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Item 6E - Corridor Report Southlake Corridor Planning Committee Meeting Report Meeting 58 – May 18, 2026 MEETING LOCATION: 1400 Main St., Southlake, Texas 76092 City Council Chambers IN ATTENDANCE: • City Council Members: Randy Robbins, Frances Scharli • Planning & Zoning Commission Members: Daniel Kubiak, Michael Springer, David Cunnigham • City Staff: Dennis Killough, Jenny Crosby, Avery Price, Ryan Firestone AGENDA ITEMS: 1. Call to Order. 2. Administrative Comments. 3. Review, discuss, and make recommendations regarding a proposed pavement expansion, increased open storage, and off-street parking for tenants on property located at 1100 S. Kimball Avenue. 4. Review, discuss, and make recommendations regarding a proposed 18,939 SF retail and restaurant building on property located at 2350 W. Southlake Blvd. 5. Review, discuss, and make recommendations regarding proposed storm shelters for Novus Academy on property located at 2250 E. Continental Boulevard. 6. Adjournment. MEETING OVERVIEW: On May 18, 2026, the Southlake Corridor Planning Committee held their 58th meeting. The Committee was sent a packet of materials prior to the meeting that were to be discussed during the session. A meeting agenda was posted, and the meeting time was advertised on the City’s website. The following meeting report focuses on discussion points made during the meeting by members of the Committee, public and City staff. This report is neither verbatim nor does it represent official meeting minutes; rather it serves to inform elected and appointed officials, City staff, and the public of the issues and questions raised by the Committee, City staff, and any attendees of the meeting. Interested parties are strongly encouraged to follow development cases through the process. Please visit CityofSouthlake.com/Planning for more information Southlake Corridor Planning Committee Item #5 – 2250 E. Continental Blvd. Meeting #58 – May 18, 2026 Page 3 ITEM #5 DISCUSSION – Review, discuss, and make recommendations regarding proposed storm shelters for Novus Academy on property located at 2250 E. Continental Boulevard. Staff presentation: Avery Price • Future Land Use: Industrial • Zoning: S-P-1 • Summary: The applicant is proposing four, 320 SF storm shelters. Questions for Staff and Applicant David Cunningham: I'm confused. We heard this last week at P&Z. Can you clarify why we are reviewing it here? Avery Price: Yes, I believe Dennis just wants some more feedback to see if there are any concerns. Dennis Killough: Yeah, they had submitted and scheduled for P&Z, but there was not a corridor meeting that they could have attended prior. This item is planned to go to City Council on June 2nd, so we recommended they attend the corridor committee meeting to allow some of the council members who will hear this to understand what their needs are and what they're trying to accomplish. Frances Scharli: Just for clarification, I had the opportunity to meet with the head of school and one of her officers today. Dennis, I'm hopeful that you and I can talk later about how this transpired regarding what was requested of them by the fire department. The numbers the fire department is requiring far exceed the number of students they will ever have. I just don't know if there might be an alternative where we can help these people out a little bit with what's proposed. Maybe you and I can put our heads together and figure out a way to help them out. I've seen the red box out there, and I'm just concerned about putting storage units out on a property where somebody else is going to come along and say, "Well, I want a storage box too." They won't need it for storms, but they'll need it for something else. I think there might be another alternative to this. They would not have signed this lease had they known this building wouldn't meet the requirement. According to them, and I believe them, at the 11th hour the fire department said they had to have this. It's a very unfortunate situation, so I'd like to talk with you later to see if we can help them find alternate solutions. Southlake Corridor Planning Committee Item #5 – 2250 E. Continental Blvd. Meeting #58 – May 18, 2026 Page 4 Dennis Killough: Certainly. At this point, I can say that the International Building Code—and it was a federal mandate, I believe—adopted regulations requiring storm shelters for any school. It's under what they call the ICC 500 section. The Carroll schools had to work through it as they made additions, and student counts and floor areas went up in their buildings. It's all based on the maximum occupancy of the structure. It can be regulated by student and teacher count, and I believe that threshold is up to 50 persons. Once you get beyond that, you must provide a storm shelter meeting the requirements of the ICC 500 building code. Frances Scharli: How does the academy on top of where Crate & Barrel is going to be handle that? Dennis Killough: I don't know their student count or how they were evaluated, but I do not believe that code was in place when they came through the process. Daniel Kubiak: So it gets triggered because they're asking for a building permit to build out space. Is that the trigger? Dennis Killough: Correct, along with the number of students and teachers in the facility, yes. Frances Scharli: Is it based on the actual number that they have or is it based on capacity? Dennis Killough: You have to plan for the capacity, but it can be regulated by what their student count is. The problem is if they have a certain amount of students today and the facility allows them to expand with really no oversight, we have to account for what the maximum potential