[5:01] It's a bald spot now. [laughter] >> Okay, you're live.

[5:05] » All right, we're going to call this meeting to order.

[5:11] So, first thing is looks like we've got a quorum

[5:15] and um we're going to open it up for public comments and we have one resident

[5:20] wanting to speak. >> So,

[5:24] Terra Stark. >> Yes.

[5:27] » Good evening. How are you? >> Hello.

[5:28] » Good. >> My name is Tara Stark and I live at 2004

[5:32] Ranch House Road which is just north of the property that is being developed.

[5:36] Grant was so kind as to call me earlier today and we had a a little discussion

[5:41] and I got to at least share my true hurt gut feelings about um the situation um

[5:48] knowing that they have met all the technical legal aspects that they have

[5:52] to have the development approved. Um you know I've lived there 22 years. Um I

[5:59] know Darwin is here and he represents Miss Rita Flower on the other side and I

[6:04] don't know how many decades she has lived there but [clears throat] um

[6:10] you know when we purchased these properties we purchased them as ranch

[6:13] heads and that was the reason for moving here and moving to Willow Park a place

[6:17] to have a few cows or horses and that was the whole character and the love of

[6:22] being here and I know the world is changing and everything is changing

[6:26] drastically and I know that this will has already been basically pre-approved

[6:31] and they've met all their requirements. I think our um reason for wanting to be

[6:36] here and speak is that we want our love of the land to at least

[6:42] be heard and that it matters to us.

[6:51] Rita feels the same way. Yeah. I talked to her son Gary today and the Darwin and

[6:56] that they feel the same way that they moved here for the purpose of the land.

[7:03] Um, we know all the land around Willow Park is changing drastically and it's

[7:07] just coming and encroaching on us and we know it's coming. We just didn't expect

[7:11] it to quite be right on top of us. Um, we're the only two neighbors that this

[7:15] affects. I know they talk a lot about the fact that it'll be a gated community

[7:19] that'll be high-end homes and that it will increase the value of our

[7:24] properties. We don't think so. Um, but that's our personal belief about it. Um,

[7:30] we want to be a great neighbor. Um, I know that I did let Grant know that I

[7:35] would wish for there to be a solid fence. Um, just simply because I don't

[7:41] want to see people in my space. That's why that's been the glory of living

[7:46] where I've lived. It's the quiet, the peace, and the nature and the deer and

[7:50] even coats and the cows walking by. Um, and that's a lot different when there's

[7:56] there's a lot of other people. Um uh I know this is not the place to address

[8:02] this, but I did want to go ahead and talk about the fencing or the

[8:05] possibility of uh changing lighting such that the light poles are only so high

[8:11] and that the lighting not shine into other homes. Uh things such as that that

[8:16] can be controlled. I know we can't control what other people do um and what

[8:20] they might place in their yards, but I there are a few uh minor things that can

[8:26] be accommodated possibly such that we can be great neighbors together and to

[8:32] where it doesn't where we don't feel like we lose our peace um just to

[8:36] accommodate others moving in. Uh I know it's going to I love the big oak tree. I

[8:41] hope that's not leaving. Okay, thank you. Um, and so, um, that's really all I

[8:47] had to say is just that's that's my heart. Um, it's it's been a stressful

[8:53] time to know that's changing. We know the begs will change one day, but that's

[8:59] yours and it's different. It's expanded. So, um,

[9:05] yeah, that's really kind of all I can say.

[9:07] » Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Thank you.

[9:15] I guess we don't have any other public comments. So, um,

[9:20] first thing we need to do is, uh, approve the, uh, planning and zoning

[9:22] minutes from June the 16th.

[9:28] » I'd like to hear >> I wasn't here either.

[9:31] » I'll make a motion to approve. >> Okay. I've got a motion on the floor. Do

[9:34] I have a second? >> I second that.

[9:36] » All in favor? I have it. Um the second uh agenda item is the

[9:44] discussion and action to consider approval of a pre preliminary plat for

[9:50] Alamita Estates located on Ranch House Road being a subdivision of a 12.032

[9:56] acre track of land out of the BBB and CRR

[10:01] co-ervey abstract number 147 in Parker County, Texas.

