March 12th. I'm going to call the town council meeting to order. We have all councilors
present and we're going to start tonight with the invocation. Pastor ben, how are you doing, ben? Doing well. How are you guys? Very good. That's awesome. Let's open with the
verse of the day. It's from romans five, verse one. Therefore, since we have been
made right in god's sight by faith, we have peace with god because of what jesus christ
our lord has done for us. Lord god, we thank you so much for the peace that we have with you
through your son jesus christ, through his death and resurrection for us. Lord, I
pray that you would bring peace to your world. Peace to our our country, peace to our state,
and and even peace right here in north lake. Lord, we lift up to you all of our first
responders, our public works workers, our business owners and, and workers. They're all
of our, our citizens. We pray, lord, especially today for leanne crawford, that you would
just lead doctors to a diagnosis and a remedy for the health issues that she is
facing. Lord, we celebrate with the town hall. 101 graduates today, and we thank you for the
time and energy they've put into this program and those who have led it as well, guide all
the discussions and conversations that are happening today, lord, that they would be done according to your will and are pleasing to you. It's in the precious name
of jesus our savior, I pray. Amen. Please stand for our pledges. Of the united states
of america and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all. I pledge allegiance to thee. Texas. One state under god, one
indivisible. All right. Drew, did you have an update on water situation or just want to
narrate that for people here? Yes, sir. Late this afternoon, contractor hit a line on mulkey
past current development towards new development. It did not affect did not cut any
water off from residents. We were able to isolate the break and we did not drop below 20
psi. So there will be no water boil notice repeat, no water boil notice and I'm within
probably less than an hour cruise the pump. They they isolated, the pump, engaged,
and we got the pressures back to the normal 70 to 80 psi range. So great job, public
works. Eric and his crews response was incredibly fast. So I appreciate all the hard
work to get that resolved quickly so our residents didn't have to go without water. Next
we're going to do real quick council updates. I think mr. Fowler had some, I appreciate
that. So back in the fall, I had the very fortunate opportunity to congratulate
some of our local sports teams that won a state title in volleyball. So tonight we have
another state champion, the argyle lady eagles went this past week to the state
tournament and they won. They beat frisco memorial I think 5241 in the semifinal. And then
in the state championship game, they beat barboursville 5142. The reason that I like to
present this, because we have a few young ladies on those teams that are residents here in
north lake, addison, simms and kinsley vest are all residents here and want to say
congratulations to them. Just to give you a little bit of background on the the girls
basketball team, if you're not very familiar with them, this is their 11th trip to the state tournament since the school's been open. They appeared in the state finals seven years in a
row from 2013 to 2019, and they won five consecutive from 2014 to 2018. They went again in
2022, where they lost in the semifinals, and they went back for the first time as a5a
school, and they just competed and won the first five state titles. So I want to
congratulate them on a job well done. If you have never seen high school girls basketball in
this area, I would encourage you to go to do it. I was never a fan until I got here to the
area and watched them play, and they are tremendous young ladies who work extremely hard and do a great job. Not only that, but every single member of that team made the academic
all state team for u.I.l so very intelligent in the classroom and hard working on the court as well. So just want to give them congratulations. If you want to see them, they
will be back next year. They only have one senior, so great year and hopefully they can
follow it up again next year. So I want to say congratulations to them. Thank
you, mr. Fowler. Any updates from council. All right. I know that we are. We went to the tom
thumb opening. And first of all I was really proud with the north lake representation
because we're going to be the ones shopping there too, if we're honest, but that it's a
really beautiful store and that I'm a a super price snob and we got some good steals. So if you
haven't checked out the new tom thumb and we all met troy aikman, but that's neither here
nor there. Alright. And in other news, myself, mayor pro tem and doctor sessions got to
tour mp materials, their existing facility down on one seven off 170 and keller slash
fort worth. I guess it's technically fort worth. We took a tour of that because we
wanted to see what they were bringing here firsthand. We heard about what they were bringing, what their operations were. But we want to take a look under a hood. And let me
tell you what people were concerned about. Maybe, you know, water pollution or air
pollution. I've seen restaurants dirtier than this factory, and they deal in dust
particles to make magnets. And you could literally eat off the floor. It was so incredibly
clean. And just to put to rest none of their raw materials coming in have any radioactive
properties whatsoever. There are mines in other parts of the world that do, but the mine
that they use in california does not have any radioactive traces. So it was just really
an eye opening experience for us to see the technological advances in this, and how it
will be a great thing for north lake, for texas and the country as a whole, bring you back real
technical manufacturing jobs. So really neat experience and I appreciate council taking time.
other councilors, on a staff note to you all, if you want to take additional tours, just let
them know and we'll get that scheduled. Alright. Anything else before we move on? All
right. Thank you. First item tonight is our town hall 101 graduates. Drew, if you'd like
to say a little bit about the class and then we'll get up here and get them recognized.
is there one of the town's strategic goals? Good evening. Council mayor was to develop
areas that we could talk about north lake. We could share the history of north lake. We could
educate people about the town's functions. Please beat me to the punch with the citizen
police academy. Great program. We followed with the town hall 101 and we have. We cover a
number of things, mainly our departments. We don't have many, but we also talk about our
history. How the heck do we get the name north lake? All those all those good stuff. What what
we are, this is our fourth class and so want to honor them. We have some certificates for
them, but here are all the the 2026 graduates of town hall 101 and I have some unattested if
anybody wants to admit to making these comments. But here's some testimonials of of
town hall 101. And we have been trying to get all our board members and other people that
council and mayor have directed to this class, but we're going to continue to work on this and
open it up. And so anyway, any questions about town hall 101 or comments? If not, we've got
some. One question is how long until the next one? Because I have people asking already. So
we usually go from november to the 1st of march. So and we try to do it on monday nights. We
do it about every other monday night. We have lost one of our rooms, our police community
room. Now it's going to be. It's. It was remodeled the night after our last class or
the morning after our last class. The chief was kicking me out, moving tables out. So
we're running out of room. And that's a whole other topic. But yes, we'll we'll start in
november. But if we if we get enough demand, we usually have about 12. And because
everybody's so busy this year, we only had nine make it through, but we have a. We
decided the classmates decided that if you miss more than two meetings that you need to
withdraw. And so. But yes. November. Excellent. Thank you. What we're going to do is we're
going to hand out certificates for those that are here tonight. We're going to do a quick photo
with each of you. And then we can probably do a class photo as well. So let's get that
going here. I'll step down. Amy johnson.
yeah, they're all at the back here. All right. Tracy honeycutt. Valerie madigan.
I'll tell you why y'all are taking pictures. One thing that's come out of this class
is everyone that's taken it has turned into like an advocate or an expert about the town, that
if there's things going on in the town that they have answers, that sometimes they can get to
things faster than we can and that they have the awareness because they went through the
class. So that's something I really appreciate. All right. The rustlers certificates for
folks that weren't here tonight will get those out to them. So next we have a presentation
from methodist southlake hospital. We have benson chacko. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you.
good evening team, and thank you all for giving me a couple of minutes to just explain who
we are in methodist southlake. It's about 20 minutes south. We are the newest hospital here in
the area. For those of you who don't know, we are part of methodist health system. So
methodist health system was founded back in 1927 in south dallas. A group of methodist
ministers came to the area and said, there's no health care down there. 100 years later,
we're still one of the only ones down in south dallas. And that's always been our mission as a nonprofit, faith based organization. And so we were founded and started in dallas.
and back in 2005, we had two hospitals, methodist dallas and then also methodist charlton,
south dallas with two family practice or three family practice clinics. Where we
stand today in 2026 is with over 130 access points in dallas fort worth. We will
never be the number one largest health system in dfw. Our focus more is be number one in our
primary service area. And for methodist, southlake north lake is part of our primary service
area as we grow. So as you see in this slide here is a lot of dots, a lot of dots. And what
this signifies is investments from our health system into these communities to make sure our patients are getting great care and improving and saving lives through quality,
compassionate care. So at southlake specifically, so we are located right off of 114 in
white chapel. We used to like to call it. It's the weird white building on 114 where
prior to methodist taking over, methodist took over this hospital in sorry. In june of
2021. I joined in november of 2021. And so from then, it was a conversion from a joint
venture surgical hospital to a community hospital. We now have 1212 bed er with average wait
time is less than 6 or 7 minutes, 30 acres of land that we've purchased and planned to
grow into with 24, seven yards I mentioned, and we have 38 inpatient private rooms and a
six bed icu with a dedicated cath lab. As we look at our, as I mentioned, our primary
service area. And so what does that entail? That entails primary care clinics. We have
one in southlake colleyville. We're opening a clinic in trophy club and opening a clinic in coppell, and then also specialty clinics with cardiology in north richland
hills and also general surgery right on campus. We will open up a. We've opened up a
satellite emergency room and urgent care clinic in coppell, and we're opening up another one at the end of this month in north richland hills. And finally, we've got an
ambulatory surgery center that opened up in keller. What's good to see here is the growth
that we've done. Everything in green is opening up this fiscal year. And so a lot of
development and growth and expansion into the area, highly competitive area. As you look
at this map, a lot of folks that have been here for a long time are competitors to the
east, have been in the area for 70 years to the south of us, 50, 40 and 15 years. We've been
here for five. But what we're based off is 100 year legacy within methodist, and we take
the great things that we've learned from our sister facilities and bring that up here to southern denton county and northeast tarrant county. As I mentioned earlier, we've
got our primary care offices with doctors mahara and burnell in southlake, doctor rob in
colleyville, and our newest clinic will be in trophy club. We will be looking at expansion
further up into north lake as a development and growth out in this area, because it is part
of our primary service area, we have several service lines that are on call 24 seven. What you
see here in blue between interventional cardiology, orthopedics, gui and gi
gastroenterology, we have those services 24 seven. We haven't always had that. It's been a
growth aspect. And I, I always like to say it's a journey. It's not a, it's not a sprint.
it's a marathon of a, of a process to make sure we're providing great care at the
right time. We're not going to overextend ourselves because at the end of the day, it's
somebody's life that's at, at the at risk. And so we make sure we're doing it the right
way. And also we focus on is our patient experience and also the accolades that we've
received. We know that patients have a choice. And as you see in this comment here,
individuals will come to our hospital to bypass others to know that the care that they
receive. We like to say there's an art and a science to healthcare. The the science
aspect of it is the cms four star rating, our leapfrog safety grade. Those are all
metrics that we have been performing very well in. And sometimes in the clinical side,
at the 90th percentile or top quartile. Another aspect of it is the art of healthcare is
what I like to say is how we're delivering that. And that goes back to that patient experience.
what this what this graph shows here is over the last four fiscal years, fy 22 through 25,
how we perform the highest you can get in a patient patient satisfaction or any patient
satisfaction at the 99th percentile, can't get 199 is the highest you can get to. And
so age caps is our inpatient patient satisfaction top decile since we took over that
hospital outpatient top quartile, we're not consistently at close to top.
