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Home My WebLink AboutMinutes MINUTES Planning- & Zoning Commission CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS February 20, 1997 7:00 P.M. COMMSSIONERS PRESENT:.. .Chairman Hawthorne and Commissioners Gribou, Massey, Parker and Smith. COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Commissioners Garner and Lightfoot. STAFF PRESENT: City Planner Kee, Planning Technician Ruiz, Graduate Civil Engineer Homeyer, Senior Planner McCully and Assistant City Attorney Reynolds. AGENDA ITEM NO. 1: Approval. of minutes from the meeting of February 2,1997. Commissioner Gribou moved to approve the minutes from the meeting of February 2, 1997 as written. Commissioner Massey econded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). AGENDA ITEM NO.2: Public hearing to consider.. a rezoning request and master preliminary plat of the Woodcreek'Section 8 Subdivision totaling 3.8 acres divided into 13 residential lots generally7ocated east of Stonebrook Drive .and south of Woodcreek ase Three from R-1 Single Family Residential to PUD-2 Planned Unit. Development. (97-100 & 97-3Q City Planner Kee presented the staff report and stated that the original. master plan for this areas shows single family. development. The PUD is a single family zone and therefore, this change is considered very minor. The previous master plan shows 91ots while the proposed PUD now shows 13. Both scenarios show lots off of one cul-de-sac. The iezoning to PUD-2 is the same as the PUD-2 for Woodcreek Phase 7 that is in place across Stonebrook Drive. This section will essentially mirror that section. .The. preliminary plat submitted with the rezoning has. been reviewed. The street is proposed to be private, as is the one across Stonebrook. It will be built to public street standards with the exception that parking spaces will back directly onto the roadway. This is very typical of the,PUD development and in fact allows the development to meet the parking ratios established in the PUD. 'This section has an existing brick wall in place along its only street frontage and-the PRC did not take~the discretion to require any additional streetscaping along this roadway. Woodcreek Phase 7 PUD was approved in 1995 . with some controversy from surrounding Woodcreek homeowners regarding screening along Stonebridge. That. rezoningwas approved conditioned upon a wall and plantings being. installed along Stonebridge. The PRC saw no need for additional screening for this section. as an existing wall is in place along Stonebrook. Staff received a few inquiries from the public notices with no opposition. Staff recommended approval of the.. rezoning. request and preliminary plat with the Presubmission Conference comments. Chairman Hawthorne opened the public hearing. ~; Engineer Mike McClure, representative. of the applicant, offered to answer any questions associated with the ..planned unit development.... Chairman 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 Overlaybstrict was created and applied to the corridor as well. This .district contains specific aesthetic requirements and restrictions. At the time that the. new comdor 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 the. strip intended for office use were rezoned to C-B with the condition that they be platted 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 N0.4: 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 is to subdivide .20.77 acres into twenty three Research and Development (R&D) lots, of which lots 3 through 19 of block 1 i 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. P & Z Minutes February 20, 1997 Page 2 of 4 ~. - STAFF PRC REPORT Woodcreek Section 8 Case #97-300 Ordinance Requirements: Provide the dimensions on lots 5 and 9 of block 23. The proposed private street must meet public street standards. ® Provide a public utility easement for the proposed 6" waterline that will cross the private street. _ Note the volume and page numbers of the off-site easements. (The TAC Realty property to the south and lot 14, block 12 of Woodcreek Phase Three.) The average floor area shown in the "Land Use Intensity" table should reflect the maximum floor area. Additional buffering maybe required along Stonebrook Drive. Comments/Concerns: There were no comments on the revised master plan. Coordinate electrical service details with Electrical Operations Coordinator Tony ® Michalsky at (409) 764-3660. _ Coordinate telephone service details and necessary easements with G.T.E. Representative Laverne Akin at (409) 821-4723 . SUBMIT 10 COPIES OF THE REVISED MASTER PLAN & PRELIMINARY PLAT BY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1997 TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION PACKETS FOR THE MEETING OF THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20,-1997. STAFF PRC REPORT ~ ~,~,~ 1~~ _ ~~. ~' Woodcreek Section 8 r ~ v I Case #97-300 f ~" t~ ~, ~~,- Ordinance Requirements: Provide the dimensions on lots 5 and 9 of block 23. The proposed privat treet must meet public street standards • ~~x°~'~'~~ ~~~'-y"`' ~'~~ Pr-e~i , • s ~~~eed"6"-w~terlirie--Ih~t~ll--cress t~e~rivate Note the volume and page numbers of the off--site easements. (The TAC Realty property ~ to the south and _ : ~-~- ~~ ~-~-~~~ti d The average floor area shown in the "Land Use Intensity" table should reflect the maximum floor area. ~y G-~.-~--~-~ ~ ~- Comments/Concerns: ~/ There were no comments on the revised master plan. _ Coordinate electrical service details with Electrical Operations Coordinator Tony 1Viichalsky at (409) 764-3660. ~ ~~~~~_ - ~[ /~y Coordinate`" "tele hone service details an`d necessa easements with G.T.E. Re resentative _ p rY p Laverne Akin at (409) 821-4723. SUBMIT 10 COPIES OF THE REVISED MASTER PLAN & PRELIlVIINARY PLAT BY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1997 TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION PACKETS FOR THE MEETING OF THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1997. C~~