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Home My WebLink About10/07/1996 - Minutes - Planning & Zoning Commission Mayor LYNN MCILHANEY Mayor Pro Tempore HUB KENNADY City Manager GEORGE K. NOE ~~ COLLEGE STATION Council Members BILL FOX LARRY MARIOTT DAVID HICKSON DICK BIRDWELL BRAD MARTIN JOINT CITY COUNCII.. AND P&Z MEETING MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1996 7:00 P.M. CONFERENCE CENTER C • Commissioners Present: Chairman Hawthorne and Commissioners Garner, Smith, Parker, Massey and Lightfoot. Commissioners Absent: Commissioner Gribou. Council Present; Mayor McIlhaney and Councilmen Mariott, Fox, Hickson, Martin and Kennady. Staff Present: Acting Director of Development Services Callaway, City Planner Kee, Assistant City Engineer Morgan, Planning Technician Thomas, Transportation Planner Hard, Assistant City Manager Brymer, City Secretary Hooks, Graduate Civil Engineer Homeyer, Parks and Recreation Director Beachy, Assistant City Attorney Shively, Staff Planner Dunn, Energy Auditor Roman, Senior Planner Kee and David Gerling. Council Absent: Councilman Birdwell Mayor McIlhaney called the joint meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council to order and introduced City Planner Kee. Agenda Item No 1 -- Public hearing and consider adoption of Comprehensive Plan. City Planner Kee informed the audience that the purpose of tonight's hearing is for the Commission and Council to receive comment from the public regarding the work being done on the City's new Comprehensive Plan. The Commission will make a recommendation to the City Council and the Council will ultimately consider a resolution to adopt the new Plan. The City Council determined in 1994 that the City had outgrown its current Comprehensive Plan which was adopted in 1980. Staff was directed to begin the search for a consulting firm to handle the project. The first year was largely spent in data gathering and the last year has been spent in public involvement and community meetings and in development of the draft document. This draft was presented in a public Providing Customer Service Excellence • Special Meeting Monday, October 7, 1996 Page 2 hearing before the Commission on September 11, 1996 as well. City Planner Kee introduced the representatives from the consulting firms. Donal Simpson, Senior Vice President and Director of the HOK Planning Group and Project Director for the overall project, presented a brief general overview of the plan. Rod Kelly, Traffic Engineer for Barton Aschman and the Transportation Task Leader for the thoroughfare element of the plan, presented various elements of the preliminary thoroughfare plan including the proposed street classifications. Alan Woelke, Civil Engineer for Camp, Dresser and McKee, presented the utility element of the plan including the water and wastewater distribution systems. Mayor McIlhaney opened the public hearing. The following persons spoke during the public hearing: Thomas Madison Burt Hermann • Sherry Ellison Robert W. Toler Willie Allen Kathleen S. Naylor Mike Luther Dock Burke Helen Pugh Bill Stewart Scott Shafer Stella Wilkes Dennis Maloney David & Lynn White Mary Lind Bryan Bill Dahlstrom Mary Ann Oprisko Al Shafer John Szabuniewicz Edsel Jones Claire Knox Norma Miller P. O. Box 150365, Austin 2401 East Bypass 2705 Brookway, Windwood HOA 3735 F & B Road 8706 Driftwood 101 Fidelity 614 Welsh Avenue 502 West Dexter 601 Fairview 708 Hereford 117 Pershing 9552 River Road 803 Welsh Avenue 5605 Polo Road 1813 Shadowood Drive Rep. of property at Sebesta & Bypass 2475 Barron Road 10055 Runaway Road 1004 Shady Drive 3008 Durango 500 Francis 504 Guernsey The following comments were made concerning the Plan: • 1 • Special Meeting Page 3 Monday, October 7, 1996 (1) There were several errors found on the proposed land use plan including the property ownership and land uses along F.M. 2818. There are several tracts shown as regional retail that belong to the University such as the Freeman Arena and the Calvary Farm. (2) The thoroughfare plan does not match the land use plan in several areas including the Oak Hills area along F.M. 60 and Lick Creek Park. (3) Many residents thanked the Commission, Council, staff and consultants for putting together a plan that maps out the future of College Station and maintains the current quality of life. Several residents in the historical South Side of the city thanked everyone for the change to medium density residential in the area and the emphasis on preserving the historical nature of the area. The residents were also pleased with the extension of a bike lane only along Welsh to George Bush Drive. (4) The President of the Windwood Homeowner's Association, Sherry Ellison, presented two petitions from the Windwood Subdivision. • -- The first petition was to not connect Appomattox to the East Frontage Road of Highway 6 and that Appomattox continue to be the only entrance to and