Recording in progress. I now declare that the Plano City Council is convened in open session, that all council members are present. The council will now recess into executive session and training room to hold a closed executive meeting pursuant to the provisions of Vernon's Texas Code Annotated Government Code, chapter 551, the Open Meetings Act in accordance with the authority contained in section 551 oh 71 to consult with the attorney to receive legal advice and discuss litigation. And section 551 087 to discuss economic development matters. Thank you. I now declare the Plano City Council preliminary Open meeting is reconvened in open session that all council members are present. Our first item on the preliminary agenda is consideration and action, resulting in the executive session. Our second item is Collin County Connects Committee presentation Andrew Fortune, Director of policy and government relations. Andrew. Director, Policy and Government Relations. So this evening we wanted to first start just with a recap of some of the council objectives as staff interpreted from the last meeting where we had this discussion. Certainly at the top, continuity of service, community input, the connectivity inside and outside of Plano, a prioritized schedule, modernized options, and finally education and implementation. For an alternative transit solution, regardless of ongoing negotiations and where we may end up, it's important that we have something stood up and ready to go. So with that, we moved forward, putting together the structure of the Collin County Connects Committee. Initially, you know, staff had suggested an eight member appointed board. Should council want to change any of these aspects. And of course, your prerogative. We thought that it'd be important and we plan to have staff liaisons from across the city with different departments represented in those meetings. Not to have our finger on the scale, but rather just to be a resource. So if any reports from the committee members need to be compiled, research, etc. we can handle that. The committee themselves ideally are looking to review the vendors and possible options that we have for continuity of service and ultimately will provide feedback and recommendations to this body. So to talk a little bit about the timeline, again, you see up there, Council direction was given on the fifth of this month. We had applications open. We had nearly 100 applicants. So a lot of interest and we were excited to see that interest on this issue. Tonight we'll be considering the appointments. Tomorrow we will send the appointees a packet with information on the roles, the committee goals and objectives, the different vendors, as well as a survey that we hope to receive results back from helping the committee get started with a ranking of priorities. So whether that be cost safety equity whatever those elements are, the committee members will be able to have time to look at those and prioritize them. We have suggested that the meetings take place for the first two weeks of December, and that the 16th of December, at the council meeting be the the report out date. However, understanding this is a very condensed time frame. We've built in alternative options. Should the committee wish to work a little bit longer. Of course, you know, the longer that we wait, the less time we'll have to stand up an option. So we wanted to provide at least a prioritized schedule on the forefront. So you can see there are two different dates for a potential start date for this alternative. We envision because Dart services will maintain uninterrupted between now and the election, we anticipate phasing in this alternative. But having it ready to go the next day after the election, regardless of what those results might be. And so you can see there the timeline as we've anticipated it. And so just once again, I wanted to remind everyone here of the current Dart service area and areas in town that are currently unserved. But with that, I just am here for any questions. If you have any thoughts on the the committee structure or appointments, happy to take questions. All right. Thank you Andy. Any questions for Andrew. All right. The next item is personnel appointments to the Collin County Connects Committee members. Chair I think all of you have. A a Collin County connects committee nominee list. And and what we have here and the recommendation has been eight on that committee. And again this is helping us and and quite frankly six different categories of disability. Senior transit rider under representative downtown business owner. These categories would be important for us to get the information that that we need to be able to really make sure we're not leaving any gaps on service needs throughout the, the, the city of Plano. So before we get started, I just want to make sure everyone is okay with the number because we it again it's it's either eight or you know, could be somewhere in the middle ten to 12 or 16. But anything above that, I think we've all had experience with 16 members being very difficult to, to, to get a whole lot done. So I'm more than happy to go any direction you want to go. And I'll be glad to take your thoughts. Mayor pro tem so I I'm I'm, I am asking that we be allowed to appoint two. And the reason for that is because we have more than 100 applicants in, in this, you know, that shows that a lot of interest in wanting to participate in planning our new transit. System. And I think having eight would be really difficult to get this. Whatever the committee decides and get that out to the community as a whole. But whereas if we have two from each of the categories like disability, senior business, downtown underrepresented transit riders, and and just plain old resident, then they could sort of help each other in trying to communicate or be the liaison to to communicate what is being discussed and what is the reason rationale for whatever decision that they make. So that would that would actually be 12 plus one, which would be the chair. So it'd be 13. Well, we have you know, you oh you're talking about two each one of us. Well you said two per category. Well that's true, you're right. But but I was hoping for two per council person. I think that would be fair. I mean, I don't, I don't know. Okay. Let me let me get some more input. Councilmember horn thank you. Mayor. I want to kind of mirror Mayor Pro Tem two's remarks in that the number of response, the number of comments we received with over 100 people, that shows that there's certainly a civic interest here, but I'm somewhat one of those folks that I think after having to deal with the comprehensive plan and a number of folks we had on that, that 16 is very difficult to manage and get to get well on that one. We had to get consensus on this one. Again, I looked at the scope of services that were asking them, and that can be managed fairly well with a strong manager of the group. But I think, again, 16 is really too much to ask, so I'd like to see something along representation of two per category that will reduce the number to somewhat manageable. And that's plus the chair. That'd be a total of 13. But I think it's more important that we at least get two per category. And the reason why I say that we have a number of meetings in December, and as we had with the bond referendum committee, where we sought citizens input, we had absences. And I think during these upcoming months you're going to see absences. And so that's why I kind of like the idea of having two per category and going with a single choice as a manager. All right. Council member LaVonne I, I tend to agree with the idea of two per category and coming to a total of no more than 12 or 13, and I say there's flexibility there because there we may wish to stack one of the groups even a little more than two. But definitely two per would be my recommendation. And if you know, if there's a need to add more, certainly with the chair and such, then we do that. Okay. Mayor, can I get some clarification? So when we say two per category, I counted there's seven categories. Are we having six categories. Give me give me those lists because I've only got six okay. So resident doesn't count. So disability senior. Well they're all residents. We had a we had a separate category for Plano resident. So so disability senior business owner downtown underrepresented and then riders. And then there's a separate category for Plano resident. The residents were only two people. Correct. And the reason why was they didn't put any categories down. So they they didn't they didn't characterize themselves in one of the other categories. They left those completely blank. So that's just how we captured that. That's not its own category, I think. I think the six are applicable to having experience in one way or the other with transit, with Mass Transit Transit Authority through Dart. And so that that would be six categories. And then we'd add the chair, and that would be 13. Is everybody okay with that? Okay. All right okay. So I'm going to go ahead and start with the chair I'm going to. And what we'll do is once we once we get through and we can have discussions on any of these people if you like, we'll get the 13 recommendations and then we'll vote on all of them. Okay. So and I'll just go down this list. So I, I am recommending. Phil Dyer as the chair of this committee. Mayor pro tem. I only recommend one. Is that is that the way it works? Yeah. You can make you can make a let's do you want to do you want to go down the categories. So let's start with the disability category. And again I don't we'll we'll be able to have two. But anybody that has a recommendation. For a disability category go ahead and ask for the mic. And I'd, you know kind of make your make your presentation on that council member care. Yes. For the disability I would like to nominate Todd Marvin from my possibilities. Okay. Okay. Hold on. Deputy Mayor pro Tem, I'd like to appoint Christina Rhonda Parker. She is the vice president for Frezenius. It's a kidney dialysis center. Any other any other recommendations for the disability Council member Levine I'd like to put Ian Smith into the hopper. Okay, so we have three. In the the disability. Category. Any. Any thoughts on those three? One way or the other? I, I know we could we could possibly have more in one category than other but. Just just to be safe, I think we should limit it to two. So Mr. Mr. mayor, I would recommend that we just go down and and put all the names down and then maybe take a five minute recess and determine what we, you know, what we ultimately want to vote on so that we could get all the names down first. All right. Yeah. We can't do that. But Ian Smith. If I could make a suggestion, Christina could be in the business owners category. And what what is. I don't have it in front of me. What is Christina's? Okay. All right. She's. She is with a dialysis facility. Okay, so we could have her in that other category. Is there. Is everybody okay? Excuse me. Sorry. Council member downs. Go ahead. It's fine. He was saying what I was going to say. Mayor. Okay. So is everybody okay with putting Christina in a business owner category and leaving Todd Marvin and Ian Smith in the disability? I just I don't know who else the options are for business. It's not hard for me. Yeah. Mr. mayor, I'd like to hear everybody's names. No, no, no, no, I'm just I'm just. Oh, we're just moving her over to business owner right now. That doesn't mean we're voting on it. Okay? So in the next category is senior. I'm going to I'm just going to put everybody up so you don't you can just discuss it without me doing. There you go, Mr. Mayor. Yeah I'd like to nominate Joy Hinkelmann for the for the senior. Okay. She works at our wellness center now. She certainly knows all the seniors that are coming in. And, mayor, I concur with that. Okay. Council member Horne just beat me to that. Sorry. Okay. I was going to include June Jenkins. That was going to be my nomination too, in that category. Any anyone else in the senior category? I think those are two good choices. Okay. Let's go to transit rider. