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HomeMy WebLinkAboutP&Z Minutes 1973-12-06 RegularFPZC-M-12-6-73 MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION December 6 . 1473 A regular meeting of the Fr.iendswood Planning and Zoning Commission was held at Friendswood City Hall.on Thursday, December6, 1973. Chairman C. C. Bost presided, calling the meeting to order at 7:30 P#M4 MEMBERS PRESENT C. C. Bost, Chairman Tracy Spears, Vice -Chairman Leah North, Secretary Bob Phillips Clyde Raney James Shore Ed Zeitler, Council Rep. 1. MINUTES MEMBERS ABSENT Vacancy (Position #7) November 29, 1973 - Approved as presented. (Page 3. Mr. Shore wondered if it were clear that the motion to release building permits did not release occupancy permits. The Commission thought that it was clear.) 2. INFORMATION REPORTS A. Status: Quaker D ive R-O-W onterru Lion. No action. B. Subdivision Ordinance. Passed first reading last Monday night. C. Sign Ordinance. No action. Attorney has in his hands for written comments. D. Flood Insurance Ordinance. No action. North has it. E. Rezoning of High School. City Secretary has calls. Needs to be written and posted. F. Rezoning of -olher FISD property. A letter has been sent to Dickie Warren, President of the Board, requesting the calls to these properties. (Minutes of 11-29-73, Attachment #2.) G. Rezoning of'City properties. No action. H. Rezoning of Cecil Brown acres to C-1. No action. I. Rezoning` of Fire Station tract. No action. J. Rezoningo Specific U se. Crown Central Request #2. Passed second reading last Monday night. K. Rezoning to Specific Use, Crown Central Request Passed second reading last Monday night. L. Rezoning to Specific Use, Autumn Halls rest home. No action. M. Rezoning to C-1. Wood -Whitaker tract. Not yet posted. N. Heritage Estates S D. Has not yet been filed because have not given City their deed restriction yet. Tax Assessor/Collector Carbone will put these lots on the tax roll, whether it is filed or not, according to the City Manager. 0. Coward GreekS/D. Mayor needs to sign. Same taxing policy as above applies to these. P. Mustang Meadow S . Latest information g'.ven at Council meeting was that loan companies would not give loans on lots which were obligated to the City for water and sewer installations. Opinion differs as to whether subdivision is dead or not. Some report that the owners will permit it to be subdivided into small lots. FPZC-M-12-6-73 z Q. Polly Ranch S/D. No new action since August so far as city is concerned. R. Dow_ pipeline. A letter was sent to Mr. Decker, attorney for Dow, on November 27 (Minutes of 11-15-73, Attachment #5.) No answer has been received. S. Access control. - Phillips. No report. T. Architectural Control - Speaars. No report. U. Fire Zones - North. North reported she had not been able to find where she had read a model fire zone ordinance. Spears had contacted someone in Houston who told him how they formed their fire zones, starting with concentric circles from the downtown area and modifiying these circles to existing streets. Shore questioned whether this wouldn't be better if more than one center were used. North questioned whether this would be adaptable to Friendswood, since we have a different situation, including the zoning which Houston does not have. V. October and November Buildingpermits. A list furnished by the City Manager was reviewed. It was noted that two permits had been issued on Crawford which appeared to be on an extension of Crawford not accepted or approved by the City. W. Any other Information Reports --(School Bus Barn). The Secretary handed out a notice to members announcing a hearing called by the Board of Adjustment for Monday, December 17, 7:30 P.M., City Hall. Spears, Raney and North are interested in attending. 3. ZONING None, but take not?of items under "Subdivision" heading regarding Altemus and Ray Utley. 4. BUILDING PERMITS National Investors The City Manager reported the Maintenance Agreement, as amended by Planning Commission, approved by Council at last Monday's meeting, and signed by the Mayor, was ready to mail back as soon as he got the address from the Secretary. Raney asked how the agreement was to be enforced after the shopping center was built out. The City Manager stated that, since it was a legal agreement, that it could be enforced in the courts. 5. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS Amoco Pipeline An unusually large audience was in attendance from Quakers Landing Quakers Landing subdivision. They had become concerned when survey crews had come through their subdivision with plans to install another pipeline through an easement which lies largely under the right-of-way of Echo Avenue (Last). The City Manager, James Morgan, reported on a phone discussion which he had with Mr. W. W. (Bill) White (944-5150) regarding the pipeline. The Railread Commission has increased the production allowable, so there is need to add a 16'' pipe from Hastings Field to Webster on the existing easement. They will bore under roads, will restore the land to the same condi.tion in which Attac they found it. If there is any permanent damage _a Fi'ZC-M-12-6-73 ACTION to property, they will pay damages. The City Manager told the audience that the City feels that the Oil and Gas (Pipeline) Ordinance and the Zoning Ordinance will require that any new pipelines to come before the Planning and Zoning Commission for a Specific Use permit. He is sure that the City Council would want to get injunctive relief if necessary. Ralph Weldon, a citizep, ated that Councilman Gonzalez had been A` 9;�tehat there was to be a meeting next Wednesday at the Library, with Amoco present. The line is supposed to carry crude oil at 500 to 700 p.s.i. pressure. Commissioner Rgney stated that he would like to attend this meeting. He stated some of the controls put on pipeline installations by the ordinance passed on October 1 of this year.. In response to a question, the City Manager stated that Mr. White had informed him that they had tried to get the developer to build around the pipeline easement. When he did not want to, they sig d a very good agreement with him in which they do not have to replace any pavement. Mr. White told the City Manager that they have the right to go in, but will not except as a last resort. The Secretary will trace down this agreement tomorrow at the County Court House. More discussion followed, with some of the information being contradictory. Mr. White was quoted by at least one of the audience as saying that they might leave the street very torn up. The opinion was also expressed that many of the homes were already built within 40 feet of the present pipelines, which is now illegal. Also, that to install a new pipeline 40 feet from existing homes would, of necessity, place it in the middle of the street and make boring impractical. No action was taken. The City Manager has already informed Mr. White of our ordinances. 6. SUBDIVISIONS Longwood Park Mr. Ken Yowell appeared before the Commission Attach #1 Proposed Section to discuss what he thinks is a subdivision. Three He presented the Commission with a survey of the land showing twelve lots and showed a copy of Londwood Park subdivision which shoves this area as "proposed Section Three." He also Attach #2 exhibited tax bills from the School, City, and FPZC-M-12--6-73 County which indicated that he has been taxed this year on separate lots. He stated that water and sewer lines were already in along the two streets involved. lie could not show us that the plat had been recorded, however. Spears informed him that any piece of land divided in two parts is a subdivision. Mr. Bost informed him that we would have to have the City Engineer take a look at this, also the Utilities Superintendent. Mr. Yowell will obtain the deed restrictions which he says pertain to the area and leave them with the City Secretary. He bought the land from Nathan Spungin in December, 1972. Action 14 ftm ir" Action %1 wm l' Mrs. North will research the land transactions ACTION on this proprty when she visits the County 611klfff Court House tomorrow. Altemus Mr. C. A. Ricks presented a colored schematic Proposal of land use for the Altemus property showing a 12/ reserve for a commercial area to support the subdivision anc,,a townhouse areap prepared by Robert MuSevrec.he 'and Associates at 9: Q4 P.IVI, No subdivision lots were shown and this plan was not left with the Commission. Considerable discussion followed regarding -the pros and cons of Commercial in that area. The possible extension of Sunset through that area would create a triangle between two arterials which might be hard to develop as residential land. It was agreed to give a cppy of the survey of the property to City Engineer Heaney to define the right-of-way on. Host took the survey to give to the City Manager to pass on to Mr. Heaney. North objected to the amount of time being given to the discussion, questioning whether this was a proposed subdivision or a request for rezoning. The Chairman asked the Commission what their feelings