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Planning and Zoning Commission
CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
September 5, 2002
7:00 P.M.
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Commissioners Floyd, Williams, White, Shafer,
Hall, and Trapani.
COMMISSIONERS ABSENT:
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT:
STAFF PRESENT:
AGENDA ITEM NO. 1:
No one spoke.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 2:
No one spoke.
Hear Visitors
Commissioner McMath.
Council Member Mears.
Assistant City Manager Brown, Staff Planners
Reeves, Flanery, Fletcher, and Hitchcock, Assistant
City Attorney Robinson, Director of Development
Services Templin, City Planner Kee, Senior Planner
Battle, Development Manager Ruiz, Assistant
Development Manager George, Traffic Engineer
Picah, Transportation Planner Fogle, Assistant City
Engineer McCully, Graduate Civil Engineers
Thompson and Cotter, Action Center
Representatives Steptoe and Kelly, and Staff
Assistant Hazlett.
Public Comment for the Record.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 3: Consent Agenda
3.1 Approved the minutes from the July 1, 2002 Workshop Meeting.
3.2 Approved the minutes from the July 1, 2002 Regular Meeting.
3.3 Approved the minutes from the July 18, 2002 Workshop Meeting.
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3.4. Approved the minutes from the July 18, 2002 Regular Meeting.
3.5 Approved the minutes from the August 6, 2002 Regular Meeting.
3.6 Approved the minutes from the August 15, 2002 Workshop Meeting.
3.7 Approved the minutes from the August 15, 2002 Regular Meeting
3.8 Moved to the Regular Agenda the Preliminary Plat for the Rock Prairie West Business
Park, consisting of 19 lots on 62.85 acres located in the City's Extraterritorial
Jurisdiction. (02-156)
3.9 Approved the Vacating and Final Plat for the W.C. Boyette Estate Subdivision consisting
of 1 lot on 3.21 acres located at 301 Church Avenue. (02-167)
3.10 Moved to the Regular Agenda the Preliminary Plat for the Barker Subdivision, consisting
of 1 C-3, Planned Commercial, lot on 2.45 acres located at State Highway 6 South. (02-
170)
Regular Agenda
AGENDA ITEM NO. 4: Consider request(s) for absence from meetings.
Commissioner McMath was absent. Because his absence request was submitted after the packet
preparation for this meeting, approval will then be considered at the Planning and Zoning
Commission meeting scheduled for September 19, 2002.
AGENDA ITEM NO. S: Consideration, discussion, and possible action on items
removed from the Consent Agenda by Commission action.
3.8 Consideration and possible action on a Preliminary Plat for the Rock Prairie West
Business Park, consisting of 19 lots on 62.85 acres located in the City's
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction. (02-156)
Graduate Civil Engineer Thompson presented the Staff Report. He explained that the
subject property is located in Area 2 of the City's 2002 Annexation plan and that the
business park is being developed for proposed commercial use. However, Mr. Thompson
pointed out that there is no land use application in the county.
In response to the Commission's concern regarding access, Mr. Thompson stated that the
County Commissioners agreed that the access easements that have been proposed would
be plausible on this site since the spacing will be at approximately 400 feet between
every other property. The driveway ordinance does not apply in the ETJ, but using it as a
guideline, the ordinance allows driveways on minor arterials at every 300 feet.
Therefore, the proposed spacing of 400 feet would exceed the spacing requirements in the
driveway ordinance.
Development Services Director Templin reiterated the statements Mr. Thompson gave
regarding the driveway ordinance and its application in the ETJ as well as the fact that the
proposed spacing indeed exceeds our requirements. He added that since the subject
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