HomeMy WebLinkAboutP&Z Minutes 1994-08-22 RegularSPECIAL MEEI'ING
PLANNING AND ZONING CXM-1.ISSION
AUGUST 22, 1994
A SPECIAL MEEI'ING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD PLANNING AND ZONING CCM-llSSION WAS
HELD ON MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1994, AT 6:00 P.M. IN THE CITY HALL COUNCIL
CHAMBERS. THE FOLL<JNING MEMBERS WERE PRESENT:
FINGER
McHUGH
WASSON
CRESS
DICKEY -LIAISON
KNEUPPER -CITY ENGINEER
HOOVER -CITY PLANNER
HENRY -DEVELOPMENT COORDINA'IOR
BRINKMAN -SECRETARY
WITH A QUORUM PRESENT, BAKER, JORDAN, AND DICKSON ABSENT, ca1MISSIONER
FINGER CALLED THE MEEI'ING 'IO ORDER 'IO DISCUSS THE <XMPREHENSIVE PIAN
WITH J.T. DUNKIN AND ASSOCIATES.
THE CCM,USSION REVIEWED THE PRELIMINARY LAND USE MAP AS PRESENTED BY
MR. DUNKIN. HE REITERATED 'IO THE CCM,1ISSION THAT THIS WAS NO!' A ZONING
MAP AND IT ¾DULD NO!' MIRROR THE ZONING MAP. THIS LAND USE MAP HAD 'IO
BE A LITI'LE MJRE FLEXIBLE. CCM,llSSIONER CRESS STATED THAT THE GARDEN
Ha-IBS SHOULD BE CALLED HIGH DENSITY SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS.
CCM,llSSIONER FINGER STATED THAT THERE SHOULD BE SCTvlE DIVISION BE'IWEEN
SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ON THE LAND USE
MAP AND THAT IJ:M DENSITY DWELLING UNITS SHOULD NOT BE CLASSIFIED WITH
SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. CCM-llSSIONER WASSON STATED THAT THE NEW
SCHOOL ON FM 528 SHOULD BE INDICATED ON THE LAND USE MAP. THE BATCHING
PIANT ON FM 528 IS NO LONGER IN USE AND THE PROPERTY WILL REm.JRN 'IO
IT'S ORIGINAL CLAS SIFICATION OF SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL.
ATTENTION TURNED 'IO THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE OVERLAY. ca1MISSIONER
WASSON ASKED ABOUT BRI'ITANY BAY AND THE EAST LOOP. IT IS ANTICIPATED
THAT THE EAST LOOP WILL MOVE TCWARD LEAGUE CITY Sa-1EWHAT. OI'HER
PROPOSED STREETS INDICATED ON THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE MAP WILL BE
REMOVED, SUCH AS THE EXTENSION OF BLACKHAWK BOULEVARD FRCM FM 2351 'IO
DIXIE FARM ROAD. THE PROPOSED E.W. SECONDARY WILL BE REMOVED AS WILL
THE CONNECTING ROAD BE'IWEEN BRI'ITANY BAY AND THE E.W. SECONDARY.
BRI'ITANY BAY WILL REMAIN IN ITS PRESENT LOCATION BUT WILL LINE UP WITH
LEAGUE CITY.
THERE WILL BE A JOINT MEEI'ING WITH COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1994 IF THE
DATE IS SATISFACTORY WITH BOTH ENTITIES. THIS MEEIT'ING WILL BE 'IO
REVIEW THE PROPOSED LAND USE MAP AND 'IO UNIFY ANY CONSIDERATIONS THE
COUNCIL MIGHT HAVE WITH THOSE OF PLANNING AND ZONING.
CCM1ISSIONER FINGER ASKED COUNCIIMEMBER' S DICKEY AND MANISON IF THERE
WAS ANYTHING PLANNING AND ZONING HAD NOT ADDRESSED. COUNCIIMEMBER
MANISON STATED THAT COUNCIL WOULD LIKE 'IO CREATE A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL
AREA 'IO THE SOUTH OF TC1tlN, 'lUvARD ALVIN. HE ADVISED THE CCM-1.ISSION
THAT THERE WAS A HIGH TECH MANUFACTURING CCMPANY WHO MAI<ES MEDICAL
DEVISES FOR THE CONTROL OF EPILEPSY. THEY ARE CURRENTLY LOCATED IN
LEAGUE CITY ON HIGHWAY 3 AND WOULD LII<E TO RELOCATE 'IO THE FRIENDSWOOD
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AREA. HOOVER STATED THAT THE ECONCMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL HAD TRIED 'ID
GET S(l,IB LIGHT INDUSTRIAL 'ID C(l,1E 'ID FRIENDSWOOD; HCWEVER, THE ONLY
AREA ZONED FOR ANY TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL IS 'ID THE NORI'H, OFF OF BEAMER,
AND CLOSE 'ID THE BRIO SITE. MOST PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OF THE BRIO AND IN
ADDITION, THE ASKING PRICE PER SQUARE FCX)T IS 'IWICE AS HIGH AS OTHER
AREAS. A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL PARK 'ID THE SOUTH COULD BE REGUIATED SIMILAR
'ID A PUD. MANISON ALSO COMMENTED THAT THE CITY WASN'T ABLE 'ID GET A
TRANSIT TAX FOR CITY SERVICES; THEREFORE, vK)ULD LIKE 'ID ENACT A 1/2
CENT SALES TAX. THIS SALES TAX WOULD HELP THE SCHOOLS AND THE CITY
INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS WATER, SEWER, AND STREID'S. THE SALES TAX COULD
BE TIED 'ID THE CCMPREHENSIVE PLAN. THIS PUTS S(l,IB TIME CONSTRAINTS ON
THE C0.\1MISSION AND THE CITY COUNCIL BOl'H. IT WAS AGREED THAT J. T.
SHOULD INDICATE AN INDUSTRIAL PARK SOlfilf OF THE CANAL AND EAST OF FM
528.WITH NO FURI'HER Ca-1MENT, THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.
Olw2.� CLAUDIA L. BRINKMAN -SECRETARY