decile er has been top decile since we converted, and our outpatient surgery has been
between top quartile and top decile. We're focusing to get that back up into the top
decile, but for methodist, our goal has always been top quartile at southlake, as I
like to say, since we're be quote unquote behind the eight ball, since our other folks
have been here longer, we have to be the best. We have to be the best to be able to, to earn
the trust of our physicians and of our community. And so I've challenged our team as we have
to get back up to the top decile across the board. And I'm very proud of what our team
has been doing. A lot of times you can say, check out our google, right? Check out google
and what people are saying about us. We've got a 4.2 google star rating, which is
highest amongst most of the hospitals in our area. And so I like to say competition breeds
quality, and we're just raising the bar to make sure our patients and those in this area
are getting great, outstanding care because we know no one wakes up in the morning and says, I want to go to the hospital. Nobody does. Whether you're going in for an
outpatient surgery, an imaging scan that may reveal you have cancer, or lab tests that may
say you have leukemia. We understand that and saying provide that great care, both science and art. How do we provide that care to make sure we're we like to say it's a
faith based hospital where god's hands and feet caring for individuals through our doors. We also partner with the communities. So it's not just about business and just about
taking care of patients. It's about being side by side with our community and growing with
them. So whether it's hispanic heritage month in southlake or pep rallies with the bobcats
and trophy club, whatever that may be, we want to be side by side because we are a community
hospital. That's what we've been founded on for over 100 years with methodist, that's quote unquote our business model be side by side with our patients through the good times
and bad. As I mentioned earlier with the er emergency services, you'll start seeing some
advertisement going on. We want to make sure folks know that we it is a short wait. Short wait.
from the time you walk into our building, from the time you see a physician, seven minutes. I'm
going to repeat that seven minutes from the time you see a physician, from the time you
walk into our building. Not a lot of people can say that. And we're proud to be able to say
we can provide great care. And these are the emergency services that I mentioned before. Gyn orthopedics, stemi program that has been grown that we started in february of
24, and we now have a primary heart attack center. So primary heart attack center is based
off of joint commission, american heart, american heart association. That is the
highest level you can get from a primary heart attack center. Is that certification in our
primary service area? There's 6 or 9 hospitals. We are one of three that have that, and we
achieved that in 18 months. And so it wasn't right off the bat, but we made sure we had
physicians that were founding it based off of evidence based medicine and making sure that we're providing care that they would expect for their family members, our physicians that
are founded there is between doctor and az alkmaar, doctor faye and doctor kruger, all
local to the area. So when individuals are having a heart attack and if ems calls it in
through what we call pulse era, oftentimes our physicians are meeting ems at the door there.
so time is of the essence. Our average door to balloon time. So what that means from the
time you walk into the door to the balloon opening up in the artery, it's 60 minutes.
national standard is 90 minutes. So we've cut that nearly a third, a third by making sure
we're providing great care. So with that, and they're they're very proud of their google
ratings. They're 4.9. They wish it was five. But they're like it's 4.9. With that I open it
up for any questions, comments concerns. But thank you all for your time. You did a great job.
are you a member of the metro chamber? Yes, ma'am. We are. Okay. Carry on then. What kind
of. You mentioned you may be getting up here to northlake. What kind of facilities up here?
so we're looking at a primary care. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you for
your time today. Thank you. And next we have a briefing on valley view consulting, our
investment advisory services. Adam, are you with us, john? And I'll start us off. So and
then I'll turn it over to adam, who's here with valley view consulting. So the reason for
this not bringing up this topic tonight is we do have a consent item later on the agenda to
approve a contract with valley view consulting for another two years. So currently they are our investment advisors. Two years ago, town council approved having valley view
fulfilled that role for us. And we're required by texas state law that every two years we
need to bring that back to council, allow you all to hear from our advisor and decide if
you want to continue the relationship or go a different direction. Just from our point
of view with the town, the relationship's been beneficial to us. It's helped us with our
investment policy, improving that, making sure that we update that every year. It's
also helped us with our doing our primary banking services. They help manage the request
for applications, process, something that was outside of our scope of experience here at
the town. And then they've helped us with improving our reporting process for financial
reports, as well as getting certificates of deposit set up for investment purposes,
something that we had not done prior to this relationship. And I think most importantly,
they've helped us manage a portfolio that's been growing over the last few years as we've continued to do capital projects. At 1.123 million was the size of our portfolio. It's
gone down a little bit since we've been spending that money, which to get projects done. And
they've also helped assist us with negotiating higher rates with some of our banking
partners here. Now, just a perspective for council to understand the cost of services.
valley view cost about 40,000 per year. That's dependent on our book value and what they're
helping to manage. And then in terms of if we ever wanted to bring this in-house, a full
time position as of right now for kind of an entry level, either investment local
investment officer or treasury officer is typically with salary and benefits looking at
about 86,000. So they they manage a lot for us. They help us with a lot without us having
to bring on additional staff position, which tends to be the north lake model, finding opportunities to contract out. And then if we need to reduce service or move a different
direction in the future. And with that, let me hand it over to adam, and he will give you a
little bit more of an in-depth view of valley view itself. Thanks. Thank you for having me
tonight. First of all, thank you for the last two years of allowing us to help you out
with your management of your investments. A lot of credit goes to your staff or
non-discretionary, which means we give advice. We don't execute anything. So the final
authority and final decisions are your staff, and their work allows us to be successful. And
it has been a very successful couple of years. So as john mentioned, we do your quarterly
investment reports that's required by the fia. So we customize those to your needs.
we review your investment policy every year, so we make changes as per the fire as they
change per year as well as any legislative changes. Adam. The fia is a public funds
investment act that we're required to follow every year. Correct. That's the state law
that governs what you can and can't do with your funds. We do banking rfas. We do cash flow
analysis, which entails us going in and seeing your balances, your inflows,
outflows, and helping you to size your investments and the timing of your investments. And
we manage your cash equivalents, your liquid money, as well as your timed accounts. You guys
have a lot of bond funds, so that involves a lot of timing with projects. So we help to
optimize interest income so that your cash flows are making as much as they can until that
money needs to go out. Our typical investment vehicle for timed investments are cds.
that's our bread and butter. We make about 10 to 20 basis points over comparable
treasuries, though. Last year we made some very good investments late in the year
and got almost 50 basis points on $7 million. So that results in about an extra $35,000 of
interest per year to you guys. As john mentioned, we actually did a rfa primary depository
rfa for you last year. I believe you ended up with wells fargo, and we helped negotiate
a new rate at one of your existing banks, which added a significant amount of funds,
about $35,000 more interest per month. So that was a pretty successful change there. And do
you have any questions? I don't think so. Thank you for your great service over the last two
years. I really appreciate you've helped our staff and helped our council do the most
with what we have, so I appreciate that. Thank you. It's our pleasure. Hopefully the extra interest income helps your town achieve the goals. Thank you. All right. Next we
will have a presentation on from hilltop truck park and development plans. I appreciate.
it's going to take five minutes. All right. Can I do the keyboard with this. Click
through it. Do the down arrow or you can click it. Okay. That's usually the easiest
right? Perfect. You got it. Okay. How's everybody doing tonight? Good. Introduce
yourself for everyone, please. Yeah. My name is trooper arnold. If you don't know me, I manage
the the place up there called hilltop. Hopefully you love it some. It's on the fence, you
know. But we're working for that. My family's been in northlake for 50 years. I've
spent my entire life on fm 407. I've never lived anywhere other than fm 407. When we started
hilltop in 2018 as a small self store rv storage facility, it was my mom, my dad and I with,
you know, 20 people, 40 people. And it grew into what it is today. And we continue to push
to be the place for the community, whatever they needed, whether it was the storefront,
the storage food, the food trucks came later, you know, but we didn't have a plan for
this. But it's become the plan. So I'll start today, and I like to mention everything that
we're putting in today is, is to work for more. We've, we're willing to put it all out there.
what we want to do for anybody that doesn't know, none of that's in the town of north
lake. You all know this, but we want to be in the town. This is a long time coming. Been here
my whole life. My grandma was the first mayor of north lake, so I think we got to come full
circle at some point. But I, I starting today, you know, so this is hilltop's operations
today. You know, if we were able to come to an agreement on a developer's agreement, this
would be our first phase as all these businesses here are 16 taxable businesses up at
hilltop. We've got ten permanent food trucks from food all around the world. Anything you can think of. And we try to bring in different stuff as much as possible. Hilltop rv
and boat storage is 360 storage spaces. That remains above 90% full for the for the last five
years, it's always there. Moving into the end of this year, we're going to add to our
self storage phase. But in our office, we have our hilltop general store, most known as the grill shop, where we sell grills, charcoal pellets. Do you haul propane as well?
another business opening this year is our coffee shop. That'll be a full drive through
service, coffee, teas, pastry, the whole nine yards. We also have the hilltop hemp house,
which is another local family from lantana, all family business, as well as our ghost
kitchen operation where we have everett and elaine, which I'm sure most of you are familiar
with, as well as simple meal prep. So lots of different businesses all within one business. And currently all of these businesses are ready today to, to, if we were to
annex in these businesses are live and operating. A couple of them will expand on with storage and coffee. All those things are in the pipeline, you know, for spring or the fall,
but it will happen in 2026. And with that, with our plan for 26, we've got here is our build out
for self storage. At 67,000 square foot, it's about 360 lockers, over 30,000ft■!s of
climate controlled storage. We're going to replace a quarter mile of thompson road.
if you've driven down thompson road, you may have lost a crown, but it is what we're working
with right now that's going to be a self-funded project house. We've got a company
lined up ready to go for that. So everywhere from 407 to past all hilltop businesses would be
a concrete structure, all to the city's code standards. Everything we would do that's
also going to have roadway lights, landscaping along the drive. Definitely a much better
drive in than what you'll be dealing with today. As well as opening the hilltop coffee shop.
so in these images here you can see the the self storage is five separate buildings, the
two in the middle. Those will be our self storage, climate controlled, all interior units.
and then the exterior will be non-climate controlled. And then the image on the right
there shows our quarter mile of road all the way back. That goes past all the property that
we manage as well as our coffee shop. We'll be the only drive through coffee shop in north
lake. We plan to really promote that, making it easy and convenient for everybody that
lives in the area. It's growing so fast you don't have time to get out of the car. Sometimes
you just got to go, so hopefully everything goes right. That'll be april ish. You know,
we're working out the the details and it's, it's close enough that you're testing out recipes, testing recipes, cooking, eating. So if you ever want to come by, we always got
some samples, you know, but moving into what we want to do as far as land development, we
still have quite a bit of our piece left. We have about 55 acres in total. We've only
developed, you know, roughly 20 or so. So we still have, give or take 30 acres that we'd like
to develop on. And we're here today because we have some sewer requirements that would
be needed to meet these goals. We've worked out a few numbers and we can, you know, get to
that on the back end. But our goal with hilltop is to create an experience, not something
that's just a place to go to have dinner, to have a drink for the kids to play. It's
something for people outside of north lake to come and try it out, hang out. We have so many
different options for food that there's always something for somebody. And so in our plan for the next 3 to 5 years, we want to build a true experience. When you come into hilltop,
something that people are proud of, that they live close by to, and they're willing to still
visit five days a week because there's always something going on, just like we do today.
