 All righty, we're gonna go ahead and get started. First of all, I'd like to welcome all of you to our second annual District 6 Open House. It's so awesome to see so many beautiful and wonderful and lovely faces. It's an honor to serve you all as your representative on the Fort Worth City Council. I say this all the time and I truly mean it. This isn't Jerry Williams seat. This is all of our seat. And so it's important that we have conversations and meetings and town halls and open houses and what we call listening circles so that we can not only connect you with updates, important updates from the city, but also equally and maybe even more importantly, we can get feedback from you all on what things we need to continue to work on. And so we have some important updates for you today. And I also wanna welcome those of you who are watching online. This recording will be available for your neighbors who may not have been able to be here, but really wanted to be here. So that will be posted on the city's YouTube page. I mean, so feel free, please, please, please share that out to the neighbors, to your friends, to your family so that they can also get this update. Before we get started with today's agenda, I wanna just give some very special shout outs to several organizations and folks who made today's open house possible. First of all, I'd like to thank all of our city departments. We have so many here today, so I'm gonna read off the list. We have our TBW, which is Transportation and Public Works. We have our Parks and Recreation, our Fort Worth Police Department, our Crime Prevention Team, the Office of Police Oversight. We also have community engagement, co-compliance, citizens patrol, as well as our library. Can we give our city department and public servants a warm welcome? We also have an attendant who are tabling here, some amazing community organizations that not only our office, but the city and probably many of you interact with and partner with on a weekly basis. I'd like to give a huge shout out to our two school districts that we partner with in District 6, Fourth ISD and Crowley ISD are here. Also wanna give a special shout out to a Crowley ISD student. James, can you come up here? So James is a, yeah, give him a round of applause. Not only does he serve on the GROTC, but he also serves as a student school board member in Crowley ISD. They didn't have that when I was in school in Crowley ISD. I wish they would have. I probably would have done it, James. He says that he wants to go off after high school and serve in the Army. So thank you, James, for your service today. Yeah, will y'all please give him a warm welcome. Thank you again for being here, indeed. We also have some other organizations. We have JPS here and they are giving exciting updates about our new Southwest Medical Home that's gonna be here right off of Granbury Road. It's gonna be an amazing asset to our community, amazing hospital that'll be right here in our own backyard. Also wanna recognize the Fierce Beauties Program. If you have a young daughter like I do, Janelle, she's 15 months old, but if she is interested in playing football, the Fierce Beauties is your destination for a great after-school program with great sports. They travel all across the state. My former classmate and trackmate at North Crowley High School does an amazing job leading that program and they compete all over the state. So if you know young girls who are interested in playing football, please connect with the Fierce Beauties table here. I mean, they'll certainly get you signed up. Lastly, but not least, we have the one-second collaborative here. I see two of the amazing team members for the one-second collaborative. It was an initiative that I was proud to be able to initiate in partnership with our fourth police department and our city council to partner with Taren County to address and prevent youth gun violence by investing in community organizations all across the city to help them build capacity, scale their capacity so that we can help save our kiddos' lives. In the past five to six years, more than 100 kids have lost their lives due to gun violence, retaliatory gun violence and cyclical gun violence. And something that's really important I know to all of us and so thank you one-second collaborative for the amazing work that you all do and we support you 1,000%. Can we give one big round of applause for all of our community organizations that are here today? We'll be hearing from three particular departments today, although there are many other departments here that you'll be able to continue to engage with once the event is over. But we'll be hearing from our transportation and public works about important infrastructure, updates and transportation safety updates and projects that are happening in our district. We'll also hear from our parks and recreation department, about some exciting new parks that are coming our way. And then we'll also hear from our fourth police department. I mean, then I'll come back to close this out. And so without any further ado, please welcome our TPW team. They'll give you some updates about transportation safety and infrastructure projects happening in district six. Thank you all so much. Hi, my name is Patricia and this is Martin and we're both assistant directors in TPW and we're gonna tag team this presentation. I just wanna start out by making you aware that we have handouts at our table at the back. We have a handout of this slide presentation. We have a handout of all the capital projects that we're gonna be doing in this district. And we also have a handout. Actually, this is the capital projects and the other one is all the paving that we'll be doing in the district. So when you see me flash all these lists up, know that you can get copies with all this detail in a handout. So this is what we do in capital delivery. We do arterials, which is the large streets. We do mobility, which I think of as like more point kind of fixes, intersections, traffic signals, sidewalks, safe routes to school. We do stormwater and then we do neighborhood streets, the smaller streets in your neighborhoods. We do bridges and then we do pavement management, which is repair of existing streets. There is one arterial in district six. It is McCart McPherson. It includes McCart from Risinger to Twinleaf, Twinleaf and McPherson from West Cleburne Road to McCart. It is scheduled to go to construction in January of 25. It's been a long