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Mt eceives ommercial Zoning
By FRANK GRIFFIS
Eagle Staff Writer
Despite loud grumuling from
a group of homeowners from
Dominik Street, the College
Station Planning and Zon-ag
Commission approved a request
by developer Harry Seaback
last night for commercial
zoning on a 13.76 acre tract
onting on Highway 30 and the
ast Bypass.
The request was approved on
ondition that the commission
t�pproves the site plans and
yout of busine.3s in the
ommercial property and that
drainage easement be in-
talled to the satisfaction of the
ity engineer.
The homeowners said they
e r e disgruntled because
Seaback's request was not on
he agenda for last night's
eeting and a public hearing
as not called for. A public
during the
Approval
commission's June 1 meeting.
Seaback did not attend and his
request was denied.
The property backs up to a
residential section of Seaback's
proposed University Arr..,s
subdivision and is more than
200 feet from the single - family
residences on Dominik.
Seaback told the commission
he would make the buyers of
property in Section 1 of the
University Arms subdivision
aware of the commercial area
behind them. He added that he
intends to erect a solid fenca
between th commercial and
residential areas.
Commissioners George
Boyett, Joe Orr, and Bob Evans
voted in favor of the request
and Carl Landiss and Douglas
Stone voted against. Cjr'.ie
Wells, comission a -sting
chairman, voted in favor, giving
the request the required five
votes.
"Ve have 225 acres of
commercial property zoned in
College Station now and only
nine of it is developed —I'd like
to have some economical
justification for the zoning.
What is the need ?" corn-
missioner Stone asked.
Seaback said it takes two
years to plan an area and he
won't have nything until he
gets the area zoned. "I can't
get it financed until I get it
zoned," Seaback said.
"I understand your need, but
what is the city's ?" Stone
asked.
Seaback said the city stands
to gain a lot in tax dollars.
A man in the audience asked
Wells why the commission was
not holding a public hear?rg
concerning the request.
"We have already held the
public hearing," Wells said,
Commissioner Landiss said
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