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Before I call the meeting to order, I'm gonna call on Council Member Lara-Storff to present our special guests this evening. All right. So tonight we're gonna open our meeting with a very special performance by Lone Star Elementary School. This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending their Veterans Day event, which was completely over the top, probably one of the best I've ever seen any school put on. It was such a huge honor to be a part of that, but in the end, they said they forgot to sing one song and they were crushed about it because they had spent so much time working on it. So here we are tonight. We're gonna be blessed with our performance and the fact that they just care so much not just by their veterans and their community. It means a lot to me. It means a lot to the city. So guys, please, the stage is yours. And while they're coming up, so just a shout out to Mr. Hearst, the principal here, who cares so much about his kids. I was at their 9-11 Memorial that they had as well and just in hearing the way he speaks about the kids as if they were all his. So thank you for your leadership, sir, and thank you for what you're doing for our kids. To Tracy, who's the PTA mom, but apparently she pretty much works at the school full time. Thank you for putting all this together and thank you for all the work that you put into the Veterans Day event, as well as the 9-11 event. That was absolutely amazing. And of course, miss you, the choir director, who in more or less words, told me that I was not allowed to sing tonight. So I won't hold that against you. So again, elementary for the wonderful performance and parents, thank you as well. If you're a parent or guardian, grandparent, can you guys just wave your hand for a second, let us know you're out. Thank you so much. We appreciate you being in your concert next year. Thank you. Good job, guys. Thank y'all for being here. With that special entertainment, I will call our meeting to order. Sorry, kind of a dud. Jared informed me that it wasn't very loud. Try that again. Tonight's invocation will be given by Reverend Dr. Brian Coulter from the First Presbyterian Church. Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance. Thank you. Where I come from when you hear a choir like that, you say amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you all. That was very special. Where I come from also, I always say we make a transition from getting here to being here. And so hopefully this prayer helps you from getting here to actually being here and being present. Let's bow our heads. Sovereign and mighty and wonderful God. We give you thanks and praise for all of your awesome works. For your loving and good and gracious. And we thank you for your creating and sustaining day by day by day. Thank you for making each of us in your image to exist together in community with one another. And we thank you for our city. Thank you for our elected officials, the businesses, the churches, the synagogues, the schools, the parks, the families, the partners, the individuals. Thank you for all your beloved children who make our city a place that is Fort Worth It. We acknowledge that we do not deserve all this goodness. We are not worthy of your favor because we've messed up a time or two or 12 and we fall in short of the vision that you've given us to live into. So we admit we're not worthy of all this, but I guess that's why you call it grace. May we extend your grace, your gift to others tonight and tomorrow. May we extend your welcome to strangers present and those still to come. May we be stewards of your radical hospitality and your prodigal love. God, I pray for this meeting tonight. I pray for those present in person and those present online. I pray for our council members, our commissioners, the speakers, our directors and our mayor to receive your wisdom and your guidance. May they listen with their ears, may they hear with their hearts and may every decision they make on this night be for our benefit and for your glory. We pray this and we pray all things in your holy name and we love you, Lord. Amen. We do your public for which it stands, one nation, one God, indivisible with the liberty and the justice of our all. Amen. Next slide, I pledge allegiance to the one state, one God, one indivisible. Next will be special presentations with the first presentation being a proclamation for Nurse Practitioners Week. Good evening and welcome to your Fort Worth City Council. It is my honor tonight to talk about the Nurse Practitioner Week we are recognizing, which is November 12th to the 18th, honoring the work that nurse practitioners play as trusted healthcare providers in our community. We have representatives tonight from the TCU College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Go Frogs, that are gonna receive this awesome proclamation. I'm gonna read the proclamation and then anyone of you is welcome to speak and acknowledge the proclamation this evening. Does that sound okay? Wonderful. Whereas nurse practitioners play a critical role as a trusted healthcare provider for patients in this city. Nurse practitioners work to expand healthcare access and underserved communities, promote health equity and care, and improve health outcomes for all. And whereas nurse practitioners provide high quality primary, acute, and specialty healthcare services while emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention, health education and counseling, guiding patients to make smarter health and lifestyle choices every day. And whereas patients depend on more than 355,000 licensed nurse practitioners in the United States to diagnose, manage, and treat their chronic and acute healthcare conditions. The confidence patients have in NP-delivered healthcare is evidenced by the more than one billion visits made annually to nurse practitioners across the country. And whereas utilization of nurse practitioners through modernized state laws and improved policies creates better health through a more accessible, efficient, cost-effective, and higher quality healthcare system. Whereas leading governmental and policy entities, including the National Academy of Medicine, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, National Governors Association, and Federal Trade Commission have taken notice of the benefits of providing patients full and direct access to NP-delivered care. And whereas nurse practitioners serve in the providers of choice for many and play a pivotal role in the health and welfare of our community. Whereas the city of Fort Worth is proud of the contributions made by nurse practitioners on behalf of the health and wellbeing of residents in this city and of the contributions they will continue to make. Now therefore, the city of Fort Worth does hereby proclaim and honor November 12th through 18th, 2023, as nurse practitioner week. Thank you all for joining me. We wanna thank Mayor Parker and the city of Fort Worth for the opportunity to be here and to serve all the patients and residents of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. We are honored to be here and to serve all of you. Thank you so much. Anyone else wanna say anything? Any of our wonderful students, no? You sure? Okay, okay. Yes, no? Okay, very well. Thank you all very much for coming this evening. I know you all have very busy schedules and you could be anywhere, but I think the awareness of how important nurse practitioners are to the foundation of health care in Fort Worth and really across the United States is understated. So thank you very much for making time. We appreciate you. Next will be a certificate of recognition to the Creel Family Philanthropies. Thank you all. This is the Creel Family. You've got Whitney Todd. You've got Cole Case and Kicks. I really wanted to do this. If you don't know the Creels, they're great people and they have been a part of it and really started some things in the philanthropic community. And I think for us, we wouldn't be Fort Worth. I think I can say that for the council if we didn't have our philanthropic communities step up time and time again to help us where we need it. And so I'll let them speak about what we do and I have a proclamation or a recognition here for them. But some of the charities that they've supported, you'll know the Warm Place, ACH Child and Family Services, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Cook's Children, Carter Blood Care, Texas Wildlife Foundation, River Tree Academy, the Net Fort Worth, Down syndrome partnership of North Texas, the Clyburn American Water Foundation and the list goes on and on. But we thank you and thank you for what you're doing. I'm gonna read this really quickly here. It says, with the establishment in 2021, Creel Family Philanthropies has emerged as a shining symbol of hope and assistance for individuals confronting life-altering illnesses and those endeavoring to attain quality education. This philanthropic initiative truly exemplifies the unwavering spirit and compassion of its founders, Whitney and Todd Creel. Creel Family Philanthropies serves as a, it gets harder to read as you get older kids. I'm just telling you without glasses. Serves as a vital bridge between two crucial missions revealing that education and the trials posed by life-altering illnesses impact not just individuals but entire families. Through their altruistic endeavors, Whitney, Todd and their team not only inspire their own children but also future generations to embrace the essence of compassion and generosity. Today, the Creel Family Philanthropies has established partnerships with more than 20 organizations and has successfully raised close to a million and a half dollars through their diligent fundraising endeavors. I commend Creel Family Philanthropies for their steadfast commitment to fostering multi-generational engagement and their exceptional support for community organizations that prioritize education and the wellbeing of those affected by life-altering illnesses. Thank y'all very much. Let's give them a hand. And I'd love to, if you want to say a few words about what you're doing and how you're inspiring the community. Sure. First, I'd like to thank you, Councilman Crane, for having us out tonight. I feel very blessed to be here and I also want to thank people, Kate and Lindsay and the rest of our friends that came tonight and then kind of make this thing go around. Whenever we started this philanthropy, we got a couple of goals in mind and that was to give back to the community but also to instill a sense of giving in our children. And I think that in today's society that it's very important for us to continue to give back and I'm a firm believer that that starts when they're very young. If you can plant that seed when they're young and let it grow, then when they get older they'll be a plus the society. My part of the philanthropy is the education part. I'm a firm believer that there should be no child that's held back or doesn't have a chance at a successful career because lack of education, whether it's cost or whatever it is. And so I think that what we're trying to do is get off opportunities where opportunities are needed and we have an event coming up, the Warm Hearts of Winter, that is more of a giving back with your time and hands than it is more of a fundraiser and I'll let Whitney talk more about that. Well, I will echo his sentiments and thank you for having us tonight and thank you to our team. We wouldn't be here without y'all. I'm so excited to make it go around. But yes, Warm Hearts of Winter, consider this year's extended invitation. It is a family friendly event on December 9th, benefiting communities and schools. So if you're not familiar with that organization, I encourage you to look them up. They are wonderful and it's going to be a great day of fun. My side of the philanthropy is the life altering illnesses. I lost my mother to lymphoma. And after that happened, I just decided I wanted to make a difference. And so our countdown summer's where I was born. We raised quite a bit of money for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society through that and it's been wonderful. So there is nothing that brings us more joy than giving back. And we hope to continue doing that and also instill it in our children. So thank you for having us tonight. Thank you, yes, here you go. All right, thank y'all. Here you go. Y'all, thanks for being here. She has a great time. Krill family, thank y'all for coming. We'll see you next baseball season. Does that sound good? The Krill boys can play some baseball, y'all. Yes, absolutely. I got some affirmative on the front row. The next will be a certificate of recognition to the Castlebury Independent School District Fine Arts Program. The more the merrier, as they say, and I know that there are other bigotaries and members of Castlebury ISD here, including trustees. Feel free to come on up, please. Yeah, we got room. All right, we got a good crowd here. Love it. All right. We'll welcome one and all and thank you for coming to our council meeting. I have a certificate of recognition