time coming. We've had a lot of struggle the right away, but we are taking our last parcel to condemnation this month. So we are very hopeful that the schedule is gonna happen now. These are the mobility projects we have in this district. We have one in construction, three in bid awards. So they'll be starting construction later this year and we have four in design. These are stormwater projects. There are six in this district. Three are in construction now. One is in bid award and we'll be going into construction later this year. And then we have two more coming after that. These are our neighborhood streets that are all currently in design in this district. And I'll pass it off to you, Martin. To take it from here. Thank you. Once again, I'm Martin Phillips, Assistant Director in Transportation and Public Works from Over Transportation Management just to give you an idea of what I do. I say we handle everything above the pavement. We don't do potholes, but everything else. So signs, signals, striping and all that is handled by Transportation Management. One of the main programs that we wanted to highlight tonight for you is neighborhood traffic calming. And obviously, one of the main concerns that we have expressed to us by citizens in our community are vehicles speeding through neighborhoods. And so we've gotten a couple, we've had some communications with some members of the community down here. I live in this community, by the way. I'm a District 6 resident, Crowley Pride Unified Kirchner. So we have received a few communications and so we're looking into a few in this area. So if you've communicated through your HOA president, which I know one of the folks has and they reach out to the city, we'll have a service request and you can track it that way. But just wanted to explain a little bit. This slide just really just explains a little bit about the program and what it does. Essentially, we go into the situation that you've described to us, we review it, we try to see if there's things that we could implement from an engineering perspective. It could be speed cushions, it could be a speed table or something along those lines. We see if there's something that we could do. An incident where there might be a stop sign, you say, you need a stop sign. We'll go in and we'll do a stop sign analysis to see if it's warranted based upon traffic. And so our group does all of that. You can go to the next slide, please. So this just talks a little bit about when it was instated in terms of March 22, the most deployed traffic calming measures, the speed cushions and tables like I talked about. And I do have a picture at the end just to show you what that is because I know everybody's kind of like, some people are like, what is that? Exactly, but they are rubber devices. We used to have, and you might have seen this in some of the older parts of town, which we have a few in our district, where you had the speed table or the, gosh, the speed hump all the way across the road. We've kind of gone away from that. The city completely went away from that for a while. And so we brought the program back, but we brought it back with something that's a little bit easier to install, easier to maintain, easier to see when you're driving and hopefully has the same results in terms of slowing traffic down in your neighborhood. Next slide, please. And so that's the speed cushion there. We'll get into a whole bunch of detail on the left in terms of speed cushion, but those gaps will allow an emergency vehicle, large fire truck, et cetera, to travel through there without having that bump. An ambulance, let's say, you don't want to necessarily have that, that you would on a larger one. We really, and yesterday I learned, through one of the folks that I worked closely with, we've installed one speed table, but essentially those would be installed where you have a crosswalk and you wanna elevate it a little bit. And so the effectiveness of that really is bringing any pedestrians who are walking across that into the line of sight of the vehicles and make it a little more pronounced in terms of driving over it regularly. Because most of the time, as you would imagine, those kinds of issues happen when it's a community that you're familiar with, right? It's right around your house. It's the driving around the home that does that. Next slide, please. So the main thing, my Fort Worth app, you'll hear a lot of us in the city of Fort Worth talk about that, but that is essential in terms of us as residents contacting the city about anything. I recently had to get my recycling bin replaced because my lid was torn up. So I went into the app and they came out and replaced it within a couple of days. So the same thing goes for my department. Anything might not be just a couple of days, depends on what it is, but if you get in at my Fort Worth app, you'll also have an opportunity to put in information about your neighborhood traffic calming request, and that will trigger us to investigate. You'll get a service request number. You can track it that way. We can track it that way. I'm probably over time already. We'll be back at the table. If you have any questions, please come back and see us. Thank you. Sorry, now we're gonna pass it over to the Parks and Recreation Department. Good evening, everybody. My name's Lori Gordon. I'm the planning manager of the Park and Recreation Group. My group, the Park and Recreation Group, we have several different departments that fall under our umbrella. One is planning, which is what I'm in charge of. There's design and development, which actually takes the parks that are purchased and are dedicated by this sub-division ordinance. Thank you very much. If I could rambler a minute more. And then we also have park athletics and golf, and then we have the community centers that are all fall within our purview. So what I'm gonna talk about tonight are a couple of exciting projects that are happening within the land aspect of District 6. You can go to the next slide, please. My graphics are in black and white, so I do apologize. But this is Primrose Station. This is Longleachism Trail Parkway, and this is a unique opportunity that we worked with the developer and with OpenSpace to have parkland dedication as well as open space dedication. This development, when it was in its inception, was going to have multifamily housing, which it still has, two different developments of that, and single-family housing. The single-family