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HomeMy WebLinkAboutP&Z Minutes 1974-04-25 RegularFPZC-Notice-4-18-74 NOTICE OF MEETING FRIENDSWOOD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION WILL BE HELD AT FRIENDSWOOD CITY HALL, 109 EAST WILLOWICK, FRIENDSWOOD, TEXAS ON: THURSDAY APRIL 25, 1974 7:30 P,M. AT WHICH TIME THE FOLLOWING ITEMS OF BUSINESS WILL BE CONSIDERED: 1. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS. 2. INFORMATION REPORTS. 3. ROUTINE BUILDING PERMITS. Friendswood Volunteer Fire Department 4. REZONING. None 5. SUBDIVISIONS. None b. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. Representative from Forest Bend John Robinson - on parks and planning 7. ADJOURNMENT. Secretary CFRTTFTCATF I certify that the above notice of meeting was posted on the bulletin board at the Friendswood City Hall on the twenty --first day of April, 1974, at �/,o,�- o'clock P.M. *added 10:20 P.M. April 21, 1974 Planning and Zoning Commission Secretary FPZC-M-4-25-74 MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE PLAITING AND ZONING COMMISSION A pri]. 25,_L924 A regular meeting of the Friendswood Planning and Zoning Commission was held on April 25, 1974 at the Friendswood City Hall, 109.tEast Willowick. Chairman Tracy Spears presided, calling the meeting to order at 7:40 P.M. MEMBERS PRESENT Tracy Spears, Chairman Clyde Raney, Vice -Chairman Leah North, Secretary Kenneth Fossler Bob Phillips Jim Shore AUDIENCE Signing the guest register were: MEMBERS ABSENT Vacancy Ed Zeitler, Council Rep. Jim McVey, 5102 Encino Court, 482-6182. Roger Medors, US Homes, Stafford, Texas, 499-2561 Jeff Lewis, U. S. Homes, Stafford, 499-2561 Gary Hannon, U. S. Homes, Stafford, 498-5259 1. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS April 18, 1974 - Approved with the following corrections: Page One, Page Four, Page Four: Page Five: February 21, 1974 - Minutes 2. BUILDING PERMITS last paragraph; Insert word "had."(CR) last paragraph: "As"to "is." (CR) Fossler left at 9:33. (KF) Vote on Polly Ranch was 4-0-1, with Fossler absent. (KF) were passed out to members. Friendswood Vol. Mr. Van Williams and Mr. LaMarr Beatty of the Fire Department Friendswood Volunteer Fire Department presented a layout for the proposed Fire Station which incorporated the recommendations made by the Commission at a previous meeting. Mr. Williams stated that he felt the East Drive was the only thing in question -and the Commission concurred. A discussion followed on whether theplan should be for the east drive to also serve as park egress. if this were done, it would be an unprotected (by stop light) ingress/egress, would share space with emergency vehicles, and would necessitate widening the drive to at least 24 feet The consensus of the Commission was that the egress to the park should come from Winding Way. Public parking could be off this access and behind the Fire Station and be used for both park use and public meetings in the Station. MOTION WAS MADE by North, seconded by Phillips, FPZC-M-4-25-74 2 the the Commission recommend approval of the layout presented with the stipulation that the drives are private and not for park use. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 3. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS U. S. Homes Mr. Jeff Lewis, Attorney, Mr. Gary Hannon, Forest Bend Engineer, and Mr. Roger Medors, Operations Man, S/D all represp:nting U. S. Homes building in Forest Bend Subdivision were presont to enable the Commission to review plats and plans of the Subdivision. Total Lots left. U. S. Homes is now working in Sections 3,4, 5, and 6. Seventy lots are left in Section 5, 190 in Section 6. A total of 337 are left, including a few in Sections 1 and 2. The end of the program is projected to be in two years. Flood Elevations. In Section 5 there are several "Class B" lots which may never be built on. These are lots on which the slab elevation, electric box, compressor, have to be raised. Two mandatory inspections are necessary and elevations are shot. Flood plain restrictions are Harris County's. La}Lout. A layout of the entire plat was shown. Size of the area is 328 acres and approximately 1000 lots. They are finishing out at a rate of about twenty per month. The majority of lots are in the 60 to 65 foot range. Although they could not leave the copies of the plats which they brought, Mr. Medors said that they could send copies of the plats. Replatting. Mr. Hannon reminded us that actual buildings may vary from the plat because -the section has been replatted. Fossler asked if they had the xeplats. Mr. Medors stated that the replatting was done by metes and bounds only. Medors also stated that the density of the tract decreased 98/ of the time when replatting was done. North asked if the Commission could get copies of the replats. Medors explained that the replats were drawings which are used in the sales offices and are on boards. There was some discussion on how to get a copy of the boards. Medors thought he might try a picture. North asked why they didn't go ahead and file the replat. This would greatly help the tax assessor/ collector. She was told that if they filed a replat, they would have to get all the lot owners to sign their consent. 