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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, it is, uh, 7:00 pm.

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like to call this meeting to order of the cedar hills city council. Um,

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a quorum of the council is present. The agenda has been duly posted,

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uh, like to make sure everyone know that concealed carry carrying of firearms

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is prohibited in the council chamber. Um, tonight we will have,

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uh, the invocation of by our very own pastor victor

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jackson, that will be followed by the pledge of allegiance for the asce council member hayden. If

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he would lead us in the pledge of allegiance, uh, pastor victor jackson

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for 10 years, as faithfully and joyfully said, building the kingdom community

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church, along with his wife, ramona and before planning,

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uh, building the kingdom community, the church pastor vic worked in a variety of capacities,

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farming and services. Uh, these are they church.

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uh, pastor vic joined dallas first church and became the first african

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american pastor of the nazarene denomination. Uh,

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what a loving, I love you philosophy, pastor

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vic has discovered that those who serve in ministry really grow in their relationship with god

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as they serve him and others. Would you stand for the invocation?

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thank you so much. Uh, pro tim

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allen sams, and I want to pray in the absence of a mayor. Uh,

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know what's going on with him, but I know he's not here. So I want to make sure I put him in my prayer.

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let us pray. Heavenly father, we come only

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because you have allowed us to come. It's nothing in and of ourselves

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that have gotten us to this point in our lives. And for that we say, thank you.

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we say, thank you that there are new mercies each and every day.

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we thank you for this day. An opportunity to put a smile on your face,

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to bring glory and honor to your name. I pray for these that are

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in leadership father, that you would bless them and to give them

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wisdom and unity, father god, to come together for the common

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good of the city of cedar hill. I pray for our mayor in

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his absence lord, that you would watch over him and protect him and his family.

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and what I asked that you would be in the midst of this meeting,

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that the love that you display for each and every one of us, we

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will display that same love to each other,

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father, god, we can agree to disagree, but father god let's agree to love.

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even when we disagree. Father, I ask that you would bless this time

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tonight. Bless those that are speaking. Uh, bless those

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that are supporting somebody else here tonight. I don't know what I asked her when they

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leave this place, father god, they were finding homes as they left them, protect

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them on the highways and byways and father will be careful to give you all

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the praise to glory and honor this in jesus name. We pray.

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amen, man. Thank you very much. No,

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one nation under god, indivisible with liberty

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and justice for all.

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this is one of the state one invisible.

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well, we're certainly glad to have everyone here. As you may notice, the mayor is not

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here. He was on a bagel unavailable to be here, but we all want to

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make sure we keep him and his family in our prayers. Um, a couple of

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things that I would say I'd like to, uh, make a special

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note of, uh, we have professor angela phelps and her government and economics

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class. Would you just worry about so everybody can know who you are, appreciate

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those that have expressed interest in government. And we'll try to show you what

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a good government looks like tonight. Um, moving on to

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the agenda, the first item on the agenda is this citizens forum.

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and we have tonight. Um, I have judith bakkens

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yup. Judas june. You will have three minutes,

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correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand the city limits residence

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due to garage sales a year and we're supposed to obtain a permit.

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I doubt that enforcement is a big priority, but it does provide

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a tool to prevent folks from money and resale or retail business

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out of their garages. Are there restrictions?

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I'm assuming they are to what stores can be used for in cedar hill.

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for example, could I make a residence

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in a store or use it as a po motel?

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but if I buy a house and as in any residential area, hoa

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or not, I can use it as a motel, which is exactly what

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a short-term rental is. These short-term rentals are analogous

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to the so-called lemon socialism, where profits are privatized

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and risks of socialized. The advantage of short-term rentals,

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increased income are repaying individual property owners.

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well, the downsides are born by the community as a whole,

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a quiet sleepy neighborhood that all of a sudden has vacationers stands.

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a good chance of losing its quiet, sleepy nature, the holiday

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and needs, permits and licenses. And they pay a hotel tax to the

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city as a cost of doing business. Does the city impose a motel

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tax on these short-term rentals? If not, why not? Do

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they need a permit, a license? And if not, why not? Are they

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being used as bnbs bread in vec breakfast?

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do you know if food is being served, they are

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a bnb and should be required to meet the state's

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requirements and because defied as a food establishment

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and comply with those state regulations as well,

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uh, those houses that do short term rentals, owner occupied,

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do they have a homestead exemption? If they're not owner occupied,

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do they have a homestead exemption? Anyway, the idea that

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these so-called short-term rentals should be controlled by hos is quite

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frankly ridiculous. The burden is tremendous. One

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law firm, just one law firm, j patrick sutton has

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filed 20 lawsuits against hos in 2021.

