HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutesChairman Hawthorne closed the public hearing.
Commissioner Gribou moved to recommend approval of the rezoning request and preliminary plat with the staff
recommendations. Commissioner Smith seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0).
AGENDA ITEM NO. 3: Public hearing to consider a rezoning request for lot 14, block. T of the
University Park Section II Subdivision totaling 2.9 acres and .located along the north side of University
Drive, approximately 100' west of Spring Loop from A-P Administrative Professional to C-B Business
Commercial. (97-101)
Senior Planner McCully presented the staff report and stated that the site is located in the middle of the University
Drive Corridor (a.k.a. Overlay District) and in the middle of an area that was originally intended to become an
office strip between the retail commercial areas located at the ends of the corridor. However, much of the office
strip has been rezoned to C-B ,including the two tracts located immediately adjacent to the subject tract. The
corridor is intended to become an attractive, commercial entrance into the City, and the requested rezoning would
further this goal. The intended use is for a hotel development. The University Drive Corridor Study, which was
adopted by Council in 1991, recommended a mix of commercial and office uses for the majority of the University
Drive frontage extending from Tarnow to the East Bypass.: The intent of the recommendations was to encourage
an attractive entrance into the City through land use and. aesthetic controls. Council approved a new commercial
district, which lists a range of uses such as hotels, restaurants,. and retail, but prohibits convenience stores and
service stations. The lots that had been zoned C-1 during. the 1980's were rezoned to the new C-B~ District in
1992 to ensure uses would be in compliance with the comdor plan. The Overlay .District was created and applied
to the corridor as well.' This district contains specific aesthetic requirements and restrictions. At the time that the
new corridor restrictions were in the process of being implemented, a rezoning from A-P to C-B was requested on
the subject tract,. That request was denied due to the goal of maintaining a substantial amount of office zoned
property sandwiched between two C-B strips on the north side of University Drive. Two months later, the two
tracts located in' he strip intended for office use were rezoned to C-B with the condition that they be lrlatted into ',a
single lot. These tracts are located to the east of the subject tract along University. The zoning map still reflects
the original R-4 and A-P zoning on these tracts because the condition of rezoning to C-B has not yet been
satisfied. However, it is anticipated that the tracts will eventually develop as C-B uses. Staff recommended
approval of the rezoning request with the condition that a 20 landscape buffer area be installed across the
northern property line adjacent to the R-4 zoning line.
Chairman Hawthorne opened the public hearing.
Representative of the applicant, Parvis Vesalli, approached the Commission and offered to answer questions
pertaining to the rezoning request.
Chairman Hawthorne closed the public hearing.
Commissioner Massey moved to recommend approval of the rezoning request with the staff recommendations.
Commissioner Gribou seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0).
AGENDA ITEM NO. 4: Consideration of a final plat of the Technology Business Park totaling 20.9
acres divided into 23 Research and Development lots located on the southeast corner of Sebesta Road and
State Highway 6 Frontage Road. (97-206)
Graduate Civil Engineer Homeyer presented the staff report and stated that this plat is located approximately
1,300 feet south of the intersection of Sebesta Road and State Highway 6. The purpose of this plat ins to subdivide
20.77 acres into twenty three Research and Development (R&D) lots, of which lots 3 through 19 of block 1
cannot be built on. Lot 3 was created to serve as the detention area for this development and lots 4 through 19 do
not have access because they are to serve as a green belt buffer to the R-1 lots located in Woodcreek Section 5.
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