housing went away and they decided that they wanted to give something to the city, and so they are going to dedicate the creek and the natural spaces to the city as open space, and then we'll be receiving this as the first phase of the park. There'll be an area that has a more manicured lawn in the center, the darker gray colors that you see are sidewalks, and the future plan for this master plan includes a playground as a shade structure, and then there'll be other walkways that will be going through the open space. And if you could go to the next slide, please. So this gives you a little bit larger picture of what's going on. So that circle that was on the previous slide is up at the top of the page, and then if you look and see the grayer lines, those do a connection through the development. That's the area that'll be dedicated as open space. And then this also connects into the Lano Springs development. So we've talked with the Lano Springs HOA and we're gonna be taking over their green belt that bisects the subdivision and connect it down to the roadway down at the bottom of the page. What is also gonna happen is, we'll have trails that go over to the west that connect over into Benbrook Lake. So there's gonna be a large circular trail system that's gonna be, this will be one of the trailhead locations for it. So next slide. And then a couple other things that we have going on in the district right now. We have a couple of things that are under construction, the Parkwood East Park Development, Trails Lake Estates Park Development. Those are on construction and are scheduled to be finished this year. And then Rock Creek Ranch Park, the large park we purchased in Southwest Fort Worth is under master planning phase. We've done a consultant selection that should be starting to kick off within the next month or two. There'll be public meetings that your neighborhood associations will put out for you to notice so you can come to the meetings about those. And then we also have West Haven Park is under design phase and we'll be going into construction next year. So any questions anyone has? Do you have a map of where those are? I could get that to Davia and have it posted on the website if that would work for you all. Okay, sure. Okay, thank you so much. Good evening everybody. Appreciate this one for the short guys, was it? This one for short. Appreciate that. Oh, can you go up there? I'm Commander Smith. I'm Andre Smith. I'm Commander of South Division and this is Lieutenant Mitteres. He's filling in for West Division right now. You can go to the next slide please, no more. This map here, it's not the city of Fort Worth. That's just South Division alone. That's South Division. That's the area we're responsible for. As you can see, we extend from Barrie down to pretty much Burleson. So you can see the challenges that we have and patrolling and fighting crime in this area. Next slide please. So as you can see, this is our offenses from January to this year. We're holding pretty steady with aggravated assaults. So aggravated assaults or assault offenses that display of a weapon, thread of a weapon. And so that's what aggravated assaults would be. The aggravated assaults, FV, those are domestic violence family offenses. Daily conduct would be shooting at somebody, road rage incidents, those type of crimes. Robbies are kind of self-explanatory. Next slide. And that is for offenses from last year. You kind of see how, and this is just a portion of South Division. This isn't all of it. It's just the beats that fall in Council District 6. Thanks. And these are property crimes offenses. And this is from January to now, which we're, you see 10 auto thefts, but that's actually pretty good considering this time of year. So we're holding steady. We have a property crimes teams that addresses the property crimes related to offenses, which are auto theft, burglary, burglary residents, and they do a good job of identifying. Would you have a chart that compares both? For last year or this year? Yeah, up top is the comparison. Yeah. Did you want to go back to the previous slide? Oh, okay, okay, yeah. And okay, we're done with the next slide. District 6. And again, that's from last year's offenses. So you can see we have 56 auto thefts, 15 burglary commercials, 15 residential. So there's been a, yeah, auto thefts have been a big time problem as it, and not just South Division, but the divisions overall within the cities. What is the I-18 on that other, on the previous slide? It's probably the beat. Yeah, that's the beat. So I had 18. So each division is broken up into smaller areas that we call beats to identify issues. Is there a particular type of car that they go around to? And typically it was the hellcatch and charges of type of vehicles. And we also had a period where they were still in key as there was some type of TikTok challenge or something like that related to key. So a lot of the key of vehicles will be installed in as well. Thanks, sir. Like he said, I'm Lieutenant Matthew Meadows. I'm here to represent West Division. Commander Rick's couldn't be here, so she sent me instead. I am the actual Lieutenant over King District. So when you look at this map, you'll see L and K. You mentioned K is for King District. King District has three beats that are encompassed by District 6. So when you look at the map, it's K-16, K-18, and K-19. All of those fall in District 6. So that's specifically what I'll be talking about today. Yep. So I don't have any pretty charts. Like Commander Smith did, and the numbers are pretty small. They will be available. But just to kind of give you a basic rundown, this is our Como community. This is January, and as you can see, it's January 24, 23, and 22. It kind of shows you where we are to date. As of right now, all of our violent crimes are down to date compared to previous years. So right now we're doing pretty well. And the next one. And the same is gonna be for our, if you look, this is our February, February 24, 23, and 22. And again, all of our crimes, minus our crimes against property have been down over year on year, which is nice. So our K-18 and our K-19, that's everything south of 20, west of Granbury Road, basically to Benbrook. So 20, all the way down to Benbrook, Granbury Road, Benbrook. So K-18, K-19, kind of Huland Mall area, all the way around Irving area. So if you kind of look at this, I actually, with the broken way, they broke it down. It's January to February, so