* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [1. CALL TO ORDER] [00:00:04] FOUR, PLANNING. THE ZONING COMMISSION MEETING IS CALLED TO ORDER FOR ROLL CALL. WE HAVE, UH, COMMISSIONER MALLEY, COMMISSIONER PEARSON AND COMMISSIONER SILVA ABSENT THIS EVENING. IS THAT CORRECT? IS THAT ALL OF THEM? OKAY. MOVING ON. UH, ITEM [3. READING OF MINUTES] THREE, READING OF THE MINUTES. CONSIDER APPROVING THE MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER 11TH MEETING. WE HAVE A MOTION. SORRY, WE HAD A MOTION. MOTION. WE HAVE MOTION AGAIN. AND A SECOND. GO AHEAD AND VOTE PLEASE. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. MOVING ON, UH, COMMISSION REPORTS, CHAIR OF THE PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION. I HAVE NO REPORT. THE, UH, DISCUSSION FROM THE COMMISSIONERS. THEN WE WILL MOVE ON. DEVELOPMENT [a. Development Services] SERVICES DIRECTOR. GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. HOW ARE YOU? GOOD EVENING. I HAVE, UM, JUST A COUPLE OF ITEMS I WANTED TO TOUCH ON. UM, ONE IS, UH, WE DID RECEIVE A REQUEST, UM, FROM A COMMISSIONER, UM, FOR A COUPLE OF DISCUSSION ITEMS, UM, FOR THE COMMISSION. SO WE WILL, UH, PLACE THAT ON THE NEXT AGENDA, UM, FOR THE COMMISSION TO DISCUSS. AND THEN THIS IS JUST A NOTICE, YOU KNOW, TO THE COMMISSIONERS, IF THERE IS AN AREA OR AN ISSUE REGARDING ANYTHING UNDER YOUR PURVIEW, UM, THAT YOU WANT TO DISCUSS FROM THE COMMISSION, UM, OR TO CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO THE PLAN, AMENDMENTS TO, UM, THE ORDINANCES, UM, REACH OUT, LET US KNOW, AND WE CAN PUT A DISCUSSION ITEM ON THE AGENDA, UM, FOR YOU ALL TO DISCUSS. AND THEN, UM, PLAN AN ACTION TO MOVE FORWARD. AND THEN THE OTHER ITEM ON THE SCREEN, UM, UH, WANNA REVISIT THE ZONING, PUBLIC NOTICES AT THE LAST MEETING. UM, LET THE COMMISSION KNOW THAT WE WILL START DOING 30 DAY PUBLIC NOTICES AHEAD OF THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING. AND THAT FIRST PUBLIC HEARING FOR ZONING AMENDMENT CASES COMES BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. UM, SO THIS IS, UM, UH, A PICTURE OF THE NEW ZONING SIGNS. UM, AND SO THERE'S SOME MODIFICATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, BUT THEY ARE HOT OFF THE PRESS. THEY HAVE BEEN PRINTED. UM, AND, UH, THOSE WILL BE THE SIGNS, THE COLOR, THE ORANGE THAT WILL BE PLACED ON PROPERTIES SUBJECT TO A ZONING AMENDMENT APPLICATION. UM, SO THE PREVIOUS SIGNS WERE WHITE BACKGROUNDS WITH, STILL WITH A QR CODE. UM, SO WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THEM MORE VISIBLE. UM, THEY'RE A DIFFERENT SHAPE, UH, TO TRY TO MAKE THEM STAND OUT, UM, A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, TO THE PUBLIC. SO, UH, WE DO HAVE THOSE SIGNS COMING AND AHEAD OF ANY ZONING CASES MOVING FORWARD. UH, THOSE ARE THE SIGNS THAT THE PUBLIC WILL SEE POSTED ON THE PROPERTY SUBJECT TO, UH, THAT APPLICATION. UM, AND SO, UM, WE'RE PUSHING THIS OUT, UM, BECAUSE THE ZONING CASES, UM, WILL START TO SCHEDULE THOSE AS EARLY AS NOVEMBER. UM, AND THEN MOVING FORWARD FROM THERE. SO WE'VE HAD A LITTLE HIATUS OF WITH ZONING APPLICATIONS AND ZONING, UM, PUBLIC HEARINGS. UM, BUT THOSE NOTICES WILL START TO GO OUT. AND SO THE NOTICES WILL BE POSTED ON THE PROPERTY NOTICES WILL BE ALSO, UH, POSTED ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE, ON THE ZONING PAGE, UM, AS WELL AS MAILED TO PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 250 FEET OF THAT PROPERTY. SO I JUST WANTED TO BRING THAT TO THE COMMISSION'S ATTENTION. THANK YOU. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR TONIGHT. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. CITY ENGINEERING. UH, NO COMMENTS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM SIX. UH, PUBLIC COMMENT, OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSION ON ANY AGENDA, ANY ITEMS. I GUESS IT SAYS ON THE AGENDA WE USUALLY DO NOT ON THE AGENDA. UM, DO WE HAVE ANYBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK? WE DO NOT. THANK YOU. WE'LL MOVE ON THEN. [a. CONSENT AGENDA] NUMBER SEVEN, THE PLATS, THE CONSENT AGENDA. CONSIDER AN APPLICATION OF A PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR SIENNA RIVER PARKWAY. PHASE TWO, CONSIDER AN APPLICATION OF A PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR SIENNA. SECTION 35 B. CONSIDER AN APPLICATION OF A FINAL PLAT FOR SIENNA. SECTION 72, CONSIDER AN APPLICATION OF FINAL PLAT FOR SIENNA. SECTION 73, CONSIDER AN APPLICATION OF A FINAL PLAT FOR SIENNA. SECTION 76, CONSIDER AN APPLICATION OF A FINAL PLAT FOR SIENNA. SECTION 83, CONSIDER AN APPLICATION OF A REVISED FINAL PLAN FOR MANY OF YOU ESTATES. ANY DISCUSSION? WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION, THEN WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. GO AHEAD AND CAST YOUR VOTES PLEASE. THAT MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE WILL MOVE RIGHT ALONG THEN. [00:05:01] WE DON'T HAVE ANY ZONING MAP AMENDMENTS. WE DON'T HAVE ANY ZONING TEXT AMENDMENTS, BUT THEY'RE COMING, RIGHT? YES. UM, SO ITEM 10 OTHER MATTERS, UH, [a. Comprehensive Plan Update Report] COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE REPORT YOU'RE DOING. I'M BACK. COMMISSIONER, I, I KNOW IT SAYS SARIAH. I'M GONNA PRESENT, UH, THE REPORT FOR TONIGHT AND JUST TO BRING THE COMMISSION AND THE PUBLIC UP TO SPEED ON WHERE WE'RE AT. SO AS WE'VE PRESENTED OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS, UH, THE CITY IS IN THE PROCESS OF CONSIDERING UPDATES TO OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE EXISTING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THAT WAS ADOPTED IN 2017 AND EVALUATING THE RELEVANCY OF THAT. WE'RE LOOKING TO REESTABLISH A COLLECTIVE VISION FOR OUR FUTURE, UM, IN THE AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT, AND ALSO LOOK AT THE TOOLS THAT WE USE, UM, IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE POLICIES AND GOALS, UM, OF THOSE PLANS. AND SO THOSE TOOLS, UM, INCLUDE ZONING DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, UM, ORDINANCES, REGULATIONS. OUR STUDY AREAS INCLUDE UNDEVELOPED LAND REMAINING, UM, WITHIN, UM, OUR CITY. IT ALSO INCLUDES, UH, FOCUS AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. THERE'S BEEN 10 GENERAL AREAS, UM, THAT WE'VE LARGELY DESCRIBED IN TERMS OF STREETS, MAJOR STREETS, UM, BUT IT'S THE AREA SURROUNDING THOSE MAJOR STREETS. UM, AND THEN REDEVELOPMENT FOCUS, UM, IN AREAS OF THE CITY. SO THIS IS THE PROJECT TIMELINE. UM, WE ARE, UH, IN THE PROCESS OF COMPLETING FOCUS GROUPS. UH, SO WE HAVE ONE MORE, UH, THAT IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEEK, UM, THAT WILL, AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER, UH, HOPEFULLY WITH THE YOUTH, UM, THE MAYOR'S YOUTH COMMISSION, UM, AT SOME POINT THIS MONTH AS WELL. UM, BUT WE'RE WRAPPING UP THE FOCUS GROUPS AND STARTING TO MOVE INTO MORE OF THE ANALYSIS, UM, PHASE. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO IS, UH, PROVIDE A DRAFT OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS, UH, TO BOTH THE COMMISSION AND TO, UH, THE COUNCIL SO THAT YOU ALL CAN START TO DETERMINE HOW YOU WANNA PROCEED FORWARD AWARD. SO AGAIN, FOR THE PUBLIC, UM, THERE IS THE PROJECT WEBSITE. PROJECT WEBSITE IS WWW.SHOWMECITY.COM. IT IS STILL ACTIVE. IT HAS INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS PROCESS OF THE STUDY AREAS AND, UH, DIFFERENT INFORMATION, UM, THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST. AND SO I JUST WANNA KIND OF SUMMARIZE, UH, SOME OF THE INPUTS. SO THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE, UH, SUMMARY. ONE THING ON THE CONFERENCE PLAN, ALL THE FOCUS GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN HELD TO DATE, UM, ALL OF THE SUMMARIES OF INPUTS ARE POSTED ON, UH, THAT WEBSITE. SO IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED TO SEE, UM, JUST THE RAW, UM, RESPONSES THAT HAVE BEEN RECEIVED, UM, ALL OF THOSE DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE WEBSITE. SO THIS IS GONNA GIVE YOU A SNAPSHOT OF WHERE WE'RE AT IN TERMS OF OUR QUESTIONNAIRE THAT WAS POSTED ON THE WEBSITE, AS WELL AS, UH, THOSE FOCUS GROUPS. SO I KNOW LAST MONTH WE TALKED ABOUT THE NUMBERS, UM, OF RESPONSES TO OUR QUESTIONNAIRE. I THINK LAST MONTH WE WERE AT ABOUT 36, UH, RESPONSES. WE'VE GONE UP SLIGHTLY. UM, BUT IN TOTAL, AS OF, UH, THIS DATE, WE HAVE 40 OR 54 RESPONSES TO THE ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE. UM, AND THEN THESE ARE SOME OF THE DATA POINTS FROM THOSE RESPONSES THAT HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. UM, THE MAJORITY OF THOSE RESPONSES ARE COMING FROM RESIDENTS WHO HAVE LIVED IN THE CITY 15 YEARS OR LESS. UM, THE AGE OF THOSE RESPONDENTS ARE IN THE 36 TO 55 YEAR RANGE. UM, AND ABOUT 20% OF THOSE RESPONDENTS WORK, UM, CURRENTLY IN THE CITY. AND THIS IS, AS THEY'VE REPORTED ON THE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR OUR FOCUS GROUPS, WE'VE HELD 14 FOCUS GROUPS. UM, WE'VE HAD 126 PARTICIPANTS BETWEEN THOSE FOCUS GROUPS. ON AVERAGE, ABOUT NINE, SOME HAD MANY MORE, SOME HAD FAR FEWER. UM, BUT ON AVERAGE ABOUT NINE PARTICIPANTS PER FOCUS GROUP. UM, THE PARTICIPANTS IN THOSE FOCUS GROUPS, AVERAGE YEARS IN THE CITY, UM, NINE YEARS THAT LIVED IN DIRECT ACCESS TO THOSE FOCUS AREAS. UM, AND THEN YOU SEE THE YEARS OF LIVING IN MISSOURI CITY. SO WE, THE LONGEST, UH, SOMEONE HAS LIVED IN MISSOURI CITY, WHO'S PARTICIPATED IN OUR FOCUS GROUP, HAS BEEN HERE ALMOST 50 YEARS AS THEY REPORTED. AND THEN THE SHORTEST IS SOMEONE WHO JUST MOVED TO THE CITY IN AUGUST. SO, UM, WE HAVE A RANGE OF, UH, EXPERIENCE AND PERSPECTIVES, UM, THAT WE'RE RECEIVING INPUT FROM. SO I JUST WANNA KIND