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[0:00] It is 16 and Monday, March 4th, we have a quorum, and we are going to start up our
[0:06] most of the council's workshop session. First up is discussion of the regular agenda items and
[0:11] incentive items. As we've jumped,
[0:23] we've got invocation, council member Kate. I'll be doing
[0:29] of the pledges, we have a coordination, we have a board of an evil-scout rank, a presentation
[0:40] of the excellent and libraries awards.
[0:44] This is the first one, the award.
[0:46] We've done it actually back in the day, we used to do, but this is the first time we've
[0:50] based on a very manual process.
[0:52] Now, we have the digital, and we've decided we're going to switch this to every year.
[0:56] But I could tell you, if we applied every year, we would...
[0:58] Oh, I know we can, I know we can, because we have such an amazing library.
[1:01] So, well, I'm excited to have Carol and I'm going to move with showcase our library.
[1:08] Next up, I don't even want to continue public hearing
[1:13] questions on that.
[1:21] Movable deed restrictions.
[1:36] E3.
[1:37] Thank you.
[1:37] Thank you.
[1:38] I wanted to, Richard, give you guys a little bit more background.
[1:41] There were some, there were some members of the public who had come to the PNC meeting with
[1:46] some comments and I wanted to give you some background.
[1:49] Thank you, Richard.
[1:49] Yes, those residents had concerns about traffic on Josie Lane, which is built to accommodate very high traffic volumes.
[1:57] And a lot of that traffic is coming from other areas, not just those built.
[2:02] But they also had to sort of about just the loss of open space generally in that area.
[2:07] But to give you a little bit of background on this property.
[2:10] The school district owns this and they'll be developing the new middle school and the northern part.
[2:14] But they are, you know, the southern part is extra part of that only need for that school.
[2:18] So they put that out to bid, staff received numerous meetings and inquiries from developers for multi-family.
[2:29] And of course, staffs, you know, pretty much all they gave them a hard no on that.
[2:34] They would not support that, but there was an extreme amount of interest.
[2:38] We feel very, very fortunate to have a developer come forth to do residential.
[2:44] That is what, that was the message that we wanted to drive home that we really wanted.
[2:50] Residential would be the highest and best use based on the current needs and based on our long-wage plans here in Louisville.
[2:58] We were even prepared for maybe even some town homes in the development.
[3:02] We did want there to be a good number of single families.
[3:05] That's what's coming forward.
[3:06] There's also a tremendous amount of park land being dedicated to dedicating over nine acres of public park land
[3:13] in that there will be about nine acres of private open space that will have a recreation
[3:17] easement on top of that that we can run a future trails.
[3:21] This development will also be set back about 350 feet from Josie because of the location
[3:27] of the creek that feeds into Indian Creek.
[3:30] So it will have the feel of being more open and it will be as tight as some of the other
[3:35] subdivisions in that area.
[3:37] About 38% of the development is going to be dedicated to open space.
[3:41] So, they're providing a lot of infrastructure, a lot of amenities of, you know, along with these
[3:46] 135 homes.
[3:48] I had a question.
[3:52] So, this is the proposed learning as the estate townhouse, residential.
[3:59] But did I see somewhere that it said that the lots are going to be 50 feet wide?
[4:04] Yes.
[4:04] Okay.
[4:05] So, the product looks more like just a regular single-family home because they're attached
[4:10] So why is this not just the SF designation? What's the difference?
[4:17] Of course, we're always in any PD. We have to have a base district in that ETH does give a little bit more flexibility.
[4:24] Kind of more closely resembles what they're doing.
[4:26] Certainly throughout the majority of that subdivision.
[4:30] Again, it's really the concept that's attached that drives what's being built.
[4:37] I think a good comparison to Castle Hills, a lot of those neighborhoods, are have the
[4:42] base district of ETH.
[4:44] It's just a common commonly used base district for a lot of neighborhoods for that
[4:51] type of product.
[4:52] Okay, I was just curious if it hasn't been able to do any of the dimensions of the
[4:55] lots or some reason, because I'm kind of a part of it.
[4:58] I'm kind of a part of it.
[4:59] I'm kind of a part of it.
[5:00] Yeah, it's just a little bit better fit for what they're proposing.
[5:09] Sounds like sounds like a really great product.
[5:10] I
[5:27] have a G5 economic development with Western tech systems.
[5:32] This was discussed in Council back.
[5:34] I think in September, time frame.
[5:42] Item six, occupational health services,
[5:50] item seven,
[5:51] joint election services,
[6:00] monthly use agreement with the city,
[6:02] and tech stock with our clock safety.
[6:16] For this area, they were actually having,
[6:19] they were grumbling because the rules on their roads,
[6:22] they can retain the information,
[6:27] the conversations that they're trying to figure that out,
[6:30] specifically in TTA, part of that was that they can retain the camera information.
[6:36] So there's definitely a very important,
[6:41] I don't have a Mason flaw.
[6:49] H9, alternative standards regarding setbacks, layouts, private locations, it's streetscape for
[7:04] me.
[7:04] I was going to say Richard, I appreciate in this packet that you put all the developments together
[7:09] I was reading the text and I was trying to figure out how to visualize it.
[7:14] I really appreciate the visual.
[7:16] Thank you.
[7:18] You're welcome.
[7:21] I'm ending the piece schedule, and this is the follow-through garbage collection
[7:28] conversation.
[7:33] I'm 11 second reading of the Songway Waste Collection to dispose of a grant,
[7:43] walk in parallel.
[7:46] We have a quarterly investment report as part of the packet information, so if you want
[7:49] to see how that information is going, council and staff reports.
[7:53] Do we have any close session?
[7:55] Yes.
[7:56] Okay.
[7:56] So no close session at this time.
[7:59] The note or questions or comments for current in the agenda.
[8:02] We're going to go ahead and move on to item B for food insecurity funding.
[8:07] And for those grant two boys and girls club of greater term count.
[8:11] Ash afferent is going to present.
[8:13] Yeah.
[8:17] So little history going back to 2021.
[8:20] I'm sad for that it took so the flutter of funding that was coming in during the response to COVID.
[8:26] But we were noticing some gaps in that funding specifically for mortgage assistance for residents that were above the 80% area median income.
[8:35] Mental health services and food insecurity.
[8:38] And then in 2022, we came back and said, okay, we'd like to partner with you in a way for more than just assistance.
[8:44] And then some county amage them are and co-care on the mental health services.
[8:48] So, during all this time we have also been trying to figure out ways to utilize the food insecurity
[8:55] funding for surplus specifically, something that came, one of the reasons servlusive brought a
[9:02] study that was done by SMU and February of 2023 showing that there was a county-wide meal gab
[9:08] of over 22.5 million pounds of food just in the county-level. So, food insecurity is a huge need here,
[9:15] So we really wanted to make sure that we were supporting our food insecure residents while also supporting service flow.
[9:24] Here's a quick map.
[9:24] These are the current food pantries here in Louisville.
[9:28] The green ones are our physical locations that have set hours or they have a by appointment.
[9:33] Our purple pins are our little free pantries that are affectionately consulted as well as the same pack for.
[9:41] They have a free pantry at their location.
[9:43] And then the blue ones are churches that are what are called mobile food pantries or that
[9:49] drive through their once a month.
[9:51] And so I just wanted to show you how they're spread out around the city.
[9:54] You will notice that the elevation army and serve Louisville are accustomed to each other,
[9:59] but they're going to balance each other out with different hours so it will help fill that
[10:04] need in the evening hours serve Louisville provide that service.
[10:07] I have a question.
[10:09] And this is what the boys and girls club, we have an underserved population of our seniors,
[10:16] and they cannot make it to the big, a lot of them can to the big pantries.
[10:21] And it's like, how will this be able to help the world again?
[10:27] Yeah, so even though we're going to get wise to start with that.
[10:29] Yeah, so even though boys and girls club is proposed to manage the food pantry,
[10:33] the answer was so it will be for everyone.
[10:36] So finding transportation is definitely something that our senior group we talked about every
[10:41] time we meet with them, so it goes on and working through that with them making sure that
[10:45] we can find them transportation and for sure.
[10:51] So service was so.
[10:52] As a reminder, there are five priorities, rent and utilities, mental health, childcare, health
[10:57] care, and food.
[10:59] So they look in their doors into live 2023.
[11:02] Food country was bare.
[11:03] It was stopped with food from the tearing area of food being served in provided the refrigeration
[11:09] in that food pantry and we originally thought that it would be managed by volunteers
[11:14] from a local church but the capacity of those volunteers groups to run manage a food pantry
[11:19] just wasn't there so we looked for other opportunities to manage that food pantry.
[11:24] So boys and girls club has been in service from day one, they have had a successful program
[11:30] and outreach into our community, and they submitted a proposal to operate this food
[11:34] pantry and serve whistle, intern County during this pandemic, they had to close down
[11:40] a few of their club classes.
[11:42] So instead of just not serving those populations, they reopen them as food countries.
[11:46] So they have that experience of managing a food pantry, and they're completely door-marked.
[11:51] And so they would utilize the current staff that's already there full-time at serve whistle.
[11:56] They would do those evening hours where that is a gap in our community, all of our food pantries.
[12:01] I want to say that three little pantries are open during the day, so this will be that evening hour, so we're in parents that can't make it during the day, they come at night.
[12:10] So their funding request is for one year lease, and then also the remainder would be for food specifically.
[12:16] So food would be purchased from retail grocery stores, farmers market, and other food sources that will supplement the food that is received from the food banks,
[12:24] because that's a specific type of food that you're gonna get from the food bank, so let's
[12:28] look at other types of foods and also like I said they would be serving residents outside
[12:33] of just certain plants. Anyone that walks in a service will be a little served.
[12:39] So we're recommending to provide these residents to trade gaps, I mean to boys and girls
[12:44] club, to operate the Blue Door Market at a service. So we obviously didn't want to start
[12:50] negotiating anything and go through all that work without having a touch point with councils so
[12:55] just wanted to see what y'all's thoughts were.