it's two months in turn. So as of right now, we're actually a little higher on our crimes against persons for K-18 and K-19. How do you go up? Next one. And the same for our property crimes, in the sense of just like he's saying, our stolen vehicles is really what got us. And like you're saying, what vehicle is Kia's is what got us the most. That TikTok trend really hurt us in the sense of law enforcement trying to get those. Speaking of which, we don't have a specific date yet, but please keep your eye out. We are teaming up with Kia, and we are gonna have an event where you can actually, if you drive a Kia, you can have your Kia reflashed to where that TikTok challenge won't affect it. So please keep an eye out for that because we're gonna put it out whenever we get it. We don't have exact date yet, but we are gonna be working on that. Because as you, if you look at these numbers, I know they're kind of small, especially when you're looking at this big chart, the autothests are really what killed us. Quick, and most, I'm not sure if you're wearing out. We just moved into our new facility right across the street at 3501 West Risenters. So, we're open for business. Do y'all feel like you've come in? Not arresting people there, so don't bring anybody there. But now don't for that type of business. But yeah, it's up and running. We just have a business hours list that I went the other day and there's nothing that tells us what times you're open. Typically, seven to four, but we'll make sure I get something posted. Now, I think we also, I need to update that on the website as well, too, so. But thank you. Does anybody have any additional questions? If not now, we'll stick around for a little bit if you have specific questions regarding individual beats. A lot of your beat-offs will be here as well, NPO's for the specific beats. My main concern, this is my first council meeting, is we just discovered squatters in our neighborhood and I would like to inquire how common that is and if it's the whole district, if this is just a fluke instance in my neighborhood. I was just curious. How many times have you been into that? Yeah, the squatters can be a little tricky, right? So, we haven't necessarily experienced squatters. We have experienced some of the property theft related to rental properties. This is the organization progress residential. They own a bunch of residential properties that they lease out and somehow they give this code out. So we've had issues with people going in there and selling appliance items, not necessarily the squatters themselves, though. So there's not like a problem of squatters in there? Not that I'm aware. What neighborhood do you live in? Human rights. Okay, yeah, not that I'm aware of though. But if you're gonna give us a specific address, we can have you- It's next door to me. Okay. So it's been a problem since last Thursday. Okay, okay. Well, I'll get with you after this and see if we can help you with that. Do you happen to know who the property owner is at that? Yeah, so you've been in contact with the police, the HLA, the property owners, everybody. Gotcha, okay. Thank you so much. And I see Carmen, she works on a District 6 office. She's our constituent services director. She has her cards available for any constituent concerns, including squatting. I will, we will definitely look into that. We have already submitted an inquiry to our legal team as well. With squatting, we have to go through several legal processes. And there's a couple of hiccups that can restart the legal process. And so our legal team has been working on that. And thank you for bringing that up. Yes, ma'am. Is there a better number? Because I have your number, but I have reached out and I don't get an answer. The car she gave you has all of our contact, including her direct info, so we'll make sure to connect with you on that. Thank you again to TPW Parks and Forward PD for the updates you provided. I also wanted to take a bit of time to be able to provide you with some council related updates, just on some projects that we've also been working on. Since we just ended with public safety, I did want to give you all a couple updates on what we've been working on based on the input that you all have been giving us. First, we recognize that public safety is something that is extremely critical to thriving and growing city. And so we've really particularly been focused on ensuring that we have staffing levels in all of our first response groups that provide excellent service to you all. And so in this past budget cycle, based on all of the input that you all gave us through the budgeting cycle, we increase staffing levels for our firefighters and our police department, and as well as provided additional supports for supportive services like Hope Outreach and domestic violence related services as well. The other thing that we focus on in relation to public safety is we recognize that traffic safety is something that's really important. And so in addition to advocating for MPOs and patrol officers to help make sure folks are driving safe, we've also been focused on making essential infrastructure improvements as well as traffic improvements, many of which you saw on the board. One, several arterials are really important to a lot of us in this room, some including Risinger Road. I'm really proud of the improvements that have been made. Not only have we added a couple additional stop signs, but we also ensured that at Risinger and Hewland that we'll have an intersection improvement. We know how dangerous that intersection is. I drive there multiple times a day, as well as Risinger and Garden Springs will now begin the traffic light, thanks to the hard work of many in this room, as well as Risinger and Summer Creek has now been approved for a traffic signal as well. It's in design phase. We've been partnering with a private developer who's developing a residential development area to help cover the costs of that traffic signal as well. And so that's in the development process and they're currently designing that traffic signal. Yes, ma'am. I just want to make a comment. Can I finish the, I know we're recording it too. Okay, okay, okay, good, yes ma'am. I'll come back to you, I promise, okay? Martin Phillips is here as well, but we will make sure you make the comment then. I just want to make sure the good folks here before we wrap up. But also Risinger headed east as well, we know right by the Crowley ISD stadium, Risinger