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GOOD AFTERNOON LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
IF WE COULD BEGIN WITH OUR SPANISH TRANSLATION SERVICES STATEMENT, PLEASE.
GOOD AFTERNOON, COMMISSIONERS.
UM, BEFORE WE BEGIN, UH, I BELIEVE WE STILL HAVE SOME MASKS AVAILABLE.
I NEED TO ASK THIS BEFOREHAND.
UM, SO IF YOU WISH TO, TO HAVE A MASK, WE DO HAVE SOME MASKS OVER THERE IN THE CORNER.
UH, MY NAME IS ROB S SIPES AND I AM THE CHAIR OF THE ZONING COMMISSION FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AS WELL AS THE DISTRICT SEVEN ZONING COMMISSION.
I HEREBY CALL THIS REGULARLY NOTICED MEETING OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO ZONING COMMISSION IN SESSION.
THE TIME IS 1:02 PM I'D LIKE TO DO A ROLL CALL BY ALLOWING THE ZONING COMMISSIONERS TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES, STARTING WITH THE COMMISSIONERS ON MY LEFT.
UH, MARCO BARROS, DISTRICT NINE, OVAL ORTIZ, DISTRICT EIGHT, TAYLOR WATSON, DISTRICT TWO.
CHARLES FUENTES FOR DISTRICT THREE STAFF IS A QUORUM PRESENT.
WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE STAND FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.
PRIOR TO CONVINCING OUR HEARING, I, I WOULD LIKE OUR STAFF TO REVIEW OUR MEETING FORMAT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE.
BEFORE I BEGIN, PLEASE TURN YOUR PHONES ON VIBRATE OR TURN THEM OFF.
THE ZONING COMMISSION IS AN 11 MEMBER BODY APPOINTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON ZONING CASES UPON RECEIVING A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE COMMISSION, YOU HAVE SIX MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION TO FORWARD YOUR CASE TO CITY COUNCIL.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS PROCEDURE, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR CASE MANAGER.
STAFF WILL BEGIN EACH CASE WITH A SHORT PRESENTATION OF THE REQUEST.
PART OF THE PRESENTATION INCLUDES A MAP THAT SHOWS THE AREA TO BE CONSIDERED FOR REZONING AND PROPERTY THAT IS WITHIN 200 FEET OF THE SUBJECT.
PROPERTY CHECK MARKS INDICATE THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS IN FAVOR OF THE REQUEST AND AN X INDICATES THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS IN OPPOSITION.
FOLLOWING THIS PRESENTATION IN ANY QUESTIONS BY THE COMMISSION, THE APPLICANT WILL PRESENT THEIR, THEIR REQUEST FOR THOSE THAT SIGNED UP TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THE PROPOSED REZONING, YOU WILL BE CALLED IN THE ORDER THAT YOU SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
THOSE IN SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION WILL BE ALLOWED A MAXIMUM OF TWO MINUTES PER SPEAKER AND YOU'RE NOT OBLIGATED TO UTILIZE THE MAXIMUM TIME LIMITATION.
YOU WILL BE INFORMED THAT THE TWO MINUTES ARE UP.
FOR THOSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THEIR TIME TO A SPEAKER, THAT SPEAKER WILL BE ALLOWED A MAXIMUM OF TWO PEOPLE GIVING THEIR TIME FOR A TOTAL OF SIX MINUTES.
THOSE GIVING UP THEIR TIME MUST BE PRESENT AND SIGNED INTO SPEAK AND MUST INDICATE AS THE PERSON THAT'S GOING UP TO SPEAK THAT YOU ARE YIELDING YOUR TIME TO THEM.
THE APPLICANT WILL THEN BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REBUTTAL LIMITED TO ONE SPEAKER WITH A TWO MINUTE TIME LIMIT ALONG WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS COMMISSION QUESTIONS.
IF WE COULD GO OVER OUR, UH, POSTPONED ITEM.
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WE HAVE ONE ITEM FOR POSTPONEMENT ITEM, UM, THAT ENDS IN THE NUMBERS.0 6 0 CD GENERALLY LOCATED AT THE 3000 BLOCK OF WEST LOOP FOUR 10.
UH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, UM, IF YOU ARE HERE FOR THE PROPERTY THAT'S, UH, AT THE 3000 BLOCK OF WEST LOOP FOUR 10, THAT'S, UM, THE KIA DEALERSHIP, IN OTHER WORDS BY OAK HILLS, THAT ITEM HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WE WILL NOT BE HEARING THAT ITEM TODAY.
UM, WHEN THAT ITEM COMES BACK, WHICH MAY BE A MONTH, TWO MONTH, WE'RE NOT SURE YET, UH, YOU WILL BE RE NOTIFIED BEFORE IT COMES BACK.
SO Y'ALL ARE FREE TO, TO ENJOY THE HOT AFTERNOON.
ALRIGHT, STAFF, IF WE COULD PLEASE GO OVER THE LIST OF ITEMS ON THE COMBINED AGENDA.
ITEMS THAT WE HAVE ON THE COMBINED AGENDA ARE ITEMS NUMBER 6, 7, 9 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17,
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AND 18.ANY OF THESE ITEMS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PULL DOWN TO THE INDIVIDUAL? LOOKING LEFT, SEEING NONE, LOOKING RIGHT.
UH, COMMISSIONER BUSTAMONTE? NO.
UM, SEEING NONE, COULD WE PLEASE READ THE COMBINED HEARING AGENDA NUMBER ONE INTO THE RECORD? ITEM NUMBER SIX IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM RMM FOUR TO IDZ TWO WITH USES PERMITTED FOR FOUR DWELLING UNITS LOCATED AT 2 1 0 2 MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
40 NOTICES WERE SENT, ZERO IN FAVOR, ZERO OPPOSED AND NO RESPONSE FROM DENVER HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
ITEM NUMBER SEVEN IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM R SIX TO C TWO WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
LOCATED AT 58 11 SOUTH FLORES STREET.
ZERO OPPOSED AND NO RESPONSE FROM THE HARLAN MCCOLLUM OR I'M SORRY, THE HARLANDALE MCCOLLUM NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND MISS MISSION SAN JOSE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OUTSIDE 200 FEET, THEY RECEIVED ONE IN FAVOR.
ITEM NUMBER NINE IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM C TWO NA TO C TWO SS WITH A SPECIFIC USE AUTHORIZATION FOR A CAR WASH LOCATED IN THE 3000 BLOCK OF SOUTHEAST MILITARY DRIVE.
ONE IN FAVOR, ONE OPPOSED MONTE VIEJO COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS IN SUPPORT.
HIGHLAND FOREST NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS OPPOSED AND NO RESPONSE FROM THE HIGHLAND HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
ITEM NUMBER 11 IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM I TWO TO I D Z TWO WITH USES PERMITTED FOR 12 DWELLING UNITS WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
LOCATED AT 1 0 2 HEIN STREET AND 900 LARRY STREET.
ZERO OPPOSED HARVARD PLACED EAST LAWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS IN SUPPORT.
ITEM NUMBER 12 IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM R SIX TO MF 18 WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
LOCATED AT THE 200 BLOCK OF COSGROVE STREET 31 NOTICES WERE SENT.
ZERO IN FAVOR, ZERO OPPOSED AND NO RESPONSE FROM THE HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
ITEM NUMBER 14 IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM R SIX AND C THREE TO C TWO N A S WITH A SPECIFIC USE AUTHORIZATION FOR CAR WASH WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
LOCATED AT 1222 AND 1226 EAST CHAU ROAD AND GENERALLY LOCATED IN THE 1200 BLOCK OF SANTA RITO STREET.
42 NOTICES PERCENT ONE IN FAVOR, ZERO OPPOSED AND NO RESPONSE FROM THE VIA CORONADO NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
ITEM NUMBER 15 IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM I D Z THREE WITH USES PERMITTED IN C TWO COMMERCIAL DISTRICT BEVERAGE MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION AND WINE MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION TO I D Z THREE HL ADDING THE HISTORIC LANDMARK WITH ALL OVERLAYS.
LOCATED AT 5 0 2 NORTH ZAMORA STREET.
ZERO OPPOSED AND NO RESPONSE FROM THE PROSPECT HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
ITEM NUMBER 16 IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM C TWO TO RMM FOUR WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
LOCATED AT 6 4 8 DELMAR STREET.
28 NOTICES, OR I'M SORRY, 29 NOTICES WERE MAILED.
ZERO OPPOSED DENVER HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS IN SUPPORT.
ITEM NUMBER 17 IS A REQUEST AND CHANGE IN ZONING FROM R SIX TO R SIX HL ADDING, UM, A HISTORIC LANDMARK WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME WITH LOCATED AT NINE 16 WEST MISSILE TOE.
25 NOTICES WERE MAILED ONE IN FAVOR, ZERO OPPOSED NO RESPONSE FROM THE BEACON HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
AND THEN ITEM NUMBER 18 IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM R SIX TO R SIX HL, UM, WITH A HISTORIC LANDMARK OVERLAY TO BE ADDED WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
LOCATED AT NINE 20 WEST MISSILE TOE.
ZERO OPPOSED AND NO RESPONSE FROM THE BEACON HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
AND MR. CHAIR, WE'RE GONNA ADD ITEM NUMBER FOUR AS WELL.
THERE WAS NO ONE SIGNED IN TO SPEAK.
SO ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS A REQUEST TO REZONE FROM I ONE I TWO SS WITH SPECIFIC USE AUTHORIZATION FOR USED AUTO PARTS RECYCLER AND C THREE
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TO I ONE AND I TWO SS WITH A SPECIFIC USE AUTHORIZATION FOR USED AUTO PARTS RECYCLER AND C THREE WITH ALL OVERLAYS REMAINING THE SAME.AND THE ADDITION OF THE HARD OF THE MARTINDALE HELIPORT HAZARD OVERLAY GENERALLY LOCATED WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE STARTING AT THE CENTER OF WOW.
GENERALLY LOCATED, STARTING AT THE CENTER OF THE NORTH END OF THE MARTINDALE RUNWAY AND EXTENDING 600 FEET TO THE EAST AND WEST, THEN NORTH TO IH 10.
IH 10 WILL ACT AS THE NORTHERNMOST BO BOUNDARY.
UH, DO WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THESE ITEMS? WE DO.
WE HAVE A SPEAKER HERE FOR ITEM NUMBER SIX.
UH, I AM, UM, THE OWNER OF, UH, SIX LOTS DOWN THE STREET AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES WITH THE, UH, WITH WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING FOR ITEM SIX.
WE JUST LIKE FOR THEM TO HAVE SOME MORE PARKING.
THEY'RE GONNA PUT THREE TWOS ON THIS, UH, SMALL, 1100 SQUARE FOOT, 1200 SQUARE FOOT, THREE TWOS.
AND UH, BETTE STREET IS A, IT'S JUST A DEAD END AND THERE'S NOT EVEN A CUL-DE-SAC ON THE END.
SO, AND THEY'RE RIGHT AT THE, SO THAT'S IF, IF, YOU KNOW, THAT'S OUR ONLY COMMENT.
SO LIKE I SAID, WE'RE NOT OPPOSED FOR THEM TO DO IT, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST TWO AND A HALF OR TWO SPACES.
I MEAN ONE AND A HALF OR TWO SPACES PER UNIT THERE BECAUSE OF THE, OF THE, UM, OF THE NUMBER OF UNIT, OF THE NUMBER OF BEDROOMS THAT ARE GONNA HAVE IN THESE UNITS.
AND THAT'S, UM, AND LIKE I SAID, I'M THE, THE GUY THAT OWNS ALL THE LOTS I'D D Z TWO LOTS DOWN THE WAY, THE SIX OF THEM.
AND WE'RE GONNA BE DOING A DEVELOPMENT RIGHT DOWN THE STREET.
COULD WE GET YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AGAIN? IT'S ERIC DUCKED AND IT'S UH, I OWN 1 23 THROUGH 1 31 BETTE PLACE.
ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? NO OTHER UM, PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, SEEING OR HEARING NONE, IS THERE A MOTION FROM A COMMISSIONER FOR THESE ITEMS? UH, CHAIR.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR THE FOLLOWING ITEMS. UH, ITEMS NUMBER SIX.
9 11 12 14, 15, 16, 17, AND 18.
AND CAN WE ADD FOUR TO THAT? SORRY, MY APOLOGIES.
ALRIGHT, THERE'S A MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF THE, OF THE ITEMS. READ ON THE RECORD.
ITEMS NUMBER 4 6 7 9 11 12 14, 15, 16, 17, AND 18.
SECOND BY COMMISSIONER BARROS.
LOOKING RIGHT, LOOKING ONLINE.
COULD WE HAVE A ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE.
ALRIGHT, THANK YOU LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IF YOU WERE HERE FOR ANY OF THOSE ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, THOSE ITEMS WILL NOW BE PROCEEDING TO CITY COUNCIL.
SO YOU ARE FREE TO ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR AFTERNOON.
I'LL GIVE 'EM JUST A SECOND TO, YEAH.
ALRIGHT, WE'LL WE WILL NOW BE MOVING ON TO OUR COMBINED HEARING NUMBER TWO, THE CONTINUANCE AGENDA FOR CONSIDERATION FOR CONTINUANCES ITEMS TO BE CONTINUED TO JULY 18TH TO 2023.
ITEM NUMBER SIX, WAIT, I'M SORRY.
UH, A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM R SIX TO I D Z ONE WITH USES PERMITTED IN NC NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT AND THREE DWELLING UNITS WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
LOCATED AT THREE 11 EAST ASHBY PLACE, 41 NOTICES WERE SENT.
ONE IN FAVOR, ONE OPPOSED TOKEN HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND MONTE VISTA HISTORICAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
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ARE OPPOSED.AND ITEM NUMBER 10 IS A REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM C TWO TO MF 33 WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO REMAIN THE SAME.
LOCATED AT 15 8 9 5 SOUTH STATE HIGHWAY 1682.
AND THERE IS NO REGISTERED NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WITH 200 FEET AND OUTSIDE 200 FEET.
THEY RECEIVE TWO IN, UM, IN FAVOR.
DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THESE ITEMS? WE DO HAVE A VOICEMAIL FOR ITEM NUMBER FIVE.
ALRIGHT, IF WE COULD PLAY THAT PLEASE.
CECILIA OSRO, I LIVE AT FOUR TWO TWO EAST ROSEWOOD TELEPHONE (210) 452-9209.
I AM CALLING IN REGARDS TO ZONING NUMBER Z AS IN ZEBRA, 2 0 2 3 DASH 1 0 7 0 0 0 6 7.
I AM IN OPPOSITION TO, TO THIS, UM, TO THIS SONY, UH, SITUATION.
I'M IN SUPPORT OF TOBIN HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS OPPOSITION TO THIS CONSTRUCTION THAT'S GOING ON AT, UH, ON ASHBY, THIS CECILIA RO.
AND I AM IN OPPOSITION TO THE CASE ENDING IN 0 6 7 AND I AM SUPPORTING TOBIN HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION'S POSITION, WHICH IS OPPOSING THIS SITUATION.
I'M A RESIDENT OF MONTE VISTA SINCE 1972 AND I'M VERY UPSET WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO TURN THIS INTO COMMERCIAL, UH, AREA INSTEAD OF RESPECTING THAT THIS IS A, UH, RESIDENTIAL AREA.
SO I'M IN OPPOSITION TO THIS ZONING CASE ENDING IN 0 6 7.
AND THAT WAS THE EXTENT OF PUBLIC COMMENT? CORRECT.
COULD I HAVE A MOTION FOR THESE ITEMS? CHAIR? I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR THE FOLLOWING ITEM, ITEM NUMBER FIVE, UH, FOR THE CONTINUANCE FOR JU JULY 18TH.
AND ITEM NUMBER 10 FOR JULY 18TH AS WELL.
THERE IS A, A MOTION FOR A CONTINUANCE TO THE JULY 18TH MEETING FOR ITEMS NUMBER FIVE AND 10 BY COMMISSIONER ORTIZ WITH A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WATSON.
ANY DISCUSSION? LOOKING LEFT, LOOKING RIGHT AND LOOKING ONLINE? NONE.
AND ONCE AGAIN THOSE ITEMS, WE WILL SEE Y'ALL IN A COUPLE WEEKS.
ALRIGHT, WE'LL NOW MOVE ON TO OUR INDIVIDUAL HEARING AND I BELIEVE THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS ITEM NUMBER TWO.
IF WE COULD HAVE STAFF'S PRESENTATION PLEASE.
ANN BEDA ZONING PLANNER WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
ITEM NUMBER TWO IS GENERALLY LOCATED IN THE 12,000 BLOCK OF PETITE STREET AND IS A REQUEST TO GO FROM R SIX TO MF 25 WITH ALL OVERLAYS REMAINING THE SAME.
THERE WERE 28 NOTICES SENT WITH THREE ONE RETURN IN FAVOR, THREE RETURN IN OPPOSITION.
AND THERE IS NO REGISTERED NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WITHIN 200 FEET.
STAFF DOES NOT FIND EVIDENCE OF LIKELY ADVERSE IMPACTS ON NEIGHBORING LANDS IN RELATION TO THIS ZONING CHANGE REQUEST.
THE CURRENT R SIX RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT IS AN APPROPRIATE ZONING FOR THE PROPERTY AND SURROUNDING AREA.
THE PROPOSED MF 25 MULTIFAMILY DISTRICT IS ALSO APPROPRIATE.
THERE ARE A MIX OF ZONING DESIGNATIONS IN PROXIMITY TO THE SUBJECT PROPERTY WHICH ACCOMMODATE MEDIUM TO HIGH COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL INTENSITY.
ADDITIONALLY, THE REQUEST ALIGNS WITH THE GOALS OF THE STRATEGIC HOUSING IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, WHICH ENCOURAGES THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSING TO ACCOMMODATE THE CITY'S GROWING POPULATION.
THE APPLICANT IS HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE GOING TO AMEND THE REQUEST.
UH, THIS IS A E R Z D CASE, SO IF WE COULD HAVE SAWS.
I'M LOOKING ON THE WRONG SIDE.
MIKE ESCALANTE WITH SAWS AQUIFER PROTECTION AND EVALUATION SECTION.
UH, WE REVIEWED THE ZONING APPLICATION FOR A TOWNHOME
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DEVELOPMENT LOCATED NEAR THE VANCE JACKSON ROAD.THE SITE IS APPROXIMATELY SIX ACRES, HOWEVER, A PORTION OF THE SITE, UH, 5.67 ACRES, LIES IN THE RECHARGE ZONE WITH THE REMAINING 0.3, UH, 0.33 ACRES IN THE TRANSITION ZONE.
NO PORTION OF THE SITE IS IN THE FLOODPLAIN AND NO SENSITIVE FEATURES WERE OBSERVED ON SITE, UH, NOR NOTED ON FILE.
SO RECOMMENDS, UH, APPROVAL WITH ALL THE ENVIRONMENTAL RECOMMENDATIONS WITHIN THE REPORT TO INCLUDE 50% PURVIS COVER FOR THE 5.67 ACRE PORTION OF THE SITE IN THE RECHARGE ZONE.
IF WE COULD HAVE THE APPLICANT PLEASE.
PATRICK CHRISTENSEN, THREE 10 SOUTH ST.
I GUESS I HAVE TO ASK YOU TO FORWARD IT.
ALL OF YOU HEARD MY PRESENTATION THE LAST TIME.
I BELIEVE ALL OF YOU WERE HERE.
I'LL, I'LL JUST KIND OF HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES AND JUST REMIND YOU OF A COUPLE OF THINGS.
I MEAN, THIS IS THE PROPERTY HERE OUTLINED IN RED.
IT'S BASICALLY COMPLETELY UNDEVELOPED AND HAS BEEN THAT WAY FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS.
UM, AS PART OF THE ONGOING NEGOTIATIONS, I'LL BE FORMALLY AMENDING THE REQUEST DOWN FROM MF 25 TO MF 18 FOR 18 UNITS PER ACRE.
SO AS YOU RECALL LAST TIME, WE WERE KIND OF ASKING TO DO SORT OF A SENIOR, UM, INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITY WITH THE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AT THREE STORIES.
NOW WE'RE JUST GOING FOR A PURE TOWN HOME STYLE DEVELOPMENT.
SO THIS IS KIND OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
THE SITE PLAN WILL CHANGE SOME 'CAUSE WE, WE'VE NOT DONE A, A, UH, TOPO SURVEY.
YOU KNOW, THE TENSION POND ALWAYS HAS TO GO WITH THE LOWEST POINT, THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT BASICALLY THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.
