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Home My WebLink About00071531E-MAILED fD I/- - DI 2 AAA LEGAL NOTICE DATE TO BE PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2001 ONLY BILL TO: The City of College Station P.O. Box 9960 College Station, TX 77842 REFERENCE ACCOUNT # 11106712 CREDIT CARD # 5478-9900-0018-2752 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station City Council will hold a public hearing to consider a ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT for NORTHGATE DISTRICTS, NG-1, NG-2, and NG-3. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue at the 7:00 p.m. meeting of the Council on Thursday, JANUARY 10, 2002. Any request for sign interpretive services for the hearing impaired must be made 48 hours before the meeting. To make arrangements call (979) 764-3547 or (TDD) 1-800-735-2989. For additional information, please contact me at (979) 764-3570. SABINE KUENZEL SENIOR PLANNER E-MAILED ED LEGAL NOTICE DATE TO BE PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2001 ONLY BILL TO: The City of College Station P.O. Box 9960 College Station, TX 77842 REFERENCE ACCOUNT # 11106712 CREDIT CARD # 5478-9900-0018-2752_ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider a ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT for the NORTHGATE DISTRICTS, NG-1, NG-2, and NG-3. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue at the 8:00 p.m. meeting of the Commission on Thursday, DECEMBER 13, 2001. Any request for sign interpretive services for the hearing impaired must be made 48 hours before the meeting. To make arrangements call (979) 764-3547 or (TDD) 1-800- 735-2989. For additional information, please contact me at (979) 764-3570. SABINE KUENZEL SENIOR PLANNER FILE coat 01-211 E•MAILED LEGAL NOTICE fD /0 " / -0 DATE TO BE PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2001 ONLY BILL TO: The City of College Station P.O. Box 9960 College Station, TX 77842 REFERENCE ACCOUNT # 11106712 CREDIT CARD # 5478-9900-0018-2752 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider an ORDINANCE AMENDMENT for The Northgate Districts, NG-1, NG-2, and NG-3. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue at the 7:00 p.m. meeting of the Commission on Thursday, October 18, 2001. Any request for sign interpretive services for the hearing impaired must be made 48 hours before the meeting. To make arrangements call (979) 764-3547 or (TDD) 1-800-735- 2989. For additional information, please contact me at (979) 764-3570. SABINE KUENZEL Senior Planner FILE COPY ol-Q11 E+4A[LED ID 10-01-of LEGAL NOTICE DATE TO BE PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2001 ONLY BILL TO: The City of College Station P.O. Box 9960 College Station, TX 77842 REFERENCE ACCOUNT # 11106712 CREDIT CARD # 5478-990-0018-2752 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station City Council will hold a public hearing to consider an ORDINANCE AMENDMENT for the Northgate Districts, NG-1, NG-2, and NG-3. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue at the 7:00 p.m. meeting of the Council on Thursday, NOVEMBER 15, 2001. Any request for sign interpretive services for the hearing impaired must be made 48 hours before the meeting. To make arrangements call (979) 764-3547 or (TDD) 1-800-735-2989. For additional information, please contact me at (979) 764-3570. SABINE KUENZEL Senior Planner 0/- c211 LEGAL NOTICE DATE TO BE PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2001 BILL TO: The City of College Station P.O. Box 9960 College Station, TX 77842 REFERENCE ACCOUNT # 11106712 CREDIT CARD # 5478-990-0018-2752 ONLY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station City Council will hold a public hearing to consider an ORDINANCE AMENDMENT for the Northgate Districts, NG-1, NG-2, and NG-3. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue at the 7:00 p.m. meeting of the Council on Thursday, DECEMBER 6, 2001. Any request for sign interpretive services for the hearing impaired must be made 48 hours before the meeting. To make arrangements call (979) 764-3547 or (TDD) 1-800-735-2989. For additional information, please contact me at (979) 764-3570. FILE COPY SABINE KUENZEL Senior Planner -VAP-11-P r !1w; 7.4; '01 LEGAL NOTICE DATE TO BE PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2001 of-ail FILE COPY ONLY BILL TO: The City of College Station P.O. Box 9960 College Station, TX 77842 REFERENCE ACCOUNT # 11106712 CREDIT CARD # 5478-9900-0018-2752 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider an ORDINANCE AMENDMENT for The Northgate Districts, NG-l, NG-2, and NG-3. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue at the 7:00 p.m. meeting of the Commission on Thursday, NOVEMBER 8, 2001. Any request for sign interpretive services for the hearing impaired must be made 48 hours before the meeting. To make arrangements call (979) 764-3547 or (TDD) 1-800-735- 2989. For additional information, please contact me at (979) 764-3570. SABINE KUENZEL Senior Planner LEGAL NOTICE FILE COPY ol-.211 E-MAILED (Ij '/0,22,0/ DATE TO BE PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2001 ONLY BILL TO: The City of College Station P.O. Box 9960 College Station, TX 77842 REFERENCE ACCOUNT # 11106712 CREDIT CARD # 5478-9900-0018-2752 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The College Station Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider an ORDINANCE AMENDMENT for The Northgate Districts, NG-1, NG-2, and NG-3. The hearing will be held in the Council Room of the College Station City Hall, 1101 Texas Avenue at the 6:30 p.m. meeting of the Commission on Thursday, NOVEMBER 8, 2001. Any request for sign interpretive services for the hearing impaired must be made 48 hours before the meeting. To make arrangements call (979) 764-3547 or (TDD) 1-800-735- 2989. For additional information, please contact me at (979) 764-3570. SABINE KUENZEL Senior Planner MEMORANDUM TO: Planning and Zoning FROM: Sabine Kuenzel, Senior Planner DATE: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 RE: Northgate Amendment Attached please find a copy of the latest draft of the Northgate District amendment. The amendment is preceding consideration of the Unified Development Ordinance because Staff anticipates further development in the area before the adoption of the UDO, and because there are immediate needs for changes in the current review process. BACKGROUND In 1995, the Council made a commitment to upgrade the Northgate area, and made it a strategic issue in 1995 to come up with a plan for the area. By early 1996, the plan and its recommendations were adopted, and implementation of the plan became the number 2 ranking strategic issue that year. There are essentially two ways of dealing with older small downtown areas such as Northgate - either enhance the development pattern with infrastructure upgrades and Traditional Neighborhood Development style ordinances to remain urban, or redevelop the entire street and lot layout to become suburban. With the adoption of the plan, the Council chose to enhance the existing development pattern and encourage a small downtown character. The Northgate ordinance provisions that existed at the time barriers to the more urban style that was adopted in the plan. Therefore and ordinance amendment was adopted mid-1996 that would encourage and allow the urban style. The provisions were so flexible, however, that they also allowed development that is more typical of suburban development, which is not compatible with the adopted plan. Since the adoption of the ordinance, the building rehabilitation projects have been in line with the future vision of the area, but new development and redevelopment have not been in the desired style. This result was likely due to the fact that there were no real standards written into the ordinance, and the Northgate Revitalization Board did not feel empowered to impose additional standards. PURPOSE The goal of the attached ordinance is to implement the 1996 adopted plan for Northgate on private property by clarifying the required development style. ORDINANCE SUMMARY The amendment involves the following concepts: 1) Clarifies that site improvements ranging from site development/redevelopment to sign and fence additions would require board review and approval. 2) Changes the review board from the current Northgate Revitalization Board Review Subcommittee (which includes three rotating members of the Commission) to the Project Review Board (which is made up of three rotating members of the Commission). Approval would be final unless appealed to the full Commission. 3) Maintains all of the uses currently allowed in the three subdistricts and add a few more as permitted that had been inadvertently left out before. Commercial uses would be permitted in the NG-3 as a mixed use concept. 4) Requires a maximum setback of 10' and prohibits parking in front and side street yards, thus requiring buildings to be pulled up to the front property line. Buildings may be set back farther only if the additional yard space is devoted to semi-public uses (wider sidewalks, seating areas, cafe's, etc.) Also requires a minimum building height of two stories in all of Northgate and a minimum density of 18 dwelling units per acre. All of these restrictions are intended to promote the character of Northgate as a small downtown area with higher density housing. 5) Does not require any parking in NG-1. Standard parking numbers found elsewhere in the City are required in NG-1 and NG-3 but a parking study may reduce these numbers if approved by the PRC. 6) Requires pedestrian-oriented elements such as street trees, bicycle parking, public sidewalks, access to buildings to be off of public spaces, and civic (semi-public) areas on larger developments. 