Okay. And our new friend here is gonna welcome us to four city council meetings, so he's gonna gavel us in. Sound good? Here's the gavel after you say welcome. Welcome to city council. Here he takes a gavel. Meeting is now called to order. Oh, order? That's good. That's great. Great job. Okay. Great job. Okay. Good evening. We ask that you please be seated and silence all electronic devices before the meeting starts. City council meetings are conducted for the official business of city council and to receive input from residents. Individuals attending the meeting shall observe rules of decorum and shall not engage in disorderly
conduct that interferes with the ability of others to observe or participate in the meeting. Individuals who disrupt the meeting may be asked to leave and or have their mics turned off. For those of you who have requested to speak, when your name is called, please come forward to the center podium. The countdown clock is displayed on the left monitor and will indicate how much time is remaining, and a bell will sound when you have thirty seconds remaining. Before you begin your comments, please state your name. Thank you. Officially call us to order again, and welcome to Fort Worth City Council.
I'll turn it back over to Jeanette. Tonight's invocation will be by doctor Robert a Pearl from Birchman Baptist Church. Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance. Let us pray together. Our father and our God, we thank you for the blessings of life, the help you have given us, and the strength to honor you. We recognize that you are the giver of every good and perfect gift, and we thank you for the blessings we enjoy each day.
I pray your protection for our first responders in our great city as they serve us. For our city leaders, I ask you to grant them wisdom and discernment in the decisions that they make to make our city safe and prosperous. Specifically, oh, lord, I pray that you be with our city council and mayor as they faithfully discharge their duties and give them wisdom in their deliberations in this meeting. We thank you for your love and grace as I make these humble requests in
the name which is above every name, the name of Jesus our lord. Amen. Our first special presentation will be a presentation of a recognition for the celebration of Dipali Tahar fest the festival of lights. Council member Peebles? Mayor, council, and special guests, it is especially wonderful that we celebrate today on this beautiful, bright, and shining day. Because whereas the Pauley Tahar is one of the most celebrated festivals worldwide with over
1,000,000,000 people estimated to participate, the celebration holds great significance to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhist. And whereas Diwali starts on the thirteenth day of the dark half of the lunar moon, Ashvani, and last until the second day of the light half of the lunar moon, Qatari, Dibwali, and Tahar, especially Baytika, are celebrated with unique rituals such as lighting
dias and decorating homes. And whereas the festival holds deep spiritual significance, particularly in honoring goddess Lashmi for wealth and prosperity, And whereas in 2025, Diwali falls on October 20, and during the festival, families, friends, and communities around the world gather with the hope of goodwill, peace, and
a shared sense of renewal. And whereas the Nepali American community consists of over a 100,000 residents in the city of Fort Worth and DFW who are proud to represent Nepal, the land of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, and one of the world's most spiritual and cultural destinations. And whereas, Diwali's message of hope and compassion and the victory of light over darkness
resonates with the residents of Fort Worth and the American spirit. And now, therefore, the city of Fort Worth is proud to celebrate and recognize the religious and historical importance of Diwali, the festival of lights, and does hereby proclaim 10/21/2025 as Diwali Tahir Festival of Lights celebration. And here thank you.
Okay. And here to accept the proclamation is mister Mohan Ghuali who is our commissioner for District 5 on builders and standards and an esteemed member of the Nepali community. So would you like to say a few words and then we'll gather for a picture? Okay. Namaskar, and good evening. Today, I'm truly honored to be here among our community leaders and the Nepali American community members. Wishing you all the happy Deepali, Tihar, and the beautiful festival that symbolize the victory
of light over darkness, good over evil. Deepali and Tihar, especially Baitika, are celebrated with the unique rituals such as lighting, gears, decorating homes, and the performing. The festival carries deep spiritual significance as we honor goddess Lakshmi, the symbol of wealth, prosperity, and the well-being. This way, celebration of diplomacy, promotes unity, diversity, and culture harmony across the world. Even the president of The United States celebrate diplomacy at the White House every year.
Recognize its global importance, carry the Dallas photo are especially in the photo. Houses of family celebrate Deepaoli, TR is time of the reflection, renewal, and the togetherness. On behalf of the Nepali American Committee with over 100,000 residents in the DFW Metroplex, we are proud to share that we have the, established a strong presence through organizations such as Nepali Culture and East Peace Rural Center, NCSC in the city of The US, the Nepalese Society of Texas, NST, the Nepalese Chamber of Commerce, DFW, and the
our financial institution, Abras Federal Credit Union, which is called EFCU. Today, we humble request to honorable mayor, city count city members, especially, council member Deborah Peoples to consider the forward to Deepaoli TR resolution for the city of Fort Worth. We are proud to represent Nepal, a Himalayan nation of 32 millions people about the size of the great state of the Texas. Nepal is the home of the Mount Everest, the highest peak of the world, and the, birthplace of the lord, Gautam Buddha in Ploomini, a global symbol of the peace
and the comparison and the tourism destination. Therefore, thousand of the Hindu families living in around the town county and the such recognition from the city all means so much to our community. For your reference, the Dallas County Commissioner Court has already passed the celebration. Deepaoli, Tihar, resolution, and only we sincerely hope to see this wonderful traditional, also established here in the Photo City so that way, together, we can celebrate Deepaoli, Tihar every year at the Photo City.
About the event, Deepaoli Tihar, the festival of light is the series and the time when come together to celebrate light over darkness, good over evil, and the hope over disappear. It means all to bring positivity, unity, compassion into our community. Each year, we invite the entire community to join the meaningful celebration at the Photo City Hall and look forward to bring this tradition together. Before I conclude, I am pleased to share great news.
The consulate general of Nepal office was officially established in the Dallas just last week, which will further strengthen cooperation and the cultural accents between Nepal and the beautiful city of The Porto. Also, I would like to welcome, mister Lalairi, the CEO of the Corporation Nepal who is visiting for the Texas to celebrate Deepavoli in Tihar. Once again, thank you to honorable mayor, all the council members, city officials, community leaders,
journalists, and all the members of the Nepal American committee, and they appreciate for your time, support, and the continued partnership. Thank you, deputy Pavali. Hey. Just come together, please. With a mirror. Yes. We do. Yeah. But now I'm here. Sure. Spread out a little bit. I got a wide angle lens, so I have plenty of room. If there are plenty of people in here? Yeah. We can spread out this way, guys. Yeah. Out this way, guys. Stand out. Stand out a little bit more. Make sure I see everyone's faces. Yes. Scoot this way, please. Let's go back this way. Also, this lowers.
Alright. Our next presentation will be a recognition celebrating the Texas Wesleyan University one hundred and thirty fifth anniversary for First Fort Worth Higher Education Institution. Council member Nettles is presenting this recognition. I know we have some special guests here tonight, Chris, and go Rams. Go Rams. Yeah. Come on. So today is a exciting day. Also want to acknowledge that we, here in Fort Worth, we support education. We believe in education is the right way to go for our city.
And so tonight is the honor to celebrate Texas Wesleyan for a hundred and thirty five years of service to the Fort Worth, Metropolitan. So let's that serves a round of applause. So I'm going to read this proclamation and then hand it over to our esteemed president that's here today. Alright. The City of Fort Worth special recognition presented to Texas Wesleyan University A hundred and thirty five a hundred and thirty fifth year at the first Fort Worth higher education institution. Whereas, in the year of 1890, prior to Fort Worth becoming the vibrant city we
know as today, A small yet visionary institution opened its doors, Texas Wesleyan University, the first institution of higher education established here in the city of Fort Worth. Whereas, for its hundred and thirty fifth years, Texas Wesley has stood as a beacon of knowledge, nurturing leaders, and inspiring change, transforming lives through its steadfast dedication, academic speaking
in tongues here. Excellence. Those of y'all know what that mean. That's something separate that we've we just celebrate. That's in the culture church. Academics and personal attention. Whereas from its campus in East Fort Worth, Texas, Texas Wesleyan has become more than just an institution of learning. It has become a vital pillar of our community, serving as a catalyst for economic mobility, development recognized by US News And World Reports, contributing over $240,000,000 to our local
economic in the past year just alone and opens doors for opportunity for great generation students. Whereas, this university has more than 27,000 alumnis, and I believe we have some on a dias as well. Reading in Fort Worth across Texas and around this world. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the mayor and the city council of Fort Worth, Texas hereby commend and congratulate Texas Wesleyan University on its hundred and thirty fifth anniversary and extends our heartfelt appreciation to the enduring contributions to education, economic growth, and civic
development. Be it further resolved that the city of Fort Worth proudly recognize Texas Westland University as its historical part of the community. We look forward to another hundred and thirty five years. I don't know if you and I will be here, but we will get it started. Signed today by councilman Chris Nels in the city of Fort Worth. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, councilman Nettles, and thank you, mayor Parker and council. I'm delighted to be here today as we celebrate the hundred and thirty fifth year of Texas Wesleyan. And yes, we were the first higher education institution founded in the city of Fort
Worth, just four miles looking over the bluff of the Trinity River, it said in our history books. So we're delighted to be here. We have so many great things going on at the university. We are excited to say that we enrolled our largest freshman class in the university's one hundred and thirty five year history this year and saw an overall increase of 10% for overall enrollment this year. So lots of great things going on. If you know me at all, you know that I focus on the students and making sure that Texas Wesleyan is a student centered university, and so I'm delighted that we have our student government president here with us today, mister Dalen Harris.
He's a wonderful representative for our student body. As well as our vice president for enrollment management, miss Lauren Finley, who helped lead us to the largest freshman class this year. But it truly is an honor to be here. I wanna say thank you again to mayor Parker and the council. This is my third academic year here at the university and living in the city of Fort Worth, which my family and I love dearly. And we have many great things going on in East Fort Worth, and thank you to the opportunity and the, the trust in us to lead the Main Street effort for Poly as well. So we're excited about where we're going, and I appreciate everyone being on board with
us, and thank you for your support. Thank you. Our next presentation will be a recognition celebrating the Michelita Michelita Festival tenth anniversary. Council member Elizabeth Beck. Alright. Well, as you can see, a couple weeks ago, downtown really came to life. And we are here today to celebrate ten years strong of the Michelada Festival. And so I have with me today here Patricia Castillo, who is an CEO of, Connect Respect, the organization that puts on the Michelada Festival. And I have a recognition here that I can read the whereas is, but I'd
rather just, let people hear about the amazing work that you do from you. Let me say this, not to put you on the spot, but I'll I'll give them I'll prime them up so you don't have to do all the work. Like I said, this is the tenth year that the Mesa Auto Festival has been downtown Fort Worth, and it started, with one block of downtown as the festival grounds. And now it stretches from the convention center to Sundance Square with plans to expand into Sundance Square next year, I think.
Did I let the cat out of the bag? For exploring. Okay. Alright. So, as you can tell, the the the festival is growing year over year. It really highlights local entrepreneurs. All of the vendors there with their Micheladas are local. They get to keep 100% of their earnings. The council member for the district gets to be a judge in that taste test. Twist my arm. It was terrible. I'm happy to come back next year and, and and serve in that capacity as well. But they don't just host a festival here in Fort Worth. They give back to the community. And they do so by partnering with Texas Wesleyan, with a very, very generous endowment
of $25,000 that they, give to make sure kids make it across the finish line for college. So with that, I'd like to hand it over to Patricia to, give us a few words. Thank you, councilwoman Beck. Thank you, mayor and city council members. Yes. We are celebrating ten years. Thank God. It did start out as one block, a few thousand, and now we're five blocks over 40 k. We do support Connect Respect, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the unconscious bias. We fight the unconscious bias, and we encourage people to find a connection through peaceful
exchange. We have our chairwoman, Frances De Leon, here who's gonna say a few words about that. Like you mentioned, we are supporting Texas Wesleyan. Through the years, we've supported different organizations and different scholarship programs, but after this year, we are able to support Texas Wesleyan with the endowment investment. And just to reiterate all the wonderful things that were said about Texas Wesleyan, a little bit history about me. My mom worked in the cafeteria at Texas Wesleyan, and thanks to them, my sister and I got our undergraduates for free. And I went back to get my MBA when I was choosing a school.
I said, why not invest in invest in a school that invested in me once upon a time in Texas Wesleyan? The education I got there really changed my life. They gave me the, the wherewithal. They taught me how to use my time, my talent, and my resources to do what I do and create what me and my team have have been able to create in downtown. So thank you, Texas Wesley. Like, as you mentioned, 100% of the vendors are, locally owned, independently owned businesses. We did have two, one from Houston, one from Odessa. That came looking for us.
I didn't go looking for them. I, prioritized Fort Worth businesses in that regard. And we also had some community partners, whether it was the Texas Rangers, Ap Desert Rosa, and the Fort Worth public library that we offer that to them pro bono. So if you wanna say some words. Oh, look at everybody. I wanna give thanks. My name is Frances De Leon. I am the president of of the board, for Connect Respect. And like our mission says, we are looking for a space where we can, respect
one another and have fun and really come and connect, and we have found that in our downtown Fort Worth. I wanna say the number once again. We hit 40,000 people, 40,000, and not one incident. So this is, the true meaning of respecting and and being able to enjoy our culture and doing it for a good cause and being able to give back to the community. Everyone that was there in attendance as your emcee, I reminded everyone, we are here
to have a really enjoyable time, but to do it the the right way and give back, to the scholarship with Texas Wesleyan. We have our team here anywhere from, I mean, we've got a team that really sticks together in helping us put all of this together. So I wanna give them a big thanks. Thank you. Get everyone center here. Logos right here, so let's get everyone centered up. Yes. Alright. Got it. Our next presentation will be a presentation of a recognition celebrating the celebrating twenty years
of ballet for for Florico. I know I butchered that. Sorry. Fort Worth Inc. And this is mayor Pro Tem Carlos Flores. Mayor and council, good evening. We are indeed blessed to have the presence of such, talented and beautiful performers here tonight, so I really appreciate that. LA Folklorico has been an organization that, for twenty years, has celebrated Mexican and Hispanic heritage in our city through the performing arts. You're truly an organization that we all looked up to because they're emblematic of the
rich cultural, diversity that the city has here. And so in honor of that, I'd like to make a special recognition and read it thusly. City of Fort Worth, council district two proudly honors Ballet Folklorico at Fort Worth, Inc, on its twentieth anniversary. For twenty years, LA Fort Huerico de Fort Worth has been a vibrant and essential part of our community. It is dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich traditions of Mexican culture through dance and music. Through its performances, educational programs, cultural outreach, the organization has inspired pride, unity, and understanding
among generations of Fort Worth residents. City of Fort Worth proudly convince Ballet Folklorico that Fort Worth for its lasting commitment to artistic excellence, cultural preservation, and community engagement. Your work has significantly enriched our city's cultural landscape and played a vital role in strengthening the diverse fabric that makes Fort Worth truly special. As we celebrate Hispanic heritage and honor the contributions of our Latino community, we also celebrate your dancers, families, and supporters whose passion dedication and artistry continue to uplift and
inspire us all. Congratulations on twenty years of cultural leadership and artistic achievement. We look forward to many more years of your success and ongoing contributions to the heart and spirit of Fort Worth. Hereby presented, Carmen. If you'd like to say anything, please, the mic is yours. Thank you, mayor, council, and especially councilman Carlos Flores for this honor. We thank you so much for allowing us the opportunity to preserve the legacy of our ancestors through music and dance.
All of our dancers enjoy coming out and, and showing the beauty of Mexico and their culture, the traditions, the various regions of Mexico. Along with the parents who truly support this organization, we are extremely blessed to have the support of this community. And I thank you all, and we hope to keep doing this for another twenty years. Maybe not me, but one of my dancers, possibly. So thank you so much for your support and commitment to Ballet Folklorico de Fort
Worth. We will continue to represent the city of Fort Worth through Palette Folklorico. Thank you so much. Palette Folklorico de Fort Worth. I wanna see if they can give you our dancers can give you a, a They do these when they perform, and it shows how much they enjoy what they're doing. Alrighty. Oh, let's do let's do it over here. Alright. Got it on? Okay. Alright. Just look here. Our next presentation will be a recognition honoring Rachel De Lera, thirty years as a
woman owned Latina photography business in Fort Worth. Rachel, this might be the only time you're not behind a camera. It's great to see you. Good observation, mayor. Mayor and council, another very worthy recognition for someone who's dutifully taken all the special moments from many of us, if not all of us, at one point in time or another. I'm proud to be able to do this for Rachel, for for a lot of reasons. It's often said that the camera captures the image, but the photographer captures the moment.