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. Yes. On transit I'd like to nominate Brett Cooper. Okay. Brett, I agree with Council member Horn. Okay, Mr. Mayor. Yes. Go ahead. I'd like to recommend Nathaniel. Adam. Okay. And I'm actually going to concur with Council Member Levine on that one. Daniel. Natalia. Adam. Adam. Transit rider. Anyone else in the transit rider category? I also have as a possibility. Adam Kolodny okay. All right. All right. I think we have category. What category four is underrepresented? Mr. mayor, I'd like to recommend John Yang. Mr. mayor, I'd like to recommend David Evans. Okay. Is it David Evans? Wouldn't he be like in downtown. He's not I'm I'm good with either one. We can put him either underrepresented or downtown. But that was my nomination. Okay. Any anybody else in underrepresented. Oh, okay. Yeah. So. Sorry. No. Downtown. I think one of them would be Corey Riniker. Right? We okay with that? I'm good with that. I'd like to suggest Catherine Walsh. Okay. Anyone else in downtown? I think as a possibility for downtown and business owner would be Pierce Cravens. Okay. Business owner and I put. Christina Ranneberger in business owner. So that covers. Us. Yeah. Pierce could go. Could be that one. Pierce could also be that instead of downtown. Mr. mayor, I'd like to suggest Michelle Brubaker for for business owner. Yes, sir. All right. And everybody okay with putting Pierce Cravens at business owner or. I mean, there's three. There would be three in either of those categories. I think if we're trying to keep our count down and not to per person, it's great when we've got crossover with like the downtown and the business owner. Yeah. Or downtown and rider because we've got that with like Corey Riniker as well. He's a writer and downtown just a just a thought. I think some of those crossovers helps us okay. And then finally. Or no, that was it. That's it. Okay. So I have three categories that just have two. We have underrepresented. John Yang and David Evans. Disability Todd Marvin and Ian Smith. Senior Joel Hinchman and June Jenkins. So we have to determine and downtown has has Corey Riniker and Catherine Walsh. Is it is that okay. Did we have two for transit? We have three. Three. Who was the third on transit? Adam Kolodny okay. Is that the rider? Transit rider yes. Thank you. So we have just two categories one business owner. We have Crystal Baker and Michelle Brubaker. Is that right. And Pierce Cravens. I'm sorry. So Pierce Craven this would be business owner okay. Pierce Craven and Corey Riniker. No, no. They they crossed to. No, no, Corey is in downtown. Okay. Pierce. We moved over to business. Okay. Owner I have that. So it would be Pierce Cravens. Christina Rosenberger and Michelle. Rebecca Brubaker. Any. I thought any recommendation, I thought deputy mayor pro tem was talking about in order to reduce, we could use the people who can cross over between business. And we did. We moved Pierce from downtown over to business owner. But they both are three or. Well, they they're not now. So business owner has three and so does transit rider. We'll get to that last everybody else I think we're we're in good shape except for there's three in business owner and three in transit rider. Mr. mayor. Yes. I'd like to endorse Christina because I think she brings a very important aspect of firms that schedule paratransit. And I think that that's going to be a very important contribution. I'd also like to endorse Michelle Brubaker. She has experience in transportation planning and is a longtime resident here with a lot of experience in transit agencies. I think that her experience and expertise would be very valuable. Okay. Anybody this is this is really not a motion and a second, but it's really kind of a majority. Is everybody okay with that? It's. So I'm sorry. Are we. Which one. We're just talking about the business owner category right now. Christina and Christina and Michelle and Michelle I'm okay with that. I do I do appreciate what council Member Levine said about Michelle and her experience in transportation. I'm okay with Christina and Michelle, so I'll support them. All right. And then finally, on transit rider Brett Cooper, Nathaniel Adam, and Adam Kolodny. I'd like to endorse Brett Cooper. Okay. I likewise, I would like to endorse Brett because of his history of riding busses and transit service. When he was living in Plano and working in Southwest research. Okay, so he certainly knows the ins and outs of the transit system as it is today. All right. And then. I believe Nathaniel Adam had. Nathaniel has experience writing the system from the legacy area, which is different from the downtown area. I believe. I believe he works for USAA, right? Correct. And and he is someone who, as I said, you know, we have a number of people who I think will be representing the the downtown area. I think that the area around legacy is absolutely critical for us to have good representation. I agree with that. I would agree to those were the reasons that Mr. Adam was on my list. Okay, I agree too. So let me see if I can go down this list. We would have Phil Dyer's, the chair of the Collin County Connects Committee, Todd Marvin and Ian Smith on the disability. Christina Ranneberger and Michelle Brubaker and business owner Joel Joey Hinkleman and June Jenkins in senior. Brett Cooper and Nathaniel Adam in Transit Rider. John Yang and David Evans. And under represented and Corey Riniker and Catherine Walsh as downtown. I'm not sure if everyone that nominated had actually checked with people to make sure that they're available for the meeting, so if possible, I would like to at least put an alternate if somebody is not able to make the meeting times. Do we know when the meeting times are? Has that been been established? So I mean, I'd like to still like to keep Adam Kolodny on the list as maybe an alternative. And Pearce Craven and Pierce Cravens. Yeah, those are two. Is that. Yeah. Okay. Is that everybody okay with those two alternates. Yes. Right. Yes. Yes. So those are our 13. All in favor raise your hand. Do you need clarification? You you want a motion okay. No I'm. Do you have those names all down in the categories. Do you want me to read them off again. No. Okay. I'll do a motion to approve. Okay, I second it. Thank you. I have a motion and a second to approve. The Collin County Connects committee. All in favor, raise your hand. Thank you. Motion passes 8 to 0. All right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. If I can make one more comment, please. And that is, I believe we should encourage each of these members to reach out to the other folks who have applied. And, you know, try to get their opinions and thoughts as the process moves forward. Sounds great. All right. Update regarding remaining heritage preservation funds, Christina. Good evening, mayor and council. I'm Drew Bronner, comprehensive planning manager, and I'll be providing the update tonight on this year's Heritage Preservation Grant funds. So to recap for fiscal year 20 2526 1.5 million in hotel motel tax revenue was allocated for heritage grants at the August Grant workshop. Our Heritage Commission chair provided an overview that the commission recommended just over 1.1 million to be allocated to seven nonprofit organizations for projects and events that promote tourism. The remaining funds were recommended to be used for other heritage projects, including city initiated projects and the Emergency Heritage Grant fund. These recommendations were supported by the City Council during the August 14th, 2025 Grant workshop and approved as part of the 20 2526 budget. Since then, for the city initiated projects, planning and special projects staff worked together to identify eligible projects that would promote heritage tourism. Recommended projects were presented to the Commission at their October 22nd meeting, and include two downtown activation projects, which include recurring historic walking tours in downtown Plano to be led by storytellers, and an event to promote the completion of two upcoming streetscape projects, the J place pedestrian alleyway improvements and streetscape Improvements at the southeast corner of K Avenue and 15th. Next is a rotating mural project, which will provide funding for artists to create and display rotating murals at the northeast corner of K, 15th and third is a welcome art project, which will provide funding for artists to create and display rotating murals at the northeast corner. Excuse me. At the corner, the rotating mural project at the K and 15th and the welcome Art project will replace the current monument sign at the corner of G Avenue and 15th Street. The Heritage Commission recommended approval of these items by a vote of 5 to 0, and, if supported by the City Council, staff will begin to plan and implement these items as soon as possible, and I'm available for any questions. Thank you. Any questions for staff? Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Consent and regular agendas. Is there an item a council member would like to remove? All right. Any council items for discussion on future agendas. All right. We'll take a two minute break and return at 7:00. Okay. And now declare the Plano City Council is reconvened in open session. That all council members are present. We'll begin tonight's regular meeting with the invocation led by Of Allegiance and Texas Pledge, led by Police Explorer post 911. Would you all please stand? Would you please pray with me? Our Heavenly Father, beloved, we thank you for the opportunity to serve our city, our community, our people. Grant each person here wisdom, insight, intuition and belief in something greater, something magnificent, and something that allows our community to be opened up to a way of living this life at the fullest. May those here tonight dig into their hearts and find the power to love their community. Well. May all of us acknowledge your presence and role in our authority and our decisions. May not one person be left out of this process, but may all people in our city and community be accounted for and served well. Let us seek the common good. Honor the dignity of every person created in your image, and may Christ reign of compassion and righteousness guide our actions and shape our communities. We ask this in the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the light of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee. Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you. Be seated. My guys just left. Yes. Three. Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Really. All right. Comments of public interest. Comments of public interest. This portion of the meeting is to allow up to three minutes per speaker, with 30 total minutes on items of interest or concern, and not on items on the current agenda. The council may not discuss these items, but may respond with factual or policy information. The council may choose to place the item on a future agenda, and we do have several speakers this evening. The first one is Crystal Curry. Okay. Good evening everyone. I am again giving an update on situation that I have going on. Last week was a little bit more difficult than usual. I had to involve the Plano Police chief to address some issues that I label malicious mischief, though it seems like a a small word, it in fact has impacts to me that are are are financial and distressing. So I've had to take a letter to him to have engage him and to get some suggestions on ways that I can, you know, kind of overcome those things because it makes me a little bit just based on my situation. It makes me a little bit more vulnerable to the public. So because of that, I've asked him to get involved and kind of help me through that process. One of the things that, you know, I want to say is that I've called the representatives, and one of the things that we're trying to do is work through who whose jurisdiction it is, even though it's multi-jurisdictional, as you could see, based on the the deck that I gave you, it's still not clear to everyone what direction to go in and how to get the congressional representatives to actually move forward with this. I think there's a little bit of hesitancy and a little bit of like, is this really happening kind of thing. But, you know, I just hope that a solution comes really fastly. Lastly, this begins the the official season of the holidays. And so, you know, as we go through this holiday period, this is the one time, you know, I've said in the United States that we actually do have holiday and vacation. So as we reflect on this time of year and prepare over the next five weeks to do personal reflection, I'm just grateful for, of course, the grace that I have, but also for each of you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you and elicit the help that I need for this very real, unprecedented circumstances that's impacting my life, in a way. And I also am grateful for the police department and for their being able to engage with me to address those issues that I am that I am facing. So thank you very much. I do look forward to hearing from any one of you to kind of help as we move through this situation. And as always, you know, I just, you know, I'm open. You can call me any time. I hope you have a hope, a joyful and a peaceful holidays. And I'll be here and continuously following up. Thank you so much. Alex Stein. Alex Stein. Good evening, Mayor Muns, and good evening to the distinguished council members of the Plano City Council. I'd like to begin by honoring the traditional custodians of this land with a brief Native American land. Acknowledgment. Dance. Hi. Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi, hi. We are on stolen land. Never forget that. All right. Thank you for letting me share that sacred moment with you guys. First of all, I want to say that I stand before you guys as a proud, gay, Filipino American man. I recently found out that my great grandfather was actually from the Philippines, which is awakened a deep ancestral pride inside of me. And, you know, I especially mean that when I am obviously talking to the other Asian councilwoman that refuses to look up at me, but it's neither here nor there. We are the same. Assalamu alaikum. And I just want to say a lot of y'all might not realize this, but, you know, being a gay man in Dallas, Texas, it's not easy. But there's one man that helped me become gay, and that was Ben Shapiro. And for you guys that are unfamiliar with Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is a he's a towering figure in conservative media. He doesn't merely critique the left, he courageously battles the woke right as well. Ben loves America so fiercely that he refuses to retreat to the safety of Tel Aviv, instead choosing to risk his life daily here in the United States by recording podcasts about Tucker Carlson and his pro-vaccine stance. But let's take a moment, you know, to roll up our sleeves in honor of Ben. Because if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have got vaccinated and I wouldn't be a homosexual today. And, you know, I've become such a Big Ben Shapiro fan that I've been talking to them about how can I help you out the most? And this is what he said. He said that his arch nemesis, Tucker Carlson, owns a nicotine brand, and that this nicotine brand is, you know, costing Tucker a lot of money and that in order for it to be successful, he needs a competitors to fail like Zyn. So I just want to say I love Zyn. Zyn is the most gay friendly dip company in the world, and I would like it if we could make some declarations for the city of Plano. The first declaration I'd like to make, I'd like you to declare the city of Plano the first gay zyn sanctuary city. And I want you to make it where every resident and visitor is not only protected in their right to use zyn, nicotine and any flavor, but is actively encouraged to do so rectally. Now, this is why I love Zyn and this is why this is a free country. All of you council members, you guys need to be like this. So I just want to show you it's very easy. You get the Zen like this and you just stick it right in the back like that, and then whew, that you get the nicotine buzz right there. So I'm just telling you, zyn to win. I love Ben Shapiro. God bless America. God bless Israel. And thank you so much. Everybody is in to win. It's a gay friendly and go Cowboys go most gay friendly team in the NFL. Love you. The next speaker is Lecia Nelson. Hello my name is Lisa Nelson. I am the mother of Sonia Reese. She is 19, non-verbal, severely disabled, and completely unable to defend herself. She is the very definition of a vulnerable victim. From January 2025 to today, Plano Police Department has successfully let Mike down a little bit. There you go. Okay, from January 2025 to today, Plano Police Department has successfully avoided arresting Sharon Roseborough, and that refusal is completely inexcusable. Here's the truth. In March, I provided the synchronized video and audio that clearly proved the abuse, along with the timestamps. In May of 2025, Adult Protective Services confirmed the abuse, and that was 6 to 8 months ago. Yet Plano Police Department refused to act. No arrests, no urgency, no protection for a disabled citizen. For ten months, Plano Police Department leadership knowingly held this felony case and delayed protection and delayed protected the suspect. Roseboro, not the victim, after 303 days. On November 20th, the Plano Police Department finally submitted the felony case number 25 014355 to the Collin County Da office. But I want the public to hear the truth. This is only happened after I sent a formal letter by email and certified mail to this Council and to the Chief of police. To this day, none of you responded to me yet. Some of our supporters received an update on this case being sent to the Da before us. The family that's fighting for justice. I had to reach out to the detective just to verify that this was true. Today I spoke with the Da office and they told me the case hasn't even been processed. They are unsure that if they even received it, and once they do receive it, it will take months just for them to sign a prosecutor. So after nearly a year, the case will sit at the bottom of an intake queue. Despite the video, despite the audio, medical documentations and apps confirming abuse, Plano calls itself the City of Excellence. Excellence means protecting your most vulnerable residents. For over 300 days, this city has not. Tonight I asked two things. First, a public commitment from this Council that you will fully support the Da in indicting and prosecuting Sharon Roseboro. And secondly, a full public review of Plano Police Department leadership to explain why a felony case involving a disabled victim took ten months just to forward to the Da office. Today marks 306 days that we have fought and we will continue. Please do not let your failures sabotage this prosecution any longer. Thank you. And here's some documentation that elder. The next speaker is Alvin Nelson. Good evening. My name is Alvin Nelson. I'm the father of Sonia Reese, who just turned 19 years old Friday. Sonia, their son, is non-verbal. She's severely disabled and completely dependent on us for every day, every part of her life. As a father, my responsibility is simple is to protect her. And because she cannot speak or tell us when she's hurt, we depend entirely on the systems around Sonia to protect her innocence and her vulnerability. When she attended Plano Senior High School. And so when we watched the video, Sonia being abused by our teacher, Sharon Rosenberg. As mentioned before, we saw excessive and unnecessary force by her. Our trust in the system has been shattered, but what really has happened since then, it's even worse. It's destroyed our faith in the leadership of the Plano Police Department. The betrayal began the moment the school resource officer became the first person to view the video. He made what has been described as a horrible call, quote unquote, claiming there was nothing wrong, a decision that has made the effect of shielding the school. And when I later met with the detective in person, he defended what happened by suggesting teachers