Patch Antenna Feed Point and DRC

I have made a footprint for a patch antenna that is fed by vias (not shown) to two separate “pads” within the mesh. See here:

I’ve not got DRC violations all over the place and I cannot route a via from the other side of the board to feed this patch antenna. KiCad is upset about how the pads are touching the unassigned net of the square polygon that makes up the majority of the “patch”.

I’ve seen other topics on here related to PCB antennas and DRC violations that suggest getting netties involved, but I’ve looked through the footprint editor, footprint properties, pad properties, etc, and I just can’t find where I’m supposed to apply the nettie “hack”.

Does anyone have any advice for this?

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