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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08/01/1995 - Regular Minutes - Zoning Board of AdjustmentsMINUTES • Zoning Board of Adjustment I CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS August 1, 1995 7:00 P.M. MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Birdwell, Members Rife, Poston, Hollas and Sawtelle. MEMBERS ABSENT: Alternate Members Alexander, Ochoa and Blackwelder. STAFF PRESENT: Staff Planner Dunn, Planning Technician Thomas and Assistant City Attorney Shively. AGENDA ITEM NO. 1: Call to order -explanation of functions of the Board. Chairman Birdwell called the meeting to order and explained the functions and limitations of the Board. AGENDA ITEM NO. 2: Approval of minutes from the meeting of July 18, 1995. • Mr. Hollas moved to approve the minutes from the meeting of July 18, 1995 as written. Ms. Poston seconded the motion which passed unopposed (4 - 0). Mr. Rife was not present during the approval of minutes. AGENDA ITEM N0.3: Consideration of a variance request to the sign ordinance to allow two freestanding signs along Central Park Lane for the Windsor Pointe Apartments currently under construction at 800 Southwest Parkway. Staff Planner Dunn presented the staff report and informed the Board that the applicant is requesting two apartment identification signs for a new apartment complex. The applicant feels that the extension of a public street, Central Park Lane, is a special condition not generally found within the City which divides the project into two separate areas. The applicant also feels that placing signage for one area and not the other would be a hardship in that it would confuse the public as to the identity of the project. On December 4, 1990, the Board granted more than one apartment identification sign for Treehouse apartments. An existing sign was located at the entrance to Marion Pugh Drive. The variance allowed a second identification sign to be located at the project's south entrance to Holleman Drive. Two surrounding property owners were notified of the public hearing with no response. Chairman Birdwell opened the public hearing. • Engineering representative of the applicant, Greg Taggart of the Municipal Development Group, approached the Board and was sworn in by Chairman Birdwell. He stated that the owner purchased the property to develop one apartment complex and then had to separate the development in order to construct Central Park Lane. Mr. Taggart informed the Board that two signs for a sixteen acre development is reasonable and if the variance is granted, the signs will still meet the intent of the ordinance. He stated that the signs have not been designed pending the variance request. Chairman Birdwell closed the public hearing. • • • Mr. Sawtelle stated that he understands how the road splitting the development would cause confusion for motorists looking for the complex. He suggested that the owner place the address or some other designation on the two proposed signs to clearly identify what units are on the two different sides. Chairman Birdwell stated that if the two sides were developed separately or even named differently, two signs would be allowed. Mr. Sawtelle moved to authorize a variance to the sign regulations from section 12, ordinance number 1638 as it will not be contrary to the public interest due to the following unique special conditions not generally found within the City: a newly developed roadway which bisects the property; and because a strict enforcement of the provisions of the ordinance would result in substantial hardship to this applicant being: confusion to the public in accessing the units within the complex; and such that the spirit and intent of this ordinance shall be preserved and the general interests of the public and applicant served, subject to the following limitations: that the signs clearly indicate which units are located on each side of the road. Mr. Rife seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). AGENDA ITEM N0.4: Other business. There was no other business. AGENDA ITEM NO. S: Adjourn. Mr. Sawtelle moved to adjourn the meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Chairman Birdwell seconded the motion which passed unopposed (5 - 0). APPRO Chairman, i irdwell A P an 'ng echmcian, atalie Thomas ZBA Minutes August 1, 1995 Page 2 of 2 ZONING BOARD OF~ADJUSTMEN'P , • FORMAT FOR POSITIVE MOTION Variance to Sign Regulations: From Section 12, Ordinance Number 1638. I move to authorize a variance to the sign regulations from the terms of this ordinance as it will not be contrary to the public interest due to the following unique special conditions not generally found/ within t/he City: ~, 0 ~ f A J / -_~; gi p, ~./ l .~./ ~- I o r ~ l I n ,sue GEJ~ r/`[~')a.~/~ L~/~,Y" G(/ h 1 ~.(. and because a strict enforcement of the provisions of the ordinance would result in substantial hardship to this applicant being: J. LO ~ ~uS l2) ~ 7~ 10 r/' ~ ! ( C'_ r n ~ c ~ S'Sr~r~1~ /' ` O ~ ~. L U vt c T S (.u f 7'~l c ~. 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