And Rachel has done that, you know, for how many years have you been doing this? Thirty. Thirty years. That's what I thought. Thirty years. Think about that. She is a woman owned business and also a Latina woman owned business. So doubly commendable. Alright. So special recognition to Rachel DeLeary celebrating thirty years of woman owned and Latina photography business in Fort Worth. Whereas, Rachel DeLeary, a proud Latina entrepreneur, creative, professional, has dedicated thirty years of capturing
Fort Worth's people, progress, and spirit through her award winning photography and her video work. And whereas, after earning her certification associate's degree in the radio, television, and film program from Northlake College in Dallas, Rachel launched Unbun Video Productions in 1995, producing commercial and private, event projects throughout North Texas. And whereas in 2016, Rachel began working with the city of Fort Worth, where she discovered her passion for event photography and founded Style Fort Worth, now a trusted vendor
for the city of Fort Worth. Texas Wesleyan University as well, TCU Neeley School of Business, the Metro Report Magazine Business Press, and numerous community charities. And, whereas, as a proud member of both the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, Rachel's completed over 1,000 event shoots in the Dallas Fort Worth area, uplifting local stories and businesses through her artistic vision and entrepreneurial spirit. Now therefore be it proclaimed by myself, mayor Pro Tem, and on behalf of mayor
Parker and the Fort Worth City Council, I do hereby extend sincere appreciation and recognition to Rachel DeLeary for her thirty years of excellence, creativity, and leadership as woman owned, Latina business owner, and for outstanding contributions to the city of Portwood. Congratulations. Would you like to say what you're doing, Andy? Yeah. This is nerve racking. I'm used to the other side of it. Number one, thank you, mayor and council. Thank you, mayor Pro Tem. Oh my gosh. All the smiles. I love it. It's made me a really happy woman this past thirty years. Big thank you to my family. I can't do anything without my husband and Robert.
Forty years of General Motors working to buy me the latest camera, buy me the printer, and buy me what I need, whatever I need to need, wherever I need to go, so I can do my job. That's a partner. That's my love. Thank you. I literally wrote down all the organizations, and I thought the list went on and on and on throughout the thirty years of non profits and companies, were they small and big? I mean, we would be here all night, but I thought I'd share this really quick. I got to work with a PR firm for the first time, it was really
nerve wracking because they were big companies, but they brought me in to shoot Senator Cornyn's event, and, my job was to come in and shoot for him, his manatee by 10 photos, and then be his paparazzo throughout the night. So when I went to shake his hand, he was like, Oh, yeah, okay, thank you, nice to meet you, very well. And I took a lovely photo with him and his wife, but as the line grew for everyone who needed to take a photo, the very first person was our wonderful mayor Betsy Price. And as she walked up, she said, Ah, that's our Rachel.
Okay, let's take a picture. And I realized as we went on, it was, Hey, Rachel. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Rachel. All the way through, and and I just realized I'm on the right track. Because it didn't matter where they came from, what business, politics, it didn't matter. It was all that one connection, and it got me through my path, it got me through my years, and I'm just so grateful. And all I have is hope. Hope to the next generation. That you can be within the minority group, you can be this, you can be that, but you can if you hope and you work hard.
So thank you, thank you again, thank you for this recognition. And, big shout out to my girl over there as well, my BFF over there, Rachel Arellano. Thank you all who support small business like me. Great job, Rachel. Love you, Rachel. Our next presentation will be a recognition for Ashley Lakas. Councilman Martinez. Thank you, mayor and council. So it good evening to everybody that's here today. Just it's an absolute pleasure to stand here today and celebrate an individual whose journey is a powerful testament to the meaning of dedication and resilience.
When we look at Ashley's incredible achievements, it is clear that we are looking at a truly amazing athlete. What makes her story so powerful isn't just the wins, it's the path that she took to get there. It's a path of transformation, discipline, and perseverance that defines her success today. And so now it is my distinct pleasure to present Ashley Lucas with this special recognition that I will now read. And so whereas Ashley Licas embarked on her remarkable athletic journey in dance before making
a powerful transition to wrestling during her junior year at Plano West High School, now as a junior at Texas Wesleyan University, she continues to shine. And whereas her unwavering dedication to wrestling has instilled invaluable qualities of discipline, resilience, and perseverance resulting in a profound physical and mental transformation, and whereas following high school, Ashley preserved in her pursuit of wrestling, training nationwide, and overcoming a life threatening spinal cord injury, and whereas her steadfast commitment to overcoming challenges has led to extraordinary accomplishments, including
back to back NAIA women's wrestling national championships in the 180 pound division, a u twenty three national title, recognition as a US Open All American, a silver medal at the Grand Prix of Spain, and the esteemed title of NWCA All American Scholar Athlete. Now, therefore, I, councilwoman Jeanette Martinez and the seat of Fort Worth, proudly commend and congratulate Ashleigh Lekas for her remarkable perseverance, unwavering faith, and inspiring achievements both on and
off the wrestling mat. Her legacy exemplifies the true power and dedication of resilience presented this October. Ashley, do you wanna say a few words? I just wanted to thank y'all for, having me here, and, I give Jesus this victory because he's been my rock that's graciously provided an atmosphere of, coaches and, athletes, around me as my teammates to really learn and grow and just give me the permission, to try and fall and get back up again. So I'm I'm very, very grateful for, you guys.
And, just for all you guys out there who maybe have not watched the sport of wrestling, when I was a dancer and had a tutu, I didn't know what wrestling was. I thought it was something that they'd you'd watch, like, WWE, but it's so much more, wrestling as a sport. It's, it's become so much more than just a combat sport and just a victory that lasts for a second. Just a little hand raise. It's it's, there's so much more. When you support wrestling, you're supporting a sport that gives hope and that shapes young men and women. It can change the trajectory of one's life and cause someone to truly believe in
themselves again when they feel broken. This sport, it's one that breaks you down, but also that builds you up. It's very life giving. And so, this championship represents so much more than just a medal. And, I encourage all the the young women and men that, consider joining to, to be a part of this, sport like this that, becomes more than just the medals that you carry with you. And, I want to say too that wrestling and its training has been a huge, phys it's been a physical manifest manifestation of, the faith that I carry, the spiritual
realities of the faith that I carry, and I'm so grateful. And I wanted to leave you guys, with a verse that I feel like is synonymous with, the sport and the training and, all the setbacks, but also the victories. And it's John 16. He says, Jesus says, I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth, you will have many trials, but, take heart for I have overcome the world. Thank you, guys. Wait. Our final presentation will be a recognition for augmentative and alternative communication awareness month.
Thank you, mayor. I wanna take actually, personal point of personal privilege right now. First of all, I just wanna recognize, Boy Scout troop ninety seven. Y'all wave out there. Thanks for coming today and learning about, what happens here at City Hall. The actual question was, what the heck do y'all do here? And we're still trying to figure that out, I bet. But thank y'all for being here today. Appreciate y'all. We have here Kendra Frank and her son, Elliot. You may remember in May, we had them here recognizing Elliot's Voice, the charity he started, and World Apraxia Day. Elliot's Voice provides these communicate communication boards that we have out to our city parks
and other places so people that are are challenged can actually communicate with us. And it's now, we're here for augmentative and alternative communication, month. And if if AACs, they include these boards along with sign language, picture symbols, writing tools, and speech generating devices. So, I have a special recognition, and I'll come down there in just a second. But it says, whereas communication is a fundamental human right essential for connection, inclusion, and participation in all aspects of life, and whereas millions of children and adults around the
world experience significant communication challenges that may rely on augmentative and alternative communication methods, including communication boards, sign language, picture symbols, writing tools, speech generating devices. Whereas AAC helps to give every person a voice, allowing individuals with speech or language disabilities to participate more fully in school, work, and community life, and whereas the month of October has been designated internationally by the International Society, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, as AAC awareness month with twenty twenty five theme innovation, inclusion, advocacy, and AAC.
And whereas communities across The United States join in celebrating AAC Awareness Month, promote understanding, accessibility, and respect for individuals who use AAC and professionals and families who support them. Now, therefore, the city of Fort Worth does hereby proclaim October 25 as augmentative and alternative communication month in the city of Fort Worth. Thank you. I'll come down. Okay. Thank you. I wrote something down so I don't forget this time. Thank you, mayor and council, for proclaiming October AAC Awareness Month. You know, our nonprofit Elliot's Voice started because of Elliot in honor of him. He uses AAC to communicate, And awareness leads, to inclusion, and recognition helps families like
ours feel encouraged and advocate more. So this is one of the easiest ways that I found as an advocate is to get your city to recognize things because it puts it in the forefront in front of people, and it helps with our mission. Communication looks different for everyone, and let's celebrate it all. Next will be items to be continued or withdrawn by staff. We have three items. M and C twenty five zero nine seven five to be continued to the October 28 council date by staff. M and C z c 25 dash one twenty five to be continued to the November 11 council date by staff, and z c twenty five one forty nine to
be continued to the November 11 council date by staff. And that gets us two speakers on the consent agenda. Willoughby. Bob Willoughby will be followed by James Ray Elliott. Yeah. They usually started before. I've seen that the last meeting, you waited till the people got their picture up where you put their time start, but you start mine right away. Thank you. This y'all are appointing judges. I didn't know you could do that. I didn't know I was part of your deal, appointing judges. And I'm here to say that you aren't to put an independent board to appoint judges that we can trust.
You have proven not to be did you know, before you move these meetings up to six at 07:00, if they were 07:00 right there, these people wouldn't be in the sunshine. They would have it blocked out. You might wanna put some curtains over there. It'd be nice. But you don't see that, so you don't feel it. But anyway or you used to have meetings at seven, you wouldn't have that problem. Okay. Point of order. There it is. Why took you so long? Okay. We're talking about the judges here. Right? Okay. You pointing judges. My reason why I don't trust y'all to point judges because, mayor Parker, until you retract what you said about me and ban me from counsel you said I cursed
at 12 year old kids and ban and banned me from counsel. That's a barefaced lie. Why should you be pointing to judges? You shouldn't be appointing chicken pluckers. Nothing. You lied about me. Now when you retract that publicly, I'll stop saying it. But until you do, you owe me an apology and you aren't because you banned me for three months from here on a lie. Thank you. There you go. Next speaker is James Ray Elliott followed by Aaron James. Is mister Elliott here? James? Aaron James? Aaron? Aaron will be followed by Danielle Tucker. Good evening, madam mayor, city council.
I'm here tonight to oppose any name change to White Settlement Road. We must recognize that there are things more important than money, and the preservation of our history is one of those things. White Settlement Road has historical significance just like our beloved Fort Worth. These names are not mere labels. They're embodiments of our past, reminders of how far we've come, and markers of the complex interactions between our ancestors.
Would we contemplate changing the name of Fort Worth if someone were to say they wouldn't invest here while bearing its name? The name itself is steeped in history, and the same applies to White Settlement. The narrative we preserve is crucial. If we begin to change names due to discomfort, how far does that go? Could we face calls to alter Fort Worth itself because it might offend descendants of the Comanche tribe? History belongs to all of us, and it should not be sanitized to fit a
modern narrative. We should be learning from our history, not attempting to erase it. True progress does not mean sacrificing our identity. Let's keep White Settlement Road as it is, a testament to our shared past and a bridge to our future. Have the courage to protect this fort and its history. Let's unite to ensure that the road remains one of Fort Worth's oldest streets, proudly bearing its name for years to come.
Thank you. Our next speaker is Danielle Tucker, who'll be followed by Jimmy Jenkins. Good evening, mayor and council. My name is Danny Tucker, Danielle Tucker. I'm here on behalf of the DECO, our family owned development firm in support of the approved five year tax abatement for the rehabilitation of 1203 East Luda, formerly known as 1201 East Luda. This commercial building constructed in 1911 is a cornerstone of the Terrell Heights neighborhood's cultural and commercial legacy.
Our goal was never demolition. It has always been authentic, factual preservation, and adaptive reuse. Bringing this building back as a neighborhood grocery store and general retail space that serves residents while honoring its deep history. Over the years, this site has welcomed some of America's greatest artists, Dewey Redmond, Ornette Coleman, Prince Lachey, Charles Moffat, Bats Waller, Duke Ellington, and or Louis Jordan, each helping shape Fort Worth's distinctive rhythm and its rooted contribution to America's jazz history.
And possibly one notable civil rights leader, doctor Martin Luther King. Just blocks away once lived William Gooseneck McDonald, a pioneer banker, businessman, and civic leader whose vision opened doors of opportunities for generations. We are proud to continue that same spirit of enterprise, culture, and community advancement, and we thank him for paving the way for moments like this. Today, through partnerships with the Fort Worth History Center, Texas State University Archives in San Marcos.
The Fort Worth report, YouTube, that these stories have been documented and preserved, assuring that this building's legacy remains woven into the tapestry of Fort Worth's rich history. Our firm is investing directly into this rehabilitation, supporting local trades, small contractors, and community based real revitalization system with the neighborhood improvement zone. By supporting this abatement, the city is doing more than adding one property.
You're affirming a commitment to heritage equity and neighborhood pride. We wanna send an expend a special thank you to Susser Bank, Bennett Partners for believing in our vision and helping make this project possible along with councilman Nettles, the city of Fort Worth historic preservation staff, development services, the Fort Worth Art Commission, Southeast Fort Worth, and two special neighbors, Reverend Charles and mister Scott. This partnership share history lessons, desires reflect the belief that history and investment can coexist
beautifully. Again, thank you for your time, your leadership, and your continued support of the historic Terrell Heights neighborhood. That this project isn't just about one address. It's about preserving the soul of Fort Worth and keeping history alive for generations to come. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jimmy Jenkins followed by pastor Troy Jackson. I believe Margaret was gonna give a one minute and followed by a video, and then I was gonna use my time for the three minute video. Go and order has signed up if you don't mind.
Yeah. Margaret, are you Margaret Johnson? This is Margaret. Okay. That that's fine. If you use the center podium, if you don't mind, please. Sorry we had a system. Didn't know you had a system. That's okay. I I am Margaret Johnson. I am president of River District Neighborhood Association, and the only thing that is constant is changing. Through change, we cut choose community. Tonight, we bring a message of unity, not division. The conversation about White Summit Road has reminded us that change is inevitable, but how we respond defines our community. We have not yet reached an agreement.
We were offering one a path that honors our past and embraces our future. If our proposal preserves 23 miles of White Summer Road as Texas historical corridor, shared a story, and it's told through education, not erasure. Our historical marker, and it should be hopefully, it was on on the screen, but, you know, you have it in the packet. Because when we choose over anger, everyone wins. I miss the historical marker handshake sculpture you see that represents two sides coming together
or ortho and Dallas, past and future, progress and preservation. Because when we choose understanding over anger, everyone wins. It was supposed to be a video. Do we have a video? We do not. Okay. Thank you. Mister Jenkins? Mister Jenkins will be followed by pastor Troy Jackson. My three minutes was going to be the video from Fox, and it was about the importance of White Settlement Road and how you can not take that away from the residents, at least for the reasons that are being taken.
The reasons being taken is to rebrand a development, so you can, capitalize on a 170 years worth of history. My dad, I thought he was crazy, but he went and he dug down that Settlement Road, and we have treasures of bullets from 200 years old. If we take one piece, then we're gonna take two pieces. Then we're gonna take three pieces, and we're not gonna have anything left. So I believe that we should not change the name for frivolous reasons, especially taken
one hundred and seventy years away from Fort Worth. And, it's a shame we don't have the video because it was played all over the local station and I had sent it in two or three times. Unfortunately, I think that would probably have told a lot about how we all feel. And instead, I'm I'm doing this ad lib, and I wish that everybody would go online and look at the fairness of the reporting for Fox and, channel five.
And there was a little bit of bias. I actually see a lot of bias on channel eight. So do your research. I have gave you packets of resolutions. If you decide to change the name, we will most likely follow-up and change our name from River District, where it's white settlement to River District Way. So if you do change your name, we will be changing our name, and this is where it starts. Please stop it from starting. Our next speaker is pastor Troy Jackson followed by Chris Mahon. Good evening, mayor. Good to see you again. Council, thank you for your time.
I rise to oppose the street name change, unless two guardrails are nailed down. Number one, every single cost is absorbed by the petitioner, and the purpose is strictly practical, not backdoor not a backdoor return to the, prior efforts to appease race baiting pressure campaigns. First, the facts in your packet, that you put out to us, tell the story. This request comes from a single adjacent developer to rename a portion of White Settlement
Road between University Drive and North Henderson Street to Westside Drive. With the city manufacturing and installing 47 signs at 15 intersections, the memo estimates $25,658.53 for signs and says the city must pass an appropriation ordinance and amend the the fiscal year twenty six budget to support the change. Even though the applicant will bear the cost, that tells you there's municipal overhead, staff
time, and process risk beyond the raw metal material. So principle number one, no taxpayer subsidy, explicit or hidden, if the council proceeds at all, require the petitioner to prefund, not post fund, but prefund and escrow, not only signage, but all downstream costs, staff hours, mapping GIS updates, public safety databases, wayfinding, and notification logistics. Further, because this is a developer driven branding move, require a mitigation fund to offset
private re redressing costs for existing residents and businesses, licenses, stationery storefronts, websites, delivery changes. If you're going to rename their door, don't hand them the bill. Principle number two, motivation matters. The memo frames this as in support of a new mixed use development. Fine. But this council owes the public an explicit finding that the change is not a capitulation to race based grievances, merchants trying, trying to get through another backdoor to launder
history by relabeling it. We don't govern by hashtag. If the petitioner's reasons are marketing and wayfinding, then they need to find another way to go about it. The third, the public interest in private, convenience. The we have to have a process of integrity. And as people you you you say you're people of faith. So apply your integrity into this decision and do not pass the cost over to the taxpayers of the city of Fort Worth for this initiative at any point whatsoever.
