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Regular Meeting
Planning .and Zoning Commission
Thursday, April 19, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.
Council Chambers
College Station City Hall
1101 Texas Avenue
College Station, Texas
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chairman John Nichols, Marsha Sanford, Glenn
Schroeder, Dennis Christiansen and Harold Strong.
COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: .Bill Davis and Derek Dictson.
CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Chris Scotti.
CITY STAFF PRESENT: Staff Planners Lindsay Boyer, Jason Schubert and Jennifer
Reeves, Transportation Planner Ken Fogle, Senior Assistant City Engineer Alan Gibbs,
Graduate. Civil' Engineers Carol Cotter and Josh Norton, Deputy City Manager Terry
Childers, Acting Director Lance Simms, Planning Administrator Molly Hitchcock, First
Assistant City Attorney Carla Robinson, Information Services Representative Dan
Merkel and Staff Assistants Lisa Lindgren and Brittany Korthauer.
1. Call meeting to order.
Chairman Nichols called the meeting to order at 7:04 p.m.
2. Hear Citizens.
No one spoke during the item.
3. Consent Agenda.
3.1 Presentation, possible action, and discussion on a Final Plat for Williams
Creek Phase 7 consisting of 16 residential lots on 25.7 acres located at
9500 Rock Prairie Road. Case #06-00500214 (JR)
3.2 Presentation, possible action, and discussion on a Final Plat for Belmont
Place Sec. 3 consisting of 3 lots on 5.1614. acres located in the general
vicinity of the southwest corner of Longmire Drive and Birmingham
Drive. Case #07-00500046 (JS)
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3.3 Consideration; discussion, and possible action to approve meeting
minutes.
• Apri15, 2007 .Workshop Meeting Minutes ~ DRAFT
• April 5, 2007 ~ Regular Meeting Minutes ~ DRAFT
3.4 Consideration; discussion and possible action on a request for absence
from meetings.
• Marsha Sanford ~ April 5, 2007 ,., Workshop & Regular Meeting
Commissioner Christiansen motioned to approve the Consent Agenda as
submitted. Commissioner Schroeder seconded the motion, motion passed (5-
0).
Regular Agenda
4. Consideration, discussion, and possible action on items removed from the
Consent Agenda by Commission action.
No items were removed from the Consent Agenda.
5. Public hearing, presentation, possible action, and discussion on a Rezoning from
A-O, Agricultural Open to R-l, Single Family Residential for a portion of the
Needham Estates Subdivision consisting of 11 lots on 3.331 acres located at
14125 Renee Lane. Case #07-00500060 (LB)
Lindsay .Boyer, Staff Planner, presented the Rezoning and recommended
approval. No one spoke during the public hearing.
Commissioner Christiansen motioned to recommend approval of the
Rezoning to City Council. Commissioner Sanford seconded the motion,
motion passed (5-0).
6. Public hearing, presentation, possible action, and discussion on a Rezoning for
3.611 acres in the Castlerock Subdivision from PDD Planned Development
District to A-P Administrative Professional located at 525 William D. Fitch on the
northeast side of .William D. Fitch Parkway across from Castlegate Subdivision.
.Case #07-00500063 (JR)
Jennifer Reeves, Staff Planner, presented the Rezoning and recommended
approval.
No one spoke during the public hearing.
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Wallace Phillips, College Station, Texas; spoke in favor of the project and
volunteered to answer any questions of the Commission.
Commissioner Sanford .motioned to .recommend approval as submitted to
City Council. Commissioner Schroeder seconded the motion, motion passed
(4-0-1). Commissioners .Schroeder, Christiansen, Sanford and Strong voted
in favor of the motion; Chairman Nichols abstained from the vote.
7. Public hearing, presentation, possible action, and discussion on a Final Plat of the
Southwood Holdings Subdivision, Tracts A-1 and A-2 being a Replat of .the
Southwood Holdings Subdivision, Tract A consisting of 2 lots on 7.54 acres
located at 1103 Rock Prairie Road generally located across from the Southwood
Athletic Park. Case #07-00500061 (CH)
Carol Cotter, Graduate Civil Engineer, presented the Final Plat and recommended
approval.
Ms. Price, 3021 Coronado Drive, College Station, Texas; Jim Stiff, 3015
Coronado Drive, College Station, Texas; Steve Smith, 2914 Colton Place, College
Station, Texas; William Privett, 1111 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, Texas;
Nancy Badger, 3003 Coronado Drive, College Station, Texas; Daniel Bratwell,
2926 Camille, College Station, Texas; Rhonda Fazasky, 3305 West Chester,
College. Station, Texas; Steve Rogers, 903 Carmella, College Station, Texas;
Norman Luttheg, 2915 Camille Drive, College Station, Texas; Overall the citizens
spoke in opposition of the development. Concerns were land use, safety issues,
density, noise and traffic.
Commissioner Christiansen motioned to approve the Final Plat as submitted.
Commissioner Schroeder seconded the motion, motion passed (5-0).
Public hearing, presentation, possible .action, and discussion on an Ordinance
amending Chapter 12, City of College Station Code of Ordinances, Section 6.4.E
of the Unified Development Ordinance, regarding portable storage structures.
Case #07-500004 (JS)
Jason Schubert, Staff Planner, presented the Ordinance amendment.
No one spoke during the public hearing.
Commissioner Sanford motioned to recommend approval of the .Ordinance
amendment as submitted by staff to the City Council. Commissioner Strong
seconded the motion, motion passed (5-0).
9. Discussion and possible action on future agenda items - A Planning and Zoning
Member may inquire about a subject for which notice has not been given. A
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statement of specific factual information or the recitation of existing policy may
be .given. Any deliberation shall be limited to a proposal to place the subject on
an agenda for a subsequent meeting.
Commissioner Sanford asked for a future agenda item in order to discuss a
status report or an update regarding changing the Platting process and what
changes can be made.
10. Adjourn.
Commissioner Strong motioned to adjourn. Commissioner Christiansen
seconded the motion, motion passed (5-0).
App d;
Gr,`
Nichols, Chairman
Planning and Zoning Commission
Attest:
Lisa Lindgren, Staff Assistant.
Planning and Development Services
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