OF SUMMARIZE SOME OF THE INPUT. SO AGAIN, THIS IS, WE'RE IN THIS PROCESS, SO THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE SET, BUT JUST TO GIVE US AN IDEA OF KIND OF WHERE THIS CONVERSATION IS RIGHT NOW. UM, SO FOR OUR QUESTIONNAIRE, UM, ONE OF THE ITEMS, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS ON THE, UH, QUESTIONNAIRE ARE, UM, FOR THE PUBLIC TO RESPOND TO, [00:10:01] UM, DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, UH, THAT MAY CONTRIBUTE TO MISSOURI CITY BEING A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY. AND SO THESE AREAS THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED HERE, WERE ALL RANKED AS VERY IMPORTANT. THESE WERE PRE, UM, PRESET, UH, QUALIFICATIONS THAT WE GAVE. SO THIS WASN'T, UM, AN OPEN-ENDED QUESTION. SO THEY WERE RANKING THESE BASED ON A SERIES OF OTHER, UM, ITEMS. AND SO THESE RANKED, UM, VERY IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF, UH, THE IMPRESSION OF WHAT MAKES MISSOURI CITY GREAT. UM, AND IT'S CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT WITH THE INPUT THAT WE'VE RECEIVED THROUGH THE FOCUS GROUPS AS WELL FOR OUR FOCUS GROUPS. WE'VE TRIED TO SET THEM UP SO THAT WE'RE GETTING CONSISTENT INPUT, UM, BACK. SO WE'VE UTILIZED A, UH, SOFTWARE, UH, TO DO POLLING, UH, TO ASK A SERIES OF QUESTIONS. AND EACH ONE OF THOSE FOCUS GROUPS HAS ASKED, UH, SOME DERIVATIVE OF THOSE FIVE QUESTIONS, UH, THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN. UM, SO EACH OF THE FO FOCUS GROUPS, WE ASK THE RESPONDENTS, UH, TO RESPOND TO HOW MANY YEARS, UM, THEY'VE LIVED, DONE BUSINESS OR HAVE BEEN LOCATED IN MISSOURI CITY. WHY DID THEY CHOOSE MISSOURI CITY? FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT THE PARTICULAR AREAS. UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT THEIR BIGGEST CONCERNS. AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS, IT WAS FOCUSED AT THE VISION FOR THE FUTURE AND TRYING TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE COMMONALITIES IN OUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE. AND THEN THERE'S SOME, UH, SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT WE ASK, DEPENDING ON WHO THE GROUP WAS. UH, SO WE HAD THE PARKS BOARD, DEVELOPERS GROUP, SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE WAS NOT REFLECTED ON HERE IS WE HAD A FOCUS GROUP OF, UM, MUD, UM, MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES. UM, AND JUST TRYING TO GAUGE, UM, KIND OF WHAT CHALLENGES AND WHAT OPPORTUNITIES WE HAVE THERE. SO THIS IS IN SUMMARY OF, UH, AGAIN, JUST TRYING TO LOOK BIG PICTURE, UM, AS TO WHAT'S THE CONVERSATION IS SURROUNDING. UM, THIS WAS, UH, THE QUESTION ON CHOOSING TO LIVE OR DO BUSINESS AND SIMILAR, UM, TO WHAT WE SAW ON THE SURVEY. UM, THESE WERE SOME OF THE TOP ITEMS THAT, UM, ARE BEING REFLECTED IN THAT INPUT. AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE TAKING THE RAW INPUT THAT YOU SEE, UH, REFLECTED ON EACH ONE OF THOSE SUMMARIES AND PUTTING 'EM INTO CATEGORIES. UM, SO WE HAVE A, A LIST OF EACH ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES SO THAT YOU CAN SEE, UM, WHERE, UH, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE KIND OF RANKED. AND SO WE'RE RANKING 'EM BASED ON THE MENTIONS, THE NUMBER OF MENTIONS, THE NUMBER, UM, OF EMPHASIS THAT, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, INDIVIDUALS PUT ON THESE AREAS. SO NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IS A THEME THAT'S COME UP THROUGHOUT. UM, THE COMMISSION HAS HEARD IT IN PUBLIC COMMENTS OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS. UM, WE HEARD IT, UH, CONTINUOUSLY THROUGH THE, THE FOCUS GROUPS AND, AND PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THE FOCUS GROUPS. SO IT WASN'T JUST CONCENTRATED, UM, IN ONE AREA OR MORE. UM, BUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES, UM, VALUE, UM, IN TERMS OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN MISSOURI CITY, UM, INCLUDE GREEN SPACE, INCLUDE WILDLIFE, INCLUDE TREES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, HOMES, THE PERFECT HOMES, UH, THE, UH, QUALITY OF HOMES THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY WAS A BIG DRAW. UM, IN TERMS OF WHY PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, ARE LIVING HERE OR DOING BUSINESS HERE, WE SAW THAT REPEATEDLY COME UP IN SOME OF THE INPUT, UH, THAT WE'RE RECEIVING AS WELL. AND LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION, ACCESSIBILITY. UM, OUR LOCATION IN THIS HOUSTON REGION, UM, WAS A BIG DRAW, UM, AMONG ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT, UH, STAKEHOLDERS, UH, FROM THOSE FOCUS FROM THOSE FOCUS GROUPS. THE NEXT ONE WAS FAVORITE THINGS. AND AGAIN, THIS IS A SUMMARY, JUST HIGH LEVEL SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE INPUT THAT WE RECEIVED. UM, AND IT