARKING PROBLEMS IS ONE PROJECT. CAN'T SOLVE EMERGENCY VEHICLE ACCESS PROBLEMS IN AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY. UM, SO SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN HERE. YOU, THEY, THERE NEEDS TO BE A DECISION. UM, YOU COULD ATTACK THIS ONE WAY AND NOT DO A PARKING VARIANCE, OR YOU CAN WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY AND TRY TO DO SOMETHING BETTER. UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'RE IMPLORING TO YOUR, YOUR, YOUR, YOUR SOCIAL AND YOUR SPIRITUAL SIDE OF, OF KIND OF DOING WHAT THE RIGHT THING IS. UM, FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE, UH, A FOOT TO STAND ON. UM, BUT IT, IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT DECISION TO SEPARATE THE EMOTIONAL THINGS, THE MUCH LARGER [04:50:01] SCALE THINGS FROM THE PROPERTY RIGHTS THINGS. UM, UM, BY NO MEANS HAVE THE ANSWER. UM, BUT, BUT I, I DO THINK, UM, IF YOU TRULY ARE THE COMPANY YOU SAY YOU ARE, UM, THERE'S MORE YOU COULD DO AND YOU COULD SHOW THAT I THINK IN A TWO WEEK DEFERRAL, COMMISSIONER CLARK. SO I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THIS, UM, IN A PROJECT IN VIRGINIA, AND WE DISCOVERED AN INDIAN BURIAL SITE. THERE WERE EIGHT TRIBES IN THE STATE THAT WE WERE REPRESENTED. AND AS THE DEVELOPER AND PROPERTY OWNER, I MET WITH ALL EIGHT TRIBES. AND WE SAT AT A TABLE MANY, MANY TIMES AND WE CAME TO A RESOLUTION. AND THE RESOLUTION WAS, WE DECIDED WE WOULD RESPECT THEM. WE ACTUALLY MOVED OUR 18TH HOLE FROM THE LOCATION, RELOCATED OUR BUILDING ABOUT $2 MILLION LATER, BACK IN 1991. WE CAME TO A RESOLUTION. WE DONATED THE LAND. WE MADE SURE THEY HAD INGRESS EGRESS. AND SO I WOULD SAY IN A TWO WEEK DEFERRAL, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU ALL, AS THE PROPERTY OWNERS MEET WITH THE, ALL OF THE FOLKS THAT HAVE COME UP HERE AND TALKED, MEET WITH THE BOARD, ALSO MEET WITH THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER. THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL CAN COME TO AS A RESOLUTION FOR RESPECT FOR THIS BURIAL GROUND. JUST LIKE ANY BURIAL GROUND, WE SHOULD HAVE RESPECT. BUT THIS ONE'S SPECIAL AND I THINK IT DESERVES SPECIAL ATTENTION. AND NOW AS FAR AS THE PARKING FOR THE CEMETERY, THIS IS A CITY QUESTION. COULD THE DEVELOPERS HELP OLIVE WOOD BY MAYBE PUTTING ARMS THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO VISITORS, VISITORS OF THE CEMETERY AND THROWING IDEAS OUT THERE? UH, THESE ARE THE THINGS I WOULD DO AS I, IF I WAS DEVELOPING, I WOULD BE SITTING AND, AND TALKING TO EVERYONE TO SEE HOW I COULD BE AS RESPECTFUL AS POSSIBLE TO BECOME A GOOD NEIGHBOR. BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANNA BE BAD NEIGHBORS, ESPECIALLY WITH OLIVE WOOD. SO I THINK A TWO WEEK DEFERRAL, I KNOW THERE'S OTHER DISCUSSION. I'M GONNA MAKE THE MOTION AND I'D LIKE TO SEE A COMMUNITY MEETING. AND I'D ALSO LIKE THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, MEMBER OR HER STAFF TO BE INVOLVED. UM, AND THAT'S MY RECOMMENDATION. OKAY. ARE YOU MAKING A MOTION? YES, I DO. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION TO DEFER. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND NELSON . OKAY, WELL, WE'LL GIVE IT TO NELSON. NELSON. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. GIVE TO FURTHER DISCUSSION. NO, WE'RE GONNA HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSION. WE HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND, BUT WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS MODEST QUESTION FOR MR. BUTLER. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY NOT OPPOSED TO THE CONCEPT OF VARIANCE, BUT I STRUGGLE A LITTLE BIT WITH THE PROPOSED NUMBERS. UM, YOU KNOW, THE APPLICANT THEMSELVES PRESENTED, I THINK IT WAS 56 THAT WERE ON THEIR ANALYSIS AND WE'RE LIKE AT 26. SO I WOULD LIKE MORE CLARIFICATION OF, OF WHY, YOU KNOW, WHY STAFF FEELS 26. I'M GOING BLIND NOWADAYS, BUT, UM, WHY THAT NUMBER'S. OKAY. WHEN EVEN THEIR OWN IS STATING 56. SO THE STANDARD IS ACTUALLY 51 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T NOTE EARLIER AND THEY GET A CREDIT FOR THE BICYCLE SPACES. SO WITH THAT DISCOUNT APPLIED, IT'S 51 AS OPPOSED TO 56 AND THEY'RE PROVIDING 26. UM, AND AS FAR AS OUR REASONING FOR WHY THAT WAS AN APPROPRIATE NUMBER, UM, A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE, THE, THE EXISTING AND PROPOSED TRANSPORTATION CAPACITY, BUT ALSO OUR EXPERIENCE IN VISITING THE OTHER SITES, THE COMPARABLE USES, UM, WE FOUND IN TWO PARTICULAR EXAMPLES, THEY WERE PROVIDING SIMILAR TO LESS PARKING, AND THE SITES WERE BOTH OVER PARKED, UH, WHEN FULLY USED. BUT THEN WHY IS THERE ANALYSIS 56? I GUESS THAT'S, YOU KNOW WHAT I, YOU KNOW, 51 OR IT'S FROM OUR CHART ONE. WELL, THAT WAS, THERE'S A CHART FOR A SOCCER FACILITY THAT OFFERS PERSONAL TRAINING. CORRECT. BUT TO YOUR POINT ABOUT IT'S BASED ON THE SIZE. IT WOULD BE ONE SOMETHING IF IT WAS BASED ON THE SIZE. NO, NO. WE, OR IF I, IF I MAY, JEFF CAN PROBABLY CLARIFY THIS, BUT WE HAD ORI THEY DON'T MEET ANY OF OUR CATEGORIES CLEANLY. AND SO AT FIRST, LOOK, JEFF WAS VERY CONSERVATIVE AND GAVE THEM A HUGE NUMBER. AND THEN NOW THAT WE'VE DONE MORE RESEARCH, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE THE USE. THE CHART NOW SAYS 56 MINUS, RIGHT MINUS BIKE PARKING, WHICH TAKES IT DOWN TO 51. THE INITIAL STANDARD WAS A BLANKET ONE FOR A GYM, RIGHT? CORRECT. WHICH IS NOT APPLICABLE IN THIS CASE. BUT MADAM CHAIR, CAN I GO ASK A QUESTION ON THIS? YES. GO. I DON'T KNOW IF AHEAD IT WAS AHEAD. YEAH. UM, BUT THE, THE, THEIR OTHER FACILITY ON BINGO THAT DOES NOT HAVE ALL THESE APART OR THESE DENSE, UH, APARTMENT BUILDINGS OR OTHER RIGHT. SIMILAR TO THIS SUMMER STREET, IT'S A, A MUCH MORE SUBURBAN CONTEXT, PRESUMABLY MORE THEIR CUSTOMERS ARE DRIVING THERE THAN THEY'RE WALKING. RIGHT. SO WE LOOKED AT THAT AND THEN WE [04:55:01] LOOKED AT IT WHAT THE CLOSEST WE COULD FIND TO A SIMILAR ONE IN AN URBAN CONTEXT, WHICH IS ACTUALLY JUST A LITTLE BIT UP SUMMER STREET FROM HERE. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. COMMISSIONER ROBBINS, YOUR RECOMMENDATION WAS TO APPROVE, IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. AND THAT'S UNUSUAL, ESPECIALLY WITH A COUNCIL MEMBER WRITING A LETTER ASKING FOR AN, I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT YOUR, 'CAUSE I KNOW, UH, WE'VE SEEN THE STAFF OFTEN DEFER THINGS JUST BECAUSE A COUNCIL PERSON ASKED EVEN WITHOUT A GOOD REASON. I'M CURIOUS WHY YOUR RECOMMENDATION WAS TO APPROVE RATHER THAN DEFER. SO WE GOT THAT LETTER DURING THE MEETING. UM, THIS MEETING. CORRECT. THAT'S A GOOD, THAT'S A GOOD ANSWER. . AND, AND WE, THAT MAKES MORE SENSE. THANK YOU. OKAY. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION? COMMISSIONER HINES? UH OH. YEAH, I DON'T WANT TO, I DIDN'T WEAR MY WATCH TODAY. I'M BROKE A LONG TIME AGO. UH, JUST A COUPLE QUESTIONS. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, UH, THE APPLICANT IS MAKING THEIR CASE ABOUT, UM, A HARDSHIP. UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'VE MADE IT TO ME, BUT MAYBE YOU COULD CLARIFY FOR ME. I KNOW IT'S THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY, BUT THE TEST TEXAS HISTORIC COMMISSION, UM, WHEN, FOR EXAMPLE, THIS IS A, THERE'S A PROPERTY ADJACENT TO A HISTORIC SITE, WHAT'S THEIR POSITION TO THE NON HISTORIC SITE THAT IS ADJACENT TO IF IT'S A STATE OR FEDERAL DESIGNATED HISTORIC SITE? I DON'T TEXAS HISTORIC COMMISSION. RIGHT. 