[13:00] It's very much needed. I don't know if it's
[13:03] still not enough.
[13:15] Be back here on cottages analysis. We've got Michelle Berry and Neighbors
[13:19] Food Services Manager, Hashtag Vera. Presenting again. Welcome, Council. So just to kind of
[13:27] refresh your memory on about your cottages. So before the Unifying Development Code you had to have
[13:32] especially used permit, and you had to have quite a large lot, large number of spots in the
[13:36] hood zone, in order to do an accessory dwelling, you know, or a backyard cottage.
[13:41] We had a quite a few discussions as we were adopting the Unified Development Code about
[13:44] relaxing regulations on backyard cottages and allowing them by right and worth owning
[13:49] districts with supplemental standards.
[13:51] And that's what was originally adopted by the UDC in December 1st of 2022.
[13:57] Kind of a reminder of what some of those supplemental standards are, as it cannot be taller
[14:01] of the main dwelling, it cannot be a temporary structure, must be on a permanent foundation,
[14:06] the size, equal of its inch to between 400 square feet as a minimum, and 800 square feet
[14:12] or half the size of the main dwelling as a maximum.
[14:15] You can't exceed your zoning, maximum lock coverage, which does vary by zoning districts.
[14:19] It does have to have its own parking space that cannot be tandem, or continues to the main driveway.
[14:24] The design does have to be compatible with the main building.
[14:27] There's only one per lot.
[14:28] the owner does have to live somewhere on the property, whether it's the cottage or the
[14:32] mean dwelling. They cannot be sold separately because it's not its own lot. And it does
[14:37] have to be located behind the means dwelling. It does have to have at least 10 feet of separation
[14:40] from the mean dwelling, and be five feet from any law line in addition to those setbacks a little
[14:44] bit larger if it's on a corner lots, which kind of want to refresh your memory on those standards
[14:48] that we talked quite about because we want to make sure that they were still compatible with
[14:51] communities that they were in. So since then, we've done a lot to try to encourage back.
[15:00] We had a pattern book that was designed by UCA. We had the Housing Toolkit analysis. We've got a website that's out to inform interested homeowners about how they could go about building one, if that's something that they're interested in.
[15:14] It was launched for a approved design program. We're so willing to get some of those pre-approved designs up and running, but that's another resource for residents where they could take that design. They still do have to get it tailored to their specific property when you need a site, when you need a network's going.
[15:28] We need some things that are specific to each unit, but that hopefully would be another tool to kind of help promote it within the community.
[15:36] But we haven't had any built yet.
[15:39] So I'm going to go through some of the results from the pattern book analysis and what our next steps are.
[15:46] So in the pattern book analysis, we focused primarily on R75 zoning.
[15:51] The reason we did this is because it's the smallest district where they're allowed by rights.
[15:54] It's also the predominance of single family zoning in Louisville is R75 and so we looked at R75
[16:01] and we looked by types which generally correspond to the decades in which they were built.
[16:06] So if we look at our type one, this is homes that were primarily built in the 1970s and you can see this is a block ofaronus-free.
[16:14] So this is a street on the south, a street on the north and an alley that runs down the middle.
[16:18] And these purple polygons represent the area in which you can put back our cottage based on the lot configuration.
[16:24] today and the setbacks today. And so you can see in this block of 1970's development
[16:30] where there's an alley, but everyone's front yard is where their lodges, so those
[16:35] alleys are really unrealized. A lot of these homes, most of them, could actually fit
[16:40] a back garage cottage if that was something that they designed for. When we move up to the 1980's,
[16:46] we still have alleys. Now a lot of these homes are actually using the alley for their access,
[16:50] and you can see the home footprint's increased in size quite a bit.
[16:53] What that does is it means that maybe just over a third of homes on this 1980s block can actually fit a back garden cottage
[17:01] And then just for reference these blue squares indicate pools swimming pools, so you can't you can't use that's based from back to our cottage anymore, but that's what the blue is
[17:10] And then it was moving along into the 90s. It's very similar in terms of its pattern and this one you see this doesn't have an alley
[17:17] That's starting to become more popular in the 90s. It's just having front entry with no alley
[17:21] And that does make it a little bit more challenging, but you can see that this particular block
[17:27] about half of the lots could potentially fit a back-dark cottage if that's something they wanted to.
[17:33] We could have to be careful of this configuration, it's making sure that you can get that driveway access
[17:37] for that extra parking space that's required.
[17:41] So looking at those constraints, there's a lot of lots that could potentially affect our cottage,
[17:47] but it gets a little bit more nuanced when you get into the dimensions and the shapes that they have available
[17:51] to them. We do have a number of the single family homes about 81% or on our occupied, so that
[17:57] does eliminate 19% that our investor driven since the owner does have to live on site. I know
[18:01] that was a big thing that Council talked about when we originally went through this. I think the
[18:05] biggest challenge right now is just the affordability and keeping the construction costs to about
[18:10] $150 per square. But especially with construction costs that have been just constantly rising
[18:15] with interest rates where they are right now and so trying to make it affordable and desirable for
[18:21] homeowners is really I think the biggest challenge.
[18:26] So UTA did put out some recommendations
[18:28] which was to address affordability and put it allowed the backyard cottages or the accessory
[18:34] dwelling units to potentially be attached where to be a broad conversion just for reference a standard
[18:40] two hard brushes about sport. It's about 20x20. That doesn't eliminate the requirement that
[18:46] the home have fraud in parking. You would still have to figure out maybe you're building a
[18:50] detached garage, which is a little bit cheaper than a backyard cottage and enclosing your
[18:54] garage space, so that could potentially be an option that addresses that. Or it could be that
[18:58] if your dimensions are not quite right, you can build a accessory unit that's attached to the
[19:02] main structure. Still smaller, still support it too, but if you don't have those setbacks that's
[19:08] about working out for you. It might be more feasible that way. Another thought was to reduce the
[19:13] minimal square footage to maybe 200 or 300 square feet. Again 200 square feet is like a single
[19:18] car garage that's pretty small and talking to architects. They thought 300 or 330 is really the
[19:24] smallest that they could get a one bed room back to our cottage within, but it's still smaller than
[19:28] the 400 that we have on the books today. Consider reducing or eliminating the setbacks along
[19:34] Alleyways, the reason we have the five-foot setback is because for building code, once you're
[19:38] in 10 feet, there's additional standards for windows, doors, fire, separation, so we want
[19:44] to make sure everything's spiky from a proper line, so that the adjacent property owner can
[19:47] have the same rights as every other property owner.
[19:50] Along an alley, we've got the alley separation, so that's not as much of a concern.
[19:54] We still do want a little bit of a setback from an alley though, I'd say, as a staff member.
[19:58] Consider entrance and connected areas, reducing the parking requirements, however, when we look
[20:02] at our transit connected areas, it's higher density,
[20:05] it's not areas where we have single family
[20:07] with backdoor cottages, so it's probably not gonna be that effective.
[20:10] Consider allowing more creative parking options,
[20:12] like a parallel parking space off an alley,
[20:15] for backdoor cottages, if that's an underutilized alley,
[20:17] and that might be appropriate.
[20:19] They also raised the idea of committing a long-term
[20:22] backdoor cottage rentals on properties
[20:24] that are not on our occupied,
[20:25] and I know that was something that the council
[20:27] was expressively concerned about,
[20:29] and I will say of the inquiries that staff has received
[20:32] for backyard cottages, it has been to either stick an RV as a temporary structure in the
[20:36] back, which we've said, no, that's not acceptable, or it has been by an investor, because
[20:42] I think there's a lot to have to wear with all the funds to go ahead and make that investment.
[20:47] And then also to consider waving permitting fees and expediting applications, but again, that's
[20:51] such a small portion of the overall cost.
[20:54] It might be helpful, but I'm not sure that it would really make the difference for a lot
[20:58] of folks.
[21:00] This one is a point out real quick in our housing toolkit, listed out issues by homeowner,
[21:06] venture, economic mobility, and so one of the issues that was pointed out was that homeowner's
[21:10] investors are not building a use and some potential solutions, these are opportunities, looking
[21:16] at the insects in the UTA patternbook to the foster development and homeowner handbooks, and then
[21:21] also revisiting that homeowner often, and see where it is.
[21:27] So we do have a Becker Cottage website page, so you can go to this through the planning department
[21:31] page and it will scroll down and it will walk you through with the supplemental standards.
[21:35] You can look up your property on the map, it has contacts for staff, it also has some very basic information about how you might approach a bank or lending institution if you needed to get some sort of loan product to build it.
[21:47] Just kind of some outlines of what some of the key products that are available to people are right now.
[21:51] And so that's a tool that's out there for folks if they are interested in a backyard cottage.
[21:56] And we have launched the pre-approved design program.
[22:00] We've got material established.
[22:01] We've reached out to architects.
[22:03] There's a couple that are responded back in our hopefully going to submit designs.
[22:06] And in addition, since we weren't getting as many as we hoped,
[22:08] we've been seeking and pulling pre-approved designs that are publicly available for
[22:12] our communities.
[22:12] This one's from the San Antonio area.
[22:15] And so we're working on just getting this through our internal review process.
[22:18] So we can put this out on the website as a pre-approved design.
[22:21] This backyard cottage just for reference comes with two different roof objects.
[22:26] So you could do it either way depending on how best it's the character of your neighborhood.
[22:30] It also does measure 24 feet by 24 feet, so it's a nice square, and it's about 576 total square feet.
[22:38] It does have a separate living room dining room, kitchen, and bedroom.
[22:43] Although they don't have a wall through the bedroom, so it's kind of like one big U-shaped space, but it is a fairly good amount of space.
[22:48] Michelle, how long is the problem you have that open for the call for designs?
[22:52] So with this, there's no closed date, so it's kind of a rolling as these come in, we'll add them.
