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Planning & Zoning Commission
CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
April 4, 1996
7:00 P.M.
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chairman Hawthorne, Commissioners Gribou, Smith, Hall, and
Garner.
COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Commissioners Lightfoot and Lane.
STAFF PRESENT: City Planner Kee, City Engineer Laza, Assistant City Engineer
Morgan, Planning Technician Thomas, Staff Planner Dunn,
Graduate Civil Engineer Homeyer, Transportation Planner Hard,
Senior Planner Kuenzel, Transportation Technician Hester and
Assistant City Attorney Reynolds. (Councilman McIlhaney was in
the audi~nce.)
AGENDA ITEM NO. 1:
Approval of minutes from the meeting of March 21, 1996.
Commissioner Hall moved to approve the Planning and Zoning Commission minutes from the meeting
of March 21,1996. Commissioner Garner seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0).
AGENDA ITEM NO.2: Public hearing to consider a conditional use permit for the Burhm
Creek Pub, a proposed night club to be located at 2702 Texas Avenue South currently Ferreri's
Italian restaurant. (96-703)
Staff Planner Dunn presented the staff report and explained that the request involves the conversion of
the existing Ferreri's restaurant into a brew pub featuring some evening entertainment, which for zoning
purposes classifies this use as a night club. The existing twenty-three parking spaces meet the current
parking requirements for the existing restaurant, which were determined in 1989 by a Zoning Board of
Adjustment-parking variance. However, the change of use from a restaurant to a night club increases
the required parking. The current parking requirement for. a night club is one space per fifty square feet
of building area. Approximately 1,065 square feet of the existing 10,800 square foot building will be
used for storage tanks and other brewing equipment, and is excluded from the parking requirement.
Therefore, the additional required parking for the 9,735 square foot area, minus the existing spaces and
the previously granted variance, is sixty-one parking spaces. The applicant has purchased the adjacent
parking area of lot 2 of the Brandywine Subdivision. According to the conceptual parking layout, the
adjacent lot will provide sixty-seven parking spaces, which exceeds the additional required parking by
five spaces. The access to the frontage road and Valley View is also in compliance with the
requirements placed on the Brandywine final plat. Staff. therefore recommended approval of the
request.
Chairman Hawthorne opened the public hearing.
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Trail, loiT,-1)Iock 2 of the Elm Crest Subdivision. (96-802)
Transportation Planner Hard presented the staff report and stated that the applicant is in the process of
building a house on a corner lot in the Elm Crest Subdivision. The home is fronting on Sunflower Trail
and the garage is facing Mint Avenue. The applicant's .original driveway design accessed onto
Sunflower Trail, the lesser street at 28' in width. Staff reviewed and approved this driveway location as
part of the building plans. The applicant is requesting a variance to relocate the driveway access to
Mint Avenue, a 39' wide collector street. . The applicant stated that he has a puyer for the home if the
driveway access would be relocated to Mint Avenue (at request of potential buyer). The Elm Crest
Subdivision plat states that no lot shall have direct access to Welsh Avenue. In addition to the City
Ordinance specifically statil1g that driveway access on corner tracts shalIbetaken from the lesser street,
the final plat of theEdelw~iss Estates Phase lO~A states that no lot shall have direct access to Mint
Avenue. Staff recommended denial of the request due to the following reasons:
(1) It is not in compliance with the driveway ordinance.
(2) Consistency and fairness. Staffhas denied previous requests for access to Mint Avenue.
(3) Setting a precedent. If the variance is approved, it sets a precedent for similar appeals
that could come before the Commission for driveway access relocations.
Applicant Sherman Click of 3309 Bahia approached the Commission and stated that he has constructed
four other homes along Sunflower. He stated that at the time of purchase, Building Official David
Moore informed him that if access was prohibited on Mint Avenue, it would say on the final plat. Mr.
Moore also said that if the driveway ordinance prohibits access to Mint Avenue, a variance request can
be considered by the Planning and Zoning Commission. Mr. Click stated that in order to get the house
under construction, he presented the site plan with access to Sunflower and would decide at a later date
whether or not to apply for the variance. If the driveway is constructed in the approved location there
will be conflicts with the existing street signs, fire hydrant and the drainage of the property.
Commissioner Garner moved to grant the driveway variance request at 3216 Sunflower Trail, lot 1,
block 20f the Elm Crest Subdivision. Commissioner Hall seconded the motion.
Commissioner Gribou expressed concern with addressing such an important issue so late in the process.
The driveway location should have been addressed prior to construction and. issuance of a building
permit. However, the proposed long driveway does not make sense and it will not be useful to anyone.
He stated that he is opposed to how the issue was approached but the variance request is a practical
matter.
Commissioner Hall agreed and stated that he has a real problem envisioning a sidewalk, driveway and a
small amount of grass on a cornedot. The issue should have been addressed earlier inthe process and a
precedent sbould not be set to allow more residential driveways along Mint Avenue.
The motion to grant the driveway variance request passed (4 - 1); Chairman Hawthorne voted in
opposition to the motion.
AGENDA ITEM NO.6:
Other business.
Commissioner Hall questioned staffwith respect to a letter submitted by Mr. Ramirez on Driftwood in
the Emerald Forest Subdivision.
P & Z Minutes
Apri/4, 1996
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