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By FRANK GRIFFIS
Eagle Staff Writer
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission agreed
last night to reconuriend to the
city council that a section of
t h e proposed subdivision
regulations be devoted to
special conditions in sub-
divisions within the extra-
territorial jurisdiction of the
city.
The commissioners agreed
that sewage and wa' er systems
in subdivisions within the city's
extraterritorial j u r i s d i ction
would be required to comply
with State Department of
Health regulations. Street lights
and underground electric ser-
vice will not be required of
subdivisions within the ex-
traterritorial jurisdiction since
the city does not supply these
areas-with electrical power.
The special section of the
regulations does not require
curbs and gutters on streets but
it does require all- weather
gravel or crushed gravel sur-
face. The section states that the
roads will have riot less than
double coarse inverted pen -
trated asphalt surface, not less
than 24 feet wide with a 10-
foot shoulder on each side.
"Actually if we make it too
easy, they will be competing
with other developers within the
city who have to do these
things," Commissioner Joe Orr
said.
Commissioner Bob Evans said
he did not think developers of
subdivisions outside of the city
limits should have to install
underground utilities.
"I don't think we should
either," Orr said. "We are
building in competition with.
Bryan they're doing everything
in God's earth to cat our throats
on a lot of the building."
Orr added that he didn't think
thev should handicap developers
in College Station when the
can build in Bryan for less cost.
The commission added that if
a developer constructs his
streets in a subdivision within
t h e city's extraterritorial
jurisdiction the minimum lot
width shall be 100 feet. George
Eby, city planner, Dointed out
that lots with less than 100 feet
of frontage must be curbed and
guttered.
Following the reconsideration
of the subdivision regulations,
Orr emphasized that he thought
plastic pipe instead of copper
should be used on house
plumbing. The city presently
requires all house plumbing to
have copper pipe.
"It's damn foolish. They are
making plastic pipe which is
just as good," Orr said.
Bill Cooley, city council liason
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to the commission, said he
agreed with Orr. He added that
the plumbing board sets the
plumbing regulations.
"To hell with them, who's
running this city," Orr said.
"We are putting our developers
and homeowners to unnecessary
expense; they don't require it
in Bryan."
"We have a bid development
coming : up in this t ^wn in the
next year and it's going to cost
o u r developers and :ost
thousands upon thousands of
dollars to stick to that fool
copper pipe," Orr said.
In other business, the com-
mission reviewed the proposed
zoning ordinance. '1 he primary
change the commission made
concerned the section which
makes it illegal for persons to
park major recreation equip-
ment such as boats and cam-
pers on their front yards or the
street in front of their houses.
See PLANNING, Page 2