3 FPZC--M-4-2 5-74 U. S. Homes (continued) Sand bar at ditch. Spears asked if they could fix the sand bar which has formed from the silt which has washed into Clear Creek from the main drainage ditch. Mr. Hannon stated that Tom Langford (Harris County Flood Control) takes care of this periodically. North questioned this. Miscellaneous. Raney asked if they had received any letters previously from the City in regard to their subdivision. Medors stated that this letter was the first. He stated that he understood that the City of Houston had given us jurisdiction. Raney reminded them thay have a conflict in lot sizes with the Friendswood Ordinance. Density. Medors explained that the 328 acres excludes the townhouses, of which there is only one section. This section consists of 14.58 acres and contained approximately 145 townhouses as estimated by the Commission. Miscellaneous. Raney asked what kind of water lines were used. Hannon stated that they used six and eight inch asbes'os concrete, which he thought was the same as transite. North asked what brand. Hannon replied "Certainteed." The open area "c" adjacent to F. M. 528 has been sold. The quads are all built. Lewis stated that the unrestricted reserves are sold. Total quads are twelve units of four each. Phillips asked if they would increase the number of townhouses if they had more acreage. The answer was "no" because the townhouses this far out were not selling, according to Medors, possibl3 affected by the fuel crisis. Spears asked if they had any more areas which they planned to develop. Lewis stated that they had one more tract on F.M . 518, but ao Y"Ore. ir+ r , 1 1� 1 PIi�tSwcrr �.. Fossler asked if they were familiar with our subdivision ordinance. They were getting ready to ask for one, which the Secretary furnished to them. Amendments were not available, however. cT w/ These will be mailed later. I� Raney asked when the subdivision started. Plans were begun on July 19, 1968. 4. BUILDING PERMITS McVey Antiques Mr. Jim McVey, 5102 Encino Court presented a Laurel Drive drawing of a proposed addition to a building in which he is running an antique shop on Laurel FPZC-M-4-25-74 4 Drive. Present parking is noncomforming in front of the building, which has only a ten foot set -back. Right set -back is 28 feet. The Commission informed him that he would have to provide parking on the lot since the ten foot front is not adequate. lie had no objection. Discussion of the number of spaces required followed. It was finally agreed that he needed 1/200 sq. ft. of the front building which will be his sales room and 1/1000 square feet of the addition, which will be workroom and storage. Sales area is 480 square feet, new addition is 1200 square feet. Number of parking spaces needed is four. Mr. McVey expressed a concernthat parking toward the front of the lot might harm his neighbor's trees, which are right on the lotiineThe Secretary gave him a copy, of the parking criteria. He will use it to figure out four more spaces and will call when he is ready to be back on the agenda. No plan was available to leave with the Commission. 5. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS Protest: Lack of Mr. John Edward Robinson presented a two -page Attach Park Planning protest against the purchase of an additional #2 park at this time and stated that the City needs to look at the long,range consequences of its actions "and not act on'hip pocket' promotion reactions. Spears reassured Mr. Robinson that we had employed a planner recently. Raney told Mr. Robinson that we are hopelessly behind in park aquisition now. That with the purchase of the additional acres that we will still have only about half of the park which we should have right now according to National Recreation Association standards. Robinson stated that the Renwick site was a a good example of long range planning that should have been done. It was once the property of the school and was sold for much less four years ago, when the City could first have purchased it. Raney stated that if we do not buy it now we will have houses built on it. The area is densely populated and needs more park space. Robinson concluded that the people should be able to know what the long range planning is. 161 Miscellaneous Business (continued) FPZC-M-4-25--74 Key Rate North gave a verbal report on her research into the question of acquiring our own Key Rate. A written report will be ready next week. Her conclusions are that considerable money can be saved by area businesses if Friendswood adopts its own Key Rate, which is now estimated to be approximately 36$d according to the State Board of Insurance engineers. She will make the recommendation next week that Friendswood (1) initiate action to secure its own Key Rate, and (2) adopt a policy that utility installations approved by the City be so designed that they will not cost the City a penalty on its Key Rate. Raney raised the question whether the Key Rate could increase appreciably in the future as the City grows and perhaps does not keep pace with the growth. He mentioned maintenance of Fire Department equipment as something which could incurr penalties in the future. Windsong Slab North reported that the City Manager had told her that Mr. Cline had gone out to the site and had observed that the slab was actually being built at eighteen inches, not the eight inches indicated on the plans. Elementary School North noted that the paper today indicated that Plans the School Board had approved the Elementary School. plans. She stated that she was still concerned about the design (or lack of design) of emergency exits. Dow Chemical The Secretary passed out copies of a letter which Raney had drafted to write to Dow in regard Attach to their pipeline rezoning. This was approved # by the Commission as written. 6. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to dicuss, the meeting was adjourned. _ wal(y' �&g Secretary Approved: �� % l