Tempe approves middle housing overlay, advances 715-unit affordable projects amid Shalomar rezoning opposition

Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Tempe City Council regular council meeting. Item number one is call to order. Council meetings can be watched in real time via CoxCable channel 11 and at tempe.gov/temp1. Members of the public may also attend the meeting virtually through Microsoft Teams.

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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. Tonight's agenda has a number of items that the city council must consider in order to conduct city business. Guidelines for conduct at city council meetings are on the table near the entrance for those in attendance at tonight's meeting.

We will now play a video with the proper protocol for ensuring the appropriate conduct at city council meetings. The city of Tempe welcomes public comment at this time. Disruptive behavior will not be allowed. Continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers. We need to be able to hear everyone in the room. Behavior that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any city council meeting is not helpful and is not permitted.

This includes behavior both inside and outside of the council chambers. Should individuals inside the council chambers become disruptive so that city business is not able to be conducted, the mayor will first ask that the individuals allow city business to be completed. There will be time for public comment during the call to the audience portion of the meeting.

If no cooperation, the mayor will issue a verbal warning and let them know that the continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers. If there is still no cooperation, the mayor will issue a second verbal warning and let them know that the continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers.

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Charges for trespass and disorderly conduct may apply, as well as other charges. Should anyone be asked to be removed, the mayor will recess the meeting. We will now play a video conveying the city of Tempy's native land acknowledgement statement. We acknowledge that Tempe lies on the ancestral land of the native peoples who have lived here since time immemorial. The ancestral land of the Aumipage stretches far beyond the boundaries of our city.

The landscape is sacred to them, embodying cultural values that are integral to their identity and way of life. The autoipage continue to maintain a deep spiritual connection to this land. We embrace the responsibility of caring for these places and vow to uphold this commitment in all our actions. Thank you everyone. We're going to move on to item number four, meeting minutes. And tonight I'll be assisted by Council Member Adams. Council member Adams. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move microphone.

I move to turn my microphone on. [laughter] I move to approve the city council meeting minutes in item 4 A1. Okay. It's been moved by council member Adams and seconded by council member Keating. And just as a note to council member Hajj is attending virtually. So please vote. Hi. And that item passes 7 to zero. Next up item 4B acceptance of board commission and committee meeting minutes. Council member Adams.

I move to accept the board commission and committee meeting minutes in items 4B1 through 4B9. Okay. It's been moved by Council Member Adams. Do I have a second? Seconded by Vice Mayor Garland. Please vote. Yes. And that item passes seven to zero. Thank you, Council Member Adams. All right. That brings me to item number 5. a mayor's reports and announcements. Uh I have one right here and actually um can the council join me down in front for this? I was going to read something. I get my glasses.

Okay. So, I'm go and read the the proclamation we have. Whereas the city of Tempi stands on the ancestral homelands of the Hokam whose irrigation and agriculture traditions shape this region and the continuing legacy of the Akamo Aam and the peash nations who maintain deep spiritual ties to these lands. And whereas Native American Heritage Month is celebrated every November to honor the rich history, cultures, and contributions of native and indigenous peoples in the United States.

And whereas native peoples have long demonstrated extraordinary resilience in the face of displacement and cultural eraser and continue to lead the way in the struggle for sovereignty, justice, and environmental stewardship. And whereas Tempe is proud to honor the countless ancestral and cultural achievements of indigenous knowledge, technology, science, philosophy, art, and history that have sustained has sustained and shaped the character of our communities.

And whereas the city of Tempee is dedicated to uplifting and amplifying indigenous voices in our city, acknowledging that the work of healing and decolonization is ongoing and encourages the citizens of Tempe to understand and recognize Native American heritage months month as we move forward towards a more inclusive and equitable future. Now therefore, I car Corey Woods, mayor of the city of Tempe, Arizona, do hereby declare November 2025 as Native American Heritage Month in Tempe, ARIZONA.

[applause] HEY, we do have a group that's going to be receiving this actually. Uh, if you're going to be receiving, please come down and join us for a photo. Thank you. [laughter] Okay, you ladies. Congratulations. Congratulations, ladies. [applause] on the inside for everybody. Yeah, just let me know. Thank you. All right, next up here, item 52, appointments to the Tempe Desert Conservation Commission and Rio Salado Enhanced Services Commission.

Just want to uh congratulate Bianca Zeatl on her appointment to the Desert Conservation Commission and to Pam Gankin on her new appointment to the Rio Salado Enhanced Services Commission as outlined in item 7A1 on this evening's agenda. I'll now turn it over to our madam city manager for item 5B, city manager reports, reports and announcements. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

I just wanted to take a moment to express my deepest appreciation to Chief McCoy, Chief Ree, and the men and women of our Tempe Police Department. And I must say sworn and nonsworn because I know that there's a distinction and I want to make sure everyone knows it is the entire department. As you will see here in the slide, uh violent crimes in Tempe went down by 21% in the first six months of 2025.

While throughout the valley, just to put it in perspective, um it has been 8% on a on a national or on an average throughout the cities. Um we have a reduction in that crime, but also seen a steady decline since 2021. And the attributes to this we we often do a lot of looking at data and discussing what's working and what's not. What do we want to do more of? What do we want to do less of? And all with keeping in mind who we're serving and the importance of keeping people safe.

And I would attribute that to the great leadership we do have. Our real-time operations center, our targeted special operations as we have seen through from drag racing and other things. and the realignment of resources towards success. Um the work they do behind the scenes every day and I think we get messages on what happens late at night and during the day but mostly late at night.

Um they are under tremendous pressure every day and we we recognize that work and obviously it's paying off tremendously. Um it is what makes Tempe a great city and not just that a safe city but also a caring one and I have to thank the leadership um especially for that new culture change that has taken place. Um these results don't happen over by chance. These are the results of dedication, accountability and trust that has built over time.

So thank you mayor for the few minutes to thank our our workforce. Thank you so much madam city manager. All right. Next up here, before we move into public appearances, I want to take a moment to address campaign related activity, especially as we are now in the 2026 election season. City council meetings are open to the public and are a vital forum for civic engagement.

We welcome all individuals, including candidates, to speak on matters of public concern during the public comment portion of the meeting. However, because this is an official city council meeting that is both televised and livereamed using city resources, we ask all candidates, including any current council members, to refrain from electioneering or campaign related activity while participating in this meeting.

That means no discussing your candidacy, asking for votes or signatures, or displaying campaign material such as signs, t-shirts, or literature while speaking. Thank you for helping us maintain the integrity and neutrality of our public meetings. Which brings me to item six, public appearances. According to the Arizona open meeting law, the city council may only discuss, respond to, or take action on matters listed elsewhere on this agenda for discussion and legal action.

The purpose of the open call to the public is to allow individuals to address the city council on any issue within the jurisdiction of the city council. No person shall speak more than once, and there is a limit of three minutes per speaker. in the interest of allowing all members of the public to have an opportunity to speak.

In the case that there were such a large number of persons intending to speak during the meeting that it may deprive other members of the public from the reasonable opportunity to speak, the mayor may limit each speaker to less than 3 minutes. Speakers present at the podium must state their name and city of residence and provide a speaker card.

Members of the public shall refrain from making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks and from becoming boisterous while addressing the city council or while attending the meeting. Speakers will be taken first come first serve in the order in which the cards are received. Speakers visual aids and appearances by phone or recordings are not allowed.

The city council is prohibited by state law from discussing, responding to, or taking action on matters raised during the call to the public, even if asked to do so by a member of the public so long as the subject discussed by the speaker is not listed as a specific agenda item for council's discussion for consideration for discussion and legal action.

Individual members of the council may respond to criticism made by speakers, ask staff to review a matter, or request a matter be placed on a future agenda. Now, with that all out of the way, I'm actually going to get to the list of speakers here. And once again, I'm going to take these in the order in which I received them. And the first speaker I have here is Eric Johnston. [clears throat] Please come forward, state your name and city of residence. You have three minutes. Thank you very much.

I appreciate the time and opportunity to talk to you tonight. My name is Eric Johnson. I live in Tempe, specifically on the sixth hole, the Shalomar Golf Course. I have played that golf course over a thousand times, which means I have taken 5 million steps on that piece of property and it is a special piece of property. I am also an ASU professor. I'm in my 19th year and I'm the co-director of the Center for Smart Cities and Regions.

As we travel around the world talking about what makes a city smart, three things step out, stand out. Trust, community, and nature. When it comes to community, I always describe Shalomar as a cheers bar of a golf course because everyone knows each other. This is very useful because over the weekend, hundreds of people pass by and I know about half of them and we talk. But it also is incredibly important when disaster strikes because these are the people that help to rebuild your community.

Shalomar specifically is one of the biggest generators of social capital in Tempe. When it comes to trust, you probably have seen the maps of the thousands of households that have advocated for not reszoning Shalomar into highdensity households, but you have not seen the parallel sort of maps of thousands of households demanding that we reszone this specific property. If there has ever been a unanimous consent of the public, this is it.

