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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/22/1997 - Regular Minutes City CouncilMayor LYNN MCILHANEY Mayor Pro Tempore HUB KENNADY City Manager GEORGE K. NOE COLLEGE STATION Council Members STEVE ESMOND LARRY MARIOTT DAVID HICKSON DiCk BIRDWELL SWIKI ANDERSON MINUTES COLLEGE STATION CITY COUNCIL Regular Meeting Thursday, May 22, 1997 at 7:00 p.m. COUNCILMEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Mcllhaney, Mayor Protem Kennady, Councilmen Birdwell, Hickson, Marioft, Esmond, Anderson STAFF PRESENT: City Manager Noe, Assistant City Manager Brymer, City Secretary Hooks, City Attorney Cargill, Director of Development Services Callaway, Director OMB Cryan, City Planner Kee, Staff Planner McCully, Assistant City Engineer Homeyer Mayor Mcllhaney opened the meeting at 7:00 p.m. She explained the council meeting procedures for public participation. Agenda Item No. '1 -- Pledge of Allegiance. Council and audience cited the pledge of allegiance. Agenda Item No. 2 - Invocation Rev. Grove from A&M Church of Christ provided the invocation. Agenda Item No. 3 -- Request for absence from meeting. No requests were received. Agenda Item No. 4 - Presentations. Buddy Poppy Day, May24, I~P7-- Martin Lize accepted the proclamation read by Mayor Mcllhaney. Providing Customer Service Excellence Council Regular, 5/22/97 Page 2 A&M Consolidated Academic Excellence Day, May 22, I ~7--Chrissy Hesfer and members of the UIL State Academic Team accepted the proclamation from Mayor Mcllhaney. Agenda Item No. 5 - Consent Agenda 5a. Approved council meeting minutes for workshop April 10, 1997, workshop April 24, 1997, workshop May 8, 1997, regular April 24, 1997, regular May 8, 1997 and special April 3, 1997. 5b. Approved Ordinance No. 2243 fo repeal Ordinance No. 2217 authorizing a reduced speed school zone on FM 2818 in the area of A&M Consolidated High School and replacing it with school advance warning signs and flashers 1o alert motorists of an approaching school area. Funds available as budgeted in the FY 1997 traffic signal fund. 5c. Approved contract for professional services to McClure Engineering, Inc for design of Phase Two of the Business Center at College Station in the amount of $49,000 plus 6 percent of the construction cost. Total estimated cost of $157,000, funding available from remaining balances from Business Center Phase I Certificates of Obligation. Above #ems c~pproved by common consent. 5d. Removed by staff. Contract for professional services to Turner, Collie & Braden, Inc. in the amount of $18,000 for study of siltation problem in Wolf Pen Creek. Funds available as budgeted in FY 1996-97 general fund. 5e. Mayor Protem Kennady made a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the city to reimburse certain funds from future debt issuance and award construction contract for Patricia Street Redevelopmenl Project to Construction Resource group, Inc. of Bryan in the amount of $1,083,535.60. Funds budgeted from various sources in 1996-97 and 1997-98 budgets. Councilman Mariott seconded the motion. Councilmember Birdwell, Anderson, and Esmond expressed objection to the proposed resolution. An amended motion was presented to the council by Councilman Esmond to ask the contractor to work with the owners of Burger Boy to provide adequate time for the owners to make an orderly transition, approximately 30 days. The motion died for lack of second as ruled by Mayor Mcllhaney. Council Regular, 5/22/97 Page 3 The vote was taken and the original motion carried 4-3. FOR: Mayor Mcllhaney, Councilmembers Hickson, Mariott, Kennady AGAINST: Councilmembers Anderson, Birdwell, Esmond Regular Agenda Agenda Item No. 6a: Public hearing and staff direction on proposed comprehensive plan. City Planner Jane Kee made a brief presentation fo refresh the council of items related to the update of the Comprehensive Plan since 1994. The following is a list of major areas of policy that have been discussed throughout the comprehensive plan process. Council has given direction relative to each of these areas. FLOODPLAINS This plan proposes a shift from current policy and practice in that development is not recommended fo occur in floodplains. Council voled fo allow floodplain reclamation bu! $l///develop po#c/es and ordinances 1o enable gaining open space to provide lhe linkages $hown on the Parks P/an. LIMITED GROWTH AREA Another major element of this plan is the proposal that the City limit is development to areas within the existing sewershed. This has implications for the City's annexation policies, as well as its infrastructure extension plans and policies. Council did not change Ibis policy. DENSITIES Plan shows new residential classifications. Low, Medium, and High Single Family land uses. The Plan proposes thai higher residential densities occur over time on