City staff returned a proposed amendment to the Southwestern University planned-unit-development (referred to in the presentation as 2025-1 PUD) for second reading and council action. The ordinance reads to amend roughly 68.9993 acres in the William Addison survey, Abstract No. 21, located at the northeast corner of State Highway 29 and Smith Creek Road, changing the designation from planned unit development (base zoning RS) to planned unit development with a general commercial C‑3 base.

Staff summarized two outstanding issues previously raised at the prior meeting: a minimum plaza size (the staff summary referenced a 1-acre minimum) and an expansion of tandem parking provisions into the multifamily portion of the project, which was presented as an increase roughly in the range of 10% up to 20% for that development.

Council Member Jack asked whether the prior direction to staff to revise the overall transportation plan for the area needed to be codified into the ordinance language. Staff replied that the direction had been received and did not need to be restated in the ordinance. A motion was made to approve the item as presented and to include the two amendments requested by the applicant; the council voted first on the amendment (which passed unanimously) and then on the base motion (which also passed unanimously).

A council member announced a recusal before the item began; the recusal was recorded on the public record during the meeting. After the vote the council thanked Travis Baird for his service to the city; he told the council he had been with the city nine years and three months.

The ordinance includes standard repealing and severability language and establishes an effective date as read into the record.