'CAUSE YOU COULD GET FEDERAL AND I THINK YOU GET, YOU COULD ALSO GET STATE DESIGNATION. RIGHT? RIGHT. UM, SO DO WE KNOW THE, THE, THE TECH TEXAS HISTORIC COMMISSION'S POSITION ON ADJACENT PROPERTIES TO A HISTORIC SITE? NO. UH, COULD WE, YOU KNOW, COULD WE ALL FIND OUT? THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA. UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, UM, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, FOLKS DO GPR TESTING, ULTRASOUND TESTING TO SOME DEGREE BELOW GRADE. UH, COULD YOU LOOK INTO THAT AS WELL SO THAT WHATEVER WE DECIDE IN A COUPLE WEEKS, UM, THE COMMISSION IS INFORMED ABOUT GGPR TESTING AND ULTRASOUND TESTING? UH, I, I'VE HEARD THE RULE IS IF YOU SEE A HEADSTONE, MORE THAN LIKELY THERE'S ONE NEARBY AND YOU TEST UNTIL YOU DON'T FIND ANOTHER ONE. AND THAT'S TYPICALLY THE RULE. SO IF YOU COULD JUST LOOK INTO THAT JUST TO EDUCATE, EDUCATE US, CERTAINLY. YEAH. I, AND I, I MEAN, I THINK WE'D LIKE SOME REAL CLARITY ON WHAT THE PROPERTY OWNER'S RESPONSIBILITY IS LEGALLY, ETHICALLY IS ANOTHER QUESTION. BUT I WANNA KNOW THE FACTS OF WHAT, WHAT WOULD BE REQUIRED THERE AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT OTHER ENTITIES MAYBE WE COULD CALL ON, SUCH AS THE, THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SO ANYBODY ELSE? OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO DEFER THE ITEM. I HAVE NO IDEA WHO MADE THOSE MOTIONS. NELSON CLARK AND NELSON. RIGHT? I WROTE IT DOWN. UM, UH, IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, I'M ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF DEFERRING, SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES ITS DEFERRED. ROMAN [V. Public Comment ] FIVE IS PUBLIC COMMENT. NO ONE IS SIGNED. SO THE MOTION TO ADJOURN WOULD BE AN ORDER. YOU DON'T NEED A MOTION? WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT. YEAH, THERE WAS ON, OH, IS THERE ANYONE HERE? MY COMPUTER'S DEAD. OKAY. WHO DOES ANYONE WANNA ADDRESS THE COMMISSION? HELLO? IT WAS A WRITTEN COMMENT? YES. SOMEONE'S CALLING IN. YES. HELLO. HELLO. UH, THIS IS STACY FAIRCHILD AGAIN. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A GENERAL COMMENT AND A REQUEST ABOUT A DIFFERENT TOPIC IF THAT'S POSSIBLE. GO AHEAD. FOR ITEM, FOR ITEM ONE, UH, JUST FOR FURTHER CLARIFICATION ABOUT THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE SUBMITTING A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR LIV LIVABLE PLACES. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO GET A COPY OF THAT LETTER AND ALSO CLARIFICATION ON, WAS THIS AN INDIVIDUAL'S LETTER? UM, POSSIBLY AN OFFICER WITH THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE THAT SUBMITTED A LETTER OF SUPPORT ON A PERSONAL BASIS AND NOT ON BEHALF OF THE 88 SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE ALLIANCE, OR, I'M JUST TRYING TO, TO, UH, WE'LL HAVE, I JUST LIKE MS. MACHER ON THAT BECAUSE MS. BANDY WILL PROVIDE YOU A COPY OF THE LETTER. WE HAVE IT HERE. WE'RE, UM, WE'LL GET YOU THAT INFORMATION. OKAY. WONDERFUL. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY, WONDERFUL. THANK YOU. OKAY, WITH THAT, IS THERE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? MOTION HEES. YOU DON'T NEED A MOTION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? WE ARE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU SO MUCH, COMMISSIONERS. IT WAS GREAT. [05:00:01] WHAT A MEETING. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.