 I'm going to start and tell them all about how awesome you are. Good evening, everyone. My name is Catherine Huckabee. I manage the community engagement office here in Fort Worth, and with me is Ruth Aussie. Ruth Wade. She's in the background, Hanseline, all the translations this evening, and making sure that we get all the questions on Facebook live. We just want to thank you for joining us tonight for this very important workshops that we're offering as a part of the city of Fort Worth's fourth neighborhood improvement program. As most of you know, this workshop would normally be held as in-person. This time, we're still doing all of our workshops virtually. Webex and Facebook live are helping us be able to maintain distance. We really want to thank the Las Familias de Rosemont Neighborhood Association for allowing us to be able to use their Facebook platform to be able to reach as many neighbors as we can. This workshop is going to cover code and development services, and you're going to hear how to partner with your code compliance officer and the development services department to deal with illegal dumping, litter, substandard structures, obtain permits, zoning, and board of adjustment issues. If you have any questions, please use the chat function to the right. If you're logged on to Webex and send in that question if you're joining us. If you're joining us on Facebook live, please use the comment section. This workshop is being recorded and will also be available to share with your neighbors on next door on the city's website later on. We're going to introduce Councilwoman Ann Zeta from District 9 in just a second, but first we'd like to have Ruth Ossi go ahead and translate. Buenos dias, Ruth. Soy la Seria Integración Comunitaria de la Ciudad de Fort Worth. Y quiero dar las gracias por acompañarnos en este taller virtual como parte del cuarto proyecto de mejoramiento de vecendarios de la Ciudad de Fort Worth. Este taller normalmente se llevaría a cabo en persona, pero en este momento estamos haciendo todos los talleres fundamentalmente a través de Webex y Facebook Live para ayudar a mantener el distanciamiento social. También quiero agradecer a la asociación de vecinos de Camillas de Rosman por permitirnos poder usar su plataforma a través de Facebook Live para poder llegar a tantos vecinos como podamos. Este taller es sobre como asociarse con su oficial de código de cumplimiento y el Departamento de Servicios de Desarrollo para lidiar con basura ilegal, estructuras de caídas inferior, obtenen permiso, sonificación y junta de cambios de ajuste. Si en algún momento tiene alguna pregunta, use la función de chat para enviar una pregunta si se unen a nosotros en Webex y si se unen a nosotros a través de Facebook Live, use la selección de comentarios. Este taller quedará grabado y estará disponible para compartir con vecinos a través de la aplicación de Facebook y Next Door. Perfect. Counselor and Zeta, the floor is yours. Good evening everyone. I don't want to take up too much of your time, but I just want to reiterate how important it is that neighborhoods engage in this effort. And even in the face of COVID, which has been an interesting way to carry this forward program, I mean this program forward, I think that we are doing good work that is actually going to benefit neighborhoods beyond Rosemont. But we are here today to help the residents of Rosemont avail themselves of all of the services that are available to them through the city and partner with them to improve their neighborhoods. So welcome and I look forward to the presentations this evening. Buenas noches. Ella es la consejal and Zeta con la ciudad de Fort Worth y nada más quiere dar las gracias por atender. Este es un proyecto importante que están haciendo en la área de Rosemont. Aún en la fase de COVID estamos haciendo un buen trabajo por proyectar y darle conocer a todos los departamentos de la ciudad y los servicios que tienen disponibles para ustedes. No quiere tomar mucho tiempo de ustedes y vamos a comenzar con el taller. Thank you, Ruth. So first up from co-compliance, we have Ken Young and his trustee sidekick, Shelly Garcia. So we're going to let Ken start. Hi everybody, my name is Kenneth Young and this is Officer Shelly Torres. Oh. I will not live that down. Okay. We got married on this, so it happened. And we both work with the neighborhood stability unit for co-compliance and we just kind of want to go through a quick slideshow, kind of let you know what co-compliance does as a as a department and what we've been doing in the Rosemont neighborhood association. Mi nombre es Officer Torres, este es mi subvisor, el señor Young. Nosotros trabajamos por el departamento de código de cumplimiento en el vecindario en esa área de Rosemont por este proyecto especial y le queremos dar los datos lo que hacemos desde abril de este año 2009. No, 2020. So the co-compliance department is made up of five main public service areas, animal care control, code enforcement, and code enforcement includes neighborhood investigations and building standards. Our consumer health department, environmental quality and one of our larger groups is the solid waste services. That includes the residential service trash, recycling, boat collection, drop off stations, litter abatement, illegal dumping, something a lot of people don't know, street sweeping and environmental investigations who goes out and inspects and tries to find the culprits who illegally dump materials where they don't belong. Tenemos en este departamento cinco áreas de servicio públicos, por ejemplo, el control de animales, los oficiales de código que vamos a investigar los vecindarios y edificios. El departamento de salud se va a necesitar los descarajes, los centros donde cuidan niños y la cualidad como del aire y los ríos. Ellos chequen a ver si hay algo peligroso. Y el departamento de basura sólido es el servicio residencial de reciclaje, la basura grande, los estaciones donde puede llevar su basura, basura que está tirado ilegalmente. Y también tenemos la, nos encargamos para barrar las calles. Neighborhood investigations is what a lot of people used to know as our field operations people. We have been in the Rosemont area since roughly in April. And just like they said earlier, due to COVID, this has really been a different project than we've had before. Just to let you know, up to date, we have at 428 cases. We've had 635 violations. And we've closed, which means the citizen has corrected 381 violations in the area. No se ve investigaciones que comenzamos en esta área. De esta fecha tenemos 428, 635 y 381 cerrados de el propiedad, el dueño de la propiedad ha corregido. Can we go to the next slide? Thank you. Our building standards department, the side of code compliance that does the building standards inspections, they have two types of properties. They have substandard properties and they have hazardous properties. Hazardous properties are something that is identified that is an immediate health hazard. During the time at Rosemont, there's been eight hazardous structures identified. One primary structure, which of course is the main house, six accessory structures which could be detached garages or storage buildings, and one commercial structure had all been identified as hazardous. So far, one residential primary structure has been repaired from this hazardous list. OK, estamos ahora hablando de las expectaturas que están peligrosos. Identificamos ocho. Una que era la en la mera casa. Seis que son accesorias, por ejemplo, el garaje o algo así y uno comercial y una residencia propiedad se ha reparado. Substandard structures, which are structures that are not so bad that they're actually hazardous to somebody's health. There's been 34 of those structures identified during the Rosemont project. Of those, 15 are primary structures, which are the main houses. 18 were the accessory structures. Once again, the detached garages, sheds, and one commercial structure has been identified as substandard. OK, durante ese proyecto, había 34 estructuras debajo nivel que se identificó. Quince eran las casas, 18 aje y uno era una estructura comercial. Our solid waste service, which includes, of course, the regular trash pickup, the bulk pickup. They've been working really hard. So far, as far as weight goes, 70 tons, 70 tons of litter and illegal dumps have been removed from the Rosemont area. Now, that has cost the city roughly $1,500, but that's a really small price to pay to try to help improve in that area. The street sweepers and the cleanup crews, the litter abatement crews, they have cleaned 1,154 actual miles up and down the streets of the Rosemont project since the project has began. That has accumulated almost 3,000 staff hours and there's been five citations written to people for illegal dumping. Okay, durante este proyecto, han levantado 36 yardas crúbicas y hasta esta fecha, 574. Y el peso de la basura que se ha levantado, por ejemplo, la basura que está tirada en lotes vacientes o en la calle, son 4 toneladas y hasta esta fecha es 70, 7,000 toneladas. El costo que nos costó era 1,455. Líneas y mías que se han limpiado son 1,154. Las horas que han durado hasta esta fecha son 2,989 y ahora vamos 5 multas para gente que ha tirado basura ilegalmente. Solid waste litter abatement. We have a program that's called the Clean Slade. It works with the Presbyterian night shelter and they walk, they're the people, a lot of times, that you'll see in the yellow vest walking up and down the streets with the little grabbers and they're picking up all that litter off the streets and off the corners. The hours since the beginning of March, the hours they've spent in the project area is 2,910. They've cleaned 140 lots and a total bag count of full trash bags, they've taken away 3,641 bags since the beginning of the project. También en departamento de sólido de la basura tenemos un equipo que son de cinco personas que se llama la Pizarra Limpia y solamente están limpiando basura de la calle de derechos de la vista. Lo que hacen también es limpian las lotes que nosotros como dueño la ciudad y limpiando basura de las curvas. Las horas que han ponido, limpiando, todo eso son 2,910. Los lotes que se habían limpiado son 140 y las bolsas de basura, llenos de basura que hemos levantado es 3,641. Our consumer health team and the commercial enforcement team, which is part of our consumer health team, they've only had 24 cases open to date, which is really good. They've issued two citations and one of the cases that they have closed. Okay, el departamento de salud del consumidor también tenemos oficiales que se encargan de los negocios, especialmente durante esta área. Orita hasta esta fecha tienen 24 pasos abiertos. Han dado dos multas. Un caso se ha cerrado. Y eso es mucho, muy bueno, porque nomás se encargan de los negocios. Okay. Animal welfare activity, which this is our animal care and control group, they've had 213 service calls to the date. Now there's a lot of different calls they do, strays at large. They've run rolling stray patrol where they just take a vehicle and go through the area looking for strays. They've had some cruelty and neglect calls over there. They've caught 23 animals. They've taken 26 injured or sick animals and they've had four of the owner freely giving up the animal. So they've been very busy since that started. Okay. El departamento de control de animal hasta esta fecha han recibido o contestado llamadas 213 de servicios en esta área. También asisteron la policía. Pescaron 102 que estaban sueltos. También había un. A ver si podían encontrar a alguien. Tenían 13 casos de crueldad de negligencia. Y también había un equipo que fueron y levantaron como 26 que estaban heridos o enfermos. Y eso es todo. That's it for kind of what code compliance is compressed. Combined our department of and that kind of gives you an outline of what we have done since we started in there and about March. I have a few questions come in. Ronaldo, do you want to? Sure. You're still on mute. Oh, there you go. Okay. No, thanks Ruth. Yeah. So I just wanted to know what is, I've heard a lot about citations and violations. How is that being translated to the neighbors? What's the process behind that? What does engagement in COVID era look like right now with code and this project and everything? La pregunta era como es que el código de cumplimiento se está comunicando con los residentes, especialmente ahora que están en la era de COVID. The citations are always a last ditch effort to try to gain compliance with whatever the city ordinance is. The different groups, whether it's solid waste, animal control, consumer health, whatever they issue those citations for, it's something that they've worked and tried to work through before. Citations is always one of the last ditch efforts. It's never that first off the truck trying to issue it. With COVID and everything like that, we still try to reach out to everybody. We try to make contact through phone, leaving business cards and phone numbers, asking them to call. Anything that we can do, of course trying to keep the citizens safe and keep us safe, but we do try to always make contact. As far as once a citation is issued, there has been some different things set up through the municipal court system on how they are handling those. And if there's any other questions about how that's being handled at municipal court, I would ask somebody to get in contact with them so they can find out exactly what's going on