WE'VE REDUCED OUR REQUEST MF 18 AS PART OF THAT WE'RE DROPPING THE PLAN AMENDMENT.
SO WE'RE CONSISTENT WITH THE PLAN AS ADOPTED.
AND I WOULD RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR SUPPORT AND HAPPY TO AN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
DO WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT.
THERE WAS NO SIGN SHEET OUTSIDE.
THERE WASN'T A SIGNUP SHEET THERE, THERE WERE, BUT, UM, IF YOU WOULD LIKE, THEY OBVIOUSLY THEY CAME AFTER THE MEETING STARTED, SO YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
WE CAN, WE CAN HEAR THE COMMENT.
SO YEAH, IF YOU, IF YOU WOULD COME TO THE PODIUM AND, UM, GIVE YOUR NAME ADDRESS.
UH, ME AND MY WIFE HAVE BEEN IN RESIDENTS AT 1 2 3 0 7 PEBBLE FOR 40 YEARS.
WE'RE IN OPPOSITION TO THIS DEVELOPMENT AND I'D LIKE TO REITERATE, UH, WHAT I SAID LAST MEETING.
ALL THE DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS HAPPENED, COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT'S HAPPENED AROUND US, UH, BETWEEN US AND EBNER AND BETWEEN US AND HONEYCOMB AND BETWEEN US AND THE RAILROAD TRACKS.
UH, ALL THE DEVELOPERS, THE ENGINEERS, THE CONTRACTORS AND THE OWNERS HAVE LIED TO US.
THEY'VE LIED TO US ABOUT IMPERVIOUS COVER.
THEY'VE LIED TO US ABOUT PRIVACY FENCING AS A PARTITION BETWEEN COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL.
THEY'VE LIED TO US ABOUT ENTRANCES BEING ONLY ON EBNER ROAD.
SO IF THIS DEVELOPMENT GOES THROUGH, UH, WE DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING THEY'RE GONNA TELL US.
IF THEY TELL US THEY'RE GONNA PUT A PRIVACY FENCE UP, WE DON'T BELIEVE THEM.
IF THEY TELL US THEY'RE GOING TO PUT SIDEWALKS UP SO THE RESIDENCES CAN BE SAFE, CAN WALK SAFELY IN THE EVENING OR IN THE MORNING DOWN MOONLIGHT WAY, I DON'T BELIEVE THEM.
UM, THAT'S, THERE'S BEEN A PRECEDENT TO ALL THAT.
NOW, UH, I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT ONE THING.
UM, THE APARTMENTS BEHIND US HAVE BEEN, WERE BUILT IN 2008.
UH, THAT GATE AT THE END OF MOONLIGHT WAY IS EXIT ONLY.
UM, BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE OVER THE LAST 14, 15 YEARS, UH, THE RESIDENTS OF THESE DEPARTMENTS TREAT MOONLIGHT WAY LIKE AN ENTRANCE RAMP ONTO THE EXPRESSWAY.
WE'VE SEEN IT DAY AFTER DAY, PARTICULARLY ON THE WEEKEND, UH, EVENINGS AND AT NIGHT.
UM, THEN THEY HAVE STOP AT HENER ROAD.
SO FOR THE SAFETY OF THESE SENIORS THAT ARE GONNA BE LIVING HERE, UH, THIS IS GONNA BE AN ISSUE BECAUSE NUMBER ONE, UH, THE STREET, UNLESS THEY WIDEN IT IS TOO NARROW FOR, UH, MORE THAN TWO LANES.
AND I SORRY, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S, CAN I HAVE A LITTLE EXTRA? DID YOUR, THERE'S ONLY TWO OF US.
THERE'S NO LIGHTS IN BETWEEN MOONLIGHT, I MEAN, UH, PETITE AND PEBBLE AND THE 30 MILE AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT SIGN, UH, THAT IS, CAN BE PLAINLY SEEN LEAVING THAT APARTMENT HAS
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BEEN RUN DOWN.WAS THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? OH, HI, MY NAME IS PAM RECH.
AND AGAIN, 1 2 3 0 7 PEBBLE STREET.
UM, AT, AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE, I, IS IT STILL GOING TO BE SENIOR LIVING? OKAY, NOW IT'S GOING BACK TO APARTMENTS.
SO IT'S, THIS IS THE FOURTH CHANGE.
SO THIS IS WHY WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF FAITH IN, IN WHAT THESE CONTRA UH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE BUILDERS ARE DOING.
UM, SO NOW IT'S GOING BACK AND THEY'RE NOT DOING THE THREE STORY.
SO IT'S, IT'S JUST GOING TO BE REGULAR TWO STORY.
UM, I MEAN, IT'S, IT IS JUST, EVERYTHING'S ALWAYS CHANGING.
EVERY TIME WE'VE COME DOWN HERE, IT'S BEEN SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
THEY, YOU KNOW, WE JUST CAN'T RELY ON THE ZONING OR THE PLANNING COMMISSIONER OR ANYBODY ELSE THAT MAKES THESE DECLARATIONS.
THEY'VE NEVER FOLLOWED THROUGH ON ANY OF THE COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT IN FRONT OF US.
UM, AGAIN, LIKE HE HAD SAID, IT WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE EBNER EXIT ONLY.
AND EBNER ROAD CANNOT TAKE THE CONGESTION IF THEY, HOW MANY APARTMENT, HOW MANY PLACES ARE YOU PLANNING ON? I, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY UNITS.
I'M GONNA ASSUME SAY CLOSE TO 200.
I'M, I'M ASSUMING SO THAT'S GONNA BE A WHOLE BUNCH MORE CARS AND IT, WITH THOSE TWO EXITS, THERE'S NO WAY HEMAN ROAD'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE THAT AS IT IS.
IT'S BLOCKED UP FROM VANCE JACKSON.
'CAUSE WE'RE RIGHT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, 300, 400 YARDS FROM VANCE JACKSON OUT OF, OFF OF HE OR SO THE, THE CONGESTION'S GONNA BE HORRENDOUS, MUCH LESS, YOU KNOW, WHAT IT ALREADY IS.
AND PLUS I LIKE THE WILDLIFE, I HAVE TO SAY.
AND I DON'T, I'D, I'D HATE TO SEE 'EM DESECRATE ALL THAT PROPERTY AND THEN DO NOTHING WITH IT OR HAVE IT SET THERE VACANT, WHICH WE'VE SEEN SEVERAL PLACES AROUND US LIKE THAT.
I WAS GONNA SAY IT'S NOT SENIOR LIVING ANYMORE, SO THAT CHANGES.
UH, MR. CHRISTENSEN, DID YOU WANNA REBUTTAL TIME? AND I JUST WANNA NOTE, COMMISSIONER NICKS CAME TO THE MEETING AT 1:28 PM THANK YOU.
JUST REAL QUICK, COMMISSIONERS.
UM, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T VOUCH FOR WHAT PEOPLE HAVE DONE IN THE PAST.
YOU KNOW, LIKE I I SAID THE PROPERTY ORIGINALLY WAS ORIGINALLY PLOTTED IN THE 1950S.
IT'S ALMOST CLOSE, CLOSER TO 70.
BUT I PROMISE YOU THE CITY TODAY IS MUCH MORE STRICT THAN THEY WERE IN THE PAST.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO REPL THE PROPERTY.
WE'RE CLOSING A STREET, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO BRING IN WATER AND SEWER LINES.
WE WILL HAVE TO PUT IN SIDEWALKS, WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE STREET IMPROVEMENTS WHERE WE'RE ACCESSING THE STREET.
THE CITY'S GONNA ACQUIRE ALL THOSE THINGS.
PLUS PROBABLY SOME ROADWAY DEDICATION SO THEY CAN WIDE WIDEN SOME OF THESE STREETS WHEN WE GO INTO REPLY IT.
SO, LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE AMENDED THE CASE TO ONLY REQUEST 18 UNITS, AND I WOULD RES RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR SUPPORT.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE.
THIS IS A DISTRICT EIGHT CASE, SO COMMISSIONER ORTIZ TO YOU FOR QUESTIONS.
ACTUALLY, I HAVE A ONE COUPLE QUESTIONS.
MR. APPLICANT, JUST FOR MR. PATRICK, JUST SO KIND OF REFRESH PEOPLE'S MEMORY.
ON THE NEW DEVELOPMENT FOR THE TOWN HOMES, IT'S GONNA BE TWO STORIES, CORRECT? I THINK YOU HAVE YES.
SO THERE WON'T BE NO SENIOR LIVING.
AND THEN ALSO THE NEXT, WE'RE NOT PROHIBITING SENIORS, WE'RE JUST SAYING IT'S NOT GONNA BE
BUT THE AMOUNT OF UNITS IT'S GONNA BE, NOW IT'S REDUCING ITSELF TO TOTAL OF 90 UNITS.
SO IT'S GOING FROM THE MAX CAPACITY OF 200 NOW TO NOW 90, YOU ONLY NEED IT.
AND THEN, UM, AS FAR, UH, LET'S SEE.
AND THEN THE ENTRANCE AND EVERYTHING IS STILL GONNA BE THE PROPOSALS THROUGH PETITE AVENUE.
PEBBLE LANE, P P, THAT'S WHAT THIS SITE PLAN SHOWS.
WE'VE ALSO EXPLORED MAYBE GOING TO PETITE AND MOONLIGHT ON, ON THE OTHER SIDE.
WE'RE STILL KINDA EXPLORING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
AND WHEN WE GO INTO THE CITY FOR A PRE-DEVELOPMENT MEETING, WE'LL PROBABLY LISTEN TO WHAT THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERS TELL US AS TO WHAT WE HAVE TO DO.
I HAVE NO QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT.
ACTUALLY, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR CITY STAFF.
UM, REGARDING, LET'S SEE, WHAT DID I HAVE HERE? THE QUESTIONS FOR STAFF IS REGARDING THE STREET CLOSURE OF THE STREET, DO WE KNOW IF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT HAS REVIEWED THE CLOSURE OF THE STREET YET? NO, SIR.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS.
UH, ONCE THE PLATTING, UM, PROCESSES BEGIN, THEY'LL START LOOKING AT STREETS, STREETLIGHTS, SIDEWALKS, ALL OF THAT, AND ANY POTENTIAL STREET CLOSURE REQUESTS.
SO THEN ALL THOSE STEPS AS FAR AS LIKE THE, I THINK MR. ALBRIGHT WAS REQUEST ASKING ABOUT THE STOP SIGNS AND SO FORTH, ALL THAT WOULD BE TAKING ITS COURSE AS THEY PROCEED THROUGH THE PROCESS, WE CAN RIGHT.
WE CAN CERTAINLY LET THE, UH, THE TEAMS THAT ARE REVIEWING THAT KNOW THAT THOSE ARE OF SPECIAL CONCERN AS FAR AS STREET UH, POTENTIAL STREET CLOSURES AND STOP SIGNS.
UM, I HAVE, OH YES, I WAS JUST GONNA, WE SUBMITTED THE APPLICATION.
BASICALLY, THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT DOES A CANVASSING OF ALL THE CITY DEPARTMENTS TRAFFIC, C P S SAWS FOR, FOR THE WATER SEWER LINES.
AND THEN ONCE THAT GETS DONE, THEN WE HAVE TO GO OUT FOR AN APPRAISAL, THEN WE HAVE TO GO TO COUNCIL FOR FINAL APPROVAL AND THEY PASS AN ORDINANCE RELINQUISHING THAT STREET TO THE CITY.
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WE'RE STILL IN KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT.I'M, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD ACTUALLY, IF YOU WANNA COME UP MR. O'BRIEN, THAT'S FINE.
I'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE ANY QUESTION YOU HAVE.
UM, SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BECAUSE OF THAT TRAFFIC LEAVING THE APARTMENTS, WE, UH, PETITIONED TO GET SOME SPEED BUMPS PUT IN.
AND WE GOT THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES BASED ON THE NUMBER OF HOUSES OUT THERE.
HOWEVER, MOONLIGHT WAY BETWEEN HENER ROAD AND THE ENTRANCE TO THE APARTMENTS WAS LESS THAN A QUARTER OF A MILE.
AND IF YOU COULD CONSIDER A VARIANCE TO THAT, GET SPEED BUMPS PUT IN, THAT WOULD BE, UH, MITIGATE A LOT OF THESE, UH, PEOPLE, PEOPLE FLYING DOWN THE ROAD.
UM, CHAIR, I HAVE NO MORE QUESTIONS.
I'M GONNA HAND IT OVER TO SOME OF, UH, COMMISSIONERS IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
FELLOW COMMISSIONERS ON MY LEFT? NONE.
COMMISSIONER BUSTAMANTE QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT.
UM, I, I ACTUALLY DID HAVE A QUESTION FOR, FOR STAFF.
UM, WE WERE GOING, OR THE, THE APPLICANT WAS AMENDING TO MF 18 FROM MF 25.
AND HOW MANY, HOW MANY UNITS WOULD MF 25 HAVE ALLOWED VERSUS MF 18? SO MF 25 ALLOWS 171.
AND THE AMENDED REQUEST ALLOWS UP TO 123.
UM, I THINK THAT'S ALL, THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAD.
UM, BACK TO YOU COMMISSIONER ORTIZ FOR A MOTION.
LIKE I SAID EARLIER, THIS KIND OF A TOUGH, UH, APPLICATION, BUT I'M GONNA GO AHEAD.
UM, THANK OF COURSE PATRICK FOR HIS PRESENTATION ALSO MR. MS. ALBRIGHT FOR COMING IN FOR VOICING THEIR OPINION.
UM, BUT WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND BE SUPPORTING THE CHANGE TO, UH, FROM R SIX TO THE AMENDMENT PLAN OF MF 18.
THERE IS A MOTION FOR APPROVAL AS AMENDED TO MF 18 BY COMMISSIONER ORTIZ, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER ABBADO.
UH, DISCUSSION COMMISSIONER'S ON MY LEFT.
ACTUALLY, I DO, I JUST WANT TO HOPE THAT THE QUESTIONS THAT MR. MS. O'BRIEN BROUGHT UP TODAY, I WILL KIND OF HAND IT OVER TO CITY COUNCIL.
THEY CAN HEAR THAT YOUR VOICE IS BEING EXPRESSED AND NOT BEING HEARD.
AND ALSO I'D LIKE TO THANK THE APPLICANT FOR ALSO WORKING WITH US TO CHANGE IT FROM AN MF 25 TO AN MF 18 TO KIND OF WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UH, COMMISSIONER NICKS WELL, I GOT HERE LATE, I APOLOGIZE.
AND, BUT I DO RECALL THE CONVERSATIONS FROM OUR LAST MEETING ON THIS ONE.
AND PATRICK, I DO APPRECIATE THE, THE ADJUSTMENT.
I'M GONNA GO ALONG WITH THE, UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, FOR THIS PARTICULAR REACH, OUR MOTION.
COMMENTS, COMMISSIONER'S ON MY RIGHT? NONE.
UH, COMMISSIONER BUSTAMONTE? YES.
YEAH, JUST BRIEFLY, UM, TO SORT OF STRESS WHAT COMMISSIONER ORTIZ SAID, UNFORTUNATELY, WE CAN'T SORT OF REQUIRE SPEED BUMPS AS A CONDITION OF THIS APPROVAL, BUT I DO HOPE THAT STAFF FROM THE DISTRICT AID OFFICE ARE HEARING THAT CONCERN, ARE HEARING THE PETITION WAS SUBMITTED AND WILL FOLLOW THROUGH ON THAT.
IF WE COULD HAVE A ROLL CALL, VOTE PLEASE.
IF WE COULD NOW PROCEED ONTO ITEM NUMBER THREE, IF WE COULD HAVE STAFF'S REPORT, PLEASE.
UH, MY NAME IS FOREST WILSON, PRINCIPAL PLANNER WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
THIS IS ITEM NUMBER THREE, CASE Z 2022.
UM, THIS IS THE PROSPECT HILL LARGE AREA REZONING CASE.
UH, SO GOING BACK, CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A RESOLUTION ON JUNE 16TH, 2022, DIRECTING DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO INITIATE A LARGE AREA REZONING TO APPROPRIATE ZONING DISTRICTS FOR PROPERTY.
GENERALLY LOCATED WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PROSPECT HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, GENERALLY BOUND BY NORTH GENERAL MCMULLIN STREET, KBRA ROAD, WEST MARTIN STREET, WEST COMMERCE STREET, SOUTHWEST 24TH STREET, SOUTHWEST 26TH STREET, CASTROVILLE ROAD, GUADALUPE STREET, SOUTH ZAMORA, AND NORTH
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KAMAL STREET.SO THAT'S THE, THE BOUNDARIES FOR THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION THERE.
UM, CURRENT ZONING OF THE PROPERTIES IN THE AREA IS A MIXTURE OF MF 33, MULTIFAMILY C THREE, GENERAL COMMERCIAL C TWO COMMERCIAL I ONE GENERAL INDUSTRIAL R SIX, R FIVE, AND R FOUR RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICTS.
UM, THE GOAL IS TO ALIGN THE ALIGN ZONING WITH THE CURRENT USE OF PROPERTIES IN THE AREA CONSISTENT WITH THE SURROUNDING, UH, LAND USE OR DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
AND MANY PROPERTIES ARE ZONED MF 33, UH, ARE IN FACT SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND OTHERS ARE ZONED INDUSTRIAL THAT ARE IN FACT COMMERCIAL.
AND, AND THE PROPERTY, THE PROPOSED CHANGES ARE MEANT TO REFLECT THE REALITY OF WHAT'S EXISTING IN THE AREA TODAY TO ENSURE THE CONFORMANCE WITH THE CITY'S ZONING REGULATIONS.
SO THIS IS THE CURRENT ZONING MAP YOU CAN SEE HERE.
AND I THINK THE NEXT SLIDE IS WHAT WE ARE PROPOSED.
UM, A LOT OF THAT MULTI-FAMILY THERE IN THE YELLOW, UH, IS WHAT WE'RE, UH, KIND OF AT THE INTERSECTION OF COMMERCE AND ZZI MORE IS WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO CHANGE.
UM, SO STAFF HELD TWO COMMUNITY MEETINGS AT THE GUADALUPE GUADALUPE LATINO BOOKSTORE TO GATHER FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY AND TO INFORM THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE PROPOSED CHANGES.
ADDITIONAL MEETINGS WERE HELD WITH THE PROSPECT HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS TO FURTHER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.
UM, 5,682 NOTICES WERE MAILED.
TWO OPPOSE, UH, ONE WAS OPPOSED OUTSIDE 200 FEET.
THE PROSPECT HILL, GARDENDALE AND WEST END HOPE AND ACTION NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS ARE ALL IN SUPPORT AND STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.
AND JUST IF GO BACK TO THAT ONE SIDE, I'LL JUST QUICKLY RUN THROUGH SOME OF THE NUMBERS.
UH, WE, OF THOSE WE HAVE 2,639 REZONING.
RECOMMENDATIONS 1,519 ARE PROPOSED TO CHANGE FROM MULTI-FAMILY TO SINGLE FAMILY.
616 FROM RESIDENTIAL TO RESIDENTIAL BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE LOTS.
SO FROM R FOUR TO R TWO PERHAPS.
UM, AND THE 4 24 COMMERCIAL TO ANOTHER COMMERCIAL OR RESIDENTIAL 73 FROM INDUSTRIAL TO COMMERCIAL OR RESIDENTIAL.
AND THEN 27 CONDITIONAL USES ARE RECOMMENDED AND STAFF IS AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
DO WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? WE DO.
WE HAVE, UM, THREE VOICEMAILS AND THEN WE HAVE FOLKS HERE TO SPEAK.
UM, VO WE WILL DO VOICEMAILS FIRST.
THE ADDRESS IS TWO SEVEN ONE EIGHT
MY TELEPHONE NUMBER IS (210) 216-3241.
I'M CALLING ABOUT THE AREA WIDE REZONING.
AND I AM VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF THE PROPOSED REZONING.
UM, WE HAVE BEEN HOPING FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIME.
WE'VE ALREADY, UH, SUFFERED THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHATEVER ERROR WAS MADE WHEN SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, UM, AND THE AREAS THAT THE COMMUNITY REPEATEDLY SAID, UH, SHOULD REMAIN SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WERE PERMITTED TO DEVELOP A LARGE APARTMENT BUILDINGS BECAUSE OF THIS, UH, SO-CALLED ERROR IN THE ZONING, UM, BY ZONING US ALL.
SO I'M VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF THAT.
