 broad representing our city, the city of Fort Worth to one of our sister cities. This spring break or this summer, we are very proud to acknowledge we have a total number of ambassadors this year of 75 and a total number of delegation leaders here tonight as 16 people. We are represented well by the chairman of the sister city's board, Mr. Greg Jackson, who will deliver remarks and then I will proudly deliver the citizen's oath to our student ambassadors that are traveling on behalf. To the parents that are here tonight, thank you for having faith in Fort Worth sister cities and the city. I know that it's a lot to ask to send your child across the world, but I promise you they'll have a life-changing experience. It's all the better for it. With that, Mr. Jackson, take the microphone. Thank you, mayor. Mayor, council members, thank you for having us here tonight and recognize the importance of global connections for Fort Worth. Fort Worth sister cities as you know is the only nonprofit solely dedicated to promoting Fort Worth globally and enriching our local community through international education, exchange, and commerce. We're excited to be here this evening to have the oath of citizen diplomacy administered to the Fort Worth students who will be representing Fort Worth to the world this spring and summer. We have 75 students, as the mayor said, traveling to France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Germany, and Indonesia. International exchanges give students possibly their first opportunity to travel, which is almost always described as a life-changing experience. Through these experiences, the students gain important life skills, including cultural competency, global problem-solving, leadership, and resilience. I would like to present the 2024 Youth Ambassadors delegation and associate delegation leaders. Please come up. These participants were selected through a strenuous application process and represent many Fort Worth ISD schools as well as private schools. And we're happy to say that because of the generosity of this community, we're able to provide nearly $24,000 in scholarships enabling these students and teachers to participate. As I call your names and the leaders' names, will you and your students of your delegation please raise your hands. Our Harrison scholars to Nagaoka, Japan, delegation leaders James Gleaton of Tarrant County College, and Julia King of Deloitte, Inc., also a sister cities board member. To Budabest, Hungary, our delegation leader, Gregory Gross, All Saints Episcopal School, and Alexis Gross, World Languages Institute, associate delegation leader, Bronwyn Logan of Tarrant County College. Reggio Emilia, Italy, delegation leader, Monica Marchi-Jackson, Tarrant County College, Chloe Marshall, Clifford Davis Elementary School, associate leader, Marcel Munoz, University of Texas at Austin. Our delegation to Neem, France, the leaders, Chelsea Beninate, Fort Worth Country Day, Patricia Anderson, Dabble Hill Jarvis High School. Delegation to Trier, Germany, delegation leader, Sara Fairly Luna of Leadership, Fort Worth, and Austin Johnson, Trinity Valley. Delegation to Nagaoka, Japan, the delegation leader, Hao Tran, Trimble Tech High School, Brandy Satt, IDEA Public Schools, associate delegation leaders, Alicia Flores of SMU, and Nina Havia, Seton Hall University. Delegation to Bandung, Indonesia, the delegation leader, Courtney Up, of Stuart Elementary in Alito ISD, and Amelda Dunlap of the Young Women's Leadership Academy, the associate delegation leader, Caroline Narts, University of Texas at Austin. Mayor Parker, I invite you to join us and administer the citizen's diplomat oath. I can do that. Okay, students, repeat after me. I, and state your name. I, and state your name. Have the opportunity. Have the opportunity. And responsibility to improve relations. And responsibility to improve relations. Between the United States and the world. Between the United States and the world. I am a citizen diplomat appointed. I am a citizen diplomat appointed. I am a citizen diplomat appointed by Mayor Parker, the Four City Council, and the Four Sister Cities Program. And the Four Sister Cities Program. I am committed to do this for. I am committed to do this for. My city, my country, and my world. My city, my country, and my world. Let this be so. Let this be so. You are officially sworn in as citizen diplomats, congratulations. Now I think we're gonna attempt to take a group picture, but to all the parents here, if you really loved Fort Worth, you'd stay for the zoning docket tonight. Are there, suddenly no hands went up. I understand how that goes. Jokes aside, this entire dais I speak for each of them, we are so, so proud of your accomplishment to get to this point. Your job is simple, to represent Fort Worth well, to enjoy yourselves, learn, as you become young adults into the world. I know this will be a life-changing experience. And the last and most important thing is be really nice to your sponsor, okay? Take care of them, buy them treats along the way, go to bed when you're supposed to, don't stress them out, because we want them to come back in the future and take another delegation of students. Sound good? Deal? Okay, perfect, let's take a picture. Thank you. So you have plenty of. Okay, so our next item of business will be items continued or withdrawn by staff. Or I'm sorry, items to be withdrawn from the consent agenda. There we go. We have three items to remove from the consent agenda. That is MNC 24-0108, MNC 24-0113, and MNC 24-0129. Okay, so we're not pulling 0124? We are not pulling 124. Next will be items to be continued or withdrawn by staff. We have two items to be withdrawn by staff. That is MNC 24-0017, and MNC 24-0121. Mayor and Council, next will be our speakers on consent agenda and we have one, I believe, Mayor. Mr. David Martinez, is David here? I didn't see him yet, but he may have been clogged up in the people. David Martinez, I don't think he's here. Okay, Jeanette, we can proceed. That is all of the consent speakers. Next will be a motion on approval of the consent agenda as amended. Second. A motion and a second, Council. Any other discussion? If not, please vote. Next will be MNC 24-0108. A motion and a second, Council. Any discussion on this item? Mayor Pro Tem? It's not often that we have good news to share and there's good news contained in this item, and I'd like for staff to come to the microphone for a brief overview of what this means to our citizens. There's work coming near you. Who is doing the honors? Okay. Monty's come down. Oh, okay. Yes, so Mayor Pro Tem, I'm Monty Hall. Acting TPW director right now, Lawrence on vacation this week. But this is really just giving us more contract capacity to do more pavement markings across the city. Doing that, giving us a little bit more capacity this year, and then escalating throughout the out years as we do renewals, so that we can continue to keep the pavement markings in good shape across the city. And in English, that means people will see more pavement striping, maybe buttons. Absolutely, they'll be able to tell what lane they're supposed to be in. Yes. You know, where they're supposed to be, how to approach the intersection, the light? Yes, absolutely. That sounds better than that, engineers. And so with that, you know, I wanted to move for approval. I bet Elizabeth will pull her motion and let you make it. Move for approval. Motion in a second, Council, please vote. Thank you, Monty. Thank you. I'm glad to see Lauren got to an actual vacation. That's good. Oh yeah. Carlos Trigen. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 24-0113. Any other discussion on this item? This pertains to the city's home repair program. I had Mayor Pertim. Amy Connolly is going to join us at the microphone. Hi, Amy. Amy, for years we have done work trying to help people, especially senior citizens, make repairs to their homes. A lot of times just this help from the city can keep an older person in their home. So what does this mean to the average citizen who might need some repair work done? Yes, this is a budget increase that Council approved of $2 million to our priority repair program. The program has been in place since 2010. We've helped over 3,000 low income homeowners in Fort Worth with this program. And this MNC simply takes the budgeted amount of money and applies it to our existing contracts. So it allows us contract authority. And I will tell you this money, this program has been put to use in every council district in the city. It may be that you just need a roof. You might need some repairs that involve plumbing. This is a good thing. And with that, I move for approval. Thank you. Thank you, Amy. Got a motion and a second. Council Member Crain, any other discussion? Please vote. Thank you, Amy. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 24-0129. Council Member, we got a motion on the floor. Council Member Nettles, go ahead. A second. But if the Chief was here, can the Chief come down and give us a review of this MNC? Mayor and Council, Neil Locke's Chief of Police for PD. Thank you for asking about this MNC. This is a very important grant, one that we've applied for or received before. What we're asking for here is an additional machine that helps us analyze evidence related to gun crimes, whether that's spent shell casing, spent rounds, things will help us actually be able to connect various crimes. They're all entered into a program that's run by the ATF. It's a national integrated ballistic information network. And with that system, we have the same types of evidence from law enforcement agencies across the country who all put their information here. And using the system with the machine that we have right now, we've been able to link various crimes from across the city and even in other jurisdictions that help us take guns and violent offenders off the street. The problem is there's so much evidence that there's a backlog on the evidence that we're processing. This additional machine will help us not only catch up on the problems we have with our backlog, get quicker leads to our detectives in the field, but we're also gonna take a regional approach and work with surrounding agencies because criminals will cross city limits to commit crimes in other areas and in Fort Worth as well. So this is gonna be a regional approach to help us take an even more proactive stance against violent crime in the city of Fort Worth. There it is. Can you confirm without any hesitation that there is not a conspiracy to take your guns or anything? It's absolutely not a conspiracy to take anyone's guns. We support the Second Amendment. We are trying to take guns out of the hands of violent criminals. Well, I support the Second Amendment too. Just come by my house. You'll see my barrage door in place. Move for approval. Don Stewart's back on The Daily Show, but Gina Bivens is available any Tuesday night. You need her apparently. Exactly, okay. Thank you, Chief Knows. We're gonna vote. Thank you, Council. Motion carries. Next will be announcements by city council members and including recognition of citizens or approval of ceremonial travel if needed. Our flores, you're up first. Thanks, Mayor. Okay, we got our first slide up there. Great minds and STEM came by to town. We had visiting with us, with myself, with Stella Martinez Stewart and also Stephanie Rodriguez of the Convention Center representatives of STEM. From around the country, they're interested in having a future convention here in Fort Worth. So we showed them the best of Fort Worth in one of the places, favorite places of ours, was taken with them after Mios in the cultural district. Next slide, please. Okay, February 9th, attended the Fort Worth Police Academy graduation ceremony for Class 156. Several of us did, our very own council member, Laura Storf, gave a very stirring speech, very motivational to the class recruits. Congratulations, Chief Knows and his training staff for getting those officers on the street ready to serve Fort Worth. Next slide, please. February 8th. Northside Neighborhood Association meeting. We attended to give updates in addition to crime reports, neighborhood patrol reports, co-compliance reports, and a report from the library provided updates of the Grand Avenue drainage project. It's part of the Central City River project, also the Grand Avenue sidewalk project that's up and coming. And the core project of raising university drive by a couple of feet. Next slide, please. All right. Now, so we have a community open house on Monday, February 26th from six to eight PM that's at Eagle Mountain Saginaw ISD administration building at 1600 Mustang Rock Road. It's a come and go event, so you can go ahead and adjust your schedule accordingly. Lots of opportunity there to stop by different tables to get information, anywhere from co-compliance, TPW police. And we're also combining it too with the most recent projects going on in districts two and seven. And I think Macy, you and I are doing that collaboratively, right? It's a good looking forward to that. Next slide, please. All right. Valentine's Day is upon us literally tomorrow. So Valentine's dinner in the movie, we had to change that. Now it's February 16th at the North Tri-Ethnic Community Center from 530 to 8 PM. It's still going on. You can RSVP by Facebook or call 817-392-5200. Next slide, please. All right. Mardi Gras in the air. Let's say Le Bon Temps Rolère. So North Tri-Ethnic Community Center in collaboration with Kiki's Club invites you to join their Mardi Gras dance for all ages for special needs kids and their families Saturday, February 24th from 4 to 7 PM. Don't forget your masks and beads. You can RSVP February 21st or call 817-357-1484. That's all I have. Thanks, Carlos. Council Member Larsdorf. Well, I don't know any French, so I apologize in advance. It's Marine Corps French. They're probably not appropriate for the group, but nonetheless, as my colleague noted, I had the opportunity to speak before some fine men and women. Just want to let the residents of Fort Worth know. It just got a little bit safer out there because we have some fine recruits that just turned to newest police officers. Thanks to Chief and your staff and your training staff there that put these folks out on the street to mimic what the Chief always says. He'd rather graduate none than graduate the wrong one. And by looking out in that crowd at that graduation, despite the calls for everyone to put more and more police out there on the streets, it was evident what they started with and then what they ended with and how much of a smaller number it was. All the confidence in the world that we are, in fact, putting the right folks out there on the street. So