hasn't been fully improved. And so myself, TBW, private developers, as well as our development services team have been working hard and we have a lot of good traction on working to complete the full build out of Risinger Road from Crowley Road all the way to I-35. Crowley ISD has also been super helpful in those conversations. And I look forward to being given more substantial update, but progress is really being made on completing that four lanes and a median. Other RTRs that I know that are really important, you all McPherson is one that I know y'all see being widened as well, west of Chisholm Trail, Brewer Road is now finally gonna connect to Sycamore School Road. So that's a really big project that is happening right now. We could go on and on and on about the RTRs, but needless to say, that is super important. The other thing that I know some of you are interested in and thank you for engaging our offices, the need for street improvements and maintenance, particularly within our neighborhoods. So many of you and many of your neighbor presidents have submitted requests for neighborhood maintenance related projects, continue to submit those. We will continue to connect with TPW to make sure that those tickets are put in. And particularly from a council perspective, we are very much so vocal and will be vocal on this next budget cycle about the importance of ensuring that we have adequate funding so that we can improve neighborhood streets in a timely fashion and make sure that our streets don't deteriorate for too long. And ultimately, and these are the streets that we drive on most every day as the neighbors in this community. And so know that that is a big priority for us. The other thing I will add is we've also been focused on affordability issues in the city of Fort Worth, as the city continues to grow, our pocket books and our checks don't always grow as fast. And so two of the things we've been focused on as a council office, one is ensuring that anyone who works in the city of Fort Worth and serves our city and serves us can afford to live in the city. And so we have been pushing for ensuring that our wages reflect what it costs to live in the city of Fort Worth for our employees. And so since we've taken office, it was at $11 an hour now, it's at $15 an hour. In this budget cycle, I'm advocating for $18 an hour. Hopefully to get to $22 an hour. How many of you have ever heard of the Alice Report done by United Way? So if you go online and look up United for Alice, it shows by county what it costs to live in a county. And in Tarrant County, it costs more than $20 an hour to live. And that's just for basic necessities, not including 10% in savings, not including a down payment on a new home, right? And so we wanna make sure that our public servants here in the city of Fort Worth, who are serving us day in and day out, can afford to live in the city that we call home. The second thing we've been doing, I'm grateful for the mayor appointed me as the chair of Neighborhood Quality and Revitalization Committee. And that committee, we have just released a couple of months ago a report, including our Neighborhood Conservation Plan, which now expands our Neighborhood Improvement Program, not only to do in one neighborhood per year, but investing in two neighborhoods per year, which ensures that we're making bold investments in revitalizing our neighborhoods across the city, including here in District 6. And the second thing it does is there's an affordable housing strategy. Many of you have probably been following the conversations in the city of Fort Worth related to affordable housing. And one of the things we're looking at is leveraging resources to make bold investments and development bonuses that will allow for housing, of all types, but specifically from our office's perspective, housing that is attainable and that is for home ownership. And so creating incentives in these single family developments to where housing prices are set at such a rate to where folks, like first time home buyers, like my chief of staff, Davia, who's recently engaged and wanting to get married and wanting to buy a house in District 6, that home values don't go to the point where our next generation can't own homes. And so if you're very interested in that work, please follow us with the NQRC. That full report is online and over the next several months and years we'll be working to implement a lot of those recommendations in that plan. The last couple of things I'll say before closing out today is we've been really mindful of our zoning and land use and as a council, I mean as a council office, we've been working with our neighborhoods like Como neighborhood to ensure that we have land use that's compatible within our district. And so our district has painstakingly gone through every parcel in the district and we're working to make sure that all zoning is compatible so that heavy industrial is next to a single family neighborhood, right? And making sure that we have good land use and future land use in our planning. And the other thing is to make sure that we're setting up the stage for continued commercial development in our district. Many of you all have seen a lot of commercial development activity on McPherson, the shops at Chisholm. We're planning at Tavolo. If you've gone to Tarleton State, you not only see that they're building their second building and working on the third, but we're also planning major commercial development. And a lot of that is coming through zoning right now. I mean, so we're really mindful that in order to grow a strong district, six and a strong city, we need to make sure that we have a strong commercial property base in terms of tax base, but also in terms of making sure that we have excellent job opportunities and that we're on the cutting edge in terms of industries that we're recruiting to set up shop within our community. Finally, the one thing that I'm really excited about that Lori touched on is Primrose Station. It just goes to show the power that is in our hands when we partner with the private sector. We heard from you all about the importance of the park at Yano Springs. We know that it's had a lot of headaches with the pond, and that park was slated to be transitioned over to the Homeowners Association. After having a listening session with the neighbors at Yano Springs, we all came up with a solution that the city of Fort Worth probably should take management over it. And we