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Home My WebLink AboutCorrespondence (*ffill4111111 CITY OF COLLEGE STATION Planning d Development Services 1101 Texas Avenue,P.O. Box 9960 College Station,Texas 77842 Phone 979.764.3570 / Fax 979.764.3496 MEMORANDUM July 19,2006 TO: Andrew Hawkins,via fax # 693.8370 FROM: Crissy Hartl,Staff Planner SUBJECT: CORNER BAR(APPEAL) Staff reviewed the above-mentioned appeals application as requested. The following page is a list of staff review comments detailing items that need to be addressed. Please address the comments and submit the following information for further staff review: One (1) revised site plan Amended application If there are comments that you are not addressing with the revised site plan,please attach a letter explaining the details. If you have any questions or need additional information,please call me at 979.764.3570. Attachments: Staff review comments cc: Shelton Family Partnership c/o Fred Shelton via regular mail to: 3501 Gillon Avenue,Dallas,TX 75205 Case file#06-00500151 Home of Texas A&M University From: <william.jezewski@verizon.com> To: <mhitchcock@cstx.gov> Date: 6/29/2006 1:24:49 PM Subject: Fw: Verizon cabinets CC: <tfletcher@cstx.gov>,james.survantc verizon.com Ms. Hitchcock, Jim Survant is on vacation this week so I will respond to your message below. As part of the Texas Ave road widening project, Verizon was requested to relocate copper and fiber facilities from our Post Oak central office that services areas along the road construction route as well as Southwood Valley and 2818 area. Due to the size of the cables involved and costs associated with a like for like replacement of these cables, Verizon elected to run fiber to the Southwood location and place electronics cabinets in order to provision dial tone and DSL service to our existing customers at a more reasonable cost. A 25'x 25' plot of land was acquired on the Church property to place these cabinets. The two cabinets in the back are remote switches that can be provisioned to serve 2,016 lines each. The smaller cabinet on the concrete pad directly in front of these two provide the electronics for DSL service. The larger box that parallels the roadway is the main distribution box in which jumpers are cross connected from the office equipment to the distribution cables going out to the neighboring areas. This site was selected due the close proximity of existing fiber and copper underground cables in which we could tie our new cables into in order to facilitate the cutover of service from our Post Oak central office to the new remote cabinets. Verizon was limited in our quest to find a more suitable site to place these cabinets. Many other sites were looked at and preferred, however, property owners wanted an unreasonable sum for an easement or they simply were not interested. Construction deadlines by TXDOT to remove our facilities along Texas Ave also hampered us on locating a more preferred site. The smaller green cabinet pictured has been removed from this site. Your picture was taken prior to completion of the work for this project. We are currently providing service to approximately 3000 customers in the Southwood Valley/2818 area from these cabinets. I hope this gives you a better understanding on the use of these cabinets and why this site was selected. Please let Jim or I know if you have any more questions or concerns regarding this site. Regards, William P. Jezewski Verizon Network Engineering & Planning Section Mgr-University District Georgetown, TX 78626 Office: 512.869.2290 Fax: 512.869.2343 Email: william.jezewski aC�verizon.com From: Trey Fletcher To: james.survant@verizon.com Date: 6/23/2006 2:33:43 PM Subject: Verizon cabinets CC: Molly Hitchcock Mr. Survant, At a recent meeting of our Design Review Board an inquiry was made by a board member regarding construction of numerous , large cabinets by Verizon. Many of these are quite obvious in the landscape. Could you provide us with some information about the purpose of these facilities, and perhaps we might be able to discuss how their location is determined and softening their impact, if possible. Please respond to Molly Hitchcock at 764-3570, or mhitchcock( cstx.gov. Thanks, Trey College Station. Heart of the Research Valley. Page 1 of 1 Crissy Hart! Re: Andrew Hawkins 693 3179 ri,..Bk:aNu `i8V@PVIIgflWP AA ple * r •dow°" dPam e PtioOVu¢,,k ro `n..... "inr T, ..S•.+ e'°.u -=44614,4"470 ;tl m .01,4,0 a x+w.mwa.,m. ,upu9u afrk••, I3 ! From: Crissy Hart To: Bridgette George; Lance Simms Date: 7/28/2006 3:17 PM Subject: Re: Andrew Hawkins 693.3179 CC: Molly Hitchcock Since someone will be calling him back and I will be leaving around 3:30 for the awards banquet let me try to explain what is going on. We had a PAC meeting with the Corner Bar a couple of months ago to talk about expanding their bar. We also talked about having to go before the DRB for some Northgate waivers. They submitted a site plan and their waiver application. We reviewed the site plan and processed the DRB application for today's meeting. They are requesting a waiver to the NG sidewalk improvement standards and to the historical architecture and character of a historic building. Their proposal was to enclose a stairwell off of College Main for their expansion. They were proposing to build it flush with the building, which means they wouldn't be providing the full 10' required sidewalk and would be altering the character of the existing Sparks building facade by not preserving it. We recommended denial. The board tabled the item because they wanted to see better brick samples and possibly a better design of the building that is sensitve to historic buildings. I didn't anticipate the board taking issue with materials, architectural features, etc with the structure as a whole because we were mainly concerned with preserving the facade by pushing the structure back. (I'm just now realizing this....) But the DRB wants to review it architecturally now, so we will provide them with that information. I suggested that Andrew bring back a variety of structure placements (since the board indicated they will approve the sidewalk waiver) with options and alternatives, building elevations with the roof railing to show what it would look like from the street as well as different brick samples. He wasn't sure if he was going to submit for the next DRB meeting on Aug. 11 or wait until the Aug. 25th meeting. I told him he would need to submit by next Tuesday at the absolute latest for the Aug. 11 meeting. I hope SOME of this makes sense!! If not, please call me... I was planning on sending Andrew an email Monday morning summarizing some of this and how it will affect his site plan review. The folder is on my desk if you would like to look through it. Thanks and have a great weekend! >>> Bridgette George 7/28/2006 2:26 pm >>> Lance, Mr. Hawkins called and asked to meet with me today regarding the process for moving forward with his DRB project. I explained to him that I was in interviews all day and would not be able to meet with him, but that I would try to have someone call him back. Crissy, I'm copying you on this so that you know he called. He said you were helpful but he's still not clear on the process. file://C:\Documents and Settings\chartl.CSTX\Local Settings\Temp\XPGrpWise\44CA2A... 7/31/2006 CITY OF COLLEGE STATION DATE: February 8, 2008 TO: Planning and Development Services FROM: Economic and Community Development SUBJECT: Abridged Duplicate File Transfer — Sparks Building Enclosed please find a brief summary of the Sparks Building Fagade Improvement Program project along with duplicate copies of selected documents from the project file. Some of this information is considered confidential so we ask that it not be released to the developer. If you have questions regarding this information or need additional documents, please contact Eric Barton at ext. 3758.