[22:59] And if a council member is interested in having a particular architect submit, they're welcome to talk to them.
[23:06] Just let them know.
[23:07] Just let them know.
[23:08] I'm happy to answer any questions.
[23:11] Are we good?
[23:12] One of them.
[23:13] Well, I reached out to them.
[23:14] We'll see.
[23:15] We'll see.
[23:20] So we're kind of looking at what are next steps to sort of help promote.
[23:24] with accurate cottages and to make them more available, we're looking at design competitions,
[23:29] maybe continuing that partnership with UTA, and possibly amending some of those regulations
[23:34] to try and make these more achievable for folks. So in terms of the design competition,
[23:40] the goal of this would really need to increase awareness and support in the community
[23:45] and reuse it for a fine-cure and ARP grant to get some funding for that design competition
[23:51] with Ashley Steamer really needed to charge on that application for us.
[23:55] But what we would do is we have different categories and we would encourage elementary school
[23:59] students to participate in different age groups to participate and would be categories for
[24:04] accessible, sustainable, those types of things.
[24:07] We'd like to even include it as part of our Parade in the community, our Parade EU, where we'd
[24:14] basically put a mock-up of a background cottage, which would essentially be a shed structure
[24:18] on a parade flow to just sort of just promote it into the community.
[24:22] So we're fine for that, for an opportunity, and again, it's more focused on building awareness
[24:26] that this is an option for people.
[24:30] As I just wanted to really quick point out, we also apply for a pathway through moving obstacles
[24:35] to housing.
[24:37] This is a $10 million grant application that we submitted to HUD.
[24:40] Back in October, we're still waiting to hear from them, but part of that was $3 million
[24:44] specifically to creating back our cottages.
[24:47] This would be funny to actually construct those backyard cottages.
[24:51] We would be prioritizing our seniors to live in those cottages
[24:53] to create that affordable housing for them.
[24:56] We also want to prioritize our learn-on or income homeowners as well to work through that,
[25:01] but it's a way to do that on that award.
[25:05] Obviously, you can tell this is a big step is really taking us to heart
[25:08] that this is a diversity of housing stock that we're trying to promote as well as a affordable housing
[25:14] aging in place, and all of those types of initiatives
[25:16] are councils.
[25:17] And it wasn't as about one.
[25:20] They can people that have been seemed to love that.
[25:24] I have been like, I have been like her.
[25:26] I don't do much job, but I have been like her, so.
[25:30] And I don't think you need to have to make her to make it work,
[25:34] but it's really because you're more flexibility
[25:35] when you have more in your life.
[25:37] So looking at maintaining that partnership with UTA architecture,
[25:41] they have different studio classes that you different works.
[25:45] And in theory, we can partner with their studio classes
[25:47] to actually develop a factory cottage.
[25:50] So what they do then with their pseudo-processes
[25:51] is they design it in the fall.
[25:53] They permanent over the work rate
[25:54] and they work on construction in the spring and something.
[25:56] Obviously we have to find a participating homeowner
[25:58] and I'm still waiting to get with them
[26:00] on exactly where the funding for that comes from.
[26:02] If there would be any support from Mossers,
[26:04] that's primarily the homeowner that's having it built.
[26:06] And then they're basically covering some of those design costs
[26:09] because it's
[26:12] still what you do this so
[26:15] much.
[26:16] So the selection of the work.
[26:18] I mean, I think we were making available
[26:19] and I can reach out to the UTA themselves.
[26:21] and what UTA make that's such a good question.
[26:26] And so then the discussion of potential code amendments would staff
[26:30] would maybe want to consider amending in the code
[26:32] if we get to this step is to reduce the minimal size.
[26:36] And I would be honestly comfortable with 300 square feet
[26:38] because it's really tough to design anything
[26:40] that's much smaller than that.
[26:43] And again, 300 square feet is about three quarters
[26:46] of a two-car brush.
[26:47] Just for a point of reference, it feels a lot bigger
[26:49] than your garage does, you know, it will have to break up a little bit.
[26:53] I think the configuration is one of those things that could really address the affordability.
[26:58] If they could be allowed in converted crages, because you already have the structure there,
[27:02] in some cases you have utilities and things that are pretty close to potential, or to allow
[27:07] them just to be attached to that home structure, which does open up flexibility if your yard
[27:12] wouldn't otherwise allow a detached one.
[27:14] to reduce or remove those that reduce really those setbacks from the alley to allow that
[27:20] parallel park and space and then potentially weigh the permitting pieces about something
[27:23] we wanted to do to really promote that regard.
[27:29] So we're talking about, I'm with you on the remove or reduce setbacks from alleys.
[27:36] But we still were still proposing the holding the lock coverage.
[27:44] We would still get, it looks like, on these pattern book, it doesn't look like, surely with those red pieces that exceeds the lock coverage.
[27:54] So it depends on the zoning district.
[27:55] Some of what coverage is going up pretty high.
[27:58] 40% is a common one, and we could potentially look at increasing the lock coverage a little bit,
[28:03] but that was not something that UTA found was really holding anyone back in terms of being able to build that card coverage.
[28:10] Okay, and so then my next question is to be a little, sorry, I apologize for this.
[28:17] So, what go on?
[28:18] Oh, boy.
[28:20] So if I'm all about encouraging back to our credit, I want one, you know, for either an agent
[28:25] parent or a college kid, he's not going to be able to afford to go get his own place, you know,
[28:32] for a while.
[28:34] I'm talking about high childhood, so we get there, but, but, okay, so this relates to the
[28:43] drainage orbit. If we have ever met a building back here in cottages, and we've got much
[28:50] greater impervious surface in our residential areas that has had drainage. So,
[29:01] have we looked at
[29:02] at a hatch drainage line and our existing storm source systems and two, our drainage fees,
[29:13] you know, we have like a flat rate for residential, but that assumes a certain density,
[29:17] right?
[29:18] But we're going to be increasing the influence of this area, so that I saw the square footage
[29:21] of the holes.
[29:23] I've been home.
[29:23] As the impervious cover, on a lot that we've been facing, it's based on a average square
[29:30] footage.
[29:33] So if everyone's a little bit, it might shift the average, but that's what it's like every year.
[29:38] Yeah, and so I only asked that not to get an answer on that right now, but just something to think about.
[29:46] I really appreciate just looking at this and saying, how do we get people to actually use this?
[29:52] I do believe that one of the biggest things working against everybody doing it right now.
[29:57] We kind of allowed it to happen as soon as the price is...
[30:02] So, I'd like to thank some of that world, sort of, some of the doubts once things come back down and
[30:11] are interstrates, get reasonable.
[30:14] But I just want to think about possible long term impact, not that that's a yes or no deal, but just something to think about.
[30:24] As we start to look at this now, if we get more and more, we might want to look at addressing that.
[30:30] I have no problem with reducing the size of 300 square feet.
[30:37] If it's attached, I mean, I'm fine with that too, wouldn't that just be an addition?
[30:43] So sometimes it could be considered an addition if there's a pass through between the two units,
[30:48] but sometimes they like to not have any connection between the two of the areas.
[30:53] That's the tip of our arrow.
[30:55] OK, so I'm going to have to look nervous when I saw
[30:57] the potentially commemorative garages.
[30:59] But they caveat there is that they would have to,
[31:02] they would have to construct a garage.
[31:05] Sure.
[31:05] Our code minimum is you have to, in our R75 zoning district,
[31:09] it's one garage space plus two additional page spaces.
[31:14] And most homes, it was common to build the two-card
[31:17] garage in the 80s and 90s anyway,
[31:18] and two-card garage with two-part spaces in front of it.
[31:22] But then this would also increase if you did an accessory dwelling, you would have to increase the parking space as well, right?
[31:31] So not only would you have to replace the garage space that we have, you would have to make sure that you have the three of the original home,
[31:38] plus the additional one for the back yard cottage.
[31:41] And the back yard cottage one cannot be tandem or anyways that people walked by the, they couldn't block each other, right?
[31:48] Okay.
[31:53] I just, I wouldn't go lower than 300 square feet.
[31:57] I have a question on the permanent foundation, slab, or appear in being either way.
[32:04] Okay. So with the building permits, they do have to have an engineer, a foundation plan.
[32:09] Oh, yes. So, and that's one of the things that we can't pre-appropriate that has to be lots of the set.
[32:20] Hearing none, I'll ask one.
[32:23] The pattern book did they just pick a couple of samples,
[32:27] fruits and neighborhoods, or do they do the whole city?
[32:29] We drove through the city a bunch one day.
[32:32] We drove through a lot of different neighborhoods in the city.
[32:35] We did it for the purposes of the illustrations
[32:36] of a couple of walks that were representative samples
[32:39] of each of those different decades of the structure.
[32:42] I love the visibility that says, man, I can do this.
[32:46] That would create.
[32:47] Yeah, we did not do that for every year.
[32:49] I can imagine that that would be a nightmare to do unless there was some automated tool that did that.
[32:55] So, okay.
[32:56] One quick question.
[32:57] So, the only foundation.
[32:59] So, that's the hardest structure to do for this.
[33:02] Thank you.
[33:03] And so, the way that that typically works is a homeowner.
[33:07] If they're using like Sarah pre-approved design that's out there,
[33:11] they would have to get a structural engineer to stamp the foundation plan.
[33:16] But a lot of times they're connected to that engineer through the contractor that they choose is some of that they work with in the past or they can reach out to the architect that design the plans and see if they can reach out to anyone through them.
[33:28] But they do have to do that as part of the building programming process.
[33:31] Can we can I make a suggestion on that just like we're going to have kind of a few architectural partners in this if we could get.
[33:39] because I know I share the argument to yeah an engineer like a structural engineer that I've
[33:44] had come out to my house repeatedly for my foundation. So you know those are it's one of those.
[33:50] A lot of people don't have to have that, but if we could have a list of a few that you know we could say hey,
[33:57] there's their problem with this.
