[Call to Order ]
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OKAY.WE HAVE A QUORUM AT THE TABLE, AND THIS MEETING OF THE HOUSTON PLANNING COMMISSION IS CALLED TO ORDER.
UM, FOR THE RECORD, COMMISSIONERS ALLMAN DALTON CLARK AND MODEST WILL BE ABSENT TODAY.
AND WE HAVE SOME OTHER PEOPLE WHO MAY BE ABSENT, BUT THEY'RE OH, AND OKAY, NEVERMIND.
BUT THEY MAY BE LATE, BUT, UH, I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE ABSENT.
UM, AND I JUST FOR THE RECORD, WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PLAN HOUSTON PLANNING COMMISSION, IS NOW BACK IN PERSON.
ALL COMMISSIONERS ARE PARTICIPATING VIRTUALLY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF OUR COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES.
AND IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE ALL OF THE PRESENTING, PLANNING AND, UH, DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT STAFF ARE ALSO IN PERSON AS THEY HAVE BEEN FOR SEVERAL WEEKS.
UM, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF, UH, JOHN CILLO AND ARACELI RODRIGUEZ, WHO HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO MAN THE VIRTUAL MEETING THAT IS BEING CONDUCTED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PUBLIC WHO WANTS TO, TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY.
SO WE'RE BASICALLY RUNNING TWO MEETINGS HERE, UM, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, SORT OF A FEAT, UM, IN, IN AND OF ITSELF.
AND WE DO APPRECIATE THE ORGANIZATION THAT WENT INTO DOING THAT.
UM, TO EVERYBODY ELSE, WELCOME.
UM, IF YOU WANNA ADDRESS THE COMMISSION ON A SPECIFIC ITEM, THE FINAL AGENDA IS ON THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE WITH THEIR FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS.
IF YOU HAVE, UH, SUBMITTED ADVANCE COMMENTS TO THE COMMISSION, IF THEY WERE RECEIVED BY NOON YESTERDAY, THEY ARE IN OUR PACKETS.
UM, IF YOU ARE HERE TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM, GO AHEAD AND FILL OUT ONE OF THESE LITTLE, UH, FORMS THAT YOU CAN GET AT THE DESK IN THE FRONT AND RETURN THAT THAT'LL HELP YOU GET, GET UP IN THE QUEUE FOR, FOR BEING CALLED ON.
UM, WE ASK THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WITH US TODAY, BUT ARE CONNECTED BY PHONE OR COMPUTER TO KEEP YOUR, YOUR DEVICE MUTED UNTIL YOU'RE CALLED ON TO SPEAK.
DO NOT SPEAK UNLESS CALLED ON AND TO KEEP YOUR CAMERA OFF UNTIL IT'S YOUR TURN TO SPEAK.
UM, AND WITH THAT, I'LL NOTE A NUMBER OF ITEMS HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM TODAY'S AGENDA.
I DON'T USUALLY ANNOUNCE THE ITEMS UNDER THE CONSENT, UH, SECTIONS, UM, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE SPEAKERS, BUT TODAY WE HAVE A SPEAKER ON ITEM 22, BUT IT HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.
THERE WILL BE NO OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON ITEM 22, NOR WILL THERE BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK UNDER PUBLIC HEARINGS ON NUMBER 1 34 NORTH CHURCH RESERVE.
THAT'S BEEN WITHDRAWN, 1 43 WEST HAVEN ESTATES AND UNDER VARIANCES NUMBER 1 46 LODGE RESERVES.
[Director’s Report ]
THAT, WE'LL GO TO THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA, WHICH IS THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT, DIRECTOR MARGARET WALLACE BROWN.GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR AND COMMISSIONERS.
MY NAME IS MARGARET WALLACE BROWN.
I'M SECRETARY TO THIS COMMISSION AND DIRECTOR OF THE HOUSTON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
I WANNA INVITE ALL OF YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPH, NOVEMBER 10TH.
IT'S TIME FOR THE ANNUAL GROUP SHOT THAT IS, THAT IS INCLUDED IN OUR ANNUAL REPORT EVERY YEAR.
PLEASE PLAN TO COME TO THE FRONT OF THE HORSESHOE BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING STARTS THAT DAY.
SO BEING HERE AT TWO 15 WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
I'LL REMIND YOU AGAIN, AND I'M BEING TOLD TO REMIND YOU TO WEAR BRIGHT COLORS.
