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OKAY. GOOD EVENING. IT IS 6:33. WE WILL GO AHEAD AND CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.
[A. CALL TO ORDER]
IF YOU WOULD JOIN ME IN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
THANK YOU. PUBLIC APPEARANCE. SPEAKERS ARE ALLOWED FIVE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION IS UNABLE TO RESPOND OR TO DISCUSS ANY ISSUES THAT ARE BROUGHT UP DURING THE SECTION THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA, OTHER THAN TO MAKE SPECIFIC STATEMENTS OF SPECIFIC FACTUAL INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO A SPEAKER'S INQUIRY, OR TO RECITE EXISTING POLICY IN RESPONSE TO ANY INQUIRY.
IS THERE ANYBODY HERE FOR THE PUBLIC APPEARANCE THIS EVENING? DOES NOT APPEAR SO.
[D. APPOINTMENTS]
CONSIDER APPOINTING A VICE CHAIR FOR THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION. I UNDERSTAND THAT WE JUST HAVE MRS. ELLIS, HIS NAME AND THAT ONE. IS THAT CORRECT?.YES. OKAY. YES. OKAY. PERFECT. SO WE JUST NEED TO OPEN THAT UP FOR A VOTE.
IS THAT RIGHT? I'M SORRY. COULD YOU REPEAT THAT? WE NEED TO OPEN IT UP FOR A VOTE FOR MRS. ELLIS, THE VICE CHAIR. YES, SIR.
OKAY, WE WILL OPEN THAT UP FOR A VOTE, PLEASE.
ARE WE VOTING OR MAKING A MOTION? WELL, SHE'S THE ONLY NAME ON THERE, SO I DON'T KNOW IF.
OKAY. I DO FORMALLY MAKE A MOTION TO NOMINATE MRS. ELLIS FOR THE VICE CHAIR OF P&Z. MRS. ELLIS. SORRY, I'VE GOT A MOTION.
DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. ALL RIGHT. NOW WE CAN OPEN UP FOR A VOTE.
AND THAT WILL PASS FOUR TO NOTHING. CONGRATULATIONS, MRS. ELLIS, ON BEING THE VICE CHAIR.
MOVING ON TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA FOR THIS EVENING, ALL CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS LISTED ARE CONSIDERED TO BE ROUTINE BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND WILL BE ENACTED BY ONE MOTION. THERE WILL BE NO SEPARATE DISCUSSION OF THESE ITEMS UNLESS A COMMISSIONER SO REQUESTS, IN WHICH THE ITEM BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND CONSIDERED IN ITS NORMAL SEQUENCE ON THE AGENDA. FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA TONIGHT WE HAVE E.1 IS THE MINUTES AND THEN E.2 IS 2026-04-009-FP ON THE FINAL PLAT FOR THE AFK WASH INVESTMENTS.
ON THIS ONE, THE MINUTES, WE ARE GOING TO REMOVE THIS ONE FROM THE MEETING.
WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO DO THIS ON THE NEXT MEETING. BECAUSE THE LINK THAT WAS PUT ON THERE IS ACTUALLY FOR THE APRIL 20TH, 2026 MEETING, NOT THE MOST RECENT MEETING THAT WE HAD.
SO WE WILL VOTE ON THAT AS WELL AS THE NEXT ONE ON THE NEXT MEETING FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA.
AND THEN ALSO ON THE 2026-04-009-FP ON THE FINAL PLAT.
ARE WE GOOD FOR THAT? PERFECT. ALL RIGHT. SO MOVING ON TO OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS.
[G. REGULAR AGENDA]
WE DON'T HAVE ANY PUBLIC HEARINGS TONIGHT. WE WILL GO ON TO THE REGULAR AGENDA, WHICH WILL BE THE 2026-04-009FP, THE FINAL PLAT FOR AFK WASH INVESTMENTS PROPERTY BEING A 1.184 ACRE TRACT OF LAND LOCATED AT 1732 EAST PRINCETON DRIVE, PRINCETON, TEXAS. GOOD EVENING, CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.THIS IS A FINAL PLAT FOR A PORTION OF THE PROPERTY THAT IS A PART OF PRINCETON CROSSROADS.
SO THIS ACTUALLY IS RIGHT WHEN YOU GO OUTSIDE CITY HALL NEXT TO 711 AND STRICKLAND BROTHERS, AND THEN THERE WOULD BE THIS CAR WASH. SO THERE WILL BE ONE EMPTY LOT WHEN WE'RE TURNING RIGHT FROM CITY HALL GOING ON TO US.