have a right similar to parents. Now, not only is that false, it's also dangerous. And instead of going to the school to view the evidence immediately, the detective chose to wait for the school to send it, delaying even further the process. Let me be clear. If a parent had done what was shown in that video, they would have been arrested immediately. Instead, because of that first horrible call call, quote unquote, the Plano Police Department and the city's leadership stood by that decision rather than correcting it. Now, the truth is, the PD has a complete case file containing evidence consistent, consistent with a felony level offense, including video, audio, and medical documentation from January to April. Yet for months, leadership has made a decision that resulted in a ten month delay in action, even with overwhelming evidence that my daughter has been harmed. Today makes 306 days with no arrests, even though the evidence has been confirmed as abuse by Adult Protective Services and it's in the hands of the police department. Since May, mayor, council and chief, my wife has demanded a full public internal review of the police leadership responsible for this ten month delay, and I stand with her in that demand. If the city claims to value excellence as a sign behind you, then show us that life of non show us the life of our non-verbal child is worth more than protecting institutional failures. We're demanding the accountability and the justice that we're owed 306 days ago. Thank you. Amber Chaffin. Hello again. I first wanted to say. Well dang, messed up already. My name is Amber and I am with Keep Dart in Plano and I wanted to start by saying thank you for all of the thoughtful nominations that y'all made today for the Transit Committee, but nominations don't change the fact that the city's transit plan is moving forward without real public conversation. The proposal recently sent to Dart wasn't just incomplete, it actually proposed eliminating every local bus and micro transit service before any transit committee or public input had taken place. This wasn't a plan to improve transit. That was a plan to remove it. And it's a serious concern for all residents who depend on these services to get to work, school and essential appointments. The city's proposal would not only eliminate these services, it would also take back a significant portion of the sales tax revenue. I still haven't figured out how reducing funding and services is going to encourage more people to ride transit, instead of investing in improvements that attract riders and make transit reliable, y'all are planning to pull money away and shrink the system. That really raises serious questions about the city's true goals for transit in Plano. We've had trouble understanding why colon transit has become such a focus in Plano's decision making. It seems like it might have to do with a few individuals future political aspirations. The only city in Collin County I've actively seen interested in transit collaboration is McKinney, and they're already working with dart, so why can't play now? Now that the now there's a focus to a micro transit model which residents never asked for, there's been no citywide survey or meaningful outreach to riders who depend on the fixed route service. Micro transit may have a role, but it can't replace the system without community input. This is why transparency and process matter. Residents want a plan developed with them, not presented to them after decisions are made. The nominations tonight, tonight are encouraging, but they can't replace broader public involvement. The city shouldn't. Sorry. The city should host a joint town hall with Dart at the table, open to all residents to share proposals and answer questions. No ballot measure can substitute the real dialog with the people who ride transit every day. We can choose to listen, be transparent, and strengthen partnerships, or continue down a path shaped behind closed doors. I believe that Plano can do it. I also would like to invite you all on a ride a thon on December 13th. We're going to go all the way out to legacy on those busses that are always so empty to make sure that the it's that that vital bus route is not forgotten. It's y'all's chance to see firsthand what so many people rely on every day. Thank you and have a great day. Warren Pena. Good evening. My name is Warren Pena, 1400 drive here in Plano. I'm here tonight because I'm a little bit concerned about the plan to spin up this bespoke transit agency. I know many of the names. I know many of the people of the council y'all just appointed. And I'm one degree of separation removed from any of the others. I think they're great. I think they're going to do a great job. They're going to work very hard to do the best that they can. But I'm really concerned about the timeline here. It's the week of Thanksgiving. Christmas is right around the corner. We're just now starting this process with a plan to go live in February or March on a fairly small budget. I'm really worried about that. Guys, this is this is really rushing into this. I'm I'm just if one of my engineers at work presented this timeline to me, I'd be going back and saying, guys, can we revisit this? I just this doesn't feel achievable. So yeah, I'm concerned about that. And I'm concerned kind of where this city is, this strategy that the city has taken, like I've heard many times, that look, Dart has 13 member cities. It's had the same 13 member citizens founded. And that that's bad. And I agree with you all on that. That is a very much a red flag, but I really wish that the city was working to resolve that. I feel like the only way that that's going to get fixed is for the 13 cities and dart to go hand in hand to the city, to the state government in 27, with a plan that some of the other potential members cities agree on and say, guys, we figured it out. This is how we can reflow the model to get the funding to work so that we're out of the sales tax mess and maybe some folks can join. I really wish that's what my city was doing, rather than rather than picking fights with the agency and trying to get out of it. So I think we could be. I mean, we're supposed to be the City of Excellence. I think we could be a great example here, really get this region together. That's just not what I'm seeing. And I really wish it was. Thank you. Catherine Walsh. Good evening. I wanted to thank you for nominating me for the transit committee. I'm really looking forward to starting work. I've been talking to people in the community who are other transit riders or very impacted by this process, so I'm very grateful for the opportunity. Thank you all. Daryl Rodenbaugh. Good evening, Mayor Muns, city council members and city leaders. My name is Daryl Rodenbaugh, residing at 328 Oak Hollow and serving as volunteer CEO for the nonprofit North Texas Performing Arts. First, my thanks to those of you that supported our 2025 Stardust Awards. We recognized a dozen arts leaders and 90 volunteers, setting a new record in attendance and fundraising to keep our children's theater programs vibrant. We hope to see you at our fifth annual 2026 Stardust Awards on November November 7th, 2026. As you can see, I've entered my annual molting season as we open the 15th annual Plano Christmas tradition of Scrooge the Musical this year bigger than ever, with 150 cast members opening in the Plano Courtyard Theater December 10th and closing at Willow Bend on December 21st, this year's cast includes past councilmen and other civic leaders and civic citizens, and we hope you would be invited to join us. A quick update on our status at the Shops at Willow Bend Mall. We are deeply grateful, deeply grateful for the encouragement, funding and personal involvement of Mayor Muns, city Council and commission leadership, and city patrons. We're also thankful to the shops at Willow Bend Mall and its developer, Centennial, for allowing us to make Willow Bend our home. Over a decade ago, we spent almost $2 million and thousands of volunteer hours transforming empty retail space into a state of the art performing arts complex outside the schools. Our home represents over half of the entire city of Plano's indoor performance space. Last year, welcoming half a million visits, 11,000 youth enrollments and producing 200 shows with more than 1200 performances, bringing patrons from across North Texas to Plano. Like you, we follow the news reports and have heard the rumors we were told last. We were told by our developer last that they are still working on approaches that include a home for Ntpa. We are in full support of a major sports franchise making its home at the Willow Bend site, and we ask that you consider a big vision for a powerful 365 day a year destination that melds the energy and power of professional sports and the creative spirit of the performing arts. Much like the Seattle Center, L.A. live, and other such destinations in the country, this approach could provide a premiere home for a sports team and address Plano's Performing Arts space. Challenge. With your leadership and Plano's long standing support for the arts, there is no better place that's better positioned to make this bold vision a reality than Plano, Texas. With this uncertainty, we are asking our patrons to help us find alternative homes for Ntpa, ideally in Plano. There has also been interest from other cities in the region. I have personally visited two such sites in the past four days. In the meantime, our doors will remain wide open with shows on our stages every weekend. We stand committed to serving our community with a vision that everyone should have the profound opportunity to take the stage and to have their voices heard. Developing the character of youth. Thank you for your support for the North Texas Performing Arts, and I hope for you all a happy and peaceful Thanksgiving, a merry Christmas, and a wonderful holiday season and New Year ahead. Thank you for your time. The last speaker is Corey Riniker. Good evening Mayor and Council. I wanted to take a few moments this evening to talk about Lavon Farms. PNC approved the zoning request last week, and I'm sure you've been receiving a lot of comments about it. My position is that the project is generally fine. Staff and the owner and their development partners have done a commendable job, generally of molding the development to fit the Envision Oak Point plan. They have met expectations. My comments this evening. My comment this evening pertains to how the project could be improved, how to take it from good to great. The project is described as walkable, but the wide internal thoroughfares and lack of connectivity to adjacent neighborhoods work against pedestrian movement. Additionally, where the development does have the conditions to