tonight we have the lance thompson pta. It'll be a packed house up there at the truck
park. All the kids love it. The teachers, it's it's definitely a place. And so what we've
created is a bootstrap building. We've done everything as best we can with what we have. And
so the plan is to take all of those ideas and concepts and turn it into something
grandiose, much bigger than what we've done today. So we have the hilltop hangout. This
would be sitting on about three acres at the highest point of our property. This would be an
all inside building, fully climate controlled, about 40,000 square foot eatery side.
that would be 6 to 8 premium food vendors, all managed by hilltop. An issue we have at
the moment is all the food trucks are their own business, their own people. We have no
say so. Besides, here's what someone said. This would be something that we have to say,
so it's drawn in. When there's a problem, there is a consequence. And that's just to
hold the quality standard to where it needs to be. You know, you can fight somebody all day,
but if it's in writing, it's something to talk about. But with the the play area that
we've already created, we want to create an indoor outdoor play area for the two months of
the year that it's just completely unbearable to be outside as well as, you know, potentially a full game arcade center and all of the staples that you would have that we
have currently, you know, pizza, burgers, barbecue, we want to expand on that and have truly
people that strive in their lane. They don't do everything. They do one thing and they do
it great. And we feel that we can throw a really great party. And so if we can put all these
pieces together that it could be more than that. And so attached to this building, we
would hope to add a concert venue space as well. And that would be about 20,000 square
foot, fully insulated indoor space, no outside music to be heard. This is a
multifunctional space because six days of the week, when you're not doing anything, you need to have something you can do in there. And so what we've already done is the painting
games, the trivia nights. We do a lot of networking, group music, bingo, all of these things are things that we could fill the schedule. And so everyone that lives in north
lake far wide, even out, they have something to do all the time. And with this, obviously
traffic will be a big issue. So we designated an area about two acres that we'd like to put in
a parking garage, just to be a minimum two level, maybe three level, that would hold up to
800 cars if we were able to fit it in there. And this is just to take that eyesore away. You
know, right now we look at a lot of cars on a friday, saturday night, if we can put
them in a nice clean parking garage, that from the outside just looks like another
building, you know, esthetically pleasing kind of off the look that we've already created. The barn would rock, you know, that's very similar just so that it's not an
eyesore from far away. But all this being backed up to the remaining 22 acres on hilltop
to be a nine hole, par three golf course, this would be 22 acres is about the minimum to
do something like this. This would be all short play, less than an hour of gameplay. And
in this, you know, in a perfect world, we could get a well system for this because a golf
course requires a lot of water, and I don't necessarily want to put that on the town to make it
happen, but we think that a well would be able to cover the whole 22 acres, you know, give
or take, you know, some other pieces. But this would all be open to the public memberships,
schools, nearby, high schools that need to practice this would be ideal for any of them.
but then this would go late into the night. We put in some low lights, low enough to where
you don't see them from far away to where people can play golf up until ten 11:00 at
night if they wanted to. And kind of a layout here shows you the full scale of what the
course could be. We've got to do some adjustments on a couple holes, you know, make some
things make a little more sense. But you can see the star. There would be the main building.
that's where we would attach a clubhouse so that everybody playing could have direct access to the food and drinks and not have to walk a mile to get to the course. Right next
to that being the parking garage. And right in the middle is our private residence. And so when it comes to the music, my head would be 200 yards from this stage. So this is I'm
going to be the first one to call if there's a problem, but kind of give you a layout. Here
is the full property that we have is hilltop storage. Up on the blue hilltop truck park in
the yellow is actually only about two acres. And then the remaining, you know, parking
par three, hilltop and then residential, you know, right there in the middle. So really
what we would need to land on is a sewer situation. Figure out what we can get by. We've
done some rough numbers, you know, but it's there's a lot of variables. You know, if things
change in the future, who knows where other things fall out? We just kind of got to get it on
paper and see what makes the most sense. But really just some things that we had on here
that we want to kind of put out there is just a guarantee. If we were able to come to an
agreement as a guarantee on the sewer for future phases, which would just be that main
building, if we were able to come to something with a well on the golf course, it would be
easy work. We're going to be giving thompson road, quarter mile road, about a million and
a half worth of work, concrete work to the town of north lake. So really in return, just
something to recoup that value. We don't expect to be paid out over time for adding, you know,
more to the town. It's just that land value of the road. If we're going to give it in and
put it in, we'll figure out some sort of way to make that back some sort of water meter.
in the meantime, at the truck park, we do have quite a bit of water use there during the
summer times, and a lot of that is for the slide and the mr. System, which we are being
charged on the same side, water in, water out. And it's a hefty bill those three months out of
the year. So that'd be that'd be nice. But a marketing plan of some sort. You know, we want
to be a, a pillar of the community. We want people to be proud of it here. We want
people to come off the highway, like from oklahoma to austin needs to have signs that say,
this is the place to be. You know, it's, it's more than, you know, it started as storage,
but it's more than that. We've, we've created this thing and we talk to people every week that
come from coppell, grapevine, colleyville, they're driving to come hang out here. And we
think we can really just expand on that for the people that are here. But, you know, minor
contribution from the police for major events. You know, we're happy to pay. But if we were to figure out a term to make something work with the major events, 4th of july, new
year's eve, christmas parties, things like that, you know, something that would be beneficial to everybody across the board, as well as some crosswalk approval stuff down
thompson road to to look at. But a main piece is our utv access. We are we don't drive
cars. I don't leave the property. Everything is on a four wheeler or a side by side.
and so working with the police would be a big thing on that. You know, we continue our
business as that road gets complete, you know, some sort of piece in there that says it
will be alright to go from a to b with these machines without the trouble. You know, some
points that we've gotten in the past, you know, we appreciate the phased annexation so that
we can continue to build on denton county's building standards. It's just a hair a
bit easier, you know, the impact fee things and then little pieces. But continuation
of thompson road, that's a big goal for all of us. You know, if we're going to do that first
quarter mile, that next quarter mile is going to tie us right into harvest. That'll be another way to get out of harvest. But another way to get to hilltop golf cart access. I
know that's a big thing for a lot of the customers. And we definitely tell everybody,
you're not allowed to drive them up, but that doesn't stop everybody. So it's something that we want to work on. You know, there's got to be a safer way to do it. There's a there's
got to be a better way. You know, as far as the, the food trucks go, you know, I think
the, the pioneer grants, a lot of those food trucks are trying to build their businesses and
things in time. And, you know, that'd just be something maybe open for conversation, I should
say. But the fireworks show that we put on is, is this last year was our first year to do a
sponsored fireworks show. The first year we paid for everything. And it doesn't necessarily have an immediate return for hilltop. It's more just the people that are here.
they enjoy the show. And so if there was some way to come to a term on a set price or set, you
know, based off taxes, you know, that would be able to cover something, you know, in the
long run. It's, it's really, I'm sure it's a matter of time before fireworks are going to
be a no go because of how dense the area is right now, since we have the 30 acres is where the
fire marshal's allowed us to let us shoot these off. So in time it might turn into a drone
show. You know, we'll figure that out. But I think you know what we're bringing to the
table as of today, if we were able to work this developers agreement out, is the
contribution of the road, and that's going to give the town, you know, maybe some incentive
to be able to tie that piece in. If we did everything today, you know, that'd be 80 to 100,000 a
year in tax revenue to the town. You'd be able to claim the 16 new businesses for the town of
north lake, all open as of now. And then by 2030, we make all this piece work. We build a
concert venue, food hall, event rentals. I mean, the whole space there will be used seven
days a week and then including golf course memberships and fees, it could be anywhere from
250 to 500,000. Really, there's no way to tell right now. We had no plan when we started
this, and so by then it could be even bigger. But ideally we do a slow phasing plan just
through we, you know, take a piece at a time so that we can build it as we need to and
obviously do it right, do it, you know, county standards, but everything that we've built so
far has been inspected by 100 different departments, and we haven't failed one yet. So I
think that we've got a pretty good idea on how to build it. But we we need some help on the
outside output, you know, sewer, water, things, things that we'll need to obviously need
the town's help for those things. But I'd like to say here in conclusion, hilltop's
always been more than just building a business. It's been about creating a place where people gather, small businesses can grow, and where community feels welcome. My my family's
been here for 50 years and we intend to be here for the next 50. We're committed to building
hilltop the right way responsibly, thoughtfully, and the partnership with the town
of north lake. And we truly believe this project can become something the town is proud of.
and we appreciate the opportunity to continue working to make that happen again. Thank you for the time. Thank you very much. Yeah. Council. Any questions I got? I got one
for you on the the food trucks and then the was it the hilltop hangout? Yes sir. Are you is
your plan to have both coincide with each other? Yes. We start with the truck park and I'll be
immediate tax revenue for the town. Kind of a show of faith to go across the street and see
that it could be more. But all of it would be northlake. Yes, sir. And and the food trucks
will stay there when the hilltop hangout is in. New vendors go in there. Or is that
kind of like a phase out the food truck and go to the hangout? It would have to be
probably a phase out in some form or fashion. I mean, right now it's kind of like football
tryouts. You know, we're trying to see who's got the best performance, who can really play with the big dogs. I mean, we see food trucks that come through all the time. A lot of
them that work in the inner cities and stuff, they can't deal with the traffic that
comes up there, so they get long wait times, quality drops, and that's all things that we
take into account to know if we're inviting them back. And so a lot of our trucks that are
out there now have been vetted in a way. And so we'd like to be able to take those vendors
and use them in that space. You know, that's the goal is give them a better platform to
perform what they're already doing, and most likely would have to phase that out over time, though, and, you know, do something different. But this would all be, you know, okay.
yeah. And that's what I was getting at because I like the idea of the hilltop hangout. I
think that's a pretty, pretty neat idea. The concern was when the food trucks go away, what's
your plan for that area or do you have one yet? I guess, I mean, I always got a plan for
something, but it's in a perfect world. We'd turn it into a a quaint, you know, sit
down breakfast operation. You know something? My dad, his favorite meal of the day is breakfast. We've always had. That's the one that got the most love. And I'd love to have
something there that was unique breakfast, you know, not your normal cafe things, you know,
and something that one would still be able to have the kid presence, you know, you can
have the area for the turf, we can put in playgrounds. We still have all of that land
there to use. It would just be a matter of, of what we do with the interior, you know, working
with the county. They want us to sprinkle that building based off of occupancy today because
of how many people come. So if we were to classify that as a sit down restaurant and sit
fixed tables, we could stay below the the occupancy under the roof. And I think we could
build it out without having to do the sprinkler system, which that's a huge cost. And that's
really a hiccup in the, in the ride. So but there's definitely a plan for, you know, we have
another space in our storefront that we'd love to work with. It's about 3000 square foot and
it's, you know, right in line with our grill shop, hemp house and the coffee. It's just a,
it's a perfect little bay that my wife would like to do a play cafe or something for the
younger kids. Moms can get inside and not have to be outside playing with all the big kids in the sun and stuff. We added a toddler bounce house four weeks ago to the truck
park area, and it's been the busiest thing we've ever had. I mean, 9:00 in the morning,
parents are lining up waiting to blow them up, you know, so it's there's a need for every
age group. The younger, the middle, the teenagers, they always want something to do. And parents don't want to be confined to ordering food at home or having to pick it up
and bring it home. They want to be able to go out, take the kids and then feel safe. You
know, that's one of the biggest things people tell me is they feel safe with their kids up
there. And, you know, we just built the place as enclosed as we could so that they couldn't
go anywhere. But I think it's more the parents come up there so often that they feel safe.