is. That may be where some of the interpretation lies. Frances Scharli: Okay. Well, I won't take any more time now, but maybe I can talk to you afterward. Dennis Killough: Okay. Daniel Kubiak: Maybe we can caveat this one with the fact that there may be some offline conversations to see if there are alternatives to satisfying this. Maybe they pledge a reduced occupancy or something and cut down on the need. I don't know. We can note that there will be offline conversations on how to mitigate even partially some of the need or request here. Is that fair? David Cunningham: Yeah, some of the background on this was explained last week at P&Z. In order to build this inside the building, besides the ginormous expense, the landlord won't let them make those changes because they're too extensive —effectively Southlake Corridor Planning Committee Item #5 – 2250 E. Continental Blvd. Meeting #58 – May 18, 2026 Page 5 tearing down and rebuilding the building. So they're stuck needing to provide this protective area, but they can't build it in their building. Daniel Kubiak: So they signed a lease with the landlord where this was not a contemplated part of the agreement or scope, and then the city came in and said they have to have it in order to open up, so they're caught in between. This is for those of us who might have been out of town and not at planning and zoning. Was it approved at planning and zoning? David Cunningham: That's right. Frances Scharli: Yes, with screening and landscaping. Daniel Kubiak: Something I scribbled down here. Okay. Any other questions for staff? I assume I see the applicant back there. You're welcome to come up. We covered a lot of it on the dais, so I don't know that we have to work through a ton more. You've already been through planning and zoning, it sounds like you've gotten feedback about screening for the units, and there will be an offline conversation to see if some of this can be mitigated somehow. Is there anything else you'd like to add? Amy Richards: No, just to go over our total occupancy today: we have 52 students, and our projected maximum is 120 students. We are a small school for kids with special needs. We are designed to meet those kids' needs in a small classroom, with ten students maximum in a classroom with one teacher. When you're looking at the occupancy of a typical classroom being something like 20, we're not going to have 20 students in a classroom because that would defeat the purpose of our school. I've prepared a presentation and I can go through the slides if you'd like. Daniel Kubiak: Does anyone need the presentation? Okay, no. We appreciate you being prepared—usually that's helpful for Q&A—but we don't have to go through it for this discussion. Frances Scharli: Can you verify for everybody up here: your maximum is 124, and what is the requirement for how many shelters you have to provide for under the code? Amy Richards: The total occupancy of our building is calculated at 392 people, though we just looked at some plans from our architect that said it was more like 387. The code states that you have to have 5 square feet of storm shelter space per person, which is around 2,000 square feet. We feel like two units would fit 128 people, which is more than double our student body right now and would totally fit our needs. Three units would accommodate 192 people, which would exceed our capacity of 120 students plu s our staff if we were ever to grow to that. Even though the current plan has four units, we don't think we need four; we think three would be totally sufficient. Southlake Corridor Planning Committee Item #5 – 2250 E. Continental Blvd. Meeting #58 – May 18, 2026 Page 6 We're committed to keeping our kids safe; that is our number one priority. We want our students to be safe, but we also want to be realistic about how we go about doing that. We're a nonprofit that breaks even—we're not a profitable nonprofit with lots of money in the bank. We feel like we're providing a really great service for the students here in Southlake. Michael Springer: What is your criteria to evacuate the building and go to the shelter? Is it anytime there's a tornado watch, or are you going to move everybody out there? Amy Richards: It's for a tornado warning in the area. If the sirens were going off and there was an active tornado right in the area, then we would go outside to the shelters. Michael Springer: So you have to take kids outside until that period ends. Wow. Okay. Amy Richards: We found some units to purchase that are white. Dennis had asked if we could paint over the logo so that it's completely white, and yes, we want to screen it with fencing and landscaping so it blends in as seamlessly as possible. We're not trying to create an aesthetic eyesore for the property. Michael Springer: I'm sure given the cost, you would prefer not to have to deal with it at all. I don't think you're just putting these out there for the fun of it. Amy Richards: No. Literally, that's the issue. We're putting these boxes out on our parking lot that are going to sit empty. Daniel Kubiak: The objective here is to see offline if that can be either reduced or solved another way. Okay. All right, any other questions for the applicant, especially from our council members since the commissioners have already seen this? All right. Amy Richards: We appreciate it. Thank you, Frances. Daniel Kubiak: Good luck going forward, and thank you for coming out tonight. Are we good? Amy Richards: We're good. Staff Presentation Southlake Corridor Planning Committee Item #5 – 2250 E. Continental Blvd. Meeting #58 – May 18, 2026 Page 7 Southlake Corridor Planning Committee Item #5 – 2250 E. 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