support walkability, there's little worth walking to. The biggest departure from Envision Oak Point is the omission of the nonresidential uses in the area designated for mixed use activity. This is unfortunate. Providing nonresidential uses. Neighborhood shops and groceries. Cafes third places where residents can gather and build community within walking distance of their homes is essential to creating vibrant neighborhoods. PNC recognized that this component was missing and also expressed concern about trip generation, providing places for people to go to that they don't need to get in their cars and drive to is a great way to reduce vehicle trips. Last, the project should add more housing. This is the last big greenfield site in the city, yet dwelling units per acre is less than eight. We have the great problem of being in a period of strong regional population growth. We should be taking this big opportunity on this important catalyst site to add as much room as possible to make those new North Texans into new Plano residents. I hope you'll take these points into consideration. Let's not settle for good enough. Let's push for a project that exceeds expectations. Thank you. Thank you. All right, let's move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda. The consent agenda will be acted upon in one motion and contains items which are routine and typically noncontroversial. Items may be removed from this agenda for individual discussion by a council member, the city manager, or any citizen. The presiding officer will establish time limits based upon the number of speaker requests. Mr. mayor, I move. We approve the consent agenda as presented. I second thank you. Have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. Please vote. Motion passes 8 to 0. Next item. Items for individual consideration. Public hearing items. Applicants are limited to 15 minutes presentation time with a five minute rebuttal if needed. Remaining speakers are limited to 30 total minutes of testimony time, with three minutes assigned per speaker. The presiding officer may amend these times as deemed necessary. Non public hearing items. The Presiding Officer will permit public comment for items on the agenda not posted for a public hearing. The Presiding Officer will establish time limits based upon the number of speaker requests, the length of the agenda, and to insure meeting efficiency, and may include a cumulative time limit. Speakers will be called in the order the requests are received until the cumulative time is exhausted. Item number one public hearing and consideration of an ordinance as requested in Zoning Case 2025 006. Amending the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the city. Ordinance Number 2015 five two as heretofore amended. Rezoning 3.2 acres of land out of the John B Martin Survey. Abstract number 603. Located at the southwest corner of Windhaven Parkway and Red Wolf Lane in the city of Plano, Collin County, Texas. From agricultural to single family residence attached and granting specific use. Permit number 85 for private. Excuse me, private Street subdivision directing a change accordingly in the official zoning map of the city, providing a penalty clause, a repealer clause, a savings clause, a severability clause, a publication clause, and an effective date. Good evening, mayor, council and executives. My name is Christina Day. I'm the director of planning here to present zoning case 2025 006 to you this evening. So this case is 3.2 acres of agriculture zoned property on the far west side of town. You can see it is on the border of the city of the colony. And the outlines there show the notice boundaries where we've noticed both 200 and 500ft from the edge of the property. It is on the south side of Windhaven Parkway, west of Midway Road. So the request before you this evening is to rezone this agricultural property to single family residence, attached as the base zoning with a specific use permit for private street subdivision. And that would allow the subdivision to be both gated and to be privately owned and maintained. The street infrastructure there. So the rezoning request would provide a transition for the single family detached neighborhoods in the area. You can see the labels of the zoning. They're single family six, seven, nine, and 20 surrounding this property, as well as multifamily development to in the colony immediately to the west. So a variety of of zoning densities within this area. The associated concept plan that's in your packet does meet the single family attached zoning requirements. No modifications are requested for that base zoning. So why is there a specific use permit required here? It is because these are privately owned and maintained streets. SP does allow additional requirements or restrictions to be attached. So there are a number of restrictions that are being attached. There are actually three within the ordinance. But just for ease of kind of points, I divided them on the slide into four. So one is that access to the alley must be gated from the adjacent property to the west, so it is a controlled access to the west. There is a minimum setback of 15ft from the southern property line that includes a ten foot wide landscape buffer to help provide some protection and just a visual separation from the property to the south. Those homeowners also a minimum six foot tall landscape screen between any alley or street, and Red Wolf Lane, which runs along the east side of the property. Additionally, there's no access to be provided from Red Wolf Lane and earlier iteration of the plan did show access to Red Wolf Lane, but that's been removed. So this is the current concept plan. The red shows circulation. There is an alley kind of in the solid line and then a slip road. You'll see those sometimes within the city. That's kind of a one way drive that provides parking and access to the townhomes, and it's really their front entry. So the stars indicate the dwelling units. Then there's a small yard with a detached garage, and there's surface parking behind these garages. And then along the alley to the rear, there is a location for traditional trash service or residential trash service provided by the city. Also here you'll see we've indicated the six foot tall landscape screen that will be along Red Wolf Lane and the ten foot wide landscape buffer that will be required under the SP, adjacent to the homeowners to the south. So regarding the comprehensive plan, this property is designated neighborhood on the Comprehensive Plan. And so when staff reviewed that designation, we looked at the city's typical neighborhood design that is part of the comprehensive plan. It shows a variety of single family detached housing with single family attached and other more dense products on the exterior, around commercial corners and along major roadways. And that is why we believe that single family attached would be an appropriate use here. Again, along Windhaven Parkway, consistent with the typical neighborhood design that's found in Plano. So with regard to the character defining elements height density intensity, parking pattern of streetscape access for other transit, we found that the application meets all the standards of the city. Regard to policies of the Comprehensive Plan, our undeveloped land policy, our housing trends analysis, our infrastructure policy. It meets those policies as well. We did have a letter in support from the property owner. We have 12 letters of opposition within 200ft. This is 39.7% of the acreage within the 200 foot buffer, which requires a supermajority vote or six votes on council due to the opposition of surrounding property ownership. Regarding other responses we've received within the city, we do have three letters in support or three responses in support, none that are neutral and 89 in opposition, for a total of 92 responses. We did receive 32 other letters and emails. A lot of those were duplicate online responses. So the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5 to 1 in support of this request. That does include both a rezoning of the base zoning and the specific use permit. With these stipulations as shown on the screen, I'm available for questions you might have on this case. Otherwise, it concludes my presentation. But the applicant is here and does have a presentation for you this evening. Okay. Council Member Horne, do you have any question? Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you, Director Day, for the presentation. One of the things I had a question about, particularly with the soup and it was brought up during the PNC meeting by one of our engineers. Is that fire? Fire safety? And I am assuming that this this soup, and particularly the conceptual plan was reviewed by the fire department. Was there any was there any issues brought up by them with regards to getting their equipment to the front and back of these buildings? Yes, there is a the way it's laid out, it does not currently meet the full hose lay requirement from the street. So there will need to be a variance. There is a plan to sprinkle the buildings. It's really those rear garages are not able to meet the hose lay requirement. And so they will need to grant a variance and those will need to be sprinkled. They don't grant them at this concept plan level. So they that will be reviewed further on in the plan review process. So you're saying that the garages themselves will be sprinkled. Is that correct? Yes, sir. That's my understanding. But will with their equipment and what what brings to mind is because I saw what the price point of these vehicles, I mean, these homes are going to be. There could be a real potential that will have EVs parked in these garages. And we know that the sprinkler system may not be sufficient to protect the other attached garages there. And my point being is, is that we've seen cases or the practices where they pull the vehicle out of these garages and place fire blankets on it. Do we have any indication from the fire department that they're going to be able to do that? We did not have any concern from the fire department outside of recommending the sprinkler system. So these variances are typical when they don't meet the full 300 foot hose lay, but they still have a maximum standard where they won't grant a variance over. I believe it's 600ft, but we could ask the fire department for more information on that. However, I don't have any additional information at this time. All right. Great. My last question and thank you again for that answer. And we look forward to further discussions. But can you describe some of the nature to the opposition, particularly the nearby neighbors? Why were they opposed to this single family detached housing in this infield? The primary opposition we've heard is