UM, THE ANNUAL PLANNING TRAINING WORKSHOP THAT OUR TEAM PAR PARTICIPATES IN IS CALLED P CEFI LETTERS STAND FOR THE PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS EDUCATION FOUNDA FOUNDATION, INC.
IT IS ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6TH.
SEATING IS LIMITED AND EARLY REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED.
BUT IF WE HAVE ANY OF OUR CUSTOMERS OR CLIENTS OUT THERE INTERESTED, UM, YOU MAY CONTACT EITHER CHRISTIE OR FRANK AT LAND TECH TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING SPOT, ANY REMAINING SPOTS.
UM, YOU CAN CALL 7 1 3 8 6 1 7 0 6 8.
AS A REMINDER, THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED AS CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCED PLATING PROFESSIONALS COURSE INSTRUCTIONS FROM COURSE INSTRUCTORS FROM OUR CITY PLANNING STAFF, HARRIS COUNTY ENGINEER'S OFFICE, AND OTHER AGENCIES WILL PRESENT TOPICS CONCERNING PLATTING BASICS, CURRENT ISSUES AND ORDINANCE CHANGES.
UH, THE RESIDENTIAL BUFFERING DRAFT ORDINANCE IS AVAILABLE ON OUR LET'S TALK HOUSTON WEBSITE, AND IT WILL BE PRESENTED AT THIS MEETING IN A MOMENT.
THE PROSO THE PROPOSALS ARE THE WORK OF OUR LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE, AND WE THANK ALL OF THEM FOR THEIR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION.
UM, THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIODS WILL START TODAY FOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION.
IT, THE ORDINANCES CHANGES INCLUDE GARAGE SCREENING, LIGHTING FIXTURES, DUMPSTER AND BULK CONTAINER SCREENING, AND DISTANCE SEPARATIONS FOR HIGH-RISE AND MIDWIVES BUILDINGS TALLER THAN 65 FEET.
SO IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN THOSE FOUR ITEMS, PLEASE STAY TUNED.
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IN CLOSING, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU MAY CALL THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AT (832) 393-6600, OR YOU CAN CALL THE PLANNING SERVICES PLANNER OF THE D THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES PLANNER OF THE DAY AT 8 3 2 3 9 3 6 6 2 4, OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE@HOUSTONTX.GOV SLASH PLANNING.ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? UH, WITH
[Approval of the September 15, 2022 Planning Commission Meeting Minutes ]
THAT, WE WILL GO TO APPROVAL OF THE SEPTEMBER 15TH PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES, WHICH WERE IN YOUR PACKET.IF THERE ARE NO ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS TO THE MINUTES, IS THERE A MOTION BALDWIN? IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND FOR IS PERLE.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT I NEGLECTED TO JUST OFFICIALLY, UH, RECOGNIZE THAT COMMISSIONER KANE IS JOINING US VIRTUALLY.
UM, CAN YOU JUST AUDIBLY SAY YOU'RE HERE? I'M PRESENT.
UM, THAT'S A THING FOR THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW, SO WE'RE DONE.
[I. Public Hearing for the proposed Residential Buffering Ordinance amendments (Suvidha Bandi) ]
UH, ROMAN NUMERAL ONE IS A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL BUFFERING ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS, UH, SAVITA BANDY WILL PRESENT THEM, AND THEN WE'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.I'M HERE TODAY TO PRESENT THE RESIDENTIAL BUFFERING ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS AND OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
ALONG WITH THE 30 DAY COMMENT PERIOD, STAFF WORKED ON THESE AMENDMENTS WITH THE LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE, AND THEY HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY VETTED.
JUST TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS AWARE, THE PURPOSE OF LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE IS TO CREATE.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, IS TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN OUR DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS THAT ENCOURAGE HOUSING VARIETY AND AFFORDABILITY.
THIS EFFORT IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNITIES PREFERENCES IDENTIFIED THROUGH ACTION STEPS IN SEVERAL PREVIOUS PLANNING EFFORTS SUCH AS PLAN HOUSTON, RESIDENT HOUSTON, AND OTHERS.
UM, THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS THAT I'M GOING TO PRESENT TODAY INCLUDE CHANGES TO RESIDENTIAL BUFFERING STANDARDS FOR EASE OF REFERENCE.
WE CAN ALSO CALL THEM DISTANCE SEPARATION STANDARDS, UH, TO CLEARLY, UM, FIGURE OUT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
THE SECOND ONE IS GARAGE SCREENING STANDARDS.
THIRD ONE IS LIGHTING FIXTURE STANDARDS.
AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS DUMPSTER SCREENING STANDARDS.
I'LL PRESENT THEM ONE BY ONE AND PAUSE AFTER EACH PIECE IN CASE THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION ON THESE ITEMS. SO LET'S DO THIS.
UM, THE FIRST ONE IS RESIDENTIAL BUFFERING STANDARDS.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THESE AMENDMENTS IS TO ENCOURAGE HIGH RISE DEVELOPMENTS ALONG MAJOR CORRIDORS AND IN MAJOR ACTIVITY CENTERS, UM, GUIDE COMPATIBLE DEVELOPMENTS, AVERTING EXISTING SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL, AND ALONG LOCAL AND COLLECTOR STREETS, MAINTAIN BALANCE BETWEEN HIGH DENSITY DEVELOPMENT AND RESIDENT AND OTHER EXISTING RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS.
THE APPROACH, UM, THE APPROACH WITHIN THE AMENDMENTS IS TO REQUIRE BUFFER DISTANCE FROM ALL SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS TO MAINTAIN EQUITY.
WE INTRODUCED ADDITIONAL CATEGORY OF MID-RISE BUILDINGS THAT MUST BE BUFFERED FROM WHEN TAKING ACCESS FROM LOCAL STREETS.
AGAIN, THIS CHANGE OR AMENDMENT IS TO KEEP IN LINE WITH THE OBJECTIVES OF THESE AMENDMENTS.
HERE IS A SUMMARY TABLE COMPARING THE CURRENT BUFFERING AREA STANDARDS WITH THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.
I KNOW THAT IT IS VERY HARD TO READ, SO I'M GOING TO HIGHLIGHT THE POINTS THAT WE WANT YOU TO PAY ATTENTION TO.
UM, THERE ARE FIVE CRITERIA TO BE MET FOR, UM, ANY HIGH RISE STRUCTURE TALLER THAN 75 FEET TO REQUIRE THAT DISTANCE SEPARATION OR CALLED THE BUFFER DISTANCE.
UM, OUT OF THESE FIVE CRITERIA, THE LAST THREE, WHICH IS THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE, IS WHAT WE ARE AMENDING.
UM, ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE IS THE CURRENT BUFFERING ORDINANCE ONLY REQUIRES BUFFERING WHEN, UH, THE ENT PROPERTIES ARE, UH, SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS THAT ARE 3,500 SQUARE FEET OR LARGER, AND THEY MUST BE WITHIN 30 FEET DISTANCE OF THE TALL HIGH-RISE STRUCTURE.
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SO THERE IS A CHANGE THAT BE AMENDMENT THAT IS BEING PROPOSED TO REQUIRE BUFFERING DISTANCE REGARDLESS OF THE SIZE OF THE SINGLE FAMILY OR THE MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.AGAIN, THIS IS IN LINE WITH MAKING SURE THAT THE EQUITY IS MAINTAINED ACROSS ALL RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS.
UM, AND ANOTHER CHANGE THAT WE ARE PROPOSING IS, UM, INTRODUCING A NEW CATEGORY OF MID-RISE, WHICH IS 65 AND TALLER STRUCTURES TO BUFFER FROM WHEN THEY TAKE ACCESS FROM LOCAL STREETS.
AND THE BUFFER DISTANCE WILL BE 15 FEET.
UM, AND THEY MUST PROVIDE EIGHT FEET FENCE OR WALL, UM, AT THE PROPERTY BOUNDARY.
NO STRUCTURES OR COVERED PARKING WITHIN THE BUFFER AREA WILL BE ALLOWED.
AND LAR ACCESS AND SURFACE PARKING WILL BE ALLOWED WITHIN THIS 15 FEET BUFFER AREA.
UH, CRITERIA NUMBER FOUR, AGAIN, IS THAT MAJORITY OF THE ADJACENT DEVELOPMENT MUST BE 3,500 SQUARE FEET.
SO THAT IS CHANGING TO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL.
I WANNA EMPHASIZE ONE THING ABOUT THE MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL.
WHAT IS THIS? IT'S A NEW TERM.
SO WE ARE DEFINING THAT AS ANY DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS ANYWHERE FROM THREE TO EIGHT UNITS ON THE PROPERTY, WHICH IS UNRESTRICTED, DOESN'T HAVE ANY SINGLE FAMILY RESTRICTIONS, UM, IN ORDER TO, UM, ALLOW SMALL SCALE MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENTS TO HAPPEN.
SO THE BUFFERING DISTANCE WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED FROM THESE MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS.