[34:00] I will, I'm looking to see if there's a way that we can do that and still not be, you know,
[34:04] favoring an engineer maybe, you know, I'll see if there's a way we can do that.
[34:07] I just found there's not a whole bunch of them because you don't want a foundation company to do it because they will give you a foundation that you do not want to pay for and you don't need it either so there are what I have found it's a really not a whole lot of people that do that work
[34:27] It just designed it and had no interest in it.
[34:32] So, just a thought.
[34:33] I was looking at it, but not normally,
[34:35] it's thresholds don't want to do it, it's a force.
[34:38] So, I mean, they got to do it.
[34:39] That's something I don't really have far earlier.
[34:41] I was just...
[34:42] I hadn't had one of their goals first,
[34:44] since he said, but I don't think personally,
[34:45] I don't think my mom's been in this type of things,
[34:47] they typically go as far as the geotechnics.
[34:49] Right, they don't go up.
[34:53] I think you've got some consensus around moving forward
[34:55] on most of these, I think,
[34:57] I had similar concerns about the garage conversions because we've got a history of not wanting them.
[35:05] So, that does create a challenge, but if we can be really clear about it, and it fits more into the expansion of the home work and addition to the home kind of concept, and it covers the parking, the last thing we want to do is create parking techniques.
[35:18] Yeah, look, time to try and understand the directions of them.
[35:25] 300 square foot, not 200.
[35:27] What I'm hearing.
[35:29] And then also, we would allow them to be attached, but there's still concern about converting.
[35:35] Right.
[35:37] I mean, the less they do.
[35:39] It's long as the requirement is that they have to replace the loss for our space.
[35:44] Because then I'm fine with converting it.
[35:46] Right.
[35:46] But is there, I don't want to make sure you're going to use this.
[35:50] That's fine.
[35:51] But if you are, are you to say, if you have a two-card drive,
[35:55] you're going to place the two-card space or just...
[36:00] Right now, I'm thinking it's the minimum.
[36:02] So what I was hearing was that you just have to...
[36:04] You have to have a minimum of one space.
[36:06] One in a place.
[36:07] Plus two.
[36:08] Plus two.
[36:09] Are you wanting something different?
[36:12] Yeah.
[36:13] Yeah.
[36:13] That force base is one in close.
[36:16] I think, I mean, I see what you're saying is that if the requirement is just one close
[36:23] space that they already have to, that we're losing something, right?
[36:29] I mean,
[36:38] I mean, if it were my house, I would probably want to replace both garage spaces,
[36:43] but I think the requirement should just be what our standard requirements.
[36:51] one comment before we go off parking, parallel parking on the alley. Some of our alleys that would be a nightmare for a trash services.
[36:58] This is obviously something that I need to work through with the engineering department.
[37:02] I'm not crazy about that at all.
[37:04] I don't know. I think for the right alley, it might work or for the right home with a flare somewhere.
[37:12] There's some opportunity there, but I'm just going to advocate for our trash drivers.
[37:17] this guy's those guys are mirrorable workers with those vehicles sometimes and so that one would have to be really
[37:23] really closely men.
[37:25] And we can look at maybe just being a little bit more flexible as opposed to maybe being a mirrorable
[37:30] woman.
[37:31] I mean people already parking the culprits all the sacks all every which way so.
[37:37] All right, appreciate feedback.
[37:40] It's good stuff.
[37:41] Thank you for moving forward.
[37:42] We're trying to figure out how to make this work.
[37:45] We are done. We will move in a regular set in September.
[38:03] Call this regular session of the Louisville City Council Order. We do have a quorum.
[38:06] First up on the agenda tonight is the invocation with Council Member Cade.
[38:12] She's standing with me, please.
[38:17] While we come together as a governing body to not
[38:20] Lord, I ask that you graces with a lot in hearts and minds to make sound and
[38:25] fair and just decisions for the citizens of Louisville. Thank you, Lord, for all of our
[38:32] City Council are me all of our city employees and our hard work and sacrifice that they do
[38:37] on a daily basis, keeping our great city running very smoothly and keeping us safe.
[38:43] May you continually protect them and bless them.
[38:47] Get our mayor, the City Leader's staff, and City Council the wisdom and discernment over
[38:52] all issues and deliberations before us tonight.
[38:56] And let us take this time to lift up the family, but the contractor that was tragically
[39:01] killed on Friday, and that is also remember Charlie Correll, a past Louisville City Council member
[39:08] and founding board member of DCTA who passed away yesterday in its in your name we pray,
[39:15] amen.
[39:16] Please join me in the pledges to our flags.
[39:20] I pledge allegiance.
[40:11] I know most of us sitting in this room are tired of the drama of elections, what we are
[40:17] not tired of is the drama of our Louisville high school theater.
[40:22] If I could have them join us up here.
[40:24] We are going to proclaim theater in our schools month.
[40:26] So I see some shirts.
[40:28] Come on, come on.
[40:31] Gotta have a photo at least.
[40:47] This is a proclamation by the city council of the city of Louisville.
[40:51] And whereas theater education enriches the lives of countless students in our schools
[40:55] and allows them to discover their myriad skills and abilities in leadership,
[40:59] communication and collaboration, unlocking their unlimited potential.
[41:01] And whereas theater is a critical component of the learning process and develop students'
[41:05] creativity, self-discipline, problem-solving, and critical thinking abilities, and whereas
[41:09] research indicates that students with more theater education have higher academic achievement
[41:13] across the curriculum, the importance of theater education is recognized as being necessary
[41:17] for the full development of all students, and whereas theater on our school's month is a
[41:21] special opportunity for our community to engage in the ongoing process of theater education
[41:25] and to bring heightened awareness of the importance of the arts and education.
[41:29] Now, therefore, I, TJ Gilmore Mayor of the City of Louisville, Texas, and on behalf of the City Council,
[41:34] do you hear by recognize the month of March 2024 as theater in our schools months in Louisville, Texas,
[41:39] and urge all residents to observe the occasion with the appropriate ceremonies, activities, and maybe go see a play.
[41:46] Let's give them a hand.
[41:53] Is that, is that panel?
[41:59] I'd be words?
[42:00] I'll be as I do.
[42:00] All right.
[42:02] Thank you for your recognition and your support in this month.
[42:06] We, as Louisville High School Theatre, think that art in our schools not just theater, but music,
[42:12] dance, performance arts, visual arts, is all something that everybody should be free to
[42:19] partake in, whether creating or just watching and enjoying and being with coming together.
[42:26] And even if it's not creating, just sitting and enjoying, we invite you to come out to
[42:31] any of our shows as we, one of our big things this year is to reach out to the greater community at large.
[42:39] Beyond Lewisville High School, but Lewisville City and the Lewisville area as well.
[42:44] So if you feel like you would like to see a play, especially this month, Monday, March 18th,
[42:52] we actually are performed, have a public performance of our competition one act play,
[42:56] called Diabritacy by Sarah Rule. We would like to invite anybody to come out and see and follow
[43:02] us and follow us on our journey and reaching out to our larger communities as a whole. Thank you
[43:07] very much for your recognition and your support.
[43:34] Rest of Council because leadership is important.
[43:37] I know how this works.
[43:42] And if I could have the badge come family.
[43:53] First of all we've got a young
[43:54] here who is about to earn or has earned his Eagle Scout. And regardless of what you know about Eagle
[44:02] Scouts, this is a family lift. It's not just you. I'm sorry. I know it's everybody up here.
[44:08] So I happen to have two Eagles in my household. I was a life scout. I don't know that's part of
[44:13] part of where it is. But I wanted to give some recognition. So congratulations to Raiden Leon Batchkum
[44:19] on receipt of his Eagle Scout award. The Louisville City Council would like to recommend
[44:23] that Raiden's hard work and leadership earning three additional merit badges above his Eagle Scout project
[44:27] and earning the bronze palm and scouting.
[44:30] Raiden has been about the top producers and popcorn sales for several years, which is earned
[44:33] in a scholarship, and he's currently a senior at Flower on Mount High School, and will also
[44:36] be traveling to Europe for spring break with his classmates with funds he is earned working part-time.
[44:41] Raiden is aspiring to be an executive chef and looking forward to attending college in either
[44:44] Texas or Illinois, and the I.T.J. Gilmore Mayor of Louisville on behalf of the City Council
[44:47] wish you the best in all your future endeavors. Congratulations.
[45:05] All
[45:11] right. Next up, I've got my library. There we are. You just going to sit there. No, I need you up here. Come on.
[45:21] On my favorite teams,
[45:26] we have the presentation of the achievement of excellence in the library as a ward. It's open to TMLDA member library directors and the libraries that they represent. And to receive the achievement of library excellence award, the library must support standards of excellence in over 10 and 10.
[45:40] and categories.
[45:42] Carol?
[45:44] I think you have a few words.
[45:45] Thank you.
[45:47] So I wanted to thank the Library team.
[45:50] Thank you Mayor and Council and City Management for your support.
[45:54] Also, thank you to our residents for supporting Library Services and my fellow directors that are here today.
[46:01] So as the Mayor mentioned, this is a 10 point system to apply for.
[46:07] And all the people that I brought forward here today were instrumental in applying for and achieving that award.
[46:13] So I brought three examples today to talk about one of the categories of staff development.
[46:20] And we achieved excellence in supporting our staff development last year with our staff development day that we held in February of 2023.
[46:28] Another one is educational, cultural, and classes, and we achieved excellence in a library
[46:37] program in 2023. Of course, lots of programs in 2023. The sample that we applied with was
[46:45] our idea to those Nino's, deal it to those Libros program, which we celebrate now every April.
[46:51] And that is a celebration of children, reading, and families, and learn helps a lot with that program.
[47:00] The final example that I wanted to bring up today was collaboration with outside entities,
[47:05] and those the library demonstrated excellence in that, in our partnership,
[47:10] with keep-looseful, beautiful for our seed library, and Stormy, it was instrumental in getting that going for us.