congratulations, Chief, for making our streets a little bit safer. And thank you. Your slide. I spoke at the Golden Triangle Rotary Club. The reason why this one's up there is because one thing you realize when you're in North Fort Worth and you're around all the other cities, you know, Southlake, Keller, Collierville, Roanoke and you all get in the same room. There's a lot of jealousy in the air and a lot of folks wish they were in Fort Worth. And a lot of times they think their problems are Fort Worth problems come to find out it's not. So for those that are outside Fort Worth, hey, by all means come on in, we'll take you. And that's all I got. Council Member Bivens. Thank you. This weekend, Mosier Valley is the place to be. Mosier Valley is the home of the first freed slaves who settled in Texas. And we will be planning for how to spend a million dollars for the park. Mosier Valley Park will be a faith cathedral church located at 3,500 House Anderson. And I have to give a special thanks to Richard Zavala. I don't know if Richard is here, but Richard Zavala and I had a pretty good heated discussion on Christmas Eve in 2013, but that discussion led to us creating this park. I also thank Commissioner Roy Brooks for helping and the widow of former Councilman Eugene McRae. And so we'll be at House Faith Cathedral at one o'clock this Saturday in Mosier Valley. And for those of you, if you're driving out Trinity Boulevard and you see those white crosses, you're almost there. Next slide, please. Oh, I had one more. I didn't get the pictures, but I can prove to you Warren Forgiveness Day was a big success in District 5. We met at Brighter Outlook thanks to Pastor Bruce Datcher for hosting us. And Warren Forgiveness Day is not a hoax. We had 197 warrants actually cleared this past weekend. 444 people had signed up because you can have an appointment for Warren Forgiveness Day. And in addition to the 197 who had warrants cleared, another 140 people were able to check for warrants because we had line barger there and others to see if you had warrants. And the good thing about getting warrants cleared is you don't have to look over your shoulder. You don't have to lie on a job application. You can walk away free and clear and we do this all over the city. And so, whether you want to admit it or not, you probably know somebody. I can look at this crowd and tell who might have warrants. Look for the next, I'm looking at this crowd over here. And so, but you know, check the city calendar because you want to share that information with any and everybody. And we do this with joy. Real judges were on the scene. There were also bankers and other people helping you get your life straight. And so, Suzanne Richards of our Envision Center, a big kudo to her because she put it all together with help from William Rummel, whose department runs it. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Pertim and Council Member Williams. Yes, I think I just have one. I just wanted to shout out the one second collaborative which is for those of you who don't know a collaborative that this body as well as Taren County partnered with with Ford PD to address and prevent youth gun violence and retaliatory and cyclical gun violence and had the opportunity to go to the second day of the two-day summit. And I was just really amazed by all of the youth that were involved in this summit, some of which have been impacted by gun violence and many of them, if not all of them who are actively working in their schools to help reduce teen gun violence in our county. And so I just wanted to commend all the students who are involved in the youth working group, helping the ones that can collaborative create solutions to help keep their friends and classmates safe. So I think that's the last one, Mayor. Oh, that's me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Y'all, I have a 13-month-old baby and one on the way, so I gotta forgive me. Okay, we have adoption on the go event. Check my social media for that, but it'll be on South Hewlett Street. If you are looking for a furry friend to add to your house, please, please, please join us at that event. And then also, we are participating in the Cow Town Great American Cleanup as a lot of folks across the city of Fort Worth are. That's on Saturday, March 23rd. And so be sure to join in on the fund there and help us keep Fort Worth beautiful. I think that's the last one now. Thank you. Council Member Hill. On January the 30th, I attended the Chisholm Ridge Homeowners Association meeting, and thank you to Chelsea St. Louis who came with me and got to answer some questions about infrastructure, sidewalks, curbs and parks. So I appreciate them having me. Looking forward, on February the 24th, the Fort Worth Animal Control will be holding an adoption event at the Community Arts Center at 1300 Guindy from 10 until two. Please stop by and help support our animal shelters and adopt a pet. Community Open House on February the 26th, Commander Kim of the Northwest PD Division. I will hold a community town hall that Carlos mentioned. It'll be held at Eagle Mountain Saginaw ISD at 1600 Mountain Rock. And please come by between six and eight. We'll have several community partners for you to come and meet. Council Member Nettles. Yes, I had a real quick announcement. I don't have any slides. On Tuesday, February the 27th, we're going to have a community meeting with the Police Officer Monitor with Boncia. So she's been here for some time now and we wanna have a candid conversation. So if you have any questions for the Police Officer Monitor, you can come out February the 27th at Texas Westland at, I believe it's 530. We'll have a flyer to go out on the social media as well as the website and we'll send out notifications. But we wanted to put that out there for you. Texas Westland on February the 27th. Thank you. Council Member Beck. All right, there we go. So we had the opportunity to dedicate one of our public art installations on Magnolia. It's an acorn. It's one of three that will be going on that strip. What's really cool about this is that bronze part that you see around that acorn is actually community members' hands. So my two little fists are in there somewhere and people from all over the city are part of that. And so you'll see more of the same of that coming to Magnolia. Next slide. Speaking of Magnolia, we did have the Near South Side Small Business Council Meeting. Really great to be back in that room and see really all of the people working really hard in the Near South Side to make it a unique and successful place for the city. All right, future events. So we've got Love at First Bark coming up Sunday the 18th. I didn't come up with that, but it's a good one. Sunday, this coming Sunday, February 18th from one to five at the Maple Branch Craft Brewery. So if you don't know, if you want to get a dog, have a couple of beers and then you will decide that you definitely want to get that dog. So that was some strategic planning there. All right, next slide. Okay, so we have the Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth Red Shoe Society annual chili cookoff. And I never say no to judging a chili cookoff. And so I hope that you will all come out. You'll support this amazing organization and eat some really great chili. Next slide. Okay, this is one of the coolest events that the city of Fort Worth