have 30 seconds remaining speakers registered on the consent agenda items will be taking taken following the announcement of any items being pulled from consent speakers registered for non-consent items other than public hearing and Zoning cases will be taken together prior to those meet items being acted upon speakers will be given three minutes to speak on all items within those blocks that they registered to speak on thank you good evening and welcome to your fort city council meeting I'll call us to order tonight's invocation will be by Pastor Chauncey Franks from tcufca Charter coach please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of Allegiance mayor Parker and to All City Council Members thank you so much for this opportunity to be with y'all tonight it's a great honor thank you for your service please join me in prayer well father God we thank you we thank you for the breath of life we thank you for this moment we thank you for everyone who was here uh the concerns the Affairs that we bring into this room tonight we thank you for the leadership that you have appointed to help lead and to help guide City of Fort Worth Lord we know that leadership is not always easy but we are thankful that you have appointed each leader for this time and so God I pray that you will continue to pour your spirit and their hearts and mind give them strength to be connected to your heart because your heart reflects all people let this city be a city of unity as we continue to work through the challenges the difficult times and to celebrate the amazing things that you are doing in the city bless this meeting let it glorify you in your son's name we pray amen please the first item a business will be a special Proclamation a presentation of a proclamation for the 50th anniversary of leadership Fort Worth by mayor Maddie Parker good evening and I know I'm going to ask councilmember Michael Trane to Crane to help us present certificates of recognition to Jennifer thank you so much for bringing this wonderful group of people to celebrate the 50th anniversary of leadership worth Fort Worth which is so incredibly on our honor to to get to be with you this evening so Michael if you want to go down to the diocese and we'll join you for a picture in a second and Jennifer however you want to do it if you want to have everybody stand behind you or if you want to let Michael read first it's up to you so thank you thanks thanks mayor thanks uh Jennifer and and crew I'll let you talk a little bit about the crew but um I'm thankful for uh leadership Fort Worth and what they've done for the city as an alumni I know uh mayor Pro Tim Bivens is also an alumni of the program but it is a long list of people that are leaders in Fort Worth that have gone through the program whether that's the leader kids program the leadership Fort Worth leadership class uh Leading Edge a leader Prime all the programs so I have a proclamation on your 50th Anniversary I've been honored also too to work on behalf of of leadership Fort Worth in a management role too and so I'm proud of everything that's happening now with the group and let me read this to you I'm going to give this to you to hold as part of this it says whereas leadership Fort Worth was founded in 1972 and graduated its first cohort in 1973 and celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2023 and whereas through three adult programs and one youth program for 8th grade students leadership Fort Worth has graduated more than 4 000 participants with over 1200 those being leader kids their Pro their programs help ensure a strong pipeline of leaders across the community to make Fort Worth a better place for everyone and whereas leadership Fort Worth provides Fort Worth divert with diverse and enlightened leaders and envisions a community where everyone has the opportunity to be a leader and to serve the greater good leadership Fort Worth alums hold elected office run businesses lead non-profit organizations serve the community and More in an effort to make Fort Worth better for everyone and whereas leadership Fort Worth is one of the oldest Community leadership development organizations in the United States and serves a model for other programs now therefore the city of Fort Worth does hereby recognize and celebrate leadership Fort Worth's 50th anniversary in the city of Fort Worth oh yes thank you thank you you want to say a few words oh my gosh thank you all so so much letting us be here for something fun and celebratory I know that's not always the case that sometimes at these meetings but we're so honored to be here so honored to have all of you join us in celebrating 50 years of providing Fort Worth with great leaders you know Gina Bivins I know you were you know councilman member vivens you've also on our board of directors at one point and as councilmember crane said he was on our staff at one point too so there's lots of touch points lots of overlap I'd be remiss if I didn't recognize this whole group of folks and hopefully have you all come up and join for a photo op including our city of Fort Worth alums as well because the city of Fort Worth has been a very very strong partner through um the city manager's office the cfo's office you all is an organization I think the number one organization that sends participants our way which we're extremely grateful for because it's such a good two-way learning opportunity for your participants but also for our our participants as well um we're super excited to be celebrating our official uh 50th anniversary on June 8th we hope you all will be able to join us on Thursday June 8th at the Ashton Depot from 11 to 1 tickets and invitations are already out we'd love to have you all there if you can join us we expect that to fill up pretty quickly at the rate that I'm going this week it's so that's a good thing to have some really cool Milestones I want to make sure that you are aware of is our leader kid Alum from 1998 at least raise your hand Rita okay she doesn't like Spotlight too much but she's in Leading Edge right now as well so as far as we know she's our first graduate of leader kids who's now 25 years later going through Leading Edge I'd love to have her on the board someday so we'll see if I just speak that into existence we also have our first board president uh from Leading Edge which is Peyton List a salad Maria Lair as well and so just lots of board members past presidents alums from all over the community we couldn't do this without you all and so thank you so much for this recognition tonight thank you Jennifer thank you come down there [Applause] come on come on everybody costume foreign we have two of those the first one is MNC 23-0222 and the second item to be withdrawn from the consent agenda is mnc23-0229 next is any items to be withdrawn by staff there are no items to be continued or withdrawn by staff mayor the next to the speakers on the kitchen agenda which I believe we have five thank you Jeanette our first speaker is Leticia Wilburn followed by Gerald Miller okay my name is latita Wilborn what I want to say about this is that Echo Heights is having lots of problems and this facility is part of the problem y'all put this waste facility on the service road to this community there's no cleanup people coming dump stuff y'all don't even take care of the property y'all pound stuff up on the property I think that part of the problems that's going on in Echo Heights is this problem this should not be in a community what there are homes this should be in a community where there's only space for this to be allowed this should not be in an environment for people to live this is an absolute disaster anybody that's been on the service road of 287 uh in Village Creek have seen this there's homes over there when the facility is not open People dump trash there's Nails everywhere there's pain on the street um cars come through there doing high traffic areas and I'm sure a lot of those people have gotten Flats as well so I think this should be denied and I think y'all should figure out somewhere else to put this waste facility instead of a community that's considered to be one of the most polluted facility neighborhoods communities in the United States our next speaker is Gerald Miller followed by Adrian Smith good morning esteemed Council my name is Gerald miller-matic Parker mayor thank you I spoke with you a couple of weeks ago um I'm here on a disturbing matter regarding the city of Fort Worth claims policy and I wanted to explain a little bit more about why the claims policy should be changed or or modified as implemented specifically what you've seen is a handout and it's my story I am the only multiple Grammy award-winning record label owner to ever be arrested in the city of Fort Worth for theft of his own dog yes that's right theft of his own dog I was arrested on February the 6th 2003 for theft of a dog that my wife sitting there found on November the 23rd when we found that dog I immediately took it to animal control and it had no chip it was covered in motor oil flea infested and had matted hair that was reminiscent of dreadlocks after four days I went back to adopt a dog and the Hispanic female although she let two other Spanish ladies a white male and a white female adopt dogs on the spot told me that I would have to wait till after the dog got spay or neutered when I asked to buy an intact pet permit which she refused to give me after being insulted degraded and abused I asked to speak to her director which she refused and I walked out and left my number and told him to call me three days later police officer showed up at my house threatened me put their hand on their gun and on video tape accuse me of threatening to shoot police officers when I made no such comment I immediately filed an internal affairs complaint and nothing happened on February the 6th when my wife was driving the vehicle I was pulled over arrested for theft of a dog which I had in my care custody and control for over six days which under this ordinance that this panel created Created ownership in me they they knew that it was a civil matter but the Animal Control Officers filed intentionally false reports with the police stating one that I had previously stole another dog that I adopted legally through them and two that they called me and I refused to turn the dog which was disputed by the notes this story is captivated in that thing what I would like to do do is see a reevaluation of city employment uh and and and the immunity given to city employees I'm also running to change that by nominating myself for the Animal Control shelter act all of this is detailed in 68 places of documentary evidence which I got up on subpoena which a City attorney also tried to hide from me and instructed staff not to speak with me when I was investigating my own matter we'll be following up thank you very much thank you our next speaker is Adrian Smith followed by Carolyn Rodriguez Adrian Smith let the words of my mouth in a meditation on my heart be acceptable and I say oh Lord my strength of my redeemer Okay so the notice of claims for alleged damages or injuries my physician on this basically I've stand her just asking that the I pray that everyone listed within this particular MMC which I did a deep deep dive and checked out everything names and incidents and Etc I just want to make sure that all the people who are listed here are given all been all been given due consideration for these uh various uh incidents you know I'm hoping that they're not getting pushed to the side I hope I'm hoping everyone is giving direction they need to file whatever necessary uh means they need to foul against the city if it's found to be uh something liable for cities uh responsibility so that's why I'm standing up here so if anybody's uh at the sound of my voice is part of this MMC you have levied a claim against the city for liabilities uh hope that someone is someone within this department or departments are reaching out to you to make sure to ensure that you're getting you are receiving the necessary uh justice justices that are due to you thank you thank you Mr Smith our next speaker is Carolyn Rodriguez followed by Mary Goodman Miss Rodriguez here no okay Mary Goodman Miss Goodman thank you good evening my name is Mary Goodman and I live in Fort Worth in Chris Nettles District eight and you've seen me before but I'd like to say that the city held a listening session for the echo Heights community and all interested parties on March 10th Christina Brooks director of diversity and inclusion presided many City departments were represented including the comprehensive plan Team Code Enforcement and City Communications five members of the echo Heights Community were there they were asked to share their resident Stories the quality of life issues they deal with the illnesses and deaths the smells and noxious fumes from the trucks running at their backyards being awakened at 3am by the engines starting up the noise and dust from the trucks running in the Watson streets behind them they talked about how it feels that no matter how much they tell their stories nothing gets done this is where they live they talked about the trash that falls off the trash trucks and it doesn't get picked up if it does get picked up doesn't matter because the trucks will come again and more will come out this is where they live they talked about prairie dog park how difficult it is to use now that the major car access is gone they would like this park updated like other parks in the city they wonder why their park has no permanent bathrooms a nice playground equipment and and all the Affinity um amenities of other parks in the city this is where they live they want good clean air water and soil they want their areas monitored for these um for air water and soil after the meeting t one of the residents said to me they did not address the elephant in the room we did not discuss the comprehensive plan is more industry coming is any industry moving now it feels like a done deal please delay the vote on the comprehensive plan please change the plan to allow normal no more industry in that area please buy the AG land around w m Green Elementary as for the city to please provide for the people of echo Heights they they've spoken please listen to provide for their needs they are indeed citizens of Fort Worth thank you Miss Goodman I think Carolyn Rodriguez is here ma'am sorry okay thank you very much just making sure go ahead Jeanette next item will be approval of the consent agenda as amended thank you Council I can take a motion a motion in a second is there any discussion on the consent agenda go ahead councilmember Bivens just wanting to be very very clear the does the consent agenda include the items that Miss Wilburn and Miss Goodman just spoke on well miss Wilburn was speaking on go ahead David I want to interrupt you Miss Wilburn was speaking on 230232 which was a lease agreement Amendment with um waste management and Ms Goodman was speaking on 230196 which is in agreement with uh Kirby Smith machinery and yes both of those are on con the consent agenda I do have a concern about those two and I'll just State my concerns I haven't spoken to the council as a whole but these two topics are very critical and we're going to be looking at about and I can tell you there appear to be a former Echo Heights property owner there miss Wilburn Who currently lives there and people from stop six because it is called the echo Heights top six environmental Association but this I would hate to see this go through just as a rubber staff knowing what these people have continued to face so I think maybe for um for clarity it may be helpful if we separate the two items first let's take MNC 23 hyphen zero two three two which pertains to our pending lease agreement with Waste Management of Texas um maybe be helpful AS Val Washington would be the appropriate person to speak on the side if she's not here who would be best Dana's standing up no Cody no maybe legal Dana look here comes Steve okay Steve cooked to the rescue and I'll just mention this is a lease renewal thank you waste management um Lisa city property along U.S 287 I drive by the property every week and it's actually very well maintained from what I've