And it is our expectation as you as leaders of the public to reflect the will of the people. And the will of the people in this case is absolutely clear. do not reszone it. And then when it comes to the final issue of nature, it's not hard to understand how long it would take to rebuild a 60-year stable ecosystem. If we start tomorrow, none of us would see the fruits of that labor. But we don't have to start tomorrow because it exists today.

What we're asking for is the urgency to preserve it and to allow it to be kept zoned the way it currently is because it is so essential. I want to leave you with one thought experiment. At the point that you would reszone Tempe Town Lake into highdensity housing, that is the same time that you should start considering reszoning Shalomar because the issues that I talked about of trust, of community, in nature all apply to Tempe Town Lake at the same level as Shalomar.

The only difference is scale. And with that in mind, I appreciate your consideration of this matter and I hope that you vote to not reszone it. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Okay. The next three speakers will be virtual. Uh, and the first in that list is David Sokowski. Hello. Can you hear me? Okay. Yes. Uh, please state your name and city of residence. You have three minutes. My name is David Solowski. I live in Tempe.

Tempe has one of the worst housing shortages in the state and is a leading cause of the housing crisis. The general plan says we're going to create 71,000 jobs and that means we're probably going to need 30,000 low-income housing units. The general plan has only 31,000 units and Tempe would need to build 95% low-income housing. I don't think that's going to happen. The city needs to triple the current rate of construction.

It's the only way to fix the root cause of the housing crisis, which is the housing shortage. We need to support economic development and provide market rate, workforce, and low-income housing. It's the only way to make an inclusionary zoning policy effective. We can't have 95% inclusionary zoning. It's the only way the city can afford to invest in low-income housing by increasing permit fees and property taxes. Do you remember SB117?

I said it's only a matter of time before the state takes local control. And the city said we're not going to allow it. But then what happened? The state approved adaptive reuse, ADUs, the Axon bill, missing middle, and administrative reviews. This is your opportunity to adopt reforms so you can keep what control you have left. The city needs a real density bonus program. And I'm happy to guide the city to reforms that can increase housing supply.

You can start by allowing developers to build what they want. 100 units at the Leo, 100 units at the Marshall, 300 units at the standard. That's a 30% increase. We have developers working to reduce the housing shortage if only the city would allow it. This proves the city of Tempe restricts housing supply and it explains why the state is taking local control. I can explain why the city of Tempe is still in denial. This isn't just my opinion. It's basic math.

It's going to take the city 60 years to eliminate our housing shortage and the city's entire affordable housing supply will disappear in just 15 years. I'm very confident, in my opinion, the state will determine Tempe is negligent because we're not going to wait 60 years. The state will continue taking local control until the city eliminates our housing shortage or when there's nothing left to take away. Thank you for listening. Thank you. The next speaker I have is Diane Melrose. Hello. Hi.

Yes, please state your name and city of resident. You have three minutes. All right. My name is Diane Melrose. I live in Tempi. Uh my pollinator habitat is a thriving ecosystem. I have over 30 species of native plants in my sideyard alone. I have seven different species of milkweed. I have multiple species of pollinators. I have host plants. I have nectar plants. I use mulch religiously. I harvest rainwater. I'm doing all the things listed in the mayor's monarch pledge you made last year.

Timi is fully committed to environmental stewardship. That's what your press release said. Well, here I am ready to steward the environment. In the metropolitan gardening community, Tempe is known for its code compliance letters, for the fact that ordinances are subjectively enforced based on the whims of begrudging neighbors and inspectors who don't know the difference between Boridge and Brassica.

Tempe markets itself as a sustainable city, but when it comes to home gardens, it acts like the ignorant HOA board having a panic attack when yards don't match the neat, sterile aesthetics of a desert-minded June Cleaver. Turning one of your biggest departments into a watchdog for angry residents to nitpick their neighbors seems like a very poor use of my tax dollars because that's not community development. That's community divisiveness and it's not community enhancement.

It's community dimmunition. It's time to update your ordinances to reflect a city with a stated commitment and hold a vision dedicated to sustainability. It's not sustainable to randomly target residents with messy yards when those yards are the very places where wildlife can flourish. People in the neighborhood have told me how much they love my yard, that it makes them smile, that it's a stress relief, that they change their route in order to go by my house.

Sustainability means creating something that can be maintained. Zeroscaped heat reflecting root ball baking rock landscapes are not sustainable in this city. We're boiling saros for God's sake. Sustainable means working to sustain habitat to sustain life. And life is messy. Life needs mulch and leaf drop and places where native bees can overwinter and birds can find food. Many people want to see more green spaces in Tempe.

With only 42 square miles, we're pretty limited on adding more places that don't come with concrete and asphalt. But home gardens are perfectly placed to provide more foliage. Let's update the city code so residents who want to create pollinator habitats have the tools, resources, and support to help their neighbors smile, reduce their stress, and add some more plant life to our growing city. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker I have is Robert Nichols. So hello. Yes. Hi.

Please state your name and city of residence. You have three minutes. Hi everyone. My name is Bobby Nichols. I am a Tempe resident of 25 years. And I want to thank the mayor and council for their time today. Today I am affirmatively calling on the city of Tempe to immediately cancel its contract with the artificial intelligence surveillance company called Flock Safety.

Since October 16th, when I last spoke to you on this topic, new information about privacy dangers created by the use of flocks technology has come to light. Tempe has maintained without verifiable evidence that flock cameras assist law enforcement with preventing and stopping crimes.

Tempe has also maintained that their network of flock cameras are not accessible to law enforcement from jurisdictions outside of our city, private third parties, Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security, or ICE. and I tend to believe that the city is not intentionally exposing our residents personally identifying information to unscrupulous actors.

I am however very concerned that the use of Flock's automated license plate readers and video cameras will result in such exposure whether the city approves it or not.

A brief review of Flock's terms and conditions, which are available on their website and also according to Flock, are incorporated by reference in its service agreements with users, reveals that all users by using their services grant Flock royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, and worldwide licenses to use the images, audio, and or video segments made available to the customer through the web interface in connection with the Flock services together with the metadata associated with that customer's use of the Flock services such as license plate numbers, timestamps of capture, and geospatial coordinates.

Further, raw images and footage from flock cameras have been successfully acquired by private third parties in multiple states via simple public record requests.

Most troublingly, an October study from Washington University's Center for Human Rights revealed that Flock has built a virtual backdoor into their technology that allows the Department of Homeland Security and ICE to access, save, and make use of images and footage collected by municipal flock networks for the purposes of immigration enforcement without the consent or knowledge of the cities or police departments who actually purchased the flock networks.

Block's refusal to protect resident data collected by the technology it sells means that there is only one way to affirmatively prevent the disclosure of footage and images generated by Flock's cameras and that is to prevent those images and footage from being collected in the first place. I again affirmatively call on this council to terminate the contract with Flock and to protect our residents personally identifying information. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is Tanya Pallet.

Please come forward. Statement, city of residents. You have three minutes. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Thanks to the council. Can everyone hear me? Okay. Yes. Okay. Great. Um, thank you for your time today. My name is Tanya Pal Hussein. I am a resident of South Temp. And I'm here today to second Bobby Nichols statement about cancelling this contract with Flock. This is incredibly disturbing.

I'm here today as a proud American citizen and as a member of the Asian-American community here in Tempe, but I stand here to speak for the people who are literally too terrified to leave their homes to even get groceries. I'm part of a collective of citizens here in the valley that has gotten together to provide we're a loosely organized collective of people who provide groceries and assistance with legal matters to people who are who had loved ones kidnapped by ICE.

Over 6,300 people, by the way, in Arizona alone have been disappeared. And one way that Tempe can push back against this very disturbing trend is to cancel this contract with Flock. I'm here today, even though I understand that there are some security advantages and some cases that have been solved using this technology, I'm here to tell you that the terror that these cameras and the surveillance is unleashing in our communities is much worse and I think outweighs the cases that are solved.

Most disturbing to me is the utter lack of transparency here. There's not even a sense of where these cameras are located. Um, and please I'm here to make sure that you understand that this is not making Tempe safer. This is something that is very scary to citizens and it just put yourself in the shoes of those who have the least amount of power. And I think as our leaders of our city, we are most responsible to those with the least amount of advantage.

Um, it's a very slippery slope with these kinds of technologies. We cannot predict or control what they will do. And as Mr. Nichols indicated, these contracts, there's back doors built in. I just simply we're at a time where we do not trust these technologies that have our best interest and I think we have seen that with violence and brutality unfold here in Arizona. So I believe that Tempe should cancel this contract.

This is the very least you can do in a time where your citizens are fearing for their lives on their walk to school. You know this week people were taken. And so I think that in in conclusion I'd like to yield my time by saying that this technology is not going to make Tempe safer. And if Tempe in your public statement as you've said um that you you want we want our community to continue to be a welcoming place where our residents feel secure. Our residents feel secure.

That should be your priority. Thank you for considering my comment. I hope you will do the right thing. Thank you. Appreciate it. The next speaker I have is Trudy Musking Muskman. Excuse me. I'm going to try that one more time. Trudy Muskman. Now that I've cleared my throat. So, please come forward, state your name and city of resident trips. Good. Good evening, Mayor Woods and um council members. My name is Trudy Musicman and my husband and I live on Shalomar Golf Course full number two.