[47:17] We also have Renee Kirchner here today, and she helped with our application and working,
[47:24] and we talked about our literacy, learning initiatives, and our welcome baby program.
[47:30] I also wanted to mention we have a couple of library board members here in the house today that came to celebrate us from the crowd.
[47:36] But thank you for celebrating libraries with us today, and we will continue to strive for excellence in 2024.
[47:55] It's a living space.
[48:34] Next up, I knew it.
[48:41] It's okay.
[48:42] It really is.
[48:42] I totally get it.
[48:45] Love you guys.
[48:47] Love our schools.
[48:48] They do such a great job.
[48:50] All right.
[48:51] E1, public hearing.
[48:53] Continued public hearing.
[48:53] Consideration and ordinance granting a zone.
[48:55] Change request from warehouse district to light industrial district.
[48:58] On 1.029 acres.
[48:59] Being a portion of review in industrial park block a lot.
[49:02] 11 R1.
[49:03] Located on the south side of Stonewall Drive, approximately 200 feet west of Huffine's Boulevard as requested by Paul Bartell, half a associate's incorporated on behalf of Prology's Exchange, TX-2004 LLC, the property owner, Case 23-12-18-Z.
[49:19] In 2011, the property was re-zone from Lightendustrial District to Warehouse District for a proposed storage facility, which was never built.
[49:26] The applicant is requesting his own change from Warehouse District back to Lightendustrial District to facilitate the development of a business park.
[49:32] The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended unanimous approval five to nothing.
[49:36] Of the Zoning Change request on February 6, 2024, on February 20, 2024, the Planning and
[49:41] Zoning Commission held a public hearing to remove a deed restriction limiting the use
[49:44] of the property and recommended unanimous approval six to nothing.
[49:47] On February 19, 2024, the City Council continued the public hearing for the Zoning
[49:51] Change to the March 4, 2024 City Council meeting to consider both requests at the same
[49:56] time in the same meeting.
[49:58] It's recommended that the City Council approve the ordinance to set forth in the caption
[50:01] above.
[50:02] We do have Mr. Richard Lutky, our planning director available for questions and the public
[50:07] hearing is now open.
[50:08] I do have Mr. Paul Bartell representing the owners.
[50:13] He is here and available for questions as well.
[50:19] Council, if there are no questions or comments, I'll entertain a motion.
[50:22] Move to close to public hearing.
[50:24] Second, I have a motion to close to public hearing and a second, Council please vote.
[50:30] Motion passes five to nothing.
[50:34] Council entertain a motion to approve.
[50:42] Move to approve the ordinances set forth in the caption.
[50:45] I have a motion in the second city attorney.
[50:50] This is an ordinance of the Louisville City Council,
[50:52] amending the zoning ordinance by rezoning approximately 1.029 acres of land.
[50:57] Legally described as a portion of a lot, a lot, 11 R1 and block A,
[51:01] Riverview Industrial Park.
[51:03] Located south of Stonewall, drive approximately 166 feet west of
[51:08] where House WH district zoning to light industrial L.I. district zoning,
[51:12] correcting the official zoning map, preserving all of the portions of the zoning ordinance,
[51:16] determining that the zoning amendment here and made promotes the health safety and general welfare
[51:19] of the city, providing for repealer, separability, a penalty, and an effective date and
[51:24] declaring an emergency. Council, please vote.
[51:31] Motion passes five nothing. E2, public hearing.
[51:36] Consideration of the removal of de-restrictions contained within document number 201-3565
[51:41] on 1.029 acres being a portion of review industrial park block A, a lot 11 R1 located on the
[51:48] south side of Stonewall Drive approximately 200 feet west of how fines boulevard as requested
[51:51] by Paul Bartell. Half associates incorporated on behalf of Prologis Exchange TX-2004 LLC,
[51:58] the property owner. During the review of the zone change request for the subject property
[52:02] Board restrictions on the use of the property were discovered that need to be removed to facilitate
[52:05] the development of a proposed business park on the site.
[52:08] These restrictions were put in place shortly after rezoning the subject property from
[52:12] light industrial district zoning to warehouse district zoning in 2011, and were specific
[52:16] to the development proposed at the time.
[52:18] The Board restrictions state that city council action through the public hearing process is required
[52:23] to amend or remove the district restrictions.
[52:25] The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended unanimous approval six to nothing on February
[52:29] 2020-2024, and it is recommended that the City Council will approve the removal of the
[52:33] deed restrictions that are set forth in the caption above. We do have Richard Lutky,
[52:37] our planning director available for questions, and the public hearing is now open.
[52:43] If there are no comments or questions, Council will entertain a motion to close the public hearing.
[52:47] I'm moved to close the public hearing.
[52:49] Second, I have a motion in the second. Council, if you please vote,
[52:54] motion passes unanimously.
[53:00] Council will all entertain a motion to approve the removal of the deed restrictions.
[53:02] Move
[53:05] to approve the de-interessions, restrictions, policies, the removal of the de-interessions.
[53:13] Second.
[53:14] I have a motion in a second.
[53:15] Council, please vote.
[53:20] Motion passes unanimously.
[53:25] I'm three public hearing.
[53:27] Consideration and ordinance granting a zone change from public use,
[53:30] district zoning, two planned development, a state townhouse residential,
[53:33] district on 47.641 acres of land out of the RF hardened survey.
[53:37] abstract number 613, the decooked survey, abstract number 234, the T.A. West survey, abstract number
[53:43] 1, 3, 4, 5, and the B. Soonover survey, abstract number 12, 09, located on the east side of
[53:50] Josie Lane, approximately 3000 feet south of Wind Haven Parkway. As requested by Patricia
[53:54] Font, the Gatams, on behalf of Louisville Independent School District, the property owner, 23-10-8-PZ.
[54:03] The subject's site lies east of Josie Lane, across from Memorial Elementary School,
[54:06] and the Lakewood Hills development.
[54:08] The property is currently owned by the Louisville Independent School District who intends to sell
[54:11] the southern portion for a residential subdivision and retain the northern portion for
[54:15] a future middle school.
[54:16] The applicant is proposing a resounding to planning a state townhouse residential to build a
[54:23] new single-family detached neighborhood.
[54:25] The planning and zoning commission recommended unanimous approval five to nothing on February 6,
[54:29] 2024, and is recommended in the city council approve the ordinance to set forth in the
[54:36] and the public hearing is now open.
[54:39] Mayer, I'd like Richard to just go over briefly what you went over with us in the workshop.
[54:48] Yes, the entire site was owned by L.I.S.D. as the Mayor of Brad and the Caption are in the administrative
[54:54] comments.
[54:55] The northern piece will be retained for a school and when this L.I.S.D. went out for proposals for the
[55:02] have to sell, staff had received numerous meeting requests and inquiries from multi-family
[55:11] developers, and of course staff's reply to all of them was definitely that it was something
[55:18] that staff could not support and carry forward to city council and did not meet the city's
[55:23] long-range plans for the area. We were very happy that a single-family developer moved forward,
[55:30] Staff feels that that's the highest investee for that area that compliments surrounding neighborhoods.
[55:37] Some concerns that PNZ brought up by several of the speakers was increased traffic on Josie,
[55:43] which Josie Lain is a major arterial in this whole region of the Metroplex,
[55:49] a six-lane divided road and it designed to carry very high traffic volumes,
[55:54] And it does carry a lot of traffic from outside of Lewisville.
[55:58] It's really a major threat, like I said, of thoroughfare, connecting major parts of the metroplex.
[56:03] And as far as other concerns were just the lack of park land in the area in open space,
[56:11] several of the residents were disappointed to see more open space going away.
[56:17] Fortunately, like I said, we were happy that the resident development will be single family homes.
[56:22] And because the property does contain a segment of Indian Creek,
[56:28] about the over nine acres will be dedicated to the city as Parkland,
[56:33] that will accommodate a major regional hike and bike trail
[56:37] that is on our long-range plans.
[56:39] But there will also be a proximity nine acres of private open space
[56:43] that will have a recreational easement on it.
[56:45] That will give us the ability of additional public trails
[56:47] to connect various portions and up to the school
[56:52] and connect the school with various neighborhoods in that area.
[56:56] Overall, I believe the site is approximately about 38% open space.
[57:01] Another factor, the fact that the tributary of Indian Creek kind of runs parallel to
[57:07] Josie Lane, the subdivision to self, will be about 350 feet back from Josie.
[57:12] So you will have ample open space at the front of the subdivision from Josie Lane.
[57:17] So I think that will address some of the concerns that the residents had at the P&C meeting.
[57:24] Richard, I also, I think I read somewhere in here that there's still part, there will probably be a traffic study required, and the next, but so this is just to clarify that this is just zoning,
[57:36] That the next phase will include traffic analysis, which will hopefully address some of the
[57:44] traffic concerns.
[57:44] Yes, that would be required with the plighting phase of the development.
[57:54] There are no further comments or questions.
[57:55] I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing.
[58:02] I moved to close the public hearing.
[58:04] Thank you.
[58:06] I have a motion.
[58:07] In a second, Council, if you please vote,
[58:11] motion passes five to nothing.
[58:15] Council, I'll entertain a motion to approve the ordinance to set forth in the caption.
[58:20] To approve the ordinance to set forth in the caption?
[58:23] I have a motion in a second city attorney.
[58:27] This is an ordinance of the Louisville City Council,
[58:30] amending the zoning ordinance by rezoning approximately 47.641 acres of land out of RF
[58:36] Carden survey as chart number 613, the D Cook survey,
[58:40] abs chart number 234, the T.A. West survey,
[58:43] abs chart number 1345, and the B.C.
[58:45] in the number survey, abs chart number 1209,
[58:48] located on the east side of Josie Lane,
[58:49] approximately 3000 feet south of Wind Haven Parkway,
[58:52] from Public Use P.U. District Zoning
[58:54] to plan development a state townhouse
[58:56] residential P.D.E.T.H. District Zoning.