380 WHEN YOU TURN RIGHT, THIS WILL BE THE SECOND LOT ON OUR SIDE, NOT SIDE OF US.
380. SO THEY'VE MET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF OUR CODE.
WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE DETENTION, THE ACCESS, ALL OF IT WORKS WITH OUR CODE.
SO AT THIS POINT THEY HAVE AN UPDATED CLEAN, WELL SIGNED APPLICATION ALSO.
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AND IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY, THE LAST TIME, THE REASON THAT WAS DENIED WAS BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THERE WAS NO SIGNATURE, BUT THERE WAS A NOTARY STAMP. IS THAT RIGHT? YES, SIR. OKAY.BUT WE HAVE BOTH OF THOSE NOW? YES, SIR. THANK YOU.
BECAUSE I DIDN'T. YES, MA'AM. OKAY. IT'S CALLED QUICK SPLASH CAR WASH.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE 2026-04-009-FP.
THANK YOU. AND I'VE GOT A MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SORRY. I SECOND, I'VE GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND, VOTE PLEASE.
THAT'S GOING TO BE A PROBLEM. BECAUSE THAT'S NOT A MAJORITY OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING. AND IT'S NOT FOR. AND IT'S NOT.
YEAH. THAT'S NOT. ABSTAINING IS GOING TO BE A PROBLEM.
BECAUSE THERE'S REALLY NO BASIS FOR DENYING THIS SPLASH AT THIS POINT.
WELL, THE ONLY REASON I'M ABSTAINING IS BECAUSE I WASN'T INVOLVED IN ANY OF THIS.
SO THAT'S THE ONLY REASON, IT'S NOT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG OR WHATEVER.
BUT I JUST HAD NO HAND IN DOING THIS. YEAH. WELL, EFFECTIVELY YOU'RE DENYING THE PLAT.
IF YOU VOTE OR MAKE A RECOMMENDATION FOR DENIAL OF THE PLAT, EFFECTIVELY FROM THE COMMISSION, IF YOU VOTE LIKE THIS. JUST BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T PRESENT PREVIOUSLY.
WHEN YOU SAY YOU WEREN'T INVOLVED, I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN.
WELL, THIS IS, I THINK, MY THIRD OR FOURTH MEETING ON P&Z.
RIGHT. SO I WASN'T HERE WHEN ANY OF THIS BUSINESS TOOK PLACE.
WELL, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IT WOULD BE ON THE COMMISSION ANYWAY.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU SEE IN THE PACKET, YOU KNOW, SAVE AND EXCEPT THE NOW CHANGES, AS SHE HAS MENTIONED IS WHAT YOU WOULD NORMALLY RECEIVE IN THE PACKET, YOU KNOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN THE FINAL PLOT COMES BEFORE YOU, SO.
THIS IS WHAT WE WOULD NORMALLY SEE FIRST. THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST.
WE DIDN'T SEE JUST THE APPLICATION AND THEN THE PLAN.
AND THEN THE FINAL PLAT. THAT'S NOT WHAT WE DO.
NO. SO THE WAY IT WOULD WORK IS YOU IN 2013 OR SO, WHEN THE WHOLE PRINCETON CROSSROADS CAME ACROSS, THEY DID A PRELIMINARY PLAT. SO IF YOU WEREN'T ON THE P&Z, YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE SEEN THE PRELIMINARY PLAT.
AND THEN OVER THE YEARS, WHEN THEY KEEP DOING ONE LOT AT A TIME, THEY'LL COME IN OR PHASES.
THEY COME IN FOR FINAL PLAT. SO THIS IS WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT THEIR FINAL PLAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO ARE WE TO JUST MOVING FORWARD, JUST APPROVE EVERYTHING.
IF IT'S A PLAT HERE. IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW, IF A PLAT COMPLIES WITH ALL APPLICABLE PROVISIONS FOR ORDINANCES AND STATE LAW, YOU MUST APPROVE IT. IS THAT WHEN THE SHOT CLOCK STARTS? WELL, THE SHOT CLOCK IS A DIFFERENT IMPACT AS FAR AS THE TIMING ON WHICH IT MUST BE APPROVED.