I am here to speak on behalf of the Save Shalomar campaign and to no reasonzoning of the Shalomar Golf Course. Tempe is the third highest density city in the metro area. We also have 60% rentals with approx approximately 100, 1150 being short-term. I read an article today in the Tempe TR tribune that stated that we are losing five low-end house income housing per day. Why is this happening? Why will the city or how will thei city maintain affordable housing in the future?

Is the city allowing corporations to come into the city and build in the name of affordable housing and then after a period of time changing the standards to regular housing rates? We personally get several calls a week from people wanting to purchase our property. When is there going to be legislation stopping corporations from buying in coming in and buying up our properties and controlling our home and rental prices.

Tempe prides itself on diversity and Shalomar neighborhood is a good example of this as you have seen by different age groups and ethn ethnicities speaking each month. But if the city council does not limit the density to specific areas of the city, it's going to lose the older generation and the single family demographics. The Shalomar proposal is not affordable housing. In addition, it will destroy the character of this 1960s neighborhood and the diversity within.

As the city goes grows, it will need open green space to support social cohesiveness and quality of life. I hope you will support the Shalomar neighborhood in voting no to any reasonzoning proposal. I appreciate your letting me speak and thank you for your time. Thank you. The next speaker I have is Ela Cano. Please come forward. State your name and city of residence. You have three minutes. Good evening, Major Woods, city councils, city manager, and all of you. Most of you know me.

I am Elva Gintterero and I live in the Shalomar neighborhood. And yes, I am involved in the save shalomar effort of no reasoning. I am here tonight to thank each one of you for all the hours you have given us. You have listened to us to our request and needs and provided information when information was available. I also want to thank Mr. Jeffrey Tamulovich and his team for being available and respond to our request of any information regarding the Shalomar developments.

I thank you and I ask you please vote no to resoning. I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving. Thank you. Appreciate it. The next speaker I have this evening is Rob Kaplan. Please come forward. State your name and city of residence. You have three minutes. Hi, I'm Robert Kaplan. I live in Tempee. My wife and I have lived in Shalomar since 1993 spanning over three decades. We have raised our two children within this community.

Our neighborhood is not in need of an influx of human and vehicular traffic from a densely populated apartment complex. Our neighborhood should not witness a decline in property values by tens of thousands of dollars, potentially reaching as high as 100,000 plus, particularly particularly around the perimeter of the proposed development. I recently retired from ASU after 40 years and have been relying on the equity in our home to provide financial support for my wife and myself in the future.

Our home is our sanctuary and we are committed to remaining here. My wife has served as the blockwatch captain for many years and we are both deeply invested in the community. We do not need a marked increase in traffic on Country Club Way or through the neighborhood on Golf, which are the only two ways of entering and exiting the proposed development.

This neighborhood has been an exceptional place to raise our children, and we firmly believe that it should continue to thrive for families with young children who currently live here. Therefore, we strongly urge you to vote against the resoning. Vote no on resoning. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker I have is Loretta Okconor. Please come forward. State your name and city of residence. You have three minutes. Hello. Hi, my name is Loretta Okconor.

My husband and I live in Tempe at the edge of the Shalomar green space and we are against the reszoning of the Shalomar Golf Course. I made a statement before this council in February and here we are still waiting for a formal proposal for resoning. The New Heisle family who owns the property has offers to buy the property, including a buyer who would keep it a golf course. Instead, they chose to stop watering at the end of April.

So, now we're watching the deliberate killing of the green space as everything dies from thirst. Now, some members of the council have expressed support for our response to the reszoning question. Much appreciated. and they will be happy to know that the recent heavy rains have turned the grass green and may have helped the trees a bit too. It seems even mother nature is fighting the greed and cruelty of the current situation.

Some members of this council are still on the fence about the reasonzoning question. I urge them to study the pictures on the developers website. several distorted sort of funhouse visions of an ugly highdensity clutter plopped in the middle of a beautiful 1960s neighborhood of unique houses. Many people have pointed out the terrible traffic problems that hundreds of new cars would bring.

I'd like to focus on the winsome little pocket parks proposed for the northeastern tips of the arms of the golf course property and meant as little gifts to the public in compensation for ruining our property values. My family's backyard runs along the tip of the southern arm, so we would be close to the southern pocket park. Now, we wouldn't use it, so how would other people get there?

The entrance to the road around the proposed gated community is rather far away, so the most convenient way to get to the park is through the neighborhood yards. This is Looney Tunes. Those parks are unnecessary and obviously unworkable. Most important, they're typical of the insulting attitude of the developers towards this community. The highdensity housing could be built anywhere.

It does not require a green space filled with trees and the current plans for homes in the high 800 and low $900,000 price range would not help solve the city's affordable housing problem. This proposal would only make our lives worse. Thank you for this opportunity to address the council and thank you for working with our Save Shalomar committee toward a future we can all be happy with. Thank you. That is all the cards I have this evening.

Is there anyone else in the audience wishing to address the city council? If so, please get my attention. All right. Seeing none, I'll close that portion of the meeting and move on to item seven, which is the consent agenda. All items listed on the consent agenda will be considered as a group and will be enacted with one motion by the city council unless an item is removed for separate consideration. Members of the public may remove public hearing items for a separate consideration.

Public hearing items are designated as public hearing item at the beginning of the item title. Council members may remove any item for separate consideration or to declare a conflict of interest. If a council member would like to declare a conflict at this time, the city clerk will provide the council member with a disclosure form.

If you wish to speak on a public hearing item, please fill out a speaker card and submit your completed card to the city clerk prior to the agenda item coming forward for council discussion. I will call your name when it is your turn for public comment. This evening, the consent agenda is listed as miscellaneous items 7A1 through 7A4, awards of bids and contracts items 7B1 through 7B4, and resolutions items 7C1 through 7C7.

Once again, any agenda item designated as public hearing item can be removed by a member of the public for separate consideration. If anyone would like to have a public hearing item removed, please get my attention now. [clears throat] All right. Seeing none, I'll look to my council colleagues. Are there any items that you'd like to have removed from the consent agenda for separate consideration? All right. Seeing none, then I will look for a motion to approve the consent agenda as read.

It's been moved by Council Member Keating and seconded by Vice Mayor Garland. Please vote. Yes. And that item passes 7 to zero. Um, next up here, item eight, non-consent agenda. All items listed on the non-consent agenda will be considered separately. Agenda items scheduled for introduction and first hearing will be heard but will not be voted upon at this meeting. Agenda items scheduled for second public hearing and final adoption will be voted upon tonight.

Council members who may have a conflict of interest may abstain from voting on a matter and the city clerk will provide the council members for the disclosure form at this time. So first up 8A miscellaneous items, bids, contracts, and resolutions. 8A1 is to hold a public hearing and adopt a resolution to modify the schedule of charges, rates, deposits, and fees for water services by amending appendix A, schedule of fees, and charges of Tempe City Code section 33-56.

This is a public hearing item, so I will look to see if there's any public testimony on this item at this time. Please get my attention. All right, seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any comments of discussion? Hearing none, I'll look for a motion on item 81. Moved by Vice Mayor Garland. Do I have a second? Seconded by Council Member Keating. Please vote. And I Okay. And that item passes 7 to zero.

The next item under the section is 8A2, which is to hold a public hearing and adopt a resolution to modify the schedule of charges, rates, deposits, and fees for wastewater services by amending appendix A, schedule of fees and charges of Tempe City Code section 27-196. This is also a public hearing item. So, I'll open up the public testimony portion. Is there anyone wishing to give any public testimony this evening? Seeing that, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing.

Council members, any comments or discussion? Motion to approve. It's been moved by council member Adams and seconded by Vice Mayor Garland. Please vote. And that item passes 7 to zero. The next item under the section is 8A3, which is to hold a public hearing and adopt a resolution to modify the schedule of charges, rates, and fees for solid waste services by amending appendix A, schedule of fees and charges of temp code section 28-61. This is also a public hearing item.

So, if anyone would like to speak on this item, please get my attention now. All right. Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any comments or discussion? It's been moved by Vice Mayor Garland. Second. Seconded by Council Member Chin. Please vote. And that item passes 7 to zero.

The next item under the section is 8A4, which is to approve the utilization of a city of Phoenix cooperative contract with Velocity Truck Centers for the purchase of solid waste collection vehicles. Council members, any comments or discussion? It's been moved by council member Amber and seconded by council member Adams. Please vote. And that item passes 7 to zero.

The last item under the section is 8A5 which is to award a professional services contract to Dibble and Associates Consulting Engineers Incorporated for project number 3221025C collection system assessment fiscal year council. Any comments or discussion? It's been moved by Vice Mayor Garland, seconded by Council Member Chin. Please vote. And that item passes seven to zero. The next section on the non-consent agenda is ordinances and items for introduction and first hearing.

The items under this section will be read and introduced tonight, but no substantive votes will be taken. The second hearing and votes for items 8B1, 8B2, and 8B6 are scheduled for November 13, 2025. The second hearing and votes for items 8B3, 8 B4, and 8B5 are scheduled for December 11th, 2025.

