HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda December 14, 2006
Regular Agenda
UDO Amendment - Development Plats
To: Glenn Brown, City Manager
From: Lance Simms, Acting Director of Planning & Development Services
Agenda Caption: Public hearing, presentation, possible action, and discussion on an
ordinance amending Chapter 12, City of College Station Code of Ordinances, Article 3 of the
Unified Development Ordinance, regulating the applicability of development plats in the City
of College Station and its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Recommendation(s): The Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously recommended
approval of this item at their meeting on November 16, 2006. Staff also recommends
approval.
Summary: The TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE (Chapter 212 Subchapter B "Regulation of
Property Development") allows municipalities to require a development plat for properties
that are developing, but not required to final plat. This gives a city the opportunity to
acquire easements, rights-of-way, etc. and identify existing conditions on properties that
otherwise would not have had to plat. The City of College Station elected to be covered by
this Section and require development plats with the adoption of the UDO in 2003.
The ordinance has now been in effect for over three years. In the limited number of times
the development plat has been required for a submittal, it has been for the development of
a large-acreage single family home and the plat has effectively served no purpose. The
strength of the ordinance essentially lies in its requirements for commercial and multi-family
developments, discouraging development on properties that do not meet the City of College
Station's standards for a lot.
The proposed amendment is to exempt from the development plat requirement tracts over
five acres that otherwise would not have to plat and that are developing for homestead
and/or agricultural purposes.
Budget & Financial Summary: N/A
Attachments:
1. 16 November 2006 P&Z Draft Minutes
2. Ordinance