down there. Yes. Lo que estamos haciendo sobre las multas es no es, no estamos dando multa con la primera visita que estamos ahí. Estamos tratando de trabajar con la persona por carta, tratar, antes que pasó de COVID, tratar de hablar con la gente si estaban ahí por teléfono, dejamos cartas, tarjetas de negocio y todo eso. Y la multa desgraciadamente es la última cosa que tenemos que hacer. Y los cortes tienen su sistema ahorita sobre COVID. Realmente no sé cómo están trabajando eso. Creo que también pueden poder citar por lo que estamos haciendo ahorita. No sé, realmente, porque el teléfono de ellos está detrás de la fracción. Okay, pero otra pregunta es que cuando los vecinos dan, le dan una multa, el proceso que el vecino tiene que tomar, eso después va del departamento de cumplimiento a las cortes. Eso es el segundo paso, después de que le dan una multa a un vecino. No, después que damos la multa, ahí le van a recibir una cita con el corte. Nosotros ya hicimos lo que podemos y cuando va a cortar, aprenden, tenden lo que dice el juez, no sabemos, porque nosotros después de la multa, nomás nos presentamos a corte. He asked after a citation is issued, is it to code or the court? I told him that once a citation is issued, you'll get a court date in the mail and it gives them directions or instruction. There are instructions with what to talk about, how to treat the case and everything. Okay, and then my last question is, how many visits do the CODE official give? How many visits do they give before they give a multa to a vecino? Well, actually we give two or three, we do as much as possible because before COVID, what we have to do is try to talk to someone. We have to open the door, if there's a phone, if there's a vecino who can tell us who lives there, we have to do as much as possible to talk to someone. And then we send a letter to someone in the door if we can or we send it by mail, okay? And if we see that they're trying to do something, we'll continue working with them, but there are cases that don't answer, no one talks to us and it's the only result. He asked a question about how many visits. Is that correct, Fernando, before the ticket is issued? I told him we do everything in our power to make contact with the citizen of the property on if we're able to get on the property, knock on the door, we leave a business car, we leave the letter on the door, and if not, we'll mail it to him, so. And like some of the citations that were issued by Solid Waste, that could have been for illegal dumpers that they have found illegally dumping materials on private property or public property. And in a situation like that, that illegal dumping can go anywhere from a local municipal citation all the way up to a felony. So sometimes in a situation like that, it may not be as long as if we were writing a citation on a water leak or something like that. So there is a few differences, but generally speaking, outside of that, we do try to exhaust all avenues to speak people, educate people, and gain compliance. Ken, I'll talk to them about the process of how you are even called out to view something, whether how you get notified. There's two different ways. In a project area, we do get two different ways. One way is that we are tasked with going through and looking at all the properties. But we also do have citizens that file complaints and we work those complaints while we're in that project area. The group that's working in Rosemont right now is a specialized group that we will work this project until this project is completed, then I will take those officers and I will put them in that next project area. So you have a regularly assigned code officer there and any complaints that he is receiving, he forwards them to us so that we can work them. So that way, we're not doubling it. Officer, show up to the same house to talk to somebody about a violation. Okay. I also want to say that Mr. Fernando asked how we worked the case before and I explained it. But we also have some officers who are in charge of the garbage that they illegally throw. And sometimes they don't... If they catch something, somebody, it's a crowd and it depends on the size or the weight of the garbage, it can be a misdemeanor or a felony. So that's what happens with that. And also Ms. Jacqui asked how they receive complaints and how she works on that. And my supervisor says how this area was a project. The officers who are working on this project are not in charge of that area all the time. We are a team of four or five that we get into an area and we look at everything, but there are also times when we receive calls. And after we finish there, they give us another project in another area. Thank you. And then, Kenneth, if you can just have our Rosemont Code Compliance Officer just reach out directly to the neighborhood just so we can build that friendship, relationship with him. All right. And sir, Fernando asked that we send a message to the officer who is in charge of this area all day to start a friendship that is talked about to communicate and educate each other. Do we have any other questions, Ruiz? We don't. Okay. Let's see if we can... Okay, Laura's got it. Okay, so next up, thank you very much, Ken. Thank you. I'll put your mask off. I appreciate it. Good night. I guess I'm chopped liver, huh? No, I'm so shabby. I'm so shabby. Our friendly neighborhood code compliance officer. So next up, we have Zoning, our second most favorite department until Kenneth gets off. And now you're our first, you're our favorite department now. So Laura Evans is gonna join us now. Laura, this brings yours. Thank you, Catherine. Good evening, I'm Laura Evans. I am a senior planner within our zoning and land use section. So what I'll be going over is very kind of high level general overview of what zoning is and how the process works. And I'm hoping to save a majority of my time for questions because I feel like that's the best way to learn about zoning, essentially. Let me see, okay. So what I'm going to touch on soon on is Laura Evans, and she's already in the development department. She's a planner with the city. And today I'm going to be talking about what is zoning and what does it mean for the city. I'll try to make a quick presentation so I can answer questions from the neighborhood. So generally, what zoning is part of it's how we implement a portion of the comprehensive plan, which is the future land use map. And with zoning, we're wanting to promote orderly growth and protect existing property owners to make sure that their communities develop that we've been official to them. And that, for example, zoning regulations are designed to help with traffic and provide more safety. Such as keeping, you know, our really heavy industrial uses away from our single-family neighborhoods. And we're not too large of a concentration of any one sort of use in one area. And Julie, can you provide that connectivity between where you work and where you need to go for other items? So la sonificación realmente es el plan de comprensión de la ciudad y ver cómo se puede desarrollar una área o la ciudad para que no se haga mucho, muchos negocios en una área asegurando que sea una comunidad conveniente, activa y funcional que promueve salud, seguridad, las regulaciones de sonificación y distictos se han diseñado para reducir tráfico, proporcionar seguridad contra peligros y que no haga mucho, las casas en una área muchos negocios en la ciudad a todo alrededor de la ciudad. So the way zoning in Fort Worth works is essentially alphabetically. And so I have a few, I just generally go over what the letters mean. So when you look at a zoning map where you look up your property, you're gonna see a letter on it and it could mean a variety of things. So our first district is A, which is our single family district, which means only one unit is allowed per lot. And then there's a subcategory with numbers afterwards. So the most common one you'll see is A5 and the five stands for a minimum size of 5,000 square foot lots. If it goes up from there, we have up to two and a half acre of the lots, essentially. Our second category is B, which is two family and that allows for two units a lot. R1 and R2 are essentially the smaller lots. So kind of your town home developments. R, C and D are common multifamily districts and they're different maximum density allowed. So that's the number of units per acre, essentially. And UR is our highest density multifamily district and it has more of a form-based, which means the design of the building is more important than in the other districts. And we want to have, it's more of an urban feel with a tree in our facility. Si usted busca su dirección como funciona la zonificación es por el alfabeto. Si busca su dirección va a estar acompañada por una letra o un número y cada uno quiere identificar una cierta área. A significa familiar. El número indica el tamaño máximo del lote si es a cinco lotes de aquí. 5,000 pies cuadrados o a 10 sería lotes de 10,000 pies cuadrados. Dos familias B, pues tuplex, adosados o separados en un lote. R1 y R2 es la línea del lote de cero y casas adosadas. CR y C y D, solicitos residenciales multifamiliares de densidad baja, media y alta. Y el último será en esta página sería UR que es muy familiar basado en formulados de alta densidad. Densidad, quiere decir que el diseño de esta línea va a ser más importante que en otras áreas. The next districts, we have our commercial district, which are ER, E, FR, F and G, and so they're just different intensities. So usually in a single family neighborhood, your most common district will be E. And so the main difference between E and F are the allowed uses and F are auto related, pawn shops and bars. And then G is the highest intensity, which allows essentially all commercial uses except for industrial uses. The R on ER and FR means that no alcohol sales are allowed whatsoever. The next districts are I, J and K, which are our industrial districts and they just go from light to medium, I mean, light, medium and heavy. We also have some special purpose districts, which are ag for agricultural, which means the primary use of the land is animals. CF is community facilities, which is primarily used for school and church related uses. And M8 is our manufactured housing district where manufactured houses are allowed. The final one on this slide is PD, which is a plan development. And so each PD also has a number related to it because they're essentially their own mini zoning ordinances. You can kind of customize the zoning to fit that development such as additional uses or development regulations. So the second part of here are the commercial districts. Commercial districts, ER or E, are commercial in a vicinity. And F, commercial in general. The difference between these two is that they can leave locations like pawn shops, bars or places where cars are made. G is commercial, but it's intensive and industrial. The second part is industrial districts and generally they're light, medium and heavy. The districts for special purposes or for agriculture, community facilities of CF, are manufactured or houses that are manufactured. The planning development, the last part is PD. It's usually used to add uses of any district to the base or to change the state of the development. So they're specially for an area and they can be flexible and they can let them be commercial with different types of zoning. And so this is kind of an incomplete pyramid essentially, but this is how our zoning is laid out. So they're partially cumulative. So at the top of the pyramid, you have single family and then below that you have all the other districts. So for example, if you had a piece of property that was zoned D, which is our high density multifamily, all the uses in the categories above that are also allowed. So you could have essentially a single family home on a piece of property that didn't have that zoning. And this in goes for the commercial districts. So if you have a piece of property zoned K, you can do all the uses that are listed in the E through J categories. This graphic is an incomplete pyramid of the zoning partially accumulated. The residential uses of less density are allowed in residential districts. This means that if you have a property with zoning D, the zoning would also be left to B or C. But the residential uses are not allowed in the districts that are not residential. So if they're industrial, you can't have that type of property. These are all going to go quickly over these, because these are more in specialized areas. We have mixed use districts. We have eight, which is only for downtown. And then we have MU1 and MU2, which are our low and high-intensity mixed use districts, which that just means that it allows for residential component as well as a commercial component. The design districts are in specific areas. So you have, and I'm sure you know, parts of the city pretty well. So we have the Panther Island near Southside, Camp Bowie, Trinity Lakes, Berry University and the Stockyards. And they all have their own special zoning ordinance. This part of the zoning are mixed areas, but they're special because they're specifically for those areas. The letter H is in the center. MU and MU2 are mixed use of low-intensity or high-intensity. And we also have special design districts. And this is a specific use for that area. If it was requested, they had to ask for the process to have that specific zoning. And it would be areas like