due to the density of the proposal and the traffic generation. I believe that's been the the if I were to summarize it as the two primary issues. All right. Thank you. Council member care. Yes. I'd like to better understand the Sup. So if this concept plan changes, does the SCP go away or does it stay stick around. The Sup would still run with the land, but the way it's designed, it's the streets are going to be owned and maintained by the property owner, not by the city. So that's that's the way it's designed today. And that's why they were requesting the specific use permit. And so if we were to grant this zoning change and it were to change hands, someone can come in and build something different, but they still have to adhere to the Sup. It would still have to adhere to the Sup or the city would have to. They would have to bring a design that the city would then accept as meeting the city street design standards. Okay, the gate on the left hand side towards the colony. We and the city have the ability to require or manage enforcement of it remaining closed, regardless of which side of the of the border it's on. Is that correct? That is correct. It's our intent through including that stipulation with the zoning that we do that it is enforceable. The language that specifically in the regulation where it says the adjacent property. Let me see here, I don't know, I thought that was let me let me look at the ordinance, because I don't know that that's the the language on your screen is not the language that's in the ordinance. It says include a controlled access gate. That is what's in the ordinance. And that language is specifically to ensure that it's more enforceable so that the acts if it's open, it's no longer controlling access. And to make it enforceable by property standards. Okay. Could you say more about the the six foot tall screen? Say more about what? That is. Certainly the six foot tall landscape screen is intended to be provided on the along Red Wolf Lane. And that, I believe, was something that we added in response to community concerns. There is a large stand of trees there today, and that's, I think, to help preserve, hopefully some of the trees that may exist today. And to again shield the properties across Red Wolf Lane from the development so that, you know, there are quite a lot of trees there. Are there protections in place to, I guess, maintain those trees or, you know, during the construction if they die and replacement, that sort of thing. Could you speak to that, please? Certainly. The city has a tree preservation ordinance. So with our landscape plan and our through our planning process, we require a general tree survey. So we look at the trees that exist on site and trees that can be preserved must be preserved. If not, they have to be mitigated either through through paying a fee. Essentially, if they're removed in a place that they should not be removed, so that then goes, they can either be replaced on site, or they pay into a fee. That goes to putting additional trees in our park system. The screen that we're talking here, this is consistent throughout the city, the sort of green screens that we have. Yes, it would be. We'd be looking at an irrigated landscape screen. So it would need to be fully, fully screening the site within two years of installation. If we change to single family attached. The zoning here is going to be consistent. It is throughout the city. So anytime we have a single family attached in any part of the city, this will stay consistent in this specific place as well. Yes, it is our standard single family attached residential zoning district. So they're looking to meet those standards within our ordinance. And when it comes to the comp plan, I know you said it in your presentation. I just want to confirm it fully aligns with the comp plan from from that we haven't had in place for some time, correct? Yes. We did not find any any disparity between the comprehensive plan and this request. So we feel. You mentioned in the presentation that this is a good transition from single family to what's happening or has already happened in the colony. So the design of this is also, I guess, in alignment with the way we do things in the city. Right? I think the city's, again, traditional neighborhood design shows higher density housing out towards the major thoroughfares and density in the interior of neighborhoods as sort of a buffer between the lower density housing and the street. It's the way many neighborhoods are designed within the city. When I was looking at the the plans, and then I heard today that for in terms of trash, that there's going to be city services. Is that correct? Yes, sir. City service is there any there's no nothing in the design for dumpsters in the back. No. That was on a early draft. There was a dumpster. But somewhere through the plan review process, we met and they need to provide city service essentially here. Because the trash, because of our ordinances and the contract, we have it. It needs to be contained the way service needs to be contained within the city of Plano. Okay. So it will be city services for sure. On the yes, city service, not through Republic Services. Forgive all the questions. In terms of the traffic, I think that there are a couple of exits off of the slip road. These are all they're on the request of the city. We have decided how many exits and essentially how they work to prevent people from coming in through the exits. Right. There's it's a one way in and out there on the slip road. So you enter on the left side of the drawing or the west side of the property, and you exit on the right side. So it is effectively a one way drive. And then the alleyway runs around the back of the property. And that could be two way traffic on the alley, just like any alley in in the city. But the entryway and exit onto Windhaven are are one way only. Okay. Thank you. That's it. Thank you. Council member. Lavon, I want to ask a couple more questions. On what Councilman Kerr was was referring to, especially on the screening wall to the. East of the property along Red Wolf Lane. There. You said that this was a minimum six foot. It's a six foot landscape screen. Yes, sir. Okay. And in looking at the landscape that's there, now that we just talked about, a lot of that seems to be lower. I wouldn't quite call it shrubbery and is probably going to be cleared out in some form or fashion, leaving a handful of trees, none of which are necessarily. Going to be ideal for screening in there. So I do fear that for at least those two years, they're going to have some difficulty trying to screen that area from the the homes on Red Wolf. I also noticed that the home on Red Wolf that's directly across at the corner has its own screening wall up. So they're they seem pretty well protected in that regard. That I think needs to be considered when we talk about the the concerns of the neighbors there. But to the south, where we have the ten foot wide landscape buffer, can you describe that a little bit more? How tall would that be or what? What's involved there? The landscape buffer is, I think, largely intended to protect the existing tree line that exists today. So there there was a lot of concern that we heard from neighbors on that existing tree line. And, you know, could that be taken out? And the idea there is to really protect the while those aren't necessarily manicured, might be a way of presenting it or a formal tree line, I think they do provide a lot of protection and a lot of screening between the properties today. And so the idea was to ensure that there is a landscape buffer there and that it is even if trees are removed, they are there is something that's replaced either with shrubs or trees. So there is a buffer there between the properties. No masonry walls required in this case, no masonry because it's single family to single family. There's no masonry wall required. Okay. Thank you Christina. Certainly. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. I'll open the public hearing. We do have speakers this evening. First is the applicant and Lucilio Pena. Good evening. My name is Lucille Pena, 1722 Ruth Street, Dallas. 75201. I am with Billings Development, and I'm here to tell you a little bit more about the project. Here is an aerial showing you what the project is about. I'm going to lift this a little bit. I'm bending over a little too much. Thank you. We originally had four buildings that were 16 units of four units each and we reduced it. There was a concern about density and we reduced it to three buildings of five units each. So 15 we now have a density of 6.49 per acre, which is comparable to several of the neighborhoods around us in terms of density. And I want to repeat again that this is single family attached. Our intent is to rent the units, but the building type and what it is, is single family attached. Let me move forward with the let me. This is topography just showing you what the site is like. And the green is the higher land at six, six, 6 or 6, six, seven. And then towards the center of the of the site, it just goes down 5 to 6ft. These are photographs of the site itself. I'm going to take your attention to the second from the right. At the top it says 15 foot minimum edge alley. And what it shows is the architect drew in what the alley where the alley would be placed. And there you see the existing trees that are there and the height of the existing trees. Another thing that I want to draw your attention to is the photograph on the upper right. Those are townhomes that are currently built on Windhaven in the colony, and our intent is to build two more buildings like that one. That would be two story brick buildings, and then a third building that would have a different unit type. The first two buildings would be two bedroom units. So there's ten units that have two bedrooms. And then the last five units would be three bedroom units. This shows the plan and then the relationship to the property line on the south. The closest building you have, the garages in between that act like a buffer and the closest garage is 49ft, one inch on the left, and then the increase in size to 56ft on the right. On the left, the closest building itself, which would be two stories, is 89.5in or 90ft. And then you get as far as 100ft, that is, from the property line. Just to show how these buildings are located in relationship to the property to the south. This shows some of the townhomes that we have built that are two story townhomes. Our intent, as I pointed out earlier, is that the first two buildings will be brick and will match the ones on the bottom left. This is the floor plan for the two bedroom townhomes. Here's your floor plan for the three bedroom townhomes. They are all two stories. And this