to present, I guess, formally to Stephen Moss. Let's see if we have the opportunity to meet. Good to see you. But I do know of what he has been able to do with Castlebury ISD, which is one of our ISDs in district two. They're on an upward trajectory. They're doing really fine things. And to toot, their superintendent's horn, you know, Renee Faulkner Smith, among her key achievements has been turning that district accountability from a C rating to a B rating. And they're not done yet. So I think they've done remarkable things. So without further ado, I want to read this certificate of recognition for what their art students have done. All right, and it reads, Castlebury ISD and the Castlebury ISD Fine Arts, above and beyond performance in multiple art competitions and contests, demonstrate the school's district dedication to the fine arts and their students' successes. Castlebury ISD achieved major accomplishments in four different areas, including being recognized by the National Association, the Music Merchants, the Texas Art Education Association and specifically Castlebury ISD Superintendent, Renee Faulkner Smith, receiving the Texas Music Educator Association's Distinguished Administrator Award. All of these accomplishments are made possible. With the incredible work of the Castlebury students, bringing recognition and artistic excellence to their school and district, one Castlebury ISD student was awarded the overall winner of the Youth Art Month Flag Competition. So thank you to all who supported and contributed to the fine arts. And thank you to Castlebury ISD for their continued successes and achievements. And this certificate is presented on behalf of my council official. So, Mr. Moss. Thank you all for your time, I'm glad you're here. Well, we wanna thank everyone here on the council for allowing us to be here. We are honored, as always, Council Member Flores, thank you as well. I just wanted to take a moment to brag on the people who pretty much build all of the bricks in the school and make us look one another. And those are our student representatives. Would you raise your hand? These kids are absolutely amazing. And just recently, our Mariachi program just attended the UIL State Mariachi contest for the first time in the history of the school. And they earned the top rating there, which is remarkable. We're very, very proud of them. And then again, just recently, our marching band just went to the state, the UIL State Marching Competition as well and did beautifully. And then they're also for the very first time in the history of the school, we're gonna be going to the state one-on-one festival this May. So we cannot say enough good things about our students. We honor our teachers at a time, sometimes when it is very difficult to teach nowadays. And we are blessed to have wonderful educators. We're blessed to have wonderful teachers. And if you see all of the people here right now, Casabari is all about support. That's what we're about. And we have almost every single one of our school board members, if not every one of them here. So we thank you and we honor you. And lastly, our superintendent, I've taught in public and private schools and I've also taught in the district that has one of the largest high schools in the country. Our superintendent is, without question, the real deal. And so we're very, very thankful for your leadership. And again, thank you this evening for allowing us the opportunity to come and be honored. Thank you so much. Thank you. Just a quick moment of privilege. I know that we have some school board members that are here, the elected officials. I don't know if you want to just step up and just introduce yourselves very quickly. Come on, don't be shy. I know you all have done this before. Come on in. Hi, my name is Adiela Martinez. Thank you all for having us today, but more so being able to highlight our students, our staff, who really make this possible. Our mariachi team, everyone that's here. But I'll go ahead and pass it over so everyone can get through. Okay, thank you. Okay, come on up, sir. I'm David Holder. I've been on the board for 22 years. And it's a joy to be a part of this organization. Hello, Mary Lou Martinez from district two. And I've been on the board 19 years and it is definitely a pleasure and an honor to serve this district. Thank you. And you're also our, you forgot, vice president? Oh. I'm Cathy Gattica. I am the school board secretary, been on the board for 10 plus years. And I enjoy every minute of it, so. Hi, I'm Tracy Gaulman, Go Pascal Panthers from a long time ago. But I'm a board member and thank you so much for having us here tonight. And we're so proud of our kids. So anytime you see Castlebury on a bus or anywhere, just give us a honk and cheer us on. Thank you so much. Hello, I'm Dewey Tolliver. I'm the current president. And any opportunity I get to talk about our kids is the best thing I can do. So the people behind me, the educators behind me, the kids behind me, they're the thing. So thank you, appreciate it. Thanks everybody. Let's round up again and get a picture. Thank y'all for coming today. Juan Carlos, next time I come to school, he let me in the mariachi room before and I'd ruin practice, but you'll let me in again. He doesn't hear me talking to him. I said, next time I'll come back to the mariachi practice again. That was fun. Okay, it was excellent. That was a lot of fun. Next will be items withdrawn from the consent agenda or continued or withdrawn by staff. Thank you. Items to be withdrawn. One is MNC 23-0959 and the second is MNC 23-0982. Mayor, next will be the speakers on the consent agenda. And I believe we have two. Thank you, Jeanette. Our first speaker is Adrian Smith, followed by James Smith. Yes, Adrian Smith, I am one with the people. MNC 23-0972 for those who have paperwork or documentation to follow along. The gist of this particular MNC is to replace the cast iron water lines at Farnsworth Avenue, Hellmack Avenue and Little Page Street, also to include Williams Reed Road through Sandy Lane. Now, what I just stated was discussed on a previous MNC, MNC 23-0919, but this current updated one has added a portion to this particular project. And that portion is to be Elliott Reed Road from Halton Road to East Deed Road. Now, what I'm calling to ask my council member about this language stage that there is to be removal from this particular project of Farnsworth Avenue, Hellmack Avenue and Little Page Street. So my thing is this, what are we removing? Because if it's anything earmarked for this community to be done, it needs to be done. It needs to be done and it needs to be completed. There's no reason to take something that was already designated and put it on a backburn. You know what I'm saying? So to my council member, I'm trying to help me to understand what it is we're doing here before you all make this vote. And this is in an interlock agreement with Tarrant County Precinct One. I know this particular agenda item encompasses Council District Six, which was previously three in parts of Council District 11, which was previously five. So as it relates to Tarrant County Precinct One, and I'm not trying to put you on spot, Ms. Council Representative Martinez, but doesn't she have to re-choose herself from this vote considering she is a, she works directly with Tarrant County Precinct One. And if she doesn't, I would like an explanation as to why she doesn't, from either the chair or the city attorney. Again, to my council member, there's no need for anything to be taken off the table as it relates to District Six or this community. In a community, I'll speak up for those who might be in the dark about it. I'm speaking about the Como community. So my council member, you know, you've already been put on notice, placed on notice. So I asked you before you all make this vote, if council member Martinez is to re-choose herself, you all had to vote on this separately from this whole conglomerate of this one, one sided, one down vote that you're all about to do. Council member Williams. Thank you, mayor. And thank you, Adrian, for the comment. I do know exactly what you mean. And in anticipation of that, and also anticipation of questions from our community, I had our director of TPW, Lauren Pierre, to come up to explain this. It is without doubt we need those roads done and we are gonna get those roads done and here's your answer. Yes, thank you for the question. We certainly appreciate the opportunity to make a clarification. So Farnsworth Avenue, Helmlick Avenue, and Little Page Street will be removed from this interlocal agreement with Tarrant County to resurface the roadways. As stated in the MNC, they do require cast iron replacement. So these streets will undergo design where it anticipated to bring the design agreement to council for their approval in January of 2024. This will require roughly a six to nine month duration for design. Then these will be scheduled to go to construction in early of 2025. Also with the pavement improvements in addition to the cast iron replacement. Thank you, Lauren. And just to reiterate, it wouldn't make sense to repave the roads and then have to come back up and dig up the roads to replace the pipes. And so we're gonna not only fix the roads but fix the pipes as well. And just to put on the record, Adrian, you can always reach out to our office. You know the number and you know the email and I love the insert notice. Give me a call. Thank you, Lauren. Appreciate it. Our next speaker is James Smith. It's Mr. Smith here. I haven't seen him. Has any marshals seen Mr. Smith? No. Okay. I think that's the conclusion of our speakers on the Consent Agenda Council. I can entertain a motion. Will to approve. Got a motion and a second. Any other discussion council? Please vote. Motion carries. Next will be announcements by the city council members. Council member Flores. Thank you, Mayor. Okay, get the slides up please. All right, sister cities was very busy here recently. You know, we, many of us attended the mayor's international dinner global awards over there in the convention center and provides funds to promote forward globally and enrich our community through what sister cities does. So very fun evening at all. You know, got to share a table with our Toluca delegates. They're related to that next slide please. We showed our two Luka delegates around town, showed them the best Fort Worth, took them into the stockyards myself, treated them to dinner at Cattleman's. And then we took in the pressure bull riders, rodeo at Caltown Coliseum. So they had extremely good time and they convey their thanks for Fort Worth's hospitality. Next slide please. All right, very special time. It took a long time coming from the 2018 bond program. We finally cut the ribbon and opened up the Diamond Hill Community Center. You know, Richards of Olive was very hard to, you know, found it very hard to contain. His excitement was just spilling everywhere. And you know, I can't help but share that along with everyone else in attendance. It was a beautiful day, a $10 million center, 25,000 square foot facility, and one million, you know, additional from a Parks and Wildlife grant. So it features gymnasium, boxing gym, teaching, kitchen, fitness center, meeting spaces, computer lab, all that the old center did not do. The old center served us well, but its time has come and gone. And the public art piece from Fort Worth Public Art that was commissioned, rising strong is very emblemic of the Diamond Hill Community, which is very resilient. And artist Elizabeth Akamatsu captured it perfectly with a bouquet, a stylized bouquet in three gem flowers. Again, you know, representative of the Diamond Hill Community. So thanks, one and all for making that happen. Took all hands on board. Next slide, please. All right, the others went with us. We had to again, you know, postpone that to the following weekend because of weather, finally launched that parade. And it was wonderful. It continues a 20 year tradition from Arsasa La Rosa in doing that parade. It started out as a very humble, quiet procession through neighborhood streets has now, you know, come to that. So appreciate everyone involved to make that a success and appreciation to all the volunteers and sponsors. And that was followed by Fiesta at historic Marine Park. Next slide. Okay, this is something that I think maybe many of us have slides about. We were all there. What a time, right? The Rangers win, you know, their first World Series and they visited Billy Bob's, Texas in hat tip to Mayor Parker for making it a public event to share with the fans. It was a very great idea. It was very well received. So thanks to the Rangers. Congratulations to them. And what a, you know, what a great event. So thank you. All right, next slide, please. I guess it's championship Thursday it was. Mayor was there to give some remarks to the professional bull riders, associate, association. And they were also, we were cheering on the Texas Rattlers which is another professional team that is here and call Fort Worth home. They were announcing their 2024 schedule. So go Rattlers. And they're gonna