God bless you. Chris Mahon followed by Louella McKenzie. Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Chris Mahan. I'm here representing Benzwanger Glass. We have been a long standing business located on White Subnet Road since 1959, and we've been servicing the greater DFW area since nineteen thirties, close to a hundred years. I'm here to highlight the significant operational, financial, and community impacts this proposed name change could have on businesses like ours. The proposed renaming of to Westside Drive may seem symbolic. But for those of us who depend on this address daily for logistics, supply chains,
and customer navigation, the consequences are far outreaching and costly. Here are some examples of areas where our businesses may be impacted. In the procurement and vendor management, we have about 100 plus suppliers that will require formal address changes. Each of these suppliers will request new credit applications and verifications. We have estimated that roughly $200 hours of administrative time alone to complete this task. Deliveries and cash flows. Lost deliveries, delayed deliveries, and misrouted checks could last for months. An estimated 7% to 10% drop in business during this transaction transition.
Insurance compliance, vehicle and facility insurance must be renewed. Records must be updated with the IRS, Texas secretary of state, Texas comp control, along with other state entities requiring additional administrative costs still to be determined. Our digital and marketing just to interrupt you. Our CEO and online visibility with search engines such as Google treats our address as a trust signal. Changing it resets our verification on our lurk local search authority. This reduces our visibility on maps and local searches. Consistency across other platforms.
Our address appears over hundreds of directories, Yelp, Apple Maps, Bing's, AngiList, and more, and each must be manually updated increasing the risk of mismatched information. Our marketing and branding, every sign, every decal, every digital asset must be redesigned adding additional thousands of costs. All of this financial burden has been estimated to cost well into the hundreds of thousands. I've also provided you with a more detailed overview of the possible financial and operational impacts. For my closing statement, I would like to say Fort Worth's small and mid sized
businesses form the backbone of our economy. A name change may seem symbolic, but for us, a distribution with long term effects on operations and customers and employees. A symbolic name change should not result in real operational and financial harm to businesses and we ask the council to balance historical acknowledgment with economical practicality. And we respectfully ask the council to delay or reconsider the naming until an economic impact study is conducted or a transition plan has been provided.
Thank you for allowing me to speak here with you today and thank you for your consideration of the real world impact before making your decision. Our next Louella McKenzie will be followed by Carl Anderson. I apologize. I only made 10 copies for the council.
Hi. I am Louella McKenzie. I live in Fort Worth, Texas. I am here to address the absolutely absurd proposal of contemplating such a petty and biased proposal to change the name of such a long established and recognized part of our beloved Fort Worth for a small number of individuals. Changing the name of White Settlement Road to the proposed new name, Westside Drive, would apply to a roughly mile long stretch from the roundabout at North Henderson Street and
Jacksboro Highway to University Drive. My concern is the expense to those directly impacted by the proposal. Are the developers of West Village, thank you, directly impacted by the proposal. Are the developers that that are behind that agreeing to cover the cost to each and every merchant and resident along that mile long stretch that would be impacted and
inconvenienced to change all business cards, letterhead, envelopes, building signage, all street signage, billboards, websites, vehicle signage, etcetera, just to accommodate a few while impacting in much inconvenience for a very long time to not only the merchants and residents but to their untold prospective customers, guests, and vendors that would also be inconvenienced and quite possibly loss of revenue,
loss of parcels, shipments, as well as the cost to mapping platforms, etcetera, is absurd, ridiculous, and lacks common sense. And we, Fort Worth, Texas, is known for our down to earth common sense. Let us not lose that heritage to appease a few. If one is offended by the word white, get over it or move. We have much more important things to spend our time and money and efforts on
than this, agenda of a small, petty, and biased faction. Thank you for your time. Carl Anderson followed by Brian Barnett. Good evening, mayor and city council. Thank you for your time this evening, and thank you for your service to the city. My name is Carl Anderson. I'm with the development team of Westside Village. Our intent in seeking to rename this mile of the road is not to interfere with history. It's simply to reposition this corridor as part of our transformational development on, the way into the CBD of Fort Worth.
We suggested West Westside Drive in order to reference the West Side of town. We were trying to pick something that's that's innocuous. We also obviously named our development Westside Village after the West Side of town. We hope that our investment in this area is transformative for the city, but also, of course, for this corridor. And we think renaming this corridor will really help with that transformation. We're excited to replace aging car dealerships and warehouses with a vibrant hub of shops, restaurants, hotels, and offices. Finally, I do want a financial assistance to business owners with this change, and that's
something that we're working through now. Thank you for your time again, and appreciate your consideration. Brian Barnett followed by David Martinez. Hi. I'm Brian Barrett. I represent, Keystone Group, the major funder of Westside Village. I'm also a multiyear, resident of District 9. Lived in Fort Worth most, all of my adult life. I'd like to say we are not making this change for any sort of policy reason. It's nothing other than we are investing a large amount of money into this part
of town to revitalize a big 37 acre section of Fort Worth. And our goal here is to do nothing but enhance this part of Fort Worth. We appreciate all of your effort, the city staff, city council, mayor. You know, we're looking forward to doing something great for the city, and that's the goal here. Thank you. David Martinez will be followed by Adrian Smith. Is David here? No? Hi, David. Good evening. I briefly spoke last week. I don't know if you can tell.
Okay. Well, my name is David Martinez. I'm Cherokee. I'm a descendant of Chichiranamal. One of the things I wanna speak about was last week, I misspoke. I was under the understanding that couple of the, my fellow Native Americans that were Lakota, that are on have business over there on, White Solomon Road. I was under understanding that they might be against it, but I haven't spoken. I apologize for that. But, I do understand that $1,700,000,000 will go to taxes that helps, our community. But here's another thing.
After weighing in in, like, you know, Angelo's, you know, I I don't want any businesses to close down in that neighborhood, and I'm not offended. To be honest with you, I'm more offended they wanna take it away because not one Native American. So I I, post on, on a Northside, Facebook page and over 50,000 members. And I asked them, not one native American was against this. I mean, it was for, changing the name. None of them someone thought this was very silly, and then a lot of them
said the same thing that we thought. Like, this is a band aid. This does not erase history. And if if you take away the name, it does erase history just like for, my Jewish people. We don't go and we don't destroy, those gas chambers. They're a reminder of history to never do it again. If you wanna erase history because there are people who deny the Holocaust right now. There are people who can deny that we were never ever here. So for us speaking for my family, for my all the other Native Americans that
I've spoken to, all of us are against this. I have not met one Native American. And I go to all the pow wows. I go to a lot of events. I'm very active in the Native American community, and I have not heard one from anybody say, mister Martinez, I I feel offended by that name, and we should change it. Not one. I'm talking about different tribes, not just Apache. I'm talking about Cherokee and, Lakota, Comanches, Cherokee, all like, many others. The Hopi tribe, many other tribes live here.
And many of us, we we wanna keep history. We wanna have that there. Now I understand this business is a business move, but this may impact the neighborhood also business wise. But if you wanted to know my opinion as a native American, this is part of history. This is not something we're gonna erase, and this is not gonna help any native American. Thank you. God bless you. Adrian Smith. Adrian Smith.
I am one with the people. To the business owners and those wanting to preserve the history that tells the story of the original name of White Settlement Road, I hear you, but will they? I'm with you, but are they? What's said to be effect? First and foremost, thank you to the Fort Worth report for the report you did on this, giving voice to this issue. Thank you. So there are four businesses. I'm just speaking to four four businesses with a combined two hundred and thirty eight years of service to the city of Fort Worth, its residents, and visitors.
These particular businesses business owners, and their families livelihoods will be affected as well as the communities they serve and who rely on their services. The city just wants to make money, Whatever can bring it, bringing a dollar more than what it got, that's what they want. That's what they want want to do. City spokesperson, Sayna Said, did not return requests for comment on the business owner, business owner's financial concerns.
That is very disingenuous. Other business owners along the road say a name change would force them to rebrand signs, advertisement, and business cards as well as amend, state and federal licenses. We know that the developers invested 1,700,000,000.0 into this project. They're gonna pay the CDISC cost of $26,000 as it relates to renaming this, but we just heard the developer get up here and state that he's willing they're willing to offer concessions to the business owners.
Some concessions. Thank you. Some. But it shouldn't be up to the the the business developer's discretion to determine how much that is going to be because these business owners have been there for years and years. To this city, before you all vote on this, because a lot of people don't know how this work, why not separate this particular agenda item out of this consent agenda and let's hear every one of you speak to this particular agenda item as to why we should change this? Because I want people to know, when I get through speaking, when they cast the vote, once they cast this vote, it's done.
So how about we separate this particular agenda item, mayor, and let's vote on this. Let's see how all of you vote on this individually. How about we do that? So the people can see where you stand on this issue. And I want people to people for us to know we don't have to wait till 2027. It seem like what we're saying is falling on deaf ears. That's that's that's that's that's try to recall option for some of these individuals. And let's aim with let's aim at the top starting with the mirror. Let's aim at the top starting with the mirror. Thank you, Adrian.
Council, that's the conclusion of our speakers on the consent agenda. Councilor Larsdorf. Thank you, mayor. Just want the record to reflect on m and c two five zero nine eight six, regard to renaming the portion of White Summit Road. My vote on this particular item will be a no. However, my vote for the others will be a yes, as dictated to the city secretary. Councilman Blaylock. So for me, the situation is the same. While I may vote yes for the consent agenda on the specific item, m n c 25 dash zero nine eight six, my vote is no for the record.
Councilman Nettles. I have a question to our city attorney. Is that just, ceremonial? Those I'm sorry, Chris. I have my mic off. There you go. Is that that's ceremonial, what they're doing, is that vote for all the consent item will be no. Is that correct on the record? You should be on. I'm not. Everything's on. Oh, you can hear me. The no. What they're saying is that their vote will be no just on the one item. So I think we had talked with the city secretary beforehand, and that was the best way for her to notate it on the, on the minutes. So they're they're voting no on that one particular item.
We can take it if y'all would like to take it off and vote on it separately, we can also do that either way. Yeah. I I wonder what the rules say. I don't to me, we have never done that before. So to me, a no on the consent item is for every item on there. Yeah. We can take it off. Unless they wanna vote for the item. It's not a standard practice, but it is a practice that has been used in other cities to leave an item on consent, and record in the minutes individual, objections to a specific item. Do we have the rule, available for us before we vote?
I don't know that your rules speak to that specifically. But again, we can we can take it off consent and just vote on it separately. That's what we need to do. It's not a it's not I don't think it's gonna change anything either way. Councilor Beck, I apologize. Did you go ahead. Try again. There we go. Is it on now? Okay. My question is, is there any practical difference in taking it off consent or taking the vote as we are right now and noting that we've got two people who aren't supporting business in Fort Worth? No. There's no difference. Okay.
Okay. So to be clear, Adrianne, please don't speak to the audience. Thank you for being here. If if for clarity, though, if if there's an interest from a council member to move to pull this off the consent, we have to make an official motion and go through that process. If there's not, then we need to keep proceeding with commentary. So I'll pause for a minute. Yeah. It's me. I don't think we need to move it off. I just I think, legally, we should have been told in executive session that they can make a motion to vote on a consent agenda item to support everyone but one that doesn't make sense to me.
So if they wanna take it off, they should take it off, or they're gonna either vote no on every consent agenda item, or they're gonna vote yes on it. The purpose for consent, if you take one vote for the whole thing, it doesn't make sense to me. And I I can't stand here to agree to that. Fair enough. Noted. But just for clarity's purposes, you're not making a motion to pull this item off the consent agenda. You're just making a significant point that it doesn't make sense to you moving forward. I don't think the rules should allow. Is, so, Leanna, you tell me the rules allow that? That's that's my real question.
Yeah. I I hear what secretary, but that's not the secretary office does not hold the, Robert's rule or the nor the voting rules. I don't know that your rules speak to it one way or the other, so it kinda gives you some Make sure you're in the microphone, Leanne. You can't hear you. Sorry. It's on. It's just she's not in it. Yeah. What I was saying was the rules don't speak to it specifically, which gives some flexibility to do it either way. So we can either do it the first way, or we can take have someone make the motion to take it off the consent. Okay. Council member Lars Dorff. Thank you, mayor. So I just offered to my colleague that you'd have the same opportunity.
If you if you've never heard of that before, you do exactly what I did, and that's talking to city secretary beforehand and saying, how can we proceed? And the whole goal was to not drag something out and just allow more opportunity for more virtue signaling and more everything else. So it's really to streamline, tonight's meeting, but we're happy to have the discussion. But my vote, which is not ceremonial, it will be on the record as a no for this particular item. That's it. Plain and simple. And as a small business owner, councilman Beck was offended by your statement. I am a small business owner. Like, it's I have nothing against small business. Name a name change for me, I'd have to go through a lot of hoops,
and I know some of my colleagues on council understand what it's like to have to change registered agent names in the systems. So it's not something I don't wanna go through. But, again, this isn't gonna be my people tonight. I'm simply a note on this item, and feel free to coordinate with legal as you have and see your secretary in future items if you have any questions on how processes work. Council member Peebles? Well, I'm just gonna say that that's news to me too about the consent agenda, but at least I'm glad to know that going forward, I am able to vote
no on items on the consent agenda. Council member Hall? Is there correct terminology vote? Is is that are we using that word correctly, technically? Is it a vote or is it just, an acknowledgment or a notation? I mean, is it actually a vote if we're not taking a vote? But what's it what is I guess I guess tonight, I guess I don't understand. What is the difference on each time that we've done this than people offering, explanation on what they support or what they don't support or how they feel about a
a specific item, but we've never called it a vote before. It's just been anecdotal information, I don't know, about an item on the agenda. And for all the conversation we're having now, why not have made just a motion? It's two of you. Make a motion, second it, pull it off. Let's vote, and let's move on. So council member Nettles. Yeah. I just wanna, address one thing. The only person who's virtual sickling here, Charles, is you. Okay? You're choosing to not vote against the item because of whatever it is. You like the white settlement that's fair and fine, But you're making a point.
I will advise this council and this city that we cannot start changing the rules mid decade so it can fit certain people such as Alan and Charlie Lobdorf who wants a virtual signal on this dais. Council member Larsdorf. We we can change street names, which is not the rules. Got it. So it's a one size fits all for you and which got it. Okay. If you'd like I'd like to make a motion to go ahead and remove item, MNC two five zero nine eight six from the consent item, from the consent agenda to vote on it separately. I've got a motion to remove MNC zero twenty five zero nine eight six from
the consent agenda. Got a second. So we actually have to vote to remove that, or that's enough based on council rules. Typically, a council member can bump something off beforehand. We don't vote to pull things off the consent agenda. Is that okay? Yeah. Okay. So that's pulled off. So why don't we vote on the consent agenda first? Everybody's lights are gonna come off for a minute. We're voting on everything on the consent agenda except for MNC twenty five zero nine eight six. Let's do that first. So everybody I'm gonna pull everybody's lights off because we got mics off, and I can't call on people that way. Gotta can I have a motion on the consent agenda? Got a motion and a second.
Thank you. Any other discussion on the consent agenda? Okay. We don't have to because typically before a council meeting, any council member can pull things off through the city manager's office or councilor of city secretary's office. So we've moved forward there. It's pulled off officially by council members. So at this point now we're voting on the entire consent agenda except for M and C 25 dash zero nine eight six. I've got a motion and a second on the floor. Any other discussion on the consent agenda? If not Can we clarify who made the motion for the Council member Larsdorf. Okay. To pull the the item off? Council member Larsdorf did.
Oh, from the consent. Consent agenda. Macy and Michael. No problem. Got a motion and a second. Now we'll vote. Thank you. Okay. Consent agenda passes. K. Now we're gonna go back to m and c 25 dash zero nine eight six. Council member Beck. Move to approve. Got a motion and a second. Any other discussion? Council member Hill? No? K. Council member Hill? Thank you. Just I wanna make a quick comment on this because I know it's contentious. Renaming sections of a city street is to support redevelopment is nothing new.