Panther Island, Camp Bowie, Trinity Lakes, Berry or the University. And then, so in addition to zoning, we also have overlay districts, which have additional regulations. So the most common one is a historic overlay, which would go through the historic commission. So that's the demolition delay, historic or cultural landmark and the historically significant endangered. We also have several airports in the area. And so those each have their own overlay. There's also the TCU residential overlay, overlay, which limits the number of unrelated persons that can live in a single family home. And then we have a few designed such as downtown and then a portion of North I-35. And then we have a new overlay, which is a conditional use permit. And so this is essentially, if you're a commercial zoning district that and you're going to add one use, you're able to do that through the conditional use permit. So changing zoning or just adding a new use to that property that previously wasn't allowed. So, we have the supercisions. It's a regular service, and the district of this unification of the base. A supercision can be historic. It can be historical or cultural, which is HCE. HCE is historically in danger. For the airports in the area, we also have superpositions of the airport. In the area of the TCU, there's also a superposition that says how many people can live in a home. They have design districts in the center and in the area from I-35 to the north. But there are also conditions, which are CUP. And that means that it can add a use to the zoning area, which normally wouldn't be there. So that's all of the letters essentially in the zoning district. And then this is just kind of a snapshot of the ordinance. It's pretty large, it's over 500 pages. And so each letter category you saw has its own regulations. And each category also has its own uses that are allowed. So essentially each category would have a page such as the right that shows you kind of your development regulations, such as setbacks and height. And then there are additional sections in the ordinance for things such as landscaping, urban forestry and signage. So each zoning district has a page with basic reverses and other standards. The uses allowed can be found in the use tables which are several pages. The ordinance also has supplementary standards, especially when they are commercial or industrial. Each ordinance has specific things about how tall it can be, how it should look like on the outside. And so this is just a snapshot of what the use chart was. So you can see if there's a P in the box, you could go to the zoning district on the top and the uses on the left. And so you can see what uses are and are not allowed in each zoning district. That's just a table that says what are the uses allowed for each area of zoning and can be compared with others. So you can see what is allowed in the property you have. And so most people want to know what their property is owned for a variety of reasons. And so there are two really easy ways. One is to go to our interactive zoning map on the website which is at mapit.fortworthtexas.gov slash zoning and then you'd have to input your address and zoom in. A really easy way is the one address site where you go to one address.fortworthtexas.gov and you type in your address at the top of the page. And then it lists a whole bunch of information essentially that more information you could possibly think you that you needed to know. And one of those things is the zoning district. You can also email us at our zoning land use email or call our main number. We can help you navigate the website or just look it up for you if you need to. A mucha personas quieren saber como es que averigua la zona que es su propiedad y lo puede encontrar en el sitio de web que es mapit.fortworthtexas.gov barra zoning. Pero una manera muy fácil hacerlo es por ir al sitio de web de one address y simplemente pone su ubicación y le daría a qué tipo de zona es su propiedad. Pero si necesita asistencia adicional, puede mandar un correo electrónico o puede llamar para hablar con un empleado que le puede decir qué tipo de zona es su propiedad. And so now I'm just going to go over the rezoning process. So if you're wanting to rezone your property or if someone around you is rezoning their property, it's, I'll just go over the different steps. And so the first step is obviously an application. So we have a checklist on our website that kind of tells you what we need for that. But one of the main things is making sure that either you are the property owner or you have the authorization of the property owner to rezone that and so you submit that application. After we have the completed application, we email courtesy notices to any registered neighborhood organization within a half mile of that site. And then we send in the mail, the legal notice and that is to any property owners that are within 300 feet of the site. We also place a sign on the property at least 10 days before the hearing. So after those items are done, the public hearing is held. The first one, it's the zoning commission and it's on second Wednesday of every month. At that time, anyone can speak, it's a public hearing. So anyone that wants to speak in favor or opposition of the case is allowed to speak. And at that point, the zoning commission will make a recommendation of approval or denial. And then after it goes to zoning commission, it goes to city council the next month. And those are typically held during the first Tuesday of every month. And again, it's a public hearing. So anyone may speak in favor or opposition of the case. And that is where the case is ultimately approved or denied. So, what are some of the people that want to know? What is the process of re-zonification? The applicant must present a request and it's important that they have the permission or be the owner of that property. With the legal description, they always recommend that the applicant communicate with the resident's office and with the council before they send a request. The city sends by e-mail court reports within the first week to the registered residential organizations within half a mile. The person reviews the case and sends a legal warning to the owners in a radius of 300 feet. 10 days before the hearing, a letter is placed on the property. A public hearing is also carried out with the zoning commission. On the second Wednesday, at 1 PM, all people can speak in favor or opposition. And a public hearing is carried out in the meeting of the municipal council. The zoning cases are generally heard in the first meeting of the month, on Tuesdays at 7 PM, and all people can speak in favor or in opposition. The situation is approved or denied at this point. And so this is what the neighborhood, the courtesy notice would look like. And so the front page is kind of just general information about how the process works with the notification. And the second one is the map that shows the site and then the half mile radius around it. So essentially, whenever the courtesy notices are held out, they're melded out to specified people that are part of that neighborhood association, such as the president, vice president, if they have a zoning chair. And then it's that person's responsibility to send that information out to the rest of the neighborhood organization. So usually whenever people get these, they'll discuss them at their neighborhood meetings. And then there's usually a vote for if the neighborhood will support or oppose the request. And one of the main things to remember for our zoning cases in hearings is just take a person, that's fine, but we have to have your supporter opposition in writing. We can't take a phone call essentially and have that and put that into the record. So if you're wanting to support or oppose the case, we would need you to send that to us in writing. And that can be through either the mail or the address is on that courtesy notice or you can just email it to us at that zoning land use email. So what you see on the screen is a notification that is sent to the membership of a resident or vice president or someone who has been designated in an organization of neighbors. Solicite que se le devuelva sus inquietudes o comentarios por escrito al consejo, al consejal o a la zonificación. Discuta en su reunión de vecindarios y este programa antes de las audencias de la comisión de zonificación o del consejo. Es importante que claramente difina las preocupaciones principales de la propuesta. Si responde, está preparado con ejemplos. Y es importante que sean por escrito y que no sean por llamadas si no es en persona. And then so what the notice looks like if you receive this in the mail that means you're within 300 feet of the site. It's very similar to the courtesy notice. However, this one has a little tab at the end. At the bottom you can cut off and mail back in. And essentially it's the same thing as the courtesy because we just need something in writing or you need to speak in person. And finally, a state law is if more than 20% of the property owners within 200 feet of the site oppose a case, that will acquire a super majority vote at city council for approval. So if you have more than 20% of the people in the area oppose it, when it gets to council, they would have to be seven votes in favor of it to approve it. So if they'd only received six, then it would just be, I don't know. Los propietarios que reciben una notificación por correo serían esos que están dentro de 300 pies pueden ignorar la notificación o enviar la parte inferior de la hoja con comentarios o asistir a las reuniones. Para ser contados, todos los comentarios deben ser por escrito. No podemos tomar nada por teléfono. Las inquietudes o comentarios deben devolverse al personal o empleados antes de las 3PM, los dunes antes de la reunión. Si más del 20% de propietarios en dentro de 200 pies del sujeto de la propiedad que quiere cambiar la zonificación, está en objeción por escrito. La pasión para cambiar esa zona requiere un voto de mayoría absoluta que serían siete de los nueve miembros del consejar. And one more thing to note is you're not required to do anything if you receive a notice in the mail. You can ignore it. You can send something in. Purely optional. I just wanted to make sure that that was noted. Una cosa importante es notar que es totalmente opcional si quiere ignorar la carta no tiene que dar comentarios sino estar a posición o no quiere ser parte del proceso. And that was my presentation. And again, that's our main phone number and our main email address for any questions. So before we go to any questions, I have two questions I want to make sure are answered. So first of all, just in case anyone is on and does not know who your neighborhood association president is Fernando. Can you weigh act important? So Fernando is the president of Las Familias de Rosemont. Fernando, what is your what is the process if you or another member of your board receives? This is a test receives an early courtesy notification. What do you do? So what we've tried to do and are still working on, it's a work in progress. Fernando is notifying neighbors. I know in the past when we have gotten a zoning thing or developer come, we've asked them to come to a neighborhood association meeting and kind of talk about it or come talk to the board and explain to us the process. Obviously this is still something that we're still working on and trying to figure out amid COVID and stuff like that. Yes, but I know that also Fernando does a great job of posting it on their Facebook page and next door to make sure that all the neighbors are aware that they were notified of that. And then also I wanted to check with council member Zeta if you want to share who it is on the zoning commission that represents your district. My appointee to the zoning commission is Kimberly Miller and she has a very good background in planning. She is a planner herself, so she's very knowledgeable. So I served on the zoning commission myself before being elected to city council for six years. And I will say that I was the mayor's appointee at the time so I wasn't designated to a specific district. And often zoning commissioners like to hear things in the public meeting necessarily be contacted outside of the public meeting because they would like the information that they hear to be the same as the rest of the commissioners in the public hearing process. So I would encourage people to communicate through staff if they have information that they want to share with zoning commissioners. Perfect. Any questions? Expand this translation, sorry. The question was, who is the person in the zoning commission that represents the district in the area of Rosemont but also the entire area of the district? And council member Zeta, can you repeat her name? Kimberly Miller. And her name is Kimberly Miller. But if she has comments or issues that she wants to report to the zoning commission or the zoning commissioners, it is very important that the employees and the city staff have the same information and not just one person. And we didn't see a question come in, but where you can let me know if this will be covered in the comprehensive plan is what are the city's visions or plan for a neighborhood? I think that would be more of a... That'll be listed under the comprehensive plan section. And so I think there was another question about what the general zoning was. Zoning is, for the most part, you'll have large areas