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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutesMINITTES Planning & Zoning Commission CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, .TEXAS October 5, 1995 7:00 P.M. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Acting Chairman Hall and Commissioners Lightfoot, Gribou, Smith,. and Garner. COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Chairman Hawthorne and Commissioner Lane. STAFF PRESENT: City Planner Kee, Assistant City Engineer Morgan, Senior Planner Kuenzel and Planning Technician .Thomas. (Council Liaison McIlhaney was in the audience.) AGENDA ITEM NO. 1: The Consent Agenda consists of non-controversial or "housekeeping" items required by law. Items may be removed from the Consent Agenda by any citizen, City staff member, or Commissioner .by making such a request prior to a motion and vote on the Consent Agenda. (1.1) Approval of minutes from the meeting of September 21, 1995.. (1.2) Consideration of a .final plat of blocks D and E of the Benjamin Graham E.T.J. subdivision. (95-228) Consent agenda items 1.1 and 1.2 were approved unanimously by consent. AGENDA ITEM N0.2: Public hearing to consider a .conditional use permit request to expand the. existing.Hurricane Harry's. night club located at 313 South College in the University Square Center. (95-710) Senior Planner Kuenzel presented the staff report. and informed the Commission that since there are no site changes proposed, no. site plan is required. Therefore, the use only of the additional square footage to be added to the existing. night club is under .consideration. .The existing night club has been m operation for a number of years and was in existence when the Zoning Ordinance was changed to require conditional use permits. The existing night club was therefore exempted from the use permit requirement. Parking demand is at its peak during the evening and night time hours when most of the surrounding businesses are closed for the day. Parking therefore should not pose a problem in this particular case. Two letters were received in opposition to the request from On-Line Realty concerning parking in the area. According to those letters, there are .people. parking in the adjacent R-l zoned area and walking to the club. According to the building department, current occupancy load for the existing night club is approximately 1200 people. The expansion will add a possibility of another 600 to 650 people at maximum occupancy. Commissioner Hall opened the public hearing. Applicant Gary Seaback of 9215 Timberknoll explained to the Commission that the adjacent theater operated for several years with no parking problems in the center. The night club and the theater both operated in the evening and there was always plenty of parking. With respect to noise, the theater was built to control sound. and there have never been complaints from the residents to the rear concerning noise at the night club or previous theater. Commissioner Hall closed the public hearing. Commissioner Garner moved to approve the conditional use permit request to expand the existing Hurricane Harry's .night club located at 313 South. College in .the University Square Center. Commissioner Gribou seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). AGENDA ITEM NO.3: Consideration of a final plat of Shenandoah. Phase Three and a revised preliminary .plat for Shenandoah Phases Two -Five. (95-235 & 94-314) Assistant City Engineer Morgan presented. the staff report and recommended approval of the final plat and revised preliminary plat wrth the ".condition that the engineer have the right to relocate a few public utility easements to accommodate the electrical utilities. The.. subject plat consists of 11.013 acres. and is being subdivided into 41 single family lots. The property is currently zoned R-1. A preliminary plat of this property was approved by Council in September of last .year. The preliminary plat had shown different phaselines than depicted on thisfinal plat. The applicant desired to change the phase lines to avoid having any temporary .dead end streets, where a temporary cul-de-sac may be necessary. A Presubmission,Conference was held for this plat on September 20, 1995. At this meeting, staff concurred with the new ..phase lines and requested. that the applicant submit a revised master preliminary plat depicting these new locations. There were ;a few other comments raised: at that meeting. Due to the fact. that the preliminary plat .was approved before streetscape requirements were adopted, streetscape compliance is not mandatory for this plat. However, staff did request that the developer voluntarily comply with streetscape. Commissioner. Gribou moved to recommend approval of the revised preliminary plat for .Shenandoah Phases Two -Five with the staff recommendations. Commissioner Lightfoot .seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). Commissioner Gribou moved to recommend approval of the final plat of Shenandoah Phase. Three with staff recommendations including a strong recommendation to provide the subdivision screening along Barron Road. Commissioner Lightfoot seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). AGENDA ITEM NO. 4: Consideration to rehear a previously denied temporary overflow parking lot located within a 2.92 acre tract, Block B, Culpepper Plaza Subdivision. (94-434) Senior Planner Kuenzel informed the Commission that in February of this year, the Commission considered a request: for a temporary parking lot on the subject property.. There were only five Commissioners. present and neither Mr. Tate nor Mr. Allen were able to attend the meeting. The Commission voted to deny the temporary parking lot-by a vote of 3 to 2.; Mr. Tate and Mr. Allen are asking permission from the Commission to rehear the case at a future meeting. They feel that perhaps the Commission did not have all the necessary .information. If the Commission is amenable to this, staff will schedule this item for a future. agenda. Senior Planner Kuenzel informed .the Commission that parking has occurred on the subject. property for a number of years. Approximately one and one-half years ago, gravel was put. down and lights were to be installed for the temporary parking area. At that time, the .City became aware.. of the situation and began code enforcement. Recently a letter of code enforcement was sent to the property owner since the gravel lot has not been removed to date and as a result, staff has had more discussions with the applicant. P & Z Minutes October 5, 1995 Page 2 of 4