observed I have seen piles of other uh material but that's generally been TxDOT not waste management and not the city in terms of our our drop-off station but thank you Mr Speaker can answer any questions about the lease so how how long is the renewal Steve so this is this would be a tenure renewal it reflects the contract with with Waste Management that we we just or we're talking about this evening as well it was what this was initially started in 2018 they put 10 and a half million dollars into the site on the site that we had that had a lot of issues and needed a lot of work and we didn't want to put the money into it they approached us in order to do this 10.5 million dollar Improvement so that they could use the site and so we agreed to that this is an amendment to add 10 years to that to reflect their their new contract so that they can operate continue to operate in the manner that they've already they've always did they removed um old storage tanks old fuel storage tanks and several other things that were on the side are any legal ramifications from not extending 10 or continuing so it it expires on the 31st of March 10 days and so that's why we're here to do to get this renewal done um that's what the timing is all about that we're trying to tell you what I might do for clarity let's do this counsel for a comfortable let's let's take zero two three two and the other item at member Tim Bivins mentioned 0196 let's pull it off the consent agenda we're going to put it on the non-consent let's vote on the consent agenda that we're going to keep doing this in a moment if that'd be okay Gina not to confuse the audience that'd be perfect so Council just for clarity's sake we're pulling MNC 23-0232 off of the consent agenda as well as MNC 23-0196 and other than that the consent agenda will be a stands any questions from Council please do let's just yeah I'm in the motion that I made to move forward with those two uh being withdrawn from the consent thank you I've got a motion on the floor gonna get a second thank you a motion a second is there another discussion Council if not please vote motion carries thank you next item will be MNC 230222 and mayor that was pulled from consent uh to allow council members Crane and Williams to recuse I'll start with councilmember crane uh yes in an abundance of caution I will not be there's a conflict of interest relating to this to my wife's employment at Child Care Associates so I'll abstain from participation or any discussion councilman crane councilmer Williams thank you mayor I'll also abstained due to my employment with the 10 area food bank and all of my documents are on file with the city secretary thank you Jared with that Council it can move for a motion to approve move approval Motion in a second by councilmember Beck any other discussion please vote motion carries the next item is MNC 23-0229 and that was pulled to allow Miracle Tim to make comments it's American I just wanted to say had solved to American Airlines located in city council District 5 for their continuing participation with the community the city and hiring people and with that I move for approval second thank you Gina Motion in a second Council another discussion please vote motion carries okay mayor do you want to go back to the two items that we just pulled no let's just go through the rest of the agenda when we start non-consent we'll start with those two items on top okay thank you so the next will be announcements by City Council Members including upcoming and recent events recognition of citizens and approval of ceremonial travel if needed thank you councilmember Flores you're up first thank you mayor Parker are you ready melis okay there we go uh March 10th Friday Fort Worth BD class 153 graduated ceremony at Wedgwood Baptist Church again another fine recruit class I can consistently impress that the the diversity of our police recruits are reflecting more and more of what our communities have so kudos to the training staff and to achieve notes next slide please all right first T it's a great program launched for the very first time anywhere at Rockwood Park in District Two and it's uh continuing you know its effect across the city and on March 11th I met with leaders of our future starting with our kids uh spoke to them about the one thing better leadership by Fort Worth ISD partnership with their uh with first state with their after school programs this was at the Brisco program location so congrats to those kids for embarking on something different and exciting next slide please and Saturday March 11th why not me and this is a foundation that was formed for the late Ali babe Garza he overcame a personal disability and uh lifted himself up and became a very contributing member of The Diamond Hill Community passed away recently so that community and others from across District Two came together at Diamond Hill High School to raise money for the Charities that he valued so appreciate all the good folks and uh and good wishes that came out to us to support that next slide please just this past Saturday countdown turned green again Fort Worth's only St Patrick's Day parade is held in the Stockyards the parade got bigger and I think we had record crowds uh visit Fort Worth uh I think is working on those figures but we exceeded expectations again so thanks one and all to the participants thank you to the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame for giving me a ride clay Miller and uh you know a little boy named Parker you know who did a great job steering the wagon thanks to everybody next slide all right Cesar Chavez that celebration you know was uh well put off rails for the time being when uh covet hit but they're coming back with a March and parade it'd be Saturday April 1st from 10 a.m to 11 A.M starts at the convention center near the JFK Memorial and ends at TCC campus so one and all join us you know for a very important day and I have one announcement Easter around the corner so hop on over to the Easter event that's being held at the tri-ethnic community center April uh first Saturday from 11 A.M to 2 p.m uh fun games food bounce houses Etc staff is really great and welcoming so hope to see you all out there and that's all I have mayor thank you thank you Carlos next to Mayor pretend bibbons to acknowledge the people at Sunrise Elementary School they recently held a celebrity reading day and I almost didn't make it but I was delighted to get there because who did I see first but Bishop Kennett Spears pastor of first aid John and we were all standing and I looked around and there was Miss opal leave right there of course reading her own book so we try to make reading exciting it was just fun to be with the people at Sunrise which is where my mom had taught kindergarten so it's fun to be back that's about it thank you Gina next is uh councilmember Williams thank you mayor just a few announcements the first one is announcing our reading challenge the Fort Worth Public Library is partnering with Crowley ISD for very special reading challenge for preschool through high school students students are encouraged to log their reading minutes and the winners and three age groups will join in the ribbon cutting of our new district 6 Library the Vivian J Lincoln Library this summer um you can um for all the details you can visit the Fort Worth library's website and all as always miss Lincoln I'm reminded um roaming the hallways and Crowley ISD have a quote that she would always say it's important that we remember our ABCs always believe in children next slide another announcement we have our next litter day in District six so join us this Saturday the event will be from 9 A.M to 11 A.M and we'll be meeting at French Lake Park at canderage I'm sorry a French Lake at Canda Ridge Park the address is um on the on our social media page if you don't know where that is I mean we hope to see you all this Saturday next slide um we also have a our next listening Circle and we'll be talking about wildlife in our parks and neighborhoods including egrets and coyotes and we'll have our city staffed there at the meeting to provide all of you who are interested and affected by wildlife in our parks and neighborhoods with information that will help you and your neighbors so we hope to see you there it's going to be from six to seven next Thursday March 30th I'm from 6 to 7 P.M I mean I think that concludes my announcements mayor thank you thank you Dr Williams and next is councilmember Firestone thank you mayor um just one quick announcement uh which was a is a very exciting one um this past March 9th I was um privileged really a great privilege to attend and speak at the groundbreaking for the opal in Far Far uh North Fort Worth uh so the Fort Worth Housing Solutions uh is developing this new affordable apartment complex adjacent to the Holston which has been open for the past two years so this is going to be a sister property the opal will also offer units for families of different sizes and makeups and with access to Quality schools and city services along with many luxury amenities and many different rental rates of course included in addition the opal along with the Holston will provide quality housing for residents working along the important Alliance Corridor so I was really honored of course to stand by Ms openly to break ground for this wonderful new addition to district 7 and to our community and it was just a great morning out there and as I said just a great honor to be with her and celebrate the building with her name on it thank you thank you councilmember Firestone and councilmember Beck all right first up we have our Linwood Square uh meet and greet which is a really lovely senior facility in District 9. it was great to get out there with them next slide University West which I get to share with councilman crane um explaining the the new district lines to them was just as complicated as the old district lines so some things don't change next slide we had our bi-annual mpo District 9 mpo breakfast last week it was it's always great to get everyone in the room and make sure we're addressing any issues that our neighborhood police officers need and um I will go on the record of saying that District 9 has the best group of npos and I said what I said on this diocese it's not open for argument or discussion uh next slide um we've got something coming up and I will let you hit play on that so we don't look Frozen in weird face on the video hey this is councilwoman Elizabeth Beck and I'm here to invite you to an event here in District 9 at Greenbrier Community Center our court in the community and with me today is Judge Danny Rogers and he's going to share some of the details with you this is going to be on April the 1st and this is no April Fool's joke not at all we're going to have an event here for the court in the community warrant forgiveness we invite you to come if you have any outstanding citations with the city of Fort Worth there are no arrests we are a Safe Harbor Court what we want to do is meet with the folks come in get rid of their warrants if at all possible remove some fees if necessary but get you on a right path so you can handle those tickets so you don't have warrants hanging over your head you don't have things to worry about so come see us April 1st Greenbrier Community Center we're going to have some additional folks here to offer services to folks that come in great and that's going to be Goodwill The Envision Center and legal aid that's amazing so we want all of our folks to come here to Greenbrier April 1st from 9 a.m until noon you can register online ahead of time and that helps us be prepared for you we're going to try to see a total of 120 people so come early get your business taken care of and then walk out without any warrants hanging out great well thank you so much now I have a question if I what if I don't know if I have a warrant you can call the court and check 817-392-6700 and they will check and see if you have any outstanding you don't just have to have warrants just outstanding cases awesome don't necessarily have to be in one but come see us a little more relaxed event than coming downtown to court but we want to see you there if you have any questions call us at that number or come see us on April the 1st all right thank you you bet absolutely just so um we all know council members get tickets too and our Municipal Court's always really easy to to go in and and punch in and pay for those citations but this is an easy even easier way to to handle any citations or warrants because we meet you where you are and we help you work through those so I'd encourage everyone not just District 9 but if you are trying to clear some tickets or warrants head on out to um to grimmar community center and that's all I got next mayor will be the non-consent speakers and I believe we have five of those as well our first speaker is Bob Willoughby followed by Jimmy Arbor oh God well okay I think I signed up two things I forget I mean like I said ever since why don't you change this back like it was it was so simple we read it all you voted on it and it was done even the councilman was confused a while ago Gina had to be clarified this goes on to every meeting they're confused on it's consent items and unconsensed give us our three minutes back put it back like it was it was so simple anyway uh the first one I guess I'll go on is the EMC 2301 48 can I talk about that about the recycling is that up to talk about see I don't even know what I'm doing okay first thing I want to correct the city manager Mr cook in a budget meeting I told Mr cook the women's minority gets about 180 Grand a year from the City Recycling money used to go to them I had to deal we got we brought in about 300 000 a month not a year but a month do we bring over 300 000 a month 180 was lottered out to the women's minority group okay I missed that Mr cook he said well they that's never happened I've got the paper I found it I've got the document it has it does okay well I have a problem with this I don't like a 10-year long uh contract anybody it's too long for one thing I'd love to see us do it in-house with our own trucks and that eventually with the right people in charge up here but anyway that's a different story 10 years is too long the other thing it says I guess we get if I understand this and look at we get 15 of the four million 500 I think if I understood because I went down low tried to really try to understand it I think we get 15 if we get 15 of that would you put it on the website or something where it's going to can we know does that does that where's it going to you know is it going back to the women's minority club or what okay the other one I signed up is about Maddie I think is that on here too about signing um that's on there okay very good I'll watch you okay um I didn't bring my the names but it's the same thing I've argued about over and over and over again the city website could be more people friendly when you click over to see the names you just get a big blank page with a little link then you got to go download and get it the five names could be right there on that page right there you wouldn't have to go any further it's a big blank page to use every one of these things have a big blank page you don't have to put all the information just the heading of it in there and then having the link to go to for deeper detail that's great but you don't do that you had to download Air free single one and my computer's slow you know that's a job I appreciate if you fix that okay the second thing is these people signing up at 30 seconds okay I'm still a big supporter of our first amendment the right to speak uh I think Mr Crane looks sober today last night when I talked to him I'm not sure he was sober um really he couldn't answer the question it was funny they were laughing and joking and couldn't answer the question that's why did you take away all right to our Public Presentation off the agenda he couldn't answer but anyway I'm gonna run out of time if I could talk about that but I think it ought to be put back on okay that was wrong thank you our next speaker is actually going to be Dan Hayes followed by Adrian Smith my name is Dan Hayes and I live in soon to be District 