STARTS TO, WE START TO SEE IT, UM, FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL FOCUS AREA. BUT AGAIN, SIM SIMILAR CONCEPTS, SIMILAR THEMES, UM, ARE COMING OUT, UM, FROM EACH ONE OF THOSE AREAS. QUALITY OF LIFE INCLUDES, UM, YOU KNOW, NOISE FACTORS, LIGHTING, UM, SOME OF THE, UH, BEAUTIFICATION OF OUR CORRIDORS, UM, STREETSCAPES, SOME OF THE BEAUTIFICATION OF OUR BUSINESSES AND BUILDINGS. UM, LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. AGAIN, THE ACCESSIBILITY, UM, ASPECT OF EACH ONE OF THESE AREAS, EACH ONE OF THESE CORRIDORS AND OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND WAYS THAT WE CAN PROTECT IT OR ENHANCE IT. CONCERNS ABOUT EACH AREA. THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST. SO I WAS TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER SOMETHING QUICK, , UM, FOR YOU ALL TO BE ABLE TO SEE. AND, UM, I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT THE LIST THAT'S THERE, THE LOCATION, QUALITY OF LIFE AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, UM, THAT'S A TYPO. UM, WHAT YOU SEE IN EACH ONE OF THOSE BOXES. GROWTH, UM, AND QUALITY OF LIFE ARE TWO OF THE MAIN, UH, THEMES THAT WE'RE SEEING COMING OUT IN TERMS OF CONCERNS AND IN GROWTH. WHAT IS CATEGORIZED IN THAT INCLUDES, UM, YOU KNOW, OVERBUILDING, UH, TOO MANY, UH, STRIP SHOPPING CENTERS, UH, TOO MUCH DEVELOPMENT THAT'S EMPTY, VACANT BUILDINGS, [00:15:01] THOSE KINDS OF CONCERNS, UM, ARE WHAT WE'RE GROUPING INTO THAT GROWTH, UM, AREA. UM, THERE'S A LOT OF CONCERN FROM, UH, TOO MUCH DEVELOPMENT, PUTTING PAVEMENT AND CONCRETE, YOU KNOW, OVER A LOT OF THE REMAINING UNDEVELOPED LAND. UM, SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE KINDS OF ISSUES THAT WE'RE SEEING. UM, IN THAT REGARD. TRANSPORTATION, AS THE COMMISSION KNOWS, UM, HAS COME BEFORE YOU WITH DIFFERENT CASES. UM, YOU KNOW, TRAFFIC, INCREASED, TRAFFIC, YOU KNOW, MOBILITY AND ALL OF THAT. UM, FALL INTO, UH, THAT CATEGORY. UM, ZONING IS ON THERE, UM, AS AN ITEM, UM, BECAUSE I WANTED TO GROUP THAT IN THERE BECAUSE WE'RE STARTING, WE, WE SAW A LOT OF COMMENTS IN ONE PARTICULAR FOCUS GROUP ABOUT NOTICE AND PUBLIC NOTICE AND BEING ABLE TO BE PART OF THE PROCESS. UM, SO THAT GOES TO WHAT THE COMMISSION, UM, HAD RECOMMENDED ON EXTENDING THAT NOTICE PERIOD. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON WITH THAT 30 DAY, UH, NOTICE PERIOD AND TRYING TO ENSURE THAT THE, UH, PUBLIC IS AWARE, UM, AND THAT THEY CAN ENGAGE AND BE PART OF THAT PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS, UM, AS IT'S UNDERWAY. UM, SO THOSE ITEMS ARE IN THAT CATEGORY AS WELL. SO VISION FOR THE FUTURE, UM, IS, UH, STARTING TO TAKE SHAPE AS WELL. UM, THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, INPUT THAT WE'VE RECEIVED ON TOWN CENTERS, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR THE CITY TO HAVE YOU, WHETHER IT'S ONE CENTRAL TOWN CENTER OR, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT TOWN CENTERS. UM, BUT TO HAVE A TOWN CENTER, AN AREA WHERE PEOPLE CAN GATHER EVERY, AN AREA THAT PEOPLE CAN COME TO, UH, GREEN SPACES, PROTECTING THOSE, INTEGRATING THOSE, UM, NOT ONLY IN OUR RESIDENTIAL AREAS, BUT INTO OUR NON-RESIDENTIAL AREAS. UM, SO THAT THERE'S CONNECTIVITY, WALKABILITY, UH, BETWEEN THOSE AREAS. UM, FAMILY FRIENDLY, HIGH QUALITY, UH, NICE SHOPPING CENTERS, UM, UH, WAS A CONTINUOUS THEME, UM, AS WELL AS CONTINUING CONTINUALLY REQUESTING LOTS OF DINING STORES, HOTELS, AND MEDICAL SERVICES. SO JUST A FEW ITEMS OF NOTE, UM, AS WE'RE, UM, PULLING IN THIS INPUT, SOME OF THE THEMES, AGAIN, THAT WERE COMING OUT THAT WEREN'T NECESSARILY WITHIN OUR FOCUS AREAS, UM, BUT, UH, THERE'S WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION IN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOCUS AREAS ON, UM, A PARTICULAR HISTORIC CEMETERY. UM, AND SO LOOKING AT THOSE PLACES WITHIN THE CITY, UM, WE HAVE MANY PLACES THROUGHOUT THE CITY, UH, THAT HAVE HISTORICAL RELEVANCE OR HISTORICAL CONNECTION, UM, AND HOW WE'RE PRESERVING THOSE, HOW WE'RE INCORPORATING THOSE, UM, HOW WE'RE ACKNOWLEDGING THOSE, UM, FOR THE PUBLIC TO BE ABLE TO KNOW THAT THEY'RE THERE AND THAT THEY'RE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. UM, PRESERVATION CONSERVATION OF OPEN SPACE, GREEN SPACE, AND INTEGRATING THAT FOR, UH, COMMUNITY GATHERING AREAS, YOUTH SPORTS, UM, INDOOR YOUTH FACILITIES, UM, PLACES THAT, UM, DIFFERENT SPORTING LEAGUES CAN USE, UM, IN THIS AREA, UM, IS A THEME THAT'S COMING UP AS WELL. UM, WE'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT UPSCALE, UPSCALE DEVELOPMENT, UM, OF ALL KINDS. UM, SO REALLY KIND OF FLUSHING THAT OUT. UM, WE DO HAVE A LIST OF, UH, SOME PLACES THAT, UH, DIFFERENT RESIDENTS KIND OF POINTED TO AS THEIR CONCEPT OF WHAT UP UPSCALE IS. UH, SO WE'LL BE PROVIDING THAT TO THE COMMISSION, UM, AND TO THE COUNCIL AS