7) Restricts signage to building signs only, where signs cannot exceed 8 square feet and must be either parallel or perpendicular to the wall. Freestanding signs will be prohibited, as well as all signs that are currently prohibited in other areas of the city. One low profile sign may be used within civic use areas. 8) A building design section begins to regulate building aesthetics by prohibiting certain materials, requiring windows on the ground floor of commercial buildings, and requiring pedestrian-oriented features on facades. The draft also includes a reserved section for future insertion of certain materials that will limit future construction. The recommended section may be presented to the Commission at the November 8 meeting. Susan Hazlett- Re: Fwd: updated zoning ordinance Page 1 From: Susan Hazlett To: Jan Schwartz Date: 1/15/02 2:09PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Jan, I spoke with Natalie about my thoughts on this. She agreed that I would continue updating the Zoning Ordinance on the O drive = O/Group/Development Services/Zoning Ordinances/Zoning Ordinance. I will then provide a master copy for our Customer Services Reps and Tammy, our Secretary, to use in making copies to update the existing Zoning Ordinance Books. You could then retrieve the updates electronically in the files mentioned above, if that is okay with you. Tell me your thoughts. Does this sound like a plan and one that would minimize the paper work and confusion? Let me know. I'm here to help in any way that I can. 1 appreciate you! Jan Schwartz 12127/01 08:31AM Jessica says that I should get with you if we need copies of the Zoning Ordinance in three ring binders. Gayla says the bound copies are being printed and she will let me know when they come in; but I would also like to have a few copies in the three ring binders. Are you the one then who updates the binders or would we be responsible to keep them updated? If we have to do it, how would I know when the updates would be ready to be printed? Is the master copy on the P drive? Let me know when you have a few minutes so that we can come over and discuss this with you. Thanks. Susan Hazlett Phone: (979) 764-3570 FAX: (979) 764-3496 E-mail: shazlett@ci.college-station.tx.us CC: Bridgette George; Natalie Ruiz Susan Hazlett - Fwd: updated zoning ordinance Page 1 From: Jan Schwartz To: Susan Hazlett Date: 12/27/01 8:31 AM Subject: Fwd: updated zoning ordinance Jessica says that I shout get with you if we need copies of the Zoning Ordinance in three ring binders. imi say,S 4 nt re bein to and she will let me know when they co a in; but I would also like to have a few copies in the three ring binders. Are you the one then who pdates he binders or would we be responsible to keep them updated? If we have to do it, how would I k when the updates would be ready to be printed? Is the master copy on the P drive? Let me know en you have a few minutes so that we can come over and discuss this with you. Thanks. A 'Zd '~L' ry ti 0v Att-li Susan Hazlett - updated zoning ordinance T Page 1 From: Jessica Jimmerson To: Jan Schwartz Date: 12/20/01 1:46PM Subject: updated zoning ordinance Jan, When I was speaking with Harvey yesterday, we realized that he does not have the most up to date copy of the zoning ordinance. He asked that I get him updated copies, including ones for Roxanne and Carla. I was not sure whether they have bound copies of the zoning ordinance or if their's are in three ring binders. We'll bring over hard copies of the current zoning ordinance, subdivision regulations, as soon as we get more copies in. And, I'll walk over the PD policy paper right now. If their copies are in three ring binders, please get with Susan Hazlett when you both get back from vacation, and she can let you know where the ordinance is on the system. Then.y'all can print out updates whenever you need to. Please let me know if you have any questions. Jes CC: Gayla Messarra; Harvey Cargill; Natalie Ruiz; Susan Hazlett Susan Hazlett - Re: Northgate Ordinance Page 1 From: Sabine Kuenzel To: Susan Hazlett Date: 3/28/02 2:20PM Subject: Re: Northgate Ordinance ladies - still on hold. it's in kim's court... Susan Hazlett 03/28/02 02:11 PM Sabine, Are you still working on the Northgate Ordinance 01-211. It is the amendment that replaces section 7.24. Vonn was asking this morning if it was still on hold. Please let me know so I can info her on it as well. Thanks. <<>< Play <<>< Make Their Day <<>< Susan Hazlett Phone: (979) 764-3570 FAX: (979) 764-3496 E-mail: shazlett ci.college-station.tx.us Be There Choose Your Attitude CC: Bridgette George; Natalie Ruiz; Vonn Casares