zoned the same, but it's really a lot by lot basis. And so I would, if you're wanting a particular zoning district to look up each individual ad... If you go onto our interactive zoning map that I previously mentioned, there's a layer called zoning fill, which you can turn on. And so each zoning district has its own color. For example, single family is a bright yellow. So if you turn on that zoning fill layer and you kind of zoom out farther, you can get a feel for what the area is zoned. And that has some really cool maps going to show everybody, so that'll also be shown what the areas look like. Susan, are you on the phone, or Ruth, did you get Susan's question? Yes, I did. Perfect. I had a couple of good questions, if you don't mind. First of all, I mean, or I think that was a very thorough presentation. So just a couple of questions. First of all, so when you said there, I guess somebody said that there's going to be somebody else to be able to show us a map of what the zoning looks like in Rosemont, obviously, because we have a very diverse and large neighborhood. Obviously we have manufacturing in our neighborhood and we have single family homes and there's development going on. So the more educated the neighbor association can be to inform the neighbors the better that is. But you said there was a map that you're all going to show later. Is that right? Yeah, I think that covers some maps that are part of the comprehensive plan section. So just a quick different. Sorry, my computer. The thing is essentially what's current on the land, what's allowed today. Like you go pull a permit for it tomorrow if you wanted. For the comprehensive plan, there's another map called Future Land Use Plan. And so for the most part, they usually kind of overlap perfectly, but there might be some areas that the city thinks will either redevelop over time or maybe the use that's there now is the most appropriate for the area. And so you'll see a different color. And so when someone comes in for a zoning change, whenever I'm writing my staff reports, we refer to that Future Land Use Plan to see if what they're wanting to develop is compatible with that Future Land Use designation. So they kind of have to work in tandem. Okay. Yeah, just wanted to know just because I know a lot of our neighbors are renters. And so sometimes it could be difficult to get in contact with neighbors and stuff, I mean with the owners of properties and stuff like that. Also, if neighbors call in and want materials, is this material in Spanish and is there a translator in your department? So I'm not sure if it's available in Spanish. We do have a few Spanish speakers in our group. So if, for example, I've gotten plenty of emails and voicemails in Spanish, and I make sure to forward them to the person that can respond to them. Okay. And we can make sure that all the presentations that are shared throughout all of the workshops will be up on the website for the NIP programs. We'll get all translated for you. Okay. So the short answer is no, you have to have the property owner's authorization to request a zoning change. There is another way. So we have a process called council initiated rezoning in which either the council will see a place that isn't appropriately zoned or the neighborhood can come to the council person and request this. And so essentially that how that works is there's usually an informational meeting with the affected property owners to let them know that this is something that's being proposed. And it's kind of a public format to where there's that back and forth between the council person and staff and the neighborhood organization. And then through that process to the cap, the city is essentially the applicant for that. And we carry it through the rezoning process. So that's the only other way that there is to rezone, probably that isn't your own technically. The answer is no, and yes. The property owner has to have the permission. The person who is changing the zoning has to have the authorization of the owner to be able to change the area. But there is also another way where it's initiated by the council of the city. And they would also go through the same process. And in that case, the applicant would be the city. Do you have more questions for now? I just got two questions and a statement. So literally, so when, so say we have somebody, let's say just a developer come in and buy some property and wants to develop that, what can the neighbors or the neighborhood association do in terms of that? If like, obviously you don't want too much of the same set in part of the presentation. You don't want too much of the same zoning or whatever to a certain area and stuff like that. And say, if you have a developer coming in and buying properties trying to develop to put these ugly condo stuff on them, what power does the neighbors have? So it'll depend on what the zoning district is and if that uses allowed. So that's the first step. So if it's zone B, which is our two family and he's wanting to build a duplex, then for the zoning process, which I spoke of, there's nothing that I would be a part of in that because it would be allowed by right and it would be able to go through the permitting process. If it were zoned, you know, a single family or duplex and he wanted to put up like a multifamily or more than two units on the lot, then that would go through that rezoning process. So whenever we have an application come in, essentially every person that a developer will talk to, we will tell them to make sure you reach out to the neighborhood before you even submit your application. That's what I tell every single person I talk to, no matter how big or small the development is. And so usually at that point, they'll reach out to y'all and like you'll get the courtesy, they'll reach out to you and hopefully have the meeting before they submit their application. And at that point you can say, we're okay with this or we're not okay with this and like kind of try to have almost a negotiation. Like if you develop it this way, then we'll support your project. There's a negotiation tactic essentially involved. And then through that, you'd be able to speak through that public hearing process. So as the president, you would be able, if you take a vote through your neighborhood and you decide to support it, you come to those hearings and say as president of this neighborhood organization, we have decided to support this developer or oppose it whichever way. And I'll tell you right now, our zoning commission takes the neighborhood support opposition, it's pretty weighted. So they'll either, and so let's say like if you support a case, they will either have the developer, will either continue the case and kind of just give it a 30 day delay to have them meet with you and see if there is some sort of agreement you can come to or not. But you should be involved in the process. And speaking of the zoning commission, that's a good lead to my next question. And so having a meeting in the middle of the week at 1pm for working families, that's kind of hard. And me, I mean, I can usually slip away, but if I had other neighbors, because obviously I don't want to just show up in a meeting by myself, especially if neighbors are for or against something, is that not something that maybe in the future that we could advocate for to have maybe these meetings in the evening? Oh, you may. I don't have any power over that unfortunately. So I don't know how that process would have worked to change that. So the zoning commission meeting is during the middle of the day. And so sending something written in, especially if it's from you through the neighborhood organization that still carries a lot of weight. You don't always have to be there in person because we understand that people, they can't get time off and everything like that. The other thing to note is the council meeting. So there's two public hearings. The first one's the Wednesday at 1 p.m. and the second one's Tuesday. And that's usually at 7 p.m. at night. So it's kind of, we have those two separate times to allow double the input as possible. Yeah, okay. That's good to know. I mean, I like to use the face-to-face. So we know that Rosemont is active and engaged. And then, I think that was my last question. Oh, my mistake. And it'd be, you can get your appointed person from the zoning commission to, if you can make the introduction for a neighborhood association to also have a friendship with that appointed person just so they understand who Rosemont is and who lives in Rosemont. I think that would be very beneficial for that person to know when they are up there thinking about our neighborhood. I'm sure that she would entertain any communication that you want to send her to introduce yourselves to her. I think she does look, when I was the zoning commissioner when cases would come before me, I would physically drive around the city and look at the cases. I was very knowledgeable about registered neighborhood associations and their activities. So I think that she is similarly in tune with the district that she represents. And Fernando, you and Susan and the rest of the board that's on, it's always helpful to be friendly with your council member and your commissioner before there's challenges but also whenever it's in good times as well. So I mean, it is good. I just wanted to know that we got three notices this month and I was like, okay. There you go. Yeah, I just, it's good to know who, who is representing us. The process works Laura. See, very good. One of the questions was how the neighborhood association can be involved. And it was the same process that Laura explained. And it's when they send the letter, they can be in conversations with the owner or the person who wants to change the zoning. And to be in communication with them also with the direction of zoning. The other question was si podían hacer una introducción a la silla de sonificación para poder tener contact con ellos. Am I missing? What was your second question, Fernando? I'm sorry? What was the second question that you have? It was about the process. He wanted, he wanted, he also wanted that comment. He wanted to make sure that the representative from zoning knew who, who he was, I think, but when they were Oh, if somebody didn't know who I was, they would definitely city show that by now. Then I got both of those. Thanks. You can go ahead, Catherine. I think our next speaker is It is Anna. Okay. Does she have control already? Yes. Now she does. Perfect. So our next person is going to be Anna Alvarez and she is with permits. Anna. Yes. Hi everybody. Good evening. My name is Anna Alvarez and I'm a plan to seminar with the city of Fort Worth Development Services Department. I will be translating my presentation as I go through it. Good evening to all of you. My name is Anna Alvarez and I'm a development department. The development services of the city of Fort Worth. And I'm going to translate the presentation only in English, but I'm going to send one in Spanish to the community. Okay. So why do we require permits? The first things you think about actually the important things that you think about are safety, health, and quality of life. When you think about the building that you're in right now, whether it's your house or you're in your job, it has a foundation like we built wood or steel or concrete and so forth. And you look around. So look around. Do you see a clear pathway to exit the room that you're in? Do you maybe see some sprinkler systems or electrical outlets that you use on a day to day basis? So these are all construction elements. Things that require review and compliance with the, right now we're in the 2015 and IBC and the IRC. So I guess this presentation is mostly going to be for a residential permit, but it applies to commercial as well. And I can answer both questions as well. So the building codes are essential pieces of the building and construction process, outlining necessary standards of related to structural stability, fire, and weather hazard protection, electrical wiring, safety. So we evacuation pathways and there's so much more. Code officials are responsible for ensuring the safety and compliance of these codes and standards. They inspect building plans and construction processes to guarantee every building constructed, follow these sets of codes. Again, the 2015 IRC and IBC, that's an international residential code and international building code. And it's all up on our website. So what's more, what we do when our code officials, when we're doing our jobs, we're ensuring building safe. First responders to these emergencies have less to worry about and can do their jobs more safely. The inspections and reviews that officials conduct are preventative measures, if you will. So when a hurricane or a tornado hits or a wildfire spreads to a town and destroys a structure, if it was built in accordance with the building codes, it's more likely to withstand disaster, saving you and the community at large, cost and time and the pain of rebuilding. So in Spanish, to translate, why does it require permission? Well, we think about safety, health and quality of life of one. Right now, if you're in your house, you can imagine the room where you are. It has some kind of foundation, some kind of base and probably this wooden building. Now look around, there's some way you can get out if there's a fire. There are also electric things in chutes or plugs where you use your