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Project Manager: Jennifer Reeves Date: 09 -30 -03
Email: jreeves @cstx.gov
Item: A Rezoning for Higgins Suzuki /Mitsubishi consisting of a 10 acre tract
located on State Highway 6 South bound Frontage Road just adjacent (north) to
Home Depot.
Applicant: Mace Higgins
Staff Recommendations: Staff is recommending denial of the rezoning request
from R -1 Single Family to C -1 General Commercial.
Item Summary: The subject property has approximately 727 feet of frontage
along the south bound access road of State Highway 6 and is currently
undeveloped. The property is bound by the City of Bryan to the north. To the
west is C -1 developed as the Home Depot detention facility and to the south is
C -1 developed as Home Depot and the future Red Lobster site location.
Comprehensive Plan Considerations: The Comprehensive Plan shows the
subject property as Floodplain /Streams and is shown on the FEMA Maps within
the 100 -year floodplain. Floodplain /Streams is shown on this entire tract, so staff
recommends the FEMA floodway /floodplain not be rezoned.
Item Background: The subject property was annexed into the City of College
Station city limits in 1971 and is currently not platted. All property annexed in this
time period was brought in as R -1 Single Family.
Commission Action Options: The Commission acts as a recommending body
on the question of rezoning, which will be ultimately decided by City Council.
The Commission options are:
1. Recommend approval of rezoning as submitted;
2. Recommend a less intense zoning classification;
3. Recommend denial;
4. Table indefinitely; or,
5. Defer action to a specified date.
Supporting Materials:
1. Location Map
2. Application
3. Infrastructure and Facilities
4. Zoning summary
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INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES
Water: A 6" water line was extended to the subject property by the
Home Depot project.
Sewer: A sewer main exists along the property boundary.
Streets: Earl Rudder Freeway is classified as a freeway/ expressway.
Off -site Easements: It does not appear that any are needed at this
time. Access from Home Depot is an option.
Drainage: Drainage is to Burton Creek.
Flood Plain: The entire site is in the 100 -yr floodplain.
Oversize request: None
Impact Fees: None
NOTIFICATION:
Legal Notice Publication(s): The Eagle; 09 -30 -03 and 10 -28 -03
Advertised Commission Hearing Dates(s): 10 -16 -03
Advertised Council Hearing Dates: 11 -13 -03
Number of Notices Mailed to Property Owners Within 200': 3
Response Received: None as of date of staff report
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