developed a management agreement to where the city of Fort Worth would manage the Yano Springs Park. At the same time, in those same conversations, we were having conversations with Primrose Station, which is a 40-acre open space conservation park that adds more than 350 acres of open space conservation parkland that'll be available for us in future generations that live here in District 6. And because of those two conversations being connected, we were able to get the private community to develop trails that wouldn't have otherwise happened in Yano Springs Park. The vision not only is to connect to Bembroke Lake, as Lori said, but to connect to the Steve Hawkins development that is on the east side of the toll road. So a trail would go underneath the toll road into the new development developed by Steve Hawkins and the C.P. Hadley, and ultimately to get back to the Chisholm Trail Community Center. And so that is a huge amenity that is currently in development if you drive down Chisholm Trail and you look to the left just before you hit Sycamore School Road, you will see Primrose Station and all of the dirt turning that is happening there and the open space hasn't been mowed down. So you can definitely tell where the open space area will be. All that to say, we work for you and a lot of these ideas aren't our ideas, it's ideas that we get from your engagement. I mean, so we have two call to action tonight. The first being continue to engage us with all of the services that you're needing and then also to subscribe to our District 6 newsletter. Carmen Ochoa curates our monthly newsletter in partnership with myself and Davia who's our district director in the office. And when we provide relevant updates, council recaps as well as community events that are happening in our community. So if your neighbor does have an event like a garage sale, yard sale, we also put those things as well in the newsletter. So please subscribe and engage with us there. The second thing is we're allowing, we worked real hard to make sure that we allowed every resident to have access to zoning alerts so that when zoning and land use application is submitted, anyone who subscribes to that newsletter by district can now get the alert directly. So you don't have to wait for your HOA board to pass it down to you, you can get it directly. So please subscribe to that for District 6 so that we make sure that as we're making decisions on zoning and land use that we're here and feedback from you as you're getting alerts so that we vote in a way that makes sense for our district. And then the last thing that I'll share is make sure that you stay engaged with our comprehensive plan that is related to the zoning process and we'll have public meetings and there's actually one on the calendar for April 15th from six to 8 p.m. at the Chisholm Trail Community Center. That is so important because it sets the trajectory of our planning all the way up until 2050. And so the more engagement that we have from you and your neighbors, the better it helps us set things like future land use and strategies for growing our city in a way that'll set our city up for success for not only baby Janelle and baby Jameson who's two months away from today, he will be here with us, but also for your kids, your grandkids and your family members and loved ones. So please, please, please continue to engage with us in the process and know that we are here working day in and day out for you. I did promise my good neighbor here, friend, that we will leave some time for some remarks for comments, but I'm also happy to answer maybe a few questions and then I'll stick around after the concluding of tonight's event so that we can continue to have conversations and we can connect you with all the wonderful resources that are here. Yes, ma'am. Okay, it's a comment and it's almost like it sounds like a family of giants and as far as talking about the sidewalks, traffic lights and all that, when the light turns green, they'll immediately go, I have almost been running into, I don't know how many times. So maybe count to five or something like that and the people in back of you honk, just wave at me and then go. Such salient advice, especially as a parent of a newborn, I'm abundantly cautious when driving, especially when she's in the car. I mean, that's a good advice for all of our neighbors. We have a responsibility to one another when we're driving on the road. I mean, so please, please, please make sure that you're driving safe and driving responsibly because we all want to get home to our loved ones. Thank you for that. Yes, sir. So I asked you just last time about the weather and the rain and some of these streets are impassable, even with a small bit of rain. So at what point in time, have you guys been saying, the mission returns we can't keep building and we have to let this water go off somewhere? Yeah. Right now I'm telling you, I don't know if it's, is it rising or whatever that one piece of land is, if it rains a little bit, I can't drive that. Yeah, if you send that to me, we'll look into it specifically. I mean, absolutely. We're very mindful when we're improving development of how the potential impacts that it has on our infrastructure, our capacity. One of the things that we're very big on is making sure that development, when it's coming in through the zoning process, then we ensure that infrastructure is also in place. And I know we talked about this before last time. Lauren Priere is here and some of our development services might be here, but they'll tell you, I'll hold up a project until I'm confident that it'll provide the adequate infrastructure. I mean, that's because I feel the same way as you all do. I live in a neighborhood, grew up in a neighborhood, and I wanna make sure that I can go to some of our favorite restaurants when I retire from this thing and y'all not run me out of town. So I plan on being here a long time. So well received. Stormwater infrastructure is something that's really important for the city. And it's something that we're playing catch up with too because it's a fast growth city. And that's why I'm abundantly thoughtful and thorough with what we do in land planning and zoning. Yes, ma'am. There's quite a few neighbors in my neighborhood that are- And metals and cannerage. Right? Yeah. That are concerned about the proposed street maintenance fee. Me too. Okay. They are not, let's just say they're not for it. Me either. Okay. I wouldn't