computer and everything else. All of that is something that is included in the construction of a house or building. I knew that when one of these elements of construction, whether it's an electric piece, or a fire or the feeling of the fire, has a point of building codes corresponding to it. And the codes that I mentioned, the city of Fort Worth is based on the 2015 International Residential Code and the building code. It is one of the residential permits and commercial permits. These building codes are essential pieces for the construction and construction process that describes the necessary standards related to the structural stability. We, the people who check our permits, we have a lot of responsibility to check our permits in compliance with those codes. And it is when the employees in charge of the code do their job to ensure the safety of the building, the first ones to respond to these emergencies have less to worry about and they can do their job in a safer way. Think about if there are disasters, with a lot of water. The building code that we use is more stable and requires less space to rebuild or establish it. The next slide. So when do I need a building permit? When you consider that building permits are required. So it's really easy to say that everything requires a building permit. The shorter list would be for me to say what doesn't require a building permit. Everything that needs to hear additions, remodels, accessible buildings, instructions, separate permits, also betrayed permits are required. The things that don't need a permit are cosmetic work inside, like painting, lowering, replacing cabinets, replacing harmony textures, roof repair unless you're replacing decking, fences under seven feet tall unless they're in the front yard and in certain circumstances flat work. We have in our administrative code this list, it's not a long list compared to what requires a permit, but it's a list of things that don't require a permit and really anything about the things that don't require a permit. That's what we say, but it's really just when you think about foundation. Flat work is flat work, right concrete? That doesn't necessarily require a permit when you think about what you're putting on top of it. That's when you probably want to think about building a permit. So to translate it in Spanish, when do you need a permit to rebuild? There are various conditions where the permit is allowed. The list is very long. When I see what we have here is an addition or room that wants to add to your house, remodels that includes replacing doors and windows, a garage that wants to convert it into a room, an apartment, an apartment, an apartment, an apartment. Accessories such as a tejaban or a wardrobe or curtains that are more than seven feet tall. That requires a permit. There are a lot of things that I can define that require a permit for the list. It's shorter, as I say, than what doesn't require a permit. And that includes cosmetic work in the interior, which is like painting or the floor, or replacing a cabinet. That kind of work doesn't require a permit. But when we think about the interior, you don't think that you can replace the sheet rack inside the house. That requires a permit. In many cases it depends and it's better to talk instead of starting a job to see if you need a permit. About seven feet tall doesn't require a permit, at least if it's a proposal, you can put it in your garden in front of you. That requires a permit and once it's a special permit, but I'm going to let the manager talk about that a little later. How does zoning impact a building permit? I know Ms. Laura already talked about zoning. This is more specific to a building permit review and it does have a map available right here that you can see is the area which encompasses Rosemont. I don't know if you can tell. This is Ms. Butler. That's the railroad track, I think. So when we think of zoning, when we're doing our review for, let's say, a house or both an accessory structure in the back of a shed, zoning district impacts the building setbacks, the setbacks that are required for that accessory structure. Parking requirements not necessarily, but building height, materials, the use and the lock coverage and the number of accessories you're allowed on that lot. That's all taken into account. So if you were going to build something here in A5, your lot is A5 zoning, so you're required five foot setbacks on each side and in the back, depending on if there's any easements, I bet that's all in reporting to your submittal, whether or not your plat shows any easements. So not a lot to build over those, but that's what we take a look at. So it's really important, like Ms. Moore said, that you take a look at your zoning for your property, your lot, and take that into consideration when we submit the building permit, what you're proposing to do. How does the area affect a building permit? Well, since Ms. Moore talked about zoning and all the respect, we can talk more in detail about your property, considering your property, your lot. If you want to put an building with a wardrobe or a Tejavan in your property and you want it in the back, we consider the separation of the building, of that structure. That is to say, the separation of that building to the lines of your property. And the lot that you have, let's say it's one of A5 that is a family that requires five foot sets of distance from the line of your property, that's more defined than what you can put in. And we also consider if there are requirements for parking in your property. Also, the height of the structure that you put in, the materials that you propose to build of that building and the lot. And also the coverage of your property, because it's more in the A5 area, which is a family or a family, that only leaves 50% of the coverage of that property. The classification of residential and commercial and industrial zoning are even more defined if they have specific regulations. It's not to say that this is the only thing we see, but in residential it's a common one, but it's a different thing in some of the people that said it's different than in residential. I didn't mention this in English, but it's not limited. So the zoning, it's not just A5, it can be impacted by any of the other cases. So E, I guess industrial, some of them, it's in there too. The regulations for those are specific to the zoning. So you could be looking at the facts that are more restrictive in certain zones than it would be in another line. So what are the steps a building permit takes? When we take into consideration right now, so when we were open at City Hall and take customer service, it entailed the paperwork that would be reviewed by one of our submission and then the applicable fees would be paid at that time. Right now our process has changed with the pandemic. So our permits are all available online. You're able to see on the right the picture to create an account and establish yourself as either a contractor or pull permit by here, apply for permit as a homeowner and submit all of your documentation online. The plan review aspect, it's basically the review of all the plans that you're submitting for the structure that you're proposing. And the way it goes when we review everything, I guess, to go back to when you submit online, our technicians, our development support staff will take a look at everything that you submit and make sure that it's complete and it's ready for review. And once it is, I will review it for compliance with the building codes. If any revisions are necessary, the permit will be placed into corrections required, and it will be in a waiting client reply. So you will have an email or something letting you know that the permit, it requires corrections. You should go back into your account and then upload the required corrections. Let's say after one time of revisions are necessary, you submit and then it looks good. I'm able to approve it. After that, any remaining fees that were not paid at the intake would be due. And this is something that really just applies to right now. If you're submitting for a new house, you submit and your application has the square footages for every new in that residence and it's applied. But in my review, I see that it was not miscalculated somehow. I will recalculate those fees and there may be more fees incurred or may be less. And so our support staff would help in refund or pay out whatever will be needed for meeting time. And then inspections. You can schedule those by phone or online. Online, I think, is easiest. It's very clear. Schedule one section. So it's all under this development tab. Spanish, ¿Cuáles son los pasos que sigue en permiso de construcción? Cuando usted propone la construcción tiene los planos listos. Antes era más fácil entrar a la oficina y someter todo a su solicitud y la pica Sanitobo para entregarla a una persona. Ahorita nuestras oficinas no están abiertas y en este momento todos los permisos que necesita y tiene que aplicar están disponibles en nuestra página web y aquí es al lado puede ver lo que en dónde se puede empezar la solicitud. Aquí también hay un lugar donde enseña lo que usted necesita para someter todo por web. Ok, los documentos y cómo debe de ser. Y aquí también hay una tutoría donde si usted quiere ver a una persona registrarse como contratista o registrar su cuenta para la solicitud lo puede hacer. Ok, además eso cuando digamos que ya ya tiene su información en sus planos para someter, empieza todo este proceso y somete toda su aplicación. Después cuando nuestro equipo de su suerte verifique que todo está en orden y tiene sus planos listos para revisar un plan examinador como soy yo. Ellos distribuen el permiso después de que usted pague lo que se quiere el permiso, el costo de permiso. Y cuando yo reviso el permiso los planos de construcción como le dije los puede revisar con cumplimiento de el código 2015 del building code y el IRC también. Y si cualquier razón hay necesidad de más información el permiso se pondrá en espera, vamos a poner una condición para que usted sepa que necesita más información o el permiso no cumple con una manera del código o algo que tiene que ver con el código y usted entonces se conecta a su cuenta y con esos y somete sus revisiones o yo los reviso y cuando está completo el permiso yo lo puedo probar y en ese entonces cualquier costo del permiso si hace falta que pague lo pague entonces y después puede pedir sus infecciones por teléfono o por esta página. Ahorita no está traducida en español solamente en inglés pero creo que podemos producirla no sé, tengo que tener el departamento pero yo puedo verificar y después pedirse que no haya completo el permiso. So customer service what do I need to apply for a building permit? These are the I guess it's a kind of a checklist of what you would need for residential building permit the application for new construction is applicable and remodels and accessory structures but not any checklist that's available online it's in one of our pages it's only for new construction not remodels or accessories or additions it's really just new new houses the residential new construction checklist that's also available on our website that's required for new construction not for remodels or accessory structures or additions and the plat is required for which should be for new construction not for remodels but for accessory structures and additions it is required and the plat you can get at the county first office we have our website information that can connect to them and then complete set of plans something that you'd be looking at for new construction we have a checklist online that you can go by and we can make that available like you can just in spanish you can remodels a complete set of plans is a little different but that's also listed on our website as far as what's required it's more expensive of course when you consider new construction than a remodel of what a complete set of plans is and then accessory structures also right time is required for all and the energy for compliance if you're adding a conditioned or heated space to you know for new construction it's applicable always but for a remodel it just kind of depends on how much you're affecting and then there's also ways for the plans examiner to talk to you about compliance with our prospective requirements for the city and then accessory structures that just depends if it's a habit of accessory needs to be required to do anything but not for a chef it wouldn't be or a car park or structure like that it's not happy para traducir es esta información este que se necesita para la solicitud es es bastante información sobre si si pintamos en una construcción lo que se necesita es la aplicación una checklist que es una lista es es algo que dice que usted va a cumplir con en cierta manera con el la orinancia de zona porque no en la ciudad work uno no puede tener una casa igualita a la de alado y este manami es para asegurar que usted no va a construir una pero está disponible en nuestra página web y no creo que está en español pero esa es la que podemos ayudarle la persona que está revisando su permiso o uno de nuestros del equipo del de support también se necesita residencial una vista de la que cumple con un paquete que es de nueva institución un plan es un plano de la desingda y eso también se solo puede sacar con el el pero está disponible también es información en nuestra página web y el paquete de los planos lo que