AND I ALSO RESPECTFULLY WOULD ASK THAT, UM, PEOPLE, EVERYONE BE REQUIRED TO CONFORM THEIR ZONING TO THE ACTUAL CONDITION THAT IS THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
UM, THERE ARE A LOT OF, UH, INVESTORS WHO HAVE BEEN BUYING PROPERTIES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND UNDER THE CURRENT, UH, MF 13, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO BUILD APARTMENT BUILDINGS DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE NEIGHBORS ARE NOT GIVEN NOTICE OR THE REGULAR OPPORTUNITY.
IF SUCH OWNERS WANT TO HAVE A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM SINGLE FAMILY TO MULTI-FAMILY, THEN THEY CAN GO THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS THAT EVERYBODY ELSE DOES.
SO THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERING THIS PROPOSAL TO CORRECT THE CITY'S ERROR AND, UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO, TO ITS PROMPT PASSAGE.
HI, MY NAME IS LETICIA SANCHEZ AND I'M THE CO-CHAIR PERSON OF THE HISTORIC WESTSIDE RESIDENCE ASSOCIATION.
MY ADDRESS IS 1710
AND MY PHONE NUMBER IS (210) 363-5895.
I'M CALLING REGARDING ZONING CASE NUMBER 1 0 7 0 0 3 2 8.
UM, I'M CALLING ON BEHALF OF THE HISTORIC WESTSIDE RESIDENCE ASSOCIATION IN SUPPORT OF THE LARGE AREA REZONING, WHICH INCLUDES MEMBERS OF, UM, WHICH INCLUDES PROPERTIES IN WHICH
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OUR MEMBERS LIVE, UH, WITHIN OUR BOUNDARIES.OUR ASSOCIATION MET, UH, WITH FORMER COUNCILWOMAN SHIRLEY GONZALEZ'S STAFF IN 2020 TO REQUEST A C C R FOR THE LARGE AREA OF REZONING TO CORRECT THE ZONING OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, UM, THAT ARE CURRENTLY ZONED AS MF 33.
THE MAJORITY OF OUR MEMBERS ARE PROPERTY OWNERS WHOSE HOMES HAVE BEEN PASSED DOWN TO FAMILY MEMBERS FOR GENERATIONS, AND THEY WANT THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD TO REMAIN SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL.
SO WE ASK THAT YOU TAKE OUR RESIDENCE REQUESTS, UM, INTO CONSIDERATION AND SUPPORT THIS LARGE AREA OF REZONING.
HI, MY NAME IS MARK RODRIGUEZ.
THE CASE NUMBER I'M CALLING ABOUT IS Z 2 0 2 2 1 0 7 0 0 3 2 8.
AND I HAVE A COUPLE OF PROPERTIES IN THAT AREA.
I OWN 35 26 WEST COMMERCE AT SOUTHWEST 20TH STREET, WHICH IS ZONE COMMERCIAL AS OF NOW.
I ALSO HAVE 1 0 4 SOUTHWEST 20TH STREET.
UH, IT'S A SMALL HOUSE, WHICH IS ZONED COMMERCIAL AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT ONE MAY CHANGE TO RESIDENTIAL.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KEEP THAT AS COMMERCIAL AS I HAVE PLANS FOR THE TWO PROPERTIES TO BECOME A, UH, BUSINESS, UH, IN THE HERE NEAR FUTURE.
ONCE AGAIN, MY NAME IS MARK RODRIGUEZ.
I CAN BE REACHED AT 2 1 0 3 8 3 8 7 1 4.
AND, UH, I, UH, AM TRYING TO EXPRESS MY REGARDS OF KEEPING MY PROPERTIES, UH, COMMERCIALLY ZONED.
AND THEN, UM, FOR ITEM NUMBER THREE, OUR FIRST SPEAKER, WE HAVE SIGNED UP MS. EMMA GARZA TO BE FOLLOWED BY MR. MARTIN GARZA.
MY NAME IS EMMA GARZA AND I'M, UM, MY PARENTS BUILT, UM, A BUSINESS, A GARAGE AND AUTO PARTS BACK IN THE FORTIES RIGHT AFTER THE WAR ON BETA STREET.
IT'S NOT AN AUTO PARTS OR GARAGE, IT'S ALL USED AS STORAGE.
WE, WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO SELL THE PROPERTY FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT, THAT IT IS, THAT IT'S A RESIDENTIAL, IT'S ALL RESIDENTIAL IN THE AREA.
AND THERE'S THIS ONE, UH, SMALL COMMERCIAL ACROSS THE STREET WAS A LITTLE, UH, MOM AND POP STORE DOWN, UM, ALMOST NEXT TO IT, CHRIST THE KING CHURCH.
AND THEIR BIG PARKING LOT IN SCHOOL ON DOWN WAS AN OLD I G A MID GROCERY STORE.
THEN IN THE LATE FIFTIES, EARLY SIXTIES, UM, MARTIN STREET WAS WIDENED AND ALL THE BUS ROUTE MOVED FROM PETTIS TO MARTIN.
EVERYTHING WENT TO MARTIN STREET.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE LEFT WITH A PROPERTY THAT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, KIND OF THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE IN THIS AREA IS GOING THROUGH.
WE'RE LEFT WITH A, WITH A SMALL BUSINESS PROPERTY IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL RESIDENTIAL HOMES.
EVEN THE MOM AND POP STORE HA HAS BECOME A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.
AND SO I I, MY CONCERN IS THAT I'M HERE, HOW CAN I SAY YAY OR NAY WHEN, FOR OUR INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S BEING MOVED TO, WHAT, WHAT IS GOING TO THE ZONING THAT THE CITY HAS IN MIND.
SO NOT UNTIL WE KNOW THAT CAN WE PROCEED AND SAY, YOU KNOW, GO FOR OR AGAINST.
AND COULD WE HAVE YOUR ADDRESS AGAIN THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT PROPERTY? 25 34 PETTI.
UH, MR. CHAIR, JUST TO CHIME IN HERE, UH, WE ARE PROPOSING NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL FOR THAT PROPERTY.
DID YOU, SO THERE THE, RIGHT NOW THE CITY IS PROPOSING NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL FOR THAT.
UM, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT PARTICULAR, YOU KNOW, WHERE DOES IT ACTUALLY FALL? UM, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA KNOW TAX WISE AND, AND ONCE WE SELL IT, UM, YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU KNOW, IS IT A SMALL COMMERCIAL? IS IT LARGE? YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT WILL THAT, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT WILL THAT SPECIFIC ZONING BE FAIR? WE CAN, UH, I'D BE HAPPY TO GO OVER WHAT UH, USES ARE ALLOWED UNDER NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL AND HOW THAT MAY IMPACT YOU OUTSIDE IF YOU'D LIKE.
AFTER, AFTER WE HEAR THIS CASE.
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NEXT IS, UM, MR. MARTIN, UM, GARZA FOLLOWED TO BE FOLLOWED BY MS. ELOISE MORAN, MY NAME, AND I'D LIKE TO JUST DEFER WHAT I WAS GONNA PRESENT SINCE MY SISTER HAS, UH, PRESENTED JUST ABOUT EVERY CONCERN THAT I HAD.THANK YOU MS. ELOISE MORAN, UH, TO BE FOLLOWED BY MS. VIVIAN GONZALEZ.
MY NAME'S ELOISE MORAN AND I RECITED 26 54 LO BRANO STREET.
AND THERE'S ONE, UM, I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS.
I REALLY, I'M NOT REALLY A POSTER AGAINST, BUT I HAVE A QUESTION.
UM, THERE'S A PARTICULAR RESIDENCE, 27 47 LONO THAT IS MOVING FROM R SIX TO R THREE, WHICH ACCORDING TO WHAT I RESEARCHED, INDICATES THAT IT'S FOR, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR HOW IS THAT DETERMINED? HOW DO WE DETERMINE THE ZONING FROM R SIX TO R THREE? I MEAN, AND MOSTLY THERE'S ELDERLY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, SO MORE OR LESS I'M THE PERSON THEY SELECTED TO COME AND ASK QUESTIONS AND THEY'RE AFRAID THAT THEY MIGHT BE WANTING TO REZONE TO MOVE PEOPLE OUT OF THE AREA BECAUSE WE'RE ALL GETTING UP IN AGE.
AND WE CAN HAVE, UH, STAFF, BASICALLY, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS IT WAS MOVING FROM R SIX TO R THREE BECAUSE OF THE ACTUAL CURRENT LOT SIZE.
WILL THEY BE NOTIFIED? I MEAN, I TRIED TO APPROACH THEM AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW BECAUSE WE GET LETTERS AND THE, UH, REAL OWNERS PASSED AWAY.
SO WHAT HAPPENS, UH, IF THEY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE, IT'S JUST THE GRANDKIDS THAT LIVE THERE NOW? YES.
AND, AND, AND, AND PROBABLY, UH, NOTICE WAS SENT OR WELL NOTICE WAS SENT, I'M NOT SURE WHERE EXACTLY, BUT NOTICE WAS SENT AND, AND, AND USUALLY WHEN THE CITY IS, IS, UH, REZONING R R TO R AND IT GOES FROM R SIX TO R THREE, UM, R SIX, IT MEANS IT'S A A LOT.
THAT'S 6,000 SQUARE FOOT, RIGHT? SINGLE FAMILY.
R THREE IS THREE 3000 SQUARE FOOT SINGLE FAMILY.
SO PROBABLY THE LOT WASN'T R SIX SIZE MR. CHAIR.
I CAN CONFIRM THAT THE LOT WAS 33 25 SQUARE FEET.
AND SO IF THEY, IF, IF THE OWNERS EVER WANTED TO, TO ADD ON OR DO SOMETHING, IT, THEY WOULD HAVE TO COME BEFORE THE CITY BECAUSE IT'S NOT CURRENTLY ZONED FOR WHAT THE ACTUAL SIZE IS.
AND SO USUALLY WITH THE THE LARGE AREA REZONING, IT'S ALMOST RIGHT SIZING.
IT'S LIKE, OKAY, WELL WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE ON THE GROUND? AND, AND, AND TRY TO MAKE THE ZONING MATCH WHAT'S ACTUALLY THERE NOW.
BUT SORRY, I'M GOING INTO DISCUSSION AND STUFF BEFOREHAND, BUT WE COULD HAVE THE NEXT, NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
MS UH, VIVIAN GONZALEZ, PLEASE.
HI, MY NAME IS VIVIAN GONZALEZ AND THE ADDRESS THAT I AM TALK, GONNA TALK ABOUT IS 29 0 5 BUENA VISTA.
I AM THE THIRD GENERATION THAT OWNS THAT HOUSE.
UM, IF, ARE YOU ZONING, ARE YOU GONNA BE ZONING TO TEAR DOWN TO PUT BUILDINGS OR APARTMENTS OR, I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT Y'ALL ARE, WHAT'S YOU'RE FOR AND YOU'RE AGAINST, I DON'T UN UNDERSTAND MA'AM, IF YOU COULD JUST POSE YOUR QUESTIONS AND THEN WE WILL EXPLAIN WHAT, WHAT THE REZONING IS.
IS THAT YOUR ONLY QUESTION? THAT'S MY QUESTION.
SO BASICALLY WHAT A LARGE AREA REZONING IS, IS THE CITY COMES IN AND LOOKS AT WHAT IS ACTUALLY ON THE GROUND THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND THEY SAY, OH LOOK, THIS PROPERTY MAY BE, LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S SAY YOUR PROPERTY WAS ZONED COMMERCIAL.
WELL, THAT'S ACTUALLY NOT WHAT THE PROPERTY IS, RIGHT? 'CAUSE YOU'VE MENTIONED THAT YOU'VE LIVED THERE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
AND SO WHAT THE CITY SAYS IS, OKAY, LET'S MAKE THAT RIGHT.
LET'S TAKE AWAY THE COMMERCIAL AND MAKE IT WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY USED FOR, WHICH IS RESIDENTIAL.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THIS AREA.
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THERE WERE A LOT OF PROPERTIES THAT MAY MAYBE WERE COMMERCIAL, MISALIGNED WITH THE ZONING OR THAT WERE, UH, MULTIFAMILY, THAT WERE MISALIGNED WITH THE ZONING.SO NOW WE'RE JUST ALIGNING IT.
THERE'S NOTHING GONNA CHANGE ABOUT YOUR PROPERTY OTHER THAN THE ZONING DESIGNATION.
UM, ANY IMPROVEMENTS TO YOUR PROPERTY, THAT'S FOR YOU TO DECIDE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU'D LIKE WITH YOUR PROPERTY, BUT THE CITY'S JUST TRYING TO MAKE THE ZONING CORRECT FOR YOU.
BECAUSE, WELL, I'M GLAD, I'M GLAD ABOUT THAT.
BUT I HAD HEARD THAT IT WAS GONNA BE LIKE, UM, HISTORICAL AREA AND THAT WE WERE GONNA HAVE TO FOLLOW RULES IF WE WERE GOING TO, UH, PAINT OR, UM, REPAIR THE ORIGINAL, UH, UH, SETTING OF THE HOUSE.
SO IS THAT STILL THAT'S, UH, CORRECT MA'AM.
THIS IS NOT, UH, THEY'RE NOT PUTTING A HISTORICAL OVERLAY ON THIS AREA.
NEXT, AND THAT'S IT FOR SPEAKERS.
I WAS, OH, I WAS HERE ON TIME, BUT I WAS SITTING OUTSIDE WHEN Y'ALL TOOK IN THE SIDE MACHINE.
UH, HELLO, I'M LEONARD RODRIGUEZ.
UM, OUR FAMILY OWNS 33 11, UH, SAUNDERS STREET.
UH, AND I BELIEVE IT'S GONNA BE REZONED NOW AS PART OF THIS, UH, TO A R SIX.
UH, WE PURCHASED THE PROPERTY AS AN MF 33.
UH, IT'S RIGHT THERE BY THE UNIVERSITY.
UM, IT'S A SMALL PROPERTY, SO YOU CAN NEVER PUT 20 APARTMENTS, PROBABLY NO MORE THAN THREE OR FOUR.
UH, THAT WAS THE, THE PLAN, UH, WITH THIS ZONING CHANGE, UH, THAT CHANGES, UM, OUR PLAN.
AND I'M RESPECTFULLY ASKING THAT YOU GRANDFATHER THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY, UH, AND KEEP IT AS AN MF.
UH, I AM VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE OVERLAY.
I'M THE FORMER C E O AND PRESIDENT FOR THE WEST SIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WITH THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
SO IS A VERY DEAR PROJECT TO ME, UM, AND AGREE WITH ALL COMPONENTS OF IT.
BUT I DO THINK, UH, THAT STAFF MAYBE COULD HAVE LOOKED A LITTLE BIT CLOSER AT THE UNIVERSITY SETTING, UH, IN SOME OF THOSE PROPERTIES THAT ARE MF 33 BECAUSE, UH, WELL IT'S A UNIVERSITY AREA.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, UH, THAT'S, UH, MY ONLY REQUEST IS IF THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY CAN BE GRANDFATHERED AND REMAIN A MF 33.
AND THAT WAS 33 11 SAUNDERS? YES.
AND IS THAT IT FOR SUSAN'S? WISHING TO SPEAK? YES.
HOW YOU DOING? I'M RUSSELL FELLON.
I'M, I'M THE NEW PRESIDENT FOR PROSPECT KILL ASSOCIATION.
AND WHEN FOR CALLED ME IN FEBRUARY ABOUT WHAT WE WERE GONNA DO.
IT WAS KIND OF LIKE THE FIRST ITEM OF THE YEAR FOR ME TO START WITH.
AND, UH, WE THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE A DIFFICULT THING.
LUCKILY WE, WE GOT THROUGH IT AND SAID, LOOK, LET'S, LET'S START OFF WITH ABOUT 2000 OF 'EM.
WE HAD, LUCKILY THE GUADALUPE DONATED, UH, THE USE OF ONE OF THEIR BUILDINGS BECAUSE I'M A FORMER BOARD MEMBER AND WE GOT ALBERT ESTE INVOLVED, UH, FOR THE FACT OF THE LAND, JUST TO LET THEM KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING.
THAT BASICALLY A LOT OF LAND WAS BASICALLY ZONED WRONG.
IF YOU HAVE A SINGLE FAMILY HOME WHERE IT'S FOUR OR FIVE OR SIX, AND THEN ALL WE'RE DOING IS JUST ADJUSTING IT TO MAKE IT ALL SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE IF YOU LIVE IN A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE.
SO OUR FIRST MEETING GOT DONE AND A LOT OF PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD, THEY DIDN'T KNOW THEY WAS LIVING IN A MULTI-FAMILY LOT.
SO THE SECOND MEETING GOT BETTER AND THEN NOW WE DECIDED, YOU KNOW, LET'S GET THIS ALL DONE, GET 'EM CHANGED.
AND IF THERE WAS ANYBODY INTERESTED IN WANTING TO KEEP IT, THEN ALL THEY HAD TO DO IS COME DOWN HERE REQUEST AND MAYBE GET PUT ON A LIST IF THEY WANT TO KEEP IT MULTI-FAMILY THAT, UH, MAKE THAT REQUEST AND TO SEE IF WE CAN GET IT ELIMINATED FROM WHAT WE'RE DOING.
BUT I SUPPORT THIS WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO GET IT APPROVED.
THIS IS A MOSTLY DISTRICT FIVE CASE, SO TO YOU COMMISSIONER BUSTAMONTE FOR QUESTIONS.
I THINK I'D LIKE TO START WITH, UM, MR. RODRIGUEZ AT 33 11 SAUNDERS.
UM, MR. RODRIGUEZ LETTER? YES.
IF YOU COULD COME UP TO THE, SO OUR COMMISSIONER IS REMOTE TODAY, SO
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HELLO COMMISSIONER.HOW ARE YOU DOING? GOOD, THANK YOU.
UM, YOU SAID THAT YOUR PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY MF 33? YES SIR.
AND YOU WOULD LIKE IT TO REMAIN.
SO, UH, WOULD YOU CONSIDER AN RMM FOUR IF YOU'RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT FOUR UNITS? YES SIR.
UM, AND ACTUALLY I, I THINK THAT IS IT.
UH, COMMISSIONER BUS MONTE, I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT THE LAND USE, UH, AROUND THE PROPERTY AT 33 11 SAUNDERS IS LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL.
SO I WOULD SUGGEST MAYBE CONDITIONAL USE FOR FOUR UNITS.
UH, I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS.
DO WHAT YOU WANT, YOU GET TO DO.
UH, OTHER COMMISSIONERS QUESTIONS? LOOKING LEFT, SEEING NONE.
ALRIGHT, BACK TO YOU COMMISSIONER BUSTAMONTE.
ALRIGHT, UM, AS I HOPE WAS MADE CLEAR THROUGH THE PROCESS, THESE LARGE AREA REZONINGS ARE REALLY AN ATTEMPT TO BRING THE ZONING IN LINE WITH THE USES.
UM, AGAIN, I THINK THE CITY'S DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB OF, YOU KNOW, RIGHT SIZING AS THE CHAIR PUT IT, THESE VARIOUS PROPERTIES.
WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT ONLY, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW I SEE TWO THAT WE'RE GONNA CHANGE THE CITY'S RECOMMENDATION ON.
UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT WORK.
ALL OF THESE CHANGES TEND TO BE ARTIFACTS OF BROAD CHANGES TO OUR DEVELOPMENT CODE THAT JUST KIND OF GOT PROPAGATED ALONG.
UH, I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO WHEN I GET A LARGE AREA REZONING FOR MY NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE WE HAVE MF 33 ON A HUNDRED YEAR OLD PLUS SINGLE FAMILY HOUSES.
I'VE GOT INDUSTRIAL BEHIND ME.
AND THANK YOU MR. FALLON FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND THANK YOU, UM, MS. SANCHEZ AS WELL.
YOU KNOW, THESE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS HAVE BEEN CRITICAL IN PUSHING THIS THROUGH.
SO AT THIS TIME I WILL MOVE FOR APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS FOR 1 0 4 SOUTHWEST 20TH.
THAT WILL REMAIN C THREE FOR THE PROPERTY AT 33 11 SAUNDERS.
UH, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THAT BE CHANGED TO R SIX C.
D FOUR, I'M SORRY, C CONDITIONAL USE FOR FOUR DWELLING UNITS.
OKAY, SO THE, THERE IS A MOTION FOR APPROVAL WITH AS AMENDED.
UM, IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.
AND THERE IS A SECOND, UH, DISCUSSION.
UH, MOTION IS FOR APPROVAL AS AMENDED BY COMMISSIONER BUSTAMONTE.
SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WATSON.
I BELIEVE IS IT ITEM EIGHT IS NEXT.
ALRIGHT, IF WE COULD HAVE STAFF'S REPORT PLEASE.