have said that. David's already heard that. So that's why he's smirking. I will elaborate on that. I think infrastructure is a basic function of government and should be considered within our general fund and within our pay go fund. I mean, if there's something that we need to do to allocate more of our tax rate, we'll also be mindful that we wanna lower the tax rate to pay go funds. I'm all about that. But when we start creating additional fees, there are additional taxes. I mean, I'm very concerned about that. That's right where everyone is. Yes, ma'am. They're still concerned about our streets, although we've been told they're all shared. The commission, it'll be five or six years. Some of them aren't gonna make five or six years. I was thinking about your neighborhood when I mentioned what I mentioned about we need to have a more robust funding stream for a neighborhood street program and maintenance. I could also go think of a number of other neighborhoods, Quillridge one and two, Candoridge. If I started going down the list of all the neighborhoods, I would probably come by your neighborhood by listing them out. But neighborhood streets program, I think is a really important program and it deserves more funding. So that's something you'll be promoting for us. I did a last budget cycle. I'll do it again this cycle. I was somewhat successful last cycle. I hope to be more successful this cycle with your help. My neighbors will be glad to hear that. Thank you. On Grandbury Road, within a three block area, we now have two new liquor stores. About another three blocks down, it's another liquor store. Why do we suddenly have so many liquor stores and car wash? Agreed. So with the car washes, I was involved in writing the car wash ordinance with two of my other colleagues in the legal department. And so we have ordinances in place that ensure that car washes aren't going to land on every block. I have already put an inquiry in months ago with legal and we're currently writing the ordinance to do similar things with other uses, similar to liquor stores. And so I don't want to go in too much details on that because there's some legalities around it. But know that I agree and we're working to create an ordinance that won't allow them to be within a certain radius of one another. Here you go, sir. Top of the street, another phase one. Regarding some of the renewal organizations, mainstream renewal progress, that have very large concentrations of ownership in our neighborhood, but are extraordinarily unresponsive. We had an incident with a break-in to a house. People were partying inside. Patrol was able to respond, but without a complaints witness, nothing could be done. And we know how these parties turn out. We've seen examples from Frisco all the way across the Metroplex, where drinking, sub-skews, disputes, weapons, and casualties. It's not idle speculation. We don't need that and want that. But we cannot get any response out of these organizations. The last I knew, the city of Fort Worth had an ordinance. It said, if you own multifamily or you own three adjacent properties, you had to have a registered property agent with the city. I would suggest that it would be in our neighborhood's best interest. And your work was legal. If we could pursue something analogous to the alarm from if you are a property management company, you have a 24 by 7 registered agent who can assert the rights of the owners with a required five to six whatever patrol. We don't need them sitting on site for half an hour when there's call spending. So it's something that patrol can get to, get an authoritative legal response to assert the rights of the owners, where code can get a response and not have to chase people for a month. When you look at the ownership matters, Main Street Renewal might manage 10 adjacent houses. When you look at the ownership, the ownerships are alphanumeric reeds scattered across the United States. I believe those are deliberately being structured to avoid the adjacent ownership, as well as the multifamily. We need a much more responsive. Or if these organizations receive benefits for being neighborhood renewal, put those benefits on ice. It's either play ball or losing. They don't need it. They don't participate well in neighborhoods. They don't need any special qualifications or privileges until their act improves and improves a whole lot. Yeah, this is something that I'm very concerned with. It's something that I wasn't too much of an expert in before hearing this issue. I mean, it's something that you have my commitment to work with legal on to explore every tool that we can do to make sure that this is addressed. The other thing I will add to that, and this is something that ties back into the housing situation that I was discussing earlier. I'll be requesting a report. Mark considered this an official request, and then I'll submit it later. But I'll be requesting a report for corporate ownership of housing in Fort Worth. I suspect that many of our housing opportunities are corporate commercially owned. And I'm very concerned about the long term ramifications of that for the city, especially for transitioning assets onto the next generation and the lack of inventory for home buyers to be able to get into a home. And so this is a part of a conversation I'm very much so interested in. Before y'all submitted these inquiries, I didn't know much about it. But now I'm fired up about it. So we'll definitely work on it now that I know about it. There's approximately 1,453 homes in phase one. And the ownership percentage, or the number of those homes that are managed by the two major property management companies Progress and Main Street are significant. And if one of those decides to be a bad corporate citizen, the damage that they can do far exceeds what a multifamily and you know, I mean, I'm right across from the tracks from the Sycamore Point, right by the UP tracks there on Sycamore School. I don't know if that's properties ever getting better, but what they can do, the negative effects they can have on their far exceeds what any of the other entities that goes bad can do. This is something we really need to address sooner rather than later. What neighbor did you have in? Meadow Creek from Hawkwood Trail UP tracks on the east side to McCartn, Sycamore School south, basically to here. This is the end of phase two right here, just north of Risinger. Thank you for that. Well received. Maybe we have time for one