This request is similar to other street name changes associated with significant developments, including the very city hall that we sit in, the Stockyards, Clearfork, Tarleton, and Bell. This is not a city council or city staff led initiative to be clear. This is a developer initiated request filed by application on July 25 and really has followed all the appropriate procedures. This only affects the blocks of East University Drive to North Henderson. To also be clear, this does not affect the entire road of white settlement. This decision led by the developer is a street strategic place making initiative to formally
define and elevate 37 acres and $1,700,000,000 dedicated to the Westside Village development. To address the small business issues, I have reached out to the Chamber of Commerce to request that they research small business grants and assistance that may be available, both through private philanthropy and state funds to help address any issues, existing businesses that encounter that front those blocks. And I wanna say a special thank you to Keystone and Larkspur this evening for offering to help find assistance for those small businesses as well. It is much appreciated. This name change has absolutely nothing to do with politics and should not be used
to sow dissension in our community. Thank you, mayor, for the the floor. I appreciate it. Thank you, council member Hill. Any other comments from council at this point? Councilor Martinez. So my question is for the developer, if they could come up. You said you would offer some concessions to the businesses impacted. What what's that figure, if I may ask? Did Carl and Brian wanna come to the microphone? Thank you. This is something we just started working on today in response to concerns from the businesses along the corridor. So it's not something we figured out yet, but we discussed it really in the
last few hours and something we're gonna work on immediately. And we want the, business owners to reach out to us directly to coordinate. Any other questions, customer Martinez? Try again. There we go. Just would you commit to an at least an average number of what any business would, have to expend to to make those name changes? We just we it's too early. We just we can't yet. This came up literally three hours ago, and it's something we haven't we haven't researched. Thank you. Is there any other questions from counsel at this point? No? Thank you, gentlemen.
Appreciate you. This time, we have a motion and a second on the floor. Please vote. Motion carries. Next will be announcements by city council members. Council member Flores will be followed by council member Larsdorf. Thank you, mayor. Let's get the first slide up. Alright. On the top half, national night out. We all have them. We all went to several of them, great events, and particularly want to thank, our new chief, Eddie Garcia, for coming out to the Northside Neighborhood Association event. He was very well received and, got to meet a lot of people. So appreciate that from him, chief.
Thank you. Alright. The, bottom half, Cesar Chavez. Again, they are exceptional. Went to speak to their student council. They're excited to receive molly pins, and, they are paying attention to what council does. They're very interesting bunch, and go Colts. So thank you for them. Next slide, please. Alright. Top half. The city hosts a celebration recognized employees and partners who supported the transition of MedStar Mobile over to our current Firebase EMS system. And it's noteworthy that we take note of all those employees that made it happen
because it was a herculean effort, and it required a lot of hands on deck. So thank you, mayor Parker, city manager Ciampa, doctor Jarvis, for the all those acknowledged contributions. The bottom half, want to, notate that I participated in the Tunnels Downers, five k run and walk. I did a little bit of both, and, I'd like to say that, mayor Parker and, councilwoman Hill are very fast on their feet. They lapped me, I think, at least once, but, hey.
Good competition. So appreciate them being out there as well. Next slide, please. Alright. Coffee with Cop. We attended at the DFW Car and Toy Museum. So thanks to QT, Fort Worth Stockyards Business Association, the Mark four Business Association, and to Doc Kent, go blue, and the Northwest Police Department for making that happen. It's a great museum. You ought to check it out. Lots of cars. Bottom half right there. If you haven't noticed, there's a lot of interesting things going on on West Exchange in the stockyards. We're putting up an iconic sign, you know, for the times to come.
It's a ramp style sign. It's gonna span across West Exchange right there in Finney And West Exchange. Ruth Hooker's there in the center of me, and that's, noteworthy because she's a small business owner right there with Hooker's Grill. And she picked up the baton. This has been talked about for years and picked up the baton and ran with it. We made it happen through TIF 15 funding. So we're getting, all the members, I think, are welded by now, and the actual signage decorative signage is going up soon. We'll, be ready for Red Stegall, I am told.
So appreciation to everyone that made that happen. Next slide. Alright. Announcements. Trick or treat at the museum. This is the Fort Worth Aviation Museum. Dress in your costume, and you get in free. I get, you participate in crafts, jeep rides, etcetera. So, again, free is the operative word and get to see a lot of terrific planes. Also, trunk or treat. Have an event going on there, Saturday, October 25 at the Northside Community Center. Again, bring your costumes, have some fun with food, music, merriment, and, we'll see you there.
That's all I have. Councilor Larsdorf. Thank you, mayor. Okay. Next slide. Next slide. Here we go. Upcoming events, we have our twenty twenty six bond meeting. That will be held I'm sorry. Can you can you go back one? There we go. At Parkwood Hill Intermediate School on Thursday, October 30 at 6PM. So if you're in District 4, please come out to that to discuss the upcoming bond and provide your input so we can help shape that. Next slide. Alright. Summer Glenn birthday bash. Come out and celebrate Summer Glenn's 20 birthday.
Probably, we were the we we ranked number three, for the, the summer reading program, which is pretty, outstanding. So come out and join us on November 8 between 11:30 and two at Summerglen Library. And I believe that's it. Sorry. Restroom break. Councilor Peebles. Council and friends, thank you. Tonight, rather than tell you about the 16 events we made for the national night out or the wonderful town halls we've been hosting or the five district events that I made on Saturday in the rain, and they're the reason for my cold.
Tonight, I think it is more important to speak about an organization and its founder where I serve on the board of directors. Tonight, I'm going to talk about Southside Community Gardens. Southside Community Gardens is an inspiring initiative that addresses a critical need in our community, access to fresh, healthy produce. In neighborhoods where food deserts are prevalent, this organization plays a vital role in not just growing food, but also in cultivating hope and empowerment.
The gardens currently maintain 80 gardens. And on our recent build day, we revitalized 20 of those gardens. They increase access to fresh produce and empower transformational healing in a community impacted by food apartheid. Southside Gardens is more than a project. It's a living, breathing example of what it means to nurture, to empower, and to rebuild community from the ground up. So to Patrice Jones, I want to say from the bottom of my heart, I'm
sorry. I apologize for the ways in which you have not felt safe, seen, or supported. Your voice deserves to be heard. Your presence deserves to be respected, and your leadership, especially your work at South Side Gardens, is both needed and necessary. When we speak of building community, we cannot build on top of broken trust. We must do the work of repair. That means being honest about harm and intentional about healing and courageous enough to center
those who are too often pushed to the margins. To black women in your space, your leadership, your labor, and your life matters. You are not invisible, and you should never have to bury bear the burden of change alone. I hope my words to you tonight don't just resonate. I hope they result in something real, a turning point, a moment of reckoning, a commitment from all of us to do better, to be better, and to protect and
uplift each other. Southside Community Gardens is a sterling example of what healing can and does look like. And I am proud to serve on your board of directors. Council member doctor Hall. Actually, may I have she pulled hers at the last. Oh, okay. No worries. Council member Nettles. Thank you. Alright. What you see is the Harambee Festival Had an awesome time at the McDonald's YMCA coming together and believing in freedom and hope. We have a lot of young kids that did the choir.
We had the band Easton Hills High School marching band. They had a health fair on the inside. They checked my blood pressure, and it was extremely high. Thank you, city. Next, next page, please. Trinity Metro Area Job Fair, an opportunity to spend time with Robert Stearns, Black Chamber, Trinity Metro. Again, doctor Messer, who's with, us today at Texas Wesleyan University. I can't remember the number, but it was somewhere in a thousand of those who visit, the job fair.
Next slide. National Night Out, Glencrest, Hillside, The Light of the Church, Polytech Heights Neighborhood, and World Church. So many, opportunities to speak and connect with residents. It was a wonderful time on Tuesday. Next slide will more slides of where we were in District 8. The next slide was opportunity to spend with our city council at the Port Worth, the party. Next slide. We had the Holland Hills Breast Council Annual Parade. Next slide, please. The Holland Hills Annual Breast Council Parade in Holland Hills led by our friend Yolanda
as well as the Holland Hills Neighborhood Association. We left there and went to the Tay Day parade. I wanna take the opportunity as well to, thank our new chief. I know he's not here tonight. And our commander and all of the Fort Worth Police Department who have annually each year participated in support of the and Tatiana Day the Itowna parade, citizen patrol, as well as others. And so we really appreciate the support that the city of Fort Worth gives her legacy and her family and the nephews. Thank you again for that.
Next slide. United Black Contractors' Annual Founders Day. I will slide behind, guys. Am I going too fast? Okay. Here we are. Thank you. United Black Contractors' Annual Founders Day honoring Fred Rouse and other city of Fort Worth, participation with Tammy Pierce doing a fantastic job with making sure that black contractors not only get work in the city of Fort Worth, but in Dallas and the surrounding areas. Rhonda Howard is there as well. Next slide. Had opportunity to sit with mister Charles, doctor Charles with UGM with a conversation on
the bench discussing homelessness. I really appreciate the work, that my fellow council, woman is doing. I was I can never remember your name when I'm saying I know. Macy Hill and as well as the work is, our mayor is doing with homelessness. Guys, we are we're doing things you may not see it, but we're really working, with our different groups, to establish residency in the Fort Worth. Next slide. Had opportunity to join, be joined at the Perthshire Night Shelter, Ribbit Cutting on Crowley Road. Was joined by Michael Crane. He also had one this morning in his district, making sure we provide housing for
all, our communities. Next slide. We have a few announcements. You can see there on there, the Sponse, Entertainment three day conference gala. We also have the TCC Trinity, Kimbrough Arts Museum conference as well as we have the bond meeting 10/27/2025. And then I think we have a special announcement that's gonna be happening, for Stephanie's. Let's see if I can pull up on my I can read it off. I got it.
Thank you. I'm pleased on it. Stephanie, Jamaica's Kitchen. It's gonna be Saturday at fourteen o nine. She's celebrating five years. I will tell you, she has really great food. We're doing so much on Evans Avenue, so please stop by, get you some Jamaican food, and enjoy your day. Thank you. Those are my announcements. Councilman Rebecca? Sorry Elizabeth that's fair. Okay. Just to recap was a great weekend full of festivals throughout District 9 both with Michelada Festival that you heard about earlier but also Arts Goggle that is, I I
do not recall what year we're in but that is a event that takes up all of Magnolia from Eighth Avenue all the way to Main Street and it's completely volunteer run. So great job from the near, folks at your South Side for putting that on once again. Next slide. Okay. Coming up, we have the Dee de los Muertos block party November 1 at the, Fire Station Community Center and we have our upcoming bond meeting November 10 at 6PM at University Christian Church and I believe that's it. Oh, I lied. Alright. The next one is the YMCA Turkey Trot.
Their route is going to be a little different this year. So if you live in and around downtown or the West Seventh area, please pay attention. We're trying to do our best to get the information out to folks so that you are not inconvenienced at the morning of Thanksgiving. You will also not be inconvenienced if you decide to get up and run. If you do, let me know. I'll wave at you. And I think that might be the next last slide. Oh no. Alright here we go. I don't have my, you can tell I don't have my cheat sheet with me today. Firefighter chili cook off is this weekend.
I hope you'll come down and join us, taste some really great chili but also all the proceeds go to the firefighters benefit fund that they use to help, victims of fire and and, fellow firefighters. And I think that's it. There we go. Councilman Martinez. Thank you, mayor. So, just a few announcements. The District 11 district eleven twenty twenty six bond meeting will take place on Wednesday, November 8, 10AM. It's gonna be at the Riverside Community Center this year. I encourage residents to attend to learn about the bond program, contribute to the process,
and provide their feedback. Next slide. We also have some family friendly events coming up in the district, but hosted by our various community centers. On October 24, Andrew Doc Sessions and Riverside Community Centers will host drug or treat events along with other family activities, And, you can see the times there. Most of them start at six. Actually, Riverside starts at five, and Andrew Dog Sessions at six. On October 25, Worth Heights is also hosting their trunk or treat event, and that starts, that's actually from four to 7PM.
So next slide. On Halloween night, Victory Forest Community Center will host a haunted house where you encounter the curse of the three glowing orbs. So that's a little different. So that's, from seven, 9PM, at Victory Forest. And we also have Dia de los Muertos celebration on November 1. And that's also going to be at Victory Forest Community Center. That's from 11AM to 2PM. And some a lot of these, community centers are accepting donations for candy. So if y'all have some extra candy you wanna get rid of, please contribute to
these various, community centers. And then also, Hanley will be hosting its annual craft fair on Saturday, November 1. That's from 10AM to 4PM and that is gonna be at the Caboose located at 1001 South Hanley Drive. They are looking for vendors so if you're interested please, connect with that organization. And I believe that is all that I have for today. Thank you. Also, that's the conclusion of our presentations. Ma'am, that gets us to non consent agenda speakers. Thank you.
Our first is Bob Willoughby followed by Derica Patterson. Well, you can't read it yet, but okay. See, the resolution's all it should be on the screen so you know what we're talking about. You changed that, Maddie. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. We can't understand what's going on, what you're voting on, or anything. Anyway, this is resolution 255513 Baker and Hostel law firm. The question I have here is, was there other law firms considered for this spot, or is this the only one? The other question I have, is this the same law firm? It's used for outside. I wonder what outside business do you need lawyers for.
Is that like when you fired a police chief and used the firm and pay two is this the one you paid $2,000,000 to to to I'm talking about police chief Fitzgerald. There's a a law firm. I went off the same one. Particular law firm. Firm. Is this the same one? Just keep going, Bob. 5 and a half million to Fitzgerald? No? A different one? That's all. I'm just trying to find out if it's the same law firm. That's all. You can't ask that question? Because because I I didn't know if it's the same law firm or not. But, see, my case against the city, you're using a local lawyer that says, I'm
filing for the election to be overturned. It's the same one. It seems like the same lawyers that you're using on me would be the same lawyers for outside or for when you fire somebody. That should be normal throughout history. We always fire people. Your lawyers, your local lawyers, I don't know how to handle that, but I never heard of that firing someone and give them 5 and a half million dollars. That is insane. But nevertheless, Maddie, until you take back what you said about me, you're a tough place to live. This is on thank you. Okay. Derica Patterson. Miss Patterson will be followed by Eric King. Alright.
So, I'm a homeowner, and I'm the president of the Rainbow Ridge HOA in District 6. And I wanna speak speak about M and C25DashO959. The 1000099 Thousand $132 development fee waiver for the Trinity Habitat for Humanity Gardens Springs development. I support affordable housing and the opportunity for families to achieve homeownership, But what we continue to see in District 6 is a pattern of one-sided development.
Homes are being built and incentivized, but the infrastructure, schools, and public resources never catch up. If we're serious about creating mixed income and equitable neighborhoods, then equity must include adequate school staffing, well maintained roads, safe sidewalks, parks with lighting. If you were here last week, you know about that. And our community is not interested in being overpopulated and underdeveloped. We don't want residents to move in and move out quickly or find somewhere else to find a quality of life because we are underdeveloped.
I would like to ask for clarity on what exactly the pilot program entails as worded in the agenda. I know Habitat for Humanity to help moderate to, moderate income working families achieve homeownership, which, again, I support. But if this version is different or targets a low income bracket, the community deserves to understand how it fits into the city's overall housing strategy. Regardless, I believe that before we allocate more than or relieve more than a million dollars in fee waivers, we should ensure the basic infrastructure and public resources are already
in place. In our area, schools are overcrowded and understaffed, sidewalks and roads are deteriorating or nonexistent, and families have nowhere locally to gather or engage. Without these essential, without these essential investments, family will move in with hope and move out quick quickly with disappointment. That doesn't build longevity. It builds turnover. Also, to Carl and Brian, we're not gonna give y'all any pushback if y'all come develop in District 6. So reach out to, doctor Mia Hall because that's the type of development we need down there.
Thank you. Next speaker is Eric King followed by Jasmine Trimble. Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Eric King. I'm a lifelong Fort Worth resident and property owner. I am here today to oppose the proposed Habitat for Humanity project. I appreciate the opportunity to speak tonight at this event. First, I wanna be clear. I fully support efforts to help families get a fair start in life and to provide safe, decent housing. However, the location and long term impact of this particular development raises serious concerns for
many residents, including myself. In recent years, we've already seen a growing number of homes in our area accepting section eight housing vouchers. These are not older or rundown properties. Many of them are brand new, recently built homes, I find it appalling that as taxpayers, we are now subsidizing Section 8 housings and brand new developments while so many existing neighborhoods across Fort Worth continue to decline. While the intention behind these programs is good, the reality has been an increase in
nuisance activity, property neglect, and traffic that simply wasn't here before. It's created a strain on local resources and changed the character of our community. Introducing another low income housing development will only magnify these issues. History has shown us that concentrated pockets of low income housing tend to bring unwanted activity and instability to otherwise stable neighborhoods. Over time, it affects safety, aesthetics, and overall sense of pride residents have in their
homes. There also is the issue of property value. Every study and every local example points to the same conclusion when high density and subsidized developments are placed within established residential areas surrounding home values decline. For those of us who have invested time, effort, and money into maintaining our properties, that's a real and lasting loss. I've personally seen this happen before in previous Habitat for Humanity projects. What started as with optimism has now become an area of disrepair.
Homes not maintained, yards overgrown, community standards that have steadily declined. We can't ignore that track record. I am not saying we shouldn't help families in need, but let's start somewhere. Let's be smart about where and how we do it. Fort Worth has older neighborhoods such as parts of Eastside that would greatly benefit from revitalization. If we truly want to uplift people, why not rehab existing homes, improve these communities, and raise values citywide instead of lowering them here?