any other questions? I, I have a little bit so I have been a fan of this. That's no. I feel
like that's not a surprise that I've been able to work with you. And I am so thankful to your
family for the time and the energy that you put into what you've put together, and that I
kind of want to put it on record that I feel like, you know, we're going to let the
the big kids drew and you guys figure out the details, but that I can't wait to see what
you build and how it works. Because the point that I've made to a couple people is
you're building this, you have a plan and you're doing it anyway. I just want you here in
the town. So I, I'm happy to hear you say you want to be in the town. We want to get you
here. So thank you for the work that you put into this. I think you did a really great job and
it looks really exciting, especially as a mom with teenagers, to have a place to go, which I know we have so many neighbors that have little kids, but the hangout and the
golf course is somewhere that my teenagers would live. They would be a fan to stay there,
and I think by the time it's built out, they may be college aged, so I might be trying to
woo them back home. Yeah, right. It's great whenever kids come back. I mean, that's what it's
always. It's nice for us around the holidays when families come up, people we see on a regular
basis and they've brought their entire family and they're just bringing them up there to show them just what we've done. And so, you know, go back to we never had a plan, but the
community with their input and their advice along the way, I mean, anything that someone says is valuable, we try to take it in and see how feasible it is today or if it's a six
month plan, or is it a 12 month plan? Pretty much any input we've ever gotten, we've put
into play. At some point, I will say I'd like to get the grill shop into phase one. We
can make something happen. I think we can. We could take that whole thing. That's what
we'll figure out. Well, I appreciate the feedback you've taken from council and the few meetings you've had with me. This is exactly what we're looking for, is a plan of
action and to move forward. Very nice presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Any other
questions? I just appreciate the thought that has gone into this. And I think it would be a
great addition to the town of north lake. So thank you for all the work that your family
does and and has done to present this. And I say it all the time. We couldn't do it
without the people, you know, people's advice and input and showing up hot days, rainy days.
I mean, the other night, that crazy storm, we had 12 people that rode out the storm at the
bar through the whole thing. They stayed, you know, and it's not made for that. But I have
to say, I see part of everton lane here with no pie, and I feel like that's worth saying.
I told him to bring samples. Yeah. Anyway. All right. Well thank you very much. Appreciate
your time. Appreciate it. Yeah. All right. Moving on here. We have a briefing on policy
options for winter averaging during freeze events. Drew. John, you're going to present
this. Thank you. Yes, I'll lead into this. With the winter freeze and everybody dripping
pipes, we saw on social media people asking about winter averaging. So I asked you to
get this on the agenda for a presentation of options, and we will dive into it then. So as
the the mayor has already alluded to, this is something that he's asked for us to bring
before council, just to list out some options. So just to review the background of how we
got to this point, for the last few years, we have had a number of freezes where the
temperatures have been 32 or below for at least three consecutive days. So back in
february 21st, 23 and 25, and then most recently here in january 26th. Now, those
conditions did require town hall to close. We did advise the public to drip faucets in order to prevent pipe damage and to protect their assets. And that dripping may have led
to higher water usage for the customer based on their own usage, plus dripping and the
town response in each of these events. Back in february 2021, we did remove the highest month
from the winter average in 23 and 25. No action was taken and then in 26, town staff have
been directed to explore doing something similar to 21, which was is removing the highest
usage month for the winter average for this year. We also just dove into what was the
cost of an actual drip. I'm not going to go through all of this. I wanted to present this here
just in case anybody from the public wanted to go back. Look at how they could calculate
their drip and what that impact was. They can do that. That website at the bottom there
that's provided by the us geological survey. They provide a calculator that you can use.
but we ran some quick calculations. We used some assumptions. And just based on a five day, just like we saw this year with the freeze being going over five days, we saw
kind of at the highest level of assumptions, 285 gallons being used. If you were dripping
almost nonstop, it's about $1.46 on your bill for that month. And then the impact to
winter average, which I think is the key question, is it would add 95 gallons to your
winter average for the rest of the year. If you were just assuming just we had to hold
all things equal in doing the calculations, just assuming a 5000 gallons per month winter
average and that 95 gallon increase would equate to about $0.50 per month. Now, the
current practice of the town follows is we have our winter averaging period from december to february. So those three months we base our sewer on that winter average, which is
based on your water consumption during that month, those months. And then we don't currently
have a formal freeze trigger. So when a freeze event occurs, we tend to just look at it, see
if there's anything that we can do. If council decides wants to direct us to do anything and
then we move on from there, now we've come up with three possible policy options related
to freezes. One is creating a defined freeze declaration that would have a formal definition
of a freeze, and then lead to an automatic trigger with an automatic outcome. Another is a
four month winter average period. So move from a three to a four month and we'll drop the
highest. And then the other is just to continue our policy right now of yearly evaluation.
there's no formal freeze trigger. And we take steps to provide some type of response if council directs us to take a look into it. And john, when you were researching this,
number two was probably the most common. Number two is the most common. So among other
other communities in texas and other areas. Yeah. So ones nearby that use number two, you
have lake dallas, which does this. So does corinth. There's some larger ones with arlington
and grand prairie. And then reaching a little further out, you can see that white
settlement does as well. The definitely the first option was the least used. We really only
found one example, and it was an example that a mud of a mud. And then the yearly evaluation
that tends to be what others default to if they don't have any type of policy. This is
just a comparison of those policies. We split it into the summary, which I briefly
already went through, the benefits, the challenges of those policies, and then the
potential impact on the town and town staff. So just looking at the benefits. Option one, it
is based on an event. The relief will happen when the event occurs. It's predictable.
we know what to do and we also can't predict it when there's non freeze years. And then
council can define that event and what the response should be to that with option two does
provide us with more predictable revenue. The four month winter average and
dropping the highest helps to kind of smooth out the effects. Instead of guessing from year
to year whether we're going to have a freeze or not. And then it does help to mitigate the
freeze issue, since in theory we would be dropping the highest month, which we're hoping is that freeze month where you had to drip. And then the last one is just maintains
the current policy. It maintains the most discretion for council. Council can decide
what to do based on yearly events. The challenges with option one, we do have to
define what that freeze event is. It could be based on the number of consecutive days at
32 or below. It could be based on the fact that town hall closes and how long town hall
is closed. I'm sure there's other options, but those are just a few that came to our
minds readily. It does provide less predictable revenue, and then it does create the expectation for future years. And sometimes that expectation may not align with what
residents expect. And then option two would require an ordinance. And then we would
just need to decide which month to add to the winter average. It's either going to be
november or it's going to be march. And then option three is the challenges. There is no
predefined criteria. It is it does create a level of uncertainty for residents,
since we're operating just on a yearly evaluation based on the event and what response council,
if any, would like to take in terms of impact, one and two does have the potential to
reduce reduce revenue. And then there is a moderate administrative burden for
option one. When a freeze does take effect, we do have to go into our system. We do have to
go make adjustments. Versus option two. We essentially just update our policy within our
utility billing system from three months to four months, pick the months, and then it runs on its own from from that point forward. And we just set the flag to drop the highest
month out of those four. And with option three, there is there's no real current revenue
impact or administrative burden unless action is taken. Otherwise, it's just business
as usual. And so I guess what we're looking for tonight is just direction from council
about which policy direction you would like to go. If we need to look into this some
more, or if we need to provide any additional information. I love seeing option two on there
because that's what I didn't. I didn't have it as I wouldn't have been able to explain it,
but that's what I wish that we had already. So that's my my vote is for option two. I have
a question with the, you know, with every house and place having the electronic meters
now, is there not a way that could isolate those just the days instead of pulling a month
and then removing those days from the average. So the, the cellular meters and the program
for tracking that is separate from our actual utility billing software. They do work in
tandem, but the software that we use with opengov, and I'm not aware of any other
companies that offer what you're indicating, the ability to isolate certain days and
then just remove those. Most companies. And the one that we're with at opengov, it's the
entire month or nothing. You drop it and exclude it or you keep it, but it doesn't allow
us to isolate specific days. Did you guys, I know I tell people out there, you know,
when it's cold, cold, you know, 32, 28 to 32, you really don't gotta drip anything, right? So
days below 32 or, you know, questionable. But when we get down in those twelves and stuff
like that, you don't drip, you stream. And I didn't know if you tried to compare some of
those impacts numbers for a number of gallons and things like that versus actual usage.
you may have seen in the eye on water, because I think I collected data during that time
and it was significantly higher, like ten x. And I think that's part of the challenge is the
variation between households. We used. We tried to use the us usgs calculator, and the max it
allows us to do is 120 minutes per second in doing those calculations. And so the
challenge is, is identifying in our system what information to pull to then run a similar
situation. Of course, all that data becomes a non-issue if we look at option two. So I just
wanted to weigh that because I actually know I sent drew some data that I had collected. I'm
like, wow, that's, that's literally dripping. Well, in the world we live in, there's
plenty of data and it depends on what you draw from. Hey, ford, chevy and dodge are all best selling trucks in america. So that's what I like it because it's a fail safe for
when your family refuses to get on board. Sometimes with the. My family's a little slow or
forgetful about the winter averaging. So in addition to the freezes, I'm pretty happy
to have an option that helps us repair our bad month, I think. I mean, I do think the option
to drop the highest is like that is good. The challenge is freezes don't always happen
perfectly within a month either. So what happens when it happens over weekend, january to
february or december to january? And so then in two different months, right? Then you've got
two different months where you've got this happening. So I should probably adjust the
language here in just a little bit. I think we use month for shorthand because it's what
clicks with people's heads a little bit more, but it's billing cycles, which do stretch a little bit from the tail end of one month and then through most of another month.
so yeah. True. But you get that drip over two different billing cycles. So it does help a
little bit, but you don't capture it all. You only capture half of it. And then
we're still you have more. And then we're hoping that at least drops the highest month to at
least level that out. There may not be a perfect solution. The perfect solution is probably
that we could isolate and remove that for everybody, but we currently, with our current
system, don't have that option. I don't think we can afford the staff to do that. I hope we go
through everything I'm thinking. I kind of agree with doctor sessions. I, I think it's only
happened a few times in the last few years. I mean, I'm fine with option two if that's
the way we want to go, but I. Option three, for me, I think we're reasonable enough people
like you said that we can bring this whenever there's an issue. That would solve. Then the
challenge with if it did go over two months to understand a little better and, and need to
adjust if needed. Yeah, I would agree with that as well. Option three looking at that one, I
disagree just to make sure that the stance is known and that I got messages this week about
people getting their new getting prepared for their new billing on winter averaging. And every single year it's the same thing. And maybe it's just new residents where they have
no idea what they're looking at, how to account for it. And I just think I out before the
freeze or anything like that, a, a process like option two, I think is the most
understandable and the lowest burden, but it also helps our residents more. I love, I like
that one, so I want to make sure I had an edit for john on this slide that we didn't get
in there. But when you lead with no revenue impact or administrative burden, unless
you guys just read the no revenue impact, if we do this, there will be a revenue impact.
