HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-00500122- 00073536STAFF REPORT
Project Manager: Molly Hitchcock Date: July 11, 2002
Email: mhitchcock@ci.college-station.tx.us
Item: Public hearing, discussion, and possible action on a rezoning from R-1
Single Family Residential to C-1 General Commercial for 18.33 acres of the
Morgan Rector League A-46 located east of the future Central Park Lane
extension on Krenek Tap Road. (02-121)
Applicant: Veronica Morgan of Mitchell & Morgan
Staff Recommendations: Staff recommends denial of the rezoning.
Item Summary: The applicant is requesting a rezoning of 18.33 acres on Krenek
Tap to C-1 General Commercial to prepare the land for marketing. Land to the
north of the subject property is currently zoned R-5 Apartment/Medium Density
developed as apartments and undeveloped C-1. Adjacent, undeveloped land to
the west along Krenek Tap is owned by the same person as the subject tract and
is concurrently under consideration for a zoning change (from R-1 to R-5).
Comprehensive Plan Considerations: The Land Use Plan shows the subject
property to be Mixed Use Development. Mixed Use is defined in the
Comprehensive Plan as:
Areas which encourage mixing of compatible land uses such as
retail/commercial, office, parks, multifamily, and attached single-family.
These uses are developed together in a manner that allows interaction
between the uses and that allows each use to support the other uses.
The residential uses provide the patrons for the office and commercial
uses. The layout of these land uses must take into consideration
pedestrian linkages, landscape buffers between the uses, shared site
improvements and vehicular circulation. The success of these mixed use
areas is directly related to the sensitive master planning of the site layout.
C-1 zoning on the subject property would not be in compliance with the Land
Use Plan.
The negative recommendation is not to say that commercial uses are
inappropriate in this location. This is an ideal location as there is good access,
good visibility, and appropriately sized roadways. The property has frontage on
two minor collectors (Krenek Tap and the future Central Park Lane extension)
and a Freeway/Expressway (Earl Rudder Freeway).
Commercial zoning here is a valid concept from a planning perspective, but a
different concept from the also equally valid one reflected in the plan. If the
Commission wishes to deviate from the Future Land Use Plan by rezoning this
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INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES
Water: The subject property has access to a 12" main along SH 6 and
an 8" main across Krenek Tap.
Sewer: Sewer will have to be extended from the 12" main at Krenek
Tap, west of the Lutheran Church.
Streets: SH 6 is a Freeway/ Highway, Central-Park Lane is- a Minor
Collector, Krenek Tap is a Minor Arterial.
Off-site Easements: An easement for sewer' extension may be
necessary.
Drainage: This property will be required to meet 'the City's Drainage
Ordinance.
Flood Plain: None
Oversize request: None known at this time.
Impact Fees: None