The remodeling of these existing homes would not only uplift these communities, but it would also be more cost effective and productive than starting new developments from scratch. In closing, I urge the council to consider the long term consequences of this proposal. Thank you, mister King. Our next speaker is Jasmine Trimble followed by Gage Jaeger. Good evening. Hello, mayor, council people. My name is Jasmine Trimble. I'm a home owner in District 6. I would like to state that more concise agenda would be appreciated and necessary if you truly want to hear from the community.
I rise today to speak against m and C25Dash0959. The authorization to waive development related fees up to 1,100,000.0 for the Garden Springs affordable housing development under the proposed housing affordability strategy incentives pilot program. Let me begin by saying that I fully support the goal of helping families find safe, stable housing. However, the proposal is not the right way to accomplish that goal. The issue before us is not compassion. It's accountability, fairness, physical responsibility. Development related fees exist for a reason.
They help cover the real cost that new projects impose on city services, infrastructure, utilities, public safety, and inspections. Waiving these fees doesn't make those costs disappear. It simply transfers them to existing taxpayers. In essence, we are asking the public to subsidize a private development with limited evidence that the benefits will be distributed fairly or maintained over time. Moreover, approving a waiver of this magnitude, $12,491 per home, totaling over $1,100,000, sets a problematic precedent. Once the door is opened, other developers will expect the same treatment, further eroding the
revenue base that supports essential services and future infrastructure. There's also a broader economic concern that must be acknowledged. Numerous studies and real estate an analysis have shown that when affordable or subsidized housing is introduced into established neighborhoods without adequate planning or integration, it can lead to depressed surrounding property values. Having these types of developments being been proposed and approved in areas like I'm sorry. Have these types of developments been proposed and approved in areas like Tanglewood, Rivercrest, or
Fairmount? I bet not because they wouldn't dare have their property values decrease or be open to any level to bring a program like this near their neighborhood. This isn't about stigmatizing residents. It's about recognizing how markets respond to concentrated afford affordability projects. Homeowners who have invested their life savings into their properties may face declining equity, which can have ripple effects on the neighborhood stability and tax revenues. Additionally, the proposed claims adequate controls are in place to ensure the the public purpose is met, yet those controls have not been clearly outlined.
How long will these homes remain affordable? What safeguards will prevent resale or conversion to market rate housing? Without clear oversight, we ask giving away public funds without securing a lasting public benefit. Finally, a waiving waiving fees is a temporary and unsustainable fix. If we are serious about housing affordability, we need to pursue long term policy solutions, zoning reform, density bonuses, land banking, and partnerships that ensure permanent affordability, not one time waivers that undermine physical discipline and neighborhoods confidence. In conclusion, I'd I urge you to ask Our next speaker is Gay Jaeger.
Thank you, mayor. Thank you, council, for, considering this. I'm Gage Egger, CEO of Trinity Habitat for Humanity. Appreciate working closely with all you guys up here to do what we do and make our city a great place. Appreciate the people coming out and voicing their concerns. Always happy to hear, any opinion about what we're up to. Garden Springs, 88 homes, 20 acres, cost us a little over $20,000,000. I appreciate your all's willingness to consider a public private partnership as we try to figure out how not to lose home ownership for the essential workforce that is our
city. Right? And you guys did the study not too long ago that said, what, 60% could could afford the median home ten years ago, and now it's like 20%. So it's it's going away fast. We have to come up with creative public private ways to do that, and I appreciate your consideration to partner with that. Home ownership is powerful. I mean, I'm preaching to the choir here looking at you and my friends up there. But you know it's powerful. What it does for for children, for schools, for neighborhoods, it drops crime, property values go up because of home ownership. And if we're gonna commit dollars, let's commit dollars to the home ownership, to the
families that are actually buying it, which to me feels a lot better than to the developers. And so let's focus then because every dollar is valuable. We have deed restrictions, concerns about losing affordability going forward. We have deed restrictions that control that. Somebody mentioned section eight. This is not section eight. You guys know that, but not everybody knows that. We've built in numerous neighborhoods that the prices have gone up such that after we build, after we built ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, ninety homes in specific neighborhoods, we can't
afford to build there anymore because we're priced out, which is the opposite of saying if you're building homes the way we bill, the price goes down. Nez waivers. Right? So this is really, the city council taking the Nez waivers, the neighborhood empowerment zones, and extending it to this area. So this is not a new thing to do. The city's been doing this for decades, presumably. So it's fee waivers to help partner and bring the dream of homeownership. We all know it, real estate prices are going crazy. Wanna live in a world where we're separating the haves from the have nots even
more? No, we don't. We don't wanna separate the have from the have nots more. Building equity, building value in your home is the great equalizer, right? You have a piece of the American dream. That's how you do it. Home ownership is the great equalizer. I appreciate you guys' time. I will say we go through twenty hours of financial education for our families. We do a criminal background check, and we have a two and a half percent foreclosure rate. The program works. Thank you for your consideration. That's the conclusion of our non consent agenda speakers. Next item, mayor, will be 25 dash five five zero nine, board appointments from the
mayor. Thank you. Council, I'd like to request your consideration to appoint the following individuals to the board below. Gwendolyn Harper, first term for UDC. I'd like to request your consideration to reappoint the following individuals to the respective boards. Terms effective 10/21/2025 through 10/01/2027, with the exception that Building Standards Commission, which actually expires on 09/30/2027. Marcia Kalpelcha on the the third term for Aviation Advisory Board, David Castle, second term building standards commission, Caroline Kranz, second term city planning commission, Melissa Scott, library advisory board,
Elizabeth Waddell, parks and recreation advisory board, Matt Dufresne, pedestrian bicycle advisory committee, and Rodney Mayo, zoning commission and Alliance Airport zoning commission. The respective applications and resumes are available upon request, and original copies will maintain in the city secretary's office. Motion is second. Council, please vote. Motion carries. Next is twenty five dash five five zero four, board appointments from District 4. Thank you, mayor. Request your consideration to appoint the following individual to the board below with a partial term effective 10/21/2025 ending 10/01/2026.
Jeffrey Balbi for partial term. Community Development Council. Prospective application and resume are available upon request. The original copies will be maintained in the city secretary's office. Second. Got a motion to second council. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is 20 five-five 505 board appointments from District 11. That's from Martinez. Thank you. Mayor and Council, I request your consideration to appoint the following individuals to their respective boards with the term effective 10/21/2025 and ending 10/01/2027. Carmen Castro, First Term Zoning Commission and Fort Worth Alliance Airport Zoning Commission.
Martin Richer, First Term City Planning Commission. The respective application and resumes are available upon request. The original copies will be maintained in the City Secretary's office. Motion and second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next will be 25 dash five five zero six, at large appointments from the Urban Design Commission. Thank you, Jeanette. This is specific to the Urban Design Commission appointment for Jesus Santos, first term alternate one UDC, and reappointment of Gareth Harrier, third term alternate three UDC. Respective applications and resumes are available in the city secretary's office.
Motion and second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is 25 dash five five zero seven, at large appointment for the animal shelter advisory committee. Thank you, Jeanette. The following appointments beginning 10/21/2025 through 10/01/2027 to the animal shelter advisory committee are as follows. Miss Rosemary Lindsay, first term place one vet. Miss Rachel Cope, first term place three animal shelter worker. Miss Lauren Walker, first term place five citizen. Miss Cindy Bowling, place seven citizen. Actually, I think those are supposed to be reversed. For the record, Lauren Walker is placed seven, I think.
But miss Tracelle Strong, first term, placed nine citizen appointments for 10/21/2025 through 10/01/2026. Miss Christina Valentine, partial term, placed two municipal official position. Miss Amy Amber Beard, partial term, placed four animal welfare organization position. Miss Lynn Gibson, partial term, place six citizen. And mister Franz Akhtar, partial term, place eight citizen. And all resumes and applications are available in city secretary's office. Motion and a second. Please vote. Let's go. Yeah. Motion carries. Next is 25Dash5508, board appointments from the capital improvements plan advisory committee.
Thank you, Jeanette. Per the ordinance number two seven nine one one dash zero eight dash zero 2,025, the following are for our consideration. Russell Fuller, Russ placed three, capital improvements plan advisory committee, water and waste water. Ricky Trice, position five, capital improvements plan advisory committee, water, waste water. And Don Allen, placed seven, capital improvements plan advisory committee, water and waste water. And once again, respective applications and resumes are available in the city secretary's office. Motion to second, please vote. Motion carries.
Next is 25 Dash5512. Motion to second counsel, please vote. Motion carries. Next is 25 Dash5513. Motion a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next will be m and c twenty five dash o eight three two. And, Mayor, I believe we have speakers. Yes. We do. Councilor Nettles, I was gonna call on you first on this item before we proceed with speakers. Thank you, mayor. I want to ask if Rich can come up. Is he here? Or our city attorney. Lashandra Stringfellow also might be here.
I don't know if that's helpful to you. Development services. Someone's coming. Okay. Alright. This is our next case that we're talking about in the zoning change, and so I just wanted to kinda clarify a couple of things upfront. I know we have a lot of speakers, and we have dealt with this case, for a little bit now. And I think it's important that we articulate a few things, before we take the vote and hear from speakers. And so this is the annex case where, the city has required to provide water
and sewer. And so if we do not annex, this property into the city of Fort Worth, which is that's what the vote is today, would the city still be required to provide sewer and water? Yes. And that go ahead. Sorry. Yes. That is correct. There is a predevelopment agreement where the city, in exchange for annexation, agreed to provide sewer and water services for this property and for the type of development that they're promoting proposing in their zoning case.
Okay. I think my friend just walked in. You can come on down, but Melinda's here. And so with that, we if we say for instance, hypothetically, we don't, allow this annexation and zoning, we'll be be providing water and sewer without receiving the tax base from this. That's correct. And they will be able to develop what they are currently proposing. Alright. And if I'm not mistaken, development has has already started. I'll defer to Richtown. Thank you. That is correct. So they've graded the property. It appears that they have also begun construction of the roadways internal to the development.
Okay. Can you give us a little bit high level of what takes place after today if, in fact, it is approved? What happens at a planning process to making sure the roads are dealt with, the some of the concerns of neighborhood, the signal light, just a little high level? Sure. They've already been through the plat process, but the preliminary plat was approved, back in September 2022. The final plat went to the city plan commission in January 2025. That was conditionally approved by the plan commission.
So that just means they may have a a certain items that they need to, finalize with that final plot, and that could include construction of all the public infrastructure necessary to support their development. That would included a a traffic impact analysis and a stormwater study that the city staff reviewed and accepted as being compliant with our requirements. And we are development service has been working with TxDOT on the signal. That that is correct, sir. So, my understanding is that TxDOT is requiring a signal at FM 1187 and Redbird
Lane, And then the development services staff are continuing discussions with the developer regarding what Redbird Lane should look like, what improvements would be necessary along Redbird Lane. Okay. And I think one of the last concerns, the neighborhood is asking for a left turn. I know we haven't completely dissolved that problem yet, but we're still ongoing with trying to figure out how we get the left turn signal. Yes, sir. So, at that intersection of 1187 and Redbird, my understanding is the development services department
is requesting that the developer install a left turn lane there, to support those turning movements off of Redbird onto 1187 and is in discussions with the developer about that. Okay. I think they'll that may be all my questions, and I just wanna kinda highlight, for this council. It's important that we have a development that is taking place, on November, already in process. We have we have an option to, annex them into the city of Fort Worth and receive tax base offer the project that they built, or we cannot annex them,
and they're gonna build a project anyway. The other hindsight is to understand is that when we do annex, they become required to our zoning plan. And so our building, standards, we get to kinda make sure that they build according to the city of Fort Worth to be good neighbors to our neighbors, in Burleson and and around surround the area. And so I kinda wanted to put that up front today. Today, it's not the end of the process. It's not the end of the road. It's just the beginning, and the city of Fort Worth is dedicated to making sure
that we are good neighbors and TxDOT, worked with the city of Fort Worth to provide for, the neighborhood. And so today, I really want to move to approve, and I'm doing this ahead because I want to kinda let this council know what we're up against to make sure that we receive the tax base as well as can determine how things are built with the building permits. I don't know if anybody else have any questions for Rich. Thank you, Rich. There are no questions additional questions at this time.
I'll move to our first speaker, Susan Schomburg followed by Laurie Martin. My name is Susan Schomburg. I live in the Redbird neighborhood, and I thank you for your opportunity to speak with you all this evening. September or '22, we received our first notice of a council commissioned meeting. This was our first time we expressed our concerns. Then Then I began communicating with anyone and everyone I could in order to obtain more information about this development. I want to add that there are 10 properties along the border of this development, and no one received any notification from the development. We submitted submitted signed letters to your offices and to the city secretary stating that
fact. I spent the last three years emailing, calling, and texting various government agencies in order to get some answers to our questions. I have been in touch with county leaders and city staff. I have reached out to our state representative and senator asking for help. I have been in contact with TxDOT. I've left no stone unturned, and yet we still don't have answers to our questions. The county has been helpful and gone above and beyond any other agency in helping us navigate this process. This has been more than frustrating, being told that I need to call this person or that person to get answers only to be told to call yet another person and still not get any answers. I want you to know that I am not deterred by those responses and will
continue to call, email, and show up to meetings in order to get the answers we need and deserve. We sent the developer questions via email recently, adding a couple council members per their request, and quite frankly, response we received was dismiss dismissive and lazy, barely providing any real information. We resubmitted those questions, and we have yet to receive any further response. We invited them to a neighborhood meeting on October 7. No one attended. We know that there is something very wrong with the way this predevelopment agreement was handled by the city. The lack of communication and transparency should be alarming to you and to your constituents. The city of Fort Worth has done the residents of Redbird Neighborhood a huge disservice
and to the future constituents of the parks of Village Creek. The city of Fort Worth has put us in danger, which we have stated to everyone involved in this development. The development will impede emergency vehicles, create significant concerns about flooding, and will add dangerous amounts of more traffic to 1187. What you will hear tonight, we live on a hundred year flood plain that the developer says no longer exist. I'm sorry, but they must be kidding. Eleven eighty seven has no turn lanes. It's 55 miles an hour, and there's a hill that blocks view in traffic and a traffic study that was done during the height of the pandemic, so should be null and void because no one was on the roads in 2022.
Redburn Lane is a small 18 foot road and cannot accommodate two full size trucks passing at the same time, yet alone 400 more vehicles, and the developer is taking a giant leap from agriculture to multifamily without proper infrastructure in place. I will end with this. Fort Worth has signed a predevelopment agreement, and we know the development is going in. Honestly, it's almost already in. We do not oppose the zoning to a five single family homes for the 60 acres which is being heard tonight. We insist that the council protect the safety of future constituents and us and amend this agreement to reflect the entirety of the land for Zone A 5, meaning all
101 acres, and to conduct another traffic study on 1187 before any more work continues. And as of Friday's October seventeenth, TxDOT has told us a new traffic study is going to be required. Redbird Neighborhood will not be annexed into the city of Fort Worth. Susan. Our next speaker is Laurie Martin followed by Darren Plowman. Good evening, mayors, council members. My name is Laurie Martin. I live at 2532 Mockingbird Road in Burleson. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today. I'm here as a concerned resident of our neighborhood, a place many of us have called home for years, if not decades.
A place where our streets are narrow, our air is usually clean, and our community is filled with people who look out for each other, especially our elderly neighbors. That's why I'm raising serious concerns about the proposed development in our area. While development may bring economic opportunities, it cannot come at at the cost of health and safety. I want to mention that the reason we moved here from California in 2017 is for health and safety for our family so our children could play in the front yard without fears that we had in California. First and foremost, our streets were not built for heavy construction or other traffic. They're small, quiet, and already difficult for emergency vehicles to navigate.
I urge you to consider what happens when large trucks, construction equipment, or even increased traffic block or slow down an ambulance or fire truck for elderly and mobility impaired residents. Every second of an emergency counts. A delay could be the difference between life and death. In addition, there is a school bus stop on the corner of Redbird and Mockingbird, which poses more risk to our children with the influx of traffic and construction vehicles, which, by the way, are not supposed to be on the road, but are. Secondly, we must talk about air quality. The construction has brought dust, debris, and diesel exhaust particles that linger in the air
and pose serious health risks, expect especially for our seniors' children and anyone with asthma or respiratory issues. We are being asked to absorb this impact without any guarantees or monitoring. And finally, this is about this isn't just about health. It's about dignity. Our older residents have worked hard their whole lives to live in peace and safety. They deserve streets they can walk on without fear, air they can breathe, and access to emergency services when they need them most. Development should enhance our lives, not endanger them. We ask decision makers and developers to to pause, reevaluate, and come up with a
plan that prioritizes health, safety, and access before it's too late. Thank you for your time. Darren Plowman followed by Chad Brantley. Good evening, mayor and members of the council. My name is Darren Plowman, and I am also a resident of the Redbird neighborhood. And I'm here in opposition to this development that's known as the Parks Of Village Creek. As I'm sure you're aware, 1187 is a state controlled corridor that is already at felling levels. If we consider the 2022 traffic study, it showed key intersections already operating at level
of service e at capacity and even f overcapacity conditions, long delays and frequent backups. This does not even cover current conditions. Add to this, in an email this week, we were informed by TxDOT engineers that they will not accept the traffic study and will be in touch with city planners on the scope of a new traffic study that they will require. The current 2022 is outdated and it does not address the current status out there.