but I think the administrative burden will actually be high to moderate because of all the
kind of decisions in the back and forth and bringing it to you. So just to be just to be
transparent, I think that would be a better, a better statement of that impact. You're saying
option three has more impact than I think it has as much as option one or more because of
all that, you know, adjustments, study and adjustment to bring it before, before you. But what
we'll do is we'll bring you what I'm hearing is we'll bring you an option to for action,
and then you can vote that up and up or down if you vote against option two will default
to option three, which we are now if you vote for option two will implement option two with
the ordinance. Does that sound like a path forward? Okay, but we need to get the winter
averaging set as well right now kind of six months. Yes, sir. Well, I'm saying it's time to
engage winter averaging. It may have already hit some of the bills. So do we need to take
any staff direction for what to do with this billing cycle. Because we're finishing up the
billing cycle now. Or did it just finish? We just started drawing pulling reads so we
haven't built out yet. So we haven't applied winter averaging yet. Right. So what I'm thinking is we might have to take some sort of action or give you direction for what to
do now, like taking option three, the option policy and then and then next month or
month after bring up for a vote if we want to go with option two moving forward. Okay. So my
question, the council would be, would you like direct staff to drop the month so that they can
complete winter averaging? Because we don't have our next council meeting. And as long as
that passes legal muster, I asked for it to be put on here. So just drop staff to drop
january for this year and then we'll still bring this back for future policy. Yes. Yeah.
january. February, february. Well, we'll we'll do it whenever the freeze was. Yeah.
I think it's february. It was a birthday freeze every year for my kids. 26. It was actually
over the. Yeah. February 22nd ish. Right. Yeah. So that would be february. We'll make sure
the highest month gets dropped is what will end up being okay or the highest billing cycle.
so let's go ahead and take care of that. So you're wearing averaging process can complete bills can be set and then bring this back for a vote for future policy. Good. Yes, sir. All
right. Excellent. Thank you council I appreciate that. And then item f changes to section
48 e clean investment credit. Drew. Come on up. Hello again. So would we started the star
center project. There was an opportunity to get a energy capture energy recapture tax
credit. This was an initiative of the nhl. The stars, our tenant at the star center and
contractor lee lewis encouraged us to look at this. We. We engage ernst young in helping
us submit this tax credit to the irs, and we anticipated receiving 2.2 to 2.4 million in
tax credit because at the time, it was 30% of the cost of the system. And then there was a
change in administration. And the new requirements were that it should only be 30% of the
cost differential between the energy recapture system and the conventional system. So a
pretty big decrease. So the updated tax credit amount now is around $1 million. Also, the
new requirement states a injection pipe to qualify. This was a new requirement. And so
this is in addition to this wasn't part of the original scope of the project. There's
an item on your consent agenda for this. It's spending 80,000 to get the million. In the
meantime, the nhl has agreed to reimburse the town for the ernst and young's consulting
fees, and they're going to use that. They're going to own that as a as a study for their other
facilities and other teams. So you can do your math. Two minus one is $1 million shortfall.
but and you heard earlier from valley view, we have wisely invested the the proceeds for
this project. And we have within our project ample reserves. We have $1 million to
to offset this. And we'll be we'll be applying for our tax credit for the remaining
million dollars. So those are those are the changes related to the energy recapture tax
credit. Any questions? Did I tell you I hate grants? Yeah. I think I've mentioned that. I
mentioned that before. I went through this a little bit with drew in the background and with
the stars and the administration change and the, you know, tax friendliness of
if you do anything green, you know, that that changed a lot with the last administration
change. So we're grateful the program still around, though it's changed and the scope has
changed. Fortunately, you've seen the quarterly investment reports and seen what the
investment of the bond money has done for the star center and how that's performed. So we
are well covered and we can still get something out of this. So I'll say that the the change
in administration brought us mp materials and lost us part of this grant. So we're kind of up
in the end. So we are definitely up in that regard. So alright, thank you, drew,
for explaining that if there's no questions, we will move forward to public input. My
first card tonight, joel mcgregor. Joel mcgregor 8921. Assembly line and the this
whole winter averaging and all that stuff. Seems like we're spending a lot of time and
effort over nothing. I mean, the. The example was $0.50. And, you know, grant, I understand
your point that sometimes people have to run a lot more water. That kind of confuses me
too, because I identified things that would freeze at my place and I got all kinds of
stuff, and I fixed all of them. And I don't have to drip water or anything anymore, you know?
but since you guys can answer factual questions, how, how does this actually affect
people's bills for the year if they have to, you know, if they pay five bucks more or
something for a month and we got to pay the wastewater anyway, and that goes back into
the system. So doesn't it, isn't it a wash anyway, if we give it, if we give it up and
what they're paying for wastewater, we got to make it up somewhere if we're actually
using the wastewater. And if we're not, the rates will balance themselves out, right?
so since we can't meter individual wastewater flows, right? Right. When people drip
the water and depending on the number set that you get in data set, you get it could affect
somebody. Most people come in at around 2000 gallons, 3000 gallons in the winter,
averaging somewhere in that range. You could easily tack on 33% to that pretty quickly. I
think I ran 1100 gallons nine well water, but still older home, things like that. So it
could affect that wastewater averaging for what actually goes down the drain, but a
fairly significant amount up to 30, 35%. So we want to make sure that people aren't paying
for what they aren't using in that averaging. So for this, the storm this year seemed to
have less busted pipes, at least in the developed community, because the way that
the yeah, this year wasn't that bad, right? Last year it was a plumber's dream to at least be
in pecan square, I know, and that they had water pouring out of the sides of their yards
without paying attention to it. You know, there's a lot of like, I guess, unaware homeowners
that don't know, like what you, you have the benefit of knowing how to go fix the pipe that's
going to bust most of them just stand shocked when it busted and stare at it. All right,
let's, let's just stick to statements of fact. Well, I would suggest that we address
our building codes if we're building things that are freeze prone because it's easy to fix.
you know, I put frost. Frost free faucets on all my outside faucets, and now I don't have
to do anything or I haven't had to do anything. It hadn't been a problem. And my house is
ancient. It has terrible insulation and its pier and beams, so it's got air coming underneath it and stuff. So it's worst case scenario. So I would think people would maybe
when they stuff freezes, it gets fixed correctly, hopefully. So it doesn't freeze again. I
don't know, it just it seems like a teeny tiny thing to be putting a bunch of town
resources in your resources and, and their resources into. So thanks. Thank you. Joel. Anyone
else this evening, miss hartman? Hi, my name is rina hardman. I live in the town of north lake.
all of you know that I am a fierce supporter of private property rights. And because of
my fight for private property rights, I've been called unhinged. On social media by
alexandra holmes and mean by mayor pro tem merrill lorenz's husband joshua. All this on
social media, I suppose if you lose between 27 and $37 million in one action by council, you
might become a little unhinged. But perhaps you don't have that experience. So there's been an
attempt also by you, mayor, mayor montini, to make a liar out of me. When I stated that I
was called by a resident of the town who told me that you had called them and told them that
you were using ag zoning, forced zoning of the town to eliminate the argyle isd. In
that meeting. The december meeting, you shook your head. No. As if I were telling a lie.
and I was not, because I'll prove it to you in just a second. So on january 28th, I
requested a number of documents from the town, put in a public information request. It was
supposed to take ten business days, which would have put that information to me by february
11th, just in time for the february 12th council meeting. Were you all considered the for
stagg zoning? Naturally, as I predicted online, you all took 17 business days, which put it
beyond the february 12th council meeting. But let me give you a little chronology
real quick, and then I'm going to show you one of your very own documents. October 13th,
you passed the zoning. Nobody asked us about it. Nobody asked our opinion. It's not for
legitimate ag people. But you made it out to be that way. It's it's a misnomer. October
30th, 2025 argyle isd purchases 128 acres on the west side of the ridge and announces, quote,
future site of secondary campus. November 5th. Social media erupts and some are mad,
especially those in brian's place who now live adjacent, who might now live adjacent to
this newly announced future. School council members that are directly affected are brian montini, mayor I mean council member ganz and mayor pro tem lorenz in the ridge. In fact,
montana's house will face directly at what would be the back of it november 6th. Mayor
montini posts in response to tammy lynn douglas's post regarding the future school quote, I have another, stronger option to fight this that will be on future agenda. And again,
in another group, mayor montini addresses me saying that he vehemently disagrees with my
narrative on the matter. Well, my narrative on the matter came by way of a phone call from
another resident telling me that he had called them and allegedly told them that the reason was for the force. Zoning was to eliminate the argyle sd. When I stated this
in the december 11th council meeting, you shook your head. No. Okay, so y'all can look at
those videos. Okay, so in some of the responses to my public information request, I just
want to share with you just one email, one email from council member gans. He says, nathan,
can you give me some background on this mailing? And the subject line is notice of
public hearing for the zoning. Can you give me some background on this mailing? First, does it
affect the rural residential five acre lots with an ag exemption? From what I read, it
only affects rural residential lots that are larger than 20 acres. Second, does it primarily have to do with the parcel of land that is to the west of the ridge subdivision?
