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Home My WebLink AboutP&Z Minutes 2004-11-04 Regularl Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Fri endswood Planning and Zoning Commission November 4, 2004 A regular meeting of the Friendswood Planning and Zoning Commission was held Thursday, November 4, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. in the city hall council chambers located at 910 S. Friendswood Drive, Friendswood, Texas. The following members were present: Bob Bertrand David Brakebill Jim Gibson Kevin Holland Roy Klusendorf Sherry Weesner Loren Smith-City Attorney Mike Hodge-Director of CD and PW Dan Johnson-Deputy Director of CD Diana Steelquist-Planner Cheri Skelton-Development Coordinator With a quorum present, Commissioner Burke resigned, Chairman Holland called the meeting to order to discuss the following: Call to order: Regular Meeting: 1.Communications from the public. Ron Hindt, Pastor of the Calvary Chapel Church located at 3700 FM 528, addressed the Commission. Mr. Hindt encouraged the Commission to vote in favor of the sign ordinance to allow electronic signs in Friendswood. 2.Consent Agenda: A.Approval of the 10-21-04 regular meeting minutes. B.Approval of the 10-21-04 special meeting minutes. Motion: Second: Gibson-to approve consent agenda Brakebill Commissioner Bertrand requested Item "B" of the consent agenda to be removed. Item "A" of the consent agenda was then voted upon. Voted For: Unanimous Motion Carried It was then realized that Item "A" was the item Commissioner Bertrand wanted to discuss. Item "B" was then voted upon for approval Page 1 of 5 11/4/04 P & Z Voted For: Motion: Second: Unanimous Motion Carried Bertrand-to reverse approval of Item "A" and discuss. Weesner Commissioner Bertrand pointed out on Item 3, page 2 of the regular meeting minu tes, his request for legal interpretation and the answer he received from the City Attorney was not captmed in the minutes. He requested Staff review the tapes from the 10-21-04 regular meeting and capture those comments and responses. Comm issioner Weesner stated on Item 4, page 2 the last sentence should read: After fmther discussion, some of the Commissioners indicated a need for new information from City Council on this item before deciding to change the last recommendation. Motion: Second: Voted For: Regular Meeting: Bertrand-to table Item "A" in order for Staff to review the tapes for clarity. Weesner Unanimous Motion to Table Carried 3.Consideration and possible action regarding the Commercial Site Plan for a Retail Shell Building located between Blockbuster and Schlotzsky's on FM 528. Motion: Second: Be1trand-to approve the Site Plan Gibson Bob Weaver, architect of the project and representative of the owner, addressed the Commission. Mr. Weaver stated the proposed shell building had preliminary drainage approval from the Galveston County Consolidated Drainage District. Mr. Weaver also stated the property would have an underground detention facility, which has also been approved by TX Dot. Commissioner Bertrand showed concern with the adjacent parking of Blockbuster stating he felt there could be a possible safety issue with the traffic pattern. Amend Motion: Second: Voted For: Weesner-to get final approval from the Galveston County Consolidated Drainage District per Staffs recommendation. Bertrand Unanimous Page 2 of 5 11/4/04 P & Z Motion Carried 4.Discussion and possible action regarding Amending Zoning Ordinance-Cluster Homes. Motion: Second: Gibson-to discuss Klusend01f Staff reviewed the changes made to the Cluster Home ordinance to date. Staff stated the inf01mation to make the changes to the Cluster Home ordinance came from workshops with Staff and the Commission. During the meeting, the Commission and Staff reviewed the final proposed draft. Items of discussion regarding changes to the ordinance involved lot coverage, density, setbacks, and the definition of open space and green space. The Commission felt a workshop with City Council to finish the revisions to the Cluster Home ordinance, such as determining definitions and revising the Matrix, was appropriate. Motion: Second: Voted For: Bertrand-to approve Weesner Unanimous Motion Carried 5.Discussion and possible action regarding possible amendments to the Sign Ordinance. Motion: Second: Weesner-to approve Brakebill After discussion among Staff and the Commission, some changes were made to the proposed sign ordinance. Changes included the length of time an electronic sign may have its copy changed. The Commission also recommen ded that manual and automatic changeable copy signs be further combined within the ordinance. Commissioner Be1trand stated he was pleased with the proposed ordinance but felt it is too restrictive with regards to changeable copy signs. The Commission requested a workshop to discuss the proposed changes to the sign ordinance with City Council. Amended Motion: Second: Voted For: Weesner-to approve with changes Be1trand Unanimous 6.Communication from the Commission Motion Carried Commissioner Gibson commended Mr. Burke for the years he devoted to serving. . on the Planning and Zoning Commission. Page 3 of 5 11/4/04 P & Z Commissioner Bertrand stated he was saddened to see Mr. Burke resign and he will sorely miss Mr. Burke's council and logic. Commissioner Bertrand wished Mr. Burke well. Commissioner Klusendorf read an email he wrote to Staff indicating concern that Planning and Zoning and City Council are not seeing eye-to-eye on issues. He referenced the recent votes for the zone changes of prope1ty at the entrance of the Forest of Friendswood Subdivision and Friendswood Lakes Subdivision. With both of these items, the Planning and Zoning Commission gave a negative recommendation to City Council. However, City Council then voted in favor of the zone change. Commissioner Brakebill stated he attended the last City Council meeting. He believes that City Council has clear ideas for the city and if Planning and Zoning were aware of those ideas then possibly different decisions would have made by Planning and Zoning. Commissioner Weesner addressed Commissioner Klusendorfs comments by stating historically City Councils overturn Planning and Zoning decisions, here in Friendswood and in other cities. She also requested that the reading file of the agenda items still be placed at the library as well as providing the large format drawings to the Commission. Chairman Holland thanked the Community Appearance Board and Community Economic Development Committee for being at the meeting. He also thanked Mr. Burke for his time on the .Planning and Zoning Commission. He also asked Staff if the Planning and Zoning Mission statement could be presented to City Council. 7.Repo1ts A.Council Liaison No representative was available to give a report. B.Staff 1.Presentation regarding Vision 2020. Staff did not give a presentation regarding Vision 2020, but announced that a presentation would take place at the next meeting. Staff repo1ted on City Council's actions regarding the mini warehouse recommendation. The Council approved the addition of miniwarehouses as a separate line to the Permitted Use Table; howe ver, the new line mirrors the 531 Real Estate line with the exception of not allowing rniniwarehouses in the Office Park District. The Council saw the need to not allow them in this district. The Page 4 of 5 11/4/04 P & Z I Planner apologized for the miscommunication at the last meeting with regards to this issue. The goal of the last discussion was to provide Staff with the rationale for P&Z's recommendation to City Council. Staff provided some follow-up inf01mation on fire issues with setbacks. Feedback has been received from both the Fire Marshall and the Building Official. Cunent city set back requirements and building codes address the 5-foot setback concern identified in the newspaper article provided by Commissioner Weesner. Staff provided a verbal report on prope1ty tax data obtained from the Administrative Services Office. The info1mation included the cost of providing services to a single-family lot versus the average tax revenue generated per single family lot. The shortfall requii'es additional revenues generated by sales taxes, and to some extent franchise fees, permits, fines and other service fees. Lastly, staff clarified information on parking lots sent out in an email. Paid parking lots are permitted under our current Permitted Use Table; however, this use did not apply to the recent commercial site plan which was for a new church parking lot. 8.Adjournment With no further comment the meeting was adjourned at 9:25 p.m. �� J j' MLb) Che1:i Skelton / Development Coordinator Page 5 of 5 11/4/04 P & Z