AND BEAVIS ZONING PLANNER WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
ITEM NUMBER EIGHT IS LOCATED AT 1 2 0 3 CATON AVENUE AND IS A REQUEST TO GO FROM R FOUR TO R FOUR CD WITH ALL OVERLAYS REMAINING THE SAME.
THERE WERE 32 NOTICES MAILED WITH ZERO RETURN IN FAVOR, 16 RETURNED IN OPPOSITION.
HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS OPPOSED AND OUTSIDE THE 200 FOOT BOUNDARY.
THERE WAS FOUR RECEIVED IN OPPOSITION.
STAFF DOES NOT FIND EVIDENCE OF LIKELY ADVERSE IMPACTS ON NEIGHBORING LANDS IN RELATION TO THIS ZONING CHANGE REQUEST.
THE CURRENT R FOUR RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT IS AN APPROPRIATE ZONING FOR THE PROPERTY AND SURROUNDING AREA.
THE PROPOSED R FOUR CD RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT WITH THE CONDITIONAL USE FOR FOUR DWELLING UNITS PROPOSES COMPATIBLE RESIDENTIAL USES, BUT AT A DENSITY AND COMPATIBLE WITH THE ESTABLISHED DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
THE PROPERTY IS AT THE INTERSECTION OF TWO LOCAL STREETS
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WITH ALLEY ACCESS TO THE REAR PROPERTY LINE.THE PROPERTY IS ALSO SITUATED IN AN AREA WHERE PROPERTIES ARE PERMITTED DUPLEXES BY RIGHT DESPITE THE SINGLE FAMILY ZONING BY MEANS OF THE B TWO R FOUR U D C CONVERSION.
EXCEPTION STAFF RECOMMENDS DENIAL WITH AN ALTERNATE RECOMMENDATION OF R FOUR CD RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT WITH THE CONDITIONAL USE FOR THREE DWELLING UNITS.
THIS ALLOWS FOR GREATER DENSITY THAN IS CURRENTLY PERMITTED WITH RESPECT TO THE ESTABLISHING FAMILY DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
AND THE CD WILL PERMIT THREE UNITS BY MEANS OF A SITE PLAN, WHICH WILL ADDRESS VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT ASPECTS AND THAT WILL PREVENT EXPANSION OF THE USE OR ADDITIONAL UNITS.
STAFF RECOMMENDS DENIAL WITH AN ALTERNATE RECOMMENDATION.
I UNDERSTAND HE IS GOING TO AMEND HIS REQUEST.
IF WE COULD HAVE THE APPLICANT PLEASE.
MY NAME IS BRONSON CADE, UH, 1203 CATON AVENUE.
UM, WE, UM, HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY AND REQUESTED THE AMENDMENT TO THE THREE UNITS.
UH, ME AND MY WIFE ARE THE MEMBERS OF B L K GROUP, L L C.
UM, WE'VE BECOME ENTREPRENEURS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS AND TOOK ON AN ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME.
AND SO, UM, WE PURCHASED 1203 CATON AVENUE BACK IN JUNE OF 2022.
UM, AT THE TIME THAT WE FOUND THE PROPERTY, YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
AT THE TIME WE FOUND THE PROPERTY, UM, IT HAD HAD TRANSIENTS IN IT FOR YEARS.
UM, I'D BEEN TOLD IN THE COMMUNITY FOUR TO FIVE YEARS THAT THERE HAVE BEEN, UH, PEOPLE LIVING IN IT.
UH, ALL THE DOORS WERE BROKEN INTO.
WE HELPED REMOVE THE DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, ALL THE NEEDLES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE CAME BACK AND PUT, UM, METAL DOORS ON, SECURED THE PROPERTY.
UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND, I MEAN LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE, THE SCREEN THERE, WE ADDED SOME SECURITY LIGHTS TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE 'CAUSE THE PROPERTY WAS DARK AT THE TIME, UM, WHICH WAS A COMPLAINT BY THE COMMUNITY.
PEOPLE WERE USING THE ALLEYWAY, STAYING IN THE ALLEYWAYS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, WE CAME IN, HAVE CLEANED UP THE PROPERTY REDONE THE 1920 FLOORS THAT ARE IN THE MAIN HOME.
UM, THE PROPERTY IS, UM, CURRENTLY A THREE UNIT.
IT'S GOT THREE INDIVIDUAL UTILITIES.
IT'S GOT THREE INDIVIDUAL UTILITIES BY C P SS.
IF YOU LOOK ALSO NOTING THAT THEIR, UH, CATON ACTUALLY IS CONSIDERED A ONE AND TWO UNIT.
AND THEN THE GARAGE UNIT THAT HAS THE APARTMENT ABOVE IS ACTUALLY CONSIDERED 5 1 4 A DELL STREET.
UM, AND SO IT DOES HAVE SEPARATE UTILITIES.
UM, WE'VE, WE'VE NOW, UM, COME IN AND JUST CLEANED UP THE PROPERTY, HELPED PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT THERE.
UM, AND ALSO ME AND MY WIFE ARE PLANNING ON MANAGING THE PROPERTY.
UH, WE'VE BEEN BORN AND RAISED.
I'VE BEEN BORN AND RAISED ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO.
UM, I'M A PASTOR IN THE COMMUNITY THERE.
UM, BUT I SAW A NEED IN THE COMMUNITY 'CAUSE MY KIDS WENT TO A LOCAL SCHOOL DOWN THE STREET.
UM, I WOULD LOVE TO BUY A HOUSE IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT I CAN'T AFFORD IT
UM, BUT WE SAW AN OPPORTUNITY THAT WE COULD DO SOMETHING AND NOT JUST SIT AND HOPE SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN, BUT WE WANTED TO GET INVOLVED AND ENGAGED.
UM, AND SO I, I PROPOSED TO DO, UM, A FOURTH UNIT IN THE GARAGE.
UH, BECAUSE GARAGE UNITS USUALLY GET MISUSED BY TENANTS.
UH, BUT HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY, HEARING THEIR CONCERNS, UM, I SAID, OKAY, THEN WE'LL JUST USE WHAT IS PRESENT ON SITE.
UM, SO I JUST AM REQUESTING THAT TO BE ABLE TO USE THAT ALSO WITH THE S A 20 INITIATIVE OF PLANNING FOR GROWTH AND FOR PROVIDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
UM, THAT'S WHY I'M REQUESTING TO DO THE THREE UNITS BECAUSE WE CAN KEEP IT AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE, UM, THAT ARE IN NEED IN THE COMMUNITY.
THE COLLEGE IS RIGHT DOWN THE STREET.
UM, THERE'S MANY BUSINESS BUSINESSES IN THE AREA.
UM, AND SO I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR PEOPLE IN NEED IN THE AREA AND BE ABLE TO HELP PEOPLE.
DO YOU WANT YEAH, WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO LET ME GO AHEAD AND JUST, UM, SHOW BASICALLY WHAT THE PLAN IS, IS, UM, WE WILL MANAGE THE PROPERTY.
SO WE'LL BE USING ALL THE PROPER DOCUMENTATION.
UM, WE'LL BE DOING BACKGROUND CHECKS ON ALL THE TENANTS.
UM, WE WILL BE, UM, IN OUR CONTRACT THAT I NORMALLY HAVE WITH OUR TENANTS.
UM, I DID NOTATE WHAT THE COMMUNITY WAS ASKING FOR.
UM, PARKING WAS ONE OF THEIR ISSUES.
UM, 'CAUSE WE HAVE SIX PARKING SPOTS.
UM, BUT WHAT I SAID THAT I WOULD GO AHEAD AND DO IS I WOULD LIMIT THE, UM, APPLICANTS COMING INTO OUR PROPERTY TO ONE AND THEY HAD TO GET APPROVAL FOR ANY OTHER VEHICLES ON SITE.
UM, SO BASICALLY ONE VEHICLE PER UNIT.
AND THEN ALSO, UM, THERE WAS A COMPLAINT ABOUT PARTIES PREVIOUSLY AT THIS RESIDENCE.
UM, AND I SAID, OKAY, I, I HEAR YOU.
SO WHAT I'LL DO IS I'LL REQUIRE THEM TO REQUEST ANY ADDITIONAL EXCESSIVE, YOU KNOW, EVENT THAT COULD HAPPEN.
A PARTY OVER THEIR NORMAL LEASING AMOUNT OF PEOPLE JUST TO REQUEST THAT FROM US SO THAT WE KNOW AND
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WE CAN SUPPORT BOTH THE TENANTS THAT ARE THERE.THEY'RE NOT DISTURBING PEOPLE.
AND THEN ALSO, UM, WE CAN BE THERE FOR OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL, JUST TO BE GOOD PROPERTY MANAGERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, BUT YOU CAN JUST SEE HERE SOME OF THE FORMS THAT WE DO USE.
I DO A THREE MONTH INSPECTION ON THE PROPERTIES.
SO I GO IN, I INVESTIGATE, I, YOU KNOW, ASK THE TENANTS TO LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTIES.
I DO LIVE THREE MILES FROM THE PROPERTY.
UM, SO I DO CHECK ON IT FREQUENTLY, UM, DRIVE BY AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS STAYING IN THE CONDITION.
UM, I WILL TELL YOU THAT PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY TRIED TO BREAK INTO IT AS IT IS.
AND SO IF WE CAN GET PEOPLE IN IT, IT WILL HELP TO KEEP THE ENVIRONMENT SAFE.
IT'LL HELP TO KEEP AND SUPPLY SUPPORT TO THE COMMUNITY.
UM, FROM WHAT THE CONDITION WAS WHEN I PURCHASED IT.
DO WE HAVE CITIZENS SIGNED UP OR DO WE HAVE VOICEMAILS OR WHAT? HAVE BOTH.
WE BOTH HAVE VOICEMAILS AND WE HAVE, UH, FOLKS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK? YES.
UM, DO WE, UH, OF THE CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK? DID ANY OF Y'ALL LEAVE A VOICEMAIL? BECAUSE WE CAN PLAY EITHER OR.
YOU LEFT A VOICEMAIL, BUT YOU'D PROBABLY RATHER SPEAK.
CAN WE GET YOUR NAME SO WE KNOW TO SKIP PAST ON THE VOICEMAIL? MR. ROHR? MR. ROAR? ROHR, LIKE A LION.
I'M LIVING AT 1144 ON RIGBY AVENUE, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS SEVEN EIGHT TWO ONE ZERO.
MY PHONE NUMBER IS (210) 718-2978 AND I'M CALLING REGARDING CASE NUMBER TEN SEVEN ZERO ZERO ZERO ONE OH FIVE REGARDING THE REZONING, UH, OF 1203 ON TON.
UM, I PURCHASED MY HOUSE ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO AND I WANTED TO BUY A HOUSE, UH, BECAUSE I USED TO LIVE IN APARTMENT COMPLEX AND I KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE, UH, WHERE PEOPLE GO IN AND OUT MOVING, MOVE OUT PRETTY FREQUENTLY.
AND, UM, I CHOOSE TO BUY A HOUSE TO NOT TO GET INTO THIS SITUATION ANYMORE.
I'M OPPOSED TO THE REZONING OF 1203 CASE STUDY.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL ME BACK TO SOME FURTHER INFORMATION.
I'M LIVING AT 1144 LEY AVENUE.
MY PHONE NUMBER IS TWO ONE OH SEVEN ONE EIGHT TWO TWO NINE SEVEN EIGHT.
UH, CASE NUMBER 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 6 5.
MY NUMBER IS TWO TEN TWO FOUR ZERO SEVEN ONE ZERO THREE.
UH, JUST PREFER THAT THAT ZONING WOULD JUST SAY A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING.
BEARD AT 1131 CATON, AND I'M CALLING ABOUT THE CASE NUMBER 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 5 IN, IN THE ZONING AREA AT 1203.
CATON, NO TO THAT ZONING REZONING.
AND MY PHONE NUMBER IS FIVE THREE FOUR NINE FOUR EIGHT FIVE.
HELLO, MY NAME IS CAROLYN INE GUERRERO.
I AM CALLING IN REFERENCE TO THE RESIDENCE AT 1203 CATON AVENUE.
THE LAST THREE NUMBERS OF THE CASE NUMBER IS 1 0 5.
I AM CALLING TO VOICE THAT I AM OPPOSED TO THIS RESIDENCE BECOMING A FAMILY MULTIPLEX.
WE DO NOT FEEL THAT WE COULD HAVE A APARTMENT COMPLEX RIGHT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THERE ALREADY ARE HOMES THAT HAVE MORE THAN 10 TO 15 PEOPLE AND THEY HAVE 10 CARS, LIKE SAY TO ONE RESIDENCE.
WE ALREADY DO NOT HAVE PARKING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE HAVE CONSTANT PEOPLE COMING AND GOING OUTTA THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE DO NOT NEED A MULTIPLEX IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME.
I AM OPPOSED AT THIS HOME BECOMING A MULTIPLEX.
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GOODBYE.MY NAME IS CHRISTINA EL RODRIGUEZ.
MY ADDRESS IS 1601 EAST HIGHLAND.
MY NUMBER IS TWO TEN FIVE OH EIGHT EIGHTY THREE EIGHTY SEVEN.
CASE LAST THREE DIGITS IS 1 0 5.
I THOROUGHLY OPPOSE THE REZONING OF 2003 CATON.
I OPPOSED THE FOUR UNIT THAT HE WANTS THE, THIS IS A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD CLEAN AND I DON'T THINK I WOULD WANT ANY UNDESIRABLE PEOPLE TO MOVE IN.
MY PHONE NUMBER IS (210) 371-7911.
I WANNA PROTEST CASE 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 5.
ZONING ORDINANCE CHANGE FOR 1203 CATON.
I WANNA LODGE THAT I'M AGAINST THIS ORDINANCE CHANGE.
I LIVE IN A MARGINAL NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT'S MY EXPERIENCE THAT LANDLORDS DON'T KEEP THEIR PROPERTIES UP AND THERE'S OVERCROWDING OF ALL THE APARTMENTS AND I'M JUST AGAINST IT, AS ARE MOST OF MY NEIGHBORS.
SO PLEASE LODGE MY COMPLAINT AGAINST THIS ORDINANCE CHANGE.
I'M NOT FOR THE ORDINANCE CHANGE.
HELLO, MY NAME IS MARGARET GOMEZ.
I RESIDE AT 1 2 0 4 RIGSBY AND UM, I AM CALLING ON CASE NUMBER 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 5.
UH, THIS IS ON THE REZONING COMMITTEE AND IT'S ON THE ZONING OF 12 0 3 KATON, K A Y T O N.
UH, THE GENTLEMAN, MR. BROON KADEL IS THE ONE PETITIONING.
AND, UH, I AM WITH, UH, A COUPLE OF NEIGHBORS.
I HAD FILLED IN A FORM AND I RECEIVED A LITTLE PAPER FROM MY NEIGHBOR THAT WE NEEDED TO CALL AND LEAVE THE RECORDING.
SO MY NEIGHBOR GAVE IT TO ME WITH THIS INFORMATION TO CALL AND TO INDICATE IF I WAS OR, OR IF I OPPOSED THE REZONING.
AND MY, UH, STATEMENT IS THAT I OPPOSED GENTLEMAN, MR. CARDELL WANTED TO MAKE IT A FOURPLEX UNIT, BUT I THINK HE'S BACKED DOWN AND HE'LL MAKE IT A THREEPLEX, UH, APARTMENT UNIT.
SO, UM, IF HE'LL MAKE IT A THREEPLEX, I AM ALL RIGHT WITH IT, BUT NOT A FORKLIFT.
UH, THIS HOUSE IS ON THE CORNER AS I TOO LIVE ON THE CORNER OF ADE AND
AND TO HAVE EVERY RESIDENCE HAVE A CAR OR TWO CARS WOULD BE VERY CON.
HI, I'M ERIN GALLEGOS REED, 1431 STEVES 2 1 0 7 49 37 40.
I'M CALLING ABOUT CASE NUMBER 1 0 5 ON 1203 CATON.
I'M A HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEMBER WHO GREW UP IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD RIDING MY BIKE UP AND DOWN ADELE STREET.
I SUPPORT THE NEIGHBORS OPPOSING THE ZONING CHANGE REQUEST.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS MANY HISTORIC HOMES AND AGING INFRASTRUCTURE THAT CAUSES COSTLY HEADACHES FOR NEIGHBORS.
HIGHLAND PARK'S, OLDER INFRASTRUCTURE CANNOT ACCOMMODATE MORE POPULATION DENSITY OR CARS.
MANY CARS PARK ON THE STREET NEAR CORNERS FACING THE WRONG DIRECTION OR ON THE GRASS.
TICKETS ARE NO LONGER GIVEN YET.
TENANTS AT 1203 CATON WILL LIKELY DO THE SAME.
ADDING TO THIS PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE, I AM MOSTLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE EASE OF CHANGING SINGLE FAMILY ZONING TO MULTIFAMILY.
WE HAVE AN INFLUX OF INVESTORS BUYING HOMES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, NOT LIVING IN THEM, BUT RENTING THEM OUT.
LANDLORDS OFTEN DON'T CHECK IN AND SEE VIOLATIONS MUCH LESS LIVE WITH THE DAILY CONSEQUENCES LIKE WE THE RESIDENTS DO.
THERE ARE SEVERAL ABANDONED PROPERTIES IN OUR AREA RIFE WITH CODE ENFORCEMENT VIOLATIONS.
THIS POSES ANOTHER PUBLIC SAFETY THREAT TO OUR NEIGHBORS, ESPECIALLY THE SENIORS AND CHILDREN.
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JUNE 13TH, I SAW A HOMELESS WOMAN BREAK INTO THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME.IT IS OWNED BY A LOCAL L L C WHO NEGLECTED THIS HOME AND HAS BEEN VACANT FOR MONTHS.
THE LAWN, BUSHES AND TREES ARE ALL OVERGROWN, MAKING IT EASY FOR THE SQUATTERS TO ENTER AND STAY AS LONG AS THEY PLEASED.
YESTERDAY THE POLICE CAME OUT TWICE, BUT ONLY DURING THE SECOND VISIT DID THE OWNER SHOW UP.
SHE BOARDED THE WINDOWS AND DOORS SHUT THEN LEFT.
HE MADE NO CONTACT WITH ANY OF US WHOSE HOMES SURROUND HIS.
THIS PROPERTY IS ONLY RENTED TO A SINGLE FAMILY WHO WERE EVICTED.
RESIDENT NEIGHBORS SHOULD NOT BE BURDENED TO ACCOMMODATE INVESTORS WHO DON'T LIVE ON THE PROPERTIES THEY PURCHASE.
I URGE YOU TO PLEASE PUT THE SAFETY AND WELLBEING OF OUR HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORS BEFORE BUSINESS INTEREST.
MY NAME IS LORETTA O GALLEGOS.
I LIVE AT 1 0 4 0 RIGSBY AVENUE, S A T X 7 8 2 10.
I'M CALLING IN REFERENCE TO CASE NUMBER 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 5.
THE ADDRESS IS 1 2 0 3 CATON AVENUE, S A T X 7 8 2 10.
WELL, I DON'T WANT, UM, THAT HOUSE AT 1203 CATON TO BE TURNED INTO A FOUR FAMILY COMPLEX.
UM, IT USED TO BE A TWO FAMILY COMPLEX, BUT NOW IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE AIMING TO MAKE IT FOR, AND THE PURPOSE FOR THAT IS BECAUSE IF THERE ARE FOUR FAMILIES IN THERE, THERE'D BE A LOT OF CARS PARKING IN THERE, IN THAT AREA ON THE STREETS AND SO FORTH.
I KNOW THAT'S NOT, THAT'S PUBLIC PROPERTY.
PLUS THE OWNER WON'T LIVE THERE TO MAINTAIN ALL THESE FAMILIES THAT WILL BE LIVING THERE OR RECITING THERE.
SO IF THERE WAS ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE MULTI-FAMILIES THAT LIVE THERE, IT WOULD TAKE HIM LONGER TO GET THERE.
HE WOULD MAINTAIN IT LIKE, UH, SOMEBODY THAT ACTUALLY LIVED THERE LIKE PRIOR TO THIS, UH, INCIDENT.
UM, ALSO, UM, UNFORTUNATELY, UH, WELL THE POSITIVE THING IS THAT IT'S THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS ALL JUST A ONE FAMILY HOME.
AND TO HAVE FOUR FAMILIES IN ONE HOME JUST SEEMS LIKE IT'D BE VERY, UM, UM, I DON'T KNOW.
I JUST PREFER THAT IT WOULD GO BACK TO JUST BEING A TWO FAMILY COMPLEX, A DUPLEX LIKE IT ORIGINALLY WAS.