[10:06] » Yes. Good evening commissioners. This land is currently zoned R1 and has a

[10:11] current residence that is not occupied. The developer plans to remove it and lay

[10:15] out a thoughtful R1 development with custom home builds, a little over 1 acre

[10:19] lots each, uh 3,500 ft minimum homes, target price of 1 million plus. The

[10:27] developer has been in close contact with the city about the plat related

[10:32] comments. um has been very amendable and and changed uh with or revised without

[10:38] hesitation. Um it is an R1 zoning. It meets city street standards and complies

[10:45] with the future land use plan. Um the developer here if you have any questions

[10:50] uh and there's a presentation attached if you go ahead and take a look.

[10:56] » Oh, let me see if I can >> or sideways. Yeah,

[11:00] let me just do it sideways. >> Little rotation.

[11:04] » There we go. >> Well, uh, first of all, I guess I think

[11:09] I've had a chance to speak with you a couple of times on a couple other

[11:12] projects. We were working on the tractor supply and a handful other projects. So,

[11:15] that was under a different umbrella with uh Barco and Kevin and Bryson Adams and

[11:19] some projects we worked. But, u, my name is Grant Reed. Um, this is the Alama

[11:23] Estates project. We've been working with Chelsea and Tony and the staff on this

[11:27] one for probably about four or so months now. Um kind of doing a lot of drainage

[11:31] studies on this project. There is a significant amount of flood on the

[11:35] southern end of the property. Um the project was originally, you know, it

[11:38] came on the market and was being advertised um for much smaller lots and

[11:42] they were trying to find a way to get sewer down there and do a whole bunch of

[11:45] things. And at one day we kind of looked up and we said, "Man, I think you know

[11:49] there's a lot of really interesting aesthetic features of this piece of land

[11:52] and obviously extremely sympathetic with Terra. I've known her for a couple years

[11:55] and talked to her earlier today. Um, and you our goal in this project is really

[11:59] to try to keep it as it is today as much as we can, stay within conforming zone

[12:04] use that's existing in place. Um, and still try to keep the integrity of the

[12:09] land. Um, I I I you know, hearing Tara speak, it's it's a tough thing and I I

[12:14] do feel for her and our goal in this situation is we know there's a lot more

[12:18] people that still want to come and enjoy this land. Um, I feel like we're

[12:21] offering a very nice product that's going to be larger acreage. We're going

[12:24] to try to maintain as many of those trees that are possible. Um, there's a

[12:27] large oak tree right on the front, which is kind of a mimic of what our picture

[12:30] is here for the Alama Estates. Um, and a big row of trees right down the

[12:34] driveway, which using a little bit of AI, I found out that Alama in Spanish is

[12:39] row of trees. So, that was kind of the the namesake there that we went with.

[12:43] Um, and so, like I said, it's, you know, a gated community. Um the the main

[12:48] things that we've worked through and questions, I know a lot of that's going

[12:50] to come down to the drainage. Um so the full flood study has been done and

[12:53] reviewed um by staff and by Gretchen internally. Um we have determined that

[12:58] you know based on flows and everything we should be meeting um everything

[13:00] according to that and obviously we'll go through a lot more of that detail with

[13:03] the site development permit and as we go through the final design for what that

[13:07] outflow structure will look like. But um happy to answer any questions you guys

[13:10] have. >> Thank you.

[13:17] Does anybody have any any questions? >> Um I I guess uh to to

[13:25] reiterate what she was saying about the lighting point straight down.

[13:28] » So for a project I >> mean at least for the street

[13:31] » correct. So, a project of this size, um, and I really, it's it's a small enough

[13:36] project where we really wouldn't have to go in with street lights. And I it's

[13:39] that is not a that's something I'm more than amanable to not have a street

[13:43] light. At the end of the day, it would be one street light at the end of the

[13:45] culde-sac. Um, that's more of a partnership with the power company,

[13:48] which would be Encore. And if the city would require that or want that within

[13:52] the subdivision, it's a small enough project. I don't see it really bringing

[13:55] a lot of value with a small community like this. you know, we're going to

[13:58] probably have some small, you know, landscape lighting where we have

[14:01] entryway monuments that will kind of light up this not very, you know,

[14:05] there'll be kind of more of a dimmer in the in the shrubs and grass kind of

