The City Commissioners recently held their final meeting for the month of October, beginning with holding a public hearing regarding the property located at 429 N. Dwight, a substandard structure, to which Code Enforcer Jeff Kennedy approached the commission.
“This is another one of our houses I wished we could’ve gotten to earlier and saved. There’s not much left we can do on this one at all. I guess at one point they went and redid a roof on it and the house became abandoned. Squatters got into it and at some point they decided to take the roof off the house. When they did, it allowed water to tread all the way down through it. The house is totally destroyed now and the chance of kids or anybody getting in there and getting hurt, we recommend to take the house down. We’ve reached out and tried to make contact, but nobody will respond to us.”
With no further discussion or questions, the public hearing was closed and the commission moved to order a 30-day demolition order for the structure located at 429 N. Dwight.
Next was to hold a public hearing regarding the property located at 616 N. Banks, a substandard structure.
“This will be another one that has taken on tons of water. The roof is bad and the floors are buckling in it. There’s not much we can do with this one either, and it’s another one of those that if we had gotten to it earlier, maybe we could’ve done something. We’ve reached out about this property as well, but haven’t received any information back from any owners and there’s nobody to contact anymore. It’s not secured in any way and we can’t get ahold of anyone to secure it, and it’s a dangerous building, so we recommend taking this one down too.”
With no further discussion or questions, the public hearing was closed and the commission moved to order a 30-day demolition order for the structure located at 616 N. Banks.
Next was to hold a public hearing regarding the property located at 933 S. Wells, a substandard structure.
“There’s not really anything I can say about this one. We went back and did the research on it and there has not ever been in our city records water turned on since we started doing it electronically. Going through it, the floor collapsed in on me. That one is fully dangerous and would have to be removed.”
With no further discussion or questions, the public hearing was closed and the commission moved to order a 30-day demolition order for the structure located at 933 S. Wells.
Next was to conduct a public hearing for the purpose of receiving public comments concerning the following request: Northridge Park LLC requests a zoning variance to change the minimum required lot width from the Multi-Family Zoned requirement of 50 feet wide to 45 feet wide for Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the development project. Phase 2 consists of Lots 5-16 of Unit 1 and Lots 1-16 of Unit 2. Phase 3 consists of Lots 17-20 of Unit 1, Lots 17-20 and 38-39 of Unit 2, Lot 18 of Unit 3, and Lots 1-11 of Unit 4.
City Engineer Luke Raber addressed the commission.
“So what this is is for the development on the northeast side of town. Andrew Ammons with Northridge Park has requested the zoning variance, so for a multi-family zoning, the lot requirements are a minimum of 50 feet wide by 100 feet deep, 5,000 square feet total. Currently those lots range between 52 feet to 55 feet wide and are 120 feet deep, so Andrew’s request would narrow them to 45 feet and keep the 120 feet deep, so it would be about 5,400 square feet of property. Reason is to try to squeeze a few more homes in that area as he is developing, and it would be four extra lots out of that, four extra homes. We still require that he can’t have over a 35-foot wide home because you still have to have five feet on either side of your house for your property limits and he’s agreed to that. We have done this prior when a developer wanted to build on the old junior high area and the back half was going to be town homes and they requested the same variance for those lot limits to be narrowed as well. They did a zero lot limit which means you can put the building right on the edge, but that’s not what we’re doing here.”
With no further discussion the hearing was closed, and the commission moved to approve the request.
Next was to consider approving on first reading Ordinance No. 1854, amending Section 8, Area Regulations, Part 2 Lot Width of Ordinance 690, which was approved with a nay from Commissioner Wendi Horst.
Next was to consider approving the minutes of the October 12, 2026 regular commission meeting and excusing Commissioner Reed from that meeting; both were approved.
Next was to consider approving the list of disbursements dated September 2026, which was to approve.
Next was to consider approving a Municipal Service Plan for the proposed annexation of property owned by Pampa Regional Medical Center, to which Luke addressed the Commission.