AGAIN, I'M LORETTA SO I DO HOPE AND I AM FOR THE PART OF KEEPING IT TO JUST A TWO FAMILY COMPLEX AND I OPPOSE ANYTHING BIGGER THAN THAT.
LIKE, LIKE THE OWNER WOULD LIKE TO DO A FOUR FAMILY.
I LIVE AT 1 0 4 0 RIGBY AT 7 8 2 10.
IF YOU NEED MY NUMBER, I'M AT TWO TEN TWO SIX ZERO SIX SIX ONE THREE.
WE DO NOT WANT IT TO BE RENTED OUT.
THIS IS ANTONIO MARINO VASQUEZ AT 1130 CATON AVENUE.
THE NUMBER IS 2 1 0 2 6 8 6 8 2 4.
THE CASE NUMBER IS 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 5.
THE ANSWER IS NO, THE CASE NUMBER.
UH, MY NAME IS RAYMOND RAMIREZ.
UH, MY ADDRESS IS 1539 EAST HIGHLAND BOULEVARD.
MY PHONE NUMBER IS (210) 269-1612.
AND THIS CALL IS IN REGARDS TO CASE NUMBER Z AS IN ZEBRA, 20 23 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 5 C AS IN CHARLIE, D AS IN DELTA.
UM, I'M AGAINST THE, UH, FOUR APARTMENT DWELLING BEING PROPOSED.
UH, IN MY OPINION, THIS CONVERSION WILL CAUSE A TOTAL DISRUPTION TO THE SERENITY AND PEACE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS ENJOYED FOR MANY YEARS.
IT WILL BRING MORE NOISE, CAUSE MORE TRAFFIC AND PARKING ISSUES, AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE HOME WILL DWINDLE DUE TO THE APATHETIC RENTERS THAT MAY BE DISINTERESTED IN, IN LAWN AND YARD MAINTENANCE OF THAT PROPERTY.
I RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT MY PLEA TO NOT APPROVE THE PROPOSED OPENING CHANGE THAT HAS BEEN REQUESTED.
THIS IS RICARDO PEREZ FROM 1 2 0 6 CATON AVENUE.
TELEPHONE NUMBER (210) 861-5003.
CASE NUMBER 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 5.
I'M VASTLY OPPOSED TO THE, UM, PROJECT THAT'S GOING ON IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
MY PHONE NUMBER IS TWO TEN FOUR ONE THREE SIX SEVEN ONE ONE.
I'M CALLING IN REGARDS TO CASE NUMBER 1 0 5.
I AM OPPOSED TO THIS BECAUSE I'VE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR OVER 40 YEARS AND WE DO NOT NEED ANY MORE NOISE OR ANYTHING.
WE'RE VERY HAPPY WITH WHAT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS DOING RIGHT NOW.
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OUR ADDRESS IS 1207 CATON AVENUE, SAN ANTONIO.OUR PHONE NUMBER IS (210) 287-1672.
THE CASE NUMBER IS 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 5.
AND WE'RE CALLING 'CAUSE WE'RE OPPOSING THE REZONING OF THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1203.
CADEN, UH, WE REALLY DON'T LIKE THE IDEA OF HAVING MORE THAN TWO APARTMENTS AT THAT PROPERTY.
UM, WE'LL MOVE ON TO SPEAKERS.
FIRST SPEAKER WE HAVE IS MS. BETH CARR.
UM, MY NAME IS BETH CARR AND I LIVE AT NINE 15 HAMMOND AVENUE IN HIGHLAND PARK.
AND I AM AM I AM OPPOSED TO THE REZONING AT 1203 CATON.
I AM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
THE HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION BOARD HAS SUBMITTED OUR, OUR OPPOSITION TO THE REZONING AT 1203 CATON AVENUE WITH THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
BUT I AM HERE AS A NEIGHBOR, NOT AS A BOARD MEMBER.
I PURCHASED MY HOME IN HIGHLAND PARK 39 YEARS AGO.
I WAS DRAWN TO THE UNIQUE ARCHITECTURE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT MOST OF ALL, IT WAS A FAMILY BASED NEIGHBORHOOD WITH SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
I WANTED TO RAISE MY SON AND DAUGHTER IN A FAMILY BASED NEIGHBORHOOD.
MANY OF THE HOMES ARE NOW OVER 100 YEARS OLD.
MINE WAS BUILT IN 19 18, 105 YEARS AGO.
IF THIS REZONING IS APPROVED, THERE WILL BE INCREASED CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC PRIVACY WILL BE IMPACTED AND THE FAMILY BASED NEIGHBORHOOD ON CATON AVENUE WILL BE FOREVER CHANGED.
THE RESIDENTS OF HIGHLAND PARK THAT I HAVE SPOKEN TO, DO NOT WANT A HOME WITH FOUR, THREE OR FOUR APARTMENTS.
THE RESIDENTS OF HIGHLAND PARK WANT TO PRESERVE OUR FAMILY BASED NEIGHBORHOOD WITH SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AS AS IT HAS BEEN FOR OVER 100 YEARS.
NEXT WE HAVE MS. REBECCA ROHR.
MY NAME IS REBECCA ROHR, 1143 CATON.
AND I AM RELINQUISHING MY TIME TO RACHEL ROHR.
IS ANYONE ELSE RELINQUISHING THEIR TIME TO MS. RACHEL VICTOR.
MR. VICTOR, UM, RUTER VICTOR HERNANDEZ? CORRECT.
AND THEN ALSO MS. MORENO, I'M GONNA READ TO, OH, OKAY.
SO MS. RACHEL, YOU HAVE TWO PEOPLE THAT HAVE RELINQUISHED THEIR TWO MINUTES TO YOU.
SO YOU HAVE A TOTAL OF SIX MINUTES.
AND YOU, UM, HAVE MS. YVETTE'S, UH, MORENO'S MORENO'S TIME.
SO YOU HAVE FOUR MINUTES? THAT'S CORRECT.
CATON BEEN THERE FOR OVER 35 YEARS.
MOST OF THESE NEIGHBORS THAT ARE CALLING IN, SOME OF 'EM HAVE BEEN IN THERE 40 OR 45 YEARS.
AND THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HOME AND A HOUSE.
UH, MR. CARDELL SAYS HE'S THERE TO HELP PEOPLE HAVE HOUSES.
IF HE CAN AFFORD TO BUY THE HOUSE, HE CAN AFFORD TO LIVE IN IT.
THE DIAGRAM MACHINE THERE, HE'S TALKING ABOUT PARKING FOR THE, HE'S GOT FOUR PARKING SPOTS THERE.
THAT'S NOT, IF YOU WANNA USE THE LASER, THEY'RE HIGHLIGHTED.
IT'S GONNA BE, UH, INADEQUATE.
UH, IF YOU'LL NOTICE AT THE BOTTOM YOU HAVE AN A D A APPROVED INTERSECTION, ALL FOUR CORNERS OF THAT INTERSECTION'S.
A D A APPROVED CITY'S GONE IN AND DONE IT.
IF YOU'LL SEE THE SIDEWALK THAT IS NOT EXISTING, IT STARTS THERE.
BUT WE'RE KIND TO CONTACT THE CITY TO PUT IN SIDEWALKS TO GET THE PEOPLE OUTTA THE STREET.
WELL, YOUR POINTER QUIT ON ME.
THAT'S ALL I NEED IS TECHNOLOGY.
IF YOU CONTINUE THAT SIDEWALK WHERE IT SHOULD GO, IT'S GONNA GO RIGHT THROUGH THE PARKING.
IF THEY PARK THERE, IT STILL PUSHES THE PEOPLE OUT IN THE STREET.
WE HAVE PEDESTRIANS, WE HAVE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS, WE HAVE ELEMENTARY.
WE HAVE DISABLED PEOPLE THAT FREQUENTLY THEY'LL GO DOWN ADELE TO AVOID WALTERS AND CLARK STREET.
MUCH, MUCH MORE HEAVILY TRAFFICKED IN THE STREETS.
UH, COUPLE OF QUICK PHOTOS FOR YOU, IF WE MIGHT.
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THE FIRST ONE HERE, THAT'S ADELE STREET.THAT'S LOOKING FROM THE, UH, THE SOUTH TO NORTH.
1203 IS ON YOUR RIGHT HAND SIDE.
IF YOU'LL LOOK AT THE FOUR END OF THE INTERSECTION, IT'S THE VERY FOUR ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.
THERE ARE NO CURBS ON THE LEFT.
THEY, THERE WERE TELEPHONE POLES FOR A WHILE.
LANDSCAPE, WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF OUR YARD, WE'VE DONE IT HERE.
THERE'S NO CURBS AT ALL ON HIS SIDE.
IT, IT APPEARS TO BE WHITE THERE.
THAT'S THE, UH, HEAVY SPRAYING OF DEFOLIANTS ALONG THAT AREA.
THIS IS THE PARKING AREA HE'S PROVIDED.
HE TALKS ABOUT HIS DIAGRAM SHOWS CONCRETE LINERS ON THE SIDE, STRIPING.
IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF CONCRETE THAT WAS BROUGHT UP FROM CLARK STREET WHEN THEY REDID IT, PILE THERE AND THEN REDISTRIBUTE IT TO MAKE SOME CONCRETE TO LOOKING WALLS.
THIS IS A VEHICLE THAT WAS PULLED INTO THE DRIVE.
TYPICALLY, IT'S PULLED AS FAR FORWARD AS IT CAN GO.
IF YOU BLOCK THAT GATE, THAT'S THE ENTRANCE TO THE PROPERTY.
THAT MEANS THAT THE UH, P PEOPLE PARKING TO THE RIGHT, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO WALK BACK TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE TO GET IN.
SAME VEHICLE PARKED THE SAME POSITION.
IT STICKS OUT BEYOND WHAT WOULD BE A CURB LINE.
YOU CANNOT SEE THE CURB ON THE OTHER SIDE.
IF IT'S A TRUCK, WHICH MR. CORDELL DRIVES A TRUCK, HE CAN'T EVEN GET IT IN THERE WITHOUT STICKING OUT TWO OR THREE FEET.
I HAVE A TRUCK, I CAN'T PUT IT IN THERE.
SO NOW HE'S GONNA HAVE TO LIMIT THE TYPE OF VEHICLE THAT HE'S WILLING TO LET PEOPLE RENT HIS PLACES.
UH, THIS IS THE CONCRETE WALL THAT, THAT THE DIAGRAM SHOWS.
IT'S JUST CHUNKS OF CONCRETE PILED TOGETHER, MARTYRED TOGETHER AT, AT BESTS MANY TIMES FALLING APART.
THE LOWER PART THERE WHERE HER FINGERS ARE NUMBER SIXES, THAT'S THE DRIVE AREA.
WHEN THIS BECOMES WET AND WE HAVE RAINY SEASONS, WE KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.
THE OWNER WOULD NOT PARK IN THERE PREVIOUSLY.
THEY WOULD GO BACK TO THE STREET.
'CAUSE THEY HAVE THE STREET ITSELF ASPHALTED.
AND THERE'S CONCRETE WALKWAYS UP TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE.
SO IT'S GONNA BE POINTLESS WHEN IT RAINS.
IT'S BEEN SPREAD, SPRAYED WITH, UH, IS THAT MY TWO MINUTE OR FOUR? THE FOUR.
REAL QUICKLY, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.
AGAIN, YOU SEE THE HOUSE THERE.
IT'S NOT, IT'S JUST SPRAYED WITH THE FOLIAR.
THERE'S NO PARKING AREAS, THERE'S NO STRIPES, THERE'S NOTHING.
A COUPLE OF SIGNS HAVE BEEN PUT UP TODAY SAYING YOU CAN'T PARK THERE.
UH, ALL RIGHT, SIR, THAT, THAT, THAT'S WELL TIME.
IT'S HOW YOU CAN COME IN AND TAKE PEOPLE'S HOUSES AND, AND SAFETY AWAY IN THEIR PRIDE AFTER 35 YEARS BECAUSE HE WANTS TO MAKE A BUCK.
WELL, AND, AND, UH, WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE QUESTIONS FOR YOU, SO I'LL BE GLAD TO ANSWER 'EM.
AND THEN NEXT WE HAVE MISS RACHEL ROHR.
AND BECAUSE TWO PEOPLE GAVE UP YOUR THEIR TIME, YOU'LL HAVE SIX MINUTES TOTAL.
I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND WILLINGNESS TO HEAR OUR CONCERNS REGARDING THE REZONING OF 1203 CATON AVENUE.
FROM A SINGLE TO A MULTI-LEVEL, A MULTI-FAMILY UNIT, IF THIS REZONING IS APPROVED, IT WILL BE WITH SIGNIFICANT DETRIMENT TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
OUR DAILY PRIVACY AND LIVABILITY WILL BE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE RESULT OF THE INCREASED CAPACITY AND OVERCROWDING THAT OCCUR.
THAT WILL OCCUR IN OUR RESIDENTIAL AREA.
WITH INCREASED RESIDENCE, VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, OUR FAMILY ORIENTED NEIGHBORHOOD WILL BEGIN, WILL BEGIN BECOMING COMMERCIALIZED AND SET A PRECEDENT FOR ALLOWING LANDLORDS AND HOUSING COMPLEXES.
ONE MAIN, ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WE MOVED THERE WAS WHEN WE PURCHASED OUR HOME WAS BECAUSE IT WAS A RESIDENTIAL NATURE AND ZONING THAT PREVENTED COMMERCIALIZING AND OVERCROWDING.
ADELE IS A SIDE STREET AND MY HUSBAND JUST ADDRESSED SOME OF THE ISSUES THERE, UH, ON WHICH, UH, 1203 CATON IS ON.
IT DOESN'T HAVE SIDEWALKS AND IT DOESN'T HAVE CURBS.
AND I'D LIKE TO REITERATE THAT SCHOOLCHILDREN, THE ELDERLY, HANDICAPPED AND OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY ARE ALREADY FORCED TO WALK IN THE STREETS.
THE ADDITIONAL VEHICLES, WHETHER IT BE A TWO, THREE, OR FOUR UNIT, WILL FORCE THESE INDIVIDUALS TO WALK EVEN FURTHER IN
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THE ROAD.THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, GIVEN THE HEAVY TRAFFIC THAT'S LETTING OFF OF RIGSBY AVENUE UNTO ADELE.
MR. CADEL HAS CLAIMED THAT THIS ISSUE, THIS SHOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE GIVEN HIS LEASE AGREEMENT WILL ONLY ALLOW ONE VEHICLE PER UNIT.
THIS IS BLATANTLY NOT POP PRACTICAL NOR ENFORCE ENFORCEABLE.
THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL CARS THAT WILL PARK ON ADELE AND CATON STREET.
THIS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON BOTH OF THESE STREETS.
WHILE HE CAN LIMIT THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES AND PARKING SLOTS ON HIS PRIVATE PROPERTY, HE HAS NO CONTROL OVER THE ADDITIONAL CARS AND PARKING ON A PUBLIC STREETS.
THE LEASE AGREEMENT HAS DONE NOTHING TO EASE OUR CONCERNS.
ADDITIONALLY, THERE WERE CONCERNS OVER THE BUSINESS PLANS, WHICH HE HAS REGULARLY CHANGED.
HE PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED A HOME ON WEST, ON WEST CAESAR CHAVEZ, AND WE DID SOME RESEARCH AND IT'S LISTED AS ON THE INTERNET AS A TERM VACATION RENTALS FOR THEIRS FOR THE VRBO.
HE HAS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED THAT HE HAS CONSIDERED ALSO CONSIDERED MAKING 1203 INTO AN AIRBNB STYLE HOME.
IF THIS HOUSE IS ZONED TO BE A MULTI-FAMILY UNIT, THEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD RUNS A RISK OF HAVING AN EXTREME INCREASE IN TRAFFIC AND COMMERCIALIZATION.
PRIOR TO ENGAGING WITH THE HIGHLAND PARK ASSOCIATION, OR ENSURING ZONING AND REQUIREMENTS WERE MET, HE BEGAN RENOVATION.
IT WAS NOT UNTIL OVER $80,000 HAD BEEN INVESTED THAT MR. CADEL BEGAN HIS DUE DILIGENCE TO REACH OUT TO THE NEIGHBORS AND TO THE CITY TO INFORM THEM OF HIS INTENTION.
EVEN AT THAT TIME, MYSELF AND OTHER NEIGHBORS ONLY RECEIVED PORTIONS OF THE TRUTH STATING HE WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT HE HAD CONTACTED THE, AND HAD THE SUPPORT OF THE NEIGHBORS.
THIS APPROACH TO BUSINESS LEAVES ME VERY CONCERNED.
THE HOMES ON THE 11 AND THE 1200 BLOCK OF CATON ARE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WITH A LONG HISTORY.
1203 CATON IS 103 YEAR OLD HOME AND IS SURROUNDED BY HOMES THAT ARE BUILT IN 1924 AND 1928.
THE STREET ITSELF THAT THESE HOMES SIT ON, CATON WAS NAMED AFTER THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF HIGHLAND PARK AREA IN 1909.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS FILLED WITH HISTORY AND A COMMUNITY THAT HAS SPENT THEIR LIVES WORKING TO PRESERVE THESE HOMES AND THEIR CHARACTER.
MR. CDE IS AN INVESTOR AND A BUSINESSMAN INTERESTED IN PERSONAL FINANCIAL GAIN.
HE HAS REPEATEDLY STATED THAT HE HAS BEEN OUT $80,000 ON THIS PROPERTY.
WHILE I RECOGNIZE AND SYMPATHIZE WITH HIS SITUATION, IT WAS CAUSED BY HIM.
HE DID NOT DO HIS DUE DILIGENCE BEFORE MAKING THIS INVESTMENT.
IF 1203 IS REZONED, IT WILL SET A PRECEDENT FOR MORE INVESTORS AND LANDLORDS TO COME TO THE AREA AND BEGIN COMMERCIALIZING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
EVEN NOW, HE HAS DIVIDED THE PROPERTY INTO TWO SEPARATE ADDRESSES.
UH, HE HAS IT ON ONE OF HIS HANDOUTS.
HE CARRIES IT AS 12 THREE CATON AND FIVE 14 ADELE.
UM, WE LOOKED UP THAT FIVE 14 TEL ADELE AND THERE IS NO PCA RECORDS FOR IT.
THIS MAKES IT CLEAR THAT APPROVING THIS REZONING WILL OPEN THE DOOR TO INCREASING THE NUMBER OF RESIDENTS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL LAND, WHICH WOULD RESULT IN OVERCROWDING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
I WAS PREVIOUSLY ADVISED NOT TO MAKE AN EMOTIONAL PLEA AS THEY ARE NOT REASONABLE PRESENTATIONS TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
SO I PRESENTED THE HISTORY IN A COUPLE OF FACTS RELATED TO 1203 CATON AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD.
DESPITE THIS, IT IS DIFFICULT NOT TO MENTION HOW THE PROCESS HAS BEEN EXTREMELY STRENUOUS AND STRESS INDUCING TO THE MEMBERS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
I WOULD URGE YOU TO PLEASE VOTE IN SUPPORT OF PRESERVING OUR NEIGHBOR'S WAY OF LIFE BY ALLOWING US TO CONTINUE LIVING IN A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORS THAT CAME OUT TO SUPPORT US AND, UM, DO I STILL HAVE SOME TIME? UM, MR. CADEL MENTIONED, UH, THAT THERE HAD BEEN NO ONE BUT TRANSIENTS LIVING IN THAT HOUSE FOR FOUR TO FIVE YEARS.
THERE HAD BEEN, BEEN ABOUT, ABOUT A YEAR AND TWO YEARS.
THERE WAS SOMEONE LIVING THERE.
THE PREVIOUS OWNER ALLOWED HIS NEPHEW, HIS, HER UNCLE TO LIVE THERE.
SO HE HAD LIVED THERE FOR A WHILE AND THE PROPERTY WAS WELL MAINTAINED.
UH, HE ALSO MENTIONED, UM, THAT HE TOOK A, UH, HE HAD MOVED OUT A LOT OF, UH, TRANSIENT AND DIRT.
THAT, THAT THERE'S TRANSIENT THROUGHOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THAT IN ITSELF WITH MYSELF AND ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS, WE HELPED CLEAR UP THAT OR CLEAR UP THE PROBLEM.
SO, UM, THE STATEMENT ABOUT THE TRANSIENT IT, THEY'RE THERE AND, AND WE DEAL WITH IT.
IT DOESN'T MAKE OUR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD UNSAFE.
AND THAT'S IT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
UH, APPLICANT YOU HAVE A CHANCE FOR, OR AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A SHORT REBUTTAL?