[14:07] lighting up on the rock monument structures. Um, that's probably the

[14:11] extent of the lighting that we'll have there. But in terms of street light,

[14:14] we're we're more than imable to remove that, not have any street lights within

[14:17] the subdivision. It's just if that conflict with anything of the city

[14:20] ordinances, I'm not sure about. >> She's also about the back porch lights

[14:23] in your claim. >> What about that's also what she's

[14:26] saying. Yeah. >> What about landscaping? So, I'm very

[14:29] familiar with the property. I live on the back side of Ful Park and I'm a

[14:32] fellow resident with land. So, I totally understand and sympathize with her

[14:36] because I I'm staring at the future in front of me and eventually it'll be

[14:39] rooftops. >> Yes. Um,

[14:42] are you able to mitigate some of the nuisance of having a bunch of rooftops

[14:46] right on Ranch House Road, which is a main artery for Willow Park, and then

[14:50] maybe add some landscaping, maybe add some more trees around the property, the

[14:55] perimeter, so it kind of blocks >> the community, the development, so it

[14:58] doesn't look at >> views on your face that you're building,

[15:02] you know, what was it? Uh, 12 >> 10 lots.

[15:06] » 10 lots, I'm sorry. um

[15:09] » kind of disguise it a little bit, make it more to where it blends with

[15:12] environment and nature and so forth. So they're not staring at just blank walls

[15:16] and rooftops. >> Yes, sir. Um so in regards to

[15:19] landscaping, what we currently have plans, we have, you know, when I say

[15:21] landscaping, that's kind of a little bit due to hardcaping as well. Um you know,

[15:25] the current plan is there's a very nice kind of pipe fence there. So our kind of

[15:28] plan was to kind of completely refurbish and retrofit that fence and we want to

[15:32] keep that in place cuz we like, you know, it's ranch house road. It has a

[15:35] nice ranch feel to it. So, kind of going through there and kind of kind of sand

[15:38] blasting, repainting that. And then we'll be building kind of some rock uh

[15:42] monument entryways, kind of using more. And I don't have, you know, full

[15:45] aesthetics and drawings yet just done to that.

[15:47] » But we'll definitely be landscaping all along through there. Um, as you're

[15:50] familiar on that road, there's that big row of trees that comes down right down

[15:53] the stretch there. >> Right.

[15:54] » And so, the goal with that is we offset our road specifically just south of that

[15:58] to try to minimize any tree losses there. We will have to remove a few of

[16:01] those trees because they're so tight together. You wouldn't be able to have a

[16:04] driveway access to those lots, >> right?

[16:06] » But so those trees will really work. We're hoping to kind of keep that buffer

[16:10] line kind of coming down that'll be kind of running east and west there. Um and I

[16:14] I took spoke with Tara earlier and I don't want to, you know, commit to

[16:17] anything, you know, hard, but I definitely said I said, "Hey, you know,

[16:19] we can we can find a way to work some of that." I know she had mentioned about,

[16:22] hey, building a masonary wall. I don't know if we can afford that within our

[16:25] budget, but I'm definitely open to, hey, we can you can do a lot of uh evergreen

[16:29] landscaping and stuff like that along that boundary to kind of protect her.

[16:33] Right. >> Um like I said, I've known Terry for a

[16:34] long time, so want to try to be as best neighbor we can be. I I can't promise

[16:38] you what that is to date, but we'll be working on that path to continue working

[16:41] there. >> Yeah. I mean, a nice green fence, so

[16:43] it's it's better than nothing. So, >> thank you.

[16:49] Uh on on the drainage, I see there's a looks like there's a tank on the south

[16:54] central side. Um is that going to are y'all going to level it? I mean, as far

[16:58] as drainage goes, are you going to try to push it off to the bags to that?

[17:02] » So that all that water flow is kind of coming from the bags down to us. There's

[17:06] an existing kind of bridge right there. And so there's one 51in culvert there

[17:09] that's existing, >> right? Um based like I said this not

[17:13] don't want to speak on the engineering side but based on our full flood study

[17:16] that was done in drainage analysis to establish all the base flood elevations

[17:19] for this deal. Um the overall full buildout I think we had a 7 MCF increase

[17:25] in flow. So our you know b based on the rules and obligations we have to make

[17:28] sure that there's no increased flow downstream. So we'll be maintaining that

[17:32] pond as kind of a natural pond to slow down water there. And there will be more

[17:36] of a, it's not been fully designed yet, but they're going to design a kind of a

[17:39] weird dam or outflow structure there to kind of make sure we're not impacting

[17:43] anyone downstream of us while also kind of maintaining the aesthetic pond that's

[17:46] there. >> Okay. So, like in lot 8, 9.

