Plano City Council Preview

Plano City Council Preview – October 25, 2021

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Plano’s Campaign Finance Ethics Ordinance is back up for discussion during tomorrow’s Preliminary Open Meeting.

You can sign up online to speak at council meetings in person or via Zoom online at this link up to 15 minutes before the scheduled meeting, which is typically at the 7:00 Regular Meeting. You may alternatively share your thoughts by emailing the council members any time at our email addresses here, or by 4:00 PM the day of the meeting at councilcomments@plano.gov. The council meeting will be livestreamed on PlanoTV.org and on the City of Plano Facebook page.

 

Executive Session (starts at 5:00 PM)

(Review agenda here)
  • Legal advice on zoning moratoriums, amendments and property development rights
  • Litigation: Constance Swanston and Women’s Elevated Sober Living vs. City of Plano
  • Personnel Reappointments/Appointments: Planning and Zoning Commission – Members and Chair
 

Preliminary Open Meeting

(Whenever Executive Session, which starts at 5:00 PM, ends)
(Review agenda here)
  • Personnel Reappointments/Appointments: Planning and Zoning Commission – Members and Chair
  • Personnel Appointments
  • Library Advisory Board Chair
  • Parks and Recreation Planning Board Member
  • Discussion and direction re: Campaign Finance/Recusal (at the last meeting where this was discuss, council determined to have a working session to discuss strengthening the ordinance. See my prior article about this here.
  • Departmental Report: Plano Fire Rescue (if there’s time left after the Campaign Finance discussion)
 

Regular Meeting (starts at 7:00 PM)

Note: the Consent Agenda is at the bottom of this post.
(Review agenda here).
  • Oaths of Office
  • Animal Shelter Advisory Committee: Madeline Norris
  • Cultural Arts Commission: Diane Goebel, Elisa Klein
  • Library Advisory Board: Jessica Bartnick, Carol Sewell
  • Certificates of Appreciation
  • Animal Shelter Advisory Committee: Robert Watson
  • Board of Adjustment: Robert Miller, Tianle Tong
  • Civil Service Commission: Nicole Williams
  • Community Relations Commission: Karen Bellessa
  • Cultural Arts Commission: Liane Tsai
  • Heritage Commission: Jason Morgan
  • Library Advisory Board: Mike Bronsky, Cathie Alexander
  • Parks and Recreation Planning Board: Lauriston Crockett, Doug Shockey
  • Senior Advisory Board: Marvelle Ditto, Katherine Goodwin
  • Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone No. 2 and 3 Boards: Russell Coolik, Alan Johnson, Angela Miner
 

Comments of Public Interest: every meeting, anyone can speak about anything for up to three minutes, with 30 total minutes allotted for this segment.

 
 

Items for Individual Consideration

 
NOTE: notable items from the Consent Agenda are at the bottom of this post.
  • Item (1): Collin Creek zoning modifications to include the following: modify outdoor commercial amusement locations and standards; add public storage/mini-warehouse as a use allowed by specific use permit within Block S; modify usable open space locations and standards; update building setback standards; modify standards related to walls and fences; update the approval process for the pattern book; adjust the length of Block S; modify the floor area ratio and lot coverage for Block Y; add a new Block AA with block length exception; and update exception language for clarity
 

Notable Consent Agenda Items

Total of $3,357,698 of your money in proposed expenses
  • Item (b): $406,668.97 to provide additional parking and shade structure for the Plano Animal Shelter
  • Item (c): $2,601,029 to replace ~7,500 linear feet of 8” waterlines in the Carriage Hill neighborhood
  • Item (h): Approval of City Council Meeting Rules of Procedure

 

Review City Council agendas and minutes here.