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the property unevenly, making the property on one side of the street smaller and which would make it
difficult to sell or develop.
Mr. Hard said that the Option "B" would be a safer route because of the less intense curves. He
reiterated that the City could support any of the options because they all meet the Subdivision
Regulations. The alignment will be decided when the right-of-way dedication is proposed at the time of
plat.
Commissioner Maloney moved to approve the Master Development Plan with Staffs recommendations.
Commissioner Rife seconded the motion, which passed (4-0-1); Commissioner Garner abstained.
The Commissioner were very concerned with the safety issues and felt that the plan would be more safe
with the option that staff recommended.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 7: Consideration of a preliminary Plat of the Holleman Village Addition of
27.36 ads located on the southeast corner of the intersection of FM 2818 and Holleman. r
Director of Development Services Callaway presented the staff report and explained that the purpose of
the request was to preliminary plat the parent tract to prepare 16.2 acres out of the 27.36 acres for an
apartment development. The remaining 11 acres are divided into three lots; one currently developed as
Phase I of the Doubletree condominium site; one a reserve tract for a future expansion of Doubletree;
and one 1.2 acre lot, the use of which will remain undetermined at this time. A Master Preliminary Plat
for Woodway Village was approved for this acreage in October 1976. Since that time, pieces of this
master preliminary plat have been final platted for development. In May 1979, a final plat of Woodway
Village Phase One was filed for record. It platted a 17.42 acre tract on the southwest comer of
Holleman, half of the right-of-way for the future Jones-Butler, and a 19.83 acre tract on the northwest
corner of Holleman and the existing Jones-butler Road. The 17.42 acres have subsequently been
subdivided without benefit of platting and 3.9 acres are now developed as the Doubletree
Condominiums. There exist in the Brazos County Deed Records a condominium plat for Phase One of
the Double Tree Condos. This plat as recorded does not constitute actual platting of land under the
Texas Local Government Code and therefore was not subject to the City's Subdivision Regulations.
However, a subdivision of land did occur either during or after the construction of Double Tree Condos
Phase One. This division was subject to the City's Subdivision Regulations, but no such approval was
obtained.
He explained that a portion (40') of the Jones-Butler right-of-way was dedicated with a prior final plat.
This preliminary plat will extend and widen (by 5') the dedication through the property. The
Subdivision Regulations specifically disallow dedication of half-streets, however the City Council in
1979 granted a variance to this regulation and did allow the platting of half of the right-of-way for
Jones-Butler through Woodway Village Phase One. This developer is asking to extend that variance to
the 200' of new right-of-way that they are dedicating on the southernmost portion of Lot 2. The other
half of the right-of-way will come from a 47.27 acre tract owned by Mohawk, Ltd. And a smaller
portion (additional 5' width) will come from property previously dedicated to the City as parkland
dedication for apartments that have already been constructed in this general area. In the aspect of
parkland, the City would like to have acreage in lieu of a fee. The city's desire is to receive parkland
adjoining the existing parkland on the east side of Jones-Butler. The applicant has requested that their
project not be held up by negotiation efforts to obtain this land dedication. They have offered to post a
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fee for the project which would be returned if they are successful in negotiating a land dedication from
the adjoining property owner.
Staff recommended approval of the Preliminary Plat. Staff also recommended approval of the variance
to allow the continued platting of half of the Jones-Butler right-of-way with the condition that there be a
duly executed development agreement to allow monetary participation rather than construction of
Jones-Butler.
Mr. Paul Johnson, Fairfield Residential, explained that the property the city is interested in for parkland
is outside of the area presented for this preliminary plat. The applicant will do what is necessary to
purchase this land. He said that they are concurrent with all of staffs comments.
Mr. Edsel Jones, general partner for property, explained the right-of-way dedication history. He
expressed his concern with the dedication of an additional 5', he felt this would cause financial burden
on the land owners. Asked the Commission to reconsider the additional right-of-way dedication.
Commissioner Rife moved to approve the preliminary plat with the following conditions:
a. That there be a duly executed development agreement to allow monetary participation rather
than construction of Jones-Butler Road.
b. To include the 5' right-of-way dedication for Jones-Bulter Road, but also with the provision
that this dedication could be returned to the owner after necessary studies (i.e. traffic,
sidewalks, and bottleneck issues) are conducted by staff.
Commissioner Parker seconded the motion, which passed unopposed (5-0).
AGENDA ITEM NO. 8: Consideration of a Master Preliminary Plat of 26 acres in the
Steeplechase Subdivision, Phases 5A, 5B, and 6, located along the east side of Wellborn Road
and south of the approved location of the Navarro extension. (99-304)
City Planner Kee presented the staff report and stated that this preliminary plat shows the single family
portions of the Steeplechase Master Plan that have been approved for rezoning to R-1 and R-1B. The
plat includes the construction of five residential streets and 117 single family lots, 30 of which meet the
required R-1B restrictions. The plat shows that the single family development would occur in three
phases. The first phase (SA) includes four lots near the eastern end of the Navarro extension. Phase 5B
includes the remainder of the R-1 zoned lots, with Phase 6 building out the R- lb lots that back up to the
existing single family homes to the south. Staff recommended approval of the plat as submitted.
Commissioner Rife expressed his interest that all previous concerns regarding traffic and drainage were
resolved.
Carl-Vargo, 2902 Cortez Court, asked for clarification of why there were so many phases in the
subdivision, because he remembered in the beginning there were only 4 phases. Only phases 1 and 2
were approved but they skipped phases 3 and 4, he wanted to know what happened to them. He stated
that the drainage issues were still a very large concern with the existing subdivision.
Mr. Mice McClure, McClure Engineering, explained that he was the project engineer. He said that the
phasing was initially 1, 2, and 3. When it came time for final platting, it was decided to omit the
commercial area and not include it in Phase 3, but created Phase 4. He understood that the residents
were concerned with the drainage, but he explained that nothing completed up to this point would drain
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