BUT IF IT'S WITHIN THE SHOT CLOCK AND IT COMES BEFORE YOU AND IT COMES BEFORE COUNCIL FAILING TO, YOU KNOW, APPROVE A PLAT THAT CONFORMS IN EVERY WAY TO A STATE LAW.
OKAY. THANKS FOR CLARIFYING, BECAUSE I WASN'T NECESSARILY AGAINST IT.
BUT, I MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING,
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YOU KNOW. AND AGAIN, I CAN'T, YOU KNOW, WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, OF COURSE, AT THIS POINT YOU'RE MERELY RECOMMENDING BODY.BUT THAT SAID, THERE'S NO REAL NO LEGAL BASIS, AT LEAST ACCORDING TO THE STAFF, THERE'S REALLY NO LEGAL BASIS TO DENY APPROVAL OF THE PLAT OR TO RECOMMEND DENIAL BECAUSE THE PLAT APPROVAL IS VALID.
IT'S NOT LIKE A ZONING CASE. ZONING CASE IS DIFFERENT.
OKAY? ZONING CASES ARE DISCRETIONARY, PLATS ARE NOT.
AND THIS PLAT WAS DONE IN 2013 OR 2017? THE PRELIMINARY WAS DONE IN 2013.
MANY THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. THIS AREA HAS NOT CHANGED MUCH SINCE THE FIRST TIME THEY WERE, EXCEPT FOR THE FINAL PLAT AT 7/11, THE FINAL PLAT AT STRICKLAND BROTHERS.
NOW THEIR FINAL PLAT IN THIS CAR WASH. SO CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
IF THIS WAS A PRELIMINARY PLAT, THEN THEY COULD VOTE NO? NOT IF IT COMPLIES WITH ALL OF OUR ORDINANCES.
OKAY. OKAY. IT'S MY POINT. IT'S LIKE ISSUANCE OF A PERMIT, EFFECTIVELY.
IF IT COMPLIES WITH OUR ORDINANCES, THEN YOU'VE GOT TO APPROVE IT.
AND THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT A MINISTERIAL ACT.
SO SHALL WE REOPEN THIS FOR ANOTHER VOTE? CAN WE DO THAT? IF SHE HASN'T RECORDED IT, CAN THEY CHANGE THE VOTE? IF YOU HAVEN'T RECORDED IT, YES, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, YES.
IF IT'S NOT. IT'S NOT RECORDED. IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR VOTE, YOU'RE WELCOME TO.
IT'S NOT LETTING ME CHANGE ANYTHING.
HERE WE GO. AND THAT HAS NOW PASSED FOUR TO NOTHING.
ALL RIGHT. INFORMATION I HAVE RIGHT NOW. WE'RE GOING TO DO THE WORK SESSION.
[H. INFORMATION]
WE DID NOT HAVE THE WORK SESSION PRIOR TO TODAY'S MEETING. SO WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THAT TO THE JUNE 1ST MEETING. THAT'S GOING TO BE OUR NEXT MEETING. ARE WE DOING THAT AS PART OF THE ACTUAL MEETING ITSELF? WE CAN DO IT WHICHEVER WAY THE COMMISSION WANTS TO DO IT.IF YOU ALL PREFER TO JUST MAKE IT HERE AT 6:30 AND MAKE IT A PART OF YOUR REGULAR AGENDA ITEM, THEN WE CAN DO IT THEN. OKAY.
WAS PRIOR TO. IT'S JUST BASICALLY A PRESENTATION, RIGHT? OKAY. YEAH. SO IT'S JUST A PRESENTATION. JUST LIKE A TRAINING FOR US.
OKAY. SO WOULD YOU PREFER TO DO THAT PRIOR TO THE MEETING OR DURING THE MEETING? PRIOR TO. OKAY. CAN WE DO IT PRIOR TO LIKE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO TODAY? SURE. WHAT TIME SHOULD WE PUT IT? 6? WELL. I WOULD SAY 5:30 JUST TO GIVE US A LITTLE EXTRA TIME JUST IN CASE.
IF Y'ALL ARE GOOD WITH 5:30, THEN YES, WE WE CAN MAKE IT 5:30 AGAIN.
I KNOW I'LL HAVE QUESTIONS. THAT'S WHY I WAS SAYING YOU MIGHT.
PERFECT. ANYTHING ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING THEY WANT TO.
ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING THEY WANT BROUGHT UP FOR THE NEXT MEETING? NO? ALL RIGHT. AT THAT POINT, IT IS 6:47, AND WE'RE ADJOURNED.
Y'ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.