se requiere es una un completo plano de la construcción de cómo se va a construir su casa de el también el site plan se necesita el plano de la propiedad y cumplimiento con el código de energía y para remodelos su poco diferente se requiere un poco menos que una casa nueva pero unas veces si vemos que se necesita cumplir con el código de energía también no se necesita un plano de su propiedad con sus manos y también los planos dependiendo del trabajo que es otro modelo que es como por ejemplo está replazando las ventanas las puertas de su casa sería un plano de el piso enseñando cuáles van a ser reemplazadas y como y la dimensión de cada cuarto es un poco específico pero casi siempre alguien está disponible para explicar y también para las estructuras so many of the projects other than new construction were done as walkthroughs right now our numbers for 100 of you are pretty good on what I hear I think we're running about three to five of these days for first comments on building permits and that information is available online as well it's a part of our statistics but the way that they were done when walking permits were done you would go into the office and you would be able to get your permit same day walking permit included accessory structures for all additions in residential and remote right now like I said walking permits you can really walk into city hall so what we're doing is you can do a walk in so you can apply online and that permit will be reviewed within the same time in this other permits but once examiners are available to assist by phone or Webex if you have any questions regarding any of those permits so we will again review for compliance with building codes and then check for the zoning requirements on these permits we do both reviews and then we answer any questions about that and this in this information to translate we are talking about the review of a permit that is the same day you can take it out in those structures it was easier to review and approve in the same day and since we can't enter the office to submit these applications and these permits you can join your to make a appointment on your phone or by Webex to talk to a person about what the permit is and also the time that it will last to review that permit right now we have I think three to five days with the permits to be approved it would be and I would say that for a long time it would not be a day but if we try to approve as much as possible and what we are reviewing as in the previous one in the other slide is that we are reviewing with a permit that meets with the codes of the structure and we are also reviewing that you are meeting with the district of the area that the city of Alhara already talked about that and we are also available on the phone and also by Webex to talk about the permit and answer your questions and then after that we are doing inspections after the penalty when you get approved it's inspections and this is just a slide that shows for remodeling in addition to what inspection you're looking at we have a so it's really brief as far as what's required this information is actually available online as well and we have our phone system that you can do them on these are the codes which are just for information if you need them you can send them out but doing the inspections online is a lot faster and a lot easier because it's a difficult to recommend in the right way um for residential board of adjustment that's going to be next i know daniel's going to talk a little bit more about that but that this just applies when a permit doesn't meet the requirements for the to meet the zoning ordinance and so we have to direct them to the board of adjustment for very of anything so i will let him speak about that writing answer this one question right so uh you uh did have one question it what is the ratio of neighbors coming to get permits versus contractors so there's we can get that information out we can do a report but there's no real way for me to tell you that just with information that i have i see because i'm only one of maybe 20 total plans and parameters and we're all reviewing really actually to say i have a lot of homeowners and i have a lot of contractors submitting um um and you were proposing to do work to that residence to your residence you have to apply as a register as a contractor to do the work that any other question hey and i got i got one question um with so many of our neighbors uh in our neighborhood being very handy um what what happens to say if like some of our neighbors have done stuff without getting a permit first like what quote repercussions are there um well so we have a lot of that and it really just depends sometimes people get away with it no permits ever um uh apply for but you we have a lot of co-compliance officers and a lot of inspectors that will go out there and red tag something or give them notice that they need to pull a building permit and at that time it depends on how many notices they've been given um whether or not they'll give them a citation to go along with that but um also you could be be double when you come in for that application for that building permit and really it just it turns i know um if you're wanting to do work i think it's easier to just get the building permit to avoid and incurring like double fees for uh certain things oh and para traducir la pregunta la pregunta era hay bastante gente que puede hacer el trabajo por sí mismo en su casa y que pasa si uno hace el trabajo sin un permiso pues puede ser que nada nada pase uh pero si un uh oficial del código de cumplimiento como ya um aplicaron antes en esta plática este dijeron que le dan multa o les dan notificación que usted necesita aplicar para el permiso y empezar ese proceso también tenemos inspectores en nuestro departamento de desarrollo que si ellos están inspeccionando una propiedad al lado y ven trabajo a en su casa y ven que checan el el sistema y no ven un permiso ellos pueden ir y también darle multa o decirle que no puede seguir el trabajo que tiene que sacar ese permiso la solicitud para ese trabajo es solamente depende pero si es mejor a empezar su solicitud para el permiso para hacer el trabajo antes o que también algo que tiene que considerar si usted lo está haciendo para cumplir con el código de edificio the building code is something I didn't say in English you want to make sure you get a permit before you do any work because we're verifying that you're complying with the IRC or the IVC which are our building code and if for whatever reason you don't apply you don't have to tear everything down and build that if you want now también gracias por la presentación any other questions Ruth no okay so before we go to the next one I do want to just take a second to say thank you for Amy Connelly and Joanna Hedspeth from the neighborhood services department they're both watching and listening in they are the neighborhood services department and they're the ones that facilitate and manage the entire NIP program so they make everything run together with all the different departments so we're glad to have them here listening in on everything um and that just went to a different screen of course it did so we want to welcome Daniel he's going to come in and talk just a little bit um and I just went to a different screen Daniel and he's going to talk about variants and special exceptions with us take it away Daniel I think your mic is all good evening everyone my name is Daniel I'm with a planner with the board of adjustments I'm going to give a real quick overview of the presentation simply because this is a very broad topic that has a lot of issues the board of adjustment does do commercial variances since uh but I'm just going to cover residential at this point since the Rosemont area is vastly residential and I really don't want to get into too much of the commercial sense um we're going to go ahead and start with the definition no one really know their department until they find themselves in a situation to where they do get a special exception of variants and later on we're going to see why a definition of a special exception is a project that is looked at with a compatibility with the rest of the neighborhood again we're going to look at some examples of what that is a variance is a process in which a person can apply what's called a variance uh because they're not meeting the current zoning ordinance as on next if she's reviewing a permit for example for a storage shed that is too close to the rear property line it may have already been built it could be too tall the property owner may not be able to move it the only other alternative is to apply for a variance and that's when Ana just does a warm transfer over to our department uh las definiciones y una excepción especial y variantes son siguiente una excepción especial es un proyecto que se revise ahí comparado con el vecindario en otras palabras la estructura o el proyecto el proyecto que uno quiere cumplir cómo se compara con el resto de la vecindad con la calle si un variante es el proceso de poder aplicar para poder estar fuera de un reglamento de zonificación eh porque no pueden cumplir o no pidieron un consejo ah o no sacaron un per o se encuentran una situación que van a necesitar un variante muchas personas no conocen este proceso hasta que se encuentran en una situación difícil y vamos a seguir adelante con unos some of the examples include uh front yard carports which spawned after some heavy hail in the late 90s um and my disclaimers none of these properties are in Fort Worth so don't go tell on me with anybody okay um so we have some front yard fences uh i will speak for my hispanic people that we love our our walls and we love our our columns and we love our big old gates um and um and some solid fences in the front yard this special exception was what i was referring to how do these compare with the rest of the neighborhood on the block see and that's that's what you have to meet and that's what the board of adjustment considers before they render a decision on your carport on your fence on your solid fence or on the height of your fence uh unos ejemplos de excepciones especial hay antes de seguir adelante eh muchas de esas propiedades de esas fotos que están viendo ahorita adelante de ustedes no son propiedades aquí in Fort Worth si es que por favor no se vaya de chismoso con su vecino eh unos ejemplos incluye los tejabanes para los carros en frente de las yardas eh a los hispanos nos gusta nuestros nuestras cercas muy altas nuestros columnas muy altas o las cercas están sólidas eh incluyendo eh hay ciertos propiedades que tienen caballos eh tienen borregos eh que también se requiere una excepción especial porque hay un requerimiento de pies cuadrados para el animal eh si es que eh parte de ir delante del consejo un variante para estar fuera del reglamento para que puedan tener estas cosas el proceso no es garantizado. Some of the variances are storage sheds that are too large again too tall could be too close to a neighbor's property line neighbors usually sometimes will turn another neighbor in because 12 foot or 11 foot storage shed right up against the property line they walk out to their backyard and all of a sudden they see these big structure just there uh bedroom additions to homes what that does is that for every bedroom that you add to a home you have to provide a parking space uh to the house our our current ordinance does not allow for parking to be on the driveway additional parking not to be on the driveway it has to be either on the side of the home or somewhere in the backyard if you have alley access or can get to the side of your house swimming pools um with a lot of the new subdivision swimming pools are are very hard to come by because they have very limited lots or they have to put them on the side yard so the swimming pools have to be 75 feet from the property line or behind the rear wall of the home as an example uh carport you're too close to the side of property line of your neighbors or carports that are too large for what's allowed for your your home detached patios that are too large the homes and the structures that cover more than 50 percent so if you have a house right that was built homes are typically very small so if you folks like to add patio covers in the rear they add huge carports that when the cars are not parked under there then everybody's sitting underneath it which is you know which is okay however when you add too many roofs to your lot and you cover most of your lot with a roof then that becomes a that becomes an ordinance issue a lot of these are a casa cuando que es una familia muchas las veces se les hace muy fácil convertir el garage a un a una recamara o quieren poner dos recamadas detrás en la casa una edición el reglamento de hoy en día que tenemos requiere que un estacionado se prove para el lote en para la casa pero ese estacionamiento se requiere o al lado de la casa o atrás en el patio si es posible cuando una persona quiere hacer ese proyecto o ya lo hizo sin permiso pueden pedir un variante afuera del reglamento para no poder proveer ese estacionamiento de javanes localizados a lado de una casa que están demasiado cerca a la en la propiedad del vecino y eso sí se ve mucho en enfermant cuberturas que están muy grandes de lo que se permite para el tamaño de un lote si una casa o una estructura que cubre más de 50 por ciento que se incluyen los techos si muchos tienen patios cuberturas atrás o