is a section showing the property line to the south, the two story townhomes and then the garage in between. And then there's an aerial. I think that's the end of the presentation, but I wanted to mention that the architect and I met twice with various homeowners and discussed with them what their concerns were. We asked them to put their concerns in writing. They sent us a list of all the concerns. We tried to accommodate them as much as we could. And here's the list of concerns that they requested that we accommodated, one of them being reduced the density. So we made it more in compliance with the adjacent single family zoning next to us. Another one. And this was a big one to remove all access to Red Wolf Estate. Redwood Wolf, red Wolf Lane. Sorry, there's a lot of concern that the traffic on Windhaven is heavy in the mornings and that there would be cut through traffic trying to go through the residential areas, so we eliminated that access. There was also a request in order to avoid that traffic, that we would gate the alleys connecting to the alley and the colony on the west side, and we agreed to do that as well. They further single family attached has an allowable height of 35ft. They requested that we limit the height. We agreed to do so, and we went from 35ft to 25ft. This forces us to have flat roofs, which is TPO, no pitched roofs. They're more expensive. But we agreed to do that. They requested a 12 foot tall fence on the south side. We said the maximum we would build is eight feet, because the code doesn't allow you to go to 12ft. The buffer screen that you saw on the south side, they had requested 20ft. We agreed to 15ft buffer, but it saves all the existing trees. As you saw in the rendering. And then the last one is the garbage they wanted. No dumpsters. So we are complying with the ordinance, but it is our intent to service all of the garbage. We have valet garbage pickup in the section that is the colony, so we would be servicing that from there and trying to have as minimum garbage in the back as possible. But nevertheless, we are complying with Plano standards. But just to let you know, the things that were requested and the things that we agreed to in that process, and I'm happy to answer any questions related to that. And then Miss Billingsley is here if there are any questions for her as well. Thank you. Thank you for that presentation. You gave us a list of the things that you are able to accommodate. What are some of the things that you weren't able to accommodate the put in single family detached or a park? It was low density. It was as as long as it was single family attached that it was rental. That was the objection. I think that the traffic, we really addressed it when we closed access to Red Wolf. That's where the bulk of the comments were from. Thank you, thank you. Council member care. Good evening. Thanks for answering my questions here on that buffer. Who maintained those trees? Is that something you will maintain? Yes. But here actually let me go back a picture, a photograph I. Oh where is it? Oh, it's not in here. Let me see. Well it's we had put the plan on an aerial on Google aerial. Somehow I don't think it's in here, but what it shows is that all of the construction stays away from the trees. So our intent would be to maintain it, to clean it up. And certainly we would be cleaning under the trees in Red Wolf to add the six foot hedge that has been requested. Thank you. You were showing the height of the land, I guess, on that acreage it would the base of these townhomes be at the same level as the base of the homes? Is it above or is it below? It would be slightly below. So in terms of the sight line, you're saying it would be 25ft. It's going to be a little bit lower to start with. And it's got distance of the garages plus the alley and a small yard even. Is that right. Correct. Between the homes. What assurances do the residents have that this is the plan that's going to be built? My understanding is that if we deviate in any way from this plan, we'd have to come back to PNC and City Council. Or let me word it. Also, it is fully our intent. We do a lot of construction of all types office residential commercial etc. and this is a product that we have built, the units that are next to it, the residents had asked for occupancy in those units and rental rates. We gave them all that information and those units are very desirable. They stay fully occupied and we have very little turnover. I'm going to go back to the garbage question one more time, because I heard something different from you than what I'd heard from the city about how the service was going to be handled. So our intent is for us to pick it up ourselves. That's what our intent is. But I think I need to work out more of the details with the city, and nonetheless, it will maintain the standards of the city of Plano. That's correct. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Of course, I can't tell Miss Billingsley, Lucy Billingsley, 1722 Ruth Street. I just wanted to add that I'm also aware that there are certain restrictions have been put on city councils today concerning materials and bricks and elevations. This is the entrance to 1700 acre development that we have, and we care tremendously about the entry experience. So we really sort of love the buildings we've built. It is our full intention to keep this exact concept going as, as Lucille had mentioned. And so when your position to worry about what might happen on our behalf, just know our interest are the same as the city's, we need this to be wonderful. This is actually owned by our daughter and we're here for the long term. So we care a great deal and happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Next speaker. The next speaker is Bianca martinez. Good evening. Second time at the podium. Still nervous, you know. So Bianca martinez 6009 Madera Court. I'm also the president of our HOA in the neighboring area. Let's see if I can steal Billingsley's. Little diagrams here. Let's see. So in the upper right hand corner of the photo there is our HOA. So we are we don't directly about it. We are not right up against Red Wolf Lane. But we have a vested interest in this. As you know, being within the nearby zone. So from our standpoint, when we look at this project, you know, we my family and I, we moved in 2021, we've always kind of seen this property, never really knew what was going on with it until, you know, bam, the sign goes up. It's proposed rezoning. And so then, you know, I got a call from another neighbor. We started looking into it. And so out of the gate, I was absolutely opposed to this, you know, as anyone would be saying, you know, no, we're single family. You know, that's what we do here in Plano. And so, you know, then once I realized kind of, you know, talking to planning and zoning, you know, the other part of me is a problem solver. So I was like, well, you know, if I don't like townhomes here, what else could be here? You know, private, you know, private park, public park, you know, single family detached homes. And when you start to look at all that, you know, again, a numbers person, I'm looking at the numbers. I'm like, you just can't do that. I don't think you guys are willing to give us another public park sandwiched between Sunset Park and Arbor Hills and all of those great, you know, amenities that we have. And so it became pretty clear at that point. I was like, well, I guess, you know, single family attached is pretty darn appropriate here. And so again, looked at the numbers and then I realized I'm like, well, again, if we can't put anything else here, what is going to come of this? And also I don't want to have the same conversation and have, you know, being be going up against multifamily, you know, perhaps a mixed use situation ten years from now, who knows what the case may be? I picked up the phone. I called Billingsley and said, hey, you know, what would it take to help shape this into something that, you know, we want to see in our neighborhood? And I will say, too, I don't think this is necessarily a this little parcel of land concern as it is that we live off of Wind Haven, which is the gateway from Austin Ranch to the tollway. So I think there's a much larger, you know, cause of a lot of our traffic woes and everything that are going on here. It's not this little parcel of land. They've made very reasonable accommodations. They've been very great to work with. Honestly, I think my comfort level personally, again, as someone who does not abut the property 20s. Yes. And, you know, having their direct line of communication with them, they've been very reasonable, great to work with. And so I believe the proposed plan in front of you is very reasonable and I support it. Thank you. Christy Davidson. Hi, my name is Christy Davidson. I'm a 25 year resident of Red Wolf Estates, and we are the neighborhood that will be directly affected by this. I do oppose the rezoning for the obvious reasons. There will be a lot more traffic on Windhaven, especially in the mornings. The noise, the 30 trash receptacles I believe will have the views of the 25 foot structures from all of our backyards, and not to mention the hit that our property values will probably take. But I mean, that being said, if this is going to pass, we would like to ask on behalf of myself and my neighbors, that the city requires at least a decorative retaining wall, something because we don't we don't believe that they're not going to clear cut all the trees. I mean, I we don't they maintained the field for the last 20 years, and the only time it got mowed was when the red notices came up that they're about to be fined. So I don't we don't have a lot of confidence in the 6 to 8 shrubs that are on the plan. It's just not enough. It's not going to cut it. I mean, we would like to drive into our neighborhood and not view the backs of driveways and trash receptacles. I mean, at the end of the day, this property is Plano and it needs to reflect Plano and the Plano neighborhoods. The last speaker's not abutted to that property. We are, and we would like it to still look like Plano and not the colony. And any help we could get with the buffer wall or screen, I mean, six six foot shrubs are just not going to they're not going to cut it anyway. We appreciate your help. Thank you, thank you. Kimberly Ashman. Good evening. I have been in Plano for five years. I'm also a resident of Red Wolf Estates, and when we purchased our home in 2020, we asked about that property and we were told that it was zoned agricultural. Don't worry about it. It's fine. I asked about Austin City Ranch and I even called a friend who said, oh yeah, I lived there, so I don't have anything against Austin City Ranch, but I would like to keep that area zoned