have some programming in the Fort Worth Stockyards in the Coliseum next year. So we'll look forward to that. And former council member Firestone is now a part owner, I believe, right, Matty? So yeah, he's moving and shaking since after the council. All right, Veterans Day. You know, we celebrated that and again hat tip to all our veterans, you know, here on council and in our city. And so there was a parade to celebrate them at Panther Island Pavilion. Next slide, please. Another annual event, Greek Food Fest. You know, always welcome that. I've been going to that for years at Sarah District too. St. Demetrius Greek Orthodox Church. Wonderful, you know, celebration of food, dancing, culture. And you know, always welcome then every year. And I wanna do a special recognition. I thought I saw him here earlier. I don't know if he's still here. Chris Harder and his team, believe it or not, the week before that food festival, there was a major water leak right there on Northwest 21st Street. So I gave Chris a call. He got his team down there. They fixed it in short order. But like with all things, when you fix older infrastructure, it, you know, replace it with new, it's gonna affect something nearby. And it did another break the same week as the Food Fest. Chris responded very quickly with his team. They got it fixed up and bundled up with plenty of time, you know, for the food festival to go on. So thank you, Chris. All right, announcements, Turkey bingo. That's Friday, November 17th. All I know is it starts at 6 p.m. and it's a North Triathnic Center and $1, you know, for bingo sheets and very popular sport. Let me tell you, they're very competitive there. So we're looking forward to that. And then another announcement, it's getting close to Christmas, y'all. So, you know, the Stockyards rodeo rink is back again. So you can get ice skating in and that opens up November 20th. So check it out there right next between the Stockyards Exchange Building and the Coliseum. And then a District 2 shout out. Angel Sanchez is officially the Texas High School Sports News, let's see, by SB Live Athlete of the Week. So thank you one and all who voted over 20,000 votes I've been told and very athletic guy, very competitive and humble. So, hat tip to Angel. Thank you for what you've been able to accomplish and that's all I have. Thank you, Carlos. Council Member Crane. One quick announcement. I'm still on a high from this morning at the groundbreaking Las Vegas Trail Neighborhood Health Center. Mayor, thanks for being there. Councilman Nettles, thank you for being there as well. It was a great crowd. This is the first of its kind public-private partnership and what is the healthcare desert in Las Vegas Trail. Cook Children's, JPS have come together to put this facility together. So we broke ground. It was a great, and this will be a great catalyst for change in that area. And I'm happy that we continue on there. Thanks to the staff that made this happen too. Fernando, Victor Turner, everybody else that's sort of been apart from this from the beginning. I appreciate it. Thank you. Council Member Lara-Storff. All right, so we just had our first town hall and I didn't count everyone, but I think we had thousands and thousands of people. So I think we went for the biggest town hall so far. Some of the biggest takeaways was the fact that you had to walk like 16 miles down a long hallway, which means we really need a community center so we're gonna continue to fight for that in the north. Homeless camps and the cleanup, that came up quite a bit as well. And of course, just like everyone else, it's an increase in police presence, which I know our police department is doing an amazing job at trying to help us out with that. The biggest takeaway though is it's really hard for people to be big mad when there's tacos. So yes, we had JJ's tacos come out and feed everyone there. So to my colleagues, if you wanna keep the crowd a little less rowdy, just bring out some tacos. Next slide. So this is good back to Lone Star Elementary School. These are just a few of the photos from their Veterans Day thing. First of all, they had the breakfast, which I think is great. But then beyond that, they had a parade for all the veterans as well. They had the halls lined with all the students. Then they had a huge presentation from the students and the choir saying, then if that weren't enough, everyone went outside and all the students planted flags. And they all got the story behind Veterans Day and what it meant. So kudos to the Lone Star Elementary for really showing what it means to live in the greatest country in the world. Next slide. I just wanna do a quick spotlight for a couple of folks that I think make a huge difference here in the city and they're behind the scenes. They don't get a lot of credit. Joe, to you, sir. Thank you for being that bright, that bright light down our hallways upstairs. When you see us frantically going for buttons up here, Joe is always right there to kind of help you out and get things under control. He's always just that beacon of positivity. He'll shake your hand, looking in the eye, he asks you how you're doing it and he genuinely means it. So, Joe, thank you for what you do on a daily basis. Next slide. Good job, Joe. Thank you. I think, Anik, that Gina's not here tonight for that because I think, Joe, you spend most of your time with Gina. Is that fair to say? Sure, that's- On the IT side. So we love our Gina Bivens. She sometimes is technologically challenged at times, right? Next, I just wanna do one more spotlight and that's for our Marshall Owens over here to our right. This past weekend, he and I and every other marine celebrity are 248th Marine Corps birthday and I think our livers are probably still recovering from it, but nonetheless, thank you for what you do for our city on a daily basis and I see you in here before everyone else gets in here. You and your entire team, sweet being looking for things that shouldn't be here, taking your job very serious and so thank you for what you do, for what you've done for our country and what you do for us here on Council. So, with that, that's all. Thank you, Charlie and Council Member Hill. Thank you, Mayor. Well, Councilman Flores already stole my thunder on the Texas Rattlers, but I do wanna do a quick plug. That Fort Worth will remain the home of the series in 2024. The opening season will begin September the 26th at the Cowtown Coliseum and then we'll move to Dickies Arena September 27th and 28th and yes, congratulations to former Councilman Leonard Firestone for winning the National PBR Team Championships in Vegas. Next slide. A quick plug for the Lightscape. It's returning to Fort Worth Botanical Garden this year, starting November the 16th through January the 1st. More information on this event to start the holiday season and to purchase tickets are found on the Botanical Garden website. Thank you. Council Member Nettles. That opportunity to celebrate Trinity Metro 40 is celebration. The mayor was there, Michael Crane. We have the opportunity to sit on Trinity Metro Board. That was a great event. Next slide. Of those of you that know North Crowley High School won the state championship in 2003, the same team that I was a part of, whether you believe it or not. So I had the opportunity to go back 20 years and present the award to our coach, Coach Pappas. And I started in quarterback, Lance Miles is there in the pink and some other coaches. It was a great event. They are also in the playoffs or return for the Panthers to go all the way this year. Next slide. Went to joint charity ball to celebrate with them, took an award to them. They also received the award. So it was a great event there. Next slide. Job reentry program, it was phenomenal. A lot of people came out, the line was at the door. We were competing with the Texas Rangers Parade but we were still able to give jobs there. People received jobs onsite and so it was a great event at their on campus drive. Next slide. Seaman's Ribbon Cutting or signing was a great event. I was able to stand on behalf of the mayor to speak to a waiting crowd to talk about what's coming to district eight. I told the crowd that we're open for business and we're bringing jobs here to South Fort Worth. So thank you to our staff for economic development, those who participated in making sure they came to district eight. Next slide. That's it, thank you. Oh, I do want to say happy birthday to my son Caleb Nettles who turned 10 today. Happy birthday. Council Member Beck. Okay, first up. I had the opportunity to tour the Health Science Center remote area medical clinic before they opened with Councilwoman Martinez. It's a really phenomenal event. They do them nationally. This is the second time that they've been in Tarrant County. The first time was up in Alliance. They offer medical vision and dental on site. They even offer a well women checkups as well. They were able to treat 375 patients in a weekend. So that's a big deal. Next slide. All right, we've all seen it. We got to celebrate the world champions, the Texas Rangers were bringing home their first commissioners trophy. Next slide. For Veterans Day, thank you to the Food Bank for inviting me out and helping being part of a little celebration they had there for the veterans that serve our community once again through the Tarrant Area Food Bank. Next slide. UNT Health Science Center hosted a really amazing Veterans Lecture Series as the first annual. Hopefully it'll be back next year bigger and better. It was a really informative discussion on veterans health impacts. Next slide. All right, so 70 years of the Optimist Club selling Christmas trees in the parking lot of Farrington Field. I encourage you all to go out there. If you're in the market for a fresh Christmas tree, please consider purchasing it from this group. They do a lot here in the city of Fort Worth in their youth enrichment programs. I was a participant once way back in the day. And I think probably a couple of other my council members too. And this is how they fund those programs. Next slide. All right, Pareto Lights is coming to downtown. Sunday, November 19th. For more information, you can go to Fort Worth ParetoLights.org to figure out the best places to sit and watch and park. Next slide. All right, the Grinch is here in Burnett Park and I hope you join us for a movie night. If you get there before from five to seven, you get to sit with Santa Claus as well. And that's it. Council Member Blalock. So just quick, three quick announcements. We have three public meetings coming up in District 10. One is Keller-Hicks Street Improvements which will be November 27th at 6.30 p.m. Then we have the District 10 Library Concept Presentation on December 4th, again at 6.30 p.m. And then on Monday, December 11th at 6.30 p.m. we have the Beach Street Ray White Intersection Project. These are all available for more information on the District 10 website. And Council Member Martinez. Okay, well, we're gonna start with Village Creek. I had the opportunity to sit with Village Creek Neighborhood to discuss a potential sound wall of 287. So I got really great feedback and just an idea of what that community wanted. And also I had that, you know, I was honored and proud to be recognized by Unity Unlimited Incorporated at their sixth annual, Irma C. Johnson Hadley Scholarship Gala. So that was a really wonderful night. I also attended the Artes de la Rosa Day of the Dead Parade. So that was the first time that I was able to attend in this role. So it was really great. Also last weekend did a visit of an urban farm here in South Fort Worth, Southeast. Mind Your Garden, Texas Health Resources is doing a tour of the different urban farms in East Fort Worth. And ended the night with the HW and the Hispanic Urban Farmers Network of Texas Gala supporting their annual fundraiser that the money raised goes towards scholarships in their Young Latinas program. Next slide please. Last week I had the pleasure of doing story time at Rebe Carey to a bunch of toddlers and it was a really great experience. I really enjoyed my time there. I was also very happy to help support the East Fort Worth Business Association Community and Scholarship Awards Banquet and congratulations to two community leaders that are here, Julie Taylor and Cindy Bowling for being recognized at the event. This weekend I had the opportunity to sit in on a meeting with the Eastland neighborhood just to address and work with the community on some concerns that are happening out there. I also toured the Metapork Golf Course. For those who don't know, that's gonna be completely redeveloped. And so I just wanted to get a good idea of what it looked like before and so I can fully appreciate what it looks like when it reopens in summer of 2025. Black coffee pop-up, just helping support small businesses in East Fort Worth. So that was a really great event that Black coffee put together. Next slide. And I neglected to share that I have a new district director. Welcome, Rachel Arayano. Rachel comes from the county and I think she's in her fourth week. Yes, next slide please. And at the last council