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Planning and Zoning Commission
CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
January 4, 2001
7:00 P.M.
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Commissioners Mooney, Floyd, Harris, Warren, Horlen,
Happ, and Williams.
COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None.
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Massey, Maloney, and Silva.
STAFF PRESENT: Action Center Coordinator Tucker, Parks Dept.
Director/EM Coordinator Beachy, Staff Planners
Jimmerson, Reeves, Hill, and Hitchcock, Assistant City
Engineer Mayo, Graduate Engineer Thompson, Assistant
City Attorney Nemcik, Director of Development Services
Callaway, Neighborhood Senior Planner Battle, City
Planner Kee, Senior Planner Kuenzel, Development
Review Manager Ruiz and Assistant Development
Review Manager George, and Staff Assistant Hazlett.
Chairman Mooney called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 1: Hear visitors
Chairman Mooney encouraged those attending the meeting that would like to comment on the Protocol
Issues on last month's agenda to do so at this time.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 2: Consent Agenda
The following items were approved by common consent.
2.1 Approved the Minutes from the Regular Meeting held on December 7, 2000.
2.2 Approved a Preliminary Plat for Vetere is Park and Athletic Complex located at 3101
Harvey Road. (00-07)
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2.3 Approved a Preliminary Plat for Westfield Addition Phase II consisting of
approximately 5.3 acres and located in the 700 block of Graham Road, west of
Westfield Phase 1. (00-37)
2.4 Approved a Final Plat for the Castlegate Subdivision section 2 Phase 1 consisting of
15.71 acres and located north of Greens Prairie Road and west of Proposed State
Highway 40. (00-216)
2.5 Approved a Final Plat (Replat) for Steeplechase Phase 3, Lots 4, 5, and 6 consisting of
0.6636 acres. (00-222)
2.6 Approved a Final Plat for Steeplechase Phase 7 Subdivision consisting of 3.698 acres
and located approximately 200 feet east of Welborn Road, north of Navarro Drive and
just west of Steeplechase Phase 3 Subdivision.
2.7 Approved a Master Preliminary Plat for Estates of Royder Ridge consisting of 37 lots
on approximately 45.55 acres and located at the intersection of Royder Road and
Greens Prairie Trail in the City's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction. (00-226)
REGULAR AGENDA
AGENDA ITEM NO. 3: Consider request(s) for absence from meetings.
None.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 4: Public hearing, discussion, and possible action on a rezoning request
consisting of 11.5 acres out of the Horse Haven Estates Subdivision, from A-O Agricultural-
Open and R-1 Single Family Residential to PDD-B Planned Development District-Business,
located on the northbound frontage road of Earl Rudder Freeway between Raintree Drive and
Harvey Road. (00-225)
Staff Planner Jimmerson presented the staff report, explaining that the applicant is requesting this
rezoning to allow for a large retail center on the site. The Land Use Plan shows this area to be Mixed
Use as does the recently adopted East Bypass Plan (EBP). The EBP also sets forth 4 Objectives and 15
suggested Actions regarding how land use questions should be addressed by our ordinances. A
majority of the proposed action items are ones that are being reviewed by the consultants through the
City's current ordinance revision process. Therefore, to date, the City has actually implemented none
of the action items. Nevertheless, staff used the East Bypass Plan as a tool in evaluating the proposed
PDD rezoning request.
Ms. Jimmerson stated that the applicant began discussions with the City about this project prior to the
kickoff of the East Bypass Study. However, the applicant attempted to incorporate some of the
suggestions of the Study into the concept plan by meeti g with the area residents with the East Bypass
Planning Team. The result is a project that melt some, but not all, of the East Bypass Plan
Objectives.
The proposed rezoning has two major areas where it differs from the suggestions in the EBP. First, the
EBP would like to discourage large scale / big box commercial developments such as Academy.
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