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HomeMy WebLinkAbout12/21/1978 - Minutes - Planning & Zoning CommissionMINUTES Planning and Zoning Commission. Meeting December 21, 1978 7:00 P.M. Members Present: Chairman Stover; Commissioners Sweeney, Burke, Etter, Jones Council Liaison Hazen; City Planner Mayo, City Engineer Ash Community Development Planner Callaway, Planning Assistant Longley. Members Absent: Commissioners Watson, Mathewson. Agenda Item No. 1 - Approval of minutes - meetings of November 16, and December 7, 197. Commissioner Etter moved that the minutes be approved as presented. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Jones and unanimously approved. Agenda Item No. 2 - Hear visitors. No one spoke. Agenda Item No. 3 - A public heardn on the question of rezonin Lot 166 of the Lakeview Acres Addition from Singie.Family Residential District R-1 to Aministrat- iye/Professional District A-P. The application is in the name of Dr. Everett F. Treadway. City Planner Mayo pointed out t"he location of the request and showed the existing zoning and surrounding land uses. The public hearing was opened. Mr. Fred Bouse, owner of the property, spoke i'n favor of the request. Mr, Mayo stated that, since the use of the property for an orthodontist's office could not be assured, it wou}d be better i'f a Conditional Use Permit were granted for the specific use rather than a rezoning.. Mr. George Callaway, representing Dr. Treadway, stated that the City had told hi,m that the property would have to be rezoned. He also stated that he did not think Dr. Treadway would object to the Use Permit. Mr. I.L. Krenek, adjoining owner, stated that he was in favor of the request. The public hearing was closed. Commissioner Jones stated that A-P zoning was more appropr%ate for the property than R-1. Chairman Stover stated that he was i'n favor of granting a Use Permit with an acceptable site plan. Commissioner Sweeney stated that his main concern was with acceptable access to the site. He noted that it would be difficult to work out a safe system for access and egress. Commissioner Etter stated that he was also i'n favor of the Use Permit process. Mr. Mayo stated that he felt that the hearing which had been held for the i~ MINUTES Planning and Zoning Commission December 21, 1978 7:00 P.M. Page 2 rezoning would suffice for the hearing on the Use Permit, but that he would con- firm this with the City Attorney. Commissioner Etter moved that the item be tabled and that the applicant persue the Conditional Use Permit proceedure. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Jones. Commissioner Sweeney stated that he was going to vote far the motion but that the access problem would have to be resolved befor he would vote for the grant- ing of the Use Permit. The motion to table was unanimously approved. Agenda Item No. 4 - Consideration of a final plat - Southwood Valley Section 12 located at the southwest corner of the i'nters~ction of Deacon and Brothers Blvd. Mr. Mayo explained that the large part of the plat was now owned by the City for use as a park and that the smaller tract would have a single family residence bu i l t on i't. Mrs. Hazen asked if the access to the park was adequate. Mr, Ash stated that the 43 feet provided was more than adequate. Mr. W.D. Fitch explained that the street shown on the plat as well as all of the utilities installations had been completed on the property. Commisioner Jones moved that the plat 6e approved. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Sweeney and unanimously approved. Agenda Ltem No. 5 ~ Reconsideration of a preliminary plat ~ Dexter Place. Chairman Stover explained that he had misunderstood the vote on the plat at the previous meeting and that the motion to approve the plat had actually failed. He pointed out that the City Council had tabled the plat but had indicated that they would prefer that the plat be approved without the extension of Haines Drive to Dexter. Mr. W.D. Fitch presented a map which indicated how the extension of Haines would encourage increased traffic through the subdivision by providing a "short cut" to the elementary school. He suggested that the extension of Haines would tend to defeat the concept of treeing cross-town traffic to the main aterial streets. Mr. Ash pointed out that traffic would. use Haines as an access to the school whether Haines was extended or not. He suggested that the extension of Haines to Dexter could provide a solution to the problem of the intersection of Holleman and Winding Road. The Commission asked Mr. Fitch if he could change the names of Tangent Street and Tangent Court in order to avoid any confussion. Mr. Fitch stated that he would change the street names, MINUTES Planning and Zoning Commission December 2], 1978 7:00 P ;~I, Page 3 Commissioner Jones moved that the plat be approved with the provision that the names of Tangent Street and Tangent Court be changed. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Etter and approved with Commissioner Burke voting against. Agenda Item No. 6 - Report of Subcommittee on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction development policy. Commissioners Jones and Etter updated the Commission on the feelings of County Commissioner Cooley concerning the developmental policies of the City and the County. They. advised that Mr. Cooley had stated. that he was in favor of requiring all sales of land in the county to be done by an approved plat rather than by metes and bounds. ft was also pointed out that the County Commissioners were also in favor of requiring a mini-mum lot size of 2 acres in the E.T.J. Com- missioner Jones also pointed out that Mr. Cooley had indicated that he did not support the development known as Rolling Ridge as the developer, Edsel Jones, had indicated. It was determined that a joint meeting needed to be held between the College Station Planning Commission, the Bryan Planning Commission and the Coutny Commissioners Court. Agenda Item No. 7 - Other business. '', ~ There was no other Business, Agenda Item No, 8 - Adjourn. Commissioner Burke moved that the meeting be adjourned.. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Etter and unanimously approved. The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 P.M. •