meeting, I had the date wrong for my inaugural resource fair. So that is Saturday, December 2nd from 9 a.m. to 11 30 at Dennis Duncan Elementary School. Please join us and please share. Thank you. Mayor, the next item will be speakers on the non-consent agenda items. Thank you, Jeanette. Our first speaker is Cindy Bowling, followed by Letitia Wilburn. Cindy, I have you down to speak. You made that face on the Meadowbrook Golf Course renovation. Yes, ma'am. Of course. Thank you, Mayor, I got confused. My name is Cindy Bowling. I live in Central Meadowbrook and I am the president of Central Meadowbrook Neighborhood Association and the amazing Meadowbrook Municipal Golf Course is located in my neighborhood. Thank you. That's why I'm here. Thank you to the citizens of Fort Worth who voted for the funds and thank you for our city leaders who we learned during our event Saturday before last that we're getting more than $7 million. We were all just blown away by it and we are so deeply appreciative of everyone who sees the value of our golf course. I know Jeanette drove it last Saturday and had a great time and my neighbor, Rick Haussler, loved showing you around. It's an amazing asset to our city. And I didn't know you could go and play for free. I'm not a golfer. So thank you, all of you, for what you've done for us. Thanks. Thank you, Cindy. Council, our next speaker is Letitia Wilburn followed by Richard Perez. And just for clarification, it looks like the rest of our speakers on non-consent items council are all pertaining to the 2023 comprehensive plan ordinance. Ms. Wilburn. Okay. I just want to say, you know, living in a black community that has perfect location, when you buy a home, you look for location, location, location. If you're in a white community, you're rewarded for it. If you're in a black and brown community, you're punished for it. In my community of Echo Heights, we're five minutes from 30. We're located at 287, 820 and 20. Now we've come before you guys many times. You have worked to try to improve the comprehensive plan, but you have not done enough. There's still too much industrial and the community. Y'all have also done what's considered apartheid zoning. Y'all have taken part of this community and given it to change the name to some value. PID, Y'all Public Improvement District. For us, it's pollution, illness and death. This community has a high death rate. It has a low life expectancy. It has a high rate of asthma. High rate of people with high blood pressure, miscarriages. We have three neighbors right next to each other, all with kidney ailments. That's no mistake. That is real. Now you all also practice exclusionary zoning. I'm looking at y'all's mouths on y'all face. So this is funny to y'all, but it is not funny to me because I live there. And I know that Mayor Parker, I'm not picking on you, but I've asked for restaurants. And you've said in an industrial area, that's exclusionary zoning. You guys also practice segregation zoning. There is nothing good comes to this community. When I look at y'all zoning plan, y'all are still displacing people. Y'all are still, this city is in trouble with the government for pollution. Y'all have all of these industries in this small community. Even y'all even gonna wipe out part of a mobile home community on a y'all's plan. Y'all picking on people that don't have a lot of money like the city does. So when y'all guys come to these communities and y'all look at stuff and y'all say, oh, these black and brown people, they're not gonna care what we care. Y'all might not care looking at y'all faces, but we care. This city has, should be respectable, but it has to raise its past. It's never been called out on this red lining. And it's just terrible that this city that's in trouble for the government put thousands of trucks in one community didn't consider particulate matter, didn't consider the lives and health of the people that live in these communities. The only thing y'all see is black and brown people that y'all don't consider human. And y'all see green that y'all consider money, but we matter. And y'all gonna have to look at us and see that we matter. And I know Ms. Martinez, you said y'all were going to pass this, but y'all still need to make some changes. And y'all need to get with us to do a moratorium. Y'all have downsides to our community that some fallow pit is Echo Heights. Our next speaker is Mr. Richard Perez, followed by Jim Schermbach. Good evening, council, staff, mayor. I'm Richard Perez, 1400 North Commerce Street, also a member of the Environmental Coalition of Communities. I just wanted to share an article with you that parallels some of the concerns that our environmental group is focused on with Echo Heights and Stop Six. This is an archival article I wanted to share with you. This is from 1991. And this is written by Jeff Gwynn, Star Telegram, also an award-winning book writer. And it illustrates, and it has quotes from my dad who stood here 30 years ago with concerns about encroachment of businesses into our neighborhood right behind the Rosemary and Theater. Back then there were some unscrupulous businesses. And there was also some planned development there. And it was encroaching, there were some lots rather in our neighborhood and there was a lot of prospects there and the businesses wanted to get those lots for parking because it's a premium on 1400 North Commerce Street. Now the environmental impact really wasn't spoken much then but the encroachment of businesses into our residential area was a concern. But I wanted to bring this article to light. It's an old article because it was a collaboration between my dad and this city council. Back then there was another Carlos in district two, Carlos Puente, he worked with my dad along with the city planner Bruce McClendon and they came up with an idea to work out a deal with the businesses and actually to get a vote for the zoning to change. Our neighborhood was not what it is now. It was more of a pepper type of mixed use that could allow for business encroachment. But working together that collaboration, they were able to come to a nice solution. That solution was to get the entire neighborhood zoned residential B, I believe, most of it anyway. Just a side note on the end of the article there, there was a little bit of infighting within that city council back then and maybe some lack of knowledge of the area, the council. But if you look at the final slide, this is where I live now, this is right behind the Rosenberg and Peter. There's a lot of industrialization there but for the most part it's B residential. That collaboration between the city and my dad and the residents there came up with a really nice solution that protected the environment and the residencies for us. With that being said, everyone just have a good, happy holidays and a happy Thanksgiving. Thank you, Mr. Perez. Our next speaker is Mr. Jim Schermbach, followed by Adrian Smith. Hi, Jim Schermbach, Environmental Coalition of Communities here in Fort Worth. I want to congratulate the council and the staff for passing this 2023 comprehensive plan of the whole 48 days left in the year and we're only months away from public engagement for the 2050 plan. So this is a very short shelf life. And it's admittedly because it's November now, it's been a struggle to get here but not one without significant progress on all fronts, I don't believe. We recognize the concessions made by the city that pull back the boundaries of this kind of insidious industrial growth center that we believe is a bad idea in general and especially bad idea here in Echo Heights. Thank you for protecting the WM Green School and the Motel Home Park, pushing the southern boundary back. And I understand there have been promises made about land around the Gray Center as well. That came only after community opposition to what the city had done the last 10 years without much notice. And I think this came as a surprise to you and certainly to the neighborhood. And we've gotten over that surprise now the last six or seven months or so. These are good starting points but they are the edges of a problem and do not address the fundamentals of the problem. And looking ahead to the 2050 plan, we would ask that you provide the neighborhoods not only here but throughout the city with a solid boundary, a buffer boundary between industrial and residential uses. This should be a goal of the 2050 plan to eradicate industrial adjacency as it is in Dallas. There are just too many places on this current plan where residential homes low up against light or heavy industry. And in your definition of light, that covers a lot of sins, including batch plants, rendering plants and so on. So light is not necessarily a good prescription for these neighborhoods. Secondly, I would just ask for an honest embrace and incorporation of environmental justice as a goal for this 2050 plan. Folks, it's the 21st century. You're out of the mainstream by not putting this explicitly in your plan. Nowhere is this language found online or in the planning material. And I would just ask you to go about your business this next year for 2050, that you think about what it was like in 1950 and try to imagine then the legacy of that segregation continuing on for another 100 years. No, you have a chance to put an end to this now. Please include this as a goal. Finally, start a new relationship with the community, have regular communications with them, check in with them early, check in with all of us early. This helped this last week or so, I think it will help again time and again. This idea came about because of maps, highway maps. It looked like a good idea on highway maps. It's a bad idea from a neighborhood perspective though. And I believe through that lens, we can get to better planning for the entire city. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Schoenbeck. Our next speaker is Adrienne Smith by phone. Adrienne, we followed by Martisha James. Whereas the 2022 comprehensive plan includes without limitation provisions on land use, housing, parks and community services, libraries, human services, neighborhood capacity, building, economic development, economic development, economic development, transportation, education, historic preservation, urban design, arts and culture, police services, fire and emergency service, environmental quality, environmental quality, environmental quality, public health, public health, public health and municipal facilities. The comprehensive plan, we truly know that all doesn't mean y'all within footwork. It's time for this council. It's time for the council districts that have been disregarded, disrespected and denied equal access for capital investments to receive what's theirs. It's time for elected officials to honor the positions of service they've been put in. There is no room for anything else otherwise. It's time for the collective will of the people which hold the power to hold accountable those in which they have chosen to represent them. Two options, we vote them in, we can vote them out. To council member Nettles in district eight, to council member Williams in district six, to council member Martinez in district 11 and to the absent council member Gina Bivers in district five, your communities, our communities are the ones that have been denied, denied the longest as relates to anything that is valuable for the success and sustainability of a community or a people within a community. So it's up to you four to step up and do what's necessary for your constituents because your counterparts, trust me, they are doing whatever they need to do for their constituents in their communities. And we know a lot of their communities are considered the affluent communities, but you four have a obligation, a greater obligation to your communities because your communities are the communities that have been denied the longest. And Ms. Martinez, as it relates to the stop six and Echo Heights quarter, we know that Gina Bivers is the catalyst for a lot of this ongoing behavior. You have a chance, you have an opportunity to be different than she was. She served for 10 years and did nothing. You have an opportunity to make a difference. Ma'am, you need to be the one to help make a difference in this community. Do better, mayor. Do better city council. That's the last of our speakers from Mr. Smith. Next is Martisha James followed by Mr. John McFarlane. No, unfortunately, maybe we can help you down here because you have to be at the microphone or no one can hear you or see you as it's recorded. Thank you. The first photo is just simply showing Ms. T's backyard and where the trucking company is literally in her backyard and Echo Heights is in an area in which we are in fact flooded with industrial businesses. And I do appreciate you Ms. Martinez for coming to hear us out about all of our issues we've been having and being punctual with responding back to emails as well. Although we had a short window to try to make preparation, we do appreciate it. And thank you for hearing us out and considering our voices after we've pushed so hard for it to be heard. The boundaries that we are