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Mr. Hugh W. Lindsay
412 Tarrow
College Station, Texas 77840
RE: Amending Plat of Lots 19, 20 and 21, Block 6, College Hills Estates
(Your Letter to Ms. Anne Hazen dated 27 December 2003)
Dear Mr. Lindsay:
I am responding to your letter on behalf of Tom Brymer, City Manager. Ms. Hazen
forwarded a copy of your letter to him. He asked that I provide you with any information
we had on the matter.
Contrary to what you state you were told in your letter, staff was never informed of any
plan for a single residence on the property in question. Mr. Shelby Lee and Mr. Glenn
Hudson attended a meeting with members of my staff on 9 December 2002 and proposed
the resubdivsion of five lots (lots 19-23) into six single-family lots. The enclosed drawings,
supplied by the applicants, illustrate their desire to create six buildable lots by abandoning a
portion of the existing alley and demolishing the existing house at the corner of Harrington
and Francis.
The abandonment of the existing 12' alley that runs between lots 21 and 22 and lot 23 was
required in order to meet the minimum lot area requirement. Staff informed the applicants
of the subdivision requirements and that a variance to Section 18, Platting in Older
Neighborhoods, would be required to add a 6th lot. Staff also told them that they could not
support the abandonment of the alley.
Instead of requesting the abandonment and variance the gentlemen decided to submit an
amending plat of lots 19-21 to adjust the interior lot lines - not add more lots. (The original
lot lines were not perpendicular to the street and resulted in an odd-shaped building areas.)
The amending plat shifted these lot lines to make them more rectangular. This plat met all
applicable regulations and was filed on 11 February 2003.
With respect to a "variance" in relation to a utility easement, staff does not know of any
such request. There is a public utility easement that runs through the property; however, it
remained in tact with the amending plat. This easement contains a sanitary sewer line that
services all of that block and an overhead electrical line and therefore cannot be abandoned
or moved.
Please contact me if I can clarify anything contained herein.
' cerely,
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Kelly E . in, AICP
Director of Development Services
Enclosures
cc: Tom Brymer, City Manager, Glenn Brown, Assistant City Manager
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