sea de javanes para para disfrutar del filima las pies cuando hay un techo combinados que cubre más de 50 por ciento de lo que es el lote entonces es tiempo de un variante o se tienen que remover las estructuras y when you have a special exit when you seek a special a variance there are some risk involved and number one is a public hearing so our department also sends out notices like the zoning department us the risk with this is is that the sometimes there's some dirty laundry that one neighbor that is opposed to a variance will come out and publicly tell on their neighbors about this that and the other in the neighbor this and the neighbor does that and all this is public record and so there's the risk of of that if you know we we have had neighbors argue amongst the cells among themselves within the board the other risk is that your case gets denied our fees are not small fees whether you win or lose you don't get any of your money back if you lose you don't you lose your money and you get you don't get to do what you want or and in some cases the board has ordered structures to be demolished okay literally just taken away so before before continuing Spanish the we're going to get it just a couple of slides here you'll see what some of these alternatives are it so a speculative evidence what is the criteria would the little of the zoning ordinance prevent you from building what you want what does that mean if your case were to get denied would you not be able to still build a storage shed you know in your backyard in most of the cases that's not true you just have to meet the ordinance to go ahead and build that that's that's that storage shed a hardship self-imposed did you do this to yourself for example did you build something your contractor told you he got a permit and never did and in these cases you're still responsible as the property owner to get something like this one other case where where hardship may not be imposed is if home that has a steep slope in the back of the of the lot forcing the house to be moved forward and you would probably need a variance for that and vice versa you have a slope way in the front that you'd have to scoot your house maybe to the side or the other direction that would trigger a variance those are not self-imposed those are just some examples um uh what you're doing does it injure the adjacent property uh is my overhang on my car port so much so that all my rain water is going to my neighbor's house instead of my own property uh if a storm comes and my storage shed just flies out because it's too close if it catches on fire and it's too close to offense does it injure that property that way um are you trying to build something that is against the city ordinance are you trying to build a a a small manufacturing office in your because you want to make bracelets uh to the point to where you're starting a business in the backyard so that's a that's just some some examples um what is the next step if you win uh your your case if you win your case you get a permit it's applicable and uh carport a patio cover uh if you get if you were to win your case for a five foot fence in the front yard you wouldn't need a permit for that that that doesn't count because we don't require a permit unless it's above seven feet uh the board could say we approve your front yard airport but we don't want it at 20 by 20 we'll go ahead and approve a 15 by 10 so at that point the request is modified and then you get your permit for the structure that never had a permit to begin with and then you just make those modifications if you lose a variance you cannot come back for two years with the same request or or you can sue the city of fort worth in an appeals court our board decisions do not go to city council uh unlike the zoning commission where the zoning commission can recommend approval or denial the zoning case the board of adjustment decisions are final and the only way you can try and get one overturned is if you take us to an appeals court uh so on top of losing your money now you have the next expense of paying for a lawyer uh to go before a judge uh what is the next step so ya que su caso el caso es obtener un permiso si es lo que se necesita en muchos los casos nunca hubo permiso si hay una modificación a una estructura entonces ese a ese tiempo se tiene que hacer simplemente remover una estructura que si en el pasado si ha el consejo ha dicho declarado que que si una estructura no fue aprobada se tiene que remover o ajustar para estar de acuerdo con los reglamentos si uno si una persona pierde un caso no puede ir delante del consejo por dos años con con la misma petición o puede demandar a la ciudad delante de un juez nuestros casos no son como los zoning de sonificación no se van al consejo de la ciudad de fort worth simplemente las decisiones del consejo nosotros son finanzas y la única manera que uno puede apelar es delante de un de un consejo y eso y ya sé que es mucha información rápidamente pero si es un es un tema muy grande muy costoso si causa un nivel de estrés para muchas personas this is just a brief presentation and overall board of adjustment simply because it's a very vast subject that that can cause a stress causes money it it some of the things that the board has ordered people to to come down usually if a person doesn't comply it could it could lead to fines by either a inspector or code enforcement after the board of adjustment has made a decision you have the information on the screen you have myself my email address you have a planning assistant that is also bilingual that you can reach out to be an email or or a telephone our application line at this time everything can be emailed to the board of adjustment inbox or it can be directly emailed to our sense and that is the presentation i'll be more than happy to answer any questions anyone might and nando has one question for you shoot oh so daniel en mal este un statement so ah uh the first statement he made was that he would hope that in the future the city would have more presentations that were both in english and spanish the question he posed was an animal question more specifically the chickens um so i will answer that question uh uh uh you uh uh somebody correct me if i'm wrong but i think you're allowed 10 chickens and two roosters by right anything you have to go to uh animal control and you apply for special exception with with with animal control uh Our department does not govern chickens, it governs large animals such as sheep, large pigs, horses, bison, and so we have, we have rules that go along with large animals. So, for people who cannot even keep a straight face, if only he phone calls that our office receives with questions like that with this presentation, he's very thorough and covers home. He's awesome. He's awesome. You've done a great job. We really appreciate that. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Let's see if we can maybe get this going here. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Ruth and I were just commenting that one thing that we will be doing for anyone that's watching this or that will be watching it in the future. We're going to put timestamps on all of the presentation. So, if you want to go back and watch something, you'll be able to go straight to the board of adjustments presentation and look and see what Daniel went over. So, it'll be there for you on the website under the program. So, next up, our last speaker is Zach Hutchinson and he is with the planning and data analytics department and he's going to go over the comprehensive plan. All right. Good evening. As Catherine mentioned, I'm with the planning and data analytics department. So this is a new department that was, I guess it was started in January 2020. Really, the comprehensive planning section came from the former planning and development department, which is not development services. So, there was a lot of change, but my team and I work with the conference of plan primarily so we're going to go through just some high level points about the conference of plan. Unfortunately, we won't have enough time to get into all the details, but hopefully it gives you a better picture of what the plan covers and what it is. So, starting off the question we should ask is, what is coming to plan? So, generally speaking, it's a way to communicate important concepts that are ultimately made to help decision makers guide development within the city. It's updated through compiling information from a lot of city departments. So, all the departments that have been represented here tonight, plus others that aren't here. Have something to offer when it comes to providing information for the conference of plan. So the plans broken down into different chapters and each chapter generally follows a department's sort of area of expertise or special knowledge. So we, as the conference of planning section, we gather that information from each of the departments. We try to get it, you know, as up to date as we can. In some cases, there are other entities outside of the city that provide information to us, one example is Tarrant County Public Health. So that's why it's so important for us to have relationships with other bodies that are, you know, not just organizations but organizations outside of the city. So a lot of intergovernmental cooperation is needed. There is an annual update to the conference of each March. So as our team compiling to a presentation or it's a document that can be found online, that's that's adopted by city council. So, like I said, it's a broad vision for the city. And if you want to go online, you can actually view the 2020 conference of plan and it's provided to you in the link there at the bottom. The city and outside of the city, as in the Tarrant County, presents a broad vision of the future of Fort Worth and describes the main policies, programs and projects to make that vision a reality. El plan se actualiza realmente y había puesto el sitio de web donde puede encontrar este plan y actualmente se renova cada año con información dentro y fuera de la ciudad con varios departamentos. This slide shows generally how the conference plan is broken down into chapters. So there's different parts you can see here that are more or less themes to the conference plan. Like I said, you know, in my last slide, but a lot of these chapters really kind of come out of each department. So it's not a one for one for one match, but a lot of the content that we have, you know, we'll be we'll consult with their services or for co-compliance or historic preservation to get information and then put that into these chapters. So the chapters that are highlighted in green are being updated this year. So the last update for these were 2012. So obviously, this has been a long time coming for us to actually get these updated. Unfortunately, we can't update every single chapter every single year. That's a lot of a lot of work that take a lot of manpower. So we try to get as many updates as we can. The chapters that are in blue have been recently updated. Eventually, our goal would be to get every single chapter updated that's probably not going to be feasible, but we try to stay on top of it as much as we can. This is the content table of the city's plan of understanding. Each department puts their information and this department makes the plans. And the chapters with green outlines will be updated this year and the blues are updated recently. Unfortunately, they can't be updated every single year, but they try to update them as much as possible and do different parts each year. And this slide was just to cover the 2020 conference of plan. This is an example slide from some of the intro chapters. And one of the things that our team has tried to do more recently is use infographics to help communicate concepts and themes to the public. In past years, there was a lot of text in each of the chapters, which can really become, you know, typical for someone to digest all at once. So using graphs charts maps, things like that really do help communicate what we want to to the city. These are some examples of building permit activity, as well as household statistics. So you can see that in the plan, but these are just snippets. So don't, and they're also very high level so there's nothing that you can relate to get to. Related to Rosemont. The next slide here really kind of mirrors the previous slide is just an example of what, you know, one chapter in particular show. So this is housing. I'm sorry, I was actually go back, maybe one more. There we go. That's the transportation chapter. General highlights projects that are actually being completed and underway. There's a purple link on this slide that's had in red. This is pretty frequent throughout the new update of conference of plan. So these are just areas where you can click and it'll take you to another page that has more information about that. So again on this slide, it's just high level statistics shown through charts and graphs rather than lots of paragraphs of text. So, easier to consume this one in particular shows housing statistics. This is a positive example of how to use it for other cities in the region in terms of growth and living. The use of infographic is considered more effective to communicate this information to the public instead of pages to the context. Just more examples of information from the housing chapter. So this does show a map of activity citywide. And that's pretty common in