I believe we set that up as a cro in the days when the ridge was still known as heritage
fields. Please requested the zoning change real quickly. Let me just reveal this to everybody if you don't mind. We had 30 minutes for our presentation of the 15 for the
the hospital. At least you could give some extra time to a town resident. This says,
here's the response. And it wasn't a mistake because it was sent to drew first from nathan.
drew okayed it and then drew, and then nathan sent it back to council member ganz. He says,
hello, council member ganz, this notice is regarding the rezoning of undeveloped rural
residential property larger than 20 acres to ag. We discussed it several times with
council. The last action was a couple of years ago creating the zoning district. The next
step is to actually zone properties. It does not affect any five acre lot such as yours.
they will remain zoned rural. Residential only affects properties larger than 20 acres
as it. That's the minimum lot size for zoning district. This rezoning is town initiated at
the request of the mayor and although it's been planned, the current timing is related to
the land west of the ridge. We will discuss more tonight in executive session. So it
actually is related to that land. Thank you for reading mr. Redmond's opinion. I appreciate
that his opinion that was okayed by your town manager to be sent to you. Your time is up,
ma'am. Thank you so much. Sit down. Anybody else for public comment tonight? Seeing none,
we'll move to item four consent items. I have a motion to approve as presented and a
second.
motion carries unanimous. All right. Next we must. Consider. No, that's the
consent agenda. All right. Next we will go into we will pause the town council meeting and go
into tax increment reinvestment zone number one, board meeting. And with that we have public
input for the tours. Do we have anybody for public input for the tours meeting. Yes please.
regarding a tourist tax increment reinvestment zone, y'all are basically giving away
the town. Whenever you give away these reinvestment zones to these developers, you're giving back money that you don't give to normal citizens. You don't give them to any
landowners that want to excuse me, improve their properties. You don't give them to anybody
else but developers. So I would say no to a tours. Thanks for your time. Thank you. Consider
the adoption of amendment to project and financing plan for tours. Number one, recommending
adoption of ordinance by town council approved the same. Nathan. Thank you. Mayor. This
is existing tours actually first tours in the town that covers the portion of canyon
falls in the town of north lake, created back in 2015, its primary purpose was for
construction, maintenance and operation of trail system and park and recreational
facilities in the tours, as well as some street and road improvement projects. The
original project and financing plan outlined these. That has been amended a couple of times
back in 2020 that removed the street and road improvements, and last year there was an
amendment that included a retaining wall repair project. So this is another amendment
before you tonight. And this this tours does reimburse the developer for adding additional
improvements over what was typically required. Developer is reimbursed for certain
improvements outlined in the tours plan, primarily that trail system and park and
recreational facilities. So far, about 860,000 has been reimbursed to date. Another 3.6
million is remaining due, according to the current agreement with the developer.
the proposals for a final lump sum payment of $2 million, which will be memorialized in
amended agreement, which is the next action. So the purpose of this amendment, this is
amending that project and financing plan to update and revise, to revise estimated
costs and to show that this reimbursement is to pay that obligation in full. So hope you
listen carefully on this one, because you're going to have to go through this again. I don't
want to have to go back through the presentation. So you have to adopt this as a tourist
board first, and then town council will have to act on it separately following a public
hearing when you're acting on it. Town council. All right. Thank you. With that, do I have
a motion? May I ask a question? Yes, sir. For $2 million, $3.5 million debt. 3.6.6. I make a
motion to approve. I'll second. Motion from doctor sessions and second from mayor pro tem
lawrence. Motion carries unanimous. And then consider approval of alteration of the
board chairman to execute an amendment to project funding agreement. Now, this is just
amending the the agreement to provide for that lump sum payment and that it constitutes
full and final reimbursement for all the qualified construction costs to be
reimbursed to the developer. And again, you'll have to act on it as a tourist and again as
town council. Very good questions or motions. Make a motion to approve motion from
doctor sessions. Second for miss holmes.
motion carries unanimous with no further items to consider. The number one
board will adjourn the meeting and regular town council meeting will be reconvened.
alright, guess what we're doing. Consider approval resolution to. Oh, no, this is a little
different. Look, see, look, you put them out of order. You're just tricking me now, alright?
this is to reconstitute the capital improvement advisory committee, appointing members to serve on capital improvement advisory committee. We do this every couple of years. Every 3
or 4 years. Yeah. When we have to update our water, wastewater and roadway impact fees, which
we're in the just beginning the process recently engaged half associates to work with us on
that. That process requires capital improvements advisory committee that will review land
use assumptions, capital improvements plan and the proposed impact fees. This c I
c was last utilized when we updated our water and wastewater impact fees, which
was adopted early 23. The cic requirements have been modified since then, with senate bill
1883, it provides at least 50% of the. Members must represent real estate development and
building industries. Also, the planning and zoning commission can no longer serve as a c I a
c. That is how we operated previously, and a representative from the town's
etj is required for any impact fees that apply in the etj. Which water and sewer impact
fees can. So the proposed committee structure is to establish a new five member c I
c and it would need to ensure compliance with the state law by including three members from
the development and building industry to exceed that 50% requirement, and it would need
to include one member representing the etj. So the proposed appointees to consider
are listed here, which are all or most of these are members of other boards or commissions,
and meet the requirements of. There's three of these that are in the development or building
industry, and also one representative of the etj. I. There you go. A second motion
for mr. Gans and a second for miss holmes. Can't figure out what button push.
motion carries. Unanimous. All right. Last council meeting we had
talked about speed limits and prairie view had applied formally and informally to have
the speed limits adjusted within prairie view. And we have that on the agenda tonight.
welcome, captain thornton. Good afternoon, council and mayor. All right. So background on
this real quick. This police administration presented the council regulations regarding reducing the speed limits back in february. Prairie view farms requested reducing the speed
limits in their neighborhood to 25mph. Specifically, that included prairie view drive,
flanagan farm drive, and prairie mount court. We were consulted with legal to draft
an ordinance to reduce the speed limits in certain areas, per their request, to the 25
mile per hour zone, and the changes require special signage and annual reporting. And
that's it. Any questions? Questions? Very good. Do I have motions? Since it's an
ordinance change, we we have to have a public hearing. Oh. Is that. No. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
you're right. I was going to say don't. No no no. We. Yeah. My bad. I'll make a motion to
approve. Second motion to approve for mr. Fowler and second for mr. Pizzuto. Ready
to see on the agenda. Sorry I stole your thunder. Apologize. I'll remember that. This is
pecan square. Formally, informally, asking for the same consideration. You know the
rules. All right. Motion carries 6 to 1. And as we stated before, communities are
welcome to bring this forward. I know that there's a poll running up in the ridge, and
I'm expecting some from starbucks star dust in the next several months as well. So
that's maybe coming our way. So very good. Next. Yeah. This is the repeat of your actions. Now
we'll get to actions. Consider approval of the ordinance on north lake approving amended
project and financing plan for tours. Number one we on the public hearing first on this
one. It is this is the one, sorry. 6:56 p.m. I will call the public hearing to order or
open the public hearing. Do I have anybody to speak? Seeing? Yes. Joel mcgregor, 8921. East
sam lane just created a long time ago, but I was here and I spoke against it. And one of
the excuses for passing it, and I realize this has nothing to do with what we're doing now,
but this has to do with the tours. One of the reasons it was passed is because we were
guaranteed that it wasn't going to cost, because all the infrastructure was new, the
roads and everything, that it wouldn't cost the city anything during the time of the or very
little compared to the rest of the town during the time the tours. And if you guys will
remember, that turned out to not be the case at all. You know, we had to replace a bunch
of roads in there because we had some major road failures. And now, you know, we've had a
bunch of other failures around the bridges and things like that. So just please remember
that before we start giving away money in another tours, that they don't always turn out
the way that you predicted to. Thank you. Thank you. Joel. Anyone else? 650. Who would
have those numbers? Let me close the public hearing first. And. We close public hearing.
it's it's 657 and then you have questions for staff. Go ahead. Yeah. Do we have any numbers
about extra money that we talked the there were some road failures. The roads were not
built by the tours. They were built by the developer. We attempted to call the bond. The
bond company refused that, but we did have a capital project to repair some roads. There was
a some infill by a sewer pipe that caused it to fail. I forgot the name of those. No,
it wasn't ters money. The. The trail was built by the developer to be repaid by the
developer or repaid. From the tours to the developer, and you saw the item. This will pay
them off sooner. There was a failure of that. Part of the tours plan includes having the
tours build build back that. So for the audience tours is takes the a zone and any increment.
so any new value that's gained by that development, those taxes can be invested back in
that zone, but only for public purpose. And so the public purpose for this zone was
primarily the trail. There was also a splash pad and a dog dogh open to the public. But that's
what matters does it gets the developer to build the what the town would normally build
public infrastructure and gives them that reimbursement back over time. So instead of the
town financing it, the developer finds it, finances it, and gets part of that tax base.
that tax base is increased because of their development. So it's like, it's like
isolating an area and having it pay for itself. But for public infrastructure. I don't know if
it's offline. Can I ask you a question or tell me when you can? About timing for which
item for a a, which is the if we have to wait until after. Yeah, let's let's get through
items first. All right. Does that satisfy your question? All right. Very good. I have a
motion. Motion to motion seconded. Motion approved for miss holmes and a second from
doctor sessions.
what did you. Yeah, I pressed it. Second tab to see if it shows. There it is.
there's an error tab. All right. There we go. Motion carries seven zero. Unanimous. All
right. Next item is for the reimbursement which we already covered in the tour. So I have
questions or motion. Motion approved for a second. Second from mayor pro tem lorenz.
motion carries unanimous. All right. This is a approval ordinance town north lake for a
change from industrial innovation to suburban neighborhood. Nathan. All right.
this is the first item of three in a row here. They're all related to the same project. So
this first item is a comprehensive plan amendment. And the next item will be
annexation. This property is 281 acres. 82 of it is currently in the town limits.
the remainder 199 acres is in her etj. It's located east of 156 and south of down road,
which is also first street in justin. The. The owners of the property are heirs of a
founding family in north lake. The downs and the applicant developer is a four star real
estate group. So they. They have the property under contract. Currently. This is a
view of the property on the map. You can see that blue is the portion that's in the town
limits. You'll see the proximity of this to justin and 156, which will serve as the
primary access to it. So this property is currently the portion that's in the town
limits zoned agriculture. That happened on february 12th with the rezoning from rural
residential to to ag. The portions outside of the town and the etj, there's no zoning.
but upon annexation, which is on this same agenda, it would default to the ag zoning. And
following the annexation, there's a zoning change item on here to change the zoning to
mixed use plan development and to make that happen and to be in compliance with the
comprehensive plan is why this comprehensive plan amendment is before you. The proposed zoning
that you'll see later on the agenda is mixed use plan development. It includes a base
zoning of rural estate and neighborhood commercial and provides for a mixture of uses,
including primarily single family residential with a range of lot sizes at a maximum
density of three units per gross acre. It also allows for a limited amount of
neighborhood, commercial and preservation of large open spaces, primarily within the
floodplain. So the current future land use designation in the comprehensive plan calls
for this as the industrial innovation place type kind of building on the industrial just
north of the the speedway further south of this property, the proposed future land use
designation is suburban neighborhood place type, which which allows for master plan
developments very similar to pecan square and the ridge canyon falls. They are all in
this same place. Type in our comprehensive plan. So the. The purpose of this amendment is to
is to allow for conforming zoning following the annexation as outlined in the development
agreement. The development agreement was authorized by council on january 8th. Within
that, it set these standards of land use and included a voluntary annexation of the
property and development pursuant to proposed plan development zoning, which is
included as an exhibit in that development agreement. The comprehensive plan is necessary
to update the future land use designation. Since the proposed use and zoning is not
industrial and it is more residential. So in effect, this is what this comprehensive plan
amendment will be doing. So you see the gray portions of the property. That's that
industrial innovation future land use designation. And it would change those areas to
yellow for the suburban neighborhood. So since this is kind of setting the stage for a
couple other items coming before you, I wanted to turn it over to. Representative for the
developer for star to kind of explain their plan for the property, show you some of
their, some of the work they've done, and then we'll both be available to answer any
questions you have. Thank you sir. Got a another presentation for the night. So I will try to
keep this quick. And a lot of what nathan had already covered is in this presentation. So
let's just get through it. Who is four star. So four star is a national residential lot
developer. So we are from the very beginning sourcing the land and title, entitling the
land this process and developing the land. So our end user is a home builder. We
primarily develop one in every 50 single family lots in the united states, and we sell to
local, regional, national, really whoever wants to buy the lots, we're all ears. And the
dfw metroplex alone, we have developed over 4200 lots in the past five years. Some notable
communities are trails of elizabeth creek off of 114, eagle creek off of 380, and
denton, madera and royse city and legato and cleburne. Our primary focus is entry level
first time home buyers with the option of move up home buyers as well. We are currently in 24
states and 59 different submarkets. So just to go into some of the projects that we
have done, this is trails of elizabeth creek in fort worth. Just goes to show that the
amenities that we like to provide are great. This is this is off of 114. The entire
monument alone is is pretty incredible. It's got pool, lazy river string, lights over turf,
playground, so on and so forth. Again, this is eagle creek in denton, kind of the same thing.