were on the Commercial. Phillips stated that his position was the same as earlier, that he dial not want to consider more commercial now. Raney did not want to decide until the Sunset arterial was defined. North could not agree to commercial at this time. Bost said that he had been looking at the Captain's Corner and thought that more and smaller centers would be built in the future. Mr. Dicks agreed to return on the twentieth and the discussion was ended at 9155• Action d FPZC-M-12-6-73 Woodlawn Office Mr. Jim Gartrell and Ray Utley appeared on behalf Complex of Clint Hackney to propose an office -complex on the land behind the Captains Corners shopping enter. This land faces Woodlawn across from the trailer park and faces Heritage across from some single-family homes. Area is approximately 630' by 390'. It is presently zoned for single- family residential, but backs on the 200' Commercial strip on 2351. A complex of half a dozen office buildings with an attractive design to blend into the neighborhood, one-story tall, is proposed. Mr. Gartrell stated that they had the choice of developing it into office buildings or putting it into small lots. Landscaped green areas are proposed to make it attractive. The question was raised regarding the possibility of cutting Laurel Drive through to 2351 to relieve the traffic on Heritage and Woodlawn. Mr. Gartrell thought the owner would give the right-of-way if the City would curb and gutter it. The discussion ended at 10:30, with Mr. Gartrell to return on December 20. Greenbriar, Not ready to present by developer says Mr. Gartrell. Section One 7. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS Hearing Fees Raney recommended that the:$40.00 fee for rezoning hearing apply if no more than two letters have to be sent to adjoining propoerty owners. He recommends that an additional 1�10.00 be charged for each additional letter that must be sent. Considerable discussion followed. Reasoning behind the proposed changes included the fact that rezoning increases the value of the land greatly and that rezoning of certain types, such as that for pipelines, requires the sending of many letters, searching for the owners and their addresses, etc., and the present $40,00 fee does not begin to cover the costs. Attach MOTION WAS MADE by Shore, seconded by Phillips, that # the recommendation be accepted and that the Commission recommend to Council that they adopt the suggested fees immediately. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. Sunset -Drive The proposed route of Sunset Drive as mapped out on the aerial photos by the City Engineer was discussed. It was noted that the decision to accept the #2 alternative to Greenbriar arterial was based on accepting a Sunset arterial. This was according to advice given by Oliver Stork of H-GRITS. Bost expressed the thought that we may have erred in not considering the original FPZC-M-12-6-73 6 Gre.enbriar arterial as proposed in the Bovay Report. After some further discussion Spears stated that he would like us to call a hearing in January and discuss the road situation then. MOTION WAS MADE by Spears, seconded by Raney, that a hearing -be called for January 24, 8:00 P.M., regarding the proposed Sunset arterial. The Attac) City Engineer should be present to explain his # proposal. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 8. INFORMATION REPORTS Council representative Ed Zeitler, who had not been able to attend prior to 9:00 P.M. gave us additional information and confirmation of our information regarding several items. C. S�n_Ordinance. B. J. Hooks, City Attorney, is still working on this. E. Rezoning of High School. City Secretary is still. working on this. G. Rezoning of Citypro,perties. Nothing has been done. H. Rezo-ning of Cecil Brown 16 acres to C-l. Council has taken the position that it will move out one way or the other by the end of the year. The Browns still want a hundred foot set -back on the Fire Station, which would be costly to the City. I. Rezoning of Fire Station tract. Same as "H" above. P. Mustang Meadows. No lending instution would buy the ordinance that in effect gave the City first lein on the land. Q. Polly Ranch. Raney asked why the City did not annex this area. He is concerned that without zoning the owners could put in anything. 9. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 11:30 P.M. Next Thursday will be a workshop regarding the zoning plan for the area bounded by 2351, 518, Castlewood and Clear Reek. V" J, � P, �� Secretary Approved: /L • 90 197,-?