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Home My WebLink AboutMay PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT SERVICES NEWSLETTER Building a Better Community with You P OPULATION : T HE M AY POPULATION ESTIMATE IS 102,646 PLANNER ON CALL 1 BUILDING PERMIT TOTALS 2 TRACKING THE NUMBERS 2 BUILDING PERMIT CHARTS 3 BUILDING INSPECTIONS 4 RESIDENTIAL PERMIT TOTAL 4 Inside this issue: PO Box 9960 1101 Texas Avenue College Station, TX 77842 979-764-3570 Fax: 979-764-3496 www.cstx.gov MAY 2015 PLANNER ON CALL FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS The Planner on Call system helps over 1,800 people a year that call, email, or come into the P&DS office with questions related to planning and development. This section high- lights some of the more common questions. If you have questions for the Planner on Call, please contact us at 979.764.3858 or POC@cstx.gov. Q: I have what looks like to be an abandoned alley way that runs beside my property and myself and my neighbor’s property. How do I find out if I own this property, or if the City of College Station maintains it as public right-of-way/easement? What is the process I go through if I want to try to acquire this property? A: To determine if these alleys are privately owned, check the original plat, or you title. If this property is included in your title in the legal description of the metes and bounds, then it is your property. If this property was deemed as an easement, which you will be able to see on the plat, then it is still maintained by the city for the use of the pub- lic. Feel free to call the P&DS office to double check this. We can also look and see if there are currently any utilities within the right-of-way easement. If it is property that the city maintains for the public, and you would like to request that it be abandoned, you will need to submit an Abandonment of Public Right-Of- Way/ Easement Application. This application will need to include: 1. A sealed metes and bounds description of the area sought to be abandoned, prepared by a Registered Public Surveyor. 2. A copy of a plat or detailed sketch of that portion of the public right-of-way/ easement sought to be abandoned and the surrounding area to the nearest streets in all directions, showing the abutting lots and block, and the subdivi- sion in which the above described right-of- way/easement is situated, togeth- er with the record owners of such lots. 3. The consent of all public utilities to the abandonment. 4. The consent of the City of College Station staff to the abandonment. 5. The consent of all the abutting property owner. The application also has a few questions that need to be answered. After the application is complete, it can be submitted. The application will be reviewed by City Council, who has the final authority on abandonments. An Abandonment of Public Right-Of-Way/ Easement Application can be obtained on and submitted through eTrakit at , https://etrakit.cstx.gov/etrakit3/, or at the P&DS of- fice. For additional information regarding accessory structures or other standards, please contact the Planner-on-Call. BUILDING PERMIT TOTALS: Month of May 2015 Month of May 2014 Type of Permit Permit Unit Total Sq. Ft.Heat Sq. Ft.Amount Permit Unit Amount ACCESSORY 5 0 1,250 0 $58,450.00 0 ADDITION 7 1 23,664 5110 $1,123,875.00 5 5 $254,900.00 COMMERCIAL NEW 8 88 111,578 39747 $13,007,748.00 12 $28,048,856.00 DEMOLITION 5 0 0 0 $0.00 2 1 $9,500.00 MULTI-FAMILY 0 10 300 $33,034,000.00 OTHER STRUCTURES 1 0 0 0 $7,500.00 0 POOL 7 0 0 0 $250,000.00 13 $538,130.00 REMODEL / RENOVATION 19 2 29,184 17878 $414,257.26 21 $868,732.00 REROOF 6 0 0 0 $33,900.00 3 $10,700.00 RESIDENTIAL 79 84 242,108 184827 $16,328,360.24 62 63 $11,983,469.00 SIGN 14 0 0 0 $0.00 20 $0.00 SLAB ONLY 1 0 0 0 $100,000.00 1 $20,000.00 TOTALS 152 175 407,784 247,562 $31,324,090.50 149 369 $74,768,287.00 January 01, 2015 - May 31, 2015 January 01, 2014 - May 31, 2014 Type of Permit Permit Unit Total Sq. Ft.Heat Sq. Ft.Amount Permit Unit Amount ACCESSORY 9 0 1,958 0 $95,950.00 9 $176,550.00 ADDITION 32 4 222,654 182,769 $4,660,090.00 30 5 $1,258,832.00 COMMERCIAL NEW 29 88 257,194 129,891 $32,542,025.00 37 88 $40,212,167.00 DEMOLITION 41 15 37,628 0 $277,700.00 23 17 $147,700.00 MULTI-FAMILY 12 161 272,131 147,540 $18,311,026.00 53 703 $56,084,421.00 OTHER STRUCTURES 2 0 0 0 $10,000.00 0 POOL 31 0 5,381 0 $1,751,325.00 31 $1,446,972.00 REMODEL / RENOVATION 70 8 371,679 232,969 $6,912,981.26 93 15 $8,751,900.00 REROOF 27 0 0 0 $201,980.00 20 $696,317.00 RESIDENTIAL 454 462 1,273,760 969,554 $82,602,294.24 376 383 $61,942,565.00 SIGN 69 0 4,574 0 $80.00 92 $0.00 SLAB ONLY 59 0 146,352 0 $816,318.00 9 $2,578,664.00 TOTALS 835 738 2,593,311 1,662,723 $148,181,769.50 773 1,211 $173,296,088.00 Tracking the Numbers New Single-Family Homes:New Commerical:Total Permits: YTD - 1 yr YTD - 2 yr 15% 33% YTD - 1 yr YTD - 2 yr - 22% 17% YTD - 1 yr YTD - 2 yr 7% 18% Year-to-date, single-family home permits experienced an increase in quantity when compared to last year at this time, May 2014, and increased when compared with two years ago, May 2013. Year-to-date, new commercial permits experienced a decrease in quantity when compared to last year at this time, May 2014, and increased when compared with two years ago, May 2013. Year-to-date, total permits experienced an increase in quantity when compared to last year at this time, May 2014, and increased when compared with two years ago, May 2013. Page 2/May 2015/www.cstx.gov PERMITS BY TYPE YEAR TO DATE Type of Permit Permit Unit Amount COMMERCIAL NEW 29 88 $32,542,025.00 MULTI-FAMILY 12 161 $18,311,026.00 REMODEL / RENOVATION 29 4 $6,119,152.26 RESIDENTIAL 314 326 $64,765,862.24 Page 3/May 2015/www.cstx.gov BUILDING INSPECTIONS: MONTH BUILDING PLUMBING ELECTRIC MECHANICAL LAWN SIGN POOL TOTAL JANUARY 371 261 163 126 35 2 8 966 February 477 293 240 191 5 4 8 1,223 MARCH 593 403 231 170 7 0 8 1,412 APRIL 495 302 272 238 33 20 14 1,374 MAY 525 350 285 253 44 1 10 1,468 TOTAL 2,461 1,609 1,191 978 162 27 42 6,470 With the new TRAKiT software our residential permit types have been combined, the table be- low provides additional details to show the Res- idential Subtypes. Residential Permit No. of Permits Issued Valuation Single-Family (Detached) 55 $12,261,488 Townhomes 22 $2,988,396 Duplex 2 $527,376