looking at right now, you can slide down. Like instead of, can you guys see it? Yes. Okay, so instead of the industrial companies are allowing more into our area and when you are considering the new comprehensive plan, can we take into account our neighborhood and how it looks now? Our infrastructure is horrible. We have Pajos everywhere. At this point I've messed up two tires and I just got the car not too long ago and I'm always running into nails in the neighborhood. We also recently just had a tree to fall down in the neighborhood as well. And instead of continuing to bring more of these trucks, more of these companies in which we're professing profusively about not including in our neighborhood if we could just work on better in our neighborhood altogether. We only have one street like on the Tahoe Street and it's on my end. You can slide it one more time. Oh no, no, damn, sorry. Right here we see a tree and this was taken this morning if you can see it. And then if you could slide down a little more please. These are photos that have been taken from the spring up until now. We have no lights in our area. We have no sidewalks and granted we have the sidewalks that are down by W and Green. There's none over here where the trucks are turning from Parker Henderson or when they're coming down on Martin Street. And so take this into consideration for our new companies to plan because where it is we're adding more companies, the people, the neighborhood, the families, the kids need to be taken into consideration. Thank you. Thank you Mrs. James. Next is John McFarland followed by Spencer Dickinson. John McFarland, Greater Fort Worth Sierra Club, 2104 Washington Avenue, 76110. So the Sierra Club is a member of the Fort Worth Environmental Coalition of Communities just like the other organizations present, especially Echo Heights Stop Six Environmental Coalition who we are collaborating with and endorsing. I endorse and echo everything that's been said before me. There were some good things that happened in the last year. It's been a long year, but we've done some minor, some minor changes to the conference of plan knowing that there's only a couple months left before the 2050 plan engagement, public engagement starts. So that's good. We protected the WM Green Elementary School for now. We protected the Willow Springs Mobile Home Park and done some other things. But for the 2050 plan, we're gonna hold the city council accountable. First, we're asking right now for the city council to approve an ordinance or amend the current ordinance, putting in place a temporary moratorium on all new industrial rezoning. I've sent an email several months ago, got no response, but we are gonna hold your feet to the fire about that. Several cities in America and the US have done this. They've passed an ordinance or amended their existing zoning ordinance to put in place a moratorium for six months to a year so planning and zoning issues can be studied and worked out. So we're requesting that this moratorium be in place until such time that the 2050 conference of plan is approved. Further, we're asking that the Industrial Growth Center be further reduced. The name Industrial Growth Center removed and to better protect the echo heights and surrounding neighborhoods and create undeveloped natural buffer zones between residential and the IGC or Industrial Growth Center. Also, as Mr. Schermbach stated, environmental justice must be integrated into the 2050 plan. Recognizing that communities of color are disproportionately affected by industrial development, air and water pollution and damage to infrastructure such as crumbling streets like Martasia just mentioned due to all the trucking, all the heavy trucks. Industrial land uses near these communities must be prohibited and the Industrial Growth Center must be reduced and strict boundaries and buffer zones must be in place to separate residential and industrial. So I look forward to all the public engagement that's been promised next year for the 2050 plan and will be at every meeting. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Farland. Our next speaker is Spencer Dickinson. Spencer will be followed by Jackie Cox. Council members, Mayor Parker. My name is Spencer Dickinson. I'm a resident of Tarrant County. I work in Fort Worth and I am also a member of the Greater Fort Worth CR Club and participate in the activities of the Environmental Committee. I'd like to briefly add my acknowledgement to this committee on this council on the comprehensive plan and acknowledgement for the process and acknowledgement for the output. The process was improved in that you engaged the communities involved and your staff were amenable to changes. Thank you very much for that. And in my opinion, there is an acknowledgement of human health issues greater in this comprehensive plan than we've seen in the past. In fact, it is in the public health section. There's the quotes. I know you all know it by heart. Human health and the built environment are inextricably linked. I like that. I agree with that. Although as a Sierra Club member, I would say also human health and the natural environment are inextricably linked. It's difficult to say fast. Perhaps we'll work on that in the future. Anyway, I wanna come back and say I wanna acknowledge the council and the city on the comprehensive plan and the effort to engage and listen to input. And as my colleague John just articulated, we need to ensure the next step as we go into the next comprehensive plan that we are going to do the hard work to further the efforts and that have been accomplished in this comprehensive plan. And that means reducing industrialization in vulnerable communities, like in Echo Heights, promoting sustainability throughout the works of the city in everything that we do. And certainly I know that we will wanna be a part of that. Thank you very much. Thank you, Spencer. Our next speaker is Jackie Cox. My little justice. So I can talk to you about what I think it means and how it goes further than what this comprehensive plan has done. I think the comprehensive plan was a good thing in the sense that you actually made concessions to some people whose lives were going to be negatively impacted by the addition of another truck plant by their elementary school. But it doesn't fix the fact that there are still several truck plants very close to the elementary school. And it doesn't fix the fact that it's not a healthy place to breathe and you have a lot of water pollution that comes from industrial waste being dumped in the neighborhood. So there's a lot still to do. And I'm hopeful because some of you I know really take seriously when they need to protect your neighborhoods. So I'm hopeful that you will try to find ways to do that. I know that the Texas legislature just made it harder because they say that everything that has to do with regulating industrial waste is exclusively the province of the Texas CSEC and you can't do anything to intrude there. But you could provide investigators. You could have people out taking water samples. You could have people out taking air samples. You could put machinery out that takes the air samples. There are things you can do to help and protect our neighborhoods where people are more in danger because they're closer. And you will also be protecting all of us because pollution is a thing that doesn't stay confined in one place. It runs down into the river and to our wastewater treatment plant and it floats across in the sky and impacts all of us. So congratulations on having done a few small things in your land use planning and having done a few small things in your environmental planning and please commit yourselves going forward to take more action to do more good for more folk. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Cox. Council, that's the conclusion of our speakers on the non-consent agenda items. I don't have you signed up, Ms. Tina. If you wanna bring it down to city secretary's office, we'll let them work on that. You can keep moving, Jeanette. I'm saying come down and talk to them and show them your weird screenshot and I'll fix it. We're just gonna keep moving through the agenda. Nothing's dirty, don't worry. Go ahead, Jeanette. Next will be 230664, changes to board and commission membership from district two, council member Flores. Thank you, ma'am. Request your consideration to reappoint the following individual, the term beginning November 14th, 2023 and ending October 1st, 2024. That would be Jasmine Gutierrez who is here present in the audience in the back. Hi, Jasmine. This will be your second term for library advisory board. The respective applications attached and resume is provided if needed. Regional copy will be maintained by the city secretary office. And it's also my understanding Jasmine, you're going to ascend to the chair position, right? So congratulations for your leadership. Thank you very much for agreeing to serve again. Thank you, Jasmine. Motion and a second. Council, any other discussion? Please vote. We appreciate you very much. Motion passes. Next, we have board appointments from district six. Council member Williams. Thank you, mayor. I would like to request the mayor and council's consideration to appoint the following individual to the respective board, effective November 14, 2023. And with the partial term expired October 1st, 2024. Laura Lape, library advisory board. Their respective application is attached and resume is provided. The original copy will be maintained in the city secretary's office and just really quick appointed privilege just to thank Sandy Martinez Russell for her amazing service at district six. We're so grateful for her service and really excited about all that she did for us over the years. So thank you. Thank you. Got a motion and a second council. Please vote. Motion carries. Perfect. Mayor, next is item 230771. Thank you. Before we have our staff report from Eric Flattiger, Miss James, I'll have you speak. You can have your three minutes now. That would be okay. This is on the comprehensive plan. Thank you. So that's all I'll wear. We've actually set up several meetings with the city starting from January the 25th to February the 21st, March 10th, March 21st, June 12th, July 25th, August the 8th as well as September the 28th all the way until now as it relates to also sitting in information with request and demands as it relates to redefining and tweaking the comprehensive plan regarding the situations that are at hand that we're speaking about. The zoning that needs to be reformed is well needed not just in the Echo Heights area and I know that it's a whole city plan that's put together but the environmental race is one of the black and brown communities that would probably have nothing to say or little to say in a form of resistance as a city came through and changed different things over in the community to create and allow more industrial companies and pollutions and communities that have been given a death sentence basically zone dead. So when we go back and look at things as it relates to what's going on you basically have already set us back up in the Jim Crow law of racism when it comes to the environmental situation with the comprehensive plan. We're just asking that you taking consideration what we are dealing with. And one of the things also I wanted to make sure that I charge each and every one of y'all with when someone comes through and apply for zoning or apply for different things that happen in different communities and cities that y'all take the time out of y'all busy schedules to drive through those communities and actually look and think to yourself is this something that I will let in my neighborhood? Is this something I would want around my school or my children? But if y'all children go to private school then it really wouldn't be a problem because those are set off by themselves anyways. But with that being said just take the time as if when Leon Capital had gotten approval by council and zoning to put an 18 with a trucking company in front of an elementary school 152 feet from the front door. And if it wasn't for us putting the coalition together and coming down here and fighting it it had already been approved. Then it was set off for a 30 day. Then it was set off for another 30 day and then finally dismissed with prejudice. So all I'm asking is y'all to take the time and do your due diligence and come out and pay attention of what's going on in the community that you selected to say you will be a part of and take care of and support as you asked for our votes to be sitting in those seats as we walked into the voting polls. Voting is a right that we actually like to exercise. And at this moment it seems like we have no choice but to take the bottom of the criminal whatever you wanna call it. So Mayor Parker we're asking you to take the time to come out and drive through the neighborhood yourself and see what we're talking about. Thank you. Council that's the conclusion of our speakers. We'll now move to the staff report from Eric Flatterer. Okay, well mayor and council members appreciate the opportunity to be