[17:50] » Yes. >> Back end will still be

[17:52] » pond. >> And I have a bigger map here. It's kind

[17:56] of an 11 by 17. That's like I said, they're conceptual construction plans at

[18:00] this point. Kind of shows that. But 8 and N will back up that 89.

[18:04] » Yeah. one. My bad. Let's just have somebody over

[18:09] here.

[18:13] » And basically the street is just going to be a straight culde-sac.

[18:16] » Straight cold. >> No curbs.

[18:18] » No curb. >> Straight up street.

[18:20] » It will be to center city standards in terms of for a private drive. So we'll

[18:23] have a 50ft rideway with asphalt streets that'll be a bar ditch.

[18:27] » Okay. We'll have the I believe the current plan is for a 6-in water line

[18:31] coming down the south end of that with fiber and other utilities as well.

[18:35] » Okay. >> Um I I would really appreciate it on her

[18:41] her request if you could put some thick cedars

[18:45] » or I know a privacy fence would be uh as yours going. Some people will take care

[18:50] of it, some people won't. >> Yes, sir. Um, so the trees might be the

[18:54] best option because I I see your driveways right there down the the

[18:59] border there. So I I get her concern. >> Yeah. And and abs like I said, I need to

[19:03] run some numbers on that stuff, you know, obviously back.

[19:06] » No, I I agree. Yeah, >> definitely definitely wanting to find

[19:09] whatever the best solution is there. >> And is there any limits as far as what

[19:13] the builder's going to build like twostory big big homes? So with this

[19:18] with projects like this, you know, different than some of these other

[19:21] larger master paint communities, you know, we're kind of working more with

[19:23] kind of our local semicustom to custom builders um through different guy

[19:28] different groups that are kind of more alto central based and hood county based

[19:31] versus these small lot subdivisions. Those other builders are kind of come in

[19:34] and pre-by. So we've got a list of about four or five guys that are committed,

[19:37] but they're wanting to wait to see they like to see the final product and

[19:40] they'll kind of they'll design the house based on what their existing plans are

[19:43] or kind of put a custom plan together. So, we're anticipating a 3500 foot

[19:47] minimum there. Um, but should more than likely all be hitting north of the

[19:51] million-doll kind of price point. >> Okay.

[19:54] » That's not hard to do right now in this market.

[19:58] » Some days it's good, some days it's not so much. You never know.

[20:01] » She knows. >> Yeah.

[20:03] » And I assume the uh a exemption will be grandfathered in for these new people.

[20:09] » No, sir. Um, so I believe the minimum requirement for a exemption Parker

[20:14] County I think is 10. I think there are some exceptions for 5 acre tracks to get

[20:17] bees and certain things like that. But with a 1acre track, you would you would

[20:20] not meet the minimum standard on that. So the egg exemption would go away.

[20:24] We'll be required to pay the roll back taxes on that Parker County.

[20:27] » Okay. [snorts] [clears throat]

[20:30] » Thank you.

[20:33] » I'm good. Thank you. >> Thank you.

[20:35] » Thank you guys. >> Anything else? Anyone?

[20:41] All right. Well, uh, do we have a um a motion on this

[20:47] preliminary plaque?

[20:55] That was just

[21:03] Oh, yeah, that's right.

[21:14] Are you waiting on me?

[21:24] » I motion to move forward on Alama Estates

[21:29] on Ranch House Road. >> All right. Do I have a second?

[21:38] I'll second it. All right. All in favor? All right. The eyes have it.

[21:45] And I guess that's um Is that it? All right. We're journ.

[21:56] » Thanks everyone for coming. Thank you. >> Thank you.

[22:05] Facebook. >> Uh, yes. As soon as you return, it

[22:09] should stop. >> Yeah.

July 21 2026 Planning and Zoning meeting

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