the conference of plan. It's, it's not as common to see specific neighborhoods represented in the conference of plan. I know that was a question from earlier, but really want to try to focus on a larger scale citywide so for instance, you can find information about particular neighborhood projects in sections of the conference of plan, but it's not going to dig into too much detail. So the next set of slides will basically show you the appendices that are at the end of the conference of plan. This first one is just existing plans and studies and each of the appendices breaks down and more detail the specifics of that specific topic. A appendix C if you go back one slide, we'll show, we'll show you the future land use map that we have for the city. What I've done here is just kind of zoomed in to the road to the city. But you can't actually see, I mean, you can see Rosemont on a map in the conference of plan, but it's, it's at such a small scale that, you know, you have to really zoom in and take some time to look at it. So this is really just a large scale view of Rosemont. But again, kind of to go back to what Laura was presenting on earlier. Now this is the future land use so it's not it's not existing zoning although there's a lot of linkages between the two. This is the type of development that's actually intended for the neighborhood by parcel. So if you look closely, you can see the little rectangles. Those are parcels, you know, lots. So, each one of those has a designated land use. So, in this map, yellow obviously is the most prominent color that single family residences purple is industrial, you know on the western side of the neighborhood, and then brown multifamily. So there's a legend on that as well that'll kind of give you more detailed breakdown. The next map has a line ever that represent the limit of the association, the vicinity Rosemont, a lot of the use of the future of the land that is in place in the appendix, he said, he did it in the type of development that is intended to be in this area for parcel, and each rectangle represent a parcel. Los cambios de zona recientes pueden requerir cambios en el mapa de uso futuro de la de la tierra o del área para mantener el plan futuro consistente con resonificaciones aprobadas. El amarillo se refiere a viviendas unifamiliares, quiere decir, solo una familia en morado es industrial, el marrón es multifamiliar y el naranja es residencial de baja densidad. Este plan es de propiedad futura o de área futura, solo necesariamente es igual que lo que es ahora o de la significación de esta área en este momento. Zach, can you go ahead and tell them what the orange means, some of the different areas that you didn't cover? I know that was one that they were looking at. Sure, that's sent for low density residential. Straight up in the northern part, they're right south of Barry's. Can I jump in real quick on the orange part up by Barry is part of the overall zoning that was done for the Barry Street initiative. So we did some form based code zoning and that comprehensive plan shows that form based code zoning commercial on Barry Street and a little bit higher density residential. Along the railroad track and adjacent to just north of Barry, I mean, south of Barry Street. So that's what that kind of orange color is. I think the question was when was that done council. All right, it's been in the lab. It's been since I've been on. So it was planned for years and years and years, but the actual charrettes that we did were in early 2016. And a very public input process similar Fernando to the Hemphill corridor task force efforts that are going on right now that all went on on Barry Street and adjacent properties to Barry Street. So the part of nothing that went on the top of the map is low density. And that's what the council said that was planned when they did. As plans in the area of Barry University. And it sounds like a PNC has a lot of interest so but PNC is focused on future mad use. And if you were to go into the document itself, you'll see a PNC divided up by sectors so the south side sector obviously is where Rosemont is located. So you can look at that larger scale and then see projects policies that relate to that particular sector. Again, unfortunately it's not only focused on Rosemont but you'll see a larger picture what's going on in your near vicinity. And then there's another question that came in where can we find more information on the very plan. That would be probably in the urban village plan, unless I'm mistaken that's also on the city's website. Unless someone can provide that link really quickly. I'll try to go find it. It is on the website and we'll find it and we'll push that out. Because there's a whole separate page with just all the urban villages on it. All right, this page basically just shows more information in the headaches D so capital improvements. This will be updated each and every year as we proposed or funded improvements along. You can find additional information about capital improvements throughout the city. The slide just shows the outline of the boundary of the Rosemont neighborhood. Generally speaking, it's stable and steady population growth. In general, Rosemont is experimenting with a stable population growth. And the next few slides will really just kind of give you an example of what the comprehensive plan shows in terms of the mapping portion of it so it'll provide statistics on housing, you know, income, age, that kind of thing so these are just, again, focused only on So las siguientes páginas darán información sobre estadísticas de crecimiento o edad de ganancias y mejoramientos para esa área. And we are. We ensure that all the data that we use is coming from a reputable source so us census bureau data obviously is the most commonly used so ACS data American community survey data as well as, you know, I guess to send you a sense I so senses. So next year we'll be getting some updated data that I've used in the 2020 22 plus pose at that point, which will give us just a more robust data set to work with. But what you see here is a lot of this is projected out to 2045. So, we do work with nct cog the north central Texas council governments quite a bit as well and use some of the methodologies to incorporate data to represent the public. So this is just an example of median age. And again, this one shows median household income. So just some really interesting, interesting maps you can look at and kind of drill down into on your own time. Improvement projects. So what's shown in blue there is within the rose my name and it's probably of interest. I should do. So I guess the question that most people have is how can I be involved in the comments of plan. And that's a great question. It's important to keep in mind that the comprehensive plan is just an example of what we're going to be doing in the future. So I guess the question that most people have is how can I be involved in the comments of plan and that's a great question. It's important to keep in mind that the comprehensive plan is just that it's comprehensive. So there's a lot of high level work that goes into it. Our best recommendation is to be involved in activities such as this to be involved in your neighborhood associations encourage your neighbors to be involved in these kind of meetings. So that way, you know, it works, it works from the ground up. So the city does this best to incorporate the public. So that's, that's our goal obviously and the more we know of the public needs and interests that can then come into a document like the plan. So, you know, unfortunately, we can't spend a lot of time focused on one particular neighborhood, but your help, you know, as a whole will be communicated and hopefully be implemented in time. La pregunta es cómo puede un vecindario estar involucrado en el plan comprensivo de la ciudad y es por involucrarse a ayudar a gear a gear la decisión y este solamente es un plan de compresión y eso es lo que es puede cambiar. Sando involucrados a discutir las actualizaciones de del plan para una futura reunión con vecinos y tomar esa información no solamente nos podemos enfocar en una área del vecindario, pero también tenemos que ver la área completa y la área de la ciudad, pero podemos involucrar sus comentarios y información que ustedes nos dan para ojalá poder hacer un cambio dentro del área o de la ciudad. And we always love to, you know, here as well. So, if you want to retouch us directly, you can do that. The next slide has my information, as well as my manager's information. Really, what we can do is pretty good. If you have specific questions about your neighborhood, as it concerns a certain topic. So, how is the comprehensive plan affected by the future city budget changes due to COVID and perhaps council members can also chime in on that. La pregunta era como el plan de compresiones afectado por los propuestas del despueso de la ciudad debido a cambios de COVID. I would say the comprehensive plan is very unique in how it looks at the comprehensive plan every year a lot of people do a long range plan and don't touch it for many years. I know that all of our departments are having to look at budgeting and are not being able to hire anybody new. So I think the only issues are going to be being able to do more proactive planning that we would like to do that may be limited. But I don't think it'll stop those currently employed from continuing to to keep the comprehensive plan updated. La ciudad de favor es única porque es una de las ciudades que mira el plan de compresión cada año y debido a COVID-19 no hemos podido enviar a otros empleados, pero no quiere decir que no vamos a estar viendo el plan y que sigan con el plan de compresión cada año viendo la ciudad de apartamento y pregun información. I think that as the plan shows what the desire for the future is and whether that development happens quickly or slowly may be affected by the pandemic. But it's up to individual property owners who want to do things with their land in accordance with the comprehensive plan. A base con la pandemia puede afectar en que rápido o espacio se mueven con cambiar propiedad, pero totalmente depende de el propietario. Y si ellos quieren cambiar su propiedad a base del plan de compresión. Another question come in is comprehensive planning open to the public. Yes. So the process of planning is open to the public as well as the document itself. So that's what you mean then yes, yes on both fronts. La pregunta era si el plan de compresión está abierto al público y de dos maneras si está disponible al público pero también está disponible para recibir comentarios sobre el plan. And it's like there's been some questions too about whether it's selfless in Spanish. I don't think it is right now, but I think that's a great thing to pursue. So, I don't think anybody on our staff. But I know speak Spanish. So, how many pages is the total comprehensive plan. Well, it used to be a lot longer, but since we've sort of started using this whole infographic thing, you know, it was the goal is for it to be stored and consumable. So, it was many, many things in the past, you know, 10 pages per chapter, one or so chapters and tendencies that kind of thing. So we do the math. It's way too much for one person to read in the matter. You know, I think I think it should be something that's a little bit more, you know, just readable. It's nine o'clock. Oh, my bad. I mean, it's good that has pictures probably longer in Spanish, but I guess it'll be helpful during a pandemic to have something to read. That's true. Yeah, I mean picture, we're all visual learners. So, I mean, it's a lot easier just to look at pictures and get a better understanding of things. Yes, the question is if the comprehensive plan was available in Spanish and currently it's not available in Spanish, but it's something that we could see if we can do it. The comprehensive plan has many pages, it has 10 pages per chapter and it's around 20 chapters. But they commented that it would be good to have the comprehensive plan at this moment. Any other questions? Don't see any that came in. Okay, great. Thank you so much, Zach. I just want to thank Ruth Aussie for setting all of this up and doing a, as usual, phenomenal job with all of her translations. All the departments who participated tonight and especially having council women in Zeta here join us tonight. This video will be online within the next couple of days. It will also be on the Las Familias de Rosemont's Facebook page. Please encourage as many of your neighbors to view it. The presentation and all the presentations that were shared this evening will also be shared on our website and we will work on the ones that have not been translated so far getting those done as well. So if you need anything, if you have any questions about the program or about the community engagement office, you can always reach out to us at any time. Ruth Aussie is your community engagement liaison for this area and she would love to have you call an email, write, harass her as much as possible. So any parting words, Ruth? Sorry, I don't know what just happened there. I just look forward to doing our next workshop, which is going to be with Chad, and that's the Terran County appraisal district. So I'm looking forward to that. So now the next presentation will be on Chad and it will be on property taxes. Perfect. Y'all have a great evening. Thank you so much for joining us. Night everyone. Thank you.