So, the first item under the section is 8B1, which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a planned area development overlay for Dorsy Station located at 1320 East Apache Boulevard and 1412 South Dorsy Lane for a new mixeduse development with 400 dwelling units located within five buildings and approximately 11,000 square ft of new commercial floor area on 6.7 acres. The applicant is Dorsy Development Partners. And good evening, Mr. Mr. Hel Mantel and Mr.

Marshall, but I see Mr. Huantel, you're the one at the mic. So, thank you. And Mr. Marshall's here, my partner. We've both been in Tempe for our entire adult lives. And so, we're really excited to to see this project tonight. Um, the project that we're talking about is a project that the city council's been involved in for some time. Um, kind of go through some of the slides.

I'll try to go a little quicker because I know there are other things still on the agenda this evening, but want to talk a little bit about some of the other things we've done in Tempe because I think they're really relevant to what happens here. Uh Todd and I spent a lot of time working on what's known as the Farmer Arts District, which is the area just north of University and over the years we have worked to do something sort of similar. I'll tell you why. In our minds, it's similar.

Uh the area along Farmer was dilapitated. It had been long since vacant. They were really tough parcels with with lots of challenges. And we worked then with the city uh to acquire the land and to solve some of the challenges. The land uh looked pretty rough when we started. It's pretty narrow uh pretty unpedestrianoriented and it was the wrong place for that. It was the thing that separated downtown from other parts of Tempe, our neighborhoods.

And we really wanted to bring those two things together. And ultimately, you can see some of the things as to what it looked like before. Uh we worked to do something very different. And it's the same kind of thing we want to do here. Um the farmer piece is interesting because it's a long linear piece and [clears throat] it was along an an old rail line that's still used today but wasn't designed for pedestrians.

The Dorsy site is similar for different reasons and that is we think today of of [snorts] the Apache corridor as one of the places we've invested the most amount of money and rail and in pedestrian environments. But that's not what it was designed as. It was designed as US60 and strip malls and vehicular uses. And the site that the city acquired, the site that we're talking about here today is laid out for exactly those purposes. It's not what we would like it to be today.

It's exactly the opposite. And so some of the lessons we've learned on Farmer, we think apply, which is to to provide really good, strong pedestrian environments for the people that use the building, as you see in this image here, but also for the people who don't, who just happen to walk on by. And I think you'll see the same thing in Dorsy, where where it's a big spot in the middle middle of a bunch of places where people live that prevents it from being a pedestrian area.

And what we want to do is similar to here. This is the built environment where we've used upgraded materials. We've really tried to provide uh shade for for pedestrians. I know one of the things the council has been concerned about is making sure that we focus on some of the environmental impact of of the project. Um as we've done here, we'll use water harvesting.

Uh we'll look to some of the other images and maybe go back if you have questions, but we really tried to provide a solid place for people buildings too and we'll talk about those. But first, it's a place for people. This is uh one of the buildings that we've built, but this is where we are today. These are the buildings that exist and uh they have long since outlived their various uses.

Um it is worth noting that this is also unfortunately uh the site of um the death of the first Tempe firefighter and so we're working with the city to provide an appropriate memorization of of of that event and to to honor that firefighter. So you'll see that as we move on and hopefully you'll all be at the the opening and we'll have something we can present at that point in time. But you can see these buildings are the worst kind of environment for pedestrians.

large bad parking lots, little landscaping, little shade, certainly not environmentally sensitive materials. Uh really this is not a great place for people to walk or be, but we think it can be. Despite its challenges, and there are many, it it's a great opportunity, and we're excited about what we can do. Again, it is on the light rail.

You can see that that this was once a a a highway, not a freeway that we think of today, but an old highway which was designed for people to use cars to go everywhere. You would hardly think about walking further than your car. We've designed uh several buildings on two sites. We've tried to incorporate them in some ways, but make them unique in their own way. And uh we've tried to keep in mind that this is on a series of stations, both light rail and street car.

It's a bit of a walk for street car, but but certainly not much. And we've tried to provide a great environment for that. Um we've provide it's important to point we point out we've we've heard some discussion early this evening about affordability. 90% of this project is affordable. The vast majority of this product is affordable. Some of it is family, some of it is senior. Uh we also have included space for a grocery store and been working with your staff.

These are two really challenging sites and it's worth pointing out uh as we talk about your staff um both Chris Jasper uh and and Josh Josh Rutherford have been incredibly helpful every step of the way. It's been it's been a real partnership. others as well from from staff, but those two have really taken point to work in collaboration with us to come up with a way to make these really tough sites really livable.

And we're really proud of of what it has turned into or what if you approve our project, what it will turn into, which is again uh providing wider sidewalks, places for people to be, ways to access the building um for pedestrians, for people. uh they can enter as vehicles as well, but we've really tried to center this on people given its proximity to rail. We've tried to find little pockets for places to be uh certainly in front of the grocery store, but in other places as well.

Um you can see the various layout of buildings. One of the things that's important to note is that this is not the plan we originally came forward with. Uh we came forward with a plan. We thought it was a good plan. and we talked to staff and then we talked with the neighbors and when we met with the neighbors along Hall Street, which is the street immediately north of us, um, many of them brought up the same point, which is they'd rather not be so close uh to to to buildings.

And so we work with those neighbors to come up with a new plan, which has some really interesting benefits. The the downside is it's more expensive. The six-story building is more expensive than than the other plans we could have come up with, but allowed us to really put the density along Apache, which again really reinforces that pedestrian core, but it gave the single family homes a huge distance away from the building. And so, their line of sight was dramatically different.

And I appreciate the residents spending time talking with us, sharing their perspective, and helping us get to a better place. I can go over each of the buildings, but let me just kind of go over quickly and then if you have more questions, I know this is in your packet. Happy to answer them. These are some of the im images there. Obviously, we've gone with a white and blue pattern. We think it's light and airy. It's unique for um for Apache.

We also have designed a market that we think will really serve uh not just the residents of this project, but hopefully the surrounding neighborhoods. We're working with your staff to find the appropriate um user and we certainly worked with staff to come up with a design that's flexible. Again, lots of space. We know that some people will use the grocery store, others will use a grocery store and then spend some time before they get on the rail system.

So, we've tried to provide unique space, uh a sense of place for people to be and en enjoy this as part of their neighborhood. One of the questions that came up uh just today is to talk a little bit about some of the environmental features of this. Um we actually won an environmental award for some of our work on farmer. We're proud of that and we've always worked to do things that uh that work for the community.

I think one of the things we hope that you see when you walk down Farmer is the significant foliage, the trees that that are on all sides of the building and the pedestrian pathways. Those are important features for if you want people to walk, you have to give them a place that's inviting or they simply won't do it. And so we think you've seen that on Farmer. We've certainly tried to design the same kinds of things here.

Uh we've incorporated shade in the various pathways both uh by by using buildings and by using plants. Uh we we also have in our previous buildings in this one as well work to design with energy star and other energy ratings to make the buildings more efficient so they use less fuel civic sp fossil fuel. We've used lowflow plumbing fixtures.

Um, we've done water harvesting, which again is is not only good because you save the water, but it's what makes those trees [snorts] seem uh to to grow better than they do in other in other parts of town. And they really do because they're getting water. We have uh electric vehicle charging stations and we uh we certainly work as we move through the the construction phase to deal with waste and to do that in an environmentally friendly way.

I'm happy to go through each building to spend a lot more time. I could spend two hours on this if you'd like. I suspect that's not the best thing for me to do. So, is there anything specific you'd like for me to cover? I just have one uh quick question actually, Mr. Hman as well.

So, one of the things that's come up is I know the the RFP talked about there would need to be a minimum 10,000 square foot grocery store and there's been a few residents who've been concerned about sort of a smaller footprint. I do want to point out it that it's minimum 10,000.

And from my perspective, that's better than saying a minimum of 20,000 because if you go a minimum of 20,000, you're frankly then going to limit your options if you want a grocery store of that kind of size and magnitude. Especially when a lot of grocerers are frankly now doing these urban grosser uh models, sort of like what we have at the local here with Whole Foods and a lot of other models that are frankly integrated into an apartment complex like what you're uh talking about here.

My question though is that if you have a minimum of 10,000 right now and let's say a a Trader Joe's or someone comes to that's my home grocery store at University in rural. I used to uh use the fries at Milan Southern when I lived a bit of further south. Now that I've been down here for about 6 years or so roughly that's my basic grocery store for pretty much everything.

But if someone came back to you and said, "Hey, we've got a Trader Joe's where we're going to need 15 16,000 square feet." Do you have room in this design to accommodate that? If someone says, "Well, I need four or 5,000 extra feet uh to actually put the groceryer in that uh would want to sign a lease." The answer that I'm going to spend a little time commenting as well. I also love Trader Joe's.

Uh not only do I love Trader Joe's, my dog depends on the Trader Joe's [laughter] dog treats, which are uh of high quality chicken, by the way. So, listen, the answer is yes. If we could find a way to get a Trader Joe's in, we would do that. And uh Mr. Ruford and I have been spending a lot of time trying to find the right ger. Grocery stores have changed a lot over time and they they they operate in very different ways.

