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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1969 CS Planning Commission OK's 2 Rezoning Requestsj� CS Planning CS P l annin C _ (Continued from Page 1 ) '� g ance because commission OK 2 Rezoning der Jim Gardner going ed that if "they were going Ito consider a high density of trailers then the t 1 Two revised zoning requests received conditional approval from the College Station Planning and Zoning . Com- mission Monday night. The commission voted to defer for further study a change in the mobile home ordinance increasing the density from 8 lots per acre to 10. The change was to include incorporation of the new state law governing construction standards. The commission recom- mended that D. E. McCrory's property on the West Bypass between Highway 6 and Wellborn Road be rezoned from first dwelling to neighborhood business rather than first business as requested. The recommendation was contingent on McCrory working out a drainage easement. Jim O'Brien received con - d4ional approval on a revised zoning request for 33.68 acres on the east side of Highway 30 for an apartment house district. The commission requested that he, too, work out a BRYAN BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION —Your SAVINGS Center since 1919. Adv. CS City Council OK's Ordinances The College Station City Council passed two ordinances calling for public hearings at a 'special meeting Thursday afternoon. The hearings will be held at the Aug. 25 meeting of the council on rezoning two tracts of land. Both zoning requests were considered at the July 28 council meeting, but were sent back to the planning and zoning commission with recommended changes. drainage easement with the city engineer. O'Brien is a com- mission member, but did not vote on his own request. Both zoning requests wont before the city council for ap- proval during the last meeting and both were returned to the planning and zoning commission with the recommended changes. McCrory's property was halved from 22 acres to 10 acres. Both requests will now go back to the council for final approval. Conditional zoning was suggested during the council meeting, but assistant city attorney Tom Giesenschlag said it was illegal. Councilman Bill Cooley, however, said Monday night that conditional zoning is done in other places. Consideration of the two revised zoning requests followed internal dissension of how O'Brien's got on the agenda. Codie Wells, acting chairman "didn't know where it came from." He told the commission that he'd been asked to stand during the last council meeting and take the McCrory revised zoning request under con- sideration, although it was a deviation from the rules the v The planning and zoning c o m m i s s i o n approved both tracts for conditional zoning. Both property owners are required to work out drainage easements before the zoning request is approved. • T,h a commission recom- mended that D. E. McCrory's property on the West Bypass between Wellborn Road and Highway 6 be rezoned to neigh- borhood business district. The Jim O'Brien property received the planning and zoning commission's approval to rezone to an apartment house district. council had set out for t commission. The commission must have a zoning request 10 days before it meets. Wells said that the minutes of the council had not yet been published. Therefore, to consider the O'Brien request would be a violation, of the commission's operating rules. Lee Roy George, city planner, said he had to take the responsibility in that case for putting it on the agenda. C. H. Ransdell, city council liaison member, said that he had talked to Councilman 0 M. Holt and he had meant to in -, elude both revised zoning requests under the same motion. Wells then agreed to consider the O'Brien request, although he said "several things had been mishandled. "In the first place we should have got the agenda out much earlier. No one has really had a chance to study it carefully," he explained. The commission agreed to defer action on the mobile home (CS PLANNING, Page 4) I N T E R E S T COMPOUNDED DAILY on savings at First Bank & .Trust. —Adv. y mus a so counsider more open space." "We can afford more open space in this community because we have it," he ex- plained. Referring to a mobile home park that is going up outside the city limits, Gardner said many people seemed to think it was a good plan because three play areas were planned. "But this one is hardly ac- cessible to the residents and it doesn't have room for much more than a sandbox," he said. Wells reminded him that the fewer spaces there were the higher the rent would be. "It takes close to 10 mobile homes per acre to be able to rent for $40 a space a month. Water and sewage is also furnished," he said. "With eight units per acre that would be $320 a month and $3,840 a year. That's a pretty good return on the money, I'd think," O'Brien pointed out. "Well, I understand it tapes a half million dollars to develop a mobile home park," Wells said. "You mean it costs $10,000 a unit. That's unbelievable. I can't see anyone going into the business if it costs that kind of money," O'Brien replied. Wells had said earlier that the reason the only mobile home park in College Station complied with the ordinance in having eight trailers to the acre was because the owner computed the amount on the total amount of the property. "The deed restrictions won't let him put them along the front of the property so actually he's way too crowded in the back," he said.