11 District 8 right now which includes Riverside Meadowbrook Eastern Hills Rosemont worth Heights and other areas inside older areas inside the loop as probably monsters seeks a permanent home in Fort Worth I would like to encourage them to avoid The Usual Suspects of Alliance and other points to the North or other go-to parts of town and instead look at finding a location which could really benefit from job creation East Fort Worth would be a great location it is in a geographically advantageous position in the Metroplex Meadowbrook and Riverside are both seeing an influx of younger people and a refreshing of many homes many of these new residents are future employees that are currently are possibly future employees that are currently driving long distances for employment we're currently studying the East Lancaster Corridor as part of a rebuilding and revitalization plan and a company like this might find the perfect location I don't know what input or conversations the city will have with the company after this motion is approved but I would really appreciate some consideration of some of these overlooked areas for a permanent home for this company thank you thank you Dan our next speaker is Adrian Smith if I could I would like to thank Mr Dan for that for his last presentation his last suggestion he made because you know someone in his room gets it it's apparently that we continue to have business interests editing other headed in other directions other than the Eastern corridor but everyone always wants to Champion for the Eastern Corridor when it's election time as if they have something special to offer so to the representatives of monster Inc I stood um when I initially I said I was for this uh particular agenda item because I looked at all of the look I looked at all of the um requirements that are going to be had to help have to be held up on her end so I'm hoping that the council will hold them to those requirements and again I always think Miss Bivens for giving me the the teaching tool to dig a Little Deeper so I saw all of those requirements that they had to uphold and I'm hoping hoping they that they know that uh it's an agreement and if you violate that agreement then you would be called to test you were called where I'm from you will be called to the carpet on it so again like Mr Dan said maybe we can consider somewhere in the eastern part of Fort Worth giving it an opportunity to uh you know Thrive a little bit thank you thank you Adrian sorry Jeanette for clarity I'm going to hold the two speakers on our CP with Mr Williams until we get to that CP okay well the CP would be next mayor great with that I'm going to call on councilmember Williams um to start the discussion thank you Jared absolutely thank you mayor um I guess first things first um is it appropriate to go to make the money to spend the rules um I like to make a motion to suspend the council rules of procedure for Section 521 to waive this second reading of this Council proposal to allow it to be acted upon at this meeting got a motion in a second any other discussion Council please vote motion carries thank you um also um I would like to just say thank you first of all to a mayor and councilman Firestone for um I'm being my second and third on this Council proposal and thank you staff for working on this we have um on this proposal we have a resolution that's attached um and I won't go into the resolution but what I will say is um it's I consider it a privilege to be able to honor the legacy of Ben and Meg Auber her Meg's parents are here in the audience and in just a few moments I will bring them up and then also Ben's parents are on the call on a call I'm calling them from Colorado but Ben and Meg their legacy continues to be felt throughout the district and City they were true leaders in their faith and really lived out their faith not only for their family their children their parents but also to anyone they encountered one of the things that I'll say that was most inspiring was when me and my staff would go door to door I'm talking about the importance of dedicating a memorial for Ben and Meg every neighbor would share the impact that they had in their lives in some way or another and that was really inspiring and it's something that I think is is really noteworthy for all of us to live up to in in terms of making a difference in our community and I'll say that as a person of Faith dealing with grief and and finding I'm healing where possible that you know I personally find comfort in second Corinthians 5 and 8 that gives us confidence that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord and so to the Anderson so the harvards know that you have an entire Community that's walking with you on this tough journey and and I'm praying with you for continued peace and strength and comfort and I look forward to dedicating not only the streets Hopper which this proposal is for but also the Park Memorial bench at Summer Creek Park it'll be a very special way for me to celebrate the Life and Legacy of benomeg Arbor and for that Legacy to be remembered from all who walk those spaces at this time I'd like to bring up Andy if you like to and Liz just share a few words and then if it's okay if we have you know [Music] good evening um Andy Anderson it's my wife Liz we are Meg's parents we Miss Meg and Ben greatly but we also have the faith that everything is okay and will be okay on behalf of both of our families I just want to thank Dr Williams and the city council for your kindness and generosity toward us and everything that you all have done so thank you very much sir thank you thank you we also have Jimmy and Candy I think they're on hold on a call but they can speak about yield my time to them as well thank you Jerry thank you Jared yes can you hear me yes we can go ahead sir are you okay this is Jimmy Arbor my wife candy is in Colorado I happen to be out of state so she will speak after me um I too would like to thank Dr Williams for um contacting me to get the ball rolling on this Memorial to Ben and Meg um November 6 was a terrible day um excuse me I'm going to get emotional um I would beg the Fort Worth City Council to pass the most stringent laws that you are able to to stop the Insidious behavior of people who take to street racing particularly near residential neighborhoods and I also spoke with Dr Williams about solutions to Rising a road which is as the nickname Rising a Raceway about and he talked about the idea of modifying the median and the the sidewalk areas to make the road a little wavier so that cars cannot easily street race down there and I I implore the city of Fort Worth to take that action so that future tragedies as has happened to the Andersons and the Arbors will not happen to other families that's all I have to say thank you Mr Arbor I believe that candy is also on the phone give us one second mayor okay Miss Arbor good afternoon good evening yes can you hear me now yes we can go ahead thank you I want to thank the city of Fort Worth for the efforts they've made so far in making our neighborhoods safe for our children and thank you for honoring our very special son and our most precious daughter-in-law that we truly adored and we hope that maybe these memorials will begin that everything we do every day has an impact and I just want to thank the city of Fort Worth that's all I have to say thank you our bar that's the last of the speakers mayor thank you Dr Williams go ahead yes um thank you and Jimmy mentioned a little bit um and I would just share for my colleagues that we're the street Hopper will be places at a baroque and Risinger and you know I want to thank tpw for making some very important improvements to the intersection with the stop sign and a crosswalk this Memorial project is only one step to increasing you know the safety in that Corridor and there's also more work being done at Risinger In Summer Creek as well with a much needed traffic light and so um we have a long road to go but I think it's really important that we move this item forward as a part of the overall strategy of trying to make that area safe and also honor this family thank you Jared um in closing I'll just say I actually got to meet Ben and when I had my car completely was done after college we bought a new car and we met Ben and um my husband he was also an Aggie and and K1 and I think that Ben was an E1 as most Cadets do they immediately Bond over Aggie business and also being Ross volunteers and I actually saw Ben a year after that of course he knew the whole family how old the kids were and we quickly understood what kind of family man he was as well so our prayers are with your entire family and it is an honor to get to be with you this evening and last thing I'll say is this Council excuse me has talked a lot about street racing there's videos it goes viral online or police officers deal with it there are real consequences to those actions I'm very proud of what Jared has done tonight to bring awareness rice Center is a very dangerous Corridor but you have young people that are not thinking about the results of their actions and because of what happened you took two two parents from their children and our prayers are with you but thank you for letting this Council honor you thank you [Applause] thank you foreign we have a motion by councilmember Williams and seconded by councilmember crane thank you Jeanette we do and I think Jared you're our last person to vote there if you want to vote perfect motion carries thank you Council Adam will be changes in the membership of boards and commissions with the first two being 230245 and 230248 board appointments from mayor Parker thank you your board appointments there are listed in your agenda items but I think I see Leon is here we want thank you Leon for serving and to all our appointees on these commissions this is a a lot of active service on behalf of the citizens of Fort Worth and so it's my honor to put forward these board appointments today yes please please vote to council I'll get it together eventually here motion carries the next is 230246 which is board appointments from District 9. oh sorry we're gonna have to take a second vote mayor on since we have two adult commission okay that sounds good motion these are board appointment star Fort Worth Art Commission Motion in a second please vote motion carries okay now we can move to District nine councilmember Beck awesome thank you I look forward to uh Matthew Graham joining us on the city playing commission I know he's really excited to join as well so with that I moved to approve second motion a second either discussion Council please vote motion carries next item is 230243 Council I'll take a motion on this item thank you motion a second please vote the motion carries next item is 230244 second Motion in a second I know that Gene is excited please vote motion carries next will be public hearings the first one being MNC 230191 with report by Eric flatiger come on down Eric good evening mayor and City Council Members my name is Eric flatiger with the planning and data analytics department and here to share with you the uh comprehensive Plan update for 2023 and just waiting for the screen to come up all right thank you so much so we're here to talk about the comprehensive plan which is the city's general guide for making decisions about growth and development we all know how fast we're going we have been the fastest growing large city in the United States for about 20 years now so it's important to to keep that guide for growth involvement up to date which is why we update the conference plan every year it presents a broad vision for a long-term future what we want to be in Fort Worth what is our long-term vision describes the strategy the major policies programs or projects that will help us realize that vision this is a graphic of our annual planning process we create a draft plan or components of a plan as is the case for the 2023 plan it was a smaller update than we had in in the past two years we hold some meetings we had open house meetings to discuss future land use map amendments particularly related to a depiction of 100 year floodplains and incorporating those into the future land use maps and then go through the cycle for adoption including the work session presentation public hearing before the city council or before the city plane commission sorry in January on the 25th and then an informal report in February to council and then on to the meeting tonight so what is in the proposed comprehensive plant so the red items that you see on this table of contents are the ones that we are updating for this year uh as is typically the case the the trend chapters where a lot of the statistical information the data that underpins the the policy basis of the comprehensive plan we devote some energy to keeping that up to date so it can continue and informed counsel inform Commissioners and developers and landowners in the public as they make decisions about use of their land growth and development of the city population Trends economic Trends Financial Trends are are key we've made some minor changes to the land use chapter uh the appendices at the other location where sort of the rubber hits the road in terms of the tools that we use to make decisions so plans and studies where we include all of the variety of plans the council has adopted over the years that have then the ability to inform Council decisions commission decisions uh the the population employment data is updated the land use policies that appendix C contains the individual maps of the 16 planning sectors that make up the city of Fort Worth and the land use policies that are associated with those specific areas of the city um opposed Capital Improvements uh that really incorporates The Five-Year Capital Improvement program along with a a sort of a graphic summary uh the 20-year plan service areas uh as you recall is a fairly recent addition and that's another tool for making decisions in this case looking out at the edges of the city and looking at potential annexation areas of the future so these areas identify what we want to or what we anticipate being able to serve in the next 20 years annexation policy and program provides that guidance for that decision-making process so just a couple of examples here Trend chapters again very graphic and depiction it's all updated statistical information that is then usable in reports and and decision making by the city appendix a is that list of of uh plans that have been adopted the botanic Garden master plan is one that was included this year as was the economic development strategic Plan update the Las Vegas Trail neighborhood transformation plan which is moving through adoption now and Meacham airport master plan public art plan for 2022 Bond program as well and just calling your attention to the graphic that you see those blue bars underneath each one of those descriptions of plans actually takes you as a link to the plan itself so if you as is the case with much of the rest of the comprehensive plan if you want more detail you want more information you have links that will take you there appendix c as I said is that future land use map we have 16 of these individual pages with policy guidance associated with them in a color-coded map so we have a number of future land use changes that we're making this year and you have heard and you will hear some more I think from members of the echo Heights area this is actually a piece of that neighborhood uh and partly based on our conversations with Echo Heights uh we were looking for a way to to provide some relief to that Community uh and what we've identified here as an opportunity where you see that blue rectangle which is the Green Elementary School and then surrounded on the left by that light purple color which is light industrial is to make a change for this comprehensive plan where the future land use map changed to this light green color which is our designation for vacant undeveloped and agricultural uses so this is we think a significant um you know upgrade to the Future land use map in this particular area another example is a much larger area this is based on concept plans submitted by Walsh and veal Ranch and what we're depicting on the left is is the earlier plan modifications have been made to it and significant employment center opportunities are included in this one the map on the right is showing some significant additions as industrial growth centers as well as mixed use so an example of the FEMA flood Plains and we've had discussions with Council in our fall meetings for a couple of years now about uh The Importance of Being able to show in the future Landings Maps where these 100 year floodplains are located as well as floodways and again it's really focused on Public Safety it's focused on protection of property on the left you'll see the uh sort of far north Fort Worth Texas Motor Speedway area and you can see that there are some indications of green in that location but what we've done for 2023 is we have captured the 100 Year floodplain and depicted that in that vacant undeveloped agricultural designation so it highlights the location it allows a property needless to be aware of it allows developers to to accommodate the location and in fact they use it as a way to build amenity values into their communities by preserving some of that as open space potentially linking with trails along these linear networks so really sort of amenity value as well as Public Safety uh here's an example that's related to annexations in this case begs East out in the west side and the map on the left is uh is showing some neighborhood commercial and mostly single-family residential uh on the right side we've included some mixed views we've included some low density residential really that is reflecting the um the concept plan that was provided as part of that application another change to the maps is this one this is Mary's Creek this is a trail alignment a new alignment that we've identified to take advantage of that lengthy uh stream feature again appendix D Capital Improvements uh we're including that Five-Year Plan as well as the uh the graphic summary which is what you see on the slide Panic C the 20-year plan service areas with some boundary adjustments there to keep that current again identifying the areas where the city expects to be able to provide services in areas that have not yet been annexed appendixf is annexation so the policy and program the map is identifying the location of anticipated future annexations and as you know in most cases now given State legislatures changes in recent years these for the most part are coming in as as property owner initiated annexations this is our proposed schedule and of course we're here tonight for a public hearing and once the plan is adopted we'll move forward with posting on the website be happy to answer any questions you might have I've got several speakers thank you Jeanette if you'll call the speakers yes sorry the first speaker is Leticia Wilburn okay let's see to wherever and I want to say that y'all changes do not go far enough there should be no more industrialization in Echo Heights matter of fact some of the industrialization that's there should be moved out the life expectancy and Echo Heights is 73.4 years that's five years less than a life expectancy in Fort Worth 78 Point um is 50 is 5.1 years less in the state of Texas now y'all know that we have a problem over there may a pro team even admitted that so why do y'all want to keep adding industrialization I have a reason for that I believe that because y'all kept bringing up your 2000 comprehensive plan which the community had no input in and that comprehensive plan it was determined that uh that side of town had the largest concentration of black and brown people so is that the reason y'all decided to start Industrial Alliance in this area what do y'all think is going to happen when people start to realize they may ask the police for killing less than 5 000 people a year black and brown what about when people started realizing that the zoning practice is killed in the United States give hundreds of thousands of black and brown people per year now if you come to Echo Heights you will hear stories after stories after stories about people with health issues and people who have died from counsels in other illnesses and y'all want to bring up jobs y'all say bringing those warehouses to the community is bringing jobs that's an insult the only career that those children see that are positive in their Community are their teachers at school WM green is the only School in the community and y'all have more industrialization there your comprehensive plan is talking about uprooting hundreds of families in their mobile home communities now with the job issues y'all want to bring up the reason is to ends up this community has turned out doctors high levels of high school and college graduates nurses teachers Engineers authors morticians firemen policemen for like fire chiefs police Chiefs military personnel NBA All-Stars within s so y'all need to do better y'all need to stop abusing this community stop putting industrialization over there put positive things over there our lives are worth just as much as y'all's lives our community are worth just as much as y'all's communities just because we're black and brown people don't mean that y'all can cut our lives short if people mad at the police what you think they gonna happen when they find out about y'all's Red Line it and y'all industrializations thank you Miss Wilburn our next speaker is Jim schermbeck followed by Diana Mercado howdy my name is Jim schermbeck I'm with downwards at risk 1808 South good Latimer Expressway but for 18 years I lived at 2621 Pioneer Fort Worth Texas 76119-817-534-3720 I'm representing our group a 30 year old clean air environmental justice organization known for halting the burning of hazardous waste and cement Kilns reducing to some extent a regional smog over the years and most recently getting rid of shingle mountain in southern Dallas an illegal Doe I'm here because we're right now neck deep in this same process in Dallas and it's as you know a very nuanced and detailed exercise one that's taken Dallas partly because of the pandemic three years now and of course in Dallas I have to give it a sex or a name so it's called forward Dallas there not just a comprehensive land news plan um the question is why is an Air Group involved in Land Reform it's because that determines where and how toxic pollution takes place the proximity to it um black and brown people in the U.S are 300 times more likely to die from particulate matter pollution soot pollution than their white peers it's not because they love breathing toxins it's because they're forced to live in proximity to sources of that pollution highways Industries Rail Yards things like that whether you live in Dallas Arlington Garland or Fort Worth there are patterns of zoning Legacy patterns of racist zoning that still determine where things go in these cities whether you're by the Trinity River Railroad or in this case lots of highways and PM pollution going to use up a lot of my time here just to give you some idea it's not just deaths that are involved it's the slow eradication of cognitive skills for instance autism asthma birth defects blindness cancer cognitive development COPD dementia diabetes Health heart attacks IQ loss low birth weight Parkinson's and strokes all of these have been linked at levels below the current EPA standard much less what you're getting in neighborhoods like West Allis or Southeast Fort Worth because of the trucks the current plan bakes this in there's no harm to delaying a vote on this plan from my understanding you're already going to start the comprehensive process that will lead to a 2025 plan in just a few months in summer there is no harm to anybody in this room to waiting that out there is harm to that neighborhood and I appreciate the token gesture tonight that was offered up but that is just one piece of that Echo Heights pie much less the whole Southeast Corridor there people's lives are on the line because of your decision I know you don't want to approve a racist zoning plan again just put it off do your homework and come back with a better plan do better thank you thank you Mr schermbeck our next speaker is Diana Mercado okay good evening my name is Diana Mercado and I'm a State Bar qualified student for the Texas A M civil rights Clinic representing the echo Heights and stop six environmental Coalition we request your vote against the comprehensive plan the plan will only bring further industrialization to the echo Heights top six community and perpetuate the negative impacts fought by the majority minority residents for years the city of Fort Worth has approved versions of this comprehensive plan and Associated zoning modifications that prioritize industrial use over lifelong Fort Worth citizens now many residents live in dangerous conditions with limited recreational options and are not able to fully enjoy their property a fundamental right the comprehensive plan designates significant land in Echo Heights as an industrial growth Center meanwhile the open strategy report identifies the same areas as a very high or high priority for open space considering factors such as Environmental Health Community Health Recreation flood control access to open spaces and economic development more industry will negatively impact the community on these very same measures further the plan designates current residential areas for industrial use but if there is no discussion of these residents in the plan or where they will go if they're forced to leave their homes there's a large Warehouse directly across the street from Prairie door from prairie dog park and adjacent to homes currently the park has limited recreational options is riddled with large trenches making it dangerous for commuting members especially children to freely use the space these problems are further exasperated whenever it rains the flooding entirely takes over the playground and brings in even more trash the community has also raised concern about the safety of the water itself given the industry nearby including the fracking site in the immediate vicinity of the park While most neighborhoods have other residents as their neighbors Echo Heights stop six residents have large trucking companies warehouses and other businesses right up on their property lines to make matters worse these businesses do not respect the community enough to keep their places clean they leave trash broken down Vehicles dangerous equipment and other things lying around residents are unable to contribute to the beautification of their area or simply use their property without fear of noise and environmental pollution further preventing the use of their Community or the traffic conditions vehicle crash data from 2015 to 2017 shows more vehicle crashes in the industrially zoned areas of echo Heights as opposed to the residentially zoned areas similarly as industrial zoning increase so did the number of accidents in close proximity to the elementary school the industrial growth centers in the comprehensive plan and Industrial zoning in Fort Worth disproportionately affect neighborhoods where the majority of the population is non-white out of the 81 elementary schools in Fort Worth ISD just nine are situated on land that is a zoned industrially or adjacent to it nine of those schools have majority of minority student bodies thank you our next speaker is Tina James followed by John McFarland good afternoon and first of all I want to say thank you Mr Eric for shine a little light on what I'm going to tell you about today first of all the 2023 City of Fort Worth comprehension plan has not and did not significantly change as it relates to the current land use planning for the southeast sector the planning area includes Echo Heights and stop six the plan features many heavy and light industrial future land uses in the Southeast sector the plan also retains the East Loop 820 South Industrial growth Center and encourages more intense and concentrated in District industrial use in that in our area the city estimates that approximately two thousand now I'm talking about two thousand new Acres of commercial and Industrial land use could be developed by 2032. the city also anticipates some more industrial growth will occur in the industry as the industry grow and the centers around it now once I want to let y'all know the lack of Opera open space and the Eco Echo height stop six area concentrated industrial use and an equitable placement and concentration of the industrial facilities and the low income minority majority area lack of meeting meaningful opportunity for the public comment on the plan and other land uses useless I'm sorry and the Zone issues in the city of Fort Worth I want to bring y'all to this information as of August 2nd 2022 city council hearing on zoning case z c 22065 mayor Maddie Parker commended on acquiring high priority open space areas in the Echo Heights neighborhood stating that if the city says it it needs it we will put our money where our mouth is end quote at that moment recent City councils hearing mayor Parker also noted that currently current city councils has made it a priority to try and preserve as much open space as the city of East Fort Worth could she also stated that the city is losing 52 Acres of open space a week to development so with that being said I want y'all to understand that as we live in the Echo Heights area we suffer a whole lot when it comes to our health our families and our schools and I don't believe that any of y'all up here mean to tear our families up mean to cause our health to deteriorate I think y'all really mean well and I think you want to do well we're going to give you the opportunity tonight to put this plan on hold so that you'll have the opportunity to dig a little deeper and pay attention to what we're asking you to do as constituents and as an elective officials of where we've placed you are to support and take care of us our families and our communities we appreciate the time of y'all listening to us and coming out and please don't stop come out and see some more we gave a toxic tour today and your employees were actually surprised at what they saw thank y'all for the use of the HEBs as well we had fun in them thank you Miss James our next speaker is John McFarland followed by Barbara Crotty hi I'm John McFarlane I am resident in District 9 and I'm also the chair of the greater Fort Worth Sierra Club the Sierra Club is the oldest environmental non-profit in the country I Echo everything that was said and everything that will be said regarding this um MNC so we I'm here and other Sierra club members are here to support the echo Heights neighborhood association the echo Heights and stop six environmental Coalition in their fight for environmental justice in fact uh want to see our club's goals as an environmental justice so I'm here to ask that you delay the vote to approve this plan based on everything that you've heard tonight um so the pup more public involvement can take place and so you can actually hear and take in the recommendations and meaningful input of the of the residents in East Fort Worth now we all know that the southeast sector Southeast Fort Worth East Fort Worth is one of the most polluted areas in the community maybe along with some areas in the north side where the industrial areas are but but why why are we continuing to increase the industrial growth Center increase industrial land uses when we could decrease them we could decrease that footprint to better protect the neighborhood so along with uh asking that you delay the vote tonight and for more and try to get more public input I'm also asking that the uh City purchase the AG Zone land across the street from uh WM green and behind and beside it to uh as a as a as a park or open space regarding open space I've seen several of Mayor Parker's um social media post lately and she says that you know open space is very important priority for her and the city so let's let's put our money where our mouth is and let's buy purchase that land to protect WM Green in perpetuity and act it'll be a buffer zone but from around that around that uh school from the industrial pollution um I think I believe that's all I have to say because what everything I I want to Echo everything that's been said everything that will be said again uh please delay the vote on this on adopting this plan thank you here is Barbara Crotty followed by Cecil Mattson hello I'm Barbara Crotty from 2201 Washington Avenue in District 9. and I am also a member of the greater Fort Worth Sierra Club along with Mary Goodman who spoke earlier um and in addition to that I'm a registered nurse specializing in newborn in maternal care and currently employed by Baylor All Saints Hospital health care providers cannot escape the reality of racial disparities in illnesses majority minority neighborhoods like Echo Heights are routinely overburdened with polluting facilities which is just unfair and immoral so consequently I support the demands of echo Heights environmental Coalition thank you thank you Barbara our next speaker is Cecil Matson cease will be followed by martasha James howdy my name is Cecil Madison and I'm here as a state bar qualified at Texas A M School of Law civil rights Clinic student representing Echo Heights and stop six environmental Coalition we oppose a comprehensive zoning plan some city council Representatives have previously attempt to explain away the city's effort to approve the comprehensive zoning plan by setting its longevity but that's no longer an excuse it's true that the plan has remained largely similar since the year 2000 and that's precisely the problem the plan as it is zones black and brown communities like Echo Heights as industrial growth centers inflicting immeasurable harm on those communities the city also seemed to perceive that there's been little opposition to the plan in the decades since 2000 but this could not be further from the truth the echo Heights Community has been consistently engaged in fighting the comprehensive zoning plan when trucking companies moved in residents spoke out about noise and safety concerns they were silenced with empty promises and protective measures in 2001 the city council election cycle featured heavy involvement from community members that knew that Echo Heights was improperly zoned as industrial they spoke out and again they were ignored over the next two decades residents of echo Heights fought at every turn against industrial zoning they joined the echo Heights and soft six environmental Coalition met with environmental groups and suffered under the industrial growth they reported toxic fumes coming from industrial companies fighting lies and attempted cover-ups they've advocated again and again with this city council with some success recently when the community protected the land around the children's elementary school from being zoned as industrial thank you Council for listening when it comes to that area more often though they've been ignored their Community has been zoned as an industrial growth Center for decades and they've experienced this growth as a cancer with Industries such as concrete batch plants metal fabrication plants asphalt mixing plants and welding shops permitted to dig their Roots into the community and poison their air and their soil many community members have reported illnesses stemming from exposure to unknown chemicals leaching from industrial Zone companies these chemicals have caused the echo Heights neighborhood to have an air toxins of cancer risk higher than 83 percent of all areas in this state to reiterate conditions are so dire canceled that the average lifespan in Echo Heights has dipped to 3 5.3 years less than the Tarrant County average some segments of the population who reside in Echo Heights can actually expect to live about 14 years less than an average Tarrant County resident the residents of echo Heights deserve the city's help in undoing this harm which has been inflicted on them by industrial zoning may I remind you that the mission statement of the city of Fort Worth is working together to build a strong Community you must work together with this community and find a way to keep the echo Heights neighborhood strong and free from industrial zoning reject the comprehensive Zone and plan thank you thank you Cecil our next speaker is martisha James followed by Mark James good evening the definition of a voice is a particular opinion or attitude Express the meaning to express something in words the definition of elected official is someone who has been chosen appointed by their constituents to represent them and be their voice at that Community or organization countless amount of times we have come down to city council and have been given the runner eye or with getting our voices heard like we really hurt like really hurt to be understood it has been constantly mentioned about all the the taxidy smell toxicity smells and fumes and noise pollution we are asking that you all to place the comprehensive plan on hold and come out and to observe how we are living and that isn't just during the daytime but also at night so that you're able to hear the noise pollution and see how um excuse me see how terrible we are living within the area you have you have now heard from us over a handful of times about the industrial zoning and and what is wanted by the echo Heist community and to add on to or to improve our Parks fix that infrastructure within the area rather than polluting it I ask that you do delay this plan I myself is getting ready to bring a child into this role and staying in the area I don't want my child to experience any other health issues that I have experienced myself personally so I would like for you guys to take that into consideration moving forward with this comprehensive plan thank you our next speaker is Mark James followed by Sherry Warren Dukes it's Mark here our next speaker is Sherry Warren Dukes yes I'm here go ahead excuse me good evening mayor and Council the comprehensive plan is very important to our city Echo Heist and the inside Southeast in the Fort Worth texas.gov on the topic comprehensive plan the beginning paragraph reads the plan should facilitate the movement of people and goods and the health safety and general welfare for the citizens of the city economic development is the creation of wealth from which Community benefits are realized it is more than a jobs program it is an investment in growing the economy and enhancing the prosperity and quality of life for all residents Echo Heights do not need any more commercial development Norm nor more education in our community there is a humongous commercial building on Village Creek which I can see from the front yard in Echo Heights they're developing on David Strickland Road as we speak I asked the council put a heart to come future commercial development that is not enhanced in our community Southeast Fort Worth can be enhanced by having a nature preference preservation preservation form line or pay Trail to Arlington lake or even restaurants on the lake as Echo height is a the community and prairie dog park to be a lot more welcoming and enhanced because of all the delay I'm walking distance to the lake and that's pretty close I would like for me I would like for the council to protect Southeast natural land and it has all the communities surrounding Arlington Lakes Improvement I see everyone do ask that the southeast sector land use policies number one and two bigs play more in debt in regards to commercial development thank you Marion councilor Council for listening thank you Sherry our next speaker is Jackie Cox followed by Tara Maldonado Wilson thank you Council special thank you Miss Bivins for what you've done and to try to ameliorate conditions in Echo Arts Heights I'm really touched tonight because I see the community Rising and asking very articulately for attention to the plight of people who live next to industrialized areas we just have to protect everybody who lives there but most particularly we need to protect the school children who live near industrialized areas is crucial because what you do to a developing child will affect that child life long and will contribute to pain and hurt hurt deep physical pain and hurt that could be made less if we would protect them so I guess I wish to add my voice to the things that have been said tonight and to suggest additionally that you consider investing in air quality monitors that you can put in crucial places to see how we're doing with respect to protecting our school kids figure out where the prevailing winds come bringing the worst of the pollution from the cement plants in Midlothian and do what we can do we can help one another we can help communities that are stuck near industrial areas and it's a question of will if you work as much figuring out how to make life better for people who already live here as we put time and energy and money into helping more and more people from Denton County and Parker County live here things will be better okay thank you thank you Miss Cox our next speaker is Tara Maldonado Wilson is Tara here she's on the phone oh sorry okay Miss Wilson yes can you hear me yes go ahead great thank you mayor and city council tonight uh for uh having us at the meeting here um I'm I'm on I'm on record as being here to support the echo Heights and stop six um environmental justice Coalition along with the Protections in place and it'll be put there for the Village Creek area as well um if um if you haven't had a chance to go actually go over and stand at the WM Elementary School it is quite jarring um how close those industrial sites are to the very front grass of the elementary school um I had the opportunity to hear you Larry Parker speak last night talking about the uh making sure that we're uh you know preserving our Green Space and open conservation and the city has been on record as making that a priority um and so I would Echo the same sentiments to push the purchase to land around the school but I would also actually ask to go back to the drawing board and create a buffer an additional buffer zone to the front end of the school uh that meets the that abuts up to that uh industrial Zone and actually create a buffer kind of all the way around like a circular space um you know the history of communities of color not only in this country uh but in the city being detrimentally affected uh by environmental fallout from industrial zones and it's highly documented um even in um forwards history uh in this new District 11. uh we have uh the example of Greenway neighborhood and Greenway Park which if people don't know uh back in the I think it's the 50s or 60s Tech stock came along and put down I-35 through the center of that Park which was a historic black neighborhood where they had Juneteenth festivities and celebrations and really had a deep Heritage and culture there that was really detrimentally affected by that project um and so uh you know I think most of the things that were said tonight uh I would I I had down in my comments but I will ask city council tonight to please at least defer this vote unfortunately this year communities of color were already let down by the vote against the community oversight board and I would ask you all that uh you uh please listen to the voices of these neighborhoods I myself live in Meadowbrook but I and I in good conscience cannot continue to watch our city be so uh great and Innovative in certain areas when it comes to development and Innovation yet we are still having um this letdown of our communities of color thank you for your time thank you Tara and Council I believe that the last of our speakers on this item but I'm going to look at Jeanette make sure I'm correct okay very well um okay I know that lots of colleagues have something to say here um I'm gonna go out of turn I don't always do this but I'm going to go first um I first want to commend the many residents that took the time to come this evening your arguments were incredibly well thought out and organized and it is evident to me that this was not just something that you wrote for three minutes this afternoon and showed up this is something you've organized around and felt very passionately about and as was repeated this evening I have talked specifically about open space and the commitment the city of Fort Worth has to our open space initiative and specifically in the Echo Heights area I believe strongly that on this dice we have an obligation to remedy the sins of our past and oftentimes those sins may not have been intentional but as council members in a very fast growing city we have a responsibility to try to run into that together and it's something all of us have had a commitment to every single council member has expressed me a concern on the comp plan before tonight for different reasons for specifically for their District their constituents reaching out I think the comprehensive plan should tell a story of who we are as residents of this city but who we want to be into the future and I would like our residents to be excited about the comprehensive plan and the story that it's telling and it's evident to me tonight that there are certain pieces of it we're excited about and on board with and there are other pieces that we still need to work on together I also want to commend Eric flatiger and his team you do an amazing job Eric and this comprehensive plan does reflect that um so I'm really going to take the blame here on the diocese that we need to be more involved in working alongside the city staff about what we want this comprehensive plan to tell and this year and of course in the in the full update in 2025. so I think it's prudent that this Council having listened to the commentary this evening that we postpone any final vote on the future land use portion of this evening just for clarity's sake there are several other items included in the proposed amendments for the 2023 comprehensive plan that we all can get behind already including just to name a few the population and Trends the minor updates introduced in chapter 12 there are maps throughout that pertain to annexation section 5 and appendix a several plans including Botanic Gardens all the way through public art plan appendix d e and f so for clarity for legal it's really chapter 4 and land use and sub chapter 6 appendix C dealing with future land use study that I'm proposing we postpone and vote on the rest of those items this evening after I've said my piece I just wanted y'all to kind of know where I was headed this evening and I'm happy to go down the dice I'm just going to start with Elizabeth and move this direction if that would be okay sure I I would second that motion um if I get Eric if you could come down and provide what I've heard tonight is a lot of consternation about the way that we've engaged the public as we've gone through this update process and I know I think you know what I'm about to ask because it's something I'm incredibly excited that we're doing and so if you could for the benefit of everybody here talk about how next year's plan update is going to be very different in the opportunities that it's going to give those of us on the dice and the members of the public to to really dig into this certainly I'm happy to talk about that um and thank you for bringing that up um one of the things that that this plan has has not had the resources to do as a is a community-wide robust Outreach so that's really what we're intending to do now so the Council and city manager have wisely provided some budget for us to be able to hire a consultant to assist with a community-wide effort there will be uh you know lots of meetings lots of Technology approaches used the goal is really going to be to open it up and and let the community have their say it's been you know it's been 20 years since we had that kind of an effort um and you know things have changed we now are several hundred thousand uh more population than we were then um you know obviously brand new Council from from those times um and things have changed and we've seen the city grow based on the way that it was defined at that time and I think we've got some grow real wins and successes and the city is doing great but this is an opportunity for the the folks who live here and the council and your appointed Commissioners uh to really step up and have a say and tell us what your vision of the future is what you think you know Fort Worth needs to be 20 30 50 years down the road and help us determine how to get there and all of the components of the comprehensive plan are are a part of that but really starting with the vision of the future um and engagement of the community stakeholders businesses everybody that's really what we're going to be starting we've actually got an RFP that's we're doing final refinements to right now and we'll be putting that out on the street trying to hire a Consultants sort of worthy of the effort and then we'll be starting uh you know sometime during the summer to really engage folks we'll have a kickoff meeting that will be a big public event and then that'll last the public engagement process will last up approximately a year so you know that will give us a lot of raw material a lot of new sort of you know new goals new objectives New Vision new new policy opportunities and you know addressing future land use map changes and annexations and all the other things that are important part of managing the growth of the city so that's coming up starting very soon um and uh and we're excited about it as well so I'm very glad that you are thank you thank you Elizabeth um councilor Nettles go ahead if you have anything you're good Leonard uh thank you mayor um I think your comments were very well said and um if there was anything that I would Echo from folks in District Seven it's it's really specifically the biggest concern um being land use and you know it's interesting in District Seven where you have up north in the Hillwood area Alliance area we've seen extraordinary growth and you know I think we've done some things really well up there under Richard's zavalis's leadership where when we have time to plan we can see industrial residential and land use coexist very well in my opinion we opened Alliance Park just a couple of months ago and it's wonderful and all those things are around that Park where we haven't had time to plan necessarily and we're seeing growth come like out at Lake Worth it's a whole different set of issues and complexities so I think we can figure it out but we need to really appreciate I think at in Lake Worth area um the importance of that as a resource as a park as an amenity so to speak but as a source of our drinking water it's complex because of the Watershed there obviously and the development that's coming again I think there's an opportunity for those things to coexist but I love the opportunity now to to really think through what that good story is going to be so thank you for for your leadership there thank you Dr Williams yeah thank you mayor I Echo the same sentiments as councilman Firestone I appreciate you um making the motion to delay the land use discussion um in in District Six we've received lots of uh comments about land use as well and really um it's it's centered around the importance of having transitional zoning I talked with Eric about this a little bit I personally um you know advocating for District Six residents would like to see in certain places we'd be more intentional about transitional zoning as it relates to low intensive uses to high intensive uses from residential to things like industrial I mean also thinking about how our future land use impacts watersheds in our planning process so I appreciate you know the opportunity to continue this conversation as it relates to land use and engage our residents and I support it as well thank you Jared prayer for Tim Bivins thank you mayor and thank you for all of you being here tonight Jim I hadn't seen you since before Y2K so I thought oh they they dragged him out that that's that gets even more serious but I uh I've been sitting here I think she meant that as a compliment right oh yeah okay oh yeah okay absolutely that was a shock to me uh we we we did battle when I was with the utility company but thank you for the work you do as well as you John I'm going to read some just random notes I don't dare talk spontaneously on this because it's very important while we're waiting to vote on the rest of this plan after tonight what's on my brain right now is what can be done right now and I have a few ideas and I hate that Christina isn't here but Val and Fernando I expect you to listen up real hard because it really involves you guys one thing that we can do right now and this is directed at Miss T because I heard about this Friday we can get Code Compliance to go to the neighborhood and make those truck operators stop washing their trucks allowing the chemical runoff to go into her backyard when I visited the community back in 2021 I saw the trucks within right up against our property That's not healthy we can do that right now we don't have to wait for a vote after being with you guys last week at MLK another thing that can be done right now is sound monitors because right now there are activities that take place after hours that cause the kitchen cabinetry to shake right now so we don't have to have a vote to make that stop right now those are things that involve Code Compliance and I know Val will get on top of that what happens with staff in these meetings that we talk about staff is trained to call a meeting go to a meeting take real good notes but only from those people who are there but I look for who's not there and it's obvious we have a Communications problem and challenge at City Hall and so we have to work on that I don't think you can send enough texts to people I don't think you can do enough Instagrams live and all that stuff to make things happen so one thing that we did in San Antonio was we used the water bill everybody pays a water bill some kind of way and Renee isn't here but this is pretty serious David and so being able to communicate to people who are disengaged is really important that you have to take extra efforts that's why I have my meetings at churches because I know at some point in time some preacher will tell somebody what I said and word gets around it gets around pretty pretty pretty yeah it it really works and so I want to tell you the folks at cocoa Heights first came to City Hall during covet and I remember it specifically because I was virtual and Bobby Edmonds attorney Bobby Edmonds came with the people from Echo Heights and at that meeting through a bad connection you know I I advocated for them to get your neighborhood association going well they did but they went one better they reached out to John Sierra Club and they formed an environmental Association so they are serious they're not going away they should not go away and just because things are as they are now as they have always been doesn't mean they need to continue to be so and so Jim I was looking at the justice 40 initiative and I'm going to be asking our staff to see how we line up against that the the only thing that gets me stuck is that I know you can't take people's property away but I know you sure can plan for a better use of it in the future and at some point you know you there are some cities who are offering for lack of a better word reparations because of the industrial harm that's been done now I live in an area where Anderson Labs was anybody here old enough to know about Anderson labs well I tell you what because of protesters they were closed down Tina knows about Anderson Labs it's a firefighter's wife who led the the protest that didn't sit too well with his employer I'm sure but we were made safer at the time so those are just some thoughts but Val I'm real serious we need to stop the trust I don't know if they do it I don't know why they do it but they're washing trucks and whatever they use to wash those trucks is not done or Joy or Ivory whatever it is is going into her yard her neighbor's yard and all along that area that's just not right and so those are my musings for now and I'll be meeting with some people who are concerned about environmental issues in DC on another topic but I've lined them up I look forward to continuing this discussion I look forward to making sure people are heard and one thing everybody needs to know these people and anybody who has lived near an industrial area we don't need another cancer alley everybody has has heard about cancer alley in Louisiana everybody has heard about West Side Gym the smelter where people use old battery parts to decorate their yards not knowing the harm they cause from this West Dallas smelter we don't need that here and this is a way to avoid that or at least slow it down and make some corrective changes so those are those are my comments thank you member 10 Bivens um Mr Blaylock anything from you thank you mayor mayor thank you my microphone on okay thank you mayor I agree with the approach tonight I've had a contacts from many neighborhoods and citizens up in the north that have expressed concerns uh primarily again related to Future land use and I think we have a real opportunity here to to take a moment and do some better uh really want to see the future land use reflect you know how we want the city to look how it becomes a great place for us to live work and play and and just maintain and show the quality of life we expect to have as residents as we move forward so thank you thank you Alan councilmember crane yeah thanks mayor I appreciate you um your thoughts and everybody else on the dice as well I did want to ask point of clarification are you asking just the future land use to be separated out and all the other parts yes and illegal Leanne you can jump in if I'm incorrect in this but based on my understanding this evening not only in comments but also in talking with customers on the dice every other piece of the comprehensive plan there was no contest here we were happy about moving forward it's just these two sub-taptors that deal specifically with future land use yes right well I just want to say thanks to the neighbors that come out and the supporters have come out understand that piece of it I understand uh and hear your concerns so I'm happy we're going to pull that piece out I do think they're important parts in here that need to move forward most notably Las Vegas Trail the transformation plan I want to see that move forward we put a lot of time and effort into that the botanic gardens I think is part of that too I want to give Patrick Newman who's doing a phenomenal job the tools he needs to keep moving that forward to so I'm glad we're figuring out that there are great Parts in here but we need to look at some other parts a little further Eric I want to thank you and your staff for all that you've done I saw the the you know the work with the the growth in the west veal and wall should incorporating all the growth out there that they are bringing commercial et cetera I think that's important part and that you've done good work there I think you uh I also want to thank you on the the neighbors around Chapin road on the west side of Fort Worth the nature of that area has changed a lot um we did a lot you did a lot to save some open space there and some Ag and dust and leave it um Ag and not industrial there's a piece there that you and I have already discussed that I've made a commitment to that neighborhood that we wouldn't take any uh commercials south of Chapin road so there's a tweak there I think we need to do but appreciate your work there just trying to um as best we can preserve some of that green space that's out in the west side of Fort Worth as we continue to grow but we can talk about that later so thank you thank you Michael and councilmember Flores thank you mayor um I support laying this sanction tonight to provide a better opportunity for uh staff and the public to engage you know in our public process and to make sure that we capture uh your input in the areas that you've identified tonight you know the mayor mentioned land use future land use those are very valid points uh you know Michael also mentioned some of the things that that this update does cover well that you know could proceed but where we know where your concerns lie right and what the environmental impacts are so I want to thank the residents and the interests of parties that came out here tonight to voice their concerns to us and also Eric have every confidence in you and your staff you know we'll we'll do great work you know in the in the coming months to uh to make sure that the public process proceeds and that we capture again all the concerns and the public input that we heard tonight thank you thank you council members um one one piece that I might ask Eric to clarify this for me if you don't mind Eric um we understand that this is a comprehensive Plan update that's limited and just reflects specific revisions in the 2022 comprehensive plan I I'm just kind of curious so for transparency for the public here what is the best course of action is it to bring this vote back up in a few weeks when we feel like we've maybe remitted some of these issues or is it prudent to wait a full year and leave it the way it is I'm really curious what is best here for this Council uh well thank you for for asking that question uh what we have right now is the 20 to 22 Conference of plan so there would be no changes under what's been discussed as far as the future land use maps meaning that all of the under your floodplain areas we've identified would no longer be identified so we wouldn't be providing that information that education uh and assistance to the development community so that would be I guess problematic sure yeah um another thing that that uh one of the slides that I showed actually was modifying the future Landings designation around Green Elementary School itself to uh they can undeveloped agricultural to help protect so getting back to that concept of a buffer around the school so that would not be included if you skip uh the the future Landings Maps um so and I know Dana was getting ready to jump up and say something I don't know if that was what it was but um so I mean one one approach certainly is to do what you've just described another approach would be to adopt the conference plan its entirety we have not added any industrial future land use to the Apple Heights area in this comprehensive plan and we made that modification to remove some industrial Fusion Landings destination so one idea would be to you know to go ahead with the conference plan as it is an entirety understanding that within a few months we're going to start a process and we'd be happy to be fully engaged with the echo Heights community and and others throughout the city um to to delve into future land use designations and and what their vision of their their future really is um and that would certainly be a you know one of the most urgent components of that effort again so starting in a few months uh that's where we're going to be um I I don't think from the standpoint of sort of revising the future land use designations across the city certainly within a few weeks or a few months we would do that we would be able to do that with public engagement right we could certainly focus on Echo Heights and look specifically at the industrial designations around them um and and but we would do that within a few months anyway if we you know by starting this larger public engagement process that's helpful thank you and Dana you're welcome to jump in here at any point maybe what I'll propose council is we bring this back up next month in April um and attempt to make some of these finalize some of these changes that you mentioned that are important um adjustments to our future land use map especially with floodplain and some other changes you made including Echo Heights but do some additional discussion with neighbors understanding that our comprehensive plan I'm using that a word a lot tonight is actually not going to happen changes aren't going to happen until the 2023 plan is complete does that work for everybody I don't I don't want to confuse anybody that's leaving here because I think for clarity this plan for 2022 is not going to go through a significant overhaul until we go through this long public process and that's the 2023 plan which is next year so I I am confused I I know where I stand I don't want to see any action taken regarding Echo Heights tonight no and I agree that that won't happen tonight but at the very least we bring this back up no sooner than next month at least to try to talk through some of these major issues Dana go ahead maybe there it goes uh Dana Bergdorf assistant city manager so Eric mentioned earlier in his remarks that the appendix see where the future land use maps and policies are contained uh are broken up into 16 planning sectors Echo Heights is in the Southeast planning sector which is the one that needs immediate attention with regard to Future land use Planning and Zoning as well one of the suggestions I had was going to offer may not make sense given the one month delay you just described mayor but you could adopt the in some cases somewhat minor and in some cases significant with the flood plain land use map amendments that have been in the works for months some of them reflect zoning changes that have already been made some of them reflect the veal Ranch development agreement which we want to get going that's in the Far West and far Southwest sectors that one option is to perhaps suspend adoption of the future land use plan for the southeast sector specifically but if there's concerns about other sectors that may not make sense to parse it out that way but I wanted to offer that as an option that appendix C is not all or nothing we can break it into those we have those 16 sectors which can be considered that's helpful but Council has to speak up here there may be other sections that you're concerned about within the comprehensive plan if that's the case we just need to kind of delay it at least for a few weeks to keep working through that so is it better to just delay the whole thing in that appendix or yeah yes okay we're gonna go back um so what is your preference to read through what my original motion was on the floor okay okay so Jeanette you might have been keeping track as well but if it's my understanding that the motion is to approve what the following amendments that um it will not the the ordinance will not include adoption of chapter four land use or appendix C and that those two items will be continued for 30 days thank you Leanne any other questions about that Council wonderful got a motion and a second by councilmember back any other discussion with not please vote motion carries thank you Council so the next item is easy-0195 with staff report by Joel mcelhaney good evening mayor and members of the council I'm Joel mcelhaney assistant director of the Park and Recreation Department the purpose of this public hearing is to consider the proposed use of a portion of Heritage Glen Park for a permanent sewer maintenance area Heritage Glen Park is located north Fort Worth Council District 4. it is south of Heritage Trace Parkway and north of North Tarrant Parkway east of Riverside Drive and west of Beach Street highlighted in the cyan or light blue color there on this on the map the city of Fort Worth development services department and the water department is requesting .025 Acres of Parkland for a permanent maintenance area the permanent maintenance areas for the installation of a new eight-inch sanitary sewer line that will serve an assisted living and Memory Care Facility construction of those facilities to begin in February of 2023 and last approximately 11 months construction of the sewer line within the Heritage Glen Park is estimated to begin in April and last approximately 10 days no trees will be impacted by this project the park board endorsed this item for the city council approval on January 25th 2023. is recommended the city council conduct a public hearing under the guidelines set forth in the Texas Parks and Wildlife code chapter 26 protection of public parks and recreation lands and find that no feasible or prudent alternative exists for the use of Heritage Glen Park for the installation of a permanent sanitary sewer line and Associated maintenance area and find that the proposed permanent Sanctuary sewer line and Associated maintenance area includes all reasonable planning to minimize harm to the Parkland including that all infrastructure and equipment with the construction are cons will be constructed is specified on the preceding exhibits and close the public hearing and authorize the use of approximately .025 Acres of dedicated Parkland at Heritage Glen Park for the proposed permanent Sanctuary sewer line and Associated maintenance area oops do you have any questions any questions Council none here I don't think so so Council District 4 will turn to you Mr Blaylock thank you mayor thank you Joel appreciate this I think it's going to be beneficial to to get this done and get it and get the the new building built so I motion to close the hearing and act on the MNC second got a motion in a second any other discussion please vote motion carries next item is MNC 23-0062 was report by Stuart Campbell your mayor council members my story Campbell with planning and annexation division this is a public hearing for an owner-initiated annexation the applicant has requested a continuance to the April 11 city council meeting and thank you thank you Stuart any questions councilmember Firestone move to close public hearing and continue until April 11th Motion in a second please vote oh Jared oh Jared's not here if you don't want sorry I just realized that motion carries [Music] next item is the companion zoning case -22 -195 sounds like we're going to continue that one correct your stone I'll move to continue until April 11th Motion in a second please vote motion carries thank you Council before we jump back into additional zoning cases let's go back to the two items we pulled off the consent agenda I'm going to handle one first that's a little bit easier there was some confusion related to MNC 23 hyphen0196 and I know that Mary Goodman spoke and Gina had expressed concern based on her comments but miss Goodwin actually had signed up on a different item and it wasn't related to the MNC so we have no we have no concerns about that MNC for authorization of equipment with Kirby Smith Machinery so if I could take a motion on that item motion a second please vote motion carries and our last MNC we need to go back to is MNC 23 hyphen0232 pertaining to our authorization execution of a continued lease agreement with Waste Management of Texas Incorporated I'm happy to have Steve come back down and answer any additional questions I know Gina had expressed a concern of extension of at least for 10 years um if it's Steve or anyone else on staff that's best to better understand what that lease agreement looks like and what the operation of that facility um if so it does I don't have any concern about this particular facility in particular I think they have been an excellent tenant there and importantly do provide all of our Residential Waste Services for the city of Fort Worth and are an excellent partner in that but if any City staff I'm looking around not sure who that would be want to talk about that they can and I don't see any representative from Waste Management there's Steve Keller hi Steve Steve I'm literally putting you on the spot maybe I can probably add some clarity please go ahead come on down I think whoever you want to designate Steve is fine he just left you hanging that's what I just saw I think the concerns the residents nearby residents have are more cosmetic if you will I don't know that there is a real distinction that has been made between these operations and this lease compared to the entire big picture of displeasure with environmental matters and so without them here I don't know what else to do I know we can't just forego a 10-year we we have nowhere else to go and so you know we're we're there but I think their concerns are more cosmetic I think it would be good if you were to meet with the association and I'll put you in contact with not only the officers but all who spoke here tonight because these are the voices that could better Express their concerns yes ma'am I'll be happy to we'd be happy to to meet with the stakeholders down there and uh we're very thankful for the the placement I've been in your facility it's cleaners all get out yes ma'am we've if you consider what it was before to what it is now it's night and day difference and uh you know we're very cognizant of uh keeping things in good order down there I think a tour may be helpful yes ma'am so I guess we'll be happy to do so no I have no issues thank you Gina thank you very much that Council I think we can entertain a motion move for approval motion a second please vote thank you motion carries okay that gets us back to the rest of the zoning which is zc-22-1 or 2-1-1 thank you our first speaker is Alexia Becerra followed by Humberto Becerra hello good afternoon members of city council my name is Alexa Becerra and tonight I'm representing Umberto vesara which is the owner of the property located at 4309 Village Creek Road after our last hearing I've had to I've I've had an open dialogue with Miss Pearl Grant which is a former president of Village Creek neighborhood association and attended a meeting with the neighborhood at the local community center on March 16th which we provided information on what our property is used for after our meeting we understood that the neighborhood isn't against our business but they're just trying to understand where the city wants us to change our zoning before there was an opposition for the following reasons which were causing traffic causing harm to children and the elderly no sidewalk and 18-wheeler storage I Believe Miss willsburn was getting us confused with those who aren't causing these issues which are in higher industrial properties surrounding Village Creek when I went to speak to the neighborhood association they agreed that we aren't the ones causing none of these issues but it is other higher industrial properties in the area because our property isn't being used for nothing other than storage of personal vehicles trailers tools and the work trucks that the guys take to work we do and we also do not own any 18 wheelers nor do we need an 18-wheeler for our business we also do not operate nor work on our property therefore we have never been one of those um property owners that release any harmful chemical outs to the environment also um they were they noted that we haven't caused traffic in our area due to our guys arriving before 6 a.m and not and leaving no later than 6 10 a.m and they do not return back to the property until after 6 PM it was also noted that no other property nearby or within our street has a sidewalk um it also has come to my attention that the 2023 comprehensive plans for this property is to be residential not industrial it is not part of the industrial Zoning for the new comprehensive plan but we would really appreciate getting approved for the change the city wants us to make in order for in order to make to our property in order for us to not only to in order for us to not only be okay with the city but to continue to help those around us and have a safe place for our employees to leave their personal vehicles while they go to work we would also love to keep building relationships we have with our neighbors and continue to be loaning and be and continue to help them when needed whether it's helping families during storms if they need um wood for warmth but in diet uh the fact that neighborhood association have questions I believe some of them are here tonight to talk about it and ask a couple questions as we would like to be on the same page as everyone therefore I would be agreeable to an extension and coming back into the city council to discuss this case further if needed to that's pretty much it thank you our next speaker is Umberto Becerra that's fine just want to make sure thank you that's okay thank you so much let's show Wilburn followed by Linda Beasley hi latita womborn this is a bad idea this is one other problems with industrialization they bought property zone for a home now they want to change it to Industrial I know from personal experience this is a bad idea this property is surrounded by homes I know the zoning commission thought it was a bad idea so I don't know what makes them think it's a good idea they will affect their neighbors with pollution with the noise there's children that walk up and down that street it's close to a nursing home facility it's close to a community park it's also close to the community center I oppose this and I think it's a bad idea when you buy property in certain communities is not giving that you can come and change it because you want to you knew what this property was when you bought it and now because you see a lot of industrialization you think it's okay to change it and like I said before that's the problem with putting industry and communities you have people and I'm not talking down or bad against them but you have people who think it's okay because they see it around the community to come and affect everyone else's lives it's a bad idea and I'm telling y'all from personal experience don't approve this our next speaker is Linda Beasley hi I'm Linda Beasley and I represent the Village Creek neighborhood association Pearl's at a funeral so she could not attend but we opposed the changing to Industrial uh we have children walking up and down the streets we have homes nursing homes a church a community center an elementary school in the area no we don't have any sidewalks over there we've asked for them but never we've never received them and if you go into our area you'll find out there's a lot of streets with no sidewalks um we're a little bit tired of all of the light industrial whether it's your heavy trucks your trucks going up and down the streets if you go down Village Creek you go down to Martin or even Village Creek to Berry we have more potholes more destruction um and and it's all because of all the trucks the trucking companies that are there whether you're using it for your own personal use or a big trucking company and we have tons of them over there and to have that big of an area I can't say that they're not going to use it for something else which we are very much against um the pollution that the trucks the fumes from the gasoline the diesel are polluting the air and our area we have a lot of senior senior citizens there and we have a lot of senior citizens with respiratory problems and like I said we do have the nursing home over there so um oh and by the way our neighborhood association is also a part of the echo echo Heights environmental Coalition also but no Village Creek is definitely against this thank you Linda thank you Linda mayor for Tim that's the last of our speakers on this item now let's I think you have an overhead slide I see it on your screen can you pull that up okay I wondered what made code take what made up code take the case and this this is what you see here and I found out code has the code has an open case on this property owner since September 2021 and as far as code is concerned the property owners are operating illegally I wanted to give you time to be able to have a formal conversation with the neighborhood association and so Linda when I didn't see Pearl I didn't know who was here I'm glad to see you here tonight okay well I am going to make a motion to uphold the decision from the zoning commission and move to deny Motion in a second in either discussion Council please vote thank you all for coming motion passes next item is zc-22-212 we have no speakers on this item councilmember Beck move to approved thank you motion carries next item is zc-22-170 we have one speaker on this item councilmember Bivins and it's Miss Wilburn asking to oppose this this is part of the echo High stop six environmental Coalition district and it's also attached to Echo Heights the scary thing about this is that it's zoned uh heavy industrial and I did notice that right behind this company on Colette Little Road there's two slots slated for rezoning to Industrial the problem with that is that there's a senior citizen apartment communities right there uh I know when we came several months ago it was offensive to hear him say that Fort Worth ISD send kids to his junkyard salvage yard for auto mechanics that would be unsafe they would be unwise for ISD to send kids to that environment with stacked cars in a salvage yard rodent snakes and insects he also said that the fire department uses this facility for training so why did we buy that multi-million dollar facility on Felix Street if they have to go to a salvage yard on Mansfield Highway for training uh the scary thing is that whether it's approved or disapproved even if it's disapproved what happened to that lot that slated heavy industrial can it be rezoned to something more compatible there's a apartment complex close by there's businesses close by there's off the phone barbecue chain close by so I recommend that you guys deny it but I'm also concerned that one 69 is zoned heavy industrial what would go there and with the two lots behind it Like Us stated earlier earlier on Colette Little Road that's up for being rezoning I'm just concerned about what will come in those particular areas but uh I think it's offensive what he said that kids come there for auto mechanics training in the salvage yard thank you councilmember Bivens and if you can't deny we pray to this let me explain the complexities behind this case my godmother lived in the senior apartment complex I'm very very familiar with it as well as the other apartment complexes and all the businesses up in that section initially I thought okay the commission got it wrong but what happens is what you the fear you just expressed a deny to this application guarantees k and so for that reason I do need to uphold the recommendation from Zoning for your protection because if if if we deny this then anything that's heavy industrial can come there and that's not what you want I promise you so I thought I'd explain it that way because initially I thought well why would they do this because I thought about my godmother but the K at least this gives you a cup which has some standards that will be monitored it will give you it won't give you Kate and so with that respectfully I moved to approve yeah those were my concerns about as I stated before about thank you Mr heavy industry very much I appreciate you very much yeah any other questions from Miss Bivins thank you thank you I've got a motion and a second from councilmember Nettles any other questions thank you motion carries next item is zc-22-219 we have one speaker on this item councilmember Beck only if there's opposition which I don't think there is any Scott Gibson Motion in a second either discussion Council please vote motion carries next item is zc-22-223 our first speaker on this item is Ray ojeski I don't think Ray's here no councilmember Firestone I'd like to move to continue until April 11th move for approval Council okay second another discussion please vote I think so okay motion carries oh sorry no it doesn't motion carries next item is zc-22-227 speaker on this item Council for Firestone and it is Bruce French hello mayor council my name is Bruce French I'm vice president of land for tri-point homes 6201 West Plano Parkway Plano Texas I'm here tonight representing the partnership that we have between TriPoint homes and Mi homes we purchased this property in December of 2021 we came before this Council on September 14th 2021 to rezone the property to pd1313 the subject for tonight is the Western portion of our property which is proposed to be phase three is currently plotted for 114 Lots it's um actually our least desirable portion of the property due to we've got a very expensive road to build wagley Robertson Road Extension there's three gas Wells there's floodplain and an overhead powered transmission line so it's not really suited well for single-family homes but we've been approached by the adjacent property owner which is zoned eye about adding this property to his Holdings and he would build um a number of warehouses five to six five to ten thousand square foot warehouses over many years but uh so tonight we propose we'd like to get your support to rezone the property to I and I'm glad to answer any questions thank you Bruce any questions customer Firestone no thank you Bruce a move to approve Motion in a second either discussion Council please vote motion carries next item is zc-23-002 we have our first speaker on this item is Dan Hayes followed by Michael Phipps but I will say that they're both only there's opposition and there is none councilmember Nettles good okay move for approval thank you motion yeah any other discussion please vote motion carries next item is zc-23-004 our first speaker is Samir Muhammad followed by Tim Morton good evening Miss mayor and good evening and all council members I am Samir Mohammed I'm the construction project manager for Q Car Wash I'm in charge of the design and development for all the car washes projects for Q Car Wash first of all thanks to bet knight uh with the city staff for the PDC meeting and the unanimous approval by phc of our car wash when car wash comes to pictures people think about self-serve car wash drug dealing security concerns and all that stuff but car washes have have gone way Beyond and transformed uh to us expressed car washes uh qcar just to give you a quick quick background Q Car Wash is an Express Car Wash operator we currently have 11 operating locations and five are under construction uh out of which too often two or two of them are in City of Arlington which we got a certificate of occupancy last week uh we're building one more in City of Arlington and uh we have locations in Dallas uh Duncanville Mesquite White Settlement Benbrook and Grapevine currently we have three locations in city of Fort Worth uh East Chase Basswood and and Golden Triangle uh we are eco-friendly Express Car Wash where we recycle 80 percent of our water through three parts sedimentation process we use reclaim system to reclaim our most of our water uh all chemicals that we use in our was a biodegradable and environmental friendly so there's no harm and it goes to the sewer system through a three-part sedimentation process that I already told you about uh we use high and exterior stucco finishes metal panels in lieu of wood panels just to make it look good and we don't compromise on the Aesthetics of the building we would like to make sure we will We Stand Out in regards over our buildings our car wash equipment is not something which is common although the blowers are most noisier part of the car wash we do have silencers on them so which makes them 10 times quieter than the typical blowers that we use we use all electrical equipment in lieu of hydraulic equipment our and our vacuum equipment also has silencers on them um just to let you know it makes a noise of 70 decibel at 10 feet a moving car at 50 to 60 miles per hour makes more noise than than our vacuum uh changes made as per the DRC comments we move the dumpster and as you can see on the site plan uh there was an eight inch sewer line which we didn't know about uh I'm running out of time so I'm just going to go through uh we have 24 hours camera surveillance on motion sensor and we chain up the vacuum area so that it's not accessible when we're not open we plan to create 15 full-time jobs uh with two shifts uh hours of operations can be obtained on request we support law enforcement and First Responders and we give them free watches uh just to honor them for what they do uh we are proud sponsors and donate generously towards Talent food bank and we are proud members of Mesquite Chamber of Commerce thank you Mr Muhammad our next speaker is Tim Morton Tim would like to speak thank you very much Gene I'll turn it over to you are you getting a car wash this is my my second and I got to make sure I can transfer my membership from East Chase to Tim's location but I guess I got a few months to do that I I am excited about the location uh you're lucky because Dr Martin knows the area and I am a customer so once again we were able to beg from this Dias for a car wash and we got one now we'll have another and I've excitedly moved for approval good to see you Dr Martin and thank you for your service here with the city of Fort Worth and I will be calling you about transferring my membership thank you Gina any other questions Council if not I've got a motion I'll second that congratulations I know how excited we can see it on your face yeah Motion in a second please vote you're like a commercial Gina yeah motion carries next item is zc-23-005 no speakers on this item councilman or Nettles move for approval good please vote motion carries next item is zc-23-006 our first speaker is Robert Petrie followed by Michael Thomas good evening mayor and Council Mickey Thomas MJ Thomas Engineering uh we're representing Robert Petry uh on this endeavor I understand that there may be a request to continue this case on this and so the owner doesn't have a problem with that and wouldn't mind continuing to the April 11th agenda councilmember Beck thank you I appreciate that and I know that you've tried to reach out to the neighborhood and that's always a requirement of mine and they haven't um it's by understanding that they haven't gotten back with you and so you have my commitment that tomorrow morning we'll be sending an email and we'll be connecting all of the parties uh via email to make sure that that happens so that when we come back to the April 11th meeting we know that everybody is informed and we can make a better decision so thank you for that and so a move to continue to April 11th I guess thank you Motion in a second please vote motion carries next item is zc-23-008 we have no speakers on the side I'm council member Crane and Firestone uh thank you I just want to say thanks to the developers here with working with the community I think with the product that they're going to bring is great it's great commercial use of this property that the neighborhood's been wanting for a long period of time and I think it'll be great so that'll move to approve Motion in a second please vote motion carries next item is zc-23-010 [Music] we have two speakers on this item our first is Patrick Bryan followed by Matthew Malley good evening mayor and council members I am the owner of the property at 5024 Colette little road I bought the property for the sole purpose of storing temporary wood traffic signal poles and permanent still traffic signal pulls took them about a year to find a property finally found one here that was tailor-made already fenced in a period of already been used for outside storage I didn't do my due diligence in making sure what it was zoned for I know that's real estate 101. but I'm here today and on top of it the signal poles will be used on the Southeast connector project I know y'all are familiar with that many of the polls will the steel polls will remain property of the city of Fort Worth um we're just busting the seams where we currently are so we need a place that's within the project limits and this one fit really well and that's all I have thank you for your time thank you Patrick our next speaker is Matthew Malley good evening Council I just wanted to I'm Matthew Maley I'm with babe Dawson Engineers I'm helping Patrick on the project um part of what we wanted to do with the rezoning is just to allow for the storage lay down use and so really we we started our application initially with a conditional use permit since the project has a specific duration we know one of the concerns being once it's rezoned what happens after the Project's complete so staff directed us that this would be step one of what would become a cup so that's our ultimate goal is to get to that thank you thank you Matthew questions from councilmember bibbons or council members nope okay I'm going to move to uphold the recommendation from the zoning committee and move to deny motion is no second from Carlos okay please vote motion carries studem is MNC 23-0148 please vote like Elizabeth did motion approved the next item is MNC 23-0212 question in a second please vote motion carries next item is MNC 23-0215 motion a second please vote foreign motion carried next item is MNC 23-0228 motion a second please vote motion carried next item is MNC 230235 motion carries next item is MNC 23-0227 councilmember Nettles apparently I moved at the Fort Worth City Council adopt the resolution authorizing uh the use of the power of Emma domain to acquire 0.0059 acres in pedestrian access easements from the real property owned by science kipra RB investment Inc the land rights and the subject property are needed for the East 4th Street Dash East First Street on the street bike lane project and a public use which provides for construction of new separated bike Lanes bikes bicycle and pedestrian bicycles and pedestrian counters and related intersection Improvement along the project quarter the project is located at 301 South Sylvania Avenue in the Riverside Edition Fort Worth block 29 lot 1-3 Tarrant County Texas the property interest to be acquired to describe by meets and Bounds and the typical buys survey exhibits attached to this mayor council that is my motion a motion in a second Council please vote carries next item is MNC 23-0218 and I believe Robert Stearns has a presentation 80 mayor and Council Robert Stearns Economic Development Department the brief presentation will give you is a proposal for a 380 agreement with probably monsters probably monsters is a technology software game developer located and headquartered in Bellevue Washington the company is rapidly growing its presence and market share in the U.S and looking at an expansion opportunity and this is obviously a high value technology company that is in one of our designated target areas is outlined in our strategic plan uh this project would see the establishment of a primary office in Fort Worth uh they will initially take a site of a 9 000 square foot building at a temporary location at 210 East 8th Street so this is downtown in the winterford building on or before June 1st of 2023 they will then subsequently find a permanent office space of 30 000 square feet to be leased on and before December 31st 2024. as part of this project we'll be utilizing our Economic Development incentive fund to attract the job growth we would have average annual wages of 75 000 and as you see the schedule details and initial job commitment of 60 full-time jobs in year one ramping up to 300 full-time jobs by year five here's just a quick overview of the location of the temporary site the proposed incentive would be an eight-year economic development program agreement to provide grants based on the job creation for the overall projects ensuring a minimum of 300 employees with wages of the average salary of seventy five thousand dollars and this incentive will be capped not to exceed 1.5 million and as you see here uh year one Grant will be 500 000 based on verification of the temporary site lease and year One Employment salary commitments year two that Grant drops to 400 000 with the expanded office space and you see year three four five uh that overall Grant on the job commitment decreases while the employment and salary increases there is a clawback in year five so they will have to maintain these jobs for a period of three years and so that clawback will be in place to ensure that the city is receiving the overall benefit for the project so that concludes my presentation I can answer any questions you may have any questions from Mr Stearns Council if not we can take a motion move to approve Motion in a second please vote motion carries mayor I believe that concludes all of the items thank you Council and we're going to close tonight's council meeting in memory of Allison Gray Allison was an assistant director and a long-time employee of the city of Fort Worth development services department who died after a long battle with cancer Allison began her career with the city in January 1999 as a planning assistant in the Planning and Development Department she was the first female building official in the city's history and she quickly became known for her building code expertise and her institutional knowledge Allison made a big commitment on the community on the community impact on the community and as many of you know she was often referred to as a Fearless female Indiana Jones she served in the U.S Air Force for approximately eight years and her love of Adventure knew no limits she has survived by her two sons and four grandchildren our thoughts and prayers are with her family and also with her City of Fort Worth family who I know that she'll be dearly missed and with that council meeting adjourned