We don't believe that 20,000 square foot is a model that fits very many grocery stores. They're either much bigger and frankly the bigger stores also use that for a big component. Um the big component that people use now is they they deliver groceries. Not everyone grocery shops. I think also grocery stores used to sell almost all of the items that you would have on a regular basis in your home. But that isn't true.

I would bet every one of you I certainly shop for lots of things on Amazon or Amazon competing sites and a lot of the things that I would buy at the grocery store you don't do anymore. Like this is the the grocery stores don't need that kind of space and they don't want that kind of space because frankly they're not making money on it because people aren't buying those things there. the last thing they want to do is stock items that people aren't going to buy from the grocery store.

Um, we didn't pick the 10,000 square ft. The city did. We agree with it. And if we disagreed, the science is that that's where it is. That that's if you want a smaller ger, for example. Natural Ger was one of the stores we thought might be interested. It doesn't seem like they are at this point in time, but that could change. They're not looking for bigger stores. They're looking for stores that are that size or smaller. They've they've figured it out. they've done really well.

And if you go to other urban environments, not South Tempee, not North Scottsdale, but if you go to other urban environments, which I think are more applicable to things like light rail and Apache, if you go to downtown San Diego or downtown New York or downtown almost anywhere, you'll see relatively small markets. Those are the ones that seem to make it. So, we believe along with your staff that that's the right number.

If if somebody came to us with a special request and we thought we could make a grocery store work, we would be on the phone with Josh immediately to try to work through the details to make it work. And Mr. Tammy Levage, who oversees the department, has been involved. I would call Jeff immediately and he always gets back immediately and we would work to solve the problem.

I I I don't think that that that's the case at the moment, but if somebody comes forward, you can be assured we're going to work hard to solve it because we'd love to have a Trader Joe's or someone like that. Sounds good.

No, I I appreciate that because I just know that that's one of the questions that I've gotten from folks a couple of times, but just wanted to make sure that we could get that on the record that obviously if a grosser comes in uh that's a reputable grosser, obviously has national and international name recognition like a Trader Joe's or a natural grocerers, there would be the flexibility to accommodate that from a space standpoint. I appreciate you saying that.

It's certainly always going to matter on time. Like it's hard after we build the building, but but we're always willing to try to find a way. Even if we had a building, we'd look to try to figure a way to modify it if we had the right tenant. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Uh, anyone else? Any questions for Mr. Hilantel? Uh, Council Brand. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, Mr. Humanel, I'm just going to say thank you.

I mean, the fact that you're even looking for something to put in that space and you haven't even built it yet. We don't have the same thing going on with some of the other developers where these buildings have been inhabited for years and those commercial spaces are still sitting empty. So, uh, thank you for that. Thank you. We live here and we're we're concerned about making it work, uh, efficiently and effectively, so we'll keep trying. Thank you, uh, Council Adams.

Yes, I like the attention to detail and and the sustainable aspects of this project. So, thanks for uh putting in lots of trees and and all the other uh environmental improvements that you're doing on this project. I think it's a great project and it's a great location with light rail. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, uh Vice Mayor Garland, I just think you had mentioned something about um seniors that you're looking at putting seniors in. Can you tell me a little bit more about that?

Yeah, so um as as we've proposed it, it's roughly 400 units. of those units, 79 of those units are designed to be for seniors, 55 plus. The best example of that, uh, from our perspective, and we're obviously biased, is the Encore and Farmer, which is a project that we built and own, and it's been, again, we're incredibly biased, but it's been really effective. It's been great. Um, just a side story on that. Uh, people sometimes don't like the affordable piece of things.

Uh, when we proposed that project, Mr. Woods was on council and I think that was your initial push on affordability. Uh people were really upset in the neighborhood. In fact, the guy across the street, came to council, spoke against it and told the council how the affordable piece would ruin the neighborhood. Um incidentally, uh or not incidentally, it's interestingly we have an affordable product there and probably the only mixed income project in Tempee right next door.

about two years maybe a year after it opened um the neighbor I ran into the neighbor in a restaurant and I was with the person who was then the mayor no disrespect to to you Mr. Mayor uh who had presided over it and one the neighbor across the street who had opposed the project um came and apologized to me didn't recognize Mr. home, but apologized to me and said, you know, I was really opposed to this and I was wrong.

And those neighbors that I thought would be awful come over on Sundays and they use my grill and we eat together. So, I I think that sometimes you find people who are afraid of affordability, but it's been our experience here in Tempe that that they actually make the neighborhood much better. And those are folks who are going to live somewhere and we're really proud that we can make it a great place where they can live and that they'll be really integrated into the neighborhood.

I didn't realize what that um property that Encore property was going by it. I never even changed my image or my thought. It was it's beautiful. So um I appreciate the fact be we do you know our largest population of people who are becoming homeless are seniors. So we really need to do whatever we can to step up taking care of them moving forward.

So, I I would encourage anyone who has concern about senior affordable housing to walk into one of our buildings and talk to the residents and they will tell you how it's changed their lives. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. This is also a public mayor. You forgot me. I'm sorry that up for from before the beginning and you forgot me the whole time. That That's okay. But you actually scared all of us.

We all having heart attacks right now because you just jumped in like that. So, I'll calm down and you can go. [laughter] Okay. All right. Sorry about that. I I I [laughter] I raised I raised my hand twice. No, you did. No, I I Hey, you were in the right. I was in the wrong. I want that noted for the record. She was correct and I made a mistake. [laughter] Okay. All right, Charles. I I apologize. I I know you were already out the door.

You were trying to get, you know, you had your running shoes on and then I called you back. I wanted to say right off the bat it was a great it's I'm excited for this project. I I really like it. My my my question was my well my statement is if you think about it when you think about a Sprouts there because I love Sprouts. I know everybody likes Trader Joe and don't tell anybody. I hope that they're not that nobody else is listening, but Sprouts is a really good grocery store, too.

And um they they do they have they have good healthy foods, but it's also when you have mixed use, it's also on their it's that has the same type of ingredients that Trader Joe has and Whole Foods, but it's on a more of a more less pricier side of it. So, I think that when we start looking at areas, we can look at that, too. So, happy to have conversations with them. We've had some already. By the way, I don't have my running shoes on. I wish I did. They'd be more comfortable.

I I'm not out the door. I'm here at the podium. If you can see me. Um, your staff has been working with Sprouts uh and Envision. Oh my god, I'm so excited. They are really on top of things and so they they must know uh what you're interested in. And so there there are some possibilities. They already have a Sprout a Sprout store that's fairly close. Uh but we'll continue to work with your staff on that as a possibility as well. We can have enough Sprout stores around for me.

Um, but thank you so much. My question I think I for the question I was going to ask I'm pretty sure I forgot it. Scaring the mayor. I think it scared the question out of me too. [laughter] All right. Thank you guys. I'm just you scared the mayor instead of me. I I was just going to say council I appreciated the point you made about sprouts but that actually slandering Trader Joe's in the process. So thank you because you don't tolerate it's never it's no it's no slander.

I was just [laughter] talking about you know we get the same way we look at multi-u gener multiuses for housing we look at multiuses for grocery stores too absolutely is already a big enough city for both of them thank you one thank you council brahaj one quick question you mentioned um natural grocerers before and I'm very familiar with a couple of their stores do you know what the approximate square footage is for their average store yeah their their stores are significantly less than 10 in fact they usually use uh they look for old uharmacies which are usually in the six to eight range.

Okay. Some some are as large as 10, but Okay, sounds good. Thank you. So, I feel like this Simon says, should I can I go back now or? Yes, we're good. Thank you. Thank you. All right. This is a uh public hearing item as well. And so, I'm going to open the floor up to public testimony. And I've got two cards this evening. So, I'm going to read these in the order in which I receive them. Uh, the first speaker this evening is Charles Bus. Please come forward. State your name and city of residence.

You have three minutes. Hello. My name is Charles Bus. Um, I have been a resident of the University Heights neighborhood for 38 years. It's the neighborhood that's immediately adjacent to this project. Um, I'm glad to see affordable housing. I belong to community groups that advocate for that. Um, and so I I'm I'm thrilled about the project in general. I just have concerns about the market aspect of it.

I know Mayor Woods uh when when we uh lost our beloved Food City store 5 years ago spoke to a news crew about it and said that the city was buying the property and was going to build affordable housing and a and a grocery store. And so I'm just trying to make sure that that actually does happen. And I'm very skeptical that it can happen in 10,000 square feet or less. Uh just like the developer, Mr. Huantle has been contacting grocerers. I have as well.

As a matter of fact, I think we've contacted some of the same grocerers like natural grocerers. [sighs and gasps] And um I'm finding that the minimum square footage for um Trader Joe's starts at around 15 17,000. um Aldi, which Aldi is very similar to the food city we had. Aldi starts at 20,000. And so that's just a a couple of the the better known names.

My concern is that if we get a name that's not known that they won't have the buying power of a major grocery store and this will turn into something more of a convenience store with very high prices. Um which nobody around there can afford. My neighborhood's low income as am I. Uh the residents who will be living there are all going to be low income, you know, hence the affordable housing.