agricultural. I think there's some other ideas we can come up with to use that land appropriately, and I'd love to see a community garden or something along those lines at Austin City Ranch could use. I don't think when I look at these designs that the traffic is going to flow as easy. I mean, they are trying to squeeze a whole bunch onto 3.2 acres, a whole bunch, and I'm just opposed to this plan change. And thank you for your time. Thank you. The last speaker is Irvin Vangala. Okay. All right. Is that it? I'll close the public hearing, confine the comments to the council. Councilmember horn. Yes. Thank you. It's been a considerable amount of time looking at this case. And I looked I watched the PNC meeting the other day about. I even drove by the site and looked at it. And it's a great site. On case on the petitioners actions here. Clearly they understood what the concerns were with the neighbors. And we hear you with regards to the buffering that needs to be required on the south side of the property. I would like to see them maintain that, if not, if nothing else, even improve on that I looked at the case. It's compliant with the fully compliant with the comprehensive plan. It makes a great transition from the colony into the rest of heading east to Windhaven. And I think it's just with single family attached, it meets a housing need that we need in that area. I love the homes that are over there, the single family detached homes, they're all great, but we think this property here will help. Some of our newer residents come in, and though they're on the far west side of the town, it does give them an opportunity to live, work and play in the city of Plano. So I think the slip road, my answers were confirmed by the fire department. I think we're going to be able to maintain a secured system there in case we have fires in the garage. So I think we're pretty happy with that. I'm pretty happy with that. So with that, I would move that we approve a zoning case 2025 006. Council Member Care. I have a question. Is there is there anything we can do in terms of this zoning case related to the trees or. I think I think this is just the zoning question for us tonight when when we talk about specifics down the road, would that be the soup though that could address this. And Christina, you mentioned that there is already tree there's an ordinance related tree. So they couldn't really clear cut. So can you help me understand that a bit better? They could remove the trees if they wanted to pay the tree mitigation fee, but they still need to maintain the landscape buffer both on the east side of the property and the south side of the property. So those the details of those are determined at the time of site plan approval with the landscape plan. But those those will they will provide a a full screen along with Red Wolf Lane. That's the city's expectation and a a similar buffer to what exists today that is really full screening, I believe, along the southern property line. So it would cost money to take those trees down in addition to the cost to remove them. That is correct. Okay. Thank you. I'd like to second the motion. Okay. Deputy Mayor Pro Tem, sorry, I think Bob asked one of the questions I was asking. If we can't stipulate anything else just in the zoning request. I do really appreciate that the the developers are talking to the neighborhood and finding out, making some compromises. Sounds like some pretty significant compromises and always appreciate the the willingness to do that. So hopefully they'll continue to work with the neighbors to do everything that they can. If the zoning passes to meet the meet the needs of the community to to to make them happy with the the new development. So I am in favor of this as well. So I have a motion and a second I'll just say the the buffer for those on Red Wolf. And I think. Is is really good, especially being right there on Windhaven you, you have consistency in the two projects that that are to the west of you. And I think I think being congruent, I think it makes a big difference of how that will all look. And, and, you know, to be able to do single family attached and have six, six and a half units per acre is is pretty special. And I know the quality of construction will will be good. So with that being said, I have a motion and a second to approve. Item number one please vote. All right there. Are we okay. Motion passes 8 to 0. Item number two. Item number two. Public hearing and consideration of an ordinance as requested in Zoning Case 2025 Dash 12 to amend the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City Ordinance Number 2015, dash five two as heretofore amended, granting Specific Use Permit 109 for Transit Center Station on point one acre of land located 60ft east of Communications Parkway and 20ft 24ft north of Legacy Drive in the city of Plano, Collin County, Texas. Presently zoned planned development 65 Central Business one. Directing a change accordingly in the official zoning map of the city, providing a penalty clause, a repealer clause, a savings clause, a severability clause, a publication clause, and an effective date. This case needs to be tabled to the December 8th meeting to perfect notice requirements. Okay, let me open any questions. Thanks, Christina. Thank you. I'll open the public hearing. Any speakers? There are no speakers on this item. Okay. I'll close the public hearing. Confine the comments to the council. Motion to table. Second, I have a motion and a second to table. Item number two. Please vote. Motion passes 8 to 0 to table. Item number two. Number three. Item number three. Public hearing and consideration of an ordinance as requested in Zoning Case 20 2514. To amend the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City Ordinance Number 2015, five two as heretofore amended. Rezoning point two acres of land out of the Sanford Beck Survey, Abstract Number 73, located on the east side of Municipal Avenue, 80ft north of 12th Street in the city of Plano, Collin County, Texas. From light industrial one to single family resident six, directing a change accordingly in the official zoning map of the city and providing a penalty clause, a repealer clause, a savings clause, a severability clause, and an effective date. All right. The next item is Zoning case 20 2514, the aerial map that you see shows the portion of property. It is only 2/10 of an acre. It's a single lot along Municipal Avenue, the east side of municipal. And you can see the notice buffers that have gone out consistent with state law and city ordinance. So this is a request to rezone from light industrial to single family residence. Six. This was initiated by the city. But on behalf of the property owner, it really is returning this property to its original use. It is consistent with the adjacent uses to the east and to the south and the Vendome neighborhood, and there are no proposed site improvements associated with this zoning request. So this was a home that was built as a single family residence in 1953, predates zoning in the city. So you see, in 1956, a few years later, the site was zoned industrial on the city's original zoning map and then updated to Light Industrial One. In 64, it turned into a commercial use about 20 years after it was built in the 70s, and since then it's been operating as a commercial use. But the current owner wants to convert it back to a single family residence, and so is requesting to rezone it so they can do so. So this is the location of the property. You can see it's really just this one small kind of out parcel lot in the Vendome neighborhood. And it would just bring it into alignment with the rest of the parcels in the neighborhood. The two starred pieces are parcels that came in requesting rezoning to single family back in 2015. So this is consistent with the Silver Line station area plan, which shows Vendome neighborhood as part of Transit Residential Village. And so consistent with the comprehensive plan. We did have one letter in support from the property owner, an adjacent property owner sent a letter of opposition but did not further explain that opposition on the letter. So on the map in the zoning case response map, we have had one. In response to responses in opposition for a total of three responses that the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended support by a vote of 6 to 0. And I'm available for questions you might have on this item. All right. Any questions? Okay. I'll open the public hearing. There are no speakers on this item. I'll close the public hearing. Confine the comments to the council. Council member care. Mister mayor, I move that we approve. Item number three. Second. Thank you. Have a motion a second to approve item number three, please vote. Motion passes 8 to 0. Thank you. Item number four. Item number four. Public hearing and consideration of a resolution to approve and reauthorize the City of Plano Policy Statement for tax Abatement, thereby establishing criteria for evaluating tax abatement incentive applications. Establishing procedural guidelines and criteria. Criteria governing tax abatement agreements, and providing an effective date. Thank you, Mayor and Council Doug McDonald, Economic Development Director here. Tonight, chapter 312 of the Local Government Code requires cities that they have tax abatements to have a an active tax abatement policy and resolution approved by city councils to remain for a city that can use this tool, we have to reauthorize every two years by state law. So our reauthorization is up and we're asking for approval of the reauthorization of the policy this evening. Before you all can adopt or reauthorize these guidelines and criteria, the state requires a public hearing process that will have tonight for the amendment, appeal, or reauthorization of the policies. Since 1987, we've had 141 tax abatement agreements. Currently, right now, the city has six active abatement agreements that are still active today. As you all know, this is a tool that we use less often as a more mature, grown out city in terms of abating taxes up front. The tax abatement policy was approved by council in 2016, and last agreement was approved in 2016, and all the abatements will are anticipated to expire December 31st, 2028. Council, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Any questions for Doug? All right. I'll open the public hearing. There are no speakers on this item. All right. I'll close the public hearing and confine the comments to the council. Mr. mayor, I move we approve item for reauthorization of tax abatement policy. Second. Okay, so I have a motion, a second to approve item number four. Please vote. Motion passes 8 to 0. There being no further business meeting is adjourned. It's time to come up. That's the last time. 830.