[58:59] Correcting the officials' zoning map,
[59:00] preserving all of the portions of the zoning
[59:02] ordinance, determining that the zoning amendment
[59:04] herein made promotes the health, safety,
[59:05] and General Welfare of the City, providing for repealer,
[59:09] severability, penalty, and an effective date and declaring an emergency.
[59:14] Council, please vote.
[59:18] Motion passes. Five to nothing.
[59:25] Item F. Visitors citizens form.
[59:28] Speakers must address their comments to the mayor rather than to individual
[59:30] council members or staff. Speakers should speak clearly and state their name and address
[59:33] prior to beginning the remarks. Speakers will be allowed five minutes for testimony.
[59:36] Speakers making personal and pertinent profane or slanderers remarks may be removed from the meeting.
[59:40] Unauthorized remarks from the audience, stamping a feet, whistles, yells, clapping, and similar
[59:43] demonstrations will not be permitted, and accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act,
[59:47] the City Council is restricted from discussing or taking action on items not listed on the
[59:51] agenda.
[59:52] Action can only be taken at a future meeting.
[59:54] Have any public comment?
[1:00:02] Mr. Law, if you don't mind, I'm going to have you posted for H-10. Nancy Sancell?
[1:00:20] This is my pleasure to say good evening to all of you, Mayor and Councilman and staff.
[1:00:27] My name is Nancy Sancell. I'm a frequent visitor here at your meetings, and I enjoy a chance to share with you what's going on with the senior population of Louisville.
[1:00:39] I reside at 415 South Garden Rich Road at the Evergreen at Lewisville Senior Community for six years.
[1:00:49] We represent Lewisville Senior Living Challenges organization or as our back of our T-shirts say seniors helping seniors.
[1:00:58] To express our unity we are all wearing our symbolic blue shirts and you can see a few in the back there.
[1:01:06] We were very honored to have Gary Henders, and I know you all know Gary, CEO and President
[1:01:13] of the United Way at our February meeting last Thursday night.
[1:01:22] We had also delighted to have Brandon Jones and I don't see William Meredith or
[1:01:30] there he is. They also helped with technical problems we had. So we had a, we had a packed
[1:01:38] house of residents that geared towards, you know, the way it's working with possibilities of
[1:01:46] finding assistance and if all works out in late March or April. Besides our grant, we were told
[1:01:56] But other communities have also raised their rents, so I don't know if you all are aware
[1:02:01] of that.
[1:02:01] Haven't independent community raised, there's 300 a month, and Riverwalk down here raised
[1:02:09] their rent 600 a month, and that's just a few.
[1:02:16] As the early baby boomers turn 78, the demand for senior housing will grow exponentially from
[1:02:23] 1.5 million units, 2020 to 3.2 million units in 2040.
[1:02:31] If you look on your packets that were passed out to you,
[1:02:34] the front covers sort of delineates that growth.
[1:02:38] And it's truly shocking how much more housing we need.
[1:02:46] There are more than 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day.
[1:02:51] Denton County's need for senior housing will grow soon to 20.58% of the population, population of over a million population, I understand.
[1:03:04] Our meetings with the city managers office have been very successful.
[1:03:08] With ongoing safety repairs, we were delighted to see the sidewalk repair people working on our sidewalks that many others have been tripping on.
[1:03:18] So we were thrilled about that.
[1:03:21] We also have petitioned with the City Manager's office
[1:03:24] for a safety zone to block you turns on both sides
[1:03:30] of the street, caution signs, and across walk
[1:03:34] that across the garden ridge to the back entrance
[1:03:37] of the Tom Thum Street Mall.
[1:03:39] Crossing the street is very dangerous.
[1:03:42] I've personally seen one person killed her.
[1:03:45] As the credit goes to a fantastic mayor, City Council, Claire Powell, Ashley and Chris and her wonderful staff,
[1:03:55] it has just made a big difference in our lives.
[1:03:57] We feel like we can go in and sit down and have a wonderful discussion and ways we can work together,
[1:04:06] networking and things like that.
[1:04:07] You're combined effort has made a huge difference in looseville seniors quality of our lives.
[1:04:14] You have provided impatiently, month after month, listened to our concerns and our safety issues.
[1:04:22] You represent the best example of local city government I've ever seen.
[1:04:27] And who really care about their citizens and their welfare.
[1:04:32] And I thank you very much and I'm out of time.
[1:04:34] Thank you, Nancy.
[1:04:41] item G consent agenda. All the following items on the consent agenda are considered to be self
[1:04:45] explanatory by the council when we acted with one motion. There will be no separate discussion
[1:04:49] of these items unless it's council member or citizens to request for assistance and request
[1:04:52] removal and item. A speaker card or e-commerce must be filled out submitted to the city secretary.
[1:04:57] So you secretary do we have any comment? No service to Mayor. Council unless there is anything
[1:05:02] to be pulled on or taken a motion? Move to approve the consent agenda. Second.
[1:05:07] I have a motion in a second. Council, please vote.
[1:05:14] Concentrate into pass is five and nothing.
[1:05:16] Item H9, a regular hearing.
[1:05:18] Concentration of four, alternative standards.
[1:05:20] Related to building, setbacks, parking, layout,
[1:05:23] driveway location, and streetscape for a proposed commercial building
[1:05:26] on 3.29 acre lot.
[1:05:28] Legally described as Blake C. Bowen,
[1:05:30] Edition Block A, lot to.
[1:05:32] Located at the north side of Justin Road FM407,
[1:05:36] approximately 400 feet west of Interstate Highway 35E.
[1:05:42] on behalf of Louisville 407 and 35 partnership, the property owner,
[1:05:47] Case number 2402-ALT-CD.
[1:05:51] Specs family partners limited. Specs lines, spirits, and
[1:05:54] finer foods, aka Specs, is proposing a new retail building on the
[1:05:58] north side of Justin Road FM 407. The following four alternative standards are requested to accommodate various easements on the property.
[1:06:05] A to allow a 98 foot setback from the primary, predestrian street in Leap.
[1:06:09] of the maximum 10 feet allowed at a 95 foot set back from Justin Road FM407 in lieu of the maximum
[1:06:15] 80 feet allowed. B to allow parking between the building and street. C to allow driveways
[1:06:20] onto the primary pedestrian street and D to omit the street escaping inside walk along the primary
[1:06:25] pedestrian street and place the required benches and bike racks along the eight foot sidewalk
[1:06:30] along the building. The planning and zoning commission recommended unanimous approval six
[1:06:33] and nothing on February 20, 2024. It's recommended that the city council proved the alternative
[1:06:38] standards is set forth in the caption above, and we do have Mr. Richard Lutkey, our planning
[1:06:42] director available for questions. Richard, if you would mind kind of speaking to the unique
[1:06:47] aspects of this property and why we're, why we're a PNZ approved this.
[1:06:53] This site is probably the prime candidate for why we do have alternative standards. It's a
[1:06:58] very challenging site. It is crisscrossed by multiple easements. It's not only access
[1:07:03] and fire land easements, but water line easements over had power line easements and a gas
[1:07:09] line easement. And some of those easements are going at a 45. So it's made development
[1:07:14] very, very challenging and with the either d5 overlay standards on top of that, very, very
[1:07:22] difficult, but staff worked very closely with the applicant and we think this would be a great
[1:07:27] addition to the overall development of the area, and I think all of the standards are warranted
[1:07:35] and that we've come up with a really good solution that will accommodate the development
[1:07:38] but still, we've dispertened to the either of the five over-life.
[1:07:45] There are no other questions or discussion.
[1:07:47] I just want to make one come out.
[1:07:48] I remember this property a couple of years ago when we looked at this and what could have been
[1:07:53] there, so I appreciate the fact that we waited for the right fit for this property.
[1:08:01] I was just going to say, I do a fair amount of land planning in my day job.
[1:08:07] I don't know if land planner for this project is here tonight, but Kudos to you.
[1:08:14] This is a lot.
[1:08:17] This is a lot of restrictions, so I'm glad that we were.
[1:08:23] The land planner was able to find some workable solutions with working with the city.
[1:08:28] So to make this property developable, otherwise it would be vacant, so with that, I just wanted to say Kudos the land planner, and with that all motion to approve the alternative standards of the set forth in the caption.
[1:08:43] Second.
[1:08:43] I have a motion in a second.
[1:08:45] Council, please vote.
[1:08:48] Passes five.
[1:08:53] Item H10.
[1:08:55] Consideration when ordinance amending the fee schedule.
[1:08:57] It's city of Louisville by amending fees related to solid waste and recycling services in the properties that were annexed into the city on November.
[1:09:04] The City Council approved an exclusive franchise agreement for solid waste and recycling collection and disposal with
[1:09:08] Republic Services for Legacy Lewisville that became effective January 1, 2021.
[1:09:13] Following the annexation of the Castle Hill area, the city assumed an exclusive franchise agreement for residential
[1:09:17] solid waste and recycling collection and disposal with community waste disposal CWD.
[1:09:21] During the September 18, 2023 City Council work session staff presented options for solid waste and recycling collection for the Castle Hill area.
[1:09:27] Subsequently, staff was directed to transition solid waste and recycling collection for the
[1:09:31] Castle Hill area to the Republic's services exclusive franchise agreement making the service
[1:09:34] consistent throughout Louisville. Staff is negotiated transition plan with CWD and Republic
[1:09:39] the considers challenges of both customers and providers in the Castle Hill area. CWD is
[1:09:44] informed staff that extending their service to January 31, 2025 will cause them to occur
[1:09:50] additional costs for trucks. To offset the additional costs, rates will be increased by $10.3%.
[1:09:57] effect of April 3rd, 2024 as part of the proposed amendment impacting all residential rates
[1:10:01] for the castle hills area.
