HomeMy WebLinkAboutP&Z Minutes 1994-09-08 Speciall
SPECIAL MEETING
PLANNING AND ZONING Ca.1MISSION
SEPT.EMBER 8, 1994
A SPECIAL JOINT MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD PLANNING AND ZONING
CCMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL WAS HELD ON THURSDAY, SEPI'EMBER 8, 1994, AT
6: 00 P .M. IN THE CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS. THE FOLLCJNING MEMBERS
WERE PRE;SENT:
BAI<ER -CHAIRMAN
FINGER McHUGH
DICI<SON
CRESS
WASSON
J. T. DUNI<IN -CONSULTANT
HOOVER -PLANNER
HENRY -DEVELOPMENT COORDINA'IDR
BRINKMAN -SECRETARY
WITH A QUORUM PRESENT, CCMMISSIONER JORDAN HAVING RESIGNED HER
POSITION, CHAIRMAN BAI<ER OPENED THE MEETING 'ID CONSIDER THE FOLLCJNING:
1.DISCUSSION WITH CITY COUNCIL AND J. T. DUNI<IN AND ASSOCIATES
REGARDING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
CITY PLANNER DAVID HOOVER STATED THAT IN THE IATI'ER PAR!' OF JUNE THE
CCMMISSION HAD MEI' WITH J. T. DUNI<IN REGARDING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
AND HAD MET WITH DUNI<IN A TOTAL OF 5 MEETINGS. HE STATED THAT BEFORE
THE FINISHED PRODUCI', THE CCM1ISSION HAD ELECTED TO MEET WITH CITY
COUNCIL 'ID GET THEIR RECCM-1ENDATIONS REGARDING BOTH THE LAND USE PLAN
AND CHANGES TO THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE PLAN. DUNI<IN DISCUSSED THE LAND
USE PLAN AS IT REIATES 'ID ZONING, STATING THAT ZONING WILL TAI<E CARE OF
ITSELF AFTER THE LAND USE IS WORI<ED OUT. HE EXPLAINED ALL THE STEPS
THE CCMMISSION HAD TAI<EN 'ID ARRIVE AT THE PRODUCT THAT WAS BEING
PRESENTED 'ID THE CITY COUNCIL. DUNI<IN INDICATED ON THE MAP, THE
DIFFERENT THOROUGHFARES IN RELATION 'ID THEIR CORRESPONDENTS IN LEAGUE
CITY AND IN PEARLAND. THE GRAND PARKWAY IS STILL SCME 15 'ID 20 YEARS
IN THE FUTURE. DISCUSSION CENTERED ON SURFACE WATER REQUIREMENTS,
POPUIATION BUILD-Our, AND INDUSTRIAL LOCATICNS. CITY COUNCIIMEMBER
STEWARI' STATED THAT THE PROPOSED 60,000 POPUIATION BUILD our WAS MUCH
TOO HIGH AND WOULD LII<E TO HAVE THAT FIGURE RE-EXAMINED. HE ALSO SPOI<E
ABOU'r A REGIONAL DETENTION POND THAT WOULD BE IN AN AREA WHERE THERE
ARE NO EXISTING TREES SUCH AS MR. BOFYSIL' S PROPERTY OFF OF FM 528,
SOUTH OF FM 518. HE ALSO STATED THAT THE DETENTION POND WOULD NOT HOLD
WATER UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND COULD, THEREFORE, BE USED AS
SOCCER FIELDS. COUNCIIMEMBER DICI<EY STATED THAT THERE WERE SQ.'1E
SIGNIFICANI' AREAS THAT NEED 'ID BE RECLASSIFIED AND CCM1ENTED THAT THE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SHOULD ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES. DUNI<IN SAID THAT WHEN
THE LAND USE PLAN IS COMPLEI'E, THE CCM1ISSION COULD REVIEW THE
PERMITI'ED USE TABLE OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE AND REDEFINE THE USES.
COUNCIIMEMBER LCME DISCUSSED SEVERAL ISSUES, SUCH AS OBD
RECLASSIFICATION AND THE RECIASSIFICATION OF BUSINESSES ALLCJNED IN THE
DIFFERENT DISTRICTS, ADDING THAT FRIENDSWOOD DID NOT NEED MORE AU'ID
REPAIR PIACES EXCEPT BEHIND A FENCE. SHE AGREED THAT LUBE PIACES COULD
REMAIN IN THEIR CURRENT ZONE CIASSIFICATION; HCWEVER, BODY REPAIRS
SHOPS SHOULD BE LIMITED 'ID INDUSTRIAL OR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL AREAS. SHE
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FURI'HER COMMENTED THAT POPUI.ATION SHOULD NOT EXCEED 45,000 AND THERE
WAS DISCUSSION ON HCM THE CITY COULD CONTROL GROtlI'H. HEIGHT
RESTRICTIONS WERE ADDRESSED AS WERE PARKS MAINTAINED BY HCMEXJ"tmER' S
ASSOCIATIONS. IN ADDITION, THE 'IWO ENTITIES DISCUSSED THE PROPOSED
LAND USE FOR CAMP MANISON AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BAY ARF.A BLVD. AREA.
J. T. STATED THAT HE ¼DULD WRITE A PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF THE LAND USE
PLAN AND WOULD MEET WITH THE PLANNING AND ZONING C(M,1.ISSION IN A FEW
WEEKS. WITH NO FURI'HER C(M.1ENTS, THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.
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