Should you choose to allow this project to move forward at the pace that is requested by this developer, it will drastically outpace the ability of regional stakeholders and their capacity to effectively manage the impacts on the area infrastructure. This project could add at a minimum of 60 to 150 new peak hour trips directly onto 1187, and this does not even address the added issues for Redbird Lane. This is a very narrow county maintained road, and it was never designed to handle
the level of traffic this development will place on it. And to date, we have not seen any plans to expand or update Redbird Lane to handle the additional traffic. We must also consider the regional ripple effects. 1187 is a highly congested regional corridor serving commuters from across Johnson and Tarrant Counties. Additional bottlenecks here will only slow residents in the immediate area, but also push congestion into surrounding arteries and connector roads that are already strained. Without a coordinated infrastructure upgrades, this project will compound existing problems across the region and
not just within the city of Fort Worth. I conclude by pointing out that this is not just a land use decision. It is an infrastructure decision tied directly to both annexation and rezoning. Without a binding plan and time line for TxDOT improvements, adding more housing at this pace would guarantee more congestion, more delays, and more safety risk for the trafficking public. For this reason, I respectfully urge the council to deny this request until there's a comprehensive traffic solution in place. Thank you for your time.
Kim Brantley followed by Nikki Sloben. I'm sorry. Just kidding, Chad. Come on down. I didn't intend to do that. I was overly zealous of my check marks. Chad will be followed by Kim Brantley, and then Nikki Slobodan. The reaction behind you when you went through your list of things that you have worked on, conversations you've had. Were they aware of these studies that have been done, and do they have access to them? Were they able to go through and read all this information, prior to today's meeting? Because the reaction suggests that this is all news to them.
Understood. And based on some of the, the residents that are on Redbird, Have you guys had a town hall meeting with them to discuss some of their concerns? I'm not aware of any meetings that have happened. I believe one concern the residents, the neighboring residents expressed that you did not address was their lack of information and lack of understanding of the plan. And while I'm sure you followed all appropriate ways to notify everyone, you know, the notice processes are complex.
And I'm wondering, would you agree to meet with the residents who showed up today and help them get the information that you already have and open up and establish a line of communication so they can further bring concerns to you and hopefully, work some things out before it gets to the city council or the next step? I believe the developer is willing to share any sort of construction plan, site studies associated with the case, prior to it going to city council, in September. Yes. But my question, would you agree to be with them, after this meeting to help
them get that information so they can, be prepared? I'm more than willing to share my contact information with anyone who requests it so that I can get them the information they want. So you see the opposition of you. Right? Yes, sir. So you haven't had a meeting with these folks directly. And I'm and I and I'm talking about gather them together and say, hey. This is what we're planning to do because you know you need to get your community buy in. Right? They don't want what they're saying. They don't want apartments. They want single family homes there.
And I can understand 1187 because I've gone down that road, and the traffic's terrible. And the more you add to it, and they're not gonna widen it anytime soon by the the state. You need to try to get some kind of buy in with the with the folks you're gonna be dealing with here. I don't see that. I'm not hearing that. I'm not hearing that. I'm gonna say mister District 8 is not here. The Planning and Zoning Commission urged the developer to meet with neighbors. We've sent repeated requests. We're still waiting. There's only application that I've provided you has inaccurate notification. They checked the wrong box.
Councilman Nettles, we've sent a lot of requests. We'd still love to meet with you as well. We deserve honesty and transparency. Thank you to each of you that met with us. Thank you, mister Brown. Reached out, and we stand with us. God bless. Kim Brantley is up next, followed by Nikki Slobodin. This is so scary. I've never done this before. I'm used to talking to elementary kids. I was a PE teacher, and I wanna make y'all stand up so bad and stretch. But I'll just leave y'all. And I'll be quick and I'll be, short. My name is Kim Brantley. Good evening, Mayor Maddie and council members.
I live at 6935 Redbird Lane directly across from this proposed development site. My husband and I, we have a front row seat to everything that's happening there in front of us. I spent the last seventeen years of my teaching career as a coach and PE teacher in Crowley ISD at North Crowley High School, Parkway Elementary, and Deer Creek Elementary. During the summers when I was a high school teacher, I taught driver's education. Most stressful job ever. So teaching safety and preventing accidents has been a lifelong priority for me.
So tonight, I wanna speak about the one issue, the safety, specifically the dangers of the the cars turning from where Redburn Lane onto the 1187. Every single time someone leaves our home, friends, family, church members, delivery drivers, we always tell them, be careful when you pull out on 1187. It's dangerous. There's a lot of cars. And you cannot safely see westbound traffic coming over the hill where they wanna put that traffic light because cars fly so fast above highway speed. There's no room for error, and as a driver's ed instructor, I taught students how
to judge speed and distance. But at this intersection, even skilled drivers are forced to take blind risk. Now add hundreds of more cars a day from a dense development. That doesn't just add traffic, it multiplies risk. It increases impatience, risky gaps, and collisions. And the people who will suffer mostly are the most vulnerable. Our elderly neighbors who don't have the reaction time that they once did, the young teenage drivers who are still learning to judge, families that are pulling out with kids in their car, from me who teach swim lessons in the summer, and every one
of us who calls the Redbird Mockingbird home. Progress should never come at the expense of public safety, yet that is exactly what is being asked of our neighborhood, to accept danger as a condition of development. We are not against growth, we are against unsafe growth. So I'm asking you to please do not approve any development at this location until a real engineered traffic solution is designed and funded to make this intersection safe. When you drive home tonight, I hope you will remember this.
Every turn onto 1187 from Redbird is a gamble we should not have to take. Thank you. Now get up and stretch. Thank you, Kim. Nikki Slobodin is up next. May she has a group representative? That's great. Thank you. So I believe it's six minutes? Yes. It is. Okay. Great. Thank you. I also have a PowerPoint presentation that I submitted prior. Sure. They have it. Okay. There we go. Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the council. My name is Nikki Slobodan. I'm a longtime resident of the Fort Worth ETJ, having lived in the Redbird neighborhood
for the past seventeen years. I would like to thank all council members and their staff, as well as city staff who have answered our questions over the past two months. With special thank you to council members Beck, Hill, Peoples, and Crane for taking the time to speak with us personally. My neighbors and I would like to have our concerns regarding recorded regarding the owner initiated pre annexation agreement between the parks at Village Creek and the city of Fort
Worth, and the zoning of the entire one zero one acres as it pertains to the annexation of the land in question. I have chosen to speak under the annexation portion, which I now understand has been consolidated with zoning. I'm aware that the council met at executive session, and have been briefed on the issues. So I will be as concise as I can be. Slide, please. Looking at the zoning staff report from this past August, you will see that the city insisted on submitting the zoning commission to the zoning commission the zoning request for
this parcel of land as c medium density multifamily. We all found this rather curious since the applicant of the zoning change was requesting a five. Why would the city insist on c? Oh. Thank you. In that same zoning staff report, you'll see on this slide where the report states that the zoning types which would align with the future land use designations, according to the 2023 comprehensive plan, are AG and A21, vacant, undeveloped, agricultural, and suburban residential.
The quote taken from this report, highlighted in red here, states, quote, the proposed zoning is not consistent with the future land use map portion of the comprehensive plan. End quote. The report goes on to state that single family residential would be consistent. On this slide, I have included a portion of the city's mayor and council communication dated twelvefourteentwenty one. At which time, I know many of you weren't on the council, or you had only been in office for a very brief period of time.
This was submitted to council for approval of the pre annexation agreement by the city. The highlighted language in the discussion portion of this communication is the only time we see records showing zoning is discussed with mayor and council. The focus of the city is clearly on expanding the city's public water and wastewater infrastructure with very little, if any, regard to the city's comprehensive plan and future land use alignment with that plan. And this brings me back to the c multifamily designation the city requested despite Pulte's application for a five.
I believe it is because of this clause, seven c, and the pre annexation agreement between the city and the parks at Village Creek, which summarize states that this document is prevailing and controlling in the event of a zoning conflict with the city. We acknowledge that December 2021, when this document was executed, was the thick of the COVID pandemic. I'm sure even the city staff were working remotely, as a great deal of us were at the time, and things may have fallen through the cracks.
But the clause you see here has effectively rendered the zoning commission and the council's decision regarding the zoning of this property irrelevant if it does not align with the agreement. This clause stole the process of public hearings and representation of the people from you, the council, and from us, the residents of the ETJ. This this pre annexation agreement is contrary to Texas local government code regarding zoning and Fort Worth comprehensive plan, which is also mandated by the Texas local government codes as
seen here. And while I'm sure you all are very familiar with the Texas local government codes, I offer you this as a gentle reminder. Section 42.001 of the code states, quote, the legislature declares that the policy of the state to designate certain areas as extraterritorial jurisdiction of municipalities to promote and protect the general health, safety, and welfare of persons residing in and adjacent to municipalities.
The persons. We, the persons, who reside in Redbird Neighborhood, humbly request acknowledgment by the council that an error was made by the city when drafting and executing this pre annexation agreement between the parks at Village Creek in the city in 2021. We also ask the council to kindly direct the city to initiate an amendment to the preannnexation agreement to change all future zoning of the entire 101 parcel to a five instead of the current c designation. Thank you for your time, and thank you for your service to the residents of
Fort Worth and the ETJ that surrounds it. Council member, that's the conclusion of our speakers on this particular item. I'm gonna ask Rich to come back up. Rich, lots of well stated concerns expressed tonight by our speakers. I just would ask that maybe you try to points of clarification where it may be helpful, and and maybe speak to this is a complex case, and it's important to me, and I'm sure the rest of counsel and certainly councilor Nettles that we attempt to clarify some of these things tonight. Certainly. So with this property, the city is the plotting authority.
So the development services staff will ensure that the property meets all the city's requirements with regard to their plat and the water sewer, stormwater, and roadway infrastructure necessary to support this development. If the city annexes the property into the city limits, then the city also becomes the authority over the building permits to ensure that the homes that are constructed meet all of the city's requirements. If the city chooses not to annex, then there will not be any government authority
regulating any of the construction of the buildings. Mhmm. And I think just based on some body language in the back, I think maybe there's some confusion around that as to why that is, you know, why the city would have originally entered into this development agreement in the first place, knowing what you just stated, that development was possible outside of annexation. And and I think that maybe there's a clarification needed there as well. Certainly. So the developer could have chosen to develop without an agreement with the city. They would have been subject to any county regulations on development, which is fairly minimal.
They'd still need to plot their property, but the requirements of the city are certainly more onerous as far as what we require when a property plans to come into the city limits. And and the counties don't regulate the building permits in Tarrant County. There's no building permitting authority in the county at all, in any of the counties to really regulate how the homes are constructed. Mhmm. And then there's been quite a bit of discussion around the inadequacy of 1187. And this 1187 1187 spans several different council districts across the city of Fort Worth
to the extent that you're comfortable speaking about plans there. And if we need to call in reserves, we could do that as well. Certainly. So, certainly, that's a TxDOT roadway that we don't control. My understanding on the history of the development is the initial plan. They're they're building a North South Street through the middle of the development coming up to 1187. They had intended for their traffic to turn left onto 1187 at that point. As I understand it, TxDOT came back and said, no. You can't have left turns at that location.
You're gonna have to move your left turns down to Redbird Lane and put the signal at Redbird Lane. They wouldn't have wanted basically two intersections turning left that close together. So that's kind of evolved over time. So, certainly, right now, the the plan for development at that North South Roadway is only right turns into the to the neighborhood, right turns out of the neighborhood. It is forcing all that left bound traffic on 1187 down to the Redbird Lane intersection. So that's why staff is now in engaging in discussions with the developer of both
improvements all the way down Redbird Lane because it's certainly a narrow roadway as it currently exists, as well as a left turn lane from Redbird onto 1187, and our development services staff is coordinating with the tech TxDOT department, staff on those improvements that need to be done. And then to your knowledge and I think I can ask the developer to come up in a moment if that's helpful. But, as was articulated in the city plan commission meeting, there was a lot of discussion around lack of communication, especially with many of the individuals that came this evening,
which obviously leads to additional confusion and concern from constituents. Were you party to any of that discussion with the developer about the need to reach out and have a more proactive meeting, and and larger discussion. I was certainly, present at the plant commission meeting. I watched portions of the zoning commission meeting regarding the request for communications between the developer and the residents living nearby the area. Outside of that, I'm not aware of any communications. Alright. Thank you. And before I call the developer up, one more question.
Should the council proceed and approve this particular M and C towards annexation, what will the next, steps look like on this particular development? So they are currently constructing their public infrastructure. So, of course, the city staff is out and would be inspecting that to make sure it's constructed in accordance with all the city's regulations. Once that's constructed, the next step would be for them to request building permits to build the to build the homes in the neighborhood, and then the city's inspectors would be inspecting those to ensure that they are constructed to meet the city's standards.
As I understand that, the the water CCN has already been transferred to the city, so that step's been been done. And, of course, you have the companion zoning case tonight where to clarify, based on the the statements that were made, the development agreement called for c multifamily with the option, as we allow under our zoning ordinance to construct single family residential. So for the portion of the property before the city council tonight, at the zoning commission meeting, it's my understanding the applicant said they were fine with doing the a
five single family zoning for this parcel and that the plan commission made that recommendation to the city council on the zoning case tonight. Other portions of the property to the north that are subject to that development agreement are not before the city council tonight. I'm not aware of any applications being made yet on those parcels. So those would come later. So have to come back to council for those particular parcels. Okay. That's helpful. Thank you. Councilor Reynolds, I'll I'll pause there if you had any questions specifically for Rich. I had do you have a question for the developer? Okay. Thank you, Rich. Councilor Martinez, please. Yes. So Rich and the developer will probably know the exact date.
Date. Do we have an estimated, project completion date of when these the develop at least the first initial development will be finished? I'll defer to the developer on the specific timeline that they're on. We give them two years to finish construction of the public infrastructure, but, of course, they often can get that done a lot faster. I know TxDOT has, agreed to put in a traffic light. Do you have any idea of when that will be put in place? I do not know specifically when that'll be put in place. Development services is in discussions with the developer about the traffic light is my understanding.
Thank you, Rich. Who's here on behalf of the development this evening? Hi there. Good evening, mayor and council. My name is Mark Zett. I'm the vice president of development for Pulte Homes Dallas division. Thank you, Mark. Appreciate it. You know, in the city planning commission, there was a lot of discussion back and forth from commission members, especially concerning a lack of communication. At this point, have have you or anybody with Pulte Homes reached out and sat down with any of the speakers here this evening or other neighborhood members? So I was not at the planning commission. I actually had my consultant and a PM there that night. We understood and felt the public's, disinterest in this development, right, for the single family,
more for the multifamily, I believe. The Redbird Land Association sent over an email with a bunch of requests for information, which we did respond to, but we have not met with them in person. We were unable to attend. I think it was the seventh of this month where they had their neighborhood association meeting in, I believe, one of the houses out there, which, I was not comfortable sending anybody into that situation. Okay. And I'm I'm gonna turn it back over to council member Nettles. I I wanna make a few points. And and, Mark, you can stand, but it's it's, you know, I'm not I'm just really gonna make comments at this point. So if you'd like to sit for a moment, and council member Nettles may have
a a moment too. These are really difficult cases, and I I, I respect the position that council member Nettles is in because this is an area of the city that has grown rapidly. And a lot of these issues we've inherited as a community, and sometimes it just comes with being one of the fastest growing cities. I'm gonna support my council member on his decision this evening, but I I am gonna ask for this. And if my office needs to be the one to conduct the meeting, I'll do so. Mark, if it's if you on behalf of Pulte Homes or whomever needs to have that meeting, we have to sit down with these community members. We're doing a tremendous amount of work alongside TxDOT right now.
A lot of it is in that Western corridor because we're trying to avoid the mistakes we made in the Northern part of Fort Worth, and it is a life and safety issue. A lot of the comments made tonight were, yes, around transportation. There's also some issues around stormwater and flood, flood floodplain issues. I have confidence in our city staff. We have some of the very best and brightest individuals on the city that really advocate to make sure we're making really sound decisions around flood plain infrastructure needs. But some of the issues around transportation, it takes partnership with TxDOT, and also with Tarrant County Commissioner's Court, which they've been incredibly helpful. Commissioner Ramirez has as well.