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YES.AND AS THEY'VE STATED, I'VE LISTENED AND I'VE HEARD, UM, I WENT FOR A YEAR WORKING ON THE PROPERTY AND I WAS HAVING CONVERSATION WITH NEIGHBORS.
WHAT I WAS GONNA DO TWO WEEKS AGO WAS WHENEVER I FIR FIRST HEARD OPPOSITION AND I WAS LIKE, OH MAN, Y'ALL DON'T AGREE WITH THIS.
OKAY, WHAT'S GOING ON? I'M FINALLY HEARING SOMETHING.
ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS ACTUALLY WAS WRITING ME A LETTER TO SUPPORT.
AND THEN AFTER CONVERSATION CAME BACK AND SAID, WELL, I DON'T WANNA CAUSE ANY ISSUES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND I WAS LIKE, OH, WHAT'S, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? AND, AND HE HAD COMMUNICATED THE OPPOSITION AND I WAS LIKE, I HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
LIKE, SO I STARTED LISTENING AND NOW STARTED HEARING WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO THE REASON WHY THE PLANS HAVE CHANGED, 'CAUSE I'M TRYING TO BE A PART, I, I KNOW I'M THE NEW ONE ON THE BLOCK.
I'M, I KNOW I'M THE NEW ONE COMING IN.
AND SO I'M TRYING TO HELP AND I'M TRYING TO BE A PART, UM, THE OPPOSITION HAS MET AND THEY HAVE NOT INVITED ME INTO CONVERSATIONS.
UM, AND SO I'M NOT GONNA GO THERE.
I'M TRYING TO DO MY BEST AND I'M TRYING TO FULFILL AND MEET EVERYBODY'S NEEDS.
I CAN'T BE PERFECT FOR EVERYBODY.
UM, BUT I DID COMMIT, NOT EVERY NEIGHBOR HAS MY CELL PHONE NUMBER.
BUT THERE'S A LOT ON THERE THAT DO.
YOU DID HEAR AN OPPOSITION ON THE VOICEMAIL THAT SAID, MR. GOODELL, TALK TO ME AND EXPLAIN THE SITUATION.
I THINK THE SITUATION WAS NOT FULLY EXPLAINED.
AND SO THERE WAS OPPOSITION CREATED WITHOUT MY VOICE BEING HEARD.
I AM A FULL-TIME DAD, FULL-TIME WORKER AND TRYING TO GET TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO TALK TO EVERYBODY ON THEIR SCHEDULES TOO.
SO I'VE DONE EVERYTHING I CAN.
UM, AND I WILL CONTINUE TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN WITH THE PROPERTY AND MAKING IT BETTER.
THE PICTURES THAT WERE SHOWN OF THE DRIVES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT'S MY IMPROVEMENTS.
I'M COMING IN TO CLEAN IT UP 'CAUSE IT IS TRASHY.
IT, IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD AND I'M TRYING TO IMPROVE IT.
THE RETAINING WALLS WERE EXISTING, THE UTILITIES WERE EXISTING, THE TRASH WAS EXISTING, THE PEOPLE ARE EXISTING AND I'M JUST TRYING TO STEP INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO HELP AND MAKE IT BETTER, MAKE IT MORE BEAUTIFUL, BE A PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
SO I AM VERY THANKFUL TO THE NEIGHBORS THAT ARE TALKING AND COMING AND TALKING TO ME.
'CAUSE I'M TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND BE A PART OF IT AND JUST BE A PART OF IT.
THIS IS A DISTRICT THREE CASE TO, SO COMMISSIONER FUENTES TO YOU FOR QUESTIONS.
UH, I'LL START WITH SOME QUESTIONS FOR STAFF.
UM, SO HOW WAS THE PROPERTY CONVERTED TO A THREE PLEX WHEN IT WAS, UM, ZONED RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY? SO LIKELY WHAT HAPPENED WAS, BECAUSE IT IS THE OLD CONVERSION, THE B TWO R FOUR, THEY WERE ALLOWED THE DUPLEX UNIT, THE THE FRONT UNIT BY RIGHT.
AND SO THEN THEY ARE ALSO ALLOWED TO HAVE AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT.
AND BECAUSE THE PROPERTY OWNER LIKELY LIVED THERE FOR A WHILE, UM, THEY WERE ABLE TO GO AHEAD AND GET THE PERMIT FOR THE, THE A D U.
BUT NOW IT'S OUTTA COMPLIANCE.
AND UH, NEXT QUESTION IS WHAT, WHAT ARE THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES AS THIS IS AMENDED? THE, UM, MINIMUM PARKING REQUIREMENT, UM, FOR A SINGLE FAMILY OR A DUPLEX IS ONE PER DWELLING UNIT.
MY LAST QUESTION WOULD BE, UM, A WHAT DO YOU KNOW THE PERCENTAGE OF A CURRENT OPPOSITION DO WE HAVE THAT WE WE DIDN'T RUN THE PERCENTAGE ONLY BECAUSE THAT'S, UH, SUPER MAJORITY IS ONLY, UH, REQUIRED FOR CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION.
BUT WE CAN TAKE A LOOK HERE REAL QUICK.
IT LOOKS TO BE, UH, CLOSE TO 45%.
UM, ACTUALLY I DO HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION.
SO, UH, MR. ROHR BROUGHT UP A A POINT ABOUT THE PARKING AND UH, THAT'S REALLY ON MY MIND AS WELL.
UM, I KNOW THAT THERE'S NO SIDEWALK GOING THROUGH ON ADELE, BUT I WAS WONDERING WITH THE PLACEMENT AT THAT PARKING, IS THAT STILL THE PROPERTY OWNER'S PROPERTY OR IS THAT, WOULD THAT BE CONSIDERED LIKE A CITY PROPERTY OR USABLE FOR SIDEWALKS IN THE FUTURE? YEAH, I DON'T THE ACTUAL BOUNDARY OF THAT.
WE WOULD HAVE TO DETERMINE, AND I, I CAN TELL YOU THAT HISTORICALLY THE TRAFFIC DIVISION DOESN'T LIKE FOR CARS TO BACK OUT ONTO, UH, LOCAL STREETS OR EVEN UM, PRIMARY STREETS.
SO THE PARKING COULD BE AN ISSUE.
UH, BUT AT A MINIMUM THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THREE SPACES.
UH, DO YOU HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS, UH, FOR THE APPLICANT? THANK YOU, SIR.
UH, SORRY WE DIDN'T GET TO HEAR FROM YOU THE LAST TIME AROUND, BUT GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE, UH, TODAY.
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SO WITH, UH, THE ISSUES BEING BROUGHT UP AROUND THE PARKING, HOW MANY SPOTS AND PLACEMENT, DO YOU HAVE ANY, UH, ALTERNATIVES OF COURSE FOR PLACING THOSE PARKING SPOTS? YES.MAYBE FURTHER IN OR IN A DIFFERENT ORIENTATION? YES.
WE DO HAVE, UM, A CONCRETE PAD BEHIND THE UNIT OF THE GARAGE THAT DOES HAVE A VE VEHICULAR GATE THERE THAT CAN FIT TWO CARS THERE.
I DO HAVE, UM, A MAP THERE WITH THE SPACING OF THE SQUARE FOOTAGE THERE THAT WILL ALLOW FOR TWO CARS TO COMFORTABLY PARK THERE AND BACK OUT.
UM, THAT COULD BE REPLACED TO THE THREE UNITS HAVING AT LEAST FIVE PARKING SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR THE THREE UNITS THAT CAN BE ADDED.
AND UH, ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO, TO BRING UP A A QUESTION FOR YOU.
WHAT WOULD YOU BE, UM, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL ABOUT INCLUDING A, UH, SIX FOOT SOLID SCREEN FENCE YOU SAID THAT WOULD ADDRESS SOME OF THE, UH, SECURITY ISSUES, UH, THAT MANY OF THE NEIGHBORS HAVE BROUGHT UP? UM, I KNOW IN MOST OF THE SURE.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD, IT'S THAT CYCLONE FENCING OR RIGHT.
BUT I THINK THAT SIX FOOT SOLID SCREEN FENCE.
WOULD YOU, YEAH, I MEAN, DO WE HAVE WHERE IT'S PROPOSED AT TO GO? UM, 'CAUSE I KNOW THERE'S FENCING KIND OF THROUGHOUT THE PROPERTY AT DIFFERENT AREAS TO DIVIDE THE UNITS.
UM, AND SO WAS JUST ASKING LIKE, IS THAT YEAH, SO I WOULD JUST, THE PERIMETER OR I WOULD, YEAH, I WOULD, UH, SUGGEST THE PERIMETER.
OR THE PROPERTY, UM, JUST TO ADD IN THAT EXTRA MEASURE OF, OF SECURITY.
NOT JUST FOR YOUR TENANTS, BUT ALSO THE, THE COMMUNITY.
UM, I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FOR ANYONE AT THIS TIME.
I WANNA TURN IT OVER TO THE REST OF THE COMMISSION.
UM, COMMISSIONERS, I'M GONNA START THIS WAY.
COMMISSIONER BUSTAMANTE? ANY QUESTIONS? YES.
UM, AND THIS MIGHT BE FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
THIS BODY IS, IS NOT BOUND BY ANY PRECEDENT.
SO IF, IF THERE WERE TO BE A MOTION TO MAKE THIS A CONDITIONAL USE FOR THREE UNITS, IT WOULDN'T SOMEHOW EMPOWER SOMEONE ELSE TO COME IN AND SAY THREE UNITS.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT.
NEITHER THIS BODY NOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AS A WHOLE IS BOUND BY ANY KIND OF PRECEDENT.
UM, WHAT DOES MEAN, UM, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? OKAY, COMMISSIONER BUSSMAN, DO YOU WANNA EXPLAIN WHAT, WHAT NOT BEING BOUND BY PRECEDENT MEANS? THERE WAS A QUESTION FROM THE AUDIENCE.
SORRY, I, I GUESS I JUST HEARD REPEATEDLY, BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS WOULD SET THE PRECEDENT FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, MULTI-HOUSING DEVELOPERS TO COME IN AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT, TO MY MIND, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY SET A PATTERN.
UM, YOU KNOW, I LIVE IN A NEIGHBORING NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE, YOU KNOW, TO SOME DEGREE WE DO HAVE MIXTURES OF MULTIFAMILY AND SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING ON THE SAME STREETS.
UM, BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE SAY PRECEDENT, WHAT THAT TYPICALLY MEANS IS, IS THAT YOU ARE BOUND BY SOMETHING.
AND, AND THAT IS CERTAINLY NOT THE CASE HERE, EVEN IF THIS WERE TO BE MOVED FORWARD WITH A MULTIFAMILY PROVISION ON THIS ONE LOT.
DOES THAT ANSWER THE QUESTION, MR. CHAIR? Y YES.
UH, QUESTIONS COMMERS ON MY LEFT.
UH, I ACTUALLY HAVE A QUESTION FOR STAFF ON THIS ONE TOO, JUST BECAUSE I'M GO, I'M LOOKING AT THE PROPERTY ITSELF.
THE, I THOUGHT I SAW THEY HAVE THREE C P S UNITS ON, ON THAT PROPERTY.
SO THEN THERE'S TECHNICAL UNITS.
TECHNICALLY IT'S ALREADY SET UP FOR THREE RENTALS? THAT'S CORRECT.
AND THEN WITH THREE DWELLING UNITS, THE MAX CAPACITY OF, 'CAUSE I COULD ASK THE APPLICANT HOW MANY PEOPLE IS HE PLANNING TO PUT IN THREE DWELLING UNITS? RIGHT.
SO HOW MANY BUT THE THREE DWELLING UNITS, HOW MANY TENANTS ARE YOU PLANNING TO HAVE? AND ARE THESE GONNA BE SHORT-TERM RENTALS? THEY'RE GONNA BE LONG-TERM RENTALS.
AND, AND TO ANSWER THE QUESTION FOR THE, THE VRBO QUESTION IS I HEARD THAT THE COMMUNITY DIDN'T WANT THAT.
SO I SAID, OKAY, THEN WE'LL JUST STICK WITH LONG-TERM THEN, UH, 'CAUSE I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERN.
SO MY PLAN IS TO PUT ONE IN EACH UNIT AND IF THE APPLICANT REQUESTS AN ADDITIONAL, THEY HAVE TO PUT IT ON THE APPLICATION AND THEY HAVE TO HAVE A REASON WHY, UM, FOR THAT.
BECAUSE ALSO WE, OBVIOUSLY, I HAVE ONE TENANT THAT WAS, UH, REFERENCED AT MY PREVIOUS, I MEAN, MY CURRENT PROPERTY I HAVE ON THE WEST SIDE, HE GOT MARRIED.
SO I'M NOT GONNA BE LIKE, YOU NEED TO MOVE OUT, YOU KNOW, YOU AND YOUR WIFE NEED TO FIND SOMEWHERE TO GO.
UM, BUT I DO GO FOR ONE TO START WITH.
'CAUSE THAT THE PROPERTY ON THE WEST SIDE, I HAVE THREE MEN.
ONE GOT MARRIED, AND THERE'S OTHER TWO SINGLE MEN LIVING IN THE OTHER TWO UNITS.
UM, AND SO I START WITH ONE AND THEN THEY SUBMIT THE APPLICATION TO ADD ANYBODY ONTO THEIRS.
AND IT'S APPROVAL PROCESS NO MORE MAX THAN SIX ADULTS,
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WHICH WOULD MAKE IT, I GUESS SIX TOTAL PARKING SPACE THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.UM, NOT SIX TOTALS, PARKING SPACES, UM, BECAUSE OF THE OBVIOUSLY PARKING ISSUE.
UM, BECAUSE I DO HAVE AT MY OTHER PROPERTY, ONE OF THE GENTLEMEN THAT ONLY HAS ONE CAR.
UM, AND SO HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OTHER VEHICLES OR, UM, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO I DO PERMIT AND HAVE THE DESIGNATION FOR THE PARKING SPOTS AS WELL.
I KNOW IT WAS LISTED AS AN ISSUE WITH THE SIZE OF CARS, BUT THAT'S WHY I HAVE DRIVEWAY GOTCHA.
AND STUFF LIKE THAT, THAT ARE LONGER, THAT'S WHERE I PARKED MY TRUCK IN THE DRIVEWAY.
BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING AT YOUR SITE PLAN FOR PARKING FIVE AND SIX, BUT THAT SPACE'S NEXT, 'CAUSE THAT ALLEYWAY, IT'S FOR IT'S ACCESSIBLE, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
WOULD YOU CONSIDER MAYBE MOVING YOUR PARKING SPACES FROM ADELL STREET, WHICH WOULD BE AN ISSUE INTO THAT ENTRANCE INTO, FROM THE ALLEYWAY INTO THAT PROPERTY THAT YOU HAVE DEAD SPACE ABOUT 9,095? YES, SIR.
THAT'S WHAT I PURPO THAT'S WHAT I HAD SAID TO, UH, MR. FUENTES THERE.
I SAID WE CAN MOVE IT BACK THERE AND GET IT OFF OF ADELE.
AND YOU WOULD TAKE OFF THAT THE FORCE, ALL THOSE SPACES OFF THAT STREET WOULD BE A HINGING ON THE NEIGHBORS? YES, SIR, WE CAN.
UM, COMMISSIONER BARDOS? YEAH, I, I HAVE A QUESTION.
I JUST WANT ON THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN RIGHT NOW, IT SAYS FOUR DWELLING UNITS WITH WITH ALTERNATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS.
UH, DID THAT MEAN TO THREE DWELLING UNITS? YES.
UH, STAFF IS RECOMMENDING DENIAL OF THE FOUR WITH FOUR BY THREE.
UM, I, I HAVE, UM, A QUESTION TO OUR ATTORNEY HERE FOR STAFF ATTORNEY.
UM, IN ALL THESE RESOLUTIONS AND ZONING CASES, WHETHER THE APPLICANT IS A, IS APPROVED OR DENIED THIS, HE HAS THE RIGHT TO GO TO CITY COUNCIL.
SO THE, UNLESS THE CASE GETS CONTINUED UNDER THE U D C, THEN IT WOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH THE RECOMMENDATION.
UH, COMMISSIONER REYES QUESTIONS, QUICK QUESTION AND THEN I'LL ASK THE NEIGHBORS.
UM, AS FAR AS ACCESS AND THE PARKING, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT CATON AVENUE, MOST OF THE PROPERTIES ON CATON AVENUE, AND YOU CAN CORRECT ME, UH, HAVE ACCESS OFF OF CATON OR RIGSBY, AND THAT'S THE EAST WEST THOROUGHFARES.
LOOKING AT, UH, GOOGLE MAPS, MOST OF THE HOMES HAVE ACCESS COMING OFF OF CATON OR RIGSBY, CORRECT? CORRECT.
SO NOW ADELE WOULD BE THE EXCEPTION.
AND YOU HAVE FOUR SPACES ON THE DELL.
AND LOOKING AT THE UTILITY POLES, THAT'S GONNA BE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
SO I HEARD BEFORE THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO MAYBE TUCK THOSE PARKING SPACES OFF OF ADELE.
AND THEN THE QUESTION FOR MR. ROHR, UH, AND AM I CORRECT IN THAT MOST OF THE PROPERTIES HAVE DRIVEWAYS EITHER OFF OF CATON OR RIGSBY? MR. ROAR, YOU'LL HAVE TO COME UP TO ADDRESS THAT, PLEASE.
YOU'RE ASKING IF THEY HAVE ACCESSED OFF OF ADELE.
MOST DRIVEWAYS I'M SEEING ON GOOGLE MAPS, THE DRIVEWAY COMES OFF OF CATON EXCEPT FOR THIS PROPERTY.
UH, THERE'S NO DRIVEWAY THERE.
IT'S NOT, IT'S THEY, HE CUT A SPOT OUT OF THE, OUT OF THE SIDE YARD IN THESE PARKING CARS IN THERE.
UH, IF THOSE CARS REMAIN THERE, THE, THE CITY'S GONNA PROBABLY HAVE TO DRIVE A, PUT A SIDEWALK RIGHT DOWN THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF IT.
THAT'S GONNA CREATE A PROBLEM.
IF THE CARS PARK ON THE SIDEWALK, YOU'VE GOT THE SAME PROBLEM.
THE PEDESTRIANS ARE FORCED OUT IN THE STREET, BICYCLISTS.
EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO GO AROUND THOSE CARS.
YOU KNOW, IT'S A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING.
THAT'S WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR, SINGLE FAMILY.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHY WE HAVE TO GET AWAY FROM THAT.
WE, WE, WE ARE GONNA, IT'S EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING AS PROPERTY OWNERS.
IT, IT'S EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING FOR US.
WE'RE NOT, WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ZONING.
BUT THEN YOU HAVE, SOMEONE COMES IN HERE THAT APPARENTLY KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT, HE BOUGHT ANOTHER HOUSE.
CASA DEL LARGO, THE BIG HOUSE.
IT'S NOT A BIG HOUSE, IT'S FOUR LITTLE HOUSES.
AND HE'S GONNA CONTINUE TO DO THAT WHEREVER HE CAN FIND A PIECE OF PROPERTY, BREAK IT UP.
HIS FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO LIVE THERE.
WHY DOESN'T HIS FAMILY LIVE THERE? BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANNA LIVE WITH FOUR FAMILIES LIVING ON A PROPERTY.
WE'VE SUFFERED THROUGH THAT FOR 20 YEARS.
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20 YEARS WE SUFFERED THROUGH THAT.IT BECAME VERY QUIET FOR THE NEXT THREE OR FOUR YEARS.
BUT NOW WE'RE, WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR THAT.
TO COME IN AND SAY, WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A FAMILY ORIENTED NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND HE'S OUT TO MAKE A DOLLAR.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO HE HURTS, HE WANTS TO MAKE THE DOLLAR.
ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? LEFT? LOOKING RIGHT? UM, LET THE RECORDS SHOW THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER BUSANTE, UH, DROPPED OFF AT ABOUT TWO 50.
CAN I SAY SOMETHING TO THAT? UM, GOT MY CHARACT.
WELL, THAT, WELL, LET'S, LET ME ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
UH, FIRST, THE FIRST QUESTION IS, UH, I GUESS TO YOU, UH, MR. GOODELL, UM, SO DID YOU CREATE THE PARKING IN THE SIDE YARD? NO, IT'S ALL BEEN, EVERYTHING'S EXISTING.
I, SO, SO THAT, THAT PARKING, I JUST CLEANED IT AND I'M TRYING TO IMPROVE IT.
I'VE NOTHING, DID YOU ASK THE CITY, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK YOU CAN PARK THERE.
UM, I, I LOOKED DOWN THE STREET ON ADELE.