from the Windwood Neighborhood. This petition contained 115 signatures and represented 75 of the 140 households. -- The second petition was to keep the A-O and R-1 zoning designations for the property located to the east and south of Windwood (volume 141, page 311). The Association presented a proactive solution to the permanent use of the property as a nature conservancy and arboretum for the preservation of native species with recreational trails and the added benefit of flood control. (5) Burt Hermann agreed with the Windwood HOA to not connect Appomattox to the Frontage Road. However, the 12 acres where the driving range is located should be allowed to develop as a shopping center instead of a nature conservancy. (6) The heavy industrial uses along Graham Road are in conflict with the growing residential neighborhood to the north. The R&D zoning district proposed has not been defined to allow the property owners to know what other commercial uses will be allowed within that district. The R&D district should be expanded to allow a large variety of uses and not • be as restrictive as the existing M-2 district. The Graham Road area • Special Meeting Monday, October 7, 1996 Page 4 could also be changed to a neighborhood retail or commercial to allow land uses that would better serve the adjacent neighborhood. (7) The general goals and objectives of the plan were supported by many people in the audience; however, several residents felt that they were not adequately addressed throughout the plan including how some of these goals will be implemented. The Parks and Open Space plan is great in concept to not develop within the floodplains; however, the nature preservation and bike and pedestrian trails need to be addressed. (8) The Plan encourages vehicular traffic and does not do enough to encourage pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Encouraging more pedestrian and bicycle traffic will alleviate traffic congestion in various areas especially during peak times. (9) A suggestion was made to provide more commercial uses along F.M. 60 including student housing closer to the campus instead of designating the entire area as industrial. • (10) Victoria should be shown as a minor arterial and not a major collector so that it has the same classification as Graham Road. The sanitary sewer impact area could also be extended to serve a greater area and reduce the impact fee. (11) The current development policy to require the developer to build public streets is unfair for many smaller developments in town. The oversize participation policy should be examined to pay for a larger portion of the street costs since they serve the public as a whole and not just a single development. (12) Concern was expressed by several residents with respect to the future plans of Wellborn Road and the existing railroad tracks. (13) The location of the west bypass that runs parallel to Wellborn Road should be consolidated as part of Wellborn Road so that parallel roadways are not constructed including twice as many overpasses, etc. Mayor McIlhaney closed the public hearing. Commissioner Lightfoot moved to recommend approval of the city's Comprehensive Plan as submitted for further review and approval by the City Council. Commissioner Smith • seconded the motion. • Special Meeting Page 5 Monday, October 7, 1996 Commissioner Parker moved to amend the motion to include the corrections to the Plan that were identified during the public hearing including the property ownership along F.M. 2818 and the land use plan matching the thoroughfare plan as discussed previously. Commissioner Massey seconded the amendment which passed unopposed (6 - 0). The motion to recommend approval as amended passed unopposed (6 - 0). Councilman Fox made a motion to place the comprehensive plan on the workshop agenda of November 20th for further discussion and on the regular agenda for consideration. Councilman Mariott seconded and the vote carried unanimously, 5-0, Councilmembers Birdwell and Kennady absent. • This concluded the joint meeting. Planning Commissioners left the room. City Council continued to proceed with the meeting agenda. Agenda Item No 2 -Consideration of first readinE of an ordinance to establish a new franchise/right of way agreement with GTE Southwest Incorporated. Assistant City Manager Brymer briefly summarized the item. Councilman Hickson made a motion to approve the first reading of the ordinance setting the access line fee at $1.00 per month for residents and $2.00 per month for businesses. The motion was seconded by Councilman Fox which carried unanimously, 5-0, Councilmembers Birdwell and Kennady absent. Agenda Item No. 3 -- Adjourn. Mayor McIlhaney adjourned the meeting at 9:55 p.m. PASSED AND APPROVED this 20th day of November, 1996. • AP RO i C airman Kyle Hawthorne ATT T: Planning Technician Natalie Thomas APPROVED: Mao Lynn McIlhaney TEST: ~ ,~ n ~~ 1 City Secretary Connie Hooks I