WELL FOR YOU ALL TO, UM, TAKE A LOOK AT. AND THEN WALKABLE. UM, WALKABLE HAS BEEN, UM, MENTIONED THROUGHOUT MOST ALL OF THE FOCUS GROUPS, THESE THREE, UH, FOCUS AREAS, HIGHWAY SIX, TEXAS PARKWAY NIGHT ROAD. THEY WERE SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT IN SEVERAL OF THE FOCUS GROUPS IN TERMS OF OPPORTUNITIES. SO TEXAS PARKWAY, UM, WAS DISCUSSED IN MANY, IN SEVERAL FOCUS GROUPS AS BEING THE GATEWAY INTO THE CITY. UM, AND THE OPPORTUNITY, UM, FOR GROWTH AND REDEVELOPMENT. UM, THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH THAT. UM, IDEA, HIGHWAY SIX, LOOKING AT THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR MIXED USE RETAIL, UM, LIVING, UM, AND WORKING. WE ALSO HAD A MENTION, UH, THAT EAST OF HIGHWAY SIX, THERE'S A LIMITED AMOUNT OF PUBLIC PARK SPACE, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, BOTH, UM, OUR PARKS, UM, AND RECREATION HAS BEEN WORKING ON. WE HAVE A PARKS MASTER PLAN, BUT THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT, UM, IN ONE OF THOSE, IN A FOCUS GROUP AS WELL. AND THEN, UM, YOU'VE HEARD FROM RESIDENTS IN AND AROUND THE AREA OF NIGHT ROAD, UM, AND KIND OF THE CHARACTER, THE EXISTING CHARACTER AND, UH, LOOKING TO, UH, PRESERVE, UM, THAT, THAT, UH, TYPE OF CHARACTER IN THAT AREA. SO THAT WAS THE SUMMARY ON THE FOCUS OR THE INPUT WE'VE RECEIVED SO FAR. UM, AND JUST WANNA, UH, FOR, YOU KNOW, THE DISCUSSION PURPOSES, JUST AGAIN, COMMUNICATE HOW THIS INFORMATION IS BEING COMMUNICATED OUT TO THE PUBLIC. UM, SO THIS INFORMATION IS STILL ON ROTATION ON ALL OF THE CITY'S DIGITAL READER SIGNS, UM, STILL ON THE CITY'S SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, AT NETWORKS, UM, AS WELL AS YARD SIGNS THAT ARE SCATTERED IN DIFFERENT AREAS. UM, THEY'RE NOT EVERYWHERE, UM, [00:20:01] BUT THEY ARE SCATTERED, UM, IN TARGETED AREAS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY. UM, SO, UH, THAT INFORMATION IS STILL AVAILABLE. WE STILL HAVE FLYERS, UM, THAT ARE AVAILABLE AS WELL. AND SO I JUST WANNA LEAVE, UH, THE PRESENTATION WITH THE TIMELINE, UM, ON WHERE WE'RE AT AND WHERE WE'RE GOING. UM, IS STILL EVALUATING ALL THE INPUT WE'VE RECEIVED FROM THE, UH, QUESTIONNAIRES. UM, ALL THE INPUT THAT WE'RE RECEIVING FROM THE FOCUS GROUPS, UM, AND ALL OF THE ENGAGEMENT THAT, UH, WE'VE RECEIVED OVER THE LA THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS. SO WE CAN START TO FORMULATE, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS TO PRESENT, UH, TO BOTH THE COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL. SO THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE ON THE UPDATE FOR TONIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE WILL SAVE OUR QUESTIONS UNTIL OUR DISCUSSION AFTER WE HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC, WHICH DO WE HAVE ANYBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK? WE DO NOT. WE DO NOT. OKAY. THAT WAS AS AN OVERSIGHT, OR I SAW SOMEBODY WANTING TO COME UP AND SPEAK. UM, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, SO, UH, I WILL ENTERTAIN A COUPLE PEOPLE COMING UP AND GIVING THEIR COMMENTS. PLEASE, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS WHEN YOU COME UP TO THE PODIUM. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, MY NAME IS HOWARD SILVEY. I LIVE ON 52 0 3 KNIGHT ROAD. UH, YOU ALL LAST YEAR COMPLETED A ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FROM, UH, MCKEEVER TO I GUESS THE FEEDER ROAD OF, UH, THE PARKWAY. AND WHAT I NOTICED IS THAT WHEN Y'ALL DID THE PROJECT THAT YOU ALL TOOK DOWN FORT BEND, WE'RE NOT IN THE MUD DISTRICT, WE'RE JUST IN FORT BEND COUNTY, YOU TOOK THE ROAD SCIENCE DOWN AND CHANGED IT TO MISSOURI CITY ROAD SCIENCE. SO FROM THAT POINT ON, I BECAME CURIOUS AS WHETHER OR NOT WE WERE GONNA BE ANNEXING TO MISSOURI CITY, UH, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T, THEY DIDN'T TAKE THE SIGNS DOWN, THEY LEFT THEM UP AND WE GET A LOT OF TRAFFIC ON THAT ROAD DOWN. AND, UH, WE HAVE ISSUES. UH, PEOPLE DON'T, UH, ACKNOWLEDGE THE SPEED ZONE, WHICH IS 30. UH, WHEN THEY COME OFF OF MCKEEVER, THEY RAISE THE ENGINE AND IT'S LIKE A THROW WAY. OKAY? SO WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU ALL GONNA DO ABOUT THAT TO, TO HELP THAT ISSUE. UH, AS NEIGHBORS, WE USED TO WALK IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT ROAD'S, ONE OF THOSE ROADS WE USED TO WALK AND THERE'S NO SIDEWALKS. SO WE WORK, EVERYBODY'S CURIOUS AND SORT OFFSET THAT. WE DON'T HAVE A, THAT PRIVACY THAT WE HAD BEFORE. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS IN THE BACK, PLEASE. HI, MY NAME IS TO AND I LIVE IN 51 11 KNIGHT ROAD IN R TEXAS. SINCE THE ROAD WAS OPEN A YEAR AGO, UH, HOW IS MY NEIGHBOR HOWARD WAS MENTIONING THERE'S EVERY NIGHT, THERE'S CONSTANTLY ENGINE BUSTING OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. I HAVE KIDS, THE KIDS CANNOT RIDE THE, THE BIKE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY CANNOT WALK AND SOMETHING NEED TO BE DONE BY THAT SPEED. AND WE CALL SO MANY TIMES THE FOUR BENCH SHERIFF DEPARTMENT, AND THE ONLY TIME WE GETTING SOMEBODY TO MONITORING THAT SPEED IS ONE ON BLUE MOON. LIKE ONCE EVERY FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS, SOMEBODY SHOW UP. AND THEN WHEN THE POLICEMEN SHOW UP FOR THE CONTROLLING THE SPEED IN 15 MINUTES, THEY'RE LIVING WITH MORE THAN 10 TO 15 TICKETS GIVEN AWAY TO THE THE DRIVERS. MY ASK IS, PLEASE HELP TO KEEP THAT ROAD SAFE FOR THE SAKE OF OUR KIDS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MA'AM. MY NAME IS TRACY AND I LIVE AT 52 10 KNIGHT ROAD. AND BASICALLY, I'M JUST REITERATING THE SAME POINTS. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW, ONE WAY IN, ONE WAY OUT, IT WAS ALWAYS QUIET. OUR EVERYDAY LIVING HAS BEEN BEEN COMPLETELY DISRUPTED. AGAIN, WE CAN'T WALK ON THE STREET. I HAVE BEEN FOR A WHILE RECORDING, I MEAN, NOT RECORDING, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, RADAR GUN, JUST SEEING WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING DOWN THE STREET. AND I MEAN, I GET ANYWHERE. I MEAN, I RARELY GET 30 ANYWHERE NEAR 30. IT'S MORE LIKE, I MEAN, I'VE HAD 67, 72, I MEAN, THE PEOPLE JUST ARE RIDICULOUS. AND I'VE BEEN STANDING AT MY MAILBOX, WHICH [00:25:01] HAPPENS TO BE ON NIGHT ROAD, GETTING THE MAIL AND SOMEBODY HONKED AT ME. I'M LIKE, I'M LITERALLY IN MY FRONT YARD AND YOU'RE HONKING AT ME TO GET OUT OF THE ROAD. AND SO IT'S JUST, IT'S REALLY CHANGED OUR QUALITY OF LIFE. IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING. AND I, I DO MAINLY, I GUESS MY BIG THING IS THE SPEED. IT'S THE DRAG RACING SOUNDING. IT'S PEOPLE THINKING IF YOU'RE GOING ON THE ROAD AND THERE'S A TURN LANE THEY CAN PASS YOU SINCE YOU'RE TRYING TO STAY WITH 30, THEY JUST GO AHEAD AND PASS YOU IN THE TURN LANE. AND SO IT'S THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THE ONE THING THAT I WOULD SAY I COULD DEFINITELY SEE MIGHT MAKE A DIFFERENCE SOONER THAN LATER IS WHEN YOU COME INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE'S NO, UM, SPEED LIMIT SIGN ALL THE WAY UNTIL YOU ARE HALFWAY THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD. GRANTED IT'S 0.3 MILES, BUT YOU GET HALFWAY THROUGH, THEN YOU SEE A 30. AND SAME THING WITH COMING THIS WAY. DIDN'T YOU SEE A 30? I WISH THEY WERE CLOSER TO TURNING ON OR GETTING INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THE SIGNS WERE THERE INSTEAD. AND NOT, I MEAN, THEY CAN'T EVEN SEE IT FROM MCKEEVER WHEN THEY'RE COMING IN. THEY CANNOT SEE 30. AND WHILE THEY SHOULD KNOW WHAT IT IS, THEY'VE BEEN ON THE ROAD MANY TIMES, SHIRLEY. BUT NONETHELESS, I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT MORE KNOWN AND DEFINITELY MORE POLICE PRESENCE. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ONE MORE. THANK YOU, BOB. DAVID, 45, 11 CREEK POINT. THANK YOU GUYS. I JUST WANNA ADD TO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING REAL QUICK. UH, WITH THE KNIGHTS ROAD, BECAUSE OF THE, UH, THE GREEN AREA THERE, THE TREES, WHAT I DON'T SEE ANYMORE OR DON'T SEE IS THE SIGNS FOR THE ANIMAL CROSSING TURTLES, DEERS, UM, PIGS. THEY ALL CROSS THE ROAD AND IT'S REGULAR THAT WE SEE DEAD ANIMALS THERE, OR THE TRAIL OF BLOOD BEING HIT BY A CAR ON KNIGHTS ROAD. SO I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT AND MAKE A REQUEST, UH, FOR THOSE SIGNS TO BE ADDED. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S POSSIBLE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE, UH, HAS FOR KNIGHT ROAD, MAKEA AREA, BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF SPEED BUMPS WAS EVEN PLACED IN ON, ON KNIGHT ROAD, UM, AS A WAY OF CURTAILING THE TRAFFIC. SO I BE, BECAUSE I LIVE IN, UH, STATES OF SILVER RIDGE, UM, WE CAN HEAR EVERYTHING FROM AROUND THE AREA. AND AT NIGHTTIME, ESPECIALLY AROUND MIDNIGHT, 11, 10, 11, 12, YOU CAN HEAR THE DRAG RACING. YOU, YOU CAN LITERALLY HEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE CARS GO IN THERE AND IT'S FROM THE TIME THEY LEAVE, UH, WATTS NIGHT AND THEY GO ACROSS, YOU CAN HEAR THEM GUNNING IT ALL THE WAY TO THAT BRIDGE, AND THEN I DON'T HEAR IT ANYMORE. SO I DO STRONGLY SUPPORT WHAT THEY'RE SAYING AND, UH, WOULD SUGGEST IF POSSIBLE, SOMETHING TO SLOW THE ROAD DOWN, UH, ON NIGHTS, UM, AND OF COURSE ADDING THOSE SIGNS FOR THE ANIMALS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I GUESS WE REALLY DIDN'T HAVE, IS THIS A, A, THIS IS PUBLIC COMMENT, SO IT WASN'T A PUBLIC HEARING, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO CLOSE A PUBLIC HEARING. UM, SO ALL, ALL THOSE ISSUES, OBVIOUSLY, UM, THERE'S GOTTA BE AN AVENUE FOR THE CITIZENS TO, TO DO THAT. MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS 3 1 1, IS THAT