“So the hospital, Pampa Regional Medical Center, came to us, and they are working with the Pampa ISD on getting a road developed to the junior high. The first step in this is they eventually want to convey that street over to the city, and the first step is bringing it into the city limits. So the hospital is going to voluntarily annex that, and the next step is coming up with a service agreement. Once its developed, we will then maintain all those facilities and provide fire and police services to those areas. It’s not a big area, but it is an extention that runs from the hospital to the junior high property so they can build a road. Essentially Duncan Street that kind of veers off will continue out and around up to the school. This is just the first step.”
“What will be the impact for tax purposes on that or will there be?” Commissioner Brian Doughty asked.
“It’s undeveloped so it’s not going to be a great impact,” City Manager Shane Stokes said. “It could be developed in the future and could have an impact, but right now it’s just undeveloped land.”
“What plans do they have for that land?” Mayor Mike Borger asked.
“Nothing that I know of other than getting the street developed,” Luke said.
“Does the ISD have any plans on helping us pay for the maintenance on that later on?” Wendi asked.
“No, it’s typical that we make the developer put up the upfront cost and to pay for all the infrastructure and then we maintain it. There’s already a water line and a sewer line going through there, so that’s part of our maintenance. We have a utility easement, so this will expand that.”
“How’s that property zoned right now?” Mayor Mike asked.
“The hospital I believe is office-zoned, I would have to look at it. But the new part would be zoned to agriculture because that’s what it is, it’s just a blank slate unless they wanted to zone it as something else.”
With no further discussion, the plan was approved.
Next was to consider adopting Resolution $26-012, a resolution of the City Commission of Pampa, Texas, authorizing the submission of a Texas Community Development Block Grant Program Application to the Texas Department of Agriculture for the 2027/2028 TXCDBG Community Development Fund Cycle, to which Public Works Director Gary Turley addressed the Commission.
“So this as it says here that the City will provide $112,500 in matching funds, which is 15% of the total grant which deems us the most points as well towards our water and wastewater infrastructure needs. We do have to look for the areas that are in the lower income areas that would benefit from this. This step is authorizing the PRPC to continue on with the grant application then we’ll go from there and see about improving the water line and sewer line.”
“So there’s not a specific project?” Mayor Mike asked.
“No, there’s not a specific district, but I do have some areas in mind. The total grant is going to be $750,000.”
“The last grant we received for the Community Block Grant for water infrastructure, we completed the main and looped the main over where Tireworks is in preparation for development,” Shane said. “That was the last project we used these grants for, and I believe that was like $350,000 at that time, now it’s $750,000.”
“Is this budgeted?” Wendi asked.
“So what’s going to happen is that this process is going to come to you and then if it’s awarded to us, it will be for the 2027/2028 budget year so we would have to prepare for that,” Finance Director Theresa Daniels said.
With no further discussion, the Commission approved the Resolution.
Next was to consider approving on first reading Resolution No. R26-013, approving a project with the Pampa Economic Development Corporation and the City of Pampa, to which PEDC Director Ryan Bradley addressed the Commission.
“The City approached us to help with some funding for demolition to get done in the downtown area, specifically 112 Somerville for the amount of $60,000. Our board approved it unanimously. We had an open hearing on the 24th of September, and we had no comments, no opposition, so here I am before you asking you to approve on the first reading the grant to aid in your demolition of that building that needed to come down. I do want to take a small minute to let the public know that if they do own a small building and they do want help in demolition, that the EDC does have grant funds available for that and to come see us. This kind of falls into everything that us as a city is trying to do, and that is cleaning up the town and making it better. This was a great opportunity for us and for you.”
“What building was that?” Wendi asked.
“It was the one caddy-cornered to the Hughes Building that just got taken down.”
With no further discussion, the Resolution was approved.
Next was to consider awarding numerous bid amounts for delinquent tax properties for lots around Pampa; all were approved.
The Commission then went into an Executive Session, and upon returning and no further items on the agenda to discuss, the meeting was adjourned.