[1:10:03] The ever-chome having one trash cart and one recycled cart would see a monthly increase of
[1:10:07] $2.62 on their utility bill.
[1:10:10] Per the proposed amendment, this is the final rate adjustment for the CWD agreement.
[1:10:14] On February 1, 2025 the franchise will transfer to Republic Services and the fees for the
[1:10:18] castle hills area will likely reduce at that time.
[1:10:21] It's recommended that the city council approve the ordinance to set forth in the caption
[1:10:24] above.
[1:10:24] I do have one comment from Mr. Daniel Law.
[1:10:34] Hey, man.
[1:10:35] Good evening.
[1:10:36] Good evening.
[1:10:37] I do have a question and I have an observation and I have an opinion.
[1:10:42] So I am 10% to $6 dollars.
[1:10:46] I think that's okay.
[1:10:47] The only question I have is,
[1:10:50] right, after February of 2025,
[1:10:53] they say that the bill is going to be reduced.
[1:10:56] Do we expect the same two weeks collection or is going to change
[1:10:59] because when you say reduce at that time, do we see a reducing in service as well?
[1:11:05] That's my question.
[1:11:07] And then, my observation about the collection, right?
[1:11:10] So I think this kind of circle back to our city audience section 1223 regarding the collection schedule.
[1:11:18] So currently, right, the audience talk about, right, the 7-A-M is the collection day.
[1:11:23] And then, they talk about the 24 hours prior is where you can put the trash out and then you have 24 hours after the collection day.
[1:11:30] Right, so if you think about it, right, you go from about 36 hours to about 60 hours.
[1:11:35] It's a long, right, yeah.
[1:11:36] You think about our neighborhood, right?
[1:11:38] Our neighborhood has a lot of non-compliance.
[1:11:41] So when I talk to the compliance officer with our H.O.A.
[1:11:44] We have the most violation last year.
[1:11:47] So if you think about the audience and our neighborhood, right?
[1:11:51] We are front facing garage neighborhood.
[1:11:54] So we have a Tuesday and Friday collection date with the audience reading.
[1:11:59] and right yet, you know, 24 hours prior and 24 hours after, right?
[1:12:04] So, produce the collection,
[1:12:06] we're gonna have Monday, people put even 7 AM,
[1:12:09] and it might have all the way to meet now on Wednesday,
[1:12:13] but we think about it, we have a Friday collection day.
[1:12:16] So, that means people can put it on Thursday,
[1:12:18] and then don't have to do it,
[1:12:19] to have to remove on to Saturday.
[1:12:22] So, in other words, you have an audience here that's
[1:12:25] difficult for people to enforce, right?
[1:12:28] people can do the loophole and put it every day other than Sunday, but then as we now write
[1:12:32] a lot of people that work on Sunday, that means, you know, in the neighborhood I talk
[1:12:36] about, right, the 10 minutes walking, you know, to a park or green space, right. So when
[1:12:42] you think about these, right, if we continue to have a two collection date per week, right,
[1:12:48] you're going to see a neighborhood with a lot of trash in the neighborhood. We do, like
[1:12:52] I say, a violation, a lot of violation, right? People leave it on the street, people
[1:12:56] living in front of the neighborhood, right, drive way, even our H-O-A do have a rule about
[1:13:02] that.
[1:13:03] That is similar.
[1:13:04] They can't afford it and then they ask me like, you know, if we get CD involved and
[1:13:10] then, you know, CD enforcement involved, that might be good.
[1:13:13] I know the other thing is, right, we have a visibility.
[1:13:18] We don't have a rule on visibility on the trash, right?
[1:13:21] What I mean is, we don't have a visibility from the front.
[1:13:24] when I look around in the city, or around the metro tracks,
[1:13:29] like Alingtern, Fort Worth, and some other city,
[1:13:32] even Carleton has some kind of regulation about,
[1:13:35] you know, regulation about trash not being visible
[1:13:37] from the front of the property.
[1:13:41] So I don't think city of Louis, Louis has that.
[1:13:44] So I think, you know, there's something
[1:13:45] that they can look into to become a city city of Louis
[1:13:49] who is a better place to leave.
[1:13:51] Because, and I say, right, we walk the neighborhood alone
[1:13:53] and is challenging to see a lot of trash in the neighborhood, so there's all I have put today.
[1:14:01] Thank you,
[1:14:03] Dan.
[1:14:04] We'll have staff to clarify some of those questions for you.
[1:14:12] Council, I'll entertain a motion.
[1:14:14] Move to approve the ordinance to set force on the caption.
[1:14:18] Second.
[1:14:19] A motion of second, city attorney.
[1:14:26] This is an ordinance of the Louisville City Council.
[1:14:28] I'm ending the peace schedule of the city of Louisville by amending the residential trash
[1:14:32] and recycling collection rates that apply only to properties annexed into the city on November
[1:14:36] 15th, 2021, providing a repealer's severability and effective date and clearing emergency.
[1:14:42] Council, please vote.
[1:14:45] Motion passes 5.9.
[1:14:49] Item 11, second reading, consideration of an ordinance setting for the second attachment to the
[1:14:53] solid waste collection disposal and recyclable materials collection and processing agreement,
[1:14:58] and the first amendment to the solid waste collection and disposal.
[1:15:02] The City Council approved an exclusive French has agreement for solid waste and recycling collection and disposal with the public services for legacy Louisville, became effective January 1, 2021. Following the annexation of the castle hill area, the city assumed an exclusive French has agreement for residential solid waste recycling collection and disposal with community waste disposal CWD. During the September 18, 2023, City Council work session staff presented options for solid waste recycling collection for the castle hill area. Subsequently, staff was directed to transition solid waste recycling collection for the city council.
[1:15:29] the Council Hill area to the Republic of Services,
[1:15:32] exclusive French has agreement making the service consistent
[1:15:34] throughout Louisville.
[1:15:35] Staff is negotiated transition plan with CDWD
[1:15:37] and Republic that considers challenges for both customers
[1:15:40] and providers in the Council Hill area.
[1:15:41] The city charter requires the amendments to a franchise
[1:15:43] ordinance to be read twice.
[1:15:45] 30 days apart and go in effect no earlier than 30 days
[1:15:47] after the final reading.
[1:15:48] The first reading was approved on January 22nd, 2024.
[1:15:51] If approved on the second reading,
[1:15:52] the amendment will be effective on April 3rd, 2024.
[1:15:55] It's recommended that the city council proved the ordinance
[1:15:56] to step forth in the cash and above.
[1:15:58] Council?
[1:15:59] There are no questions or comments.
[1:16:01] I'll entertain a motion.
[1:16:02] Mr. Mayor, I move to approve the ordinance to set forth an occasion.
[1:16:06] Item motion.
[1:16:07] The second.
[1:16:07] City Attorney.
[1:16:08] This is an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Louisville, Texas, setting
[1:16:12] forth the second amendment to solid waste collection and disposal and recyclable material
[1:16:16] collection and processing agreement.
[1:16:18] And the first amendment to solid waste collection and disposal and recyclable material
[1:16:22] collection and processing agreement.
[1:16:24] providing for severability, and effective date, and acceptance by community-waste disposal
[1:16:28] LP.
[1:16:30] Councillor, can you please vote?
[1:16:34] Motion passes.
[1:16:34] 5 to nothing.
[1:16:37] Reports.
[1:16:38] Councilwoman Meredith?
[1:16:41] Before I go through these, would you mind be in first from the City Council report, sir?
[1:16:45] All right.
[1:16:46] Do you want to make a point that we do have our quarterly investment report from October
[1:16:50] 1, 2023 to December 31st, 2023, that is in the supplemental material for Council
[1:16:56] and it's also available on the city website so you can see how we're doing.
[1:17:02] First of all, I wanted to compliment staff on the Tri-City Neighborhood Summit.
[1:17:05] I thought that went off very well.
[1:17:07] Everything turned out great that day.
[1:17:13] Some library activities for the week.
[1:17:15] Elementary explorations for children aged 6 to 8.
[1:17:19] Thursday, March 7, 430 to 530.
[1:17:22] A ticket is required at the Bennett program room.
[1:17:25] Block printing for adults and teens 16 plus.
[1:17:29] Thursday, March 7th, 6th to 745 p.m. Registration is required at the High of Maker Space.
[1:17:36] Tag, teen advisory group, pertains age 13 to 18, Thursday, March 7th, 630 to 730.
[1:17:43] No registration required at teen point, second floor.
[1:17:47] And that's all I got.
[1:17:48] Thank you, sir.
[1:17:49] Council Member Troyer?
[1:17:52] First of all, did a little bit.
[1:17:54] Anyway, thanks to this staff and everyone involved.
[1:18:00] I have a number of items at the Grand Theatre.
[1:18:06] First of all, the Texas Tunes concert series continues this Saturday night, March 9th, with a concert by Del Castillo.
[1:18:16] Then it's always on Friday night, there are the acoustic jam sessions, take place from 6 to 9, additional activities, the acoustic Friday is songwriting challenge.
[1:18:28] presented by the city of Louisville, will take place on March 8th.
[1:18:34] That's not water color, workshop with Randy Meeder,
[1:18:38] presented by the visual artist of Louisville and March 12th through the 14th.
[1:18:44] Neighborhood Grant workshop presented by the city of Louisville and March Bishop,
[1:18:49] presented by the Louisville independent school district, taking place now March 3rd through the 21st,
[1:18:56] and then beauty in the unexpected presented by the visual art League of Lewisville March 9th through April 13th.
[1:19:05] And that is all I have.
[1:19:07] Thank you, sir.
[1:19:08] City Attorney?
[1:19:10] City Secretary?
[1:19:11] No report, Mayor.
[1:19:13] No report, Mayor.
[1:19:13] No report, Mayor.
[1:19:15] I know.
[1:19:17] I got some hard scape to talk about.
