This is a rare Tuesday council meeting, and the marquee event is the second appearance of the EDS campus redevelopment to a Life Sciences park, including 775 multifamily units.
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Executive Session (starts at 5:00 PM)
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- Legal advice about the Housing Tax Credit Process
- Economic Development Consideration
- Litigation: Alexander Stein v City of Plano
Preliminary Open Meeting
(Whenever Executive Session, which starts at 5:00 PM, ends)
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- Plano Event Center Hotel Update
Regular Meeting (starts at 7:00 PM)
Notable Consent Agenda items are at the bottom of this post.
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- Proclamations
- Municipal Court Week is November 6 – 10, 2023 (betcha didn’t know that was a thing)
- November 11 is Veterans Day, a day to honor all who served
- Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week is November 11 – 18, 2023
- Presentation: Plano’s Communications and Community Outreach Department worked with the Plano Police Department Victim Services Unit and LifePath Systems to create a Public Service Announcement video series. The series has received numerous state and national awards
- Oaths of Office
- Heritage Commission: David Kratochvil
- Multicultural Outreach Roundtable: Donna Hartman
- Plano Housing Authority: Karma Cunningham, Jan Rugg
Comments of Public Interest: at every meeting, anyone can speak about anything for up to three minutes, with 30 total minutes allotted for this segment.
Items for Individual Consideration
- Item (1): EDS Campus redevelopment, Take 2. This is to develop the old EDS campus as a Life Sciences park with 775 multifamily units which the developer says are needed for the 31,000 employees who will work there, but aren’t being reserved for the employees who work there. Yeah, I know.
- Item (2): to allow a 40% increase to the amount of allowable retail & restaurant usage near 14th street and Los Rios
Notable Consent Agenda Items
Total of $______ of your money in proposed expenses
- Item (b): $541,620 for Public Works Master Plan (incidentally, this is all part of my own Master Plan)
- Item (c): $4,425,203 for the repair of 23,500 square yards of residential concrete street and alley, 138,000 square feet of sidewalk and 183 barrier-free ramps
- Item (e): $3,217,802 for Kingston Drive, Duchess Trail, Lorraine Drive and Willow Lane – Paving and Waterline Improvements involving the removal and replacement of 4,300 linear feet of full-width residential street pavement, sidewalks, driveways, barrier-free ramps, and 4,200 linear feet of 6″ and 8″ waterline replacement
- Item (l): $1,700,718 for the City of Plano match to the North Central Texas Council of Governments for the construction of the Cotton Belt Regional Trail, which will run parallel to DART’s Silver Line
Review City Council agendas and minutes here.
