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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/05/1995 - Minutes - Planning & Zoning CommissionMINUTES Planning & Zoning Commission CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS October 5, 1995 7:00 P.M. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Acting Chairman Hall and Commissioners Lightfoot, Gribou, Smith, and Garner. COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Chairman Hawthorne and Commissioner Lane. STAFF PRESENT: City Planner Kee, Assistant City Engineer Morgan, Senior Planner Kuenzel and Planning Technician Thomas. (Council Liaison McIlhaney was in the audience.) AGENDA ITEM NO. 1: The Consent Agenda consists of non-controversial or • "housekeeping" items required by law. Items may be removed from the Consent Agenda by any citizen, City staff member, or Commissioner by making such a request prior to a motion and vote on the Consent Agenda. (1.1) Approval of minutes from the meeting of September 21, 1995. (1.2) Consideration of a final plat of blocks D and E of the Benjamin Graham E.T.J. subdivision. (95-228) Consent agenda items 1.1 and 1.2 were approved unanimously by consent. AGENDA ITEM NO. 2: Public hearing to consider a conditional use permit request to expand the existing Hurricane Harry's night club located at 313 South College in the University Square Center. (95-710) Senior Planner Kuenzel presented the staff report and informed the Commission that since there are no site changes proposed, no site plan is required. Therefore, the use only of the additional square footage to be added to the existing night club is under consideration. The existing night club has been in operation for a number of years and was in existence when the Zoning Ordinance was changed to require conditional use permits. The existing night club was therefore exempted from the use permit requirement. Parking demand is at its peak during the evening and night time hours when most of the surrounding businesses are closed for the day. Parking therefore should not pose a problem in this particular case. Two letters were received in opposition to the request from On-Line Realty concerning parking in the area. According to those letters, there are people parking in the adjacent R-1 zoned area and walking to the club. According to the building department, current occupancy load for the existing night club is approximately 1200 people. The expansion will add a possibility of another 600 to 650 people at maximum occupancy. Commissioner Hall opened the public hearing. Applicant Gary Seaback of 9215 Timberknoll explained to the Commission that the adjacent theater • operated for several years with no parking problems in the center. The night club and the theater both operated in the evening and there was always plenty of parking. With respect to noise, the theater was built to control sound and there have never been complaints from the residents to the rear concerning noise at the night club or previous theater. Commissioner Hall closed the public hearing. Commissioner Garner moved to approve the conditional use permit request to expand the existing Hurricane Harry's night club located at 313 South College in the University Square Center. Commissioner Gribou seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). AGENDA ITEM N0.3: Consideration of a final plat of Shenandoah Phase Three and a revised preliminary plat for Shenandoah Phases Two -Five. (95-235 & 94-314) Assistant City Engineer Morgan presented the staff report and recommended approval of the final plat and revised preliminary plat with the condition that the engineer have the right to relocate a few public utility easements to accommodate the electrical utilities. The subject plat consists of 11.013 acres and is being subdivided into 41 single family lots. The property is currently zoned R-1. A preliminary plat of this property was approved by Council in September of last year. The preliminary plat had shown different phase lines than depicted on this final plat. The applicant desired to change the phase lines to avoid having any temporary dead end streets, where a temporary cul-de-sac may be necessary. A Presubmission Conference was held for this plat on September 20, 1995. At this meeting, staff concurred with the new phase lines and requested that the applicant submit a revised master preliminary plat depicting these new locations. There were a few other comments raised at that meeting. Due to the fact that the preliminary plat was approved before streetscape requirements were adopted, streetscape compliance is not mandatory for this plat. However, staff did request that the developer • voluntarily comply with streetscape. Commissioner Gribou moved to recommend approval of the revised preliminary plat for Shenandoah Phases Two -Five with the staff recommendations. Commissioner Lightfoot seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). Commissioner Gribou moved to recommend approval of the final plat of Shenandoah Phase Three with staff recommendations including a strong recommendation to provide the subdivision screening along Barron Road. Commissioner Lightfoot seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). AGENDA ITEM NO. 4: Consideration to rehear a previously denied temporary overflow parking lot located within a 2.92 acre tract, Block B, Culpepper Plaza Subdivision. (94-434) Senior Planner Kuenzel informed the Commission that in February of this year, the Commission considered a request for a temporary parking lot on the subject property. There were only five Commissioners present and neither Mr. Tate nor Mr. Allen were able to attend the meeting. The Commission voted to deny the temporary parking lot by a vote of 3 to 2. Mr. Tate and Mr. Allen are asking permission from the Commission to rehear the case at a future meeting. They feel that perhaps the Commission did not have all the necessary information. If the Commission is amenable to this, staff will schedule this item for a future agenda. Senior Planner Kuenzel informed the Commission that parking has occurred on the subject property for a number of years. Approximately one and one-half years ago, gravel was put down and lights were to be installed for the temporary parking area. At that time, the City became aware of the situation and began code enforcement. Recently a letter of code • enforcement was sent to the property owner since the gravel lot has not been removed to date and as a result, staff has had more discussions with the applicant. P & Z Minutes October S, 1995 Page 2 of 4 Applicant Larry Allen of 1700 George Bush Drive approached the Commission and requested that the case be reconsidered for the following reasons: • (1) The engineer for the project should have postponed the case when he saw that the owner of the property was not present at the last Commission meeting. The engineer did not have any negotiating power and did not know the entire history of the lot. (2) When the Kensington Place apartments were purchased, the subject lot was being used for overflow parking for the apartments. Mr. Allen requested that the Commission allow him the opportunity to provide them with the complete history of the subject lot and the future development plans. Mr. Allen explained that the gravel was installed two years ago. He stated that the problem with installing a permanent lot is not knowing the future use of the entire 2.6 acres. Commissioner Lightfoot stated that he seconded the original motion to deny the request primarily because he had some questions concerning the usage of the parking lot and the design of the overall site that the engineer could not answer. He explained that he did not want to close the door on someone if they have a solid plan to address an existing problem. Commissioner Lightfoot moved to allow the reconsideration of the temporary parking lot to allow the Commission to explore this issue further and get a better idea of the future development plans for the subject property. Commissioner Garner seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). AGENDA ITEM NO. 5: Other business. • Several Commissioners expressed concern of a memorandum from the legal department concerning discussions during the other business session of the meeting. The Commission requested that the legal department attend a future meeting to discuss this matter and provide additional information. AGENDA ITEM NO. 6: Adjourn. Commissioner Lightfoot moved to adjourn the meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission. Commissioner Gribou seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). 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