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SPECIAL MEETING PLANNING AND ZONING CCM-1ISSION DOCEMBER 13, 1993
A SP ECIAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD PLANNING AND ZCNING CCMMISSION WAS HELD ON OONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1993, AT 6:00 P.M. IN THE CITY HALL (X)lJNCIL CHAMBERS. THE FOI..J...OMING MEMBERS WERE PRESENT:
Bru<ER -CHAIRMAN DICKSON WASSON CRESS
HOOVER -CITY PLANNER BRINKMAN -SECRETARY MEASELES -LIAISON
WITH A QUORUM PRE.SENT, JORDAN, FINGER AND McHUGH ABSENT, CHAIRMAN BAKER OPENED THE JOIN!' WORI<SHOP WITH CITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSED PLANNED DEVELOPM°El'rI' DISTRICT ORDINANCE (PDD). CITY PLANNER, DAVID HOOVER, PRESENTED SLIDES OF A 56 ACRE TRACT OF LAND SUBDIVIDED INfO A STANDARD SUBDIVISION OF 152 rms. THE SECOND DRAWING WAS OF THE SAME PROPERTY WHICH HAD BEEN MASTERPLANNED INfO 148 LCYl'S. HOOVER ALSO PRESENTED SLIDES CG1PARING THE COSTS BE"IWEEN A CONVEN'rIONAL SUBDIVISION AND THAT OF CLUSTER HOUSING. THE SLIDE INDICATED A DIFFERENCE OF $2,145 PER Im SAVINC',S FOR THE DEVELOPER WHEN THE PROPERTY WAS MASTER PLANNED. HOOVER STATED THAT THE CITY WOUID HAVE BEITER CONTROL OVER THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PDD AND THAT A MASTER PLANNED CCMMUNITY WAS MORE DESIRru3LE BECAUSE OF THE GREEN SPACE, SECURITY, EI'C. QUESTIONS WERE RAISED REGARDING BIKE PATHS, STREETS AND ALLEYS, LOT WIDTHS, EDUCATION REX)UIREMENTS FOR THE CHILDREN AND PROPERTY VALUES. COUNCIIMEMBER STEWART STATED THAT HE DID NaI' FEEL FRIENDSOOOD HAD ENOUGH AVAILABLE PROPERTY FOR A MASTER PLANNED ca-1MUNITY NOR WAS THE CITY READY FOR LCYI'S SMALLER THAN 90' IN WIDTH. HOOVER REVIEWED THE AVAIL1IDLE PROPERTIES THAT ARE 75 ACRES OR LARGER IN FRIENDSWOOD. CHAIRMAN BAKER INDICATED HIS CONCERN WITH HOUSING COSTS STATING THAT THE GHD (GARDEN Ha.1E DISTRICT) WAS SUPPOSE TO CRF.ATE LCMER PRICED Ha.IBS FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS AND/OR COLLEGE GRADUATES WHO WANTED TO LIVE IN FRIENDSWOOD. THE PROPOSED SALE PRICES ARE GREAT DEAL MORE THAN ANTICIPATED AND HE WAS CONCERNED THAT THE SAME THING MIGHT HAPPEN IN PDD' S. ca-1MISSIONER CRESS SAID THAT THE EXISTING ORDINANCE ALLCMS FOR PUD DEVELOPMENTS AND THAT THE PROPOSED CATEXX>RY ONLY CHANGED THE NAME 'IO PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS, ALLCWED FOR TRACK Ha.IBS ON SMALLER LCYI'S, AND ADDED A MINIMUM ACREAGE. HE ALSO INDICATED THE NEW AMENDMENT WAS '100 BULKY AND NEED TO BE CUI' DCMN ON viORDS.
CITY MANAGER, RON COX, SAID THAT THIS AMENDMENT WOUID ALLCM THE PLANNING AND ZONING CCMMISSION TO PLAN OORE EFFECI'IVELY AND THAT PERHAPS SCME CHANGES SHOtJID BE MADE IN ORDER THAT ROI'H CITY COUNCIL AND PLANNING AND ZONING � FEEL MORE cn-1FORTABLE. Ca-1MISSIONER I S CRESS AND WASSON WILL REWRITE THE ORDINANCE TO BE PRESENTED AT A LATER "DRI<SHOP.
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