And um I I feel like we need a ger with a recognized name to be able to get the prices low enough that the residents around there can actually afford to buy the items. Um council member Hodgees mentioned Sprouts. Sprouts is nice, but I think the prices are kind of high. Um my neighbor and I were just looking up Sprouts. They typically have a footprint that starts more around 20,000 square feet unless there's some format I don't know of in which they can do in half that amount.

But um that that's the main thing is to actually have the groceries that are affordable and in enough space that you can offer a produce section, meats, you know, all your typical dry good items and whatever the number ends up being. Um, I also know that uh in speaking to Mr. Huantle that um time is running out before he needs to submit his building plans. And once those are submitted, it's going to be very hard, if not impossible, to change the square footage of the market space.

And so I'm trying to get it to be closer to a 20,000 square foot space now in case that's needed. Um, if not, I would also like to ask the council to consider um offering free free or greatly discounted rent to a small operator so they can get prices down. Question, I know your time's I was going to ask, do you have a like a list? I know you say you've been calling grocerers and I know you and I have met offline about this. Is there certain certain grocerers that you're specifically looking for?

I I would just love to write down the names cuz obviously I know one of the things we talked about is if I'm able to help in some way too whether it's me trying to contact some of those folks along with our staff along with Mr. Huantel I'm more than happy to assist with that. So is there kind of a list that you're looking for or um I focused on Aldi only because I currently shop there.

I have to travel two miles whereas I used to have a 100 second walk from my house to the food city and and I see similarity in the size of the Aldi compared to the food city that was there. It seemed to be the right size. You know, there's only like six or seven aisles, but it's enough to get you all the items to make your own meals at home, which I think is going to be important to the new residents there as well as the rest of us who are already there. We don't eat out a lot.

We don't have high incomes to do that. Right. Yeah. I just don't want to see it become like uh the carless culde-sac community, right, where they gave an inadequate amount of space and now they've got basically a high price convenience store. Right. Right. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Sounds good. No, thank you. I appreciate it. All right. Thanks. Okay. The next speaker I have this evening is Steven Cook. Please come forward. State your name and city of residence. You have three minutes. Hello.

I'm a resident of Tempe. a lifelong resident and I live in the University Heights neighborhood as well. For 13 years I've lived there. I concur with everything Mr. Bus said and I was heartened to hear that you're willing to speak with him about the grocery store size because I'm very concerned about that. We missed the food city and want something comparable and Sprouts is uh 23,000 square feet is the like the minimum size of a Sprouts.

Uh I wanted to though read a letter that my wife had written that she had sent to the council communicator after attending a July 2nd meeting uh because it hadn't been responded to. So I'm just going to read it here verbatim. Uh she said on July 2nd I attended the community meeting regarding this development held at the Tempe Police Department Apache substation. There I was be briefly introduced to the developer Charles Holmontal and joined by my neighbors in voicing concerns about the project.

My primary concern is the increasing traffic in and around our neighborhood. With each new highdensity development, we're seeing more vehicles using our streets, including Hall Street, as cutthroughs to avoid U-turns on Apache or access larger roads like Mcccleintoch University in Rural. This traffic increases uh [clears throat] and raises serious safety concerns, especially for pedestrians and children.

As a parent of two boys, one of whom is developmentally and visually impaired, I'm especially sensitive to the dangers of speeding vehicles in our small residential streets. We've already experienced several close calls due to drivers rushing through our neighborhood. I'm particularly troubled by the proposed entrance and exit to the development on Chief Jones Way, which would give direct access to Hall Street and encourage more cutthrough traffic.

I urge the developer to consider consider placing the entrance exit directly on Apache Boulevard instead to reduce impact on the neighborhood. I raised this concern with Miss Ho Mr. Hanto during the meeting, but his response like many others he gave was dismissive and condescending. He brushed off several community questions and even stated that he didn't feel obligated to answer them. When I asked about the fire department's input, Mr.

Hormonto laughed and said, "I've met with the fire department and suggested that the details of those conversations were not our business." This kind of attitude is deeply disappointing and counterproductive to fostering community trust. One of my neighborhoods uh neighbors, a longtime resident and dedicated advocate for our historical area was repeatedly interrupted and treated disrespectfully by Mr.

Hyntal when he attempted to ask questions or provide information about the original development plans. At one point, Mr. Hyntal snapped at my neighbor, stating that he had already talked to him and he expected him to stop informing us f further. Mr. Mr. Hall's behavior throughout the meeting was inappropriate, unprofessional, and antagonistic. My husband and I have lived on Hall Street for 13 years. We were both raised in Tempe and are proud to be raising our children here.

It was disheartening to attend a meeting where a developer who stands to profit from building in our community showed such blatant disregard for our concerns, the concerns of the residents who have helped shape and sustain it. We understand that growth is inevitable and often beneficial, but we also expect that and that's there just one more paragraph, but that's the the gist of the letter. I wanted to communicate that since my wife had sent it and not received a reply uh from the council.

So, thank you. Thank you. Appreciate Cook. That's all the cards I have on that item this evening. Are there any other cards or anyone else wishing to speak on this item? If so, please get my attention. All right. Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. I'll look back to the council to see if there's any other comments or discussion. [clears throat] Okay. Okay. Sounds good.

Well, just want to note the uh second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for November 13, 2025. The next item under the section is 8B2, which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for an amended planned area development overlay for Rio 2100 residences located at 2132 South Cameron Way for a new six-story mixeduse development with 315 dwelling units on 4.61 acres. The applicant is Barry Redell LLC. Good evening, Sarah Sawyer. How are you?

Good evening, mayor, council members. Sarah Sawyer, Barry Redell, 6750 East Camelback. My pleasure to be here this evening on behalf of the Boyer Company uh to introduce you to Rio 2100 Residences. A little bit about uh my client, the Ber Company. They are a highly respected developer. Uh decades of experience in residential development from master plan communities to multifamily developments. As you can see here, this is an example of one of their projects located in Draper, Utah.

The site we are discussing this evening is an irregularly shaped parcel. Approximately 4.6 acres located uh just along the Loop 202 and Loop 101 interchange. To the west of the site is the Rio 2100 Business Park and farther west is Tempe Marketplace. give you a little bit more context of where this site sits. You can see our site outlined in green there. Um like I said, just west of our site is Tempe Marketplace. Uh also lots of multif family in this area as well.

Synergistic uses the Cameron to our west um and Smith and Rio multif family to our south across Rio Salado. This site was previously entitled in 2023 for a mixeduse development. It was zoned MU4P AD um and the general plan was amended at that time uh to mixeduse high major development plan was also approved at that time for the mixeduse development but that has since expired.

Tonight, we're requesting an amendment to the existing PA AD on the site and a new major development plan review for a mixeduse development with 315 multifamily units and public co-working space along Cameron Way. Uh, this proposal is consistent with the general plan designation for the site. Uh, greater than 65 dwelling units an acre reinforces Tempe Marketplace as an activity hub.

And of course it's very close to those uh employment retail restaurant uses that Tempe Marketplace offers and are developing in the me immediate area. Also consistent with the Apache character area plan. Um the the one I really want to note here and I'll talk about in greater detail below is that the public art component that's going to be incorporated into the design.

Just wanted to lay out the development standards for you and the difference between what is approved on this site today and what we are proposing. Um so the reason we are amending the P AD is there's a new developer coming forward with this site. Um there have been shifts in the market and the developer is responding to those with a new design. Here is an overview of what the site looks like. Like I said 315 multifamily units. We are at 68 dwelling units an acre.

Uh that multi-level parking structure is oriented along the northeast edge adjacent to the loop 101202 interchange to offer some buffering to the residents and the uh public co-working space to be located at the southeast corner and the southwest corner uh of the site. Centralized amenities as well. Uh the primary me amenity is going to contain the resort style pool, cabanas, outdoor kitchen, and this is going to be found internal to the site um in a in a courtyard.

The secondary amenity, I've heard there are some dog lovers on the council, so I wanted to include a a picture of your furry friends here. A dog park uh secondary amenity at the northeast corner of the site. Mr. Mayor, Council Brown, thank you for taking care of our furry friends. [laughter] appreciate it. And that is a very it's a cute dog and it looks like uh someone else's dog I know. So very nice. Uh here is a a view of our proposed design.

Focal po points are going to be located um at that leasing office at the the southeast corner and the co-work spa space at the southwest corner along Cameron Way. Some colors as well and materials. And finally the public art element. Uh this is going to be visible, this mural is going to be painted on the side of the garage, visible from the loop 202101 interchange. Uh this is a conceptual design.

We are going to be working through the specifics of this design through a minor DPR process with staff later on. Did do some outreach as part of our application. Uh we have heard nothing from the community in response to our request. And just a mention, uh, DRC unanimously approved this item last week as well. And with that, happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Um, council, any comments or questions on this item?

Uh, Vice Mayor Garland, I didn't uh get a chance to ask um the last presenter about this, but I'll ask you. So, we do have a voluntary uh green code with the city of Tempee. So, I didn't see anything in the paperwork and stuff that you gave me that would be easy for me to be able to tell what you guys were able to do to it's not mandatory, voluntary.