So I'm on record here supporting council member Nettles to conduct a meeting that includes all of you and your red shirts. Anybody else that want to be there, open up the city hall and do that, and let's have a real discussion about what that infrastructure looks like. Because some of these issues are actually outside Pulte Homes' control, the things the city of Fort Worth has got to be better in communicating and advocating on. And specific to eleven eighty seven, if I called on each council member that is impacted by eleven eighty seven, they'd all have an opinion about how they've advocated differently, and it is very frustrating. We are going through a Fort Worth district, which is a larger larger TxDOT district
across North Texas, which is important for you to know, to really put them at the table and force Money that we're due here on this side of the metroplex around major infrastructure projects, including eleven eighty seven. And you'd be proud to know that both Parker County and Tarrant County advocates were all saying the same thing. Eleven eighty seven is ten years or more behind, and we've got to step up. And so you have that process undergoing right now along with every single elected official and stakeholder in this entire 4 Fourth District, which is a positive thing, but you wouldn't know that yet because we haven't started publicizing that.
So I wanted to be on record this evening. So again, thank you for taking the time to come. I can imagine it is incredibly frustrating. I was frustrated for you watching that city plan commission. Our city plan commissioners are appointed for that position to do exactly what they did, advocate for their individual districts to make sure they're asking for any developer to sit down with community members. That should be the bare minimum. Mark, I realize you kind of inherited this, and you've gotta go back to your team and make sure the right people are there. But just know my office stands ready to make sure that communication happens clearly, and we support council member Nettles and his staff as well.
With that, I'll stop talking and turn to council member Nettles. Thank you. No. Thank you, mayor. I'm glad you did mention that because I had the same concerns. I thought you did meet with the community, so I was not aware of that. I do have one question for maybe Melinda. Since this is an annexation with a zoning opponent. And I know with annexation, we have ninety days to act upon it, and so I know tonight is important, for that reason. But is there any, issues with approving the annexation today and not and continue the
zoning case? That is within the council's discretion to do that. Is that gonna cause any issues? I mean, if it is, I just I just wanna know. He's Yeah. Rich, how's that look? Did have that look. So, actually, their development agreement says we will consider the zoning at the same meeting we consider the annexation case. So as you'll recall, we were on the agenda about thirty days ago, and they had agreed to a thirty day delay of both actions. And, certainly, if that's what the council wants to do, I can talk to the
developer and see if they're willing to sign off. I don't know that they have a representative here that has the authority to sign off on that, but that would be one option. But we can approve the annunciation today. You would have to approve both today, or you would have to see if the developer is in agreement to signing another thirty day extension of that agreement. And if they have somebody that's available Is he the proper authority. Mark, are you the representation for that? I guess my question would be, the a five zoning doesn't appear to be the problem. I know they don't want development down there, but this the multifamily zoning, what seems
to be the problem, which we're not addressing today. So we would prefer to be annexed into the city of Fort Worth like the annexation agreement that we purchased from the original developer that negotiated it. But if you if you feel strongly about pushing in another month, it doesn't hurt us. We still have time. We're not gonna deliver until December. And then we still have things we are working through with Canon and the improvements to Redbird Lane, the signalized intersection. All the things that were discussed today, we're working on. We're we're not turning a blind eye to it. We understand that public safety is very important, not only for the existing residents, but
for the ones that we're gonna bring. Okay. So Well, thank you. Thank you both. I'll say this, and I do wanna acknowledge. I did hear someone say at least acknowledge that some things happen wrong. Some things happen wrong in the pre agreement, and you can see that tonight. I think when I first heard about this case, I sit there and ask staff why in the world that we do this. Because when we can't make decisions beforehand, it ties our hands. And so now so tonight, our hands are really tied because to be physically responsible, it's not just lowering your taxes, but it's making sure the people who actually use
the water and sewer are paying taxes to the city of Fort Worth as well. And so that's what really ties me tonight. But I'm going to, also join I do wanna also apologize that our office did not get a chance to step a meeting. We dropped that ball, and so we will be working to get that meeting set up within the next thirty days. And so, I wanna acknowledge both of those and and also have empathy. I understand that you are in a rural area, and you may not know this, but when you live in areas of rural, it's common to go to somebody's house
or front yard to have a meet. It's pretty safe. Sometimes they have cookies and tea that you might enjoy. And so, it's very common. I've been to a lot of them. And so, we heard you tonight. I wanna make sure that when you leave tonight, you do feel like you were heard, and we are committed to, answering your questions as we move forward. But with that, I'm going to move to approve the, annexation. I've got a motion on the floor and a second by council member Beck. Any other discussion? Thank you. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item will be z c Dash25Dash117.
Mayor, we have speakers. We do. Our first speaker is Laurie Martin followed by Casey Edmonson. Ammonson. Excuse me. Where did Lori go? Okay. Casey? Casey Emmonson will be followed by Darren Plowman. At middle mic. Yes, sir. Thank you. Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Casey Amundson. I let I live at 4380 Redburn Lane, and I'm the largest landowner in our neighborhood where I'm an active hay producer and currently have livestock grazing several of my
pastures, which humbly makes me the expert, I guess, on rainfall and soil. So here I am. I bought my farm in 2022, and the reason why I purchased it was to escape the chaos of the city, which I think most of us can agree that things are getting pretty chaotic here. I'm here to speak about the flooding issues that occurs on 1187 and the surrounding properties when rain exceeds the saturation limits of the native surrounding soil. I've done some what I would call back of the napkin math and I have
some numbers to share, so here we go. For every one inch of rainfall, one acre of land can expect approximately 27,000 gallons of water for the 100 acres currently being developed. That's 2,700,000 gallons per one inch of rainfall. Under normal circumstances in Texas, you can expect the soil to absorb anywhere from point two to point eight inches of rain per hour. When the 100 acres was pasture, trees and other vegetation, it was able to capture the rainfall and prevent flooding under normal circumstances. As you change the geography of a large piece of property, this has a major
impact on the soil solubility. For phase one of the project with approximately 200 homes with an average roof square footage of about 2,000 square feet, you're looking at about 250,000 gallons. When you add sidewalks, roads, biking trails, playgrounds, etcetera, you're looking at approximately another 100,000 gallons. With a total of over 350,000 gallons. That's the equivalent of 22 residential swimming pools or or over half an Olympic sized pool for every one inch of rainfall. Keep in mind all of this water is gonna be collected in gutters, pushed away
from the houses and routed with low friction paths to the retention pond and creek that was constructed and ultimately to the creek, Village Creek. These numbers only account for the 100 acres and obviously do not account for the natural runoff into Village Creek which has already proven to cause substantial flooding under major rain events. The average yearly rainfall in Burleson is 37 inches. This will equate to an additional 12,700,000 gallons of rainwater entering Village Creek per year with phase one of this development just South of 1187 crossing Village Creek.
Here's a couple of pictures really quick to just show you how serious things get in our neighborhood with just normal rainfall without the additional 12,700,000 gallons every year that's gonna be added to this roadway here. In closing, our community is concerned, and we need your help to make sure proper zoning has occurred. Thank you. Darren Plowman. Darren will be followed by John Saldivar. I'm gonna work remain civil in this. Never seen this man in my life. Not in any meeting.
Didn't ever know he who he was until he walked up tonight. What is being done is a disservice to our neighborhood. I do understand that you're in a complicated position, and I am sorry for that. But this is a sad disservice to us. Unfortunately, when it's all said and done, the city of Fort Worth, the residents that he brings out there in our neighborhood will be left with the aftermath when they've taken their profits and they have moved on to another parcel of land.
And those of us left will have to deal with the aftermath of what's being done here. I'm sorry you're in this position. I'm even more sorry that we're in this position. Our next speaker is John Saldivar followed by Michelle Quant Johnson. Michelle? Michelle will be followed by Susan Schomburg and then Chad Brantley. Yes, please. Thank you. That's okay. It's okay. We can share. You have to come to the microphone. I'm so sorry. Thank you very much. Well well, you have to just start from there because there might be public watching, and we have to leave it publicized. Thank you.
Thank you. You can start, Michelle. Thank you so much. Alright. I just wanted to say this is my second time to, attend a city council meeting, and I've been very impressed with the diligence that you show to our community and our citizens. I thank you very much for your service. My name is Michelle Quant Johnson. I own the eighty acres that's closest to the Village Park development, downstream from them. And I have seen significant damage to my property. If you wanna look at the pictures I've shown you from their lack of, securing
the banks of Village Creek. So when they first started developing the area, they took down the big trees and vegetation along the creek line, and, that encouraged erosion, flooding, and also established or destroyed any habitat for the wildlife in the area. They moved the soil from the higher ground and congressman Nehls, you probably have seen this. You've seen how it's very high on the east side lower on the east side and they got the flood plain out of the flood plain by moving soil. Well, what that did was put my land and other downstream neighbors' land into the
flood plain. More of their land was put at the flood plain. So, in April 2024, we had a fairly heavy rain and I went down to look at my property line. Three sections of my land had been pushed into the creek and the fence was destroyed and down there. I've lived there for twenty five years. This has never happened before. Only when they started moving dirt have I experienced this type of flooding on my property. If I've received this much damage before any concrete has been laid, I can only
imagine how bad it's gonna be whenever we don't have, when the rainwater does not have any impervious surfaces to absorb it. So since then I was told that the corps of engineers has gotten involved and enforce their violations. But I do believe that the downstream property owners needs to be recompensed for the land that they've lost to floodplain, the fencing and erosion that I have to have done because of their lack of protection of the banks to Village Creek.
The developers of the parks of Village Creek have continually shown by their actions that they have no respect for our community, for the environment, or the regulations that have been set up on them by TCEQ. They were not supposed to destroy the trees, they did. Over 50 trees were were destroyed. Before you move forward with this annexation, I ask you to consider the flooding issues we have and protect our community, require, more permeable surfaces of riff, raft and gravel,
plant trees and vegetation, require them to plant the 50 plus mature trees that they cut down against TCU TCEQ regulations. Thank you, Michelle. Thank you. Our next speaker is Susan Schomburg followed by Chad Brantley. Hi. I'm Susan. Thank you for having me up again. I don't have any prepared remarks for this section of, but I do wanna say a couple things. We have invited, we have asked over and over for meetings. We are very anxious to have meetings.
We just want our questions answered. In our head, we're doing worst case scenario because we don't have answers to these questions. I fear for our residents who live in the neighborhood, who are elderly, who are driving down Redbird Lane and going on till eleven eighty seven. Something's going to happen, and I don't want it to be anybody that I know and love. We are asking more so begging for help here. We are not opposed to the development. We are fine with the development. We just want the infrastructure fixed and safe before all this happens, not just for
us, but for these 199 homes that they're building. There will be 400 cars added to traffic just on our roads. That has to be taken into consideration before we just start plopping people in. So, again, we are begging for meetings. We are asking for information. Whatever y'all need from us, we are happy to provide. We are a very friendly group. We just want answers. Okay? Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Chad Brantley followed by Kim Brantley. I'm the same way. I didn't understand how this works. So I we thought we only got three minutes, so I will take advantage of
this extra three minutes. And first of all, I just wanna go on record and just say that if we could all just get in our boat and paddle down the river and say, let's say, in excess the whole 101 acres to, City Of Fort Worth, and then let's zone the whole property to a five, we're done. We're ready to move on. But the question that we do not have the answer for is what happens to the other 40 acres, and we do not want multifamily. So I'm a go on record on that.
And so we'll come to that down the road, but that's just really where we are at as a neighborhood. Now I also can go on the record and say, this gentleman right here has not reached out to us. I don't know who he is. I've met Matt, who is with Pulte. He's a very nice guy. Jace has been the mouthpiece for these people, and he's not here tonight. Nettles, I wanna know why. He just got time to meet with you. He's been at every other meeting. He's not here tonight. I think it's clear. It's pretty understandable. And, all we're asking is for you guys to work with us.
We're we are decent people, And, I mean, salt of the earth kind of people, god fearing people. We're not mean. We just want answers. We wanna work with you. We wanna know what's going on. I've got a driveway that's gonna exit right in front of my two and a half acres. I come out of my driveway, and we're almost gonna have head on collisions. I wanna know what's coming. Is there gonna be a wall there? Is there gonna be do these do these people that are buying the houses, what's disclosed to them? We've We've asked a lot of questions.
Yes. You did respond, but they weren't good responses. Give us all a break. I also wanna say that I've listened to the public comments the last couple times y'all had them, and I am sorry for the people that stand up here and come and say what they say to each of you. And I truly wanna thank you for the time that each of you did spend with us and that you reached out to help us. And then tonight, councilman Nittles, you're willing to do what you're willing to do. And, mayor, appreciate you going on record saying, go meet with these people and offering
your even your buildings for that to happen. Whatever it takes, we're willing to do it. So I just wanna say thanks to y'all. Appreciate what you do. I know it's a thankless job many times, and keep up the great work. And thanks for standing with us. God bless. Our next speaker is Kim Brantley followed by Nikki Slobodin, who's also on behalf of the group. I'm gonna stand in your honor for just a second and stretch, Kim. Thank you very much. Okay. I'll sit back down. Nikki is up next. No? Okay. Council member Nettles, that's the conclusion of our speakers on this zoning case. Thank you, mayor.
Thank you guys again. I know I did speak with DJ earlier about some of the, flooding issue, and, I think we have a representative here, and I'll just briefly we'll have to go in detail of it, but some of the flooding issues that we have that are currently and existing. And if the development will cause more, issues to, the neighbors. Henry. So thank you, council member Nettles, Mayor Parker, council. So for the record, we, development services, we have a stormwater development team that looks
at our drainage study and our drainage criteria manual. We also work with our transportation public works floodplain administrator, and we work hand in hand with that. So they've met all the permits, whether it's floodplain development permits, excuse me, drainage studies. They've all also done a, they work with FEMA with a clover. So they've done they've met all our requirements in regards to drainage. Okay. Thank you. And so what what we're gonna do, we're gonna we set the meeting up. I did speak with DJ again. He's not here today after he's ill, or not feeling good.
But, we wanna work on getting a meeting so that you guys can hear and answer ask questions directly to development services, and they can answer those questions for you. So they wanna have an understanding. And so, we're gonna make that happen. Thank you again for coming. I'll even say, Chad even attended my, town hall. He was very dedicated, so I really appreciate your dedication, sir, and I have you. So I'm gonna, move to approve, and then we're gonna have a meeting as soon as possible. Thank you, miss Miles. Motion to second council. Please vote. Motion carries. Next will be m and C25Dash0966.
Council member Peoples. I would like to move to approve. Motion in a second. Counsel, please vote. Motion carries. Next will be m and C25Dash0955. Council member Blaylock. Thank you. Motion is second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash029. House member Flores. It's green. I don't know what's going on.
There you go. Try again. Move to approve. Second. Motion a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash126. Council member Blaylock. I mean, sorry. Council member Larsworth. +1 26 is 8. I meant +1 25. You're +1 25. +1 25 was continued. Okay. I just cut I just cut current. Council member Nettles, we're rolling. Sorry, y'all. Approve. Motion and a second. Please vote. Now I will say we have two speakers, but it says four, and he just said approve. So unless y'all wanna speak. No? It was Steve Steven Cook and Joe Potoff. Just making sure.
Right. Motion to second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash114. Council member Flores. Move to approve. Second. Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash 135. Councilor Flores, we have one speaker on this item, Eric Lamontagne. Evening. Unsurprisingly, I'm in support. I work for Crunch. Really just here if the council had any questions. Thank you. Councilman Flores, any questions? No questions.
Move to approve. Motion to second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is s p dash two five dash zero one zero. Councilmember Hill. K. Motion a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is s p dash 25Dash012. Councilman Blaylock? I'll motion to approve. Motion a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is z c dash two five dash one three eight. Motion a second. Counsel, please vote. Motion carries. Next is z c dash two five dash one four zero.
Councilor Nettles. Move to approve. Second. Motion to second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash141. Council member Peebles. A motion a second. Please vote. Motion care. Well, did that I didn't see anything happen. I don't think might do that one again. I don't think council member Hall was able to vote, and then it went away. We're just gonna We got a motion to approve. Yes, ma'am. And see if they can queue. If we need a oh, there it goes. Thank you.
Motion carries. There we go. Next is ZCDash25Dash145. Customer Blueleg, we have several speakers on this item, but only if there's opposition to my knowledge, there is none. I believe Wes is speaker regardless. Wes. Did you wanna say something, Wes? Just here to answer any questions. Just trying to get two additional lots on the site here due to floodplain. No additional questions. I think you're gonna win one. Thank you. Motion to approve. Motion to second counsel. Please vote.
Chris, try one more time. Thank you. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash146. Council member Peebles. Move to approve. Motion and a second. Council, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash147. Council member Beck. K. Motion to approve and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash148. Council member Blaylock. Second. Motion to second council. Please vote. Motion carries. Z c twenty five one four nine was continued to November 11.
K. That gets us to ZCDash25Dash150. Councilor Crane, we have two speakers on this item. Thomas Jones for Adrian Smith. Is he still here? If not, you have no position. Mister Smith mister Jones? Parker, city council. Thank you for having me, and thank you for doing what you do. I have followed the city council for years, and it is amazing the amount of, trash you have to put up with. That's what I'll call it.