here. You've heard quite a lot from the community it's been very engaged in this component of the 2023 conference of plan and they've actually covered some of the material that I was gonna share so I'll try and move through quickly. This is a timeline of the 2023 adoption process and we started at the beginning of the year with the city planning commission and the work that they did to review and to make a recommendation to council. We met with the Echo Heights community on March 10th. March 21st was your first public hearing on the 2023 conference plan. You voted to adopt the plan with the exception of the land use chapter, chapter four and the appendix that contains all of the future land use maps and their associated land use policies. We came back with in June, July had additional meetings as you've heard from community members and then came back to you again in August, August 8th. You held another public hearing and you adopted chapter four. You adopted the entirety of the appendix with future land use maps with the exception of the Southeast sector future land use map and policies. And that is what is before you today on the agenda and addressed by the ordinance that's before you. We did hold a couple of additional meetings in September and October, open house meetings during this process working with the community. We've made a number of changes as you've heard a bit about. This is sort of a quick summary. This dark blue area that you see on the maps is in fact the industrial growth center that you've heard about from the community members through changes working with the community and the council member, council member Martinez. We've actually reduced the industrial growth center from 671 acres to 562 acres. So that's a reduction of 109 acres from that industrial growth center. So a pretty significant drop there. We've made specific changes and I'll just show you a few of those. This is actually not even included in the industrial growth center reduction. This is just a light industrial designation, the purple that you see. We are proposing to remove that light industrial designation from this strip. And you've heard from Ms. Wilborn, sure her house is actually behind the trucking operation that you can actually see in the center of that light industrial. So the proposal is to just change it to single family residential to convey to the community to developers that this is an area that we would want to see developed as single family residential and not as industrial uses. In this slide you're seeing on the left the adopted light industrial and the purple, the dark blue industrial growth center on the right are the changes that we have made in this current proposal. The mobile home park that you'd heard mentioned earlier we're changing to the manufactured housing designation that is within the city's comprehensive plan. And then below that you can see the orange color on the right, the low density residential designation. And in addition to that, a strip of vacant undeveloped agricultural on the eastern boundary. You've heard about the request for buffers. This is in fact what this is intending to do is to separate future residential development from the existing industrial development that is there. And then just south of that you can see that light blue that is the green elementary school. You've heard mentioned the change to protect that school and that is what you're seeing on the left. You saw it see that as light purple that light industrial designation on the right it's changed to vacant undeveloped agricultural. So that surrounds that school with non-industrial designations. So moving north just north of 287 this is actually really in the village creek neighborhood association area but it's part of the industrial growth center. On the left the industrial growth center that dark blue on the right that modification to provide for low density residential and medium density residential. The community center is actually just to the west of there just north of that other medium density residential site. And in addition to the map changes we've got a couple of policy changes. The image that you see here on the right is in fact that one page that this ordinance tonight is addressing the map showing the reduction in the industrial growth center. On the left and in the policy column in the center you're seeing the changes that we're making to the policies that are associated with this specific location. The first is prevent expansion of the adopted 2023 loop 820 east US 287 industrial growth center boundaries. So that's once this is adopted with the reduction of 109 acres that would be the new boundary that would be identified and prevented from expanding further. And then in addition to that a new version of number 16 promote compatible commercial and industrial development within the loop 820 within that growth center that remains. And one of the things we wanted to clarify is that industrial growth centers in fact are intended to accommodate commercial development as well. So we wanted to make sure that was called out in the policy specifically. So our recommendation is that city council vote to approve the proposed 2023 conference of plan Southeast planning sector future land use map and policies. And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you Eric questions from council councilor Martinez. Can you speak about the there was a comment made that the new comprehensive plan was going to wipe out a mobile community. What can you speak to that? What I suspect that was was related to the change in the map on this slide. And actually it's not wiping out a mobile home community is actually protecting it. And one of the reasons that we want to do that is that affordable housing has become a huge issue for the city. It's a huge issue across the Metroplex. We've got a lot of growth coming in. We have very limited affordable housing. Manufactured home parks like this are excellent opportunities to provide that lower cost housing. And it's clear 10 years ago, if you looked at this area, there would have been some of those mobile home parks in the area that were half to two thirds full. Now they're completely full. So it's just a testament to the need for that affordable housing. So we're not removing, we're just protecting. Any other questions from councilor Martinez? Councilor Nettles. I wasn't counting first, but once she brought it up, it brought me to that. The changes that you have made since the community meeting that you have had roughly is about 10 changes maybe to the map that you have shown us tonight. And those changes that you made directly came from participation with listening to the community that's here tonight. Yes, that engagement and that communication over that extended period was very helpful. They identified, they basically shared their concerns and kept sharing those concerns. And that set us to work looking for ways that we could address those concerns. Thank you. You did a good job, appreciate it. Councilor Williams. Thank you, Mayor. Eric, thank you for all the hard work that you've done on the comprehensive plan. It's not a question you should answer tonight, but in the next comprehensive plan, I would like to better understand what an appropriate buffer zone is between industrial and residential uses. And so this, we're at the point where we need to approve this plan, but we're right on the heels of the next comprehensive plan which is more of a long range plan than this current iteration will be. And so I would like to see that because clearly industrial and residential don't mix. And we need to, I would personally like to know what a good buffer zone looks like in the future. Yeah, we'd be happy to have those conversations with you. Thank you, Council Member Martinez. Just before I make a motion, I just wanted to thank you, Eric, and your staff and all the other departments that were there at those public workshops and to the neighbors and other folks that came to those meetings, just thank you for your input. And really kudos to you as well, for being newer on Council and taking this issue on and spending countless hours and making sure you were committed personally to helping the Echo Heights community, to Eric Flattiger and your staff, of course, to Cody Wittenberg, to City Attorney's Office, to Dana Bergdorf. We've all been in numerous public meetings specifically in this community, but understanding the entire city was really a part of this discussion, especially as we head into the 2050 comprehensive plan. My colleagues pointed out a few very important items in tonight's discussion, but I do want to make some distinctions. First, I want to thank the community members that came tonight to point out the things that are going right. This may be imperfect, but I think we've taken some important steps forward. Unfortunately, some of the rhetoric included zoning apartheid, the return of Jim Crow and a racist city council. I'm here to tell you that is very far from the truth. And I'm very proud of this council for making very significant changes, including the creation of the City of Oars first environmental department led by Dr. Cody Wittenberg. This is a commitment by the entire council, not just for one neighborhood, but by the entire city. Most of the decisions that created the problems we have in Echo Heights were created before I was born. And much of this council's included in that. It will take time and a careful partnership, not just by this council, but also by the private sector, the private businesses that own land in this area as we continue to down zone appropriately and create buffers in our residential areas. The concessions include the following, over 100 acres reserved for either agriculture or for residential space, protections for affordable housing, the dozens of community meetings held in various places across the city of Worth to make sure we made the right concessions that are really articulated here tonight. And I already mentioned the creation environmental department. And I know that Cody is just getting started on the importance of this department, whether you call it environmental justice, environmental stewardship, I don't really care. It's imperative that the largest fastest growing city in the entire country focus on these issues. And I just wanna say thank you to the city staff that worked so tirelessly to get to this one piece here this evening. My council, these are hard issues for each of us to face. And sometimes the rhetoric is very unfair, but just know that I'm very proud of the hard work we're doing together. And I think we're all excited by the work that Eric will lead us in in the spring as we look to the future of the city of Fort Worth and the correct comprehensive plan for the future growth of this city. Thank you. Please vote. It is, I agree. Let's go ahead. Go ahead, Chris. Thank you, mayor, for those comments. And I think if we're listening completely to the comments that we're listening, the word about number one, don't care, it's about, it doesn't matter what you call it, we understand what it is. And this council is very aware because if we did not care, when we put the slot up there in March, we could have voted for this plan and moved on with our business. But, okay, I have the mic, you're in the audience and now you're out of control, out of order. You're out of order. So I think it's important that we understand that this mayor and this council understands the community needs. And I wanna address another thing because I think this is the same project, Michael, that you and I went to look at, it's not in our district, but we went and met with that group and heard the concerns of the community back in the spring. So I think it's fair to say that we do go out to our districts and even things that are not in our districts to make sure that the city of Fort Worth residents do matter. And so we don't always put things on social media, Facebook of how we work, but just because it's not shown to you does not mean it's not happening. And so I do want to take kudos. Thank you, Michael, for joining me. I think we met Ms. Powell out there and the neighborhood association to talk about the environment that happened to the school that was never approved by the city council. It was never, ever approved. It actually was denied. And so I appreciate the comments that the mayor made. And I thank this council and I just wanna make sure that you know that we have heard your concerns and we look forward to working with you in the next comprehensive plan moving forward. Those are the comments I wanted to make. Thank you, Councilor Nettles. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 230909. Mayor, we have one speaker with report by Stuart Campbell. Stuart, you're at first. You want me to go first or? Yes, please, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Council, my name is Stuart Campbell, Development Services, Blighting Association. This is a owner initiated annexation request. Before you, tonight's action, we're going to conduct a public hearing to receive comments from the citizens regarding this request and then there's some action required in the MNC. I'd like to mention this is an item that was continued from the October 31st Council and it's coming to you today. There is a companion zoning that will be heard second after the annexation request. So what I'd like to do is go ahead and present the staff report going through that and then we can get into the public comment. Like I mentioned, this is the annexation request. This is a 134.12 acre owner initiated annexation known as the Phoenix. It's located in the South Fort Worth area. It's more specifically located along the Eastern edge of Ray Street, North and McPherson Road and South of Oak Road Shelby Road. Today's public hearing is intended to allow for owner, to allow for public comments. The notice for this public hearing was originally posted in the city website on July 28, 2023. It was published in the Star Telegram on Friday, October 23rd, 2023. As a full purpose annexation, the city will enforce all ordinances and regulations as well as provide all services as stated in the municipal services agreement. I mentioned earlier that the related zoning case is ZC 23-066. That is also on this agenda. That was approved by the Zoning Commission on July 12th, 2023. The commission voted to recommend approval of the requested zoning for the district of A51 family, CR, low density and F general commercial. The related zoning case is on this council agenda. So the purpose, Mayor, is the public comment portion. Once we're closed with that, the second is to take the action as prescribed in the MMC. We're glad to answer any questions. Thank you, Stuart. Council, any questions for Mr. Campbell? If not, we'll move to our speaker this evening and then go forward with our correct motion. Mr. Ronald Ramirez. Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Ronald Ramirez. I'm with Westwood Professional Services. Our address is 4060 Bryant Urban Road here in Fort Worth. I'm representing our client and the owner of this tractor land here tonight. Also want to compliment the city staff who's worked tirelessly on this project with us to make sure everything is in order. It was a whole lot of moving parts that we managed to get through. So we do thank them for that. I don't have anything specific to present to you, but I just want to let you know who I was. And thank you for all the time and the hard work from the staff. And I'm here to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, Mr. Ramirez. Any questions from Council? Thank you. With that Council, I can entertain a motion to close the public hearing and act on the MNC. Council Member Nettles. Yes, move to close the public hearing and act up and move to approve this MNC 230909. Got a motion? Motion and a second. Any discussion, Council? Not please vote. You want to act? Motion carries. Next will be the companion zoning case, ZC 23-066. Council, we do have a few speakers. I don't think if there's any opposition, but I'll call them anyway. Ronald Ramirez and Jordan Edwards, did y'all want to speak on this item? Mr. Ramirez. It's me again. I did send in a presentation that it was just, it's a little bit dated. It's a little over a year old and things have transpired since then. But at Zoning Commission, there were some questions about the project in general. So, and I was asked if I could present some materials to at least give you an idea of what is planned out there so far. So, we can just flip through these slides. I'm not going to comment very much, but just to give you an idea of the type of environment that you can expect once things are all in place. Next slide. What do I, do you want me to advance that? Okay. You'll see some referencing to bike trails and walking trails and we are consciously working on some of those amenities and as we speak. There's an overall view. You can see we're going to take advantage of the big green space there. So that's it. It kind of gives you a snapshot of some of the vision. It's still very early in an overall project and we are certainly excited about it. Designs are underway now and we look forward to working with staff as we always do. Thank you very much, Mr. Ramirez. Our next speaker is only if there is opposition, which there is none, Jordan Edwards. No, okay. Councilman Nettles, that's the last of our speakers on this item. Yes, thank you. I do remember meeting with you seven months ago, maybe a year ago. So I was good with it then. I'm good with it now. So thank you for being here. So I moved to approve. Motion to second, please vote. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 230955 with report by Justin McLaughlin. Justin, did you bring us coffee? Not this time. I should have. A coffee entrepreneur. So. Good evening, Mayor and Council. How y'all doing? My name is Justin McLaughlin and I'm one of the neighborhood development coordinators in the community development division of the neighborhood services department. On your agenda this evening is MNC 23-0955, pertaining to the adoption of a resolution of no objection that supports a 4% housing tax credit application by the life at Westland Estates LP for the acquisition and rehabilitation of the life at Westland Estates. A multi-family affordable housing development that will be located at 2950 Almeida Street and Council District 3. The life at Westland Estates LP will submit a 4% non-competitive housing tax credit application to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs or TDHCA. In order for a 4% housing tax credit application to be submitted to TDHCA, a municipality is required to hold a public hearing in order to receive public comments on the project. The life at Westland Estates will consist of approximately 192 units. Each of the 192 units will be reserved for households earning 60% or less of area median income. Staff has reviewed the request by the life at Westland Estates LP and found that the development is consistent with the quality, affordable housing goals and priorities cited in the city's most recent consolidated plan. Staff recommends after public comments are received this evening, the public hearing period be closed, then City Council take formal action to approve MNC 23-0955 and the attached resolution of no objection for the acquisition and rehabilitation of the life at Westland Estates. I thank you guys for your time and consideration. Have a great evening. Any questions? Thank you, Justin. Council, any questions? Council Member Crain? No. No questions. The applicant here, they're there. Yeah, great. We had a great conversation. I'm supportive of this. We need more affordable housing. Good luck with this application as it works through. And as I said, committed to help figure out any issues or problems on our end to make sure that we can continue moving it forward. With that, I'd like to close the public, move to close the public hearing and act on MNC 23-0955. Motion to second council, please vote. John Carries. Thank you, Justin. Awesome, thank you. Next is MNC 23-0990 with report by Joel McLehaney. I'm the attending mayor and members of the council. I'm Joel McLehaney, Assistant Director of the Park and Recreation Department. During the 88th legislative session, the Texas legislature passed House Bill 1526 and Governor Abbott signed the bill on the law in June of 2023. House Bill 1526 amended Chapter 212 of the Texas Local Government Code, creating regulations for parkland dedication for multifamily developments and hotel motel developments. The bill only applies to cities with a population over 800,000 of which Fort Worth is one. City of Fort Worth has a neighborhood and community park dedication policy. This policy was originally adopted back in 1977 and the most recent update was adopted by the city council in January of 2019. The purpose of this MNC is for the city council to authorize adoption of updates to the neighborhood and community park dedication policy to meet the requirements of the House Bill as it pertains to multifamily parkland dedications. The city currently does not have a parkland dedication requirement for hotel motel and we are not asking the city council to adopt this requirement. The city council is required to take three actions pertaining to House Bill 1526. Establish the suburban, urban and central business district areas for the purpose of calculating average land value, adopt a dwelling unit factor which reflects the required number of acres per dwelling unit, adopt a density factor which reflects the diminishing expectation of parkland per dwelling unit and dense urban environments. So these are the municipal areas that are included in the MNC in developing these boundaries. Our staff worked with the Fort Worth lab and also presented this to the development advisory committee Fort Worth near Southside, Inc. and downtown Fort Worth, Inc. to get their input and their support ultimately for these boundaries. This is zooming in, so suburban in the green and then zooms in on the urban area which includes near Southside, West Seventh and the future Panther Island area, central business district is in dark blue. So the next two actions required by the House Bill that I mentioned are establishing a multi-dwelling unit factor. The bill puts a ceiling or a cap on what can be assessed and that is 0.005 acres per unit. Currently we're at 0.014 acres per unit. So this is a reduction in the amount of parkland that we're able to assess in our policy but we are meeting that state requirement. Next is that multi-density factor. It's a little tougher to get your head around but it establishes a divider for the formula. So you run the formula on what the parkland dedication requirement is and because land is more scarce in urban areas, they're more built out and more scarce in central business district area, there's a divider for development in that area. So in the suburban areas, you run the equation and the divider is one and that basically is the development would be assessed what the calculation is for parkland. In urban areas it is four, so it's the calculation divided by four in central business district, it's divided by 40. And again, these are all limits set by the state bill. Upon council adoption appraisal districts are required to calculate average land values for each municipal area in that suburban, urban and central business district and the new law will apply to multifamily applications made to the city beginning on January 1st, 2024. Staff requested upon hearing public comment, city council close the public hearing and approve the MNC adopting the ordinance. Thank you Joel. Any questions from council? No, with that I think we can entertain a motion to close the public hearing. Anybody? I think we have an advance agenda item if y'all want to go to the next we're still stuck on 0955. There you go, thank you. Move the close the public hearing and act upon that to approve. Motion in a second. Please vote. Where's the coffee? Justin's fault. There we go. Motion carries. Thank y'all. Next council will be a report from Stuart Campbell on items 23077, 0779, 0780, and then we'll take action on the individual items. Thank you Stuart. Mayor, council members, as just mentioned, I have the next three items. There are simple public hearings on road right away, annexations provided the advanced copies to the council members of their districts. What I'd like to do is give one staff report and generally give you an idea of what the annexations about and we can do individual motions on that particular request, that's okay. So as I mentioned, the next three items, this is what we have to do is we have two public hearings that are required to take place for the city to annex right away. And so tonight will be the first public hearing, we'll have a second public hearing that will be on November 28th. And then we're gonna come back before you on December 12th with the actual awardness to annex the right of way back into the city. So as far as tonight, this first public hearings intended to allow residents to make comments on the proposed, these are city initiated full purpose annexations. As I mentioned, December 12th, city council will bring back before you three separate ordinances to approve the annexations. Each of those will be specifically related to the items that I'll describe here shortly. The city's annexation policy states that the city will annex right of ways that is adjacent to and provides access to property within the city. In addition, these three separate right of way segments already classified as major arterials and are designated as neighborhood connectors in the city's master thoroughfare plan. And it's critical that the streets be built and maintained to the city Fort Worth standards. Each of these road segments meets the criteria as defined in the MTP. Many of the adjacent properties to these right of ways already existing within the Fort Worth limits and the surrounding areas currently experience urban development. Staff has determined that the city is able to provide municipal services upon annexation in accordance with state law without negatively impacting services and provisions within the city. Annexation of these right of ways is consistent with the city's annexation policy. As I mentioned before, a schedule and exhibit and legal descriptions are posted on the development services website. A second public hearing is scheduled for November 28, city council meeting. The approval of the annexation of these three right of way segments is anticipated to occur on December 12, 2023. So what I'd like to do is I'm gonna give you a brief description of each one of the right of way segments. So the first one is Willis Springs. Willis Springs is the annexation of approximately 4.825 acres of right of way. It's in the far Northwest planning sector. This site is situated within the extra territorial jurisdiction of the city of Fort Worth and is located east of highway 287 and north of Bond's Ranch Road. That is in council district 10. Second is Wagley Robinson right of way. This is gonna be in council member Hills district. This is the annexation of approximately 2.595 acres of Wagley Robinson right of way. It's in the far Northwest planning sector. Site is situated within the extra territorial jurisdiction of the city of Fort Worth and is located south of future heritage trace and east of highway 287. And the third segment is West Claiborne right of way. Council member Williams. This is West Claiborne right of way annexation of approximately 0.395 acres of West Claiborne right of way. It's in the far Southwest planning sector. The site is situated within the extra territorial jurisdiction city of Fort Worth and is located south of McPherson and north of Claiborne Crowley Road. So those are the three segments for the annexation request. I'd be glad to answer any questions if you have any. Thank you, Stuart. Council, any questions? Council member Blalock. Thank you, Stuart, for the presentation and the explanations. I motion to close the public hearing. I'm going to motion a second council. Please vote. Motion carries. Thank you, Stuart. Thank you. Next is 230779. I move to approve. Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. I'm at 0780. Move to approve. A second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-126. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-131. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-097. Council member Martinez. Is there anybody here to speak on this zoning case? Being that it is, this has been denied by staff and by the zoning commission and there is opposition by the neighborhood, I'm going to move to deny. Motion and a second. Quick clarification. Do you need prejudice or without prejudice here? Without prejudice. Thank you. Council member Martinez. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-111. Council member Crane. Is the applicant here? Oh, there you are. No questions for you. I just want to say thanks. Thanks for working all this out. Thanks to the staff for you. I want to move to approve ZC-23-111 with development standards for freeway sign, hype and sign area. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is SP-23-010. Council member Blalock. Sorry. Thank you, mayor. I move to approve. Second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-134. Council member Flores. I'm at with the applicant and we have correspondence from the neighborhood association in support, move for approval. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-136. Move to approve. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-138. Council member Larsdorf. To the pattels, thank you so much for continuing to bring good development up to the North Fort Worth. The epitome of the American story moving here in 2004 and already owning 10 hotels now, like you're like the real-life monopoly man. So I consider District 4 and District 10 of the monopoly world to be the park place and the boardwalk of Fort Worth, if you will. So thanks for bringing your business up to Fort Worth. With that, I move to approve. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-141. Council member Martinez. Move to approve. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-142. Motion to approve. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-147. Council member Larsdorf. Sorry, I was zoned out there because we didn't get that coffee earlier. So I know everyone's tired, but this was an important one I want to talk about just for a brief moment. So first of all, Mr. Terrell, to you and your family, thank you for coming in. There was some opposition to this, which is a conditional use permit for a tattoo studio in this shopping center, if you will. I live less than a mile away from it, so I'm very familiar with the area. The opposition, whenever I ask them, because how I do things is I'm fact-based. They just said it was undesirable business. When I asked why, there were no facts as to why it was undesirable. I think that was really based off preconceived notions. So I think in this case, whenever we hear the word conditional, I want to bring up the word unconditional and that's acceptance. I mean, here we are in 2023 and I think just because one resident may look at another and they see tattoos or they see piercings, they have this preconceived notion of who they are and what they're about. But to those who think that person is rough around the edges or whatever the case is, I invite them to have a conversation with that person because on the other side of these zoning requests, there's a family or there's employees who are depending on the approval of it. And so I think it's important for us to actually do our due diligence and not always just listen to those nos and here's why and they can't give those those whys. If you were to get to know Jack, you'd find that he actually does a lot of work in the community. He does volunteer work with Isaiah 117 House which helps foster kids and transition from CPS to foster homes. And he does that because he was one of those kids at one point. And so people will look at him, they see tattoos and they just automatically assume, oh, look at this rough guy. Well, they don't know what he's doing in the community. So you can look at me and you don't see any tattoos from here but if I take my shirt off and I assure you I will not do that tonight. I will not do it. I'm covered in tattoos. My tattoos aren't hurting anybody. Piercings aren't hurting anybody. Well, except for maybe the person getting them at the time, but I digress. But the point is, here we are in 2023 in the city of Fort Worth, we're saying all means or y'all means all that goes for those that have body art. I mean, a lot of my art is dedicated to those that were fallen overseas. Some of it's absolutely meaningless and pointless, but guess what? It's my art, right? So the point here though is for those communities who they have these preconceived notions of undesirable businesses, if you can back it up with facts and say, well, there's been an increase in crime associated with this particular business type, then sure, that's something we can talk about. The car wash we said no to. We went out there. I listened to the noise that it would create. It would have a detrimental impact on the quality of life of those residents. So that's an easy no. So in this case where you actually have somebody going against what one particular neighborhood says we don't want, when this case goes back to this family who's done a lot in Fort Worth, he actually wants to downsize this current business so he can focus on his family and bringing them into the family business and continue operating. In fact, his previous landlord even gave a letter of recommendation to us here at council to approve this. So I could go on and on about the things that he's done in the community and preconceived notions, but I'll say the preaching for another day. With that, I moved to approve. Got a motion and a second. Thank you, Charlie. Please vote council. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-149. Jack beware. I think Charlie was just lobbying for free tattoos. So don't you think? Yeah. Thank y'all for being here. Council member Crane. Yes, Braxton Harper. I want you to say a collective. Finally, we're at this at your case for your dad here. Les, thanks for being here tonight. Thanks for all sitting through it. I love what you're doing here in this space and bringing some good investment here to this part of Fort Worth. So thanks Les, and thanks for working through all the issues and staff and everything that. With that, I'll move to approve. Got a motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-151. Move to approve. Motion carries. Next is ZC-23-153. Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is MNC-23-0946. Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is MNC-23-0969. OK, please vote. Motion carries. Next is MNC-23-0971. Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is MNC 23-0953. That's member Hill. I move that the Fort Worth City Council adopt the resolution authorizing use of the power of imminent domain to acquire 2.53 acres in the right-of-weight easement, 2.3152 acres in permanent drainage easement, and 0.3759 acres for temporary construction easements from improved property owned by Haco Realty, LTD, located at 6100 Bowman Roberts Road in the Joseph Bowman Survey, abstract 79, tract 1, AG in the city of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, to construct the Cromwell Marine Creek Road Widing Project, city project number 101012 from Boat Club Road FM 1220 to Marine Creek Parkway in connection with the city of Fort Worth's master thoroughfare plan. The land rights and the improved subject property are needed to widen the road from Boat Club Road to Marine Creek Parkway. The property interest is to be acquired, is described by the meets and bounds and depicted by the survey exhibits attached to this mayor and council communication. Second. Got a motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 230952. Councilor Martinez. I move that the Fort Worth City Council adopt the resolution authorizing use of the power of imminent domain to acquire 1.1327 acres in permanent sanitary sewer easement and 1.8736 acres in temporary construction easement from real property owned by Patricia Bowen, Feather and Gill LLC, Pamela B. Anderson, LLC, Bowen Trail LLC, Edmund B. Frost, Robert H. Frost, Harold J. Frost, Robert W. Bowman, Pamela B. Anderson, Patricia Feather and Gill, Susan K. Bowen, George Markham Frost, LLLP, Wyatt Hands, and Callen Hands Bowen located at 521 Beach Street in the Robert Cross Survey abstract number 304, track 1C, Tarrant County, Texas. The land rights in the subject property are needed for the sanitary sewer M245 parallel relief interceptor project of public use that will connect two downtown deep tunnel sewers with the two West Fork trunk sewers near First Street north of Gateway Park to address system capacity issues in the West Fork Basin. The land rights in the subject property will be used for the continuation of sanitary sewer improvements. The property is located at 521 Beach Street in the Robert Cross Survey abstract number 304, track 1C, Tarrant County, Texas. The property interests to be acquired are described by meets and bounds and depicted by survey exhibits attached to this mayor and council communication. Motion to second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next is MNC 230954. That's where Martina's. I move that the Fort Worth City Council adopt the resolution authorizing use of the power of Eminent Domain to acquire 0.017 acres permanent sewer facility easement for more property owned by Isaac W. Jones and Angelo Manango. The property is needed for the sanitary sewer rehabilitation contract 100 project. A public use though upgrade and repair the permanent sewer line facility. Land rights is the subject property are needed for the construction operation maintenance and replacement of the sewer facility improvements as necessary. The property is located at 620 East Jessamine Street in the Hyde Park Edition block eight lot 197 Tarrant County, Texas. The property interest to be acquired is described by meets and bounds and depicted by survey exhibits attached this mayor and council communication. Motion to second. Please vote council. Motion carries. Next is MNC 230961. This is council member Bivens. Does someone have her motion? Thank you. Motion to second. Please vote. Special thanks to city staff. This is part of our open space acquisition. So everybody worked very hard on that. Council member Bivens was excited. She's just not here to express that. We already did it. Don't worry. Jeanette, sorry about that. Next item is MNC 230947. Motion to second. Please vote council. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 230948. Motion to second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 230949. Motion to second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 230950. Motion to second. Please vote. Michael hit your vote again. Sorry. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 230951. Council will get, that's good. Motion to second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 230988. Motion to second. Please vote. Motion carries. Mayor, I believe that concludes all of the action. Council, that's the conclusion of our agenda. Meeting adjourned and happy Thanksgiving to everyone.