the east and north side of the University. The anticipation is that these areas will redevelop in the future and conversion to higher densities will occur as the demand to be close to the University increases. Counc# sca/ed bock redevelopmenl oreo shown in College H/lIs. Major redevelopment oreo now i$ only on north s/de. DENSITY SHOWN IN ROCK PRAIRIE/GREENS PRAIRIE TRIANGLE Council increased lhe single family den$ilie$ in lhi$ area from who! was originally shown on lhe droll plan, Council Regular, 5/22/97 Page 4 STRIP COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT There is reference made to the City avoiding strip commercial development. This is current policy. Council made changes 1o SH ~ fronlage as shown on map lo concenlrafe commercial at intersections. INDUSTRIAL LOCATIONS There are several locations shown for industrial R&D uses. The consultants have shown no locations for heavy type industries. Their recommendation is that, if a desirable heavy industry wishes to locate in CS, the City can determine at that time where the most appropriate location is. Staff concurred with this approach. The Graham Road area has been changed to reflect neighborhood retail uses at the Victoria/Graham intersection with remainder of the Graham Road propedies reflecting Industdal/R&D. PARKLAND DEDICATION The draft reflects changing the escrow time for funds from 2 years to 5 years. Council was ot~ w/lh this. THOROUGHFARE PLAN Change in street classifications. Currently there are three classes. An added classification is for major collector street. Council was ok w/Ih lhis. WELSH For the short range, the plan calls for Welsh to be brought up to standard as a residential street and for Welsh to be extended to Bush @ Houston as a bike path. The Welsh upgrade would be designed to accommodate bike traffic. The intent is for Welsh to serve as a primary bikeway facility to campus. For the long range, Welsh is shown to realign with Fairview at Holleman and Fairview realigned with Houston @ Bush. However, this was not considered a high priority by staff to accomplish. Staff soughl final con$ideralion by Council on/his #em. APPOMATTOX At the January 21 st workshop, Council voted 5-2 to continue Appomattox to connect Windwood and Raintree. At Raintree there will be an offset and Raintree Dr. is shown to be the continuation of the north-south collector until it reaches North Forest Parkway in Emerald Forest. Jane noted a petition submitted by the Windwood residents requesting that the connection not be made. Council Regular, 5/22/97 Page 5 Following staff comments about the Windwood extension to Raintree, Councilman Birdwell made a motion to direct the staff to change the thoroughfare plan by eliminating the (proposed) collector street at the end of Appomattox to Raintree Drive and leave the connection that links Appomattox to the Bypass. Councilman Kennady seconded the motion. Councilmembers expressed no objection. Mayor Mcllhaney opened the public hearing. The Mayor read a letter from Ray Martyn, 7803 Appomatlox to place on record his opposition to the extension of Appomattox. The Mayor also read a letter from Julie Wilson, 7701 Gettysburg to place on record the Raintree Homeowners' Association concerns about the extension of Appomattox. The following individuals addressed the Council on various aspects of the Comprehensive Plan. Dennis Maloney, 803 Welsh Sherry Ellison, 2705 Brookway Scott Hall, 2606 Spicewood Ct. Matthew McDonough, 2612 Sandlewood Ct. Wayne Shebilske, 2708 Woodcliff Ct. Bill Stewart, 708 Hereford Scotl Sharer, 117 Pershing Claire Knox, 500 Francis David Scott, 1213 Winding Rd. Lynn Allen, 1501 Caudill Sharon Colson, 1116 Neal Pickett Trent Topham, 2513 Monitor Marianne Oprisko, 2475 Barton Road Bill Bingham, 404 Fairview Helen Pugh, 601 Fairview Mike Luther, 614 Welsh Norma Miller, 504 Guernsey Mayor Mcllhaney closed the public hearing at 9:12 p.m. Mayor Mcllhaney suggested a future workshop meeting lo review alternative solutions to citizen concerns. Council Regular, 5/22/97 Page 6 Staff was directed to respond to the citizen comments and make recommendations to Council. It was agreed that the Appomattox extension proposal and Fairview reconfiguration be removed from the plan. Mayor Mcllhaney asked the audience lo provide additional comments in writing to the City Manager. Council recessed for a shod break. Agenda Item No. 6b: Consider 4t.8t acre master preliminary plat dividing the property generally located on the northeast corner of Sebesta Road and SH 6 frontage road into three commercial lots and consider a development agreement delaying the installation of sewer infrastructure (97-305). Assistant lo the City Engineer, Steve Homeyer described the subject tract. This item is a master preliminaw plat to divide into three commercial lots and the developer of Lot 2, through a development agreement, wished