or two. We're done early, but if you have one or two pressing questions, I'll stay to answer those, and then we'll wrap up. Yes, ma'am, in the back. I'm here in Parkville State, one of the new revisions, and we've been here about 18 months now. And since we've been here, we, I personally, have videos and photos from 15 wrecks on this curb right here. It's called Dead Man's Curve to the Neighbors who are there before me. It's traumatizing. It's traumatizing. They came and knocked on my door. They want fire extinguishers. They want me to call 911, and I will get the police props. I appreciate you coming so quickly. The first responders come very quickly. The last accident injected three men. And as they're banging on my door at 3 o'clock in the morning, and I walk out, and we've had two deaths there. And yes, I know that the majority of them are drunk drivers, and I know that we can't control that. What I've been asking to do, and I've been working with calming traffic with no success, is to please put some signs back up. Put a street line up there. When you come off of here, if you don't live here, especially if you're intoxicated, we live here. We know you gotta make that jug, right? Gotta make that jug. We know that. But even when my company comes, I tell them, don't go here. Like the young lady said earlier, don't, you know, don't go. They're running the red lights. If we could get some concentration right here for our neighborhood in this meeting, I have spec with two officers recently who has assured me that now that they're aware of it, they're working on it, and I'm appreciative of that. It's not fair for anyone intoxicated or not, to not know that that road ends. And they're hitting that, and they hit that concrete culvert, right? So I'm asking that somebody could get me in touch with somebody who really cares, and can look through my videos, my photos, and look at all the calls. Well, this is the whole reason why we do that. Why we do what we're doing right now. And I'm looking at Martin, and he is looking at a Google map, and he's also gonna connect with you immediately after this to make sure that we get that address. Martin is my go-to. Martin Phillips is my go-to man for issues exactly like you're describing. And so anytime we get those requests, we submit to him, his team is on it to try to figure out ways we can address that. So, yes, ma'am. The other thing that I failed to mention that is noteworthy because she brought up emergency response. I was recently appointed to serve on the ad hoc committee for emergency medical response. And we have another meeting on April 16th, and I encourage you all to watch that meeting. We have been exploring not only what our current EMS system is today, but options to improve that. And we have several different options on the table that we're about to make decisions on that'll dramatically improve EMS response in this city. So I encourage you to watch that. Know that it is my personal preference that we get an ambulance here in four minutes. We will get there over time. But this ad hoc committee is really important and it will really save thousands and over the years, hundreds of thousands of lives for what we're doing in this committee. So please make sure you watch the meeting on April 16th and then the subsequent meetings after that. It's a really big deal that we'll have lasting positive impacts in our community. I don't see any more hands, so that means that one more. I spoke it into existence. The past six months, I live in Summer Creek and I'm heading north on Grandbury Road. License plates from Alaska, Nebraska, Arkansas, Idaho. I've never seen so many out-of-state license plates up and down my roads. And yesterday, I was at the stoplight, maybe nine o'clock in the morning at Grandbury Road and Columbus Trail. And the car next to me on the red light just rode on through. I've seen many times products on Grandbury Road near Suffolk or near that railroad. Cars, red light, cars just keep on going. And what, is there anything I can do? I mean, try to whip out your cell phone and take a... I just can't believe how many people are just driving through the... So one, doing what you just did helps, especially with all these men and women of our PD here. Also, whenever you see things like that, it's important that you report it to our office as well as to PD so that they know the specific locations where it's happening most frequently. And in terms of a budget process, we need to make sure that we have patrol that can enforce our traffic laws. No one wants to ride a ticket, but if it comes down to riding a ticket and saving a life or not riding a ticket, someone blows through the stoplight. I'll say I've been to one too many funerals for our residents that were involved in traffic accidents that could have been avoided if someone didn't blow through a light or wasn't speeding. And so what you just did is what we need you to do. See something, say something. So the city can do something. I mean, know that in this budget, we wouldn't need y'all to say something so that when I'm advocating for more support in our traffic division, we can get that so we can make sure that folks are driving safe in our community. Oh, what time of day? Okay, I think I was driving to my exercise class, which was eight o'clock, and I was at heading north on Granbury Road, Columbus Trail, there's a light, like a limousine, older car, not a limousine, but a big older car, town car, just floats on through. And I looked around and I said, well, I guess I don't see any other cross traffic and he just decided he could go. There's a traffic on summer three, Columbus Trail. Yeah, Columbus Trail in Sycamore is the next center. Sounds like you're on it off some bargains. Yeah, I have seen you there, yes. And then down, you know, on Granbury Road where you make a jack to cross over the railroad tracks and do that Wabash Avenue. Right there, I see a lot of cars just floating through on a red line. Thank you, you're welcome. Sounds like you've got to take good care. Officer Vargas will definitely do that. He's also a neighborhood president in District Six, so thank you for your service, sir. We are at time, but we will still be around here to answer any questions and any concerns that you have. We'll be here till 7.30. So thank you all again, and for those of you who are watching online, please remember to share this video with folks you know. Thank you all, y'all have a blessed night. Take care.