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he argues that his client's rights are being taken away by amendments

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to constructive too restrictive covenants. How

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many other firms have, or will file similar lawsuits

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regardless of how these lawsuits turn out. And it will probably take years.

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it is possible that individual hos are going to have to pony

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up a lot of money to defend their position, win or lose

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while airbnb and other such corporations consider lawsuits

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and advertising during football playoffs, just the cost of doing business.

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there are over a dozen associations in cedar hill.

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thank you. So as, um, since it's not on the agenda

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where we're unable to discuss, but I'd like to defer this to the city manager

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and his staff to, uh, respond back to you if that's okay. Thank you.

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um, we, is there anyone else that would like to speak, uh,

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citizen forms we did for the record did not have any online comments received,

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uh, very much

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moving on to the balance of the agenda. The next slide on defendant

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as a public hearing and that particular public hearing has been postponed. So

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if anyone was here tonight to speak in regards to the public, hearing

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that public hearing on the juvenile curfew arts, it has been

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postponed to february the eighth. The

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next item on the agenda, um, is a consent agenda.

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consent agenda includes routine items that may be act upon with a single vote.

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any council member may remove items from the consent agenda for separate discussion

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and consideration. Are there any items from the council they want it to be,

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uh, removed from, uh, uh, from a consent agenda.

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if not, I'm gonna

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buy reading glasses. First item consent, agenda item, a

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consider approving the minutes of the december 10th, 1120 21 city councils

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to cheap strategic plan in detroit and the january, january the 11th, 2020

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city council meeting item b, case number fp dash four

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11 dash 2021 approved in accordance with the planning and zoning commission

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recommendation and application for a final plan for the high meadows

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industrial part lots 15 dash

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that 15 being a

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report of lots, 15 or dash one and 16 on

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property zone, industrial park district located on the west side

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of edgefield way, south and mount lebanon road with an approximate address

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being 14, 10 x edgefield way representative

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steven bough, applicant, andy buffington, buffington cedar

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economic development corporation property on the sean quilt in cedar hill economic

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development corporation. I had them number c consider resolution

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a 22 dash 6 45 or proven special specific

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project specific agreement psa with dallas county for street stipend services

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to the council. Those are your consented items. I would entertain a motion for the consent

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agenda. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda is read.

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we have a motion by council member mccurdy

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second by council member hayden,

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further discussion all those in favor signify by raising your hand.

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those opposed same time it's unanimous.

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that is the close of our regular. Uh, we have no items

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on the regular agenda. The next item on the, um, is a closed

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session, a closed section call pursuant to section a five

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5000000.71 and two of the texas government

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code consultation with the city's attorney on pending litigation and

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settlement offer on all matters in which the attorney's duty of confidentiality

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to the city under the texas disciplinary rules of professional conduct of the state

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bar of texas, currently conflicts with the texas open meeting act

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and that's city of cedar hill v lockwood properties. Number b closed section

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carl pursuant to section 5, 5, 5 points 0 7 1 2

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consultation with attorney and 5 5 1 dash zero seven to

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deliberation regarding real property of the texas local government pole consultation

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with city attorney. On the matter in which the city attorney's duty of confidentiality

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to the city, clearly conflicts with the texans texas open meeting act,

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um, and open, uh, and deliberation regarding the purchase of rural

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property were assessed. The deliberation and open meeting would have a detrimental effect

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on the position of the city in negotiation with a third person regarding the following

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medic property acquisition for road, a project and item

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number c closed session pursuant to the provisions of chapter 5, 5, 1

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of the texas government code in accordance with authority contained in section 5, 5, 1

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consultation with attorney received legal advice regarding the master development agreement

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with taj hospitality management. We are now,

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uh, it is now seven 12. We

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will, um, um, uh, recess

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into executive session and we'll reconvene as soon. It's it's over

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very short meetings tonight for those who came to visit. Um,

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and you're more than welcome to come back and visit us again. But we are now recessed into executive

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session.

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it is now eight 12. We will, we will reconvene from executive session.

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please note that no action was taken. Uh, and so the next

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item, uh, no action was taken in the executive section. Uh,

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the next item on the agenda is a german.

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it's not the bible we have now adjourned a 12:00 pm.