amenity center pool, lots of open space, royse city and madera. So this is a smaller
community. So this is 400 lots and it's got an amenity center with a pool. It's got entry
monuments, the whole nine again, legato and cleburne kind of the same thing. Additional examples.
this is another master plan community in new caney, just outside of san antonio. Over a
thousand lots again, amenity center, lots of open space, huge pond with trails, so on
and so forth. And I'm just going to skip this one because it's the same spiel,
comprehensive plan amendment. So to nathan's point, we are here for three items tonight. So the first is comprehensive plan amendment request. The second would be for annexation.
and the third would be to rezone the property. So the current comprehensive plan is
industrial innovative which would allow data centers, showrooms r&d. And our proposed
comp plan amendment would be to be suburban neighborhood, which would allow mixed use planned
development, single family y suburban neighborhood. It's consistent with adjacent
properties north of down road and west of 156. It will allow the future land use to align
with single family development, such as the ridge pecan square canyon falls, which are all
very successful in northlake. And we kind of want to model this subdivision after those
communities. Inherently, it will reduce the amount of roadway wear and tear and
stacking along. 156 if this property were to be industrial, innovative. Additionally,
alternative and preferred development scenarios within the comp plan comp plan indicated that this could be lifestyle neighborhood which would use ten units per acre,
allow townhomes and small lot single family. So suburban neighborhood was a good landing
ground for for our community the rezoning request. So what are we proposing? It's 281
acres of mixed use planned development, three units per acre, which is similar to pecan
square, the ridge canyon falls. We've got a variety of lot sizes, so unlike those, we've
got 30 foot detached lots instead of townhomes, we've got 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. So we've
got everything. We have roughly 158 acres of open space and floodplain being preserved with
an intricate trail system within the open space. Additionally, we have a bridge
spanning trail creek to connect future fm 1171 to 407. The trinity river authority
regional sewer line will be running through this development, which inherently creates more sewer capacity for the town of northlake. And on top of that, we are bringing
two miles of offsite water, which could potentially unlock development for the surrounding parcels within north lake. So flew through that. Obviously, I'm more than happy to answer
any questions. This is a project that you guys have seen before. Authorize the
development agreement. So this is just checking the next boxes. What is the just to what's the
proposed rooftops for lot count? Yeah. So the last draft that we had seen was roughly 600. So it
just all depends on what the incoming and exiting from 156. Yes. This will be off one 156
to 114 typically. Will be the average starting home price. That's a great question. I
think right now we've got modeled modeled it roughly 375. Now that's just an average.
that's for the entire project. So obviously the 60 foot lots will be more expensive in the
30s, will be cheaper. So I couldn't give you an exact number until we get a contract.
these lots with the builder less expensive. Just so I understand, because you've
looked into pecan square, the ridge, it sounds like it sounds like this is starting, correct?
yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Remind me. I don't remember if it's in the development
agreement or not. Is there going to be an hoa required? I don't know if it's required.
there will be one. Okay. Because we got in some issues with another development where
hoa was started, but not necessarily required. Okay. So they could dissolve that if
they chose. Okay. Yeah. More than happy to to connect on that one. I we're, we're pro
hoa. Okay. What work does your company do you know, with you connecting 407 1171 with, for
example, tex dot to help those projects? So what work are you guys doing or would you be
doing to help move those along? You know, it's funny, this question came up in planning
and zoning a few weeks ago. I wish we had pool with txdot. Unfortunately, txdot is out of
our control. So ideally if they see ntp coming in and if they see lots coming in the ground,
then that might expedite. 1171 but unfortunately, we have no say with txdot. And I know that
whenever projects get to this point where we're talking about it right here, we've talked
about it in executive session a number of times, which is how we kind of get to this. I know
that when I was a casual viewer of our council meetings, I didn't understand how this part
of the process worked. So this isn't our first time hearing about the land. I just felt
like that is an educational piece to say. Is that good with questions? All right. Thank you.
thank you. All right. Next we will have a public hearing on this. It is 7:14 p.m. I'll open
the public hearing. My name is rena hartman. Are there any images that you can show of the
design of the new proposal? If you could show to the public factual question, were there
any in the slide deck? There'll be some concept plans. Okay. And in the next slide I'm going
to be some drawings. Excuse me, mayor, would you say in the next item there will be some
drawings which you're going to agree to this change without seeing any of the concept plans
or agreements already been approved. Understand that you're looking for an amendment.
okay. Just consider the density of this and that land is more valuable as commercial to the
town tax base than residential. Thanks for your time. Joel mcgregor, 8921 east family lane.
you know, one of the biggest gripes people have is traffic. And here we're talking about
changing from an industrial area to residential one 600 houses. And it's been mentioned
many times during council meetings that houses are a net negative to our town. You know,
the taxes brought in don't cover the expenses. Whereas commercial buildings do. They
pay for more. So, you know, so you've already approved things. I don't know how far along
that's gone, but obviously we have to approve more things. To me, I would think it would be
prudent to make sure that the infrastructure, I.e. The roads especially could handle 600
more houses before this starts. Thanks. Anyone else? Okay, 7:16 p.m. We'll close the public
hearing and I will take motions. How about some discussion? Sure. Do we want 600 more houses
before that connector road is built? Over to 1171? Right now it exits onto 156. That's the
only access that they have right now. That's correct. Nathan. Right. That's correct.
that's the only connection that they have to the outside world. It's 156. They'll have an
emergency access connection to the justin cemetery road on the south. But initially primary
access will be through first street and 156. Then the thing that's really killed north lake
lately is the tex-dot not widening and improving their roads. Fortunately, in this
area, 156 has been widened. They will be building this collector that's on our
thoroughfare plan, and it will ultimately be able to be extended down to 1171 when
that's done. So that will add even even more options and relief. Thank you nathan. Yeah,
I think if it was, I think if it was another first of all, whenever we did our. Yeah, I
think so. Whenever we did the survey for the town, one of the things that they did identify,
not the. The resident survey, but where we did, where people came in and looked at the
vision boards and, and put all those questions. One of the things that we didn't have was
like missing the missing middle and homes for people to work at that, that affordable homes for
the people that are going to work at the things like mp materials and the stuff that's coming into our industrial zone, we've worked really hard to stymie additional residential
development, kind of up here in the more traditional residential zone. But that
where we're looking at this for, you know, basically down by where it transitions into
justin is already set with that. So. It doesn't present the same problems to me as it does when
it's coming into 407 or going on to, you know, these already really compact roads. We're not
adding traffic there at all. If anything, we're giving them somewhere else to look to buy a
house in our town. And we've taken a pretty large pause on approving new development for
residential eight years, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. And that this isn't going to be
something that they can build tomorrow and that they're also building us a road I don't. You
know, if they had a commercial buyer for the land, the property was for sale for a
pretty good while. And if they had a commercial buyer, we'd be talking to them. But that's not
that's not where we at. All. Right. Any further discussion or motions? I'll go ahead and
motions. Motion to approve for miss holmes. Second. Second for mr. Pizzuto. And we're going to
have. Motion passes 4 to 3. All right. Next item is ordinance on north lake providing for
annexation. Approximately 199 acres of land generally located east of 156. Same property and
changing the zoning type or no annexing. This is just the the annexation of the 199 acres.
and I think another importance of the development agreement and providing for annexation is
because of new state law. We have very little control over etj property owners can
actually release from the etj. So this is a way to to work with the the property owner and
potential developer and get it into the town. And that's why you have this annexation
request before you. So you can see the areas that are in the etj will be annexed. If this
annexation is approved. Before acting on it, you'll need to hold a public hearing. Thank
you. One of the council's key strategies is the annexation where possible, so we don't
lose it to the county. So we will open the public hearing for this at 7:21 p.m. For
annexation. Any takers? Joel mcgregor, 8921 east lane. This area, if it's only accessible
through one from 156, how in the world are the police going to service this area? They're
going to have to drive way the heck out of there, out of our jurisdiction, even to get to it.
but they're going to expect police service there. It's going to be very expensive.
thank you. Joel. Anyone else for public hearing? Seeing none is 7:22 p.m. I will close the
public hearing. I will make a motion to approve the annexation a second I'll second.
which second motion by myself and a second for mr. Motion carries unanimous. And finally
changing the base zoning. Now that's been annexed and is now agricultural. We're changing the agricultural to mpd after a public hearing or nathan wants to talk about it. Well, I don't
have to if you don't want it. I know, I know, you guys have seen this before, but just a
reminder, asking about the number of lots, the maximum number that the zoning allows
is 845. So far their concepts have been well below that because there's a really a
limited area that they can build upon. And this is the concept plan that areas where
they're proposing for, for single family on the left, on the right side is their open
space plan and the trails they plan to do a big, a big cost of this development will be that
collector, and it will require a bridge over trail creek. There. Initial conversations
were proposing potentially a tours to help fund this, but we're able to work together to
not have that tours. So that's another benefit of of this zoning. And I believe they need
this number of units to be able to, to make it all work. And then finally, here's a look at
the collector and the planned landscaping along it. And also the screening plan. They plan
wrought iron and open style fencing, backing up to the open spaces, a masonry screening
wall around what is currently the justin wastewater treatment plant. But that will be going
away once the tras den creek interceptor line is built through here and will also
serve. Justin, can you back up one slide question for you? Sure. The 80 foot minor
arterial by others is the land getting dedicated for that so that we don't have to come back
and negotiate. Correct. Right of way. The land within their property will be dedicated.
okay. Sure. I'll make sure we don't have to chase that down later. And the open space is at
the floodplain. Yes, most of that is floodplain. Go ahead and continue on. Thank you.