THERE'S A SIDEWALK, AS COMMISSIONER REYES POINTED OUT, THERE'S A UTILITY POLE, USUALLY THE RIGHT OF WAYS.
UM, GO TO THE BACKSIDE OF YOUR SIDEWALK.
UM, BUT, UM, I GUESS THE, THE OTHER QUESTION IS FOR STAFF.
DOES WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PARKING, DO GARAGES COUNT AS OFFSITE PARKING OR IS IT ONLY YES.
SO THEN I HAVE TWO STALLS IN THE GARAGE.
SO THOSE ARE STILL BEING USED AS PARKING.
YOU CAN STILL USE THOSE AS PARKING? I'LL BE HONEST, THEY'RE CURRENTLY STORAGE.
BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY I'M GONNA NEED IT NOW.
BECAUSE CAN I JUST STATE THAT, THAT THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF EVERYONE AND HELP AS MUCH AS I CAN.
UM, AND SO I'LL, I'LL DO WHATEVER FENCING, PARKING I'LL, I'LL DO WHATEVER WE NEED.
UM, 'CAUSE I DON'T NEED TO STATE ON THE AFFORDING IT 'CAUSE OKAY.
ALRIGHT, WELL THAT WAS ALL THE QUESTIONS I THINK I HAD.
UM, SO COMMISSIONER FUENTES TO YOU FOR MOTION AND DISCUSSION.
SO, UM, BEFORE I, BEFORE I ISSUE A MOTION OR ANYTHING, I, I WOULD LIKE TO STATE THAT THERE'S, UH, BEEN A, A FEW THINGS BROUGHT UP AND MANY A TIMES THE, THE POINT OF BEING A FAMILY ORIENTED, UH, HOME OR NEIGHBORHOOD.
BUT I'LL SAY THAT FAMILIES NEED DIVERSITY IN HOUSING.
IT'S NOT JUST A SINGLE FAMILY HOME.
AND THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE CITY IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.
UM, SO I, I WON'T PUT TOO MUCH WEIGHT IN THAT I KNOW THAT NOT EVERYONE CAN AFFORD TO BUY A SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING.
NOT EVERYONE CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY OUTRIGHT.
SO WE DO NEED THOSE, THAT DIVERSITY OUT THERE.
UM, AND MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING DOESN'T NECESSARILY CONSTITUTE SOMEONE A BAD CHARACTER.
MANY PEOPLE LIVE IN MULTIFAMILY HOUSING.
THAT'S PERFECTLY GOOD CHARACTER.
UM, I DO WANT TO SEE THE PARKING AND THAT, UH, FENCING AT LEAST AROUND THE REAR AND ON THE SIDES, UH, ADDRESSED IN THE SITE PLAN.
UH, SO I WILL BE ASKING FOR A TWO WEEK CONTINUANCE SO THAT WE CAN GET THOSE REVISIONS ON THE SITE PLAN.
SEE THAT? AND, UM, WE'LL GO FROM THERE.
SO THE MOTION IS FOR A TWO WEEK CONTINUANCE.
THE MOTION IS AND A SECOND DISCUSSION.
IT'S A FOUR WEEK, UH, CONTINUANCE OF JULY 18TH.
A FOUR WEEK CONTINUANCE BECAUSE OF THE HOLIDAY.
OH, YOU MEAN WE GET A DAY OFF.
AND, UH, COMMISSIONER WATSON SECONDED.
ANY DISCUSSION? COMMISSIONER WATSON? UM, I DO WANNA REITERATE, UM, COMMISSIONER FUENTES IS POINT.
I AM A RENTER IN A THREE UNIT COMPLEX AND I CARE ENOUGH ABOUT MY COMMUNITY TO HAVE SERVED AS A NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT FOR FOUR YEARS, UM, AND ON THIS COMMISSION.
AND SO, UM, IT IS IMPORTANT TO RESPECT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY.
IF YOU'RE CHOOSING TO BUY IN THE COMMUNITY, THEN IT IS INCUMBENT UPON YOU IN SPITE OF WHATEVER OTHER OBLIGATIONS YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE TO ENGAGE THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, I APPRECIATE THAT YOU'VE MADE SOME CHANGES.
I WOULD SUGGEST BEFORE YOU COME BACK IN FOUR WEEKS THAT YOU HAVE A COMMUNITY MEETING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND THE SUPPORT THAT YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE
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DOCUMENTED.UM, TO THAT POINT, THERE MAY BE PEOPLE WHO CONTINUE TO EXPRESS OPPOSITION AND THERE MAY BE SOME ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, BUT WE NEED TO SEE IT IN WRITING SPEED.
WE CAN'T JUST TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT.
UM, AND CONTINUING TO ADDRESS CONCERNS FOR THE COMMUNITY IS VERY IMPORTANT.
UM, THE PARKING ISSUES I THINK YOU'VE ADDRESSED.
UM, PLEASE USE YOUR EXISTING PARKING IF YOU CAN AND MAKE SURE YOU TALK TO ANY CITY DEPARTMENTS BEFORE YOU MAKE PLANS.
UM, AND COME WITH THAT DOCUMENTATION WHEN YOU COME BACK.
UM, JUST BECAUSE MULTIFAMILY IS IN A NEIGHBORHOOD DOES NOT MEAN THE QUALITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD DIMINISHES.
UM, I ALSO WANNA REITERATE AS A CD, UH, THE OWNER WILL BE HELD TO THE SITE PLAN AND, UH, YOU ARE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO HAVE THREE SHORT-TERM RENTALS IN THERE BECAUSE THE PERMITTING PROCESS WITH THE CITY WILL NOT ALLOW WITHOUT GOING TO BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS.
SO JUST WANNA PUT THAT OUT THERE.
UM, BUT IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THIS, PLEASE BRING DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE BACK, UM, AND MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY IS FULLY ENGAGED.
UM, IF YOU'RE GONNA BE IN A COMMUNITY, YOU HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO BE PART OF IT.
AND I THINK THE CONCERNS EXPRESSED, UM, BY THE NEIGHBORS ARE, ARE VALID ONES AND WORK TOGETHER BEFORE YOU COME BACK.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? COMMISSIONERS, LEFT.
UM, SIR, ARE WE ABOUT TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS TO Y'ALL? NOT YET.
THE QUESTION PART, UM, UH, COMMISSIONER WATSON ALWAYS MAKES GREAT COMMENTS, AS DOES COMMISSIONER FUENTES.
UM, AND, UH, I AM, I AM REALLY GLAD YOU ASKED FOR A, A, A CONTINUANCE BECAUSE, UM, I THOUGHT THERE WERE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT STILL NEEDED TO BE ANSWERED BEFORE WE COULD MAKE A DECISION ON THIS.
UM, AND, UH, I WANT TO ECHO WHAT, UH, COMMISSIONER WATSON SAID.
I LIVE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD, OLDER NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, LIKE HIGHLAND PARK AREA, UM, WHERE WE, I HAVE SINGLE FAMILY ON MY STREET, BUT ONE BLOCK DOWN, WE'VE GOT A TRIPLEX, A BLOCK DOWN FROM THAT.
THERE'S DUPLEX AND, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S A MIX OF ALL KINDS OF USES.
UM, SO WITH THAT SAID, THE MOTION IS BY COMMISSIONER FUENTES FOR A FOUR WEEK CONTINUANCE.
SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WATSON.
ALRIGHT, WELL WE WILL SEE Y'ALL IN A MONTH.
USUALLY WE TAKE A BREAK, BUT WE HAVE ONE CASE LEFT.
HUH? AND SO WHAT DO Y'ALL WANT? Y'ALL WANT TO JUST POWER THROUGH.
WE'RE GONNA GO TO THE LAST CASE OF THE DAY, WHICH IS NUMBER 13.
AND, UH, JUST FOR THE RECORD, COMMISSIONER BARROS LEFT THE MEETING AT 3:00 PM THANK YOU.
HOW MANY DO WE HAVE LEFT? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
ELIZABETH STEWART, ZONING PLANNER WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
ITEM NUMBER 13, LOCATED AT 4 1 1 9 WILLARD DRIVE IS GOING FROM C THREE TO R FIVE CD FOR FOUR DWELLING UNITS WITH ALL OVERLAYS TO STAY THE SAME.
THERE WERE 10 NOTICES SENT OUT.
ONE RECEIVED IN FAVOR, ZERO IN OPPOSITION, NO RESPONSE FROM UNIVERSITY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND THREE, RECEIVED IN FAVOR OUTSIDE 200 FEET.
THE EXISTING C THREE GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT IS APPROPRIATE FOR THE AREA, BUT THE REQUESTED R FIVE CD RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY WITH CONDITIONAL USE IS MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THE PROPERTY AND SURROUNDING AREA.
THE C TWO COMMERCIAL DISTRICT AND C THREE GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT ARE MORE SUITED TO BANDERA ROAD.
THE REQUESTED R FIVE CD RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT WITH CONDITIONAL USE FOR FOUR DWELLING UNITS CONSTITUTES A DOWN ZONING FROM A POTENTIAL INTENSE C THREE GENERAL COMMERCIAL USES.
THE PROPOSED ZONING CREATES A BETTER TRANSITION BETWEEN THE INTENSE COMMERCIAL USES ALONG THE BANDERA CORRIDOR AND THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD ON WILLARD DRIVE, THE REQUESTED DENSITY IS ALSO APPROPRIATE GIVEN THE LOCATION CLOSE TO THE INTERSECTION OF A PRIMARY ARTERIAL IN A LOCAL STREET.
THE SIZE OF THE PROPERTY, WHICH IF WE PLOTTED AT R FIVE RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY STANDARDS LIKE THE NEARBY NEIGHBORHOOD COULD ACCOMMODATE FOUR LOTS.
EACH CONTAINING A PRIMARY STRUCTURE AND AN ACCESSORY DWELLING.
THE REQUESTED ZONING SETS THE SITE PLAN TO A DENSITY OF FOUR UNITS.
STAFF DOES NOT FIND LI ADV STAFF DOES NOT FIND EVIDENCE OF LIKELY ADVERSE IMPACTS ON NEIGHBORING LANDS IN RELATION TO THE ZONING CHANGE REQUEST.
THE PROPOSED USE IS CONSISTENT WITH THE ESTABLISHED DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
THE SURROUNDING AREA STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL AND IS AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS AND THE APPLICANT IS PRESENT.
IF WE COULD HAVE THE APPLICANT PLEASE.
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HELLO, GOOD AFTERNOON.MY NAME IS CARLOS VELAR, AND, UH, I'M THE OWNER OF THE LOT.
AND, UH, I HAD LIVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR MORE THAN, UH, 30 YEARS.
I JUST, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I JUST MOVED OUT.
BUT, UH, WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO, TO, JUST SO YOU KNOW, UH, I BOUGHT THIS PROPERTY FROM, UH, CHURCH NEXT DOOR.
HIS NAME, UH, HIS NAME, HIS NAME WAS, UH, LAZARO.
AND GLORIA, I THINK IT WAS THE PASTOR AT THE TIME, OR ONE OF THE OFFICERS IN THERE.
AND I HAVE A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY AND I USE THE PROPERTY FOR, UH, FOR MY SHOP, FOR MY YARD TO STORE MY BA, MY MY EQUIPMENT AND PEOPLE NEXT DOOR, WHICH WAS THE CHURCH, YOU KNOW, STARTING COMPLAINING.
AND WE MOVE OUT AND, UH, BOUGHT ME ANOTHER PROPERTY ON, UM, BY KELLY.
AND, UH, WE TRY TO MAKE IT A, A A A A 1618 UNIT, UH, SENIOR LIVING, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR SENIOR, FOR SENIORS, A PRIVATE, PRIVATE COMMUNITY.
AND IT WAS REJECTED FIRST IT WAS SAID, OKAY.
AND THEN THEY, THEY DID LIKE TWO CONTINGENCY BECAUSE, UH, THEY, THEY WANTED TO TALK TO ME.
SO THEY OFFERED ME TO BUY THE PROPERTY.
AND I TOLD HIM YES, WHEN I BOUGHT THE PROPERTY.
AT THE TIME I PAID, I PAID HIGH PREMIUM BECAUSE, UH, I PAID WHAT HE WANTED, WHICH WAS TWO, THREE TIMES THE, THE COST OF THE, OF THE PROPERTY.
SO I DID, I BOUGHT IT FROM HIM BECAUSE I NEEDED TO, I NEEDED THE PROPERTY.
SO I, I, I TOLD THAT, UH, CHURCH, YOU KNOW, THAT I WAS SELLING BACK THE SAME WAY, SAME PERCENTAGE THAT IT WAS, THAT I PAY ABOVE THAT, THE BA THE PROPERTY OR THE VALUE.
SO THEN THEY OPPOSED THE, THE, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THE LIVING THAT, UH, THE COMMUNITY LIVING THAT WAS TRYING TO BUILD IN THERE.
SO, UH, THERE WAS, IN 2016, 17, WE LET IT GO.
WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT.
SO I WENT BACK AGAIN, I CHOKED, I REACHED TO THE, TO THE DISTRICT SEVEN.
AND, UH, FOUND OUT THAT SHE WAS FIXING TO RETIRE FOR SOME REASON.
WHAT, WHATEVER REASON I TALKED TO MR. ERIC, ERIC DE LUNA.
HE WAS THE, THE, THE, THE, THE PLANNER FOR THE DISTRICT.
I REACHED TO, I, I REACHED TO THE OWNERS NEXT TO THE CHURCH.
THE CHURCH NEXT TO MY LOT, ON AND ON TOWARDS BAND'S SIDE IS A RETAIL CENTER.
AND, AND THEY OKAY IT, THEY SAID WHAT? THEY WERE OKAY WITH IT.
THE PEOPLE NEXT TO THE CHURCH, UH, I TRY TO REACH THEM AND YOU NEVER COULD, COULD REACH 'EM.
HE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S A TALK TO THE NEIGHBORS AROUND THERE.
SO I GOT THE SIGNATURES OF THE TWO NEIGHBORS AFTER THE PROPERTY.
AND UH, THEY OKAY, IT, I GOT THE SIGNATURES AND IT TRIED TO REACH THE CHURCH.
SO HE, HE SAID IT WAS, HE PROPOSED IT WAS OKAY.
THEY GOT THE PAPER, UH, THE PAPERWORK, AND WE'RE TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, FROM, UH, 16 UNIT.
AND WE WENT TO RESIDENTIAL TO TO THERE AGAIN TO GIVE US THE CHANCE THAT IT WOULD BE MAINLY TO, TO MY WORKERS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY WANTED TO RENT OR, YOU KNOW, SO, AND, UH, IT IS BEEN, UH, IT'S BEEN MY DREAM BECAUSE, UH, YEAH, LIKE, LIKE THE CUSTOMER BEFORE, YEAH, I WANT TO MAKE SOME MONEY OUT OF IT BECAUSE FIXING TO RETIRE, YOU KNOW, AND, UH, AND MY SON AND REST OF MY FAMILY, THEY LIVE, THEY LIVE CLOSE BY, YOU KNOW, WE USED TO LIVE ON CONTINENTAL, WHICH IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ST.
I MOVED, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, I'M NOT LIVING THERE ANYMORE FOR BASKETBALL OF YEARS.
BUT, UH, SO JUST TRYING TO BUILD SOMETHING NICE.
IT'S GONNA BE, MOST OF IT PRIVATE.
THERE'S, UH, PLENTY OF THE, THE DRIVEWAY SPACE.
WE GOT 20 FOOT FOOT, 25 FOOT WIDE DRIVEWAY TO IN AND OUT.
12, 12 FOOT IN NINE, 12 FOOT, 16, 12 FOOT OUT.
SO, UH, IT'S GONNA BE NICE, UH, WOOD FENCE AROUND BRAND NEW HOUSES.
UH, IT'LL BE AFFORDABLE FOR MY EMPLOYEES OR FOR WHOEVER WANTS TO, UH, LIVE IN A BRAND NEW HOUSE THAT, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY.
AND DID WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS? WE DO.
WE HAVE, UM, FOLKS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
WE HAVE FIRST MR. JAMES WILBURN.
UH, I'M JAMES WILBURN, 42 23 WHEELER DRIVE.
UM, MY BACKYARD IS FILLED WITH WOODS AND WE KIND OF LIKE RIGHT NEXT TO THE CHURCH AND KIND OF PUSHING UP RIGHT WHERE THAT PROPERTY IS GONNA BE BUILT.
AND AS WE HEARD WITH THE TESTIMONY, UM, THROUGHOUT THE DAY, PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT PEACE AND SECURITY AND IT'S A VERY QUIET, PEACEFUL NEIGHBORHOOD.
BUT THE PROBLEM IS, WE HAVE NO CLUE WHAT IS COMING INTO THAT PROPERTY ONCE IT'S BUILT.
YOU COULD ALWAYS SAY, WE'RE GONNA DO THIS, WE'RE GONNA DO THAT, WE'RE GONNA, WE WANT THIS PERSON IN HERE AND THAT.
BUT ONCE IT'S BUILT, IT'S A FREE FOR ALL.
I HAD, IT WAS A VERY PEACEFUL NEIGHBORHOOD AND A FEW YEARS
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AGO, A LOT OF PEOPLE MOVED INTO OUR STREET.AND IT'S A DIFFERENT GAME NOW.
AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST NUISANCES THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO IS YET TO ADDRESS IS SOUND SYSTEMS WITH BASE WOLFERS THAT CAN PENETRATE YOUR HOUSE FROM TWO 300 YARDS AWAY.
YOU KNOW? AND THE PROBLEM IS, A LOT OF MY NEIGHBORS HAVE THOSE IN THEIR CARS.
SO THE PEACE AND TRANQUILITY IN THE SOUTH SIDE OF OUR STREET HAS NOW CHANGED.
NOW YOU GO TO THE BACK PART WHERE THE PROPERTY IS GONNA BE BUILT NEXT TO A SCHOOL YARD, AND WE JUST DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GONNA COME IN THERE AND WHAT KIND OF SOUND SYSTEMS ARE GONNA ACCOMPANY PEOPLE LIVING IN THERE THAT'S GONNA CHANGE THE PIECE AND TRANQUILITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THAT IS MY BIGGEST CONCERN, IS A BIG MYSTERY.
IT ALL SOUNDS GREAT IN THE BEGINNING.
A FEW, A FEW YEARS DOWN THE LINE, SOMETHING COMES IN AND YOU GOT DRAMA, DRAMA, DRAMA, LIKE THE DRAMA THAT HAS MOVED IN ACROSS THE STREET FROM WHERE I LIVE.
SO HOW I, I MEAN, I WANNA SAY, YEAH, IT SOUNDS GREAT, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU END UP WITH.
SO MY CONCERN IS, UH, IS JUST WHAT ARE WE GONNA BE DEALING WITH? MAYBE NOT THE PERSON WHO LIVES THERE, LIKE, LIKE YOU'VE BEEN HEARING, BUT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO DO MOVE IN THERE.
AND SO I, I VOTED IN AGAINST IT BECAUSE THERE'S JUST, WE JUST DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, NICE FELLOW, I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S MOVING IN THERE, BUT IT'S, WHO'S GONNA MOVE IN THERE WHO JUST DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN ANYMORE.
UH, THIS IS JUST ADJACENT TO THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION.
JUST WANNA CLARIFY A FEW THINGS.
UM, OUR CHURCH WAS NEVER OWNERS OF THAT PROPERTY.
IT WAS A MEMBER IN OUR CHURCH.
IT WAS HIS PRIVATE PROPERTY AND HE'S THE ONE WHO SOLD IT.
UM, WE WENT THROUGH THIS SEVERAL YEARS AGO, UM, WHEN THEY WERE ON, PUT SOME APARTMENTS THERE.
UH, WE CAME BEFORE THE, UM, AND BEFORE THE ZONING COMMISSION.
UM, IT WAS REJECTED AT THAT TIME.
IT WAS ALSO REJECTED AS WELL WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY APPEALED IT AT THAT TIME, UH, SPOKE TO ALL OUR NEIGHBORS.
EVERY ONE OF 'EM WAS, WAS AGAINST THIS, UM, THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMMITTEE ALSO ASSOCIATION WAS ALSO AGAINST THIS AS WELL.
UH, AND THEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO, OR TWO YEARS AGO OR SO, WE HAD A MEETING AT OUR CHURCH AND WE HAD A LOT OF THE NEIGHBORS THAT WAS THERE.
UH, MS. SANDOVAL, UH, DISTRICT, UH, REPRESENTATIVE WAS THERE AS WELL.
AND WE WENT THROUGH THIS AS WELL.