Um, but it'd be great when you come back next time if you can kind of give us a list of some of those things that that um you could have worked with or are working with to um look at our green code. We'd really appreciate it. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Absolutely. I will come back with that next week. Thank you. Uh, council Hodge and Council Adams. Thank you, mayor. Um, great presentation. Thank you so much. You did a wonderful job. We're so used to seeing Wendy up there.

I got to give her a call and tell her you did a phenomenal job in her place. Um, my [clears throat] question is um I maybe I missed it, but is what is the mix? Is it mix? Is it affordable? Um, work first and mix together because part of my computer went down. I couldn't hear the the volume um for about five minutes of it. Thank you, Mayor Council Member Hajj. The mix is a mix of residential and commercial uses. So, offering multif family Yeah.

All offering multif family units and then that public co-working space. Okay. That's all right. That's that [clears throat] was part of my question. All right. Thank you. Sounds good. Thank you, Council Adams. Yes, you did a great job. Great presentation. Uh it's um I I also will be calling Wendy to tell her know what a good job you did. if we could just maybe have a few more trees around the project. Um that would be one request I would have um just to make more shady and and more walkable.

So that's my my only request. Thank you very much. Good job. Thank and just as a note just to follow up on what council Hajked, these are market rate units, correct? That mayor, council members, uh thank you. That is I think it's too early to determine right now, but let me confirm with my client and have have an answer for you next week. Sure, you got it. Absolutely. Thank you. Anyone else any other comments or questions? All right. Sounds good. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it.

All right. This is also a public hearing item, so I'm going to open up the public testimony portion. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the council on item 8B2? If so, please get my attention. All right. Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any last comments or discussion? All right. Hearing none. The second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for November 13, 2025.

The next item under the section is 8B3, which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for amendments on photo photovoltaic use consisting of changes in the zoning and development code on the on the allowance of photovoltaic systems with the addition of a new section 4-48 with photovoltaic standards and definitions. How many times was that going to say photovoltaic? Anyway, the applicant is the city of Tempee, so it's us.

Um, council, any questions for staff regarding this item? I have a presentation. You have a read. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is before we get to council's presentation. Let's do uh a public uh hearing item. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the council on item 8B3? If so, please get my attention. All right. Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any comments or discussion? All right. Hearing none.

The second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for December 11th, 2025. The next item under the section is 8B4, which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the partial abandonment of an 8-foot public utility easement located at a subdivision west of Mcccleintoch Drive and north of Warner Road for 8423 South Losfelise Drive. This is also a public hearing item, so if there's any public testimony, can you please get my attention now?

Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any comments or discussion? Seeing none, the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for December 11th, 2025.

The next item under the section is 8B5, which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the granting of a power distribution easement to Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District over certain city-owned land identified by Maricopa County Assessor's parcel number 132-35-985 and authorizing the mayor or his designate to execute an easement agreement and related documents. This is also a public hearing item.

So, if there's any public testimony on this item, please get my attention now. Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any comments or discussion? Okay. Seeing none, the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for December 11th, 2025.

The last item under the section is 8B6, which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the city manager or designate to negotiate and execute a lease agreement or lease agreements with Dorsy Development Partners LLC to facilitate the redevelopment of three parcels on of city-owned property located near the intersection of Apache Boulevard and Dorsy Lane pursuant to a development agreement between the parties.

Council members, any comments for or questions for staff on this item? Seeing none. Okay. This is also a public hearing item. So if there's any public testimony of this item, can you please get my attention at this time? Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any final comments, discussion. All right. Seeing none, the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for November 13, 2025.

The last section of the non-consent agenda is ordinances and items scheduled for second hearing and final adoption. So votes on these items will be taken tonight. The first item under the section is 8C1, which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a code text amendment within the Tippy zoning and development code adding chapter 8 under part five establishing the middle housing overlay district.

The amendment intends to comply with Arizona Revised Statute 9-462.13. The applicant is the city of Tempee. Council members, any questions for staff on this item? All right. This is also though a public hearing item. So I do have one comment card that I received in advance. Uh and that comment card is from Robert Nichols. Hello. Yes. Hi. Please state your name and city of residence. You have three minutes. My name is Bobby Nichols. I am a Tempe resident of 25 years. Mayor and council.

Thank you for your time today. I'm speaking in support of the middle housing ordinance before the council. Today, Tempe is in the middle of a housing crisis. Our rents and mortgages are about 40% higher than the national average. That's about 25% higher than Phoenix and 18% higher than Mesa.

Our city, as has been noted in this meeting, needs many thousands of new units of genuinely affordable, meaning submarket rate or significantly subsidized housing in order to provide dignified shelter to the growing workforce that is projected to call Tempe home within the next decade. Finally, and perhaps selfishly, I and many other young professionals from Tempe would like to be able to buy and own homes in our hometown someday, which is virtually impossible in our current housing market.

This ordinance, while not the ultimate solution to our housing crisis, is a step in the right direction. And I sincerely hope that the passage of this ordinance leads to a cultural change in the way we approach land development and housing justice in Tempe.

I believe in order to eliminate housing insecurity for all of Tempee's residents, we must implement the historically successful housing first policy to address our crisis of homelessness that requires a significantly larger amount of housing units than were currently available to us.

I also believe that the city of Tempe should be using public land to build public housing which could then be rented to our incoming workforce at submarket rates or used as permanent supportive housing for the implementation of our own version of the housing first policy.

Thoughtful middle housing and multif family developments when placed near public transit hubs built by union trade workers in full compliance with green codes and conceived with walkability, mixed income levels and mixed use spaces in mind represent a positive use of horizontal density that can be offered to workers at reasonable prices and do not statistically diminish single family property values in any verifiable way.

I have spoken about Tempi's proposed middle housing ordinance with the authors of Arizona's state law that mandates the establishment of a middle housing overlay in cities like Tempe and I have confirmed that the city of Tempe is in no way limited to one zoning overlay around a pre-existing downtown area. The language of our state's middle housing law empowers Tempe to thoughtfully place middle housing and multif family overlays across the city in places of greatest need.

And I hope that the passage of this ordinance will lead to an expansion of affordable and accessible housing throughout Tempee. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. This is also still a public hearing item. So if there's any additional public testimony, anyone wishing to speak, please get my attention now. All right. Seeing that, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council member, any comments or discussion? It's been moved by Vice Mayor Garland. Do I have a second?

Seconded by Council Member Adams. Please vote. And Council Member Hajj. And that vote passes 7 to Z.

The next item under the section is 8C2, which is to hold the second and final public hearing for an ordinance for a code text amendment for municipal administrative review consisting of changes within the zoning and development code in compliance with House Bill 2447 and Arizona revised statute 9-500.49 49 changing certain duties and powers of the development review commission and city council and designated the community development director and its designate to administratively review and approve all forms of site plans design review of all new buildings and alterations and all forms of subdivision and condominidium plats.

Council members, any comments for staff on this item of our questions? All right, this is also a public hearing item. So, if there's any public testimony on this item, please get my attention at this time. Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Um, council, uh, any further comments, discussion or I can entertain a motion. Uh, it's been moved by Vice Mayor Garland and seconded by council member Keading. Please vote. And that item passes 7 to zero.

The next item under the section is 8C3, which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a city code text amendment for municipal administrative review consisting of changes within the Tempe city code sections 25-43 and 25-44 in compliance with House Bill 2447 and Arizona Revised Statute 9-500.49. This item is related to the zoning and development code amendments from HP 2447. Council members, any comments or questions for staff on this item? All right.

Hearing none, this is also a public hearing item. So, if anyone wishes to address the council, uh, please get my attention at this time. Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Uh, let's see. Council, any further comments or discussion or can I have a motion? So, move. Moved by council member Keig and seconded by council member Hajj. Please vote. That item passes 7 to zero.

The next item under the section is 8C4, which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance amending the Tempe City Code Chapter 2, Article 5, Division 20 relating to Tempe Veterans Commission by amending section 2-367 regarding powers and duties to add an additional benchmark to assist the city and the Tempe business community to earn recognition as Arizona veteran supportive employers. This is also a public hearing item.

So if there's any public testimony, can you please get my attention? Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any comments or discussion? Motion to approve. It's been moved by council member Adams. Do I have a second? Seconded by council member Amber. Please vote. And that item passes 7 to zero.

The next item under the section is 8C5, which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance amending chapter 19 article 8 of the Tempe City Code related to parking and electric vehicle charging spaces by amending section 19-10 relating to the length of time using a charging space. Sir, sure. All right, then. This is also a public hearing item. So, uh, if there's any public testimony, can you please get my attention at this time? All right.

Seeing that, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Um, council, any comments or discussion? So, move. It's been moved by Council Member Haj and seconded by Vice Mayor Garlet, please vote. And that motion about uh, electric vehicle charging spaces uh, passes 7 to zero.

The next item under the section is 8C6, which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the partial abandonment of an alley and utility easement on the west side of Priest Drive in the north side of Third Street. This is a public hearing item. So, if anyone wants to speak on this item, please get my attention now. Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any comments or discussion? Motion to approve.

