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BUFFER APPEAL
STAFF REPORT
Project Manager: Jennifer Reeves, Staff Planner Report Date: April 17, 2007
E-mail:jreeves@cstx.gov Meeting Date: April 27, 2007
For
CHRIST HOLY MISSION BAPTIST CHURCH ADDITION - (07-00500082)
Location: 1113 Arizona Street
Applicant: Christ Holy Mission Baptist Church
Item Summary: This item is for consideration of an appeal to Section 7.6.F Minimum Buffer
Standards. The applicant is proposing an alternative buffer.
Item Background: The applicant has submitted a site plan to the City for an expansion of the
existing Christ Holy Mission Baptist Church. Included in the expansion is an additional parking
lot, a multi-purpose building for school rooms and a fellowship hall. The church is located within
an R-1 Single Family neighborhood, so the proposal to expand their facility engages the buffer
requirement. The applicant states that the buffer requirement would not allow them to achieve
the necessary parking.
According to Section 7.6.F Minimum Buffer Standards, the Church would be required to install a
ten-foot planted buffer with a six-foot high wooden fence. This buffer would be required along
the north and east property lines that abut single family residential lots. The applicant's proposal
is to provide a two-foot buffer with three-foot shrubs and a six-foot privacy fence on the north
side and an eight foot buffer on the east side with Crepe Myrtles and three foot shrubs with a
six- foot wooden privacy fence.
Required Proposed on North Property Proposed on East Property
Line Line
6-foot fence 6-foot fence 6-foot fence
10-foot buffer yard 2-foot buffer yard 8-foot buffer yard
1 non-canopy tree per Shrubs Non-canopies and shrubs
15 linear feet or 1
shrub per 3 linear feet
1 canopy tree per 25 No canopy trees No canopy trees
linear feet
Administrator Recommendations: Staffs recommendation is for denial. In general, parking
lots in the middle of a single family neighborhood would have a negative impact on surrounding
residents. The buffer ordinance was written to help protect single family neighborhoods from
more intense uses.
Issues/Items for Review:
1. Relationship of buildings to site
2. Relationship of buildings and site to adjoining area
3. Landscaping/Buffer
Attachments:
1. Application
2. Small Area Map (SAM) and Aerial Map
3. Landscape plan
4. Buffer ordinance
5. Photo of Property