IT? YES. OKAY. 3 1, 1 MCTX. THREE ONE. YEAH. SO, UM, THERE IS A, UH, A VEHICLE REPORTING THESE KIND OF THINGS, 3 1 1. AND I WAS GONNA ASK, AND, AND EDWARD, YOU MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE SIGNAGE ON NIGHT ROAD. UNFORTUNATELY, I'M, I'M NOT TOO FAMILIAR WITH IT. I FIGURED THAT YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T, WEREN'T, UH, INVOLVED IN, IN THAT. SO, UH, I, I WOULD, I WOULD LEAVE IT TO SEE IF THERE'S A WAY WE CAN FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE SIGNAGE ON THAT ROAD. UM, I I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH WHY WE WOULD'VE CHANGED THE SIGNAGE UNLESS, UM, I DON'T THINK IT WAS THERE WHEN, WELL, THE, THE GENTLEMAN SAID IT WAS, IT WAS FORT BEND SIGNAGE AND THEN THEY SWITCHED IT TO MISSOURI CITY SIGNAGE STREET SIGN. STREET SIGN. STREET SIGN, YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. I, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THE OTHER SIGNAGE, BUT, BUT EVEN THE STREET SIGNS KIND OF BAFFLE ME TOO. . I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED THERE, BUT, UM, BUT, UH, 3 1 1 IS, IS, UH, A, A GOOD VEHICLE, UM, AND OF COURSE PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES, UM, CALL THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I MEAN, DO WE, DOES MISSOURI CITY POLICE COVER THAT AREA OR IS IT IT'S IN THE CITY. IT'S INSIDE. OKAY. SO YOU CAN CALL THE MISSOURI CITY POLICE. NORTH, NORTH OF THE BRIDGE IS INSIDE THE CITY. OKAY. SOUTH OF THE BRIDGE IS. AND SO THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE. I IT ON THE SIDE BETWEEN KNIGHT ROAD AND THE, I GUESS THE BRIDGE [00:30:01] THAT THE, NEAR THE PARKWAY. ALL OF THAT IS, UH, COUNTY, COUNTY COMES IN THERE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, STATE TROOPER MAY STATE TROOPER COMES DOWN AND SOMETIME, UH, FRESNO OR I CALL THEM. OKAY. IT WAS MOSTLY PATROL BY THE, THE CONS. OKAY. AND SAME, THE SAME AREA WHEN WE CALL THE POLICE, THEY USUALLY SHOWING UP ABOUT THREE TO FIVE HOURS LATER WHEN THE ISSUE GONE SEVERAL TIMES. AND 9 1 1, BECAUSE THERE WAS A DROP RACING HAPPENING IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE. UH, AND THEY SHOWED UP PROBABLY ABOUT 20 MINUTES AFTER THE RACE WAS OVER AND THE WAS GONE. AND THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE WHO JUST DRIVING IN THE CIRCLE BETWEEN, UH, MAKI HIGHWAY SIX, GOING BACK TO FOUR BEND PARKWAY, HIT THE NITRO, DRIVING BACK TO MAKI AND KEEP DOING THESE CIRCLES AND RACING THE DARK CIRCLE. THAT ROAD IS THE TRACK. NI NITRO IS THE TRUCK. YES. YES. SO I DON'T FEEL MAKING ANY MORE RECOMMENDATIONS BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE REAL ANSWERS ARE. UM, I WOULD DEFER TO LEGAL MAYBE IF IF THERE'S A, A, SOME KIND OF REMEDY. YEAH. WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE NOTE AND, UM, WORK WITH, UM, THE CITY TEAM TO PROVIDE A RESPONSE BACK, BUT WE'LL, WE HAVE THE CONCERN NOTED. OKAY. ALRIGHT. OKAY. SO I GUESS WE WILL OPEN UP FOR DISCUSSION ABOUT THE, THE UPDATE THAT JENNIFER GAVE. UH, IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE NEED TO ADD OR QUESTION OR, I, I GUESS I'M JUST BEFUDDLED, YOU KNOW, 54 RESPONSES WHEN WE SHOULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT'D BE NICE TO HAVE LIKE 2,500 MM-HMM. , YOU KNOW, OR, OR 25,000 EVEN BETTER, RIGHT? YEAH. SO I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT AS FAR AS WHAT KIND OF RESPONSE RATE THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WERE EVEN PREDICTING. BUT I, I, I JUST, I CAN'T, I CAN'T FATHOM HOW WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT AVENUES THAT WE HAVE TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT THAT WE'RE JUST NOT GETTING A RESPONSE. I'M, I DON'T, I HAVE NO ANSWER FOR THAT. YEAH. SO TO ME, THAT, AND, AND THIS IS WHERE THE PUBLIC CAN HELP US, YOU KNOW, IF, IF, IF YOU, IF YOU YOURSELVES HAVE RESPONDED, TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS TO RESPOND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A, THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO GET SOME INPUT INTO STUFF THAT, THAT IF WE DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT, AND THEN THE STAFF IS KIND OF LEFT WITH JUST THE INPUT THAT THEY DO GET AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD BE MISSING STUFF. SO JENNIFER, I WANT TO JUST CORRECT THIS, UH, WE HAD 126 PARTICIPANTS, CORRECT? MM-HMM, AND OUTTA THE HUNDRED 26, WE HAVE 54 RESPONSES. SO TWO SEPARATE. UM, SO THE 126 WERE THOSE WHO LOGGED IN, UM, OR ATTENDED A FOCUS GROUP, UM, SESSION. AND THEN THE 54 ARE THOSE THAT, UM, USED THAT ONLINE, UM, QUESTIONNAIRE AND COMPLETED IT. SO THERE, THERE MAY BE OVERLAP IN TERMS OF THOSE THAT ATTENDED A FOCUS GROUP AND ALSO FILLED OUT A QUESTIONNAIRE. UM, BUT THOSE ARE THE, THE TWO SEPARATE RESPONSE NUMBERS. THANK YOU. I HAD A QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THE 126 ON THE FOCUS GROUPS. I MEAN THE, I'VE SAT IN ON A NUMBER OF THOSE AND THE SAME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PRETTY CONSISTENTLY ON, OR A GROUPS SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY ON ALL OF THEM. IS THE 126 A UNIQUE NUMBER? NO. OR IS IT JUST A, SO IF ONE PERSON WENT TO EVERY ONE OF THEM, THEIR, THEY COUNT AS A DOZEN OR SO. YEAH. AND SO, AND THIS IS, THIS IS PRELIMINARY. SO JUST LOOKING AT, UM, THE ATTENDANCE, WE'LL EVENTUALLY FILTER THAT OUT. OKAY. UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE HIGH WATERMARK RIGHT NOW. UM, AND SO WHEN WE START TO FILTER, IT'S THAT NUMBER'S GONNA COME DOWN. YEAH. OKAY. AND THEN THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD JOINT MEETING, I KNOW YOU'VE GOT THE TOUR SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY. IS THERE ANOTHER PLAN FOR PNZ TO SIT DOWN WITH CITY COUNCIL AND TALK MORE ABOUT ALIGNMENT AND SO FORTH? NOT NECESSARILY. I'M KIND OF GOING BACK NOT TO THE, TO THE MEETING AT CITY CENTER, BUT THE ONE THAT WE HAD HERE IN APRIL, WE ALL TALKED. WAS IT? YEAH. MM-HMM. . SO THAT SEEMED TO BE, THAT SEEMED TO BE FAIRLY PRODUCTIVE, I THINK, AT LEAST FROM MY POINT OF VIEW. I GOT A LOT OUT OF IT, BEING ABLE TO TALK WITH CITY COUNCIL ABOUT THAT. IS THERE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE TYPE PLANS? SO THERE'S NOT ONE THAT'S THAT'S PLANNED OR SCHEDULED AT THIS TIME. OKAY. UM, HOWEVER WE CAN MAKE NOTE OF THAT. UM, 'CAUSE I AGREE. SO, YOU KNOW, EVEN FOR SATURDAY AND FOR, UM, WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS WE'RE STILL COLLECTING INFORMATION. MM-HMM. . UM, SO THAT STILL HAS TO BE ANALYZED [00:35:01] AND THEN THERE STILL HAS TO BE, YOU KNOW, SOME FURTHER DISCUSSION, YOU KNOW, ON THAT. SO, UM, IT, THERE'S NOTHING SCHEDULED, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN'T, UM, BRING THAT TOGETHER. OKAY. AND THE OTHER COMMENT I'D MAKE IS SITTING IN ON THESE MEETINGS, YOU GUYS ARE DOING YEOMAN'S JOBS, WORKING THROUGH 'EM. I CAN'T IMAGINE SITTING AND DOING THE SAME PRESENTATION A DOZEN TIMES, JUST DOING IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER. I'M, I'M REALLY IMPRESSED WITH WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING. WELL, AND I, I'LL TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY FIRST. THANK YOU FOR THOSE WORDS. BUT THEN ALSO JUST TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THIS AMAZING PLANNING STAFF AND PLANNING TEAM BECAUSE, UM, THEY HAVE COORDINATED AND DONE A FABULOUS JOB, UM, IN ALL ASPECTS. AND THERE'S A LOT OF LOGISTICS ON THE BACKEND SIDE AND THEY'VE TAKEN CARE OF THAT FLAWLESSLY. SO THANK YOU. WELL, I, I'VE MADE GRACE'S LIFE DIFFICULT ON MORE THAN ONE . I APPRECIATE HER TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE OR BEING ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE. THANK YOU. I HAD A, UM, QUESTION. I SAW MEDICAL SERVICES A FEW TIMES ON THE SLIDES. WAS THERE ANYTHING, UM, SAID IN THOSE MEETINGS THAT, UM, STUCK OUT TO YOU WITHIN THAT AREA? OR WAS IT JUST GENERALLY WE'D LIKE TO HAVE MORE URGENT CARE? SO IN THE, IN THE, UH, FOCUS GROUPS, IT WAS GENERAL, UM, JUST GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES, UM, HOWEVER YOU MADE NOTE OF LEVEL ONE TRAUMA CENTER. UM, SO WE HAVE THAT IN THE INPUT AS WELL. UM, SO A LOT OF, A LOT OF THE MEDICAL, SOME WAS OFFICE, UM, RELATED. SOME WERE HOSPITAL AND ACTUAL MEDICAL SERVICES. UM, BUT IT WAS GENERAL THAT WE RECEIVED. AND I ECHO MY, MY COLLEAGUES ON THE WORK YOU'VE ALL DONE. THIS IS, UM, IT'S A LOT. IT'S, SO THINKING BACK TO 2017, 'CAUSE I CAN'T REMEMBER THAT FAR BACK . UM, HOW, HOW SUCCESSFUL WERE WE IN GATHERING INPUT? DID THAT GO AROUND? YOU KNOW, AND I'LL PULL BECAUSE THERE WAS A SURVEY, UM, RELATED TO THAT. I, I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, SO I'LL PULL THAT. WHAT DOES STAND OUT? UM, IS, UH, THE, UH, SYMPOSIUM, UH, THE IN-PERSON SYMPOSIUM, UH, THAT WE HAD A PACKED HOUSE AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER OF, UM, I THINK THE NUMBER WE GAVE WAS 300 PLUS, UM, AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THAT. UM, SO I WOULD ANTICIPATE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE, HOPEFULLY WITH THE PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE, UM, THAT WE'LL GARNER, YOU KNOW, SOME MORE ATTENDANCE THERE. UM, BUT I'LL GET THE SURVEY NUMBER AND, UH, REPORT THAT BACK OUT. JUST CURIOUS. YEAH, I CAN'T REMEMBER EITHER. SO. YEAH. OKAY. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION, COMMENTS, INPUT? UM, THEN I GUESS WE HAVE ONE MORE MOTION. SHE'S READY. MOTION TO ADJOURN. MR. SOLOWAY. MR. BAILEY, SECOND. PASS YOUR VOTE PLEASE. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NEXT MONTH. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.