Moved by Council Member Adams, who have a second. Seconded by Vice Mayor Garland. Please vote. That item passes seven to zero.

The next item under the section is 8 C7, which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the granting of a power distribution easement to Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District over certain city-owned land located at 925 South Smith Road and authorizing the mayor or his designate to execute an easement agreement and related documents. This is a public hearing item.

So, if anyone wishes to address the council on this item, please get my attention. Seeing that, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any comments or discussion? If not, I'll look for a motion on item 8C7. Then moved by Council Member Keating, seconded by Council Member Chin, please vote. And that item passes 7 to zero.

The last item under the section is 8C8, which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the granting of a power distribution easement to Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District over certain city-owned land located at 1411 East Mckelps Road and authorizing the mayor or his designate to execute an easement agreement and related documents. This is a public hearing item as well.

So, if anyone wishes to address the council, please get my attention at this time. Seeing none, I'll close the public testimony portion of the public hearing. Council members, any comments or discussion? Some move. It's been moved by council member Hajj, seconded by council member Adams. Please vote. And that item passes seven to zero, which brings me to item nine, current events, council announcements, and future agenda items.

Just as a note here, council members may request that an agenda item be added to a future council meeting during their allotted time. But in accordance with the open meeting law, there should be no discussion on the item other than to clarify the request. Uh this evening, uh I'm going to start here with Council Member Adams. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

First of all, I'd like to thank Chief McCoy, Chief Ree, and all of our incredible officers and support team for their dedication and tireless work to keep our community safe. Safety is number one priority for me, and they are delivering it. Your commitment to proactive policing, community partnerships, and innovative crime prevention strategies continues to make Tempe a leader in public safety.

Second, Sundays second Sundays on Mill are coming back this November, January, February, and April from 10:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. There's going to be lots of interactive and activities, snacks, and drinks, plus fun for all ages. It will be between Third Street and University and um they're even going to have a kids market so kids can come and sell their uh their goods and the best part is it's free. The second best part or well first part is familyfriendly.

The second part it's free and the third is dog friendly. So there you go. Three for three. Um Valley Metro uh this past year Metro made some progress in improving safety and service for riders across the valley. re wrership grew 4% delivering over 120,000 people per day. On the safety front, Bus operator assaults dropped 61%. And rail security incidents decreased by 54%.

We're really taking a a strong effort to make it safer to ride our public transportation um when we have a lot more officers present on the um the rail. In addition to operation blue bike, continue to connect riders in need with local services. I am proud of the progress we're make making together to keep our community connected, safe, and moving forward in a sustainable direction. Thank you. That is my all my announcements. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Next up, Council Member Chin.

No announcements. Thank you so much. Next up, Council Member Hajj. Thank you so much. I want to start off by wishing my dad a very, very happy birthday, Daddy. I love you so much. It's great that you're turning 35 and I'm only turning 21 in my next birthday. Also, happy Veterans Day to my dad. You You kicked the He flipped the Sage before I can say a happy birthday. Uh happy Veterans Day to my dad. Dad, and to every veteran out there, happy Veterans Day.

I know, council member Dor um Garlet that your dad is went on has passed on to heaven, but you can wish him a very happy Veterans Day from the from heaven. And everybody else from council, I know we all have somebody, a friend or family in there. We wish we all wish each other happy Veterans Day and all the veterans out there. Now, you can click to the next one. And you know, I'm excited about this one. This is our Thriving Tempee. It is up and running.

I know a few people heard that it had some glitches in there. That's all been taken care of. Please put go please go out and give um put this out there and businesses when you're talking to businesses make sure that they know about Thrive Temp and reach back out and send them to the website because we want as much businesses of Tempee to know about us as possible. Um it's the and and if you haven't, please go look at the website. The website is phenomenal. They're doing a great job.

if there is some feedback you would like to give us, please, please, please write in and tell us what we're missing in that. So, I just want to thank you on that and I wish everybody a happy Veterans Day. Again, for even the people who are not um veterans, happy Veterans Day. Thank you, Council Hodgej. Next up, Council Member Amber. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um I want to wish my handsome hubby, there's lots of pictures here, a happy birthday.

His birthday is tomorrow and um we're going to be celebrating at the end of this month. A little trip overseas for him. It's a big one for him. So, he's he's super excited and I'm excited with him. He's letting me go, too. Um I like um a few of the other folks up here, my dad was a frontline medic for in the Army uh during World War II uh stationed in the the Pacific. So, Veterans Day parade is always a big one for me. It's a little emotional. Uh, but I'm hoping to see everybody out there.

We've been doing it for over 50 years. Uh, to honor all of our veterans, to thank them for their service. I'm going to be up there with the rest of council that's up here. Uh, there's going to be some super cute kids. The Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are always there. Some local marching bands, some veteran groups, a lot more. It's going to be on Tuesday, November the 11th at 10 a.m. We usually start, we start at ASU Gamage and we go north on Mill and we end up at Tempi Beach Park.

So, hope to see everybody there. Thank you so much. Next up, Vice Mayor Garwood. Thank you. Um, Tempe, uh, we need your help. Um, right now more than ever, storm damage, um, impacted more than a thousand homes and 80 businesses in Tempe. And the damages are costly and more than 100 households are staying, household members are staying in temporary homes right now.

SNAP reductions have left many without f funds for food even when they are working one or more jobs and many of those impacted our kids. The federal shutdown has left many working in Tempe residents without a paycheck for several weeks and this is impacting our residents and our nonprofits. There's never been a time when we've seen a greater need. Okay, so there's my Debbie Downer notes, but they're true. Let me tell you what you can do about it. You can help our fellow residents and businesses.

If you go to tempe.govtemp needsyouu, you can donate money or find out how you can donate food or even time to help. And if someone you know needs help, there is a link also on that same page to find resources and do they can be able they can help you. And I strongly encourage everyone to think about our residents and think about that this is the time that people need help right now and we need to be there for them.

So again, if you can help, if you can donate or if you need help, please go to tempe.govtempe needs you. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, council. Thank you very much, mayor. Um I have round table with Randy. I think we're calling it, wasn't it? Spill the tea with any It doesn't matter. [laughter] I'm having a uh I'm having a town hall at Drink Me Tea Room on Tuesday, December 2nd. Um bring any questions you have about the city. I'll fill in on things I'm working on, some highlights from the city.

If you have any constituent services needs, that's kind of my favorite part of the job. So, if you have any issues that you need help with the city, uh please bring them to me on December 2nd. It's a Tuesday, and hopefully we can get them solved for you. Next up is Tempe Jam. Tempe Jam is this Saturday from 6 to 10 and that's at Tempe Sports Complex. Uh I'm actually organizing it for the Diablo. So it's incredibly stressful week for me, but I will be there.

Um the all the bar proceeds go directly to benefit the Tempe Diablo, which do so much good work in our community. So do make sure you come to Tempe Jam this Saturday and spend lots of money on either water, soda, beer, or wine because we'll have it all. And it should be a really fun show. And I hear there's a drone show as well. It's going to be awesome. So, I'm really excited for that. Thank you, mayor. Thank you so much, M. Mr. Mayor. Yes, Council Barrage.

Before we go, can I say one more announcement? Sure. I would like to wish the Kyrie School District and the Tempe Union, I mean Tempe Union, I'm so sorry. Tempe Elementary School District a congratulations on their bond that they both passed this this following Tuesday.

Um, you know, that that just shows the the the the love and the worth of what our community, the city of Tempy's community means when it comes to our education um for our children because there's many communities today are looking to see what their next steps are because their bonds did not pass. So, I just want to say congratulations and thank you. Thank you to our Tempee constituents for passing that bond. Thank you, Council Member Hajj. Um, just uh one uh quick announcement on my end.

I just wanted to uh make sure to note and acknowledge the passing of Dennis Cahill. Uh a longtime member of our community and a man who served for three terms on the city council. Uh as many of you know, the Westside Multigenerational Center over on Fifth Street has a wing of the building that's actually dedicated to Dennis Cahill for the exceptional work he did on this city council.

Uh he was a proud union member and a great man and I was very honored to have the opportunity to get to know him uh during the time that he was living in Tempee uh and during the time that I was first beginning to get more engaged civically. So just wanted to you know send my hearts out my prayers out to the family and friends of Dennis Cahill and just wanted to thank him very much for his service to our community. So thank you. Yes, Council Brad.

Yes, I had the pleasure of working for Dennis Cahill and my condolences go out to his family. He was always so nice to staff. Uh, and I just want to point that out. He was just a great guy and just always smiling and a very kind council member to our staff. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Mayor. Can we give him a a just a quick few seconds uh pause before we get off our meeting? Sure. Absolutely. Moment of silence. Yeah, absolutely.

No, if we can just take a very uh quick moment of silence here in honor of Dennis Cahill uh and his service and his legacy to the city of Tempe. Thank you. All right. Item number 10, public appearances. Is there anyone in the audience who would like to address the city council? If so, please get my attention. All right, seeing none, the next item is item number 11, adjournment. The next scheduled regular city council meeting is November 13, 2025. We are journed at 7:46 p.m. Have a good night.