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S7.'ATE OF TEXAS } (
CITY OF FRIENDSWOOD ) (
COUNTIES OF GALVESTON/H�IRRIS ) (
JANUARY 29, 199Ei ) (
MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE FRTENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL WAS WAS HELD ON
MONDAY•, JANUARY 29, 1996 AT 5:30 P.M. AT THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY HAI,L, 910
SOUTH FRIENDSWOOD DRTVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TE}�AS, WITH THE FOLLOWING PRESENT
CONSTITUTING A QUORUM:
° MAYOR EVELYN B. NEWMAN (ARRIVED AT 5:50}
MAYOR PRO TEM JANIS LOWE
I COUNCILMEMBER KITTEN HAJECATE
C:OUNCILMEMBER MEL MEASELES(ARRIVED AT 6:50)
�'OUNCILMEM}3ER MEL AUSTIN
COUNCIZMEMBER ALINE DICKEY
CITY MANAGER RON COX
CITY SECRETARY DELORI5 MCKENZIE
MAYOR PRO TEM LOWE CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER AT 5:40 P.M.
COUNCILMEMBER MANISON WAS ABSENT FROM THE MEETING.
DISCUSSION WAS HELD REGARDING THE PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. CITY MANAGER
RON COX, CITY PLANNER DAVID HOOVER, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOI� DOUG.
KNEUPPER AND l?LANNING AND ZONING COMMISSIONER GLEN CRESS PRESENTED
INFORMATION ON THE PLAN WHICH WAS DEVELOPED FROM THE ORIGINAL 1978 PLAN FROM
MORMAN MOK & GREEN ENGINEERS, ADOPTED IN 1985 AND THE AMENDED THROUGHF'ARE
PLAN ADOPTED TN 1990. CITY MAI�AGER COX REVIEVJED THE PROPOSED PLAN AND THE
1978 PLAN, STA`.CING THAT PLANNING AND ZONING HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE
COMPREHENSIVE PL.AN WITH A JOINT MEETING HELD WITH COUNCIL IN LATE SEPTEMBER
OR OCTOBEFt.
MAYOR NEWMAN ARR=CVED AT THIS TIME.
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; COUNCT'L DISCUSSE;D THE THROUGHFARE PLAN, WITH THROUGHFARES AND COLLECTOR
„ � STREETS AND CONCERNS WITH OPENING UP SUBDIVISIONS TO ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC,
DISCUS�ED HOW LONG DOES THE CITY OF FRIENDSWOOD WANT COLLECTOR STREETS TO
BE, P05SIBILI�Y OF SHUTTING OFF FALCON RII�GE STREE�` AT THE INTERSECfiION WITH
THE PARK PROPER�_C"�, STOPPING FALCON RIDGE BEFORE RANCHO VIEJO, PROPOSED
THROUGHFARE THROUGH SLONE PROPERTY WAS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF WEST PROPERTY,
ONLY HAVING ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT OF SU$DIVISION, ELIMINATING ACCESS TO
THE SPORTS PARK FROM FALCON RIDGE. WOULD ANSWER RESIDENTS' CONCERNS, MOVING
PARKING FROM REA�l2 QF SPORTS PARK TO MORE AC:CESSIHLE AREA, NEED T� CONSIDER
TRI�IFFTC FLOW OF SUBDNISION WHEN BUILT OUT, THE MAIN ZNT�NTION OF THE
THROUGHFARE PLAN IS TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR RESIDENTS 20 MOVE IN AND OUT OF
THE SUBDIVISION5 AND THAT THE PLAN IS JUST A PLAN, A VISION QF WHA2 ROADS
ARE TO BE CONNECTED. ',
COUNCILMEMBER MEASELES ARRIVED AT THIS TIMF.
CITY MANAGER COX �UMMARIZED THE WORK SESSION TO BE THAT IT �TILL REMAINS TO
BE DETERMINED WH]wTHER TO DESIGNATE FALCON RIDGE AS A COLLECTOR STREET, TO
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MOVE THE PARKING IN THE SPORTS PARK, AND THE NEED TO HAVr ANOTHER WORK
SESSION ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PL�AN.
COMMISSIONER CRESS STATED THAT PLANNING AND ZONING IS WAITING FOR CONIMENTS
FROM COUNCIL REGARDING AR�AS OF THE PLAN THAT NEED TO BE REVIEWED AND THEN
TO SCHEDULE A PUBLIC I-�EARING AND AI)OPT THE PI�AN WHICH DEVEL�PERS NEED TN
ORDER TO F'IT SUBDIVISIONS WITHIN THE THROUGHFAR� PLAN.
MAYOR NEWMAN ADJOURNED THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING AT 7:15 PM. WITH COUNCIL
TO ADJOURN TO THE COUNCIL CHP;MI3ERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF A TOWN MEE�`ING.
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MAYOR NEWMAN CALLED THE TOWN MEETING TO ORDER AT 7:20 P.M. j
THE INVOCA2TON WAS LED BY CITY MANAGER COX WITH THE PLEDGE. OF ALLEGIANCE "''
FOLLOWING.
THE PURPOSE OF THE TOWN MEETING WAS TO ALLOW AN OPEN FORUM FCJR RESIDENTS TO
SPEAK ON ANY ISSUE.
THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY FIF'TY TN A.TTENDANCE WITH 21 SPEAKE,RS ON SUBJECTS
WHICH WERE SALES TAX ELE.CTIQN, 1776 PARK CONCERNS, CITI"S BUIDGET DO�UMENTS,
CALLING FOR NO MORE �ALES TAX ET,ECT]:ONS FOR THREE YEARS, FRIORITY DOCiJMENT5
ON INFRASTI2UCTURE, COUNC2L REPORTS ON MEETINGS ATTENDED, CHARTER
APPOINTMENTS, CI,EAN UP MARY CREEIC BY PASS, CLEAR CREEK REGIONAL WATERSHED,
CLEAR CREEK CORFS OF' ENGINEERS PROJECT, STREET PROJECT WITH COUNTY
PARTICIPATZON, PERMIT FOR EXXON TO rHANGE FROM CRUDE oIL TO ETHANE, SPORTS
PARK PLANS AND HOW TO DEVELOP AND H(�W TO PAY AND COMPLIMENTS TO FRIENDSWOOD
POLICE DEPARTMENT AND POLICE nFFICER MIKE MESSER.
THE TOWN MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 9:25 P.M.
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MAYOR E LXN B. NEWMAN
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CITY SECRETARY
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