answer my question. So now that you've approved the comprehensive plan amendment,
this conforms to the comprehensive plan, conforms to the entitlements approved in
the development agreement. So this plan development zoning is acceptable for your
consideration. And p and z considered this as our meeting on february 24th. They held a
public hearing with no speakers for or against, and they recommended approval of the zoning change unanimously. And you'll need to hold a public hearing again for this item
before you can act on it. Questions or can I go to public hearing? All right. It is 7:25
p.m. We'll open the public hearing. You're going to get your steps in today. That's
right. Joel mcgregor 8921 east sam lee lane will it barely pass for 4 to 3? Only one
person has to change their mind here. This is your last chance. And you know, to me, I think
people should be able to do whatever they want with their property. So I don't have a problem with this if it doesn't cost the rest of us money. And you know, to me, I can see this
requiring us to hire another police officer and buy another patrol car, minimum of one,
maybe two, because of the really bad access here. Now, to me, to approve this, they ought
to there ought to be something in the agreement that they make up somehow for the extra over
and above expense, that it's going to cost the town. You know, I realize the traffic is
a different thing because it's on 156, but I haven't been on 156. But I can't imagine that
it's a joy, you know, with traffic already. So I know that doesn't affect most of our
people, but, you know, just, just all the extra expense because of where this is, it
doesn't fit the plan developed. You know, our town comprehensive plan. You know,
there, there ought to be some kind of concessions to make up at least. So the town breaks
even and doesn't lose a bunch of money on this through all the extra police and whatever
else I'm not even thinking about. Thanks. I'm marina hartman. It's interesting to me
that you all change the comprehensive plan for this development. So it is an ever
changing, comprehensive plan. But my my concern with it is that it is it's extremely dense.
and I don't believe in all my years of being in the interior design and architectural
business that I've ever seen less detailed plans. I don't know that northlake has ever
considered a less detailed plan than what you all showed to the public just now. I mean,
there's no detail to it whatsoever, and I'm used to looking at detailed
architectural plans. So thank you for your time. Thank you. Anyone else this evening?
alright, it is 7:28 p.m. I'll close the public hearing. And with that, we've done the comp
plan. Barely. And then we got the zoning. So now this is. I'm sorry. We did the annexation.
so now they're in town and we do have development agreement in place. So it's my
understanding that the economics of our of the way that we have our police service,
because we talked about this a little bit, the economics of the way that we have our police
service is that the cost of the the cost to patrol the area is, is accounted for with the
property tax base that we're adding. Roughly speaking, our property tax, the 29.5 cents,
about half of it is operations, which is supports police department. And the other half
is debt service, which supports our roads. So yes, all operating property taxes go to
police and all ins property taxes go to roads. So they're going to play. They're going to
pay for the additional fees these residents will pay. These residents will pay the same way
that we do because they're annexed now, because they're annexed now. They wouldn't have.
the question hasn't been answered, though. Is it going to pay for itself? In the whole.
yes. The there is commercial in this in this development, there's some commercial. So we
believe that will help balance the scales, even it out. Another thing is for our water
and sewer system, the the extension of our water system to open up more areas to get
more customers. You know, your, your pipes are a set amount, your cup, your customers are.
piecemeal. There's an economic term that's escaping me right now. And the other thing is a
sewer line that we're partnering with justin with. This will have immediate customers on here on here that will help pay for that line. So on the whole, definitely on our
water and sewer system, this is a it's a benefit. And I believe on the general fund side with
the commercial, it's, it's, it's at least break even. Thank you sir. Good doctor sessions.
all right, all right. We will take a vote. Do I have a motion? Motion approved for mister ganz
and second for miss holmes. Motion carries 6 to 1. All right. And finally, on the
regular agenda tonight, consider adoption to north lake, amending the adopted budget for
fiscal year. Drew. Oh, this is the good one. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And I'll I'll just tee
this up for you, but. We've come to the realization we've been talking about roads all
night, but the town has become responsible for building infrastructure for the region.
we've been waiting and waiting for texdot to expand their roadways. And we. All our
neighbors. And just a quick aside, I I'm on a board with the former mayor of justin in
his first question, whenever he sees me is how the roads are doing because he cuts through
north lake. We know a lot of people from justin and ponder, but that's what we do. We share
in that. But we. With the mayor's suggestion and other actual other council members, I
was trading emails with council member gans about another one of these intersections, about
how can we take what we've got, tweak it, get a little bit more through while we're waiting and
waiting for texdot. So I've got three projects on your on your consent agenda. We've already
approved half to start designing these, but I want to go through these. But once he
once dennis and his crew gets through designing, we're going to have to pay for these. So want to talk about them and then how we're going to pay for them. So this is north is on
your right. South is on your left towards your left. You're going down. 1171 this is the
western edge of canyon falls. We found that people turning east on west bridge from
southbound cleveland gibbs or backing up traffic, people trying to get down. 1171. So
we've got not much right away, but we're going to bump out and put an extra lane. And so the
through traffic will go around. There'll be a protected left turn lane. It will probably get
4 or 5 cars in there. There's usually not more than that in the mornings, but that'll help
get some of that through traffic. That's number one. Number two. So we have the
ultimate northbound drive from 1171, from westbound 1171 to northbound cleveland gibbs. But
it doesn't go very far at all. In fact, you can see where the you can see where the concrete
ends. So this would extend that concrete. And then ultimately we'd have to get back over
because we don't we don't own any of this property. We don't have right of way. Yet another
thing to keep in mind is we've got a power pole that we've got to work around. And then
finally, that that big yellow marked out area is, is where it's just one lane. But we need
trucks to be able to make that turn. Right now they have to navigate around this median cut.
so that's a very tight turn for trucks. What this will do on the southbound side is we'll
get that much desired right turn only. So that clears that traffic out. We'll actually be
able to establish two two left turn lanes. And that will get a lot of that traffic is heading
that direction. And then the the few people that are heading into the airport will be able
to go straight. And then finally, and this was kind of a late breaking improvement is to
have a curb island separated, dedicated right turn lane that's independent with that
curb separation, it's independent of that traffic signal cycles. So any traffic
that's heading westbound that go northbound gibbs can continue unimpeded. So all of
these projects together, the the opinion of probable cost is 1.2 million. We have again,
some interest earnings in our capital project fund. We have some available road impact fee
funds. And we we are going to reassign some of our capital projects that we have with the
county because we have now developers have committed to build some of those roads. So
we'll reassign some of that already budgeted existing funds from the county over to this
project to get us to 1.2 million. So this is wasn't part of the original capital
improvement plan. We'd like you to amend the budget and include this in the capital improvement
plan. If you want to do these. Right. I have a question too. So I mean seeing the different
costs for this, obviously a lot of this is caused with the the great deal of development in
the area. And so is there not ways we can ask the developer to assist with this because it
is a kind of a again, there's a shared cost with this shared need to continue to to develop.
and like you said, even like we don't own the right of way to this. I mean, yeah, this, this
property owner hasn't, hasn't developed yet. And that's not a hillwood property. No, sir. At
that point. So, so, but like some of this, this one will be, this will be dedicated to us.
and they have been paying road impact fees for, for pecan square. They've built all their
internal roads, their border roads. This probably won't, this road particular won't be
needed when all of this is built out and gibbs is taken through. Right. So it's more of
a, a temporary road. But we have we have ample impact fees that they've they've already
contributed sitting in the bank. So in a sense, councilmember pizzuto, they've already they've already kind of prepaid for this with those impact fees. And then finally, this they did
what we asked them to do at canyon falls. And we're pretty much through with this
development on this one. Now, a new developer is building north of here and they're building
all their roads as well. There is a concept of rough proportionality that the state
won't let you have them build everything they have to build what is roughly proportional to
what their development causes. And so with our engineer and our attorney, we believe
they've done that. So I got the most calls I've ever gotten in my time on council. The second
that we closed. And we got to learn very, very quickly the amount of regional traffic that
flows through. I the west bridge in cleveland, gibbs one is needed and overdue, and I'm
happy to see this one on our agenda. The turn from 1171 to. I'm at 1171. Cross timbers.
yeah. To gibbs is so desperately needed. That intersection is painful. I'm so
thankful to see these. And I also for how much it costs for us to do to do anything. I'm
impressed with what we're able to do with this projected cost. I think we're spending some
money wisely and that we saw what a huge pain point it was. The day, the day that we shut
that down. I think that especially with the time and we didn't shut it down, we
redirected. Yes. Well, whatever it was, I got a lot of calls. Yeah. The real issue that we
saw is that we are supporting the region far more than ever intended, due to delays on 407
due to other techs, dot delays on 35 access road. And we're, we're kind of ponying up here
on stuff that we really shouldn't have to, but for the ease of our residents and then
the additional benefit of people coming through town, this road when everything's built, the access roads are built, etc. This road will not have the traffic on it that
we're seeing today, but we will eventually have four lanes coming up from cross timbers
northward as the other projects build. But this is when I was talking with staff and told
them, I think it's about a month or two before the whole gibbs and mulkey changeover. I
said, hey, let's start looking at ways we can improve things for our residents and get ahead
of something for once. And staff came back with this. The timing was great. You guys came
back with this, and I want to get this out as quickly as possible because this is the
kind of stuff that, you know, everybody says we should have foresight on things and this is
getting ahead of things a little bit. So I appreciate council's. Yeah. I mean, just to disagree getting ahead. I mean, I personally over a year ago foresaw this happening when
it did happen when I was on p and z, anybody who drives and I don't, I don't believe a lot of
this traffic is outside of our area. Anybody who drives from this side of north lake to
canyon falls, because of the number of kids and students going to the high school there,
that is what that traffic is. It is specifically because of school, and it is our residents
going through there. And so if you didn't, if you didn't expect this, then you're not
driving that on a daily basis like I was. And like many people, other people are. So
yes, I think some of this is needed, but also we've got to figure out other ways because
this is a this is a small band aid on a very big problem, not only on, you know, it takes now
what used to take ten minutes, 30 minutes, even with the most recent changes to get from this
side to that side during school rush hour. So it's, it's not, it's not good. And we've got to
figure out even more to do. We'll certainly look at some future ideas if you have some I
the residents I've been talking to, I mean, the, the loud social media posts, everything
has died down dramatically when we got those lights up. So I mean, things have I gone during
the heaviest of heaviest rush hours and I've not experienced 30 minutes. I'm sorry that you have. But yeah, we're seeing we've seen massive improvements. The complaints have all but
disappeared. So let's continue to look for improvements as well. But I think this is
important to get moving forward with that. If more discussion or I will happily make a motion
to approve second. All right. Motion for myself. Second for mr. Ganz.
motion carries 6 to 1. All right. With that, we will go into executive session under
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it is 8:31 pe return from executive session with three items to consider.
we will consider authorizing town manager to negotiate and execute a development agreement
with property owners that we have presented tonight for the hilltop truck park and
surrounding properties. We are approving town, our town manager to negotiate a master
development agreement, along with a micro development agreement for two residences. I
will make a motion to approve second and a second for miss holmes. Motion carries
unanimous. Next, we have a resolution to execute development agreement with
pecan square business park. This is the area right in front of some sun belt storage. The
front frontage there in front of the buildings. Voluntary annexation and development
agreement. Do I have a motion? Motion approved for miss holmes? Second. Second for mr. Pizzuto.
motion carries unanimous. And finally this evening, authorizing town manager
negotiate and execute amendment to development agreement between hb gibbs lp and town northlake for additional costs of roadway improvements. Estimated amount of $817,000
and change. Do I have a motion? Motion, motion? I'll second from miss holmes and second
from mayor pro tem lorenz. Motion carries unanimous. With no further business or items to
consider, we adjourn the meeting