AND EVERYONE, AGAIN, I THINK THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON WHO, WHO WAS IN FAVOR OF IT.
AND HE DIDN'T EVEN LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UH, EVERYONE ELSE WAS AGAINST THIS.
I DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S CHANGED HERE TODAY.
AND I'M HERE STANDING ONLY REPRESENTATIVE FOR A PARTICULAR CHURCH, BUT FOR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD THERE AS WELL.
KNOWING THEM, THEY WERE ALL AGAINST IT.
AND I, I KNOW MR. CARDO SAID HE HAS A, A, A COUPLE OF, UM, UM, SIGNATURES THERE, BUT I SPOKE TO OUR NEIGHBOR AS WELL AND, AND THEY WERE AGAINST IT ALSO.
I, I'M NOT SURE WHAT HE MUST HAVE TOLD THEM.
I'M NOT ACCUSING YOU OF ANYTHING, SIR, BUT I'M JUST SAYING THEY MAY HAVE BEEN SOME KIND OF CONFUSION BECAUSE WHEN I SPOKE TO THEM, THEY, THEY WERE AGAINST IT AS WELL.
NOW, A LOT OF THE ARGUMENTS THAT WERE PUT UP HERE JUST RECENTLY FOR THE PREVIOUS, UH, CASE, THOSE, THOSE ARE SOME OF THE SAME.
THOSE ARE SOME OF THE SAME CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE AS WELL.
UH, WE HAVE FAMILY NIGHTS SOMETIMES IN THE EVENING, DURING THE SUMMER.
UH, WE HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST TO BE A SINGLE FAMILY, UM, HOME.
AND, AND THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE MORE, UH, PAL PALPABLE, BUT PALATAL.
BUT TO HAVE FOUR DIFFERENT ONES, IT'S GONNA BE MORE LIKE RENTAL PROPERTIES.
AND AS OUR GENTLEMAN SAID AS WELL, WE JUST DON'T KNOW.
AND THERE'S NO CONTROL OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN THERE.
HOPE YOU TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION.
AND LAST, UH, MS. LUPE WILBURN.
UM, JUST LOOKING AT WHAT THIS MAN WANTS TO DO AND WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
I'VE BEEN LIVING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD FOR WHAT, 55 YEARS.
AND I'VE NOTICED A LOT OF STUFF.
MY NEIGHBORS ARE OPPOSED TO THIS.
UM, AS MY BROTHER SAID, THEY DO GET LOUD.
THEY LOVE TO SHOOT THEIR GUNS AND ALL THAT CRAZY STUFF.
OKAY? AND THESE ARE, A LOT OF 'EM SPEAK A LOT OF SPANISH AND THEY'RE IN, YOU KNOW, ACROSS THE STREET.
AND ONE OF 'EM HAS A BIG MEXICAN FLAG UP THERE.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOT EXACTLY SAFE.
EVEN MY NEIGHBOR WHO BECAME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN HAS ALSO STRESSED.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, UH, ILLEGAL STUFF GOING ON IN THE STREET.
YOU CAN TELL THEY'RE NOT FROM HERE.
UM, AND THEY DO, I THINK A LOT OF 'EM CAME IN 'CAUSE THEY HAD APARTMENTS THAT THEY MADE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ANOTHER PLACE.
AND THEY WALK UP AND DOWN OUR STREET ALL NIGHT LONG.
AND THEN A LADY IN THE CORNER OF, OF THE STORE OF WALGREENS SAYS SHE, SHE GOES, YOU KNOW, I WATCH DRUG DEALS GOING
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ALL DAY LONG.AND THEY WALK UP AND DOWN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT'S THROUGH THE APARTMENTS THAT CAME IN.
AND OF COURSE, THE HOUSING, WHICH HAS CHANGED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, A LOT OF THESE ILLEGALS THAT ARE COMING IN, THEY'RE BRINGING OUR LA FAMILIA IN.
NOW HE WANTS A, AN APARTMENT IN A LITTLE AREA, WHICH I LOOK AT.
IT'S LIKE, WHY? YOU KNOW, THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS QUIET OR USED TO BE QUIET.
WHAT, WHAT IS HE GONNA BRING IN? WHO'S GONNA MOVE INTO THESE, INTO THESE APARTMENTS? IT IS A PROBLEM ALREADY.
AND WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE APARTMENTS 'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHO'S COMING IN.
AND YOU LOOK AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S NOT EXACTLY, YOU KNOW, AKAY, YOU KNOW, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE HOUSES THAT I'VE KNOWN FOR QUITE SOME TIME, LAW ABIDING CITIZENS.
BUT THERE'S A LOT OF 'EM THAT DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH AND THEY'RE NOT FROM HERE.
OKAY, I AM JUST LETTING YOU KNOW.
HE MAKES APARTMENTS AND HEY, COME ON IN.
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING.
AND, UH, I THINK ACROSS THE STREET THERE WAS A NEW MAN THAT MOVED IN AND, UH, NEXT DAY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S COPS.
I'M LIKE, WHAT HAPPENED? HE'S BEATING HIS WIFE, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE HIS KIDS OUT THERE AND THERE'S ALL SORTS OF STUFF GOING ON.
SO I JUST THINK HAVING AN APARTMENT THERE AND WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOT A VERY GOOD IDEA.
AND I CAN'T REALLY SAY MY NEIGHBORHOOD IS SAFE.
UM, MR. HALA, DID YOU WANNA HAVE A SHORT REBUTTAL? YES.
UH, WELL, THIS SITUATION IS WAY DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHER ONE THAT HAS NO PARKING SPACES.
THIS IS A, HE, HE AN ACRE LOT, A LITTLE BIT BIGGER THAN HE.
EACH LOT IS, IT'S OVER FIVE TOWN SQUARE FEET.
SO I MEAN, IT'S GONNA HAVE IT'S INDIVIDUAL DRIVEWAY.
IT'S GONNA BE FENCED ALL THE WAY AROUND.
IT'S GONNA HAVE INDIVIDUAL DRIVEWAY, UH, TWO PARKING SPACES ON HIS DRIVEWAY.
UH, UH, IT'S IN YOUR HANDS, BUT, UH, YOU CANNOT JUDGE SOMEBODY THAT YOU DON'T KNOW.
YOU KNOW, WE KNOW WHO'S COMING.
BUT THEY CAN BE THE BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD.
IT CAN BE, YOU KNOW, IT'S, I CANNOT THAT IF, IF YOU ASK ME WHO, WHO AM I BRINGING? NO, I DON'T KNOW.
MY IDEA IS TO, TO TO, TO, TO GET TO A, ACCOMMODATE SOME OF MY, UH, OF MY, UH, FELLOW, UH, EMPLOYEES AND MAYBE SOME OF MY FAMILY, BECAUSE IT WOULD BE NICE, ONE BRAND NEW.
IT'S NOT A LITTLE TINY, TINY HOUSE, YOU KNOW, THIS LIKE NICE HOUSES, OKAY.
THAT, UH, THAT I WISH, YOU KNOW, WOULD, HAD THE CHANCE TO LIVE IN SOMETHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW? YOU KNOW.
SO ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS, IS, YOU KNOW, YOU CANNOT JUDGE FOR SOMETHING YOU HAVEN'T SEEN FOR, YOU KNOW, UH, YEAH, IT'S A NICE, IT IS A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UH, UH, I DON'T LIVE, I DON'T, I DON'T LIVE THERE.
I USED TO LIVE CLOSE BY IN CONTINENTAL, BUT, UH, BUT, UH, I MEAN, IT'S, WELL, YOU CANNOT JUDGE FOR SOMEBODY.
SO YEAH, MAYBE BECOMING GOOD PERSON, MAYBE IF YOU WANNA JUDGE SOMEBODY FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW, BUT THEN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE, WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU? THANK YOU.
UH, THIS IS A DISTRICT SEVEN CASE, SO THIS GOES TO ME.
UM, I ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
UM, SO I'LL SEE COMMISSIONERS TO MY LEFT.
UM, I THINK PART OF MY TIME WAS TAKING TIME, CORRECT? WHAT HE HAD SAID, CLARIFYING WHAT HE HAD SAID WHAT I NEEDED TO SAY.
NO, THAT'S, THE PUBLIC HEARING'S BEEN CLOSED.
UM, QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONER'S ON MY LEFT.
COMMISSIONER ORTIZ, THE APPLICANT.
WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A SITE PLAN OR ANYTHING? MAYBE.
DO YOU DO HAVE A SITE PLAN? THAT'S THE ONE.
I'M GONNA ASK YOU A COUPLE QUESTIONS IF YOU CAN COME TO THE MICROPHONE, SIR.
ON YOUR SITE PLAN, ARE YOU PROPO, HOW MANY, I GUESS HOW MANY RESIDENTS OR PE TENANTS ARE YOU PLA UH, PLANNING TO HAVE ON THE FOUR UNITS? IS IT GONNA BE THREE PER UNIT OR TWO PER UNIT? THAT THAT'LL BE, IF, IF, UH, IF A FAMILY OR 2, 3, 1.
YOU KNOW, I CANNOT TELL SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, JUST ONE PERSON.
HOW MANY? IT CAN BE TWO, THREE PERSON TO, YOU KNOW, UH, MY, MY MY, MY BIGGEST IDEA IS TO, TO TO, TO RENT THE FIRST TO MY EMPLOYEES, YOU KNOW, UH, MY EMPLOYEES, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY GET, THEY GREW UP WITH ME.
I'VE BEEN DOING, UH, CONSTRUCTION WORK FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, AND THEY'RE GETTING OLD.
THEY'LL, THEY'LL, THEY'LL BE MY FIRST OPTION TO MY EMPLOYEES THAT THEY CANNOT AFFORD A HOUSE.
SO THEY'LL BE THE FIRST ONE TO, I'M GONNA GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO, TO LIVE IN THERE WITH, WITH A FAMILY.
PROBABLY PEOPLE ON THEIR SIXTIES MY AGE.
BUT I WAS ASKING, THAT'S THE MAIN IDEA AFTER THAT, YOU KNOW.
BUT I WAS IN HOW MANY BEDROOMS PER UNIT? OH, IT, IT HAS TO THREE BEDROOMS, THREE BEDROOMS. THREE BEDROOMS. OH, YES.
THESE HOUSES, THERE'S PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANNA SAY ANYTHING IN THE ROOM, BUT IT'S PROBABLY BETTER THAN MINE WHEN I LEAVE, YOU KNOW, 12 UNITS.
AND THEN THE PARKING WOULD BE INSIDE THE GATED
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INSIDE IN THE GATED, YES, CORRECT.AND THEN I HEARD SOME OF THE NEIGHBORS TALKING ABOUT SPEAKERS AND STUFF.
I KNOW I CAN'T RECOMMEND ANYTHING.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO SAY TOWARDS THAT, AT LEAST? MAYBE TIME.
WELL LET, THERE AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW WHO, WHO'S GONNA COME TO IT.
I KNOW, BUT MAYBE LIKE, HAVE, WOULD YOU BE RECOMMEND, RECOMMEND A TIME? I COULD IF YOU WANT ME TO PUT SOME RESTRICTION YES.
THAT WOULD BE, WE CAN'T RECOMMEND IT WOULD BE SOMETHING UPON YOU'D BE WILLING TO CONSIDER.
I CAN PUT ANY, ANY TENTION THAT YOU WANT ME TO PUT, YOU KNOW, LIKE, 'CAUSE I'M GONNA MAKE A CONTRACT WITH, YOU KNOW, WHOEVER WANTS TO LIVE IN THERE.
SO IF YOU WOULD TELL ME, PUT IN THERE.
NO, NO, NO SPEAKERS, NO, NO MOTORCYCLES.
YEAH, NO, I WOULD JUST KIND OF RECOMMEND IT.
MAKE US LISTENING TO YOUR NEIGHBORS.
THAT WAY THEY CAN KIND OF BE IN SUPPORT WITH WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO.
I HAVE NO MORE FURTHER QUESTIONS.
ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, YES, COMMISSIONER NICKS? WELL, I, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT, UM, I APPRECIATE THE NEIGHBORS COMING IN CONCERNED ABOUT THE, UH, NOISE, ET CETERA.
BUT LOOKING AT THE ALTERNATIVE, IF IT STAYS A C THREE, THEN ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL CAN GO IN WITH EVEN MORE NOISE.
UM, I SUGGEST YOU MIGHT WORK WITH THE APPLICANT IF YOU WANT TO, TO, TO KIND OF WORK THROUGH AND SEE WHAT THEY HAVE.
I'D MUCH RATHER SEE IT RESIDENTIAL THAN IN A COMMERCIAL RIGHT THERE NEXT TO THE SCHOOL AND IN INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOU'RE GOING.
COMMISSIONERS ON MY LEFT OR RIGHT? THAT THAT'S LEFT.
UM, THIS, THIS BECAME A SURPRISINGLY DIFFICULT CASE.
UH, DISTRICTS, THE DISTRICTS SEVEN OFFICE HAS ACTUALLY NOT HEARD ANY OPPOSITION UNTIL TODAY, BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
UM, AND SO IT'S KIND OF SURPRISING, UM, BECAUSE AS COMMISSIONER NICKS MENTIONED, UM, AT FACE VALUE, THIS SEEMS LIKE A SLAM DUNK.
YOU'VE GOT C THREE WITHOUT ANY ALCOHOL RESTRICTION AND YOU'RE REZONING IT TO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL CONDIT.
UM, IF THE LOT WAS REZONED TO, UH, THE SAME R FIVE ZONING AS STAFF MENTIONED OF THE SURROUNDING DOWN THE STREET, YOU COULD SPLIT IT UP INTO FOUR HOMES.
YOU COULD SPLIT JUST, AND, AND SO HIS PROPOSAL IS BASICALLY TO DO THAT, BUT BY ALLOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF EXTRA STREET KIND OF, BUT IT LOCKS IN A SITE PLAN AND SOME OTHER THINGS.
UM, BUT I'M GONNA ASK, I GUESS BEFORE I MAKE A MOTION, UH, IF THE APPLICANT WOULD BE WILLING TO HAVE A FOUR WEEK CONTINUANCE AND GO AND HAVE A MEETING, I'LL TALK WITH DISTRICT SEVEN ABOUT ORGANIZING A MEETING TO SO THAT Y'ALL CAN GET TOGETHER AND THEN WE, YOU KNOW, AND TALK OVER SOME THINGS.
YOU CAN EXPLAIN WHAT YOUR PROPOSAL IS SO THEY'RE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH IT.
I THINK THERE'S SOME, SOME MISCOMMUNICATION.
UM, AND, AND THEN WE GET BACK TOGETHER IN FOUR WEEKS.
WELL IN THAT CASE, MY MOTION IS FOR A FOUR WEEK CONTINUANCE.
I DON'T KNOW WHO SAID THAT, BUT COMMISSIONER WATSON WAS RIGHT NEXT TO ME.
SO I WILL GO WITH COMMISSIONER WATSON FOR THE SECOND.
UM, I'M SURE THERE'S GONNA BE DISCUSSION, SO WE WILL OPEN IT UP ON THE RIGHT.
IS ANYONE WANNA DISCUSS? NO DISCUSSION.
OKAY, SO THE EXISTING ZONING IS A C THREE, WHICH MEANS THAT BAR TAVERNER, NIGHTCLUB, AMUSEMENT THEME PARKS, DANCE HALLS, INDOOR MOVIE THEATERS, AUTO REPAIR, AUTO SALES, AUTO GLASS SALES, AUTO MUFFLER, HOTEL BOOK BINDER, DRY CLEANING OR LAUNDRY PLANS, INDOOR FLEA MARKETS, HOME IMPROVEMENT CENTERS, BODY PIERCING MASSAGE, TATTOO PARLORS, ET CETERA ARE ALL PERMITTED AS IT IS CURRENTLY ZONED.
I DO BELIEVE THAT THE ALTERNATIVE BEING PROPOSED IS GOING TO LIMIT NOISE SUBSTANTIALLY, COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING.
UH, THOUGH I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS ALWAYS A CONCERN WHEN SOMETHING NEW HAPPENS, ESPECIALLY ON A VACANT LOT PRIVATE PROPERTY CAN BE DEVELOPED.
THE PROPERTY OWNER HAS A RIGHT TO DO THAT.
THE BENEFIT OF THIS PROPOSAL IS THAT AS A CD, THE SITE PLAN THAT'S PROPOSED HERE IS WHAT IS GOING TO BE REQUIRED OF THIS PROPERTY OWNER, ANY FUTURE PROPERTY OWNER WITHOUT COMING BACK TO DO A REZONING APPLICATION.
UM, I AM SUPPORTING THE MOTION FOR A FOUR WEEK CONTINUANCE SO THAT THE APPLICANT CAN GO HAVE A FORMAL MEETING, WHETHER IT'S IN THE CHURCH FORUM WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, WITH THE SUPPORT OF DISTRICT SEVEN OFFICE.
I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU COME BACK WITH WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF SUPPORT, AT LEAST WITHIN THE 200 FEET AND YOU MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS ON THE SAME PAGE AND HAS THE SAME FACTS AND INFORMATION, UM, ABOUT WHAT IT IS YOU'RE TRYING TO PROPOSE AND THINK THROUGH SOME OF
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THE THINGS LIKE WHAT WOULD BE, UM, REQUIRED ON YOUR LEASE APPLICATION SO THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY.UM, WHAT IS GONNA BE REQUIRED OR PERMITTED, UM, FOR YOUR TENANTS, ET CETERA, THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS, WHICH ARE VALID CONCERNS, UM, TO THE NEIGHBORS.
I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU CONSIDER THIS PROPOSAL.
UM, IT IS SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED OVER WHAT IS CURRENTLY ALLOWED BY WRIGHT.
HE COULD PUT IN A BAR THERE AND HE CAN DO THAT RIGHT NOW WITH NO ALCOHOL RESTRICTIONS.
UM, AND SO AS THE LOT ALLOWS, SO THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT OVER THAT.
UM, AGAIN, I IMPLORE YOU TO WORK TOGETHER AND TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL OF YOUR FACTS CORRECT AND THAT YOU ARE COMMUNICATING CLEARLY AND THAT EVERY EFFORT IS MADE TO MAKE SURE NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS ARE ADDRESSED, UM, THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE PROPOSAL.
AGAIN, BECAUSE THERE'S A SITE PLAN HERE, THIS IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN, UM, WITHOUT A REZONE.
IF THIS ZONING IS PERMITTED CURRENTLY, HE COULD DO ANY OF THOSE THINGS WITH C THREE, UM, WHICH IS GOING TO CREATE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE NOISE AND SAFETY ISSUES FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.
UM, SO WITH THAT SAID, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE IN FOUR WEEKS.
UM, I WOULD ALSO, UH, CAUTION THE NEIGHBORS ON TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE CONTROLLING THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT CAN MOVE INTO AN AREA.
IT'S A PRIVATE, IF IT'S YOU AS PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS, YOU DON'T HAVE, YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT SOMEONE ELSE, WHO THEY SELL TO, WHO THEY LEASE TO.
AND I DON'T THINK IT HELPS A CASE TO, UM, TO BRING THAT FORTH.
SO WITH THE, UM, THE MOTION BEING FOR A CONTINUANCE SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WATSON.
ALRIGHT, WE WILL SEE YOU IN A MONTH.
UM, AND I CAN GET, IF, CAN YOU GIVE STAFF Y'ALL'S CONTACT INFORMATION SO I CAN PASS IT ON TO DISTRICT SEVEN SO THAT THEY CAN ORGANIZE SOMETHING? OKAY.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE OF THEM WANTS TO TAKE YOUR INFO, BUT CAN WE GET SOMEONE FROM STAFF TO, THERE YOU GO.
IF I COULD GET THAT TO PASS ON DISTRICT SEVEN.
UM, I BELIEVE OUR LAST ITEM IS MINUTES.
[ 19. Consideration and approval of June 6, 2023, Zoning Commission Minutes.]
SO CAN WE GET A MOTION ON MINUTES? CAN I MAKE A, AM I ALLOWED TO MAKE A MOTION? ALRIGHT, I'VE READ THE MINUTES.UM, I, I MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES SECOND.
ALRIGHT, AND THERE'S A SECOND.
[Director’s Report ]
SO JUST A QUICK REMINDER THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE A MEETING ON JULY 4TH.SO HAVE A GREAT JULY 4TH HOLIDAY.
WE WILL ALL PAY FOR IT ON JULY THE 18TH.
AS IT SEEMS. WE WILL HAVE ABOUT 36 CASES ON THAT.
AND WITH THAT, UH, THE TIME IS 3 25 ACCORDING TO THE ROMAN NUMERALS AND WE ARE ADJOURNED.