fo delay the construction of any sewer infrastructure through lot 3 to lot 2. Councilman Birdwell moved approval of the master preliminary plat with the development agreement addressing the timing of sewer extension. Mr. Esmond pointed out a housekeeping item in the agreement fo reflect that the TNRCC approves the sewage treatment plans ralher lhan the Texas Water Quality Board and Texas State Depadment of Health. The motion was seconded by Councilman Mariott which carried unanimously, 7-0. Agenda Item No. 6c: Consider request to abandon the public right-of-way of Grand Oaks, thus allowing it to be a private street that will have gated access. Grand Oaks is currently under construction and located on the south side of Lincoln Avenue east of Munson. Public Works Director Mark Smith explained the request. This item was brought fo council at the May 8th meeting and Council was amenable to allowing Grand Oaks a gated private street if the developer could assure the Council thai sufficient funds could be made available for street maintenance. He explained that the developer proposed a two tier process. First, the developer will provide funds up front fo cover the cost of overlay at the end of the five year period, and secondly, the HCA will be responsible for monthly dues to cover routine maintenance. Councilman Mariott made a motion to approve the abandonment of a public right of way at Grand Oaks Subdivision. The motion was seconded by Councilman Hiokson which carried unanimously, 7-0. Council Regular, 5/22/97 Page 7 Agenda Item No. 6d: Discuss and consider a conceptual land use plan for the Crowley tract, al3Droximately 500 acres located on the northwest corner of Greens Prairie Road and Highway 6 (Case No. 97-307). Staff Planner Sabine McCully explained that the applicant is seeking general approval of land uses, densities, and roadway alignments in order to finalize the location of a mitigation area for the Navasota Ladies Tresses and to begin ROW acquisition for Highway 40. Mr. Crowley came forward to fudher point out aspects of the plan. He noted that the Parks and Recreation Board accepted the concept of the future parkland dedication for a 40-50 acre community acre park. Planning and Zoning Commission and staff recommended approval of the plan. Councilman Mariott made a motion to approve the conceptual land use plan as proposed. The motion was seconded by Councilman Kennady which carried unanimously, 7-0. Agenda Item No. 6e: Consider Ordinance to modify Chapter 15 of the Code of Ordinances relatin~l to impact fee collection. This ordinance will allow the City to specify the time of collection of impact fees for residential propedies to when platted and for commercial and other properties at time of issuance of the building permit to streamline the impact fee process. Councilman Birdwell moved approval of Ordinance No. 2244 as proposed. The motion was seconded by Councilman Hickson which carried unanimously, 7-0. Agenda Item No. 7 -- Hear Visitors. Dennis Maloney of 803 Welsh, came forward to request on behalf of the Historic Preservation Committee the use of $10,000 to place period lighting on the Soulhside. Council directed staff to bring this issue as a formal request to council for an upcoming meeting. Marianne Oprisko of 2475 Barron Road conveyed her concern that the City does not address drainage culverts in the rural areas, more specifically, recently annexed areas. Shannon Schunichf of 309B First St. suggested the city place parking meters in Northgate. His suggestion related to a previous council decision to build a parking lot in Northgate. Council Regular, 5/22/97 Page 8 Helen Pugh of 601 Fairview asked Council to consider more police officers in next year's budget due lo increased community growth. Bill Bingham of 404 Fairview encouraged Council to consider the lease extension to owners of Burger Boy. Will Godwin of 500 Boyett addressed the Council about the poor street conditions in Northgate residential areas. Mike Luther of 614 Welsh came forward to express a concern about the traffic problems in Northgate. Councilman Kennady clarified that the Northgate Plan reflects new street projects. Judy Warren of 904 Francis came forward to applaud the Council for their efforts toward the Munson traffic issue, Council returned to executive session al ! 0:15 p.m. Agenda Item No. 8 -- Final action on executive session, if necessary. Council reconvened in open session. No action was taken. Agenda Item No. 9 -- Adjourn Mayor Mcllhaney adjourned the meeting af 10:35 p.m. PASSED AND APPROVED this the 12th day of June, 1997. City Secretary, c~onnie Hooks APPROVED: Lynn Mcllhone~' GUEST REGISTER WORKSHOP MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1997 3:00 P.M. 1. ,~/~ ~ ~< 11. 4. 5. 6. 7. 13. 8. 18. 9. 19. 10. 20. GUEST REGISTER CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1997 7:00