UM, WITH THAT, AND HERE IS AN ILLUSTRATION.
HERE IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF WHAT THE ORDINANCE CURRENTLY HAS, WHICH ONLY TALKS ABOUT THE 75 FEET AND THE ENT SINGLE FAMILY, AND THE BUFFER IS ONLY 30 FEET.
IF THE PROPERTY, THE TALL STRUCTURE, UH, PROPERTY IS TAKING ACCESS FROM COLLECTOR STREET AND 40 FEET BUFFER DISTANCE IF IT'S TAKING ACCESS FROM LOCAL STREET.
IN HERE YOU CAN SEE THE CHANGE.
SO WE CREATED AN, AN ADDITIONAL CATEGORY.
ONE IS THE HIGH RISE, WHICH IS 75 FEET OR TALLER, AND THE SECOND ONE IS THE MID-RISE, WHICH IS A NEW CATEGORY WE CREATED.
UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE THAT WE ARE PROPOSING 15 FEET BUFFER FOR SUCH MID DRY STRUCTURES.
WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO STOP AND, UM, FIND OUT IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION ON THIS TOPIC.
ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT? AND I, I WILL SAY THAT I, I THINK MS. MAHER HAD SENT THE, UH, PRESENTATION, THE ORDINANCE TO ALL OF YOU EARLIER.
SO I KNOW A LOT OF YOU HAVE ALREADY READ IT, BUT YOU'LL ALSO HAVE ADDITIONAL TIME IN THE 30 DAY PERIOD.
SO, ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER JONES? IT MAY BE LATER, BUT THERE'S A REFERENCE ABOUT TREES AND, AND LANDSCAPE.
I GUESS IT'S PART OF THE BUFFER.
UH, ON A, JUST A PERSONAL NOTE, I THINK ONE AND A HALF INCH, UH, DIAMETER TREE IS TOO SMALL.
MY, MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE A THREE INCH MINIMUM.
AND, AND THEN THE IRRIGATION BE INCLUDED IN, IN ALL OF THAT BUFFERING PACKAGE, UM, LANDSCAPE BUFFERING.
THAT'S PROBABLY, I DON'T WANNA TAKE THAT FOR GRANTED.
YOU KNOW, WE ALL DO IT, BUT LET'S MAYBE CODIFY IT.
MAYBE THEY'RE NECESSARY, BUT THAT JUST SUGGEST IT ANYWAY.
YOU MEAN THE IRRIGATION FOR THE NEW TREES? YES.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS WHERE WE GET THESE FIVE? YOU HAVE, I THINK YOU'VE ALREADY HAD THEM.
THE ORDINANCE HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED, THE PRESENTATION.
WE WILL SEND IT AROUND TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
I'M SORRY, I THOUGHT YOU GOT THE SLIDES.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO TURN ON YOUR MICS WHEN YOU'RE SPEAKING.
SO, UM, THE LANDSCAPE BUFFER IS ALREADY IN THE ORDINANCE IN CHAPTER 33, AND THERE IS A 10, 10 FEET LANDSCAPE BUFFER.
BUT THE POINT IS NOTED ABOUT THE TREES, THE SIZE OF THE TREES.
OKAY, ASSUMING THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS, I'M GOING TO JUMP INTO THE NEXT TOPIC, WHICH IS, UM, GARAGE SCREENING STANDARDS.
THE OBJECTIVE FOR THESE STANDARDS IS TO PROTECT ALL RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS FROM LIGHT TRESPASS AND ADDRESS LIGHTING, UM, LIGHTING TRESPASS FROM CAR HEADLIGHTS AND GARAGE CEILING FIXTURES.
THE APPROACH TO THESE AMENDMENTS IS TO PROVIDE OPAQUE EXTERIOR COVER FOR ALL GARAGE FACES ON ALL TIER REQUIRE EXTERIOR COVER FOR ALL TIER WHERE PARKING OCCURS.
I'M GOING TO ELABORATE AND SHOW YOU THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CURRENT AND THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS IN THIS SLIDE.
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IT'S HARD TO READ, SO LET ME HIGHLIGHT THE THINGS.UM, FOR THE CURRENT ORDINANCE, THE, UH, GARAGE SCREENING IS ONLY REQUIRED IF THE GARAGE IS WITHIN 30 FEET DISTANCE OF A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
AGAIN, THE 3,500 SQUARE FEET, UM, SIZE OF THE PROPERTY, WE ARE CHANGING THAT AND REQUIRING THAT THE, UM, THE BUFFER, THