Plano City Council Meeting - Plano City Council Meeting - October 14, 2024
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Recording in progress. Hi, Julie. Hey, Lisa. Can you hear me? Yeah, we definitely ca. Awesome. Thanks. Hey, Julie. How was your cruise? It's been great so far. We spent the day in Boston today and yesterday we were in Newport So have you gone shopping? Oh, a little bit. Not, not not to your standards yet? No. Did you guys already gavel in? No, no, Julie, we're waiting for you know who. Oh, okay, I see, I can see you guys now. I now declare that the Plano City Council has convened an open session that all council members are present, with the exception of Juli Holmer, which will be on zoom, and Rick Horn and Anthony Ricciardelli. The council will now recess into executive session, and the children's Program Room to hold a closed executive meeting pursuant to the provisions. Vernon, Texas Codes Annotated Government Code, chapter 551. The Open Meetings Act in accordance with the authority contained in section five, 50, 171, to consult with the attorney. Section 551 087 to discuss economic development and section 551 oh 72 to discuss personnel matters, and Council member Ricciardelli is now here. Thank you. We gotta go. I now declare the Plano city Council preliminary open meeting is reconvened in open session. That all council members are present with the exception of Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Homer, who will be on zoom. Mayor Pro Tem Maria two, who is be here shortly, This evening, our first item on the preliminary agenda is consideration and action resulting from executive Session. We have two, two different commissions that need appointments. So item A is Board of Adjustment. Thank you mayor. Council Member horn and I have conferred and we would like to elevate Jose Figueroa from alternate to a regular member. And then fill that alternate spot with Stacy Weaver. And so I would I would move to make those appointments. Did you hear? You didn't hear that, did you? Well done. Multitask. Nice. Okay, so I have a. I'll second it. Your partner's not here. So I have a motion and a second to approve the appointments to the Board of Adjustment. All in favor, raise your hand. Motion passes six. Yeah. Next item is building standards Commission. Thank you, mayor, I, and this is going to be a long one. I know five of five of them with different terms and so we would like to appoint John Egan and Lawrence Chan to regular spots with terms ending in October of 2026. Melissa L Cole to a regular position on the commission, with a term expiring October of 2025 and then appoint Robert Lee Thomas, Bob Thomas and Ali Attar to alternate spots on the commission. With a term ending in October of 25 for Bob Thomas and October of 26 for Ali Attar, and that was that was probably the longest that was so well done. I thank you, mayor. Yeah. In a second for the appointments of building Standards Commission. All in favor, raise your hand. Motion passes six zero. Our next item is personnel reappointments or personnel appointments. Item A retirement security plan committee. Mayor and council. I would recommend and propose that we for the citizen appointment that it's Mike Mendenhall for the employee appointment. It would be Rachel Patterson. And for the chair of the Retirement Security plan that we reappoint, Karen Rose. All right. I make a motion that we appoint the people that the city manager just recommended. Second. I have a thank you. I have a motion and a second to approve the retirement security plan Committee additions. All in favor, raise your hand. Thank you. Motion passes 6 to 0. The next item is tax increment financing reinvestment zone number two. And number three. Chair. You know, I'm going to have to ask to move this to the next meeting. We came so close. We came so close. Mayor, if I if I might, in that long motion about building standards earlier this mention of chair made me realize, I don't think we said who the chair would be, so I don't know. Did we do we need to do that? But if you want to, you can. That's fine. Do we want a vote or just can he add that? Do you want to amend that motion? Oh, sure. Yeah, I would I'm so sorry I there were so many moving pieces on that one. My goodness. Okay, so we would move to reappoint the current chair, Ed Acklin, as the continuing chair for 2425. And I would so move to amend the prior motion in that manner. All right. So yeah, you second Council member second. And then I have motion and a second to that name. The chair of the Building Standards Commission. All So you do. You need a for Tiff. This is for Tiff two and three, you said. Yes. Correct. For Tiff two and three. Councilman Smith and I would like to reappoint Corey Reinecker as chair. Okay, perfect. You second that, Rick? I do now. I second that. Thank you. Thank you. I just wanted to give you the opportunity. So I have a motion and a second for the chair. Appointment of the tax increment financing reinvestment zone number two. And number three. All in favor, raise your hand. Motion passes and then item C, tax increment financing reinvestment zone number five. Chair. Thank you. Mayor. With Councilman Horn out, we have finalized. So I'm going to table that to our next meeting. Okay. All right. I'll second that. I have a motion and a second to table item C on item two. Tax increment All right. Motion passes. The tabling of that item. Next item discussion and direction regarding legislative session. Mr. Fortune. Well, good evening, Mayor and Council. Andrew Fortune, director of policy and government relations. This evening I wanted to bring forward for your consideration an update on our legislative program, as well as to seek your direction as we move forward. The actual program itself will be brought back to you in the next council meeting for your actual vote. But between that time, you'll have an opportunity to see a side by side of last session's agenda as well as our proposed changes. But going through this, I just wanted to highlight some legislative dates of interest. Again, as I mentioned, October 28th, the adoption of our agenda, the general election, which will have a considerable impacts on the political 14th. I also would like to highlight late February. We will be having Plano days in Austin in partnership with the chamber. Highly recommend that you all join us again. This go round. It's a great opportunity to see the process, but also to advocate for our issues down there in person. Just a little bit of a session preview. We are anticipating at this time around a $20 billion surplus for the state of Texas. That's not to include the economic Development Stability Fund that they have. Border security, school choice vouchers, property taxes, taxpayer funded lobbying, local control infrastructure, specifically water and the power grid, as well as housing, housing affordability, all of these issues. You probably seen in the news we expect them to be discussed and ultimately bills to come out of these different areas for our actual legislative program. Overview. These same items probably would look familiar from the last time we did this, but we look to preserve home rule authority, make sure we keep an eye on Development as in years past. We like to keep the legislative agenda. Broad enough to allow the flexibility for myself and staff to the ever changing environment in Austin. But we do have our legislative committee, and we will be providing regular updates to ensure that our actions stay in line with the legislative program and the direction of this body. For our specific priorities, as we've discussed over the last year or so, certainly maintaining local control always remains paramount. The Dart issues and discussions we've had public facility corporations and housing finance corporations, as you know, public facility corporations have been a huge issue impacting Plano. Unfortunately, some bad actors have chosen to use the Housing Finance Corporation tool in other parts of the state to accomplish essentially the same thing. So we've already been in partnership with other cities and other offices and delegations in the state. We do anticipate legislation coming out of some senior members offices, and so we'll be supporting those efforts. Qualified hotel projects. Again, I will go a little bit into detail with each of Like us to consider adding to the agenda. Now would be the time. We'd love to entertain those. Go ahead Anthony. Thank you mayor. So a couple that are a few, I guess that I would love to see us call out in addition, one we've already got maintain local control on there. But last session we saw a lot of movemen, specifically in the area of land use, to take away local control. And I'd love to see us just to highlight the importance of that, to specifically call out local control regarding land use, including STRs and, you know, things of that nature. I think that's an important issue worth a call out. Hotel occupancy tax. City manager Israelsson and director fortune. No, that's that's been something I've been on for a long time. I'd love to see us to continue to engage with the hotel lobby on broadening the permissible uses of that. And specifically, maybe this session really focusing on economic development, because we do a lot of things with hot tax that we hope will put heads in beds that are designed to put heads in beds. But the only thing we do that is guaranteed contractually to put heads in beds are So I think that's something that really fits the broad goal of heads and beds. And at least, you know an amount of hot tax commensurate to the value of the guaranteed contractually guaranteed hotel room nights. I would hope the hotel lobby would get on board with that. And, you know, because that is really a way that we put heads and beds in Plano at Plano hotels. And then also, I'd love to see us try to maybe get amendments to the Public Funds Investment Act because, you know, that's something we've looked at. We talked about this during the budget cycle because state law is so restrictive on what we can do to invest. There are things that, you know, Americans are investing their retirement savings in, you know, 401 S IRAs are invested in things that are broadly considered safe, that we are not, by state law, allowed to invest in. And that greatly impacts the return that we can get on the people's money that's held in the city's treasury. I'd love to see some of those things if it's good enough for, you know, Social Security, if it's good enough for, How to invest. So those are kind of my specific items to add to that list. Thanks. Thank you sir. Thanks, Casey. I would just add to the hotel occupancy tax, the all the people that we bring in for all of these tournaments. Yes. The fact that we can't use any of that funding to help prepare for those tournaments or fields. Yeah. Yeah. The fields or all of those things. So. Wel, and I will say that item is specifically called out still in our legislative program. We plan to continue that. While the hotel lobby has traditionally been very protective of the expansion of the uses of those funds, we're going to continue to definitely engage. And if there's an opportunity, we're going to jump on it. Absolutely. Yes, ma'am. So I also want to add that, you know, if something like SB 147 were to pop up again or something that's similar, that you keep us abreast of that. So that we Jeremy. Given the increasing strain put on North Texas, I'd like to pile on to legislative efforts regarding water and energy reliability. Absolutely. Yeah, we felt both of those hard a couple of years back. Certainly. All right. Well, we'll take those into consideration. You'll see those reflected in a draft that will be emailed to you. Jumping a little bit into each of these specific priorities. Of course, the Ernst and Young Study I know that every member has seen that, but I wanted to provide a highlight. Unfortunately, we did see that Plano provided a $65 million subsidy to the Dart system in just one year fiscal year 23, more than 60% of what Plano paid into the system actually went into other jurisdictions. And so we do feel that the methodology that Ernst and Young used for this study was fair. It did confirm the concerns of this council that were raised as far back as 2020. And we are interested in and vocalize this interest to the consultants in replicating that methodology so we can get a picture over time. But as you can see on on your Disparities between different member cities. Well, I went too fast. Okay, a few additional updates for this group. If you've not seen it in the news, certainly we had five other cities join us in passing resolutions calling for a reduction in the contributions to Dart. Our hope, though, is and continues to be that we could solve this locally. We believe the proposal that we've put forward and have vetted with members of this body could and would accomplish that. I would also like to highlight the city of Dallas recently did add their support for full Dart funding, maintaining the current status quo of the financial model, and also later on this week, regional Transit 2.0 recommendations from the RTC are going to be taking up. Two of those caused us considerable concern To protect the again, the status quo and existing statute and financing models. While we are definitely supportive of transit 2.0, and we're excited to see where that study is going to take us. Our understanding from as from you, as counsel is that we're looking for something more immediate in terms of a resolution. So the proposal itself fairly complex issue. So we tried to boil it down into something that's easy to understand and easy to implement. We would like to see and propose a restriction of future debt issuances to a three quarter cent pledge. And so as Dart continues to take on debt, I'm here. Recently they've talked about modernizing the system. We'd like to see that pledge reduced. We'd like to enshrine what we're calling the General Mobility Program. It's a program we modeled after the Houston Metro's existing program. Similarly, Dart has offered a rebate style program to some cities within the system called the Trips program. But we'd like to also see within that the fast track and repayment of existing So within the General Mobility program essentially each member city could request up to 25% of their sales tax contribution annually for eligible projects. So if you think back to the money that we recently received from Dart, and we were able to utilize those for transportation related projects, we're proposing that this be enshrined as a program to go forward annually for every year. We're also proposing that we expand the uses, as I remember from those discussions with council, there was concern over the limitations that were around how to spend those those dollars. And so we're proposing to do that as well, the excess funding. So for example, if Plano had $30 million available in projects and we only had 20 million that we identified, the additional 10 million or any excess funding not spent out of that, 25% would be escrowed to repay that debt faster and to make sure that we could ultimately buy down a lot of this debt that dart continues to take on. So with Happy to entertain those is there. Are we going to be requesting that any of the money be spent focused on either the homeless issues that we see with Dart or any of the challenges we see with safety or cleanliness? So the intent of this program is to put some more emphasis on how each city is able to expend their contribution. So it would be, if this were to pass, whether in the form of an Ila or a bill, this council would put forward a suggested list of projects with dollar amounts. Those would go before the Dart board as long as they were consistent with the elements within statute. I'm not an attorney. I don't want to opine too far into those eligible uses, but we would have considerable say as to where those dollars go. If those are the specific areas you're most interested in. I'm certainly happy to incorporate that into the bill language of the proposal itself All right. And moving right along. FCS and HFCS again, as I mentioned, we did amend this tool last session to rein in what we have largely seen as an abuse of the system. And we're going to be working this session to ensure that we support any efforts to do the same for housing finance corporations. And then finally, our qualified hotel projects. Certainly one of the more fun items on our agenda, if you remember, this is a state economic development tool that we really think our Plano Event center and a future hotel project in that area would be a great candidate for. I should also note this tool could be used for multiple projects. Many of our other surrounding cities are eligible. We are actually the largest city in Texas that is not. This is the zone and an example there of a potential hotel site with the infrastructure that you're putting in today, and we would be able to recapture a lot of the state's portion of taxes there. So with that. Yes, sir. Yep. Yes, sir. A quick question on that. I know the statute names, specific cities. Are we going to be asking to have our So it's a process called bracketing. And so rather than Plano it would be A lot of other cities are already bracketed in, so that's how it would in process. It would work just a little bit. Again, on our process, we of course are seeking your feedback and direction. Tonight we'll look to move to adopt the legislative program at the end of October. Provide those regular updates. As always, we're going to continue our stakeholder engagement and our great partnerships. This is certainly not an exhaustive list, but the North Texas Commission certainly helps us quite a bit on the business community side. Pisd the chamber visit Plano HTML. So with that, happy to take any questions, any additional direction, anything that I can help with. Anthony. Yeah. Thank you mayor. You know the last thing I was going to mention is not necessarily in terms of the agenda itself, but just the how the council is briefed about it. I wondered if we might have more briefings, either during a council meeting, during the session or potentially Council members outside of the legislative committee could attend periodically to get updates. I'm thinking specifically, I know Council Member Williams is not on the legislative committee, but obviously has has done so much with dart. And, you know, I think it would just be great to have more opportunities for the whole council to be briefed. Sure. I don't mind if it's written. So it's easier to access, you know, and then that way it helps me to formulate more questions. Certainly we can work on more frequent briefings for council. So. Not a problem. Thank you. Yep. Thanks, Andrew. Thank you. Appreciate it. Our next item is item four. And we're going to just due to time restraints we're going to move that to our next meeting. So item five is consent and regular agendas. Are there any items Council member would like to remove. Well mayor not a council member but I do need we have a substitute for item N that is at your at your Additional language. We did have one item on there for full disclosure, for $150,000 that would be carried forward for a payment on a hotel that is not needed for next year. And that's due to some changing in ownership there. So we've removed that item from the list. That's the only added to the list is a removal of item for $150,000. So the rest of the items stayed the same. And so if we could substitute this item we can continue to move forward. Okay. Thank you. Next item is the council items for discussion action for future agendas. Mayor I do have one and this is something Council Member Williams and I have discussed putting on an agenda. Just talking about enforcement of our boarding house ordinance. We've gotten some complaints about lack of enforcement from residents, so we just wanted to talk about how to beef up our enforcement efforts. I second that. Sorry, can I have a little bit more explanation? Sure, sure Houses, which are defined, I think, as renting three or more rooms separately in residential neighborhoods or single family neighborhoods. And there have been some instances where residents are concerned about enforcement of those ordinances not being as robust as they would like to see. And so I just wanted to have a discussion about that. I'm totally in agreement with that. Executive session. Okay. Well, I'm fine with wherever that wherever that needs to go. And I have an item to place on an agenda as well. I'd like to discuss city terminology. We have an a collection trash collection schedule that was brought to my attention. It names Labor Day, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, and Martin Luther King Junior Day properly. But December 25th is called Winter holiday, and I'd like to discuss the level of political correctness in our terminology. As I Their proper names. I would second that. Thank you. That is it. We will adjourn the preliminary meeting and begin the regular. All right. I now declare that the Plano City Council is reconvened in open session. That all members are present. Council deputy Mayor Pro Tem Holmer will be on zoom. Is that right or not? She. No I don't. Okay, but I don't think she did. Then. Then Deputy Mayor Pro Tem will not be at the meeting. Nor will Council Member Rick Horn. We'll begin tonight's regular meeting with the invocation led by Pastor Michael with Christ Embassy Plano. And please join the council reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and Texas Pledge. Would you Do you? All right. Good evening everyone. Thank you for the opportunity you've given us to pray over the city. Our city of Plano. I believe I'm meant to read the Pledge of Allegiance. Right. Just go over the prayer. All right. You're up. Thank you. Let's bow our heads as we pray. Father, we thank you. We glorify your name for the opportunity you've given us to gather here tonight. We thank you for our city, the city of Plano, our city of excellence. Thank you for the mayor. Mayor Muns, thank you for the pro team. Thank you for the deputy. We thank you for all our council Jesus. Thank you. Because crime is wiped out of our city in the name of the Lord Jesus. Thank you for the opportunity, this great opportunity that you've given us. And we declare that our city is blessed. Everyone that comes into the city, they are blessed. They will take part of the blessings with which you've blessed us with. In the name of the Lord Jesus. Thank you for everything is working according to your will, and we pray that there will be testimonies of this city being the best city in the United States of America. In Jesus mighty name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. On the Texas flag I pledge allegiance One end indicates. Consent agenda. The consent agenda. The consent agenda will be acted upon in one motion and contains items which are routine and typically noncontroversial. Items may be removed from this agenda for individual discussion by a council member, the city manager, or any citizen. The presiding officer will establish time limits based upon the number of speaker requests. Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve the consent agenda except for item N. I believe there's a substitute item M, right? Yeah. Do we do that separately? No, no, no, it's okay. Yeah. We're going to pull it and then we'll we'll we'll talk about the substitute second. Thank you. So I have a motion and second to approve the consent agenda with the exception of item N. All in favor, raise your hand. Motion passes. 6 to 0. To approve the carry forward of certain fiscal year 20 2324 funds to fiscal year 20 2425, and providing an effective date. Mayor and Council. As I mentioned in the preliminary open meeting, this item has been amended to remove $150,000 payment. Other than that, the item has stayed the exact same. Motion to approve. Second. Well, we need a motion to approve the substitute version. Or is it? I don't know. I would go ahead and just as amended. As amended. As amended. I'll second that. Thank you. I have a motion and a second to approve. Item item N as amended. All in favor? Raise your hand. Thank you. Motion passes. Next item. Items for individual consideration. Public hearing items. Applicants are limited to 15 minutes. Presentation time with a five minute rebuttal if needed. Remaining speakers are limited to 30 total minutes of testimony time, with three minutes assigned per speaker. The Public hearing items. The presiding officer will permit public comment for items on the agenda not posted for a public hearing. Presiding officer will establish time limits based upon the number of speaker requests, length of the agenda and to ensure meeting efficiency, and may include a cumulative time limit. Speakers will be called in the order the requests are received until the cumulative time is exhausted. Item number one. Public hearing and consideration of an ordinance as requested in Zoning Case 2024 Dash 13 to amend the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the city. Ordinance number 2015 dash 5-2. As heretofore amended, rezoning 12.6 acres of land located on the north side of Mapleshade Lane, 230ft east of Ohio Drive, within the 190 Tollway Plano Parkway overlay District in the city of Plano, Collin County, Texas. From light industrial to planned development. 25 Light Industrial one. To modify the standards for many warehouse public Zoning map of the city, providing a penalty clause. A repealer clause, a savings clause, a severability clause, a publication clause, and an effective date. Good evening, council and executives. I'm Christina Day, director of planning, and I'm presenting to you this zoning case this evening. Case 13. So the aerial photograph and graphic in front of you demonstrate the property that is up for discussion this evening on the north side of Maple Shade Lane near Ohio Drive. You can see the notice boundaries both at 200ft and 500ft that were provided for this case. The property is zoned light industrial, so this is a planned development that's come before you because it is a unique development type that's not specifically related to a listed use in the zoning ordinance. It does combine a number of listed uses, including mini warehouse, public storage, or a modification thereof. There is an office component assembly hall component for events and vehicle repair That doesn't include a number of individual units that are going to be used to store vehicles, and may also be used as a personal recreational space for the individual renting or owning that space. So there are a couple of different stipulations that are proposed as part of this. First is to modify the definition of mini warehouse public storage for this site. Typically, we don't allow units greater than 500ft■!S, but thiss a unique use and storing multiple vehicles. They're asking for a request of up to 12,000ft■!S for individual unit. We've also added that the conduct of business is prohibited. So if this is a change in use in the future, we've added that protection in and then the accessory use for recreational purposes is also acknowledged because the design, which I believe you'll hear more about from the applicant later, does it include a mezzanine area which is often used as sort of a living Violation is that they may use store vehicles on artificial turf in the center of the site. They're proposing events which would include displaying vehicles. And so because of this uniqueness, that is a proposed exception to the ordinance. This is in the employment centers category and does fit neatly within that future land use plan category. You can see it meets all the requirements of the zoning ordinance, which is unusual. I don't know how often we have this, so that's fantastic. We did get one signed letter from the subject property owner because this is not yet subdivided. That extends further to the west, so that includes the area in the 200 foot buffer on the western side. Does include the single letter we got from the property owner to the south is a unique property owner, and that's what you see is one counting as one unique response within 200ft. We All of them within the city of Plano. The Planning and Zoning Commission did recommend approval of this, as proposed by a vote of 8 to 0. And we're here to answer questions. You might have. This is the presentation that the applicant has prepared for you. Thank you. Any questions for staff. All right. Thank you. I'll open the public hearing. Do we have any speakers? We do. The applicants and representatives for the applicant. Terrific. Well, on the applicant, Michael Holligan with Marinello LLC. I'm the developer on this project. Give you a quick background. I got into collecting cars just a couple years ago. I bought a couple garages, garage, condo projects. Like you see around different cities and had a lot of things I liked about it and enjoyed, and a few things that I didn't like about To build something a little different, and that's put everything indoors. So you have garage condos going around this building and they enter into a drive lane and walk lanes that are air conditioned 365 days a year. So no matter what, you can have your garage doors open, you can visit with your neighbors, and you can have a sense of community because you're not locked inside a big storage unit, you're actually in a community for car collectors. Can we go to the next slide, please? Okay. This kind of loops back one, please. Well, that's what the inside looks like. To give you a quick idea okay? Okay. Thank you. We're going to make you do the work. All right. What does this pay okay. So there's a better view of the building itself. You can see on the east and the west side, a smaller opening surrounded with red. That's the only garage doors that you see. And that goes into the interior of the building, goes all the way to the back of the building, crosses over and In the middle, there's a turf concorso, and that's for car shows only. Most of the time that will be empty. But when the Ferrari club or the Porsche club wants to do a car show, we have a hydraulic bollard fence there in the tunnel and it drops down and we allow the cars to enter and set up for a show. It's because most car shows you go to Miami or you go to Pebble Beach or anything like that. They're always on a golf course. They're on grass. So that's why we did that. The units, as I said, face interior. Into the air conditioned garage space itself. But on the units that back up to that green concorso, they have a second set of doors that go out to the, to the grass. So they can open up their doors, pull their car out and be part of the show also and interact with everyone. They also have a balcony surrounding that concorso that's half covered so they can sit outside and watch the car shows, talk with neighbors, that type of thing. In the front, the wide piece there that's red on the right of the tunnel that will be my offices on the left of the Fee. So if they want to have a party there, a birthday party or anything like that, any of the owners, or if they want to have a corporate event and invite people out or just be part of the car show where we can open up the doors, go into the Concorso. It also has a large screen television on both sides, inside and outside, so you can watch formula one races or MotoGP or anything like that. But the whole idea is to build a sense of community among the car owners. They can hang out together, spend time together and stay there. I'm about to enter my 60s and I'm trying to look for what am I going to do during the day and everything, and this is what came out of it. You know, to build something like this. So this is but open for any questions? Sure. Hold o. Yeah. Go ahead. So I'm sorry. I know nothing about cars. Except for my mini. Okay, so what kind of show? I mean, it's not a it's not a sales, right? It's just a performance or a show for people to get together. Is it correct? It's for. It's Those type of cars. It's a place that they they buy a condo, which is a garage. A large garage with a mezzanine. They put their cars there. They keep their collection there. And so when they whenever there's like a certain group and then they on a weekend and they all come together and then do the and sort of swap information exchange. Exactly. Yeah. You normally walk around and you talk about each other's cars. Talk about business. Got it. Thank you so much. Okay. Carson. I don't go anywhere other than East Plano. Yeah. We got to get you out more. Any other? Any other questions for the applicant. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Anyone else? All right. I'll close the public hearing, confine the comments to the council. Mayor, I think it's a great project. I'm glad to see that. We've got some some cool stuff coming. Imagine this stuff. So I would make a motion to approve this project. Thank you. Second. Thank you. I have a motion and a second to approve item number one. All in favor, please raise your hand. Motion passes 6 to 0. Thank you. Next item. Item number two. Public hearing and consideration of an ordinance as requested in zoning Case 2024 Dash 15 to amend the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the city. Ordinance number 22, dash 2015 dash five two. As heretofore amended, rezoning 4.7 acres of land located on the east side of Mapleshade Lane, 605ft north of State Highway 190, within the 190 Tollway Plano Parkway overlay District in the city of Plano, Collin County, Texas, from corridor commercial to light industrial one, directing a change accordingly in the official zoning map of the city, providing a penalty Item number two is a zoning case which Effectuates a land swap allowing two property owners to exchange property and maintain the zoning on the property of the owner. So this is the area in question. It is a somewhat utilized. I believe there's a soccer field there today, but primarily undeveloped piece of property between the My Possibilities campus along Mapleshade and the North Texas Food Bank. So the interesting part of this case is when you look at the history, this property used to be light industrial one. It was actually rezoned in 2017 to corridor commercial and therefore developed out fully and was sold to my possibilities. So this is the old lot line in yellow that's currently my possibilities campus and the new lot line in red and shows you Here is a sample of what that looks like with the kind of peach color being corridor commercial and the pink being light industrial, so it'll just move it back to light industrial zoning. This is within the suburban activities Center area and would be an industrial type use so that there are a few kind of hitches with the comprehensive plan related to open space and the intensity of the site. So you'll see it doesn't meet the description of suburban activity, mix of uses and redevelopment of regional transportation corridors. Polic. However, it does meet the character defining elements. All the other comp plan maps the undeveloped land and facilities and infrastructure policy. There are findings required because of the use of the property, so we received no feedback from the property owner or surrounding properties, and we did get one official letter in response from somewhere else in Approved this case by a vote of 8 to 0, and did provide findings which I believe are in your packet. I'm available for questions. All right. Thank you. Any questions for staff? Thanks, Christina. I'll open the public hearing. Any speakers? We do have one speaker, Tim Spiers. Good evening. Mayor. Members of the council. For the record, my name is Tim Spiers. Aspires engineering. We're located at 6765. Sorry, Custer Road, Plano. I'm here representing both North Texas Food Bank as well as my possibilities. They're neighbors and they're obviously in favor of this, and we think it's a it's a great use for that piece of property to extend that. I think they have a maybe a proposed office building and a storage facility that's proposed there. That's probably in the packet. There In conjunction with FC Dallas, partnered with them. They're going to move. They're planning on moving the field to a different location on the my possibilities site. So we just think this is a better use for the piece of property it has been. As mentioned, kind of back and forth between Eli and CC. So it's really the request is simply just to modify the zoning to kind of align with the new property boundaries. So with that, I'll, I'm here to answer any questions that you might have. Thanks, Tim. Any questions for Tim. All right. Thank you. You bet. I'll close the public hearing. Confine the comments to the council. Mayor. I did just want to say one thing. I think this is a fantastic idea. Obviously, the North Texas Food Bank is a tremendous asset to our community, and this will help them be more effective without any detrimental impact on adjacent property owners. So I think it's fantastic. But I would even go further because I know if this were retail, it would already be okay in the corridor commercial. And you know, on the distribution We don't. And we don't need to be afraid of industrial. Because when you look at the shift from brick and mortar retail to Amazon and others who bring the product right to your door, you know, the last stop is the distribution warehouse, and then it shows up at your house. You know, I think that as a city, we should not be afraid of industrial, especially next to major highways like this. So anyway, I'm very much in favor of this, and I think it's great. Are you making a motion? Yes, and I moved to approve. I forgot I forgot the most important part. I moved to approve. Thank you. I have a motion and a second to approve. Item number two. All in favor? Raise your hand. Thank you. Good. Motion passes 6 to 0, and we'll need to fill out the findings. Okay, let's do that. Real quick. Finding. I'm sorry Okay. Next item is comments of public interest. We do have one speaker tonight and I will bring him in on zoom. Mr. Stein, you can go ahead. Hey, guys. Mayor mines, you know, Plano prides itself on being a city of excellence. Wel, as a city of excellence, we cannot be associated with the Dallas Cowboys whatsoever. Jerry Jones is absolutely pathetic. The Dallas Cowboys lost 47 to 9. And there's nothing we can do. Mike McCarthy is overweight, underperforming, needs to be Going on anymore. And that's why I come here, because I would like to get some support. And I would like you as the mayor to start boycotting the Dallas Cowboys. Some of the players live in this fabulous city of Plano. A lot of players have overdosed. Martuni. A lot of people did heroin in the 80s here in Plano and died. Now, I'm just saying maybe some of the current players, what have they started doing? Fentanyl. And they came to plan out what would happen. Would you guys shut that down? You would, because that would be people dying. And that's almost as bad as what's happening on the field. The team is down. They died yesterday. So if you guys want to save lives so you don't have a bunch of players that are overdosing like they used to a long time ago, you need to boycott the Dallas Cowboys and disassociate right now. I mean, Jerry Jones has a daughter that he's currently suing because he got her pregnant while he was cheating on his wife in Arkansas, and then he didn't want her to admit that it's his daughter. And then when she said it's his daughter, he sued her. So, I mean, if this guy is suing his own children, do you think he cares about us, the fans? And I'm sick of it. You know, we won all those Super Bowls when I was a Immigrants unless they're Dallas Cowboys fans, meaning the Dallas Cowboys fan is what helped me connect with illegal immigrants. Not anymore. Now they all suck. Illegal immigrants are Raiders fans, and that scares the heck out of me. Walking around in Plano, Texas. Like how much illegal immigrants wearing skull and bones? I don't know if I'm fighting pirates or fighting immigrants. I'm very worried. So if you guys would just actually stand up for what is right and protect the citizens of Plano, so we have less players that are overdosing on heroin like Mark Twain and all those players used to overdose in Plano back in the 90s. We need to end that. All right? We need to stop the fentanyl crisis. We need to stop the Dallas Cowboys from being associated with the City of Excellence, like Plano, Texas, because I'm not a one and done. I season tickets. I'm giving them away. So if you guys want to go to any games this year, it's on me. Because the Cowboys stink. They charge $13 for a bottle of water. It's ridiculous how they rip you off. Jerry Jones could care less about winning championships, only cares about putting money in his bank account. It's proof because he won't even talk to his dang daughter. So the city of Plano doesn't Cancun, Mexico, right before the playoff game. And then we lose to the Giants. That's the last time the Cowboys are even close to an NFC Championship game. It's been 25 dang years and we can't win. We haven't even been to an NFC Championship game. And the Jaguars, the Jacksonville Jaguars NFC Championship games in the past 25 years, and the Dallas Cowboys. Please help us out, man. Thank you Mr. Stein. There being no further business to adjourn.