[1:19:21] Mayor, City Council Park fans just wanted to give you a little bit update the Parks and Recreation Department,
[1:19:26] participating in the Texas Recreation Park Society Annual Institute last week in Galveston and we brought
[1:19:34] home some some stones from that event. We received a maintenance achievement award, an outstanding
[1:19:43] educator of the year award, a planning excellence award and the Texas Gold Medal for management
[1:19:50] of a park system and then a couple of things that we weren't expecting. As I was walking in here
[1:19:55] I was going to tell you more about each of these,
[1:19:58] but I've been asked by the past president's council
[1:20:01] if they can come make a formal presentation
[1:20:03] to city council and allow our staff that wasn't able to
[1:20:07] go to celebrate their awards with us,
[1:20:09] so I'm going to hold off on that.
[1:20:11] But one of those include the spotlight that probably
[1:20:13] needs to be pointed at you for just a couple of seconds.
[1:20:17] OK, we got it.
[1:20:22] But one of the things also, this Saturday, we held our second installment, installment of
[1:20:26] the Roots for Wings Program, which we put together in conjunction with our friends from
[1:20:32] neighborhood services and sustainability and key blues for a beautiful, and it's been a heavy
[1:20:37] lift for the city because it requires us to think differently about how we approach how
[1:20:43] We landscape not only public spaces, but private spaces too in our homes and how we address
[1:20:51] existential threats by working together and just seeing things differently.
[1:20:57] And during that program, which wanted to let you all know that the master naturalists have
[1:21:03] recognized it as their outstanding project program of the year for 2023, they're a big part
[1:21:11] of that program helping us with volunteers and doing a lot of the teaching.
[1:21:15] So I know that you all have most of y'all up there.
[1:21:18] I've attended one of the workshops and I know we already have the person who hasn't signed
[1:21:23] it for the 2025 installment.
[1:21:27] So I just wanted to congratulate everybody on that award because that is a group lift.
[1:21:33] Congratulations to everybody.
[1:21:36] It's no report
[1:21:40] of the late report that's not a list of awards, but the lake is at 99.4% full 521.88 feet.
[1:21:51] what's that?
[1:21:55] shirt?
[1:21:55] What is
[1:22:04] that?
[1:22:04] What's that?
[1:22:04] Cut,zel, we're green.
[1:22:05] My husband says they are.
[1:22:10] So I just wanted to quickly mention that we do have the Edro McKells unveiling this Thursday
[1:22:17] night.
[1:22:18] I believe that it actually starts at noon so you can drop by and check out the new place.
[1:22:22] I actually have not seen it yet, so I'm excited for that.
[1:22:26] there will be a short presentation beginning at 6 p.m. in a ribbon cutting.
[1:22:32] Then I also just wanted to mention that our animal shelter is pretty full.
[1:22:35] So, could get you a buddy.
[1:22:37] That's all.
[1:22:38] Or two.
[1:22:39] Or two. Why not?
[1:22:44] No more than six.
[1:22:47] Councillor interjecting.
[1:22:48] Councillor interjecting. So, I just wanted to give the parks.
[1:22:51] The parks department and neighborhood services shout out.
[1:22:54] We, I attended the Roots of Wings.
[1:22:56] A person who is not outdoorsy, who does not have a green thumb.
[1:22:59] But it was very educational.
[1:23:01] I came away with a plant that I'm trying to figure out how to plant it in my backyard.
[1:23:06] Yeah, yeah, no, I did a stay stressed that, but I have to find where there's going to be
[1:23:10] a lot of sun or some shades off of them, I'll research, so I'll get those out there and
[1:23:14] get going.
[1:23:15] I probably won't get the certification because my lot is not big enough, but I will get some
[1:23:20] natural plants out there, native plants.
[1:23:23] While we're here, while I'm here, shout out shout out to our public's work folks.
[1:23:28] because, you know, I know our seniors came last month and they were talking about the concrete,
[1:23:34] there's a gentleman who was in a wheelchair who was saying, talking about the cracks, and I
[1:23:37] did notice those and the public works got out there pretty fast because the day after that,
[1:23:42] I saw that they were out there or working on that. So I just want to commend our staff or, you know,
[1:23:46] the fast turnaround in the work, you know, a lot of people like to complain about government
[1:23:51] and what's not right, but clearly, you know, our staff works very hard to work with our
[1:23:57] get to their answer. We may not be as fast as you want us to be, but we do, we do it
[1:24:01] very hard. So I know we love our police and our fire, but we want to give our public
[1:24:05] works people a hand. That's all I have.
[1:24:09] Well, I'll just take up on police and fire here, okay? What a week. It was so nice that Sunday we
[1:24:17] weren't in the headlines, but it's been quite a trying weekend, and I want to give
[1:24:23] things to to y'all for that.
[1:24:30] A couple of things. I also wanted to echo Councilman K's comments.
[1:24:35] This was a hard weekend for our staff, first responders, including public services. We're really
[1:24:43] tried and came through, did a really excellent job, so I want to thank all of you. I also wanted
[1:24:50] to highlight a few things. So we do have a couple of awards that have not been told to Council. So
[1:24:55] I just want to, I don't know the final results on these, but Dallas Business Journal has named
[1:25:01] our Ohio deal, one of the finalists for deal of the year.
[1:25:06] National League of Cities has said, we're either first or second place, we're not sure, on
[1:25:12] City Cultural Diversity Awards, so we're going to wait and find out what NLC does with that.
[1:25:18] And that's for our chin sculpture.
[1:25:20] And then I want to talk about Stacey and I, so she doesn't want me to talk about this, but
[1:25:25] I think it's worth saying.
[1:25:26] So she was also at the traps meeting,
[1:25:28] our traps award banquet, she was awarded the Dan Whitworth
[1:25:32] Fellow Award, and this is the highest award
[1:25:35] that the society can bestow.
[1:25:38] This recipient of the recipient of this honor
[1:25:40] has been the members of traps
[1:25:41] and has given outstanding service
[1:25:43] to the Parks and Recreation Field for a minimum of 10 years.
[1:25:46] In addition to contributing to the promotion
[1:25:48] advancement of the Texas Recreation of Parks Society,
[1:25:50] that doesn't really tell you what that moment was.
[1:25:53] I will tell you that she got a standing ovation, she didn't know she was going to get it.
[1:25:59] We made sure her husband and mom had secretly flown in as well for her to see for them to be there for her.
[1:26:06] And our entire table including her staff are in total tears because they were so moved and loved her.
[1:26:14] So congratulations to you.
[1:26:33] It is awesome to have so many people that love their town.
[1:26:38] So, a couple of quick things.
[1:26:41] Heatherhouse is going to be phenomenal.
[1:26:43] You definitely want to get out there.
[1:26:45] So, I'm going to, she's still my thunder,
[1:26:46] but I'm going to just reiterate.
[1:26:48] It's awesome.
[1:26:49] So, thank you, Kristen.
[1:26:51] I did want to give you guys just a quick rundown
[1:26:53] of my day of maering on Saturday.
[1:26:57] So, Saturday morning, I was on the road
[1:27:00] by about 4.45 AM.
[1:27:02] I had the opportunity to represent Louisville
[1:27:05] at the Native Plant Society of Texas's Spring Symposium.
[1:27:09] And it was at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center.
[1:27:13] It was a great time.
[1:27:14] And what's fascinating is when I look back on the journey
[1:27:18] that our city has taken, and that I've taken with our city
[1:27:21] over the last several years, I grew up looking at water issues
[1:27:25] as a kid in Arizona.
[1:27:28] And Native plants, when they did live,
[1:27:30] you only saw them for a week or two,
[1:27:32] and then they went back to be in dormant.
[1:27:34] But I see those issues with water and water conservation coming up here in Texas and I've seen it for many years and so as we started to have these conversations around water restrictions and native plants and how do we how do we move people in that direction?
[1:27:52] We also through in this this whole butterfly thing and what I thought was really fun about the butterfly thing when I first said yeah, we should sign up for that.
[1:27:59] I thought what it meant was don't hit them with your car and make sure that you don't use
[1:28:04] bug spray.
[1:28:05] I figured that was the entirety of it, but I'm not bright.
[1:28:10] Over time, I realized we got to build habitat for these guys.
[1:28:14] We got to build, I call it the Bucky's for Butterflies.
[1:28:17] We got to build that way station for the butterflies and the birds and the natives, and it
[1:28:21] comes from the native plants with help with the water issues, which help reduce cost of
[1:28:25] ownership and they reduce costs of the city for maintenance and mowing and all those types of things
[1:28:30] and do things look a little scruffy sometimes. Yeah because Texas looks a little scruffy sometimes
[1:28:36] and I'm okay with that because we're in Texas. So I got the opportunity to to two at our
[1:28:42] horn. I want to thank the Parks Department for and staff for getting me the data and the
[1:28:46] information so I could put a really compelling story out there and I think we're going to get
[1:28:55] So if I lean on you guys for more information and more opportunities to share our message, please
[1:29:00] don't hate me.
[1:29:02] It's a great time.
[1:29:04] So then I zipped back here because I had to be for the Louisville Education Foundation was
[1:29:10] here to represent the city for that and we had several folks there.
[1:29:13] But if you haven't paid any attention to LEF or don't really know what it is, they raise
[1:29:16] a lot of funds, not just for scholarships for students, but also scholarships and grants
[1:29:21] for teachers.
[1:30:00] I know that that can be a little harrowing when you've got to recap the entire year that you have not been here for.
[1:30:06] And so thank you so much for stepping into that role. It was exciting to see everybody there and to recognize our police department for all the exciting things that they've been doing.
[1:30:14] And it's such a great family. So I appreciate you for that. And then I went to bed.
[1:30:20] But I love this city. I wouldn't have it any other way, and I appreciate you. I'll give me the opportunity to showcase what a great city we are.
[1:30:27] With that, we don't have any session in the back, so we have no more actions to be taken, we are adjourned.