puts on and shout out to the folks, Cody and his team for doing this. This is the Trashin show. So it will be after the, let's see, where we go. It's held after the Caltown Great American Cleanup at the Earth Day Party, March 23rd. And so I had the opportunity to judge last year and all of their outfits are made out of trash or recyclable material and the level of just quality that these people put together in what is just trash is amazing. Like come just to see the talent that we have here in Fort Worth. And if you think you wanna compete, entry is free, but you have to have it submitted by March 20th. So, and that is it. Happy Valentine's Day, y'all. I think that's the conclusion of our announcement by city council. Moose, Janice. Mayor and council, we do not have any speakers on the non-consent items other than the public hearings and zoning cases. So our next item will be 24-4077, board appointments from district 10. Council member Blalock. Thank you, mayor. So I request your consideration to appoint the following individual to the below listed board with a partial term effective February 13th, 2024 and ending October 1st, 2024. Ronnie Ramsey to Urban Design Commission. With respect to application is attached and resume original copy will be maintained in the city secretary's office. Got a motion and a second council, please vote. Motion carries. Next item is 24-4078. Retain a motion council. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next item is 23-0613. Motion and a second, please vote. Motion carries. Next item is 24-4079. Motion and a second. Mayor. Go ahead, please council member Beck. So I just want to, I see our folks from visit Fort Worth here. So I want to make sure that they get a nod. And while we're talking about the convention center, I happen to be attending a meeting there last week. And I want everybody to know that one of the coolest things Visit Fort Worth has done is there's a Fort Worth vending machine in your convention center. I've got my cool Fort Worth branded water bottle here on the dies. So I would highly recommend you all go over and buy some full, cool Fort Worth merch. I think that's a really great way to advertise our city. So hats off to you and I look forward to seeing more of those. Thank you council member Beck and thank you all for being here tonight. Motion and a second, please vote council. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 24-0105 with report by city staff, Evan Roberts. Good evening mayor and council. My name is Evan Roberts. I'm assistant director of development services department. Every three years, the state of Texas adopts a new electrical code, the most recent version of the national electrical code to reduce conflict and confusion. The city of Fort Worth adopts the same. We've conspicuously posted the city's amendments, the amendments we're proposing today. We conspicuously, ah, can't talk, apologize. Conspicuously posted the amendments we're asking, seeking to adopt today on the website for the last three weeks. We've received no comments. Excuse me. Notice of, notice of tonight's hearing. I'm available, I apologize. I'm available if you have any questions upon conclusion of tonight's public meeting, city staff request that the public hearing be closed and city council approve the MNC. Thank you, Evan. We appreciate that. Council, any questions for Evan? No. Motion and a second, please vote. Evan, as you're walking off and we're voting, everyone loves working with you. You should know that. So get lots of positive comments. Thanks for your job you're doing. You're welcome. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 24-0-1-1-2 with staff report by Leah Brown. Ms. Brown, good to see you. Good evening, mayor and members of council. My name is Leah Brown. I'm a neighborhood development coordinator with neighborhood services department. And this evening on your agenda is MNC 24-0-1-1-2 regarding the adoption of a resolution of no objection supporting a housing tax credit application by FW Hughes House 2, LP, for the development of Hughes House 2, a new multi-family affordable housing development. FW Hughes House 2, LP intends to submit a 4% non-competitive housing tax credit application to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, otherwise known as TDHCA. In order for a 4% housing tax credit application to be submitted to TDHCA, a municipality is required to hold a public hearing for the purpose of receiving public comments on the project. The proposed development will consist of approximately 278 units to be set aside for families earning 80% or less of the area meeting income or AMI, of which 85 units will be set aside for households earning zero to 30% of AMI. This number also includes 14 PSH units or permanent supportive housing units. The proposed development will be located at 14-01 Eda Street in Fort Worth. Staff has reviewed the request by FW Hughes House 2, LP, and found that the development is consistent with the quality affordable housing goals and priorities in the city's 2023-2027 consolidated plan. Therefore, staff recommends that after any public comments are received this evening, the public hearing be closed and the city council take formal action to approve MNC 24-0-1-1-2 and the attached resolution of no objection for the development of Hughes House 2. Thank you very much. Thank you, Leah. Questions from council? Go ahead, Councilor Bivens. I have just a statement to make. We are truly changing the face of Rosedale in stop six. If you drive in that direction now, you'll already see Cowan Place. That is a senior citizen apartment complex that's at the corner of Stahl Cup in Rosedale. It has a light tower at the top. And when we see Dunbar Wildcats playing, it'll bleed blue. When we are celebrating breast cancer awareness month, you will see pink. And so this is just another place where people can prove you don't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a nice place. And I have to give a special shout out to Mary Margaret Lemons for her leadership with Fort Worth Housing Authority. And I'm so glad to see something named after a living legend while he is still living. This is named after coach Robert Hughes. And with that, I move for approval. Motion and a second Council, please vote. Motion carries. Next item is MNC 24-0114 with staff report by Leah Brown. Hello again. I'm Leah Brown once again. And this evening, the other MNC on your agenda is MNC 24-0114 regarding the adoption of a resolution of no objections supporting a housing tax credit application by 450 Marine Creek Parkway, Texas owner LP for the acquisition and rehabilitation of the meridian and existing multifamily affordable housing development. 