This is, in conjunction with a comment I wanna make as is relative to, Las Vegas Trail. I live on the West Side. I've driven for thirty years down Camp Bowie, observed the, decay of the area, and now I'm observing the, improvements made. Thanks to Betsy Price and Brian Beck, Brian Byrd, now Michael Crane, the mayor, city
council, all of you have worked very hard to make that happen. What a consortium of, non profits and outside agencies you've had brought in and made it very successful. So for that you get kudos, big kudos. I've talked to the emergency responders, the police, code enforcement, as you know many times, not only there, but other way. The moral of the story is if you're truthful and you're civil and you're respectful in your comments to the city, you will get back truthful, respectful, and civil comments
as to your concerns. And I encourage those who have lately have exerted effort to debunk that, to pay attention to the city's overall improvements and what they're doing, and what these folks are having to do every Tuesday night at least, or during the city, meetings, as well as the other council meetings. A lot of time. Tremendous pay, I'm sure.
But, we do I do really, really appreciate everything you guys have done, and I am for this, revamp of Las Vegas Trail. I think it will really help. It will bring about further change that's been needed there, and I'm excited for my neighborhood, their neighborhood, as well as city of Fort Worth. Thank you. Council member Crane, that's the conclusion of our speakers on this item. Never try again. And then here here we go. Hey, Thomas. Thanks for being here tonight. Thanks for your words.
Thanks for your long time service as neighborhood president in Lost Creek and all that you've done out there, and thanks for sticking with us this whole time. And it is true he watches because I get text messages as as we're up here over the years. But, thanks again. Best of May to I'll, move to approve, as an as amend yeah. I wish I gotta read this out, though. But I love I love it love it. I also say thanks to the city staff that aren't here, and that are here too for your hard work on this. This council initiated zoning change.
You can read this whole page of what we're doing there. I really appreciate the the hours that were put into making sure this works. So I'm gonna move to approve as amended for 2924 Broadmoor to p to PDMU one excluding certain uses, NASJRB, site plan required, and 3025 West Loop 820 South and 3008 West Normandale to PDMU two plus motorcycle sales, repair, and service excluding certain uses, site plan required. And a motion and a second counsel. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is z c dash two five dash one five one.
And council member Hall, we have a few speakers on this item. Our first is Andrew Rugg followed by Patrick Sweester Sweetster. Presentation also. Good evening, mayor Parker, members of the council. Andrew Ruhrig here with Master Plan representing, Superstar Car Wash, the applicant, for this particular case. I wanted to just walk through a couple things with this. As you can see in the aerial here, our site's highlighted in yellow. This is part of a target development. So target is the is the primary, element of this development, and then we have
a bunch of pad sites, superstar car wash here, some shown with the yellow star is, one of the pad sites in the middle of this development. We are in GE Commercial, so that is the most intense, commercial district. So there are certain things that can be allowed by right, particularly auto body shops, tire shops. We are needing to rezone for the car wash because we're within, 200 feet of a residential use, and that's the Trailhead multifamily development, directly to our north. If we go back just to they're already developed, so we are within that 200
feet. I have a couple slides that kinda show how far away we are. Superstar Car Wash, they're a national company doing a lot of work here in DFW, strong community involvement aspect to them. We think this is a great location for a new car wash about two and a half miles from any other car washes. We've also gone through some plan iterations through this process with the staff and then with the zoning commission. Zoning commission ultimately approved us eight to two. We took the advice of the commission and it shifted our side a little bit more to provide some additional landscape buffers, to add some additional trees.
These are things we heard about in neighborhood meetings, that neighbors, wanted to see if we were to move forward with this particular plan. Here's a quick version of the landscape plan that shows trees here on the western side of the site, visual for what the car wash would look like. It it We've revised this to make sure we're not requesting, any development waivers, so we're we're we're good to go as far as that goes. One thing I did wanna point out with our new iteration, you know, the zoning says you have to be 200 feet away.
We're technically within that 200 feet because it's property line to property line, but our use itself is about 200 feet from the parking lot of the multifamily to the north of us. Nearest single family district is about 800 feet away. Usually the car washes are required by CUP, they make some noise so you're gonna have to have additional buffers included in those. We included a rear screening wall, additional landscaping, no development waivers requested, So we just think this is a really good use, for this market, and we're kinda doing everything
by the book, by the code. So we hope to, see if you can support that tonight. Appreciate it. Our next speaker is Patrick Sweetser followed by Wes Hoblet. Patrick is, flying in there out of Scottsdale, so he's had a delayed flight, so he won't be here, unfortunately. But I can kinda take over where Andrew left off a little bit to kinda talk about traffic. I know that came up with the neighbors. We met with a number of them. These numbers on the bottom are really from, Superstar where this is their highest amount of traffic, you know, per site. I think this actually came from the Jacksboro site that is in, District 2, a
little bit north of us. So, you know, maximum, it's 10,000, almost 11,000 washes a month. That's not including any rainy days, anything like that. So it really boils down to about 32 an hour, which we can accommodate on the site pretty much, you know, with all the queuing that we have for the three lanes. One of the comments from staff was we could get rid of one of those lanes and add more landscaping. We're open to do so, But that's kind of our, iteration right now. So reaching out to the neighborhood started pretty, often. You know, in August, we reached out to the councilwoman's office, and we, you know,
gathered the groups that we need to reach out reach out to. Started, you know, reaching out to those groups a couple days later. A lot of apartments that are nearby. Obviously, the ordering apartment, which is triggering the CUP as well as a lot of the HOAs. September 3, we had a neighborhood meeting, over Zoom. That was what the neighborhood preferred. We discussed, you know, some of their concerns, answered questions, comments, had another one on October 3 before we went to zoning commission, and, that was unfortunately with Desilano Springs. Chisholm Trail Ranch residential HOA was not available, but we followed up with her.
These are two support letters from the master developer, UCD, as well as the apartment, which is triggering, the need for the CUP. And, really, one of the things, that's kinda come up to us that was told to us essentially the week of zoning commission was the master developer, as my colleague noted, there's g zoning on the site today. That zoning allows for a lot of uses that we heard the neighborhood did not like. I think it was a couple months ago back in either December '24 or January '25 where I think it was a tire place and a brake place tried to go just to the south of here. They didn't like that use.
The master developer kinda hinted pretty heavily that they could bring those uses in since there was interest in those, to this site, and they wouldn't need a zoning change. And so, you know, I wanted to convey that to the neighbors and council. Just to let you know that the developer does need to fill this site. We think this rounds it out nicely. I know it's automotive, but it's less intensive than some of the other things that can go there. And, you know, talking to the neighbors, they're kind of seemingly half and half on it. They're not super in support of the car wash, obviously, but they really don't want the other uses. So they're kind of in the middle. But, happy to answer any questions, that you may have.
Thank you. Derica Patterson. Hi. I'm not in a direct neighborhood within the half mile radius to get the notifications, but I am still in District 6, and we are overpopulated with car washes. I heard the representative say they are no longer seeking the waiver, so I am a little bit confused. And at this point, I may be asking for a continuance because I would like to know what the reproposed option is, because what I originally read said that they were seeking waivers for to not have any screen protection.
They didn't have anything as far as the traffic congestion. It It was a lot of things that they didn't have, but when they just stood up here, which is also contradictory to what we saw on the agenda to sign up to speak. I'm a little bit confused on what they are asking for now, so I would prefer to just, ask for a continuance so that I can review. What I can say though is I do know that down in District 6, we are all, we would much rather have other infrastructure built. I keep saying this up here. We keep pushing things in where we're going to increase traffic, but the roads cannot
sustain that. We we don't even have enough cars for all of the car washes in our district alone. It's just not even that many cars in District 6. You mentioned that there was a car wash two and a half miles away. I mean, it's a little bit ridiculous to me. But at this point, I'm just asking for a continuance because what I have prepared doesn't necessarily matter if they're saying they're now not seeking waivers. So I'm I'm at this point asking for a continuance so we can see what it is that they're actually requesting. Council member Hall, that's the conclusion of our speakers on this item.
Thank you, mayor. I do have a few questions, for the developer for the developer's representative. So I I know that you mentioned, that you did have the opportunity to meet with residents. I think that's, Chisholm Trail Ranch, Landau Springs, and Trailhead, which is the, the dense multifamily there on the premises. Could you specifically share what their sentiments were about the car wash? Like, the representative from, District 6 mentioned that there's a lot of them. We understand that. We just we heard that from the residents as well that, you know, they don't want any more car washes. That's what we heard.
Okay. Do you know how many car washes are are, currently operating in that immediate area? From our map, that was some research, so it looked like it was about five or six that we could see that we're within that distance, but I'm not sure the exact number. Oh, according to my research, within a five just some five mile radius of your proposed site, we have nine, possibly 10. We have nine car washes in a five mile, in a five mile radius. Just for my own education and for those that are watching at home and and who have been following this and are very vested, interested in these car washes, how
do you determine a suitable location for a car wash? Like, what what are the inputs? You have nine and a five mile radius. How do you know you need a a 10? Yeah. So I'll I'll speak to that. A lot of it is the market. I mean, this is a very attractive site to a car wash user because, as you know, this area is is growing as some existing, single family and multifamily residents more on the way. It's part of a, master development, which is gonna you know, that's why the master developer also would like to bring this in.
It will help with cross shopping. But I guess to the very very root of your question is it has good demographics for, a car wash use. These car wash uses typically, you know, capture the market for the people in the closest vicinity who are looking to utilize a location like this. So that's that's really the the the main point of it is, you know, they think it's a great site. They have the numbers to support it, and that's why they're so interested in this particular location. So where would we consider market saturation? Is there such a thing in the car wash industry?
Not from what we've seen. I mean, from this map, it's obvious that there are more car washes further to the north. You know, I I can't speak to their our competitors, but also one thing is that we will look at in other, I guess, cities that we've done these types of uses in is a lot of these car washes will compete with each other on different types of price and product. So, you know, I wish I could tell you exactly which ones we have noted on the map.
We just kinda did a quick, research to see where other car washes were. But, sometimes you'll have car washes, you know, right across the street from my each other and they'll be competing either as the same product or one will be, you know, more of a higher end car wash versus more of a a economical car wash. So those are the things that, they look at as far as site selection goes. Okay. And should this zone zoning change not be approved tonight? I didn't touch the account. Yeah. We're having all kinds of issues here. We're trying to we're trying to I I could hear you. I could hear you. Okay. Sorry.
If you don't if this doesn't if this zoning change isn't approved tonight, do you have an alternative? The so we represent Superstar Car Wash. That is our client. The master developer being UCD, they have mentioned to me a myriad of uses that they're thinking about for this specific site. You know, like I mentioned before, there was a previous case, I think, in January where a tire and a brake place were trying to go to the south. In the e zoning, they were denied so they could go here by right so they know that there's interest. They wanna fill the pads, to have the rounded shopping center, and they mentioned that
those would be interested uses as well as other things allowed to Did you share that with the residents? I did. Correct. Yes. Before zoning commission. When we or during zoning commission, then I followed up with the neighbors on, after the fact, and we had a meeting after after we talked, specifically. I reached out to them and mentioned that. And I just wanted to make sure that the message was brought back appropriately from the developer that if they didn't accept a car wash, another automotive use would be substituted. That is what we were told. Correct. Two, specifically. Okay. Great. Those are those are the questions that I had. And so I I do have some comments that I wanna go on the record,
and I apologize you guys because I know it's late. I'm tired. I don't even know if I'm gonna read without messing up, but I'm a give it a go. So I do want to say, I wanna say that, I'm appreciative of the opportunity to speak publicly tonight about, this case. And I do wanna address very plainly for the record the concerns that were raised by the District 6 residents of Chisholm Trail Ranch, Lionel Springs, and the Trailhead communities regarding, the proposed zoning change for yet another, automated car wash in District 6. So these communities have spoken loudly and very clearly.
They do not want another car wash as admitted. District 6 is already over over already oversaturated with similar establishments, and residents are growing weary of being inundated with auto centric businesses that do not contribute to the character, the quality, or livability of our neighborhood. And what I find most troubling is not necessarily the proposal itself, but definitely how this process has unfolded. As you mentioned at a recent meeting, residents shared their concerns directly with your team about, the car wash, and their concerns weren't met with empathy empathy nor willingness to
collaborate, but instead with threats. And the response I was told was, if we don't get the car wash, we'll just put another auto use there since zoning allows it. And I just wanna go on the record with saying that is not how we build trust. That is not partnership, and plain and simple, I think it's just coercion. And despite the zoning department recommending denial, and despite the district six zoning commissioner re recommending denial, and despite the overwhelming opposition from the people who actually live in the area, you still choose to push forward at the expense and the peril of the
very residents whose lives will be impacted by this decision. And while I try to work in good faith, I will always try to work in the way good faith with developers who want to invest invest in District 6. I am deeply disappointed by the approach that has been taken in this case. So that said, ironically, it is with deep regret that I'm going to recommend the approval of z c two five one five one, not because I believe that's the right development for the area, but because the residents that I have spoken with extensively
over the course of the last month, maybe more, are just fearful. They're fearful that this zoning case, if it's denied, something worse will be be placed there as retaliation, and I think that that fear is real. They've heard it more than once. I've now heard it. I think it's valid, and I think that that fear was manufactured by your development team. And I think that's disgusting. So I don't think that's how you partner with communities. I don't think it's how you build trust. I don't think it's how you build a a long term relationship, and it's definitely
to a way to create resentment, division, and disillusionment with the development process. So for the future, for you, and for the others who may be watching this evening, let this be a turning point. If you wanna build in District 6, try coming with a spirit of collaboration, not coercion, and be an asset to the community and bring ideas that'll enhance the quality of the life of the residents that you seek to serve. District 6 is definitely open for business, but we don't welcome intimidation as a development strategy. Thank you. Okay. Council member Hall, in terms of your motion, I just wanted to clarify, is that
without the waivers? No waivers. I don't know what's no. It's not your fault. It's just the it's a ghost in here. We'll try it again. So, I was presented on my at the least the last meeting that I had with them, there was supposed to be some other changes which we saw up here. So I want to ensure that the, I guess, the last rendition of the site plan based on the recommendations that were, the outcome of the zoning case, I would like to make sure that those actually do take place, and that that's actually documented
on the record so that we don't have any reverting back, if you will. Yes. It's without waivers currently. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So I'll make a I'll make that motion again just for clarity. I'm making a motion for approval for z c two five one five one without, waivers. Got a motion and a second by doctor Hall. Any other comments? Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash159. Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZCDash25Dash167.
Council member Flores? Yes. I move I move to approve, and also thanks to city staff, TRWDE staff, and to Susan on lease. Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is m and c 25Dash0959. Councilmember Hall. Okay. I just wanted to make a couple of clarifying. I promise y'all won't be long. I wanted to clarify because there were a lot of comments, and I've received a lot of emails that we're not debating whether or not, to move forward with the housing development. That decision, I think, was made, earlier last year.
So what's actually before us tonight is just, really how accessible do we want homeownership to be for our fellow residents in Fort Worth. So I wanted to go on record with saying, as we all know, our city faces significant, shortages of affordable homes for purchase, and the lack of affordable housing affects families, communities, and the future of our city. And to help address this issue, I am supporting the approval of MNC two five dash zero nine five nine, which proposes waiving certain development costs for, nonprofits, Trinity, Habitat
for Humanity. And by waiving these costs, we make it more feasible for this organization to offer homes at a price that is more accessible for families who need it most. And I do wanna clarify that home buyers in this program, they still have to meet the standard mortgage practices, and they will be fully qualified buyers. This is not section eight housing. They will also be tax paying property owners contributing to the growth of our city just like any other homeowner, in our communities. And so the benefits of homeownership go far beyond than that just of the individual family. Studies show that increasing homeownership in the area reduces crime, fosters safer, stronger neighborhoods, and
students who grew up in a home owned by their family tend to have improved school performance. So as for the neighbors themselves, research consistently shows that areas with more homeowners than renters tend to yield more positive social and economic outcomes. So for these reasons and in recognition of the great need for affordable housing in our community, I am very proud to support this strategy, this pilot to make homeownership more attainable for forward residents. This isn't just about building homes. It's about building stronger, more stable communities for our future. Motion and a second. Council, please vote.
Councilor Nell. Excuse me. Yes. Okay. No. Gage, I I I really appreciate your work. Thank you for all the work you've done in District 8, and I really want I'm excited that you guys are moving throughout the city of Fort Worth because what you are doing is helping people get in homes. And so disregard property relief. You guys are doing an awesome job. I wanna make sure I sit on the record. Thank you so much. Council, we have a motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries in. Thank you to our friends with Trinity Habitat. We appreciate you all. Next is MNC 25Dash0964. Thank you. Motion and a second council.
Please vote. Motion carries. Next is M and C 25Dash0953. Motion to second counsel. Please vote. Motion carries. Mayor, that concludes all the action items. Thank you, Jeanette. And meeting is adjourned.