4450 Marine Creek Parkway, Texas owner LP intends to submit a 4% non-competitive housing tax credit application to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs or TDHCA. In order for a 4% housing tax credit application to be submitted to TDHCA, a municipality is required to hold a public hearing for the purpose of receiving public comments on the project. The development will consist of approximately 280 units set aside for families earning 60% or less of the area median income or AMI. The development is located at 4450 Marine Creek Parkway and Fort Worth. Staff has reviewed the request by 4450 Marine Creek Parkway, Texas owner LP and found that the development is consistent with the quality affordable housing goals and priorities in the city's 2023 to 2027 consolidated plan. Therefore, staff recommends that after any public comments are received this evening, the public hearing be closed and the city council take formal action to approve MNC 24-0114 and the attached resolution of no objection for the development of the meridian. Thank you. Thank you, Leah. Questions from council, customer Flores. No questions, ma'am, just ready to make a motion. Move to close the public hearing and accept enthusiastically this item. Motion is second, please vote council. Thank you. Thank you, Leah. Motion carries. Next item is ZC-23-167. Council, we're gonna move into this item but I was gonna offer Mr. Martinez a chance to speak. I think he was outside with all the people. Come on down, David. He was speaking on a consent agenda item pertaining to an item we already passed, the city's home repair program. I think you were for it, so you're probably pleased that we voted in favor but I just wanted to offer you those few minutes. Yeah, I just wanted to, like since I come over here to complain mostly last year, I'm coming here to congratulate when I do something right. The reason why it's important because there are people who have elected themselves in charge of Southside and they gaslight the community and tell people, oh no, the city doesn't care, they're not gonna listen, don't vote, this doesn't matter, you're throwing your vote, these people are gonna take your taxes, they're gonna do all this stuff and not do anything with it. But this is where it helps community because when I started Card Park Neighborhood Association, it was hot in the summertime and I was going up there after having quadruple bypassed or a lot of that, I thought it was important. And one of the ladies I talked to, I said, you're gonna go to the meeting? She goes, what for again, do nothing? And I said, well, then I told her, I said, well, what's going on with your house? She goes, well, my roof messed up, it caught a fire and my roof was damaged. And I said, really? And she goes, now I'm staying with my dad, but I'm probably gonna sell the property and go, what's going on? Well, the, we're out there and I don't know if they caused it to fire, but somebody started to fire my house and it was not my problem like that, but I didn't have insurance and so it doesn't get fixed. So I was like, oh, are you on assisted income? She's like, yeah, I feel like that, I said, well, you should apply for a seat. We were able to get her some help for her house. Instead of her house being sold for payneeds on a dollar and everything like that, she's able to move back in her house and all that stuff. So it matters. And so when I tell people, and I didn't, I'm not for two million, I'm for five million. I'm for y'all giving more money for these home improvements because these people pay taxes and these people, they just get behind payment or they get elderly, like Mayor Pro Tem said, it's elderly people and they're on fixed income so they can't do it. So it's very important that we help the community because these people have paid taxes, they paid it to the system. They just that they're elderly and they can't afford the repairs and stuff. And this goes a long way for the community. And because of that, she shows up at every meeting. She shows up and she's involved and everything like that. And so it's important that, that's the reason why I wanted to speak. Not to take up everybody's time and hear myself talk, but it's important because people from the neighborhood that had been on the other side were complaining, this is our results right here. This is how things happen and how it works. So I want everybody who's watching these videos also understand you need to attend these meetings is not just showing up and complaining, not complaining on internet or Facebook, but to show up at these meetings because this is where it counts right here. And I wish the young people would hear this because one of these days it might be your grandma or grandpa that need these assistance and it's very important. Thank you very much. God bless. Thank you, David. So council will transition back into ZC 23-167. We do have one speaker on this item, Councillor Martinez, Michelle Kennedy, only if there's opposition to my knowledge, there is none, but I'll turn to you. I just want to say that this zoning request was denied by staff and by the commission. But I really wanted to get the input from that neighborhood and actually canvas the neighborhood with Trinity Habitat for Humanity. We spoke to six individuals. They were all in favor. Michelle, would you speak a little bit about this zoning request? What's it gonna go there and who's it gonna benefit? 60 last week, so I'm moving a little slowly. Happy birthday. Oh, okay. I'm gonna move to your district. I'm Michelle Kennedy. I'm with Trinity Habitat for Humanity. And this was a piece of property that was donated to us several years ago, but it's in a unique situation and it's a very small neighborhood. And it's a corner lot. And it's zoned light industrial when literally every other lot in the block is residential. So it didn't make sense. You couldn't put a neighborhood grocery store on the slide. It wasn't big enough for it. So we started the rezoning process and there were a lot of steps that were involved in that and we appreciate Councilwoman Martinez for her diligence to work with us and to try to find a problem. Try to find a solution. She and Mallory, our construction director, Canvas the neighborhood to answer questions and just to talk to people and see what they had to say. We'll put a new home on that lot. It will be a three bedroom, two bath home, one car garage. I don't know if you, I know most of the council and if anybody else knows most of Habitat, not most of all of Habitat's products are built to energy star standards as well as fortified construction. We're building a product that's gonna last and it's gonna last the family with as low maintenance as they possibly can to maintain the property and the real estate. We're building with families at 80% AMI and under and anything else? Nope, just, you know, everybody. But you know, I can talk on it if you need me to. Nobody opposed and I did ask if there are any public safety concerns or any environmental concerns and, you know, folks there, you know, really like where they live. So I'd like the motion to approve this. Motion to second. Thank you. Council, thank you. Mayor Pratim. On situations like this came up often and you really have to listen to people to see what they feel. And I applaud our council member, Martinez for listening because there are little pieces of land throughout this area where it may already be zoned industrial and for something that people don't think it should be. And this is just one of those cases, but it takes a council member who is involved enough to drive the area, talk to the people to get to the right conclusion. And one of our most vocal opponents is supporting your motion tonight. And so I applaud you. May I say one more word? Council member Bivens or Mayor Pratim, you laid the groundwork for that with your overlay efforts in that area. It was a lot of hard work and a lot of feet on the ground to get that overlay in place. And we're building on that. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys. Council, you may vote. Motion carries. Next item is ZC-23-137. Council member Blalock, we do have a few speakers on this item. The first is Rick Farnosh. Hello, Councilman. Thank you. Hi, Ms. Mayor. Nice to see you. We are at 12650 Willow Springs Road. We have a luxury town home community that we'd like to put in that is gonna be more affordable homes for senior citizens and for young families that are in the area. So we believe that since 57 people are moving into Fort Worth every day and we need a lot more opportunity for them to afford a home in the $300,000 to $349,000 range. Right now there's not very many in our district. And so at this time, what we'd like to ask is if we speak, we've spoken to many of the homeowners that are in our neighboring communities. And we do wanna work with them. From the beginning, they didn't really want to have town homes next to their million dollar homes. And I could understand how that could seem not like what someone would want. But after speaking with several tax assessor companies and Chandler Crouch and John Hershey, they believe that having a different community next to a homeowner community will not bring the value of the homes down. And it was very similar about five years ago when Spring Ranch subdivision had the Spring Ranch estates subdivision coming in. They argued that the smaller homes and the smaller lots would take away from their home value. And we've had several, we've had several checks in Spring Ranch and all of their values have gone up every single year even though they have smaller houses and smaller lot in their community. So what we ask, since we do have to go to the city and ask some more things to help the subdivision, we just ask that you please give this back to planning and zoning so we can have a fair shake with them and finish a couple of things that we'd like to help the homeowners with. And our TIA, which are a traffic study. Thank you, Rick. Council Member Blalock. Any other questions for Rika this time? Our next speaker is Chelsea Faxen followed by Heather DeSoto. Hi, Campbell. I am Chelsea Faxen. I reside at 1125 Whisper Willows. The sea of red you see is not in congratulations to the Chief's win on Sunday. This is a sea of red of opposition to this case. So first and foremost, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you tonight on KCC 23137. I'm not going to stand in front of you tonight to talk about the infrastructure concerns with residents in North Fort Worth. Recent articles and cases demonstrate these shared concerns of residents. I'm not going to stand in front of you tonight to reiterate our continued concerns with infrastructure, traffic, safety and aesthetics of the applicant's plan. They still exist today and are well documented in the PNZ record on this case. I am not going to address the two year long history that the applicant has had with our residents. A relationship built on misinformation, lies, unveiled threats. Tonight, I'm going to talk to you about our story with almost anything. To quote Mr. Pernouche from his Fort Worth Star Telegram article. We're willing to do almost anything to suffice these homeowners. Almost anything did not include responding to our questions, concerns and recommendations after meeting with the leadership of our three communities on September 13th, September 15th before bringing this case to planning and zoning on October 13th. Almost anything did not include responding to our questions, concerns and recommendations after the 60 day continuance provided by planning and zoning before bringing the case back to them on December 13th. Almost anything did not include responding to our questions, concerns and recommendations before the January city council meeting. Almost anything did not include responding to our questions, concerns and recommendations after failing to submit proper notice for that January council meeting before coming before the council tonight. I'm sorry, almost anything did include providing a traffic study request months ago to two of our residents this past Friday at 12, 13 p.m. 102 hours prior to this city council meeting with a request to get back to him with our thoughts by Monday. Well, Mr. Pernouche, we've been waiting five months, 151 days, 3,624 hours for you to come to the table to discuss this case with us. That said, we reviewed the traffic study. It doesn't address our safety concerns for our children waiting for a school bus on streets with no sidewalks. It doesn't address the heavy construction traffic vehicles that will use Whisper Willows as their access highway for at least two years. It doesn't address a backup plan if Nance Ranch's developer doesn't agree to your traffic plan. And it doesn't address the immediate need for support along to the almost that capacity, Avondale-Haslet Road. Thank you, Ms. Faxman. I'm just gonna make you pause for a second. I think you check, you're doing good. You check group representative, but I don't think we had names. Just if you'll stand up if you're with Chelsea and I'll let you keep going for three more minutes. Okay, minimum start timeline of the 2027 city road improvements to the council. We are asking you to deny CZ 23137 with prejudice in hopes that the forest year upon Haslet Investment Group will provide them the time that they have yet to have found to work with our community so we can come together to support sustainable development in North Fort Worth. Thank you. Thank you, Chelsea. Our next speaker is Heather DeSoto followed by David Greer. My name is Heather DeSoto and I am president of the 52 Home HOA in the Spring Ranch neighborhood that is affected by the zoning requests. We come together with my other 247 neighbors in the surrounding HOAs. As you can see by the sea red, we do not approve of the zoning change. Some key points that I will address as well as you have heard from Chelsea. Traffic, our teenage drivers trying to get out of our neighborhood to go to school. We have no traffic light to get out of our neighborhood. This is not only affects our kids, but also bus drivers, adults trying to go to work and take their children to school. The light on 287 feeder and Blue Mountain Road is no better. It already backs up for 30 minutes at heavy traffic times. If you go the other route to Avondale Hazlet to come around, it is no better. With this proposed development, there's a potential of 600 more drivers in and out of our neighborhood. We have no sidewalks in our phase of our neighborhood which puts all at risk when walking the neighborhood with additional cars. The investor has changed plans four times for this area. He stated the last plan for the 385,000 single family homes Willow Creek estates wouldn't make any money on last discussion. We are the community that takes pride in where we live and how our neighborhood looks. Connecting rental property will bring down home values. This investor has not been transparent with the homeowners. They also have this property up for sale so we are concerned that whatever he says he plans to do, if the property gets rezoned that it will just flip it and move on. We thank the council for your time. We ask the council to disapprove the zoning request with prejudice. Thank you. Next speaker is David Greer. Two years old and he has Down syndrome. He's one of five of our children all aged six years old and younger. We moved to our home near the end of a quiet street in a quiet neighborhood where we've watched our family grow. The proposed rezoning being considered tonight would almost certainly bring a significant increase in both construction and residential traffic right to the end of our driveway. I urge the members of this council to vote against the proposed rezoning with prejudice. Please allow the residents of our neighborhood to maintain the safe and quiet community that we love. Thank you. Council Member Blalock that's the conclusion of our speakers. Here. So I've had more than a few zoning cases now that I've been on council. And I have never seen one that generated so much opposition from so many people. I had, this is stack emails I received, over 180 emails to me personally. And my office petitioned with over 700 signatures in opposition. So when I look at this zoning case, I just think I agree with the zoning commission and their recommendation for denial. And they went back a couple of times, tried to get more time, tried to get more discussion with the neighborhood. I think it would have been beneficial for you, Mr. Furnoosh, to reach out to my office earlier maybe we could have helped and managed this whole process a little better. But we have some reality, no. We have just the reality of the situation where it's important for discussion and buy-in and agreement. It's your job to get that with the neighborhood around you. And I wanna thank the neighborhood and all the residents that came tonight. I wanna thank you for coming tonight as well. And all those who spoke out, it's important to be involved and be engaged and have a voice on how your community looks in the future. Now, I do think that there's opportunity to come back to this in time but also think it needs some cooling off and we need to start clean slate. So I'm going to move to deny with prejudice today. Got a motion and a second, Council. Of course, Councilor Nettles. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilor Blalock. I just have a couple of questions I wanna ask. Housing is so important to me, especially when it comes to senior. And I wanna ask Chelsea, if you can come back up, I just had a couple of questions for you. Well, one question actually, I think in your comment you said that Mr. Rick didn't respond to the question concern and recommendations that you had. High level, what was those questions and recommendations that you had if you would agree to have this zoning change? Yeah, so some of the recommendations we made, obviously were safety and traffic related. I think that there's some recent cases, Taravilla, that really shows how a developer worked with the neighborhood to address those traffic and safety concerns. As it comes to the housing, we were never against and had never said we're just against medium density. Mr. Furnoosh came to the table and said, they may be for sale, they may be for rent, they're gonna be expensive, they're gonna be affordable, he can't seem to decide where he stands on that. Our recommendation was that if he was looking for medium density to increase housing, that he look at something like a deed restricted townhome association classification, which would have given us some aesthetic controls in place while still giving him the density that he was looking for. That's very helpful, thank you so much. Mr. Rick, if you can come out, I'm really impressed that you're sitting in the middle of the Red Sea. So, I mean, it's pretty bold of you. Thank you very much, I know, I know. Wait a minute, listen, I have specific questions, so one question I have, well, a couple of questions I have, you said this was senior living, is that correct? Is this gonna be senior living? No, it's going to be, they're gonna be townhomes, but seniors and young families can afford them, and that's why we wanted to... Correct, thank you. Will it be lease or for sale? We're open to both. And what is the value? What would be the value? 300 to 350,000. Okay, thank you, I appreciate it. That's all the question I have for you. I'm sorry, did you have a question for him? Okay, I'm sorry. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, again, so I'm really big on housing, I think it's important for the city of Fort Worth to invest in housing all over Fort Worth. When it comes, when I first initially heard you talk, you said seniors and it really alerted me. And so when I asked you the question is for everybody, and that's fine. I have not supported council members who did not zoning when it comes to residential in district six, two, and other districts. And so it's not just against district 10. I am going to, I've had some heartburn, but I am going to support Allen on this zoning case. Number one, because you really didn't do your home. I don't think homework was done to this community. I think the community was given a sack of beans because if you're going to bring a housing development, they should know if it's for seniors or it's for families. They should know if it's for lease or if it's for sale. And so because of that, that is the only reason why I'm going to support. Normally I always support housing because I think it's important for the city of Fort Worth to adapt housing. I have some heartburn on the whole year thing, but I'm going to support you on this time. But I hope the next time Mr. Rick that you do a little bit more homework and be prepared to provide concrete information to a neighborhood, and I will give this insight. There is a house that's in far south forward past 1197, that is identical to a house in Keller. I mean, the four plant is the same. The housing, the outside of the inside is the exact same. Outside of the inside is the exact same. It costs $700,000 in Keller and $300,000 in forward. I mean, in south forward. So sometimes the area does determine how much a house costs. So I understand half a million dollar homes, you want to be very sure that you have something next to this does not bring the value down. So I understand that point. I just want to throw that out there. So thank you for the opportunity to speak. Thank you, Chris. Mayor Pro Tem Bivens, you're good. Okay. I think that's a conclusion of our comments. I've got a motion and a second council, please vote. Motion carries. Yep, Councilman Blaylet. Not regarding this, but I want to take a moment of privilege to recognize Ronnie Ramsey, who's here today that I appointed to the Urban Design Commission, who's a resident of Far North Fort Worth. So Ronnie, thank you for being here today. I appreciate it. Hi, Ronnie, nice to see you, glad you're here. The next item is SP-23-014. Council Member Blaylet, we do have one speaker on this item, Brandon Middleton. Only if there's opposition to my knowledge, there is none. Thank you. I'll move to approve. Motion and second. You're leaving us? Bye. We're very entertaining. I know it's like a standup comedy show here. Please vote, Council. Charlie, Trigin, Maureen. Thank you. Motion carries. Next item is SP-23-015. Council Member Nettles, we do have one speaker on this item. Only if there's opposition, which there is none, Brandon Middleton. You want him to speak, are you good? No, he does not have to speak, move for approval. Motion and second, please vote. carries. Next item is ZC-23-173. Council Member Martinez, we do have one speaker on this item. Marcos Torrado. Is Marcos here? Hi, Mr. Torrado. How are you guys? I'm sorry, I'm super nervous. I've never done this, never addressed. Don't be nervous, you're fine. Welcome, we're glad you're here. First time I address people like you, so. And I mean it as a compliment, by the way. So, my name is Marcos. I'm a father of three. I'm born and raised in Puerto Rico, but I was lucky enough to graduate from a Ellison High School in Cline like 25 years ago. And also looking enough to come back to Texas 14 years ago when I raised my three kids with my wife. And we're requesting this reasoning because I'm self-employed for the last seven years. I got no 401K, no investment, so this is kind of what I'm trying to build for my daughters and for me and maybe 10, 15 years I can retire and live a little bit better, right? So, we did our due diligence. I came to this office this year a couple of times before we bought that lot. It has a house in front and then two lots attached. And I made all the questions that I needed before we bought this lot and it was almost, nobody told me there was gonna be approved, but since the lot is attached to, or is close to like about 10 or 12 other lots that are sown the same way that we want to sown ours, then it's a good likelihood that it would be. I learned that the sowning commission voted to deny it, but the staff voted to approve and now we're here and we didn't get any reasons. I learned that nobody has to give us a reason for the denial. We did come as the neighborhood. We talked to all the owners that we could find because most of the homes over there are elites. So, when we talk to the neighbors, then they give us the management company's numbers. So, we couldn't get to more owners, but we did anyways turn in like eight or 10 letters that of actual owners that were not, didn't have a problem with the homes that we want to build there. I have another home that is lease and I try to be a good landlord. I manage it myself and that's the plan with this ones. We want to make two nice sets of apartments to kind of have a lease at a reasonable price. Just to manage myself, like I said, I'm self-employed and hopefully that will benefit me in the future and my kids in the future. They're still here and for worth two of them and one left for New York, but we're just humbly asking to just reconsider and try to help me, just help my family and help stay here and for worth because we love it here and we have to move again, we'll move here again. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Toronto. Councilor Martinez. Mr. Toronto, I didn't get a chance to drive by the property, but it looks like it's very well-maintained and I am concerned about the size of the lots and I would like to discuss this further with zoning. So I'm gonna motion to continue this to out 30 days to March 19th. Motion is second. So we'll see you again in 30 days, Mr. Toronto. Okay, okay, please vote. Motion carries. Next item is ZC-23-184. Councilor Renettles. Move for approval. Motion is second, please vote. Next item is ZC-23-185. We do have a few speakers on this item, Councilor Martinez. The first is Rocky Garcia by phone, followed by Phyllis Allen. Who I think was, is Ms. Allen here? There she is, hi. Mr. Garcia. Oh, it's Mrs. Garcia. Okay, go ahead. Sorry, can you hear me? Yes, we can, you proceed. Oh, sorry, sorry about that. This is, I'm, I'm, work for the company that owns the property. We purchased the property that it, we didn't know that it was the zoning issue. Unfortunately, our real estate agent did not, or our real estate, the people helped us invest in it. They did not advise us of this, unfortunately. Right now, it is rented as a duplex with the front house and the back house. We did some minor, you know, cosmetic repairs to it. We fixed the yard. It was quite run down. Everything is fine. There is one driveway. The neighborhood alliance had opposed it with the zoning commission. And said that it's a traffic issue, but I don't believe that that is an issue. I have been working with Code Compliance with this. And he had called me from the property just the other day at about three o'clock and to do a follow-up. And I had let him know what the zoning commission had moved to, you know, had requested to deny it. And, you know, he's like, wow, I'm really surprised because there's like no cars out here right now. And I was like, really? He's like, yeah, it doesn't seem to be an issue. Not a lot of traffic, no cars on the street. Also, there is a couple of vacant lots on the same block, on the 600 block of RETA. I think that leaves for a little more parking when there's no houses in the lots. So I think there's three empty lots there is. It does also, you know, contribute to the housing need as Fort Worth is growing. I think that's important to note that the neighborhoods can stay visibly somewhat the same without, you know, changing the visibility of it. But also it can accommodate, you know, more housing for people that need it with the growing community. Thank you, Ms. Marcia. Our next speaker is Phyllis Allen. Thank you for allowing me to speak on this. So I want to start off by saying several years ago, my neighborhood worked very hard with city staff to create a comprehensive plan for the way we wanted our neighborhood to look. One of the things we specifically said was inside the interior of the neighborhood, we did not want duplexes. Now I find it really interesting that this owner says that they purchased the property and did not know that this was not a duplex. On the survey that they provided, it specifically says this is a storage facility. They also said on their zoning request that they had room to build another, that they had two driveways. They didn't say they were gonna build another driveway, they said they had two driveways. They do not, they barely have one. Now I'm gonna agree with her on one thing. If you come through there on a Saturday afternoon, you're going to say traffic is not an issue here, but come through there at 7.30, Monday through Friday. We've got school buses, we've got parents who are bringing kids to school. We have children who are walking unaccompanied through that area. Not to mention that on Wednesdays, if it's trash day, we have trash trucks and trash out there. They are already parking four cars on the street for that house. Now I've lived in that neighborhood for 65 years. So the people that lived in that house, the husband was the only one who drove. So they only needed one driveway. This owner comes into the neighborhood, it's already rented. They already rented this without checking. So I am asking city council to uphold the work that our neighborhood association and neighbors did to protect our neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you, Phyllis. Councilor Martini, this is the last of our speakers. I am concerned about the parking situation and would like to see that sufficient parking spots be added if this were to be approved. So I'd like to continue it for 60 days to April 9th. Motion to continue. Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item is ZC-23-190. Motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Next item is ZC-24-001. Councilor Williams. Thank you. Moved to approve. Motion carries. Next item is MNC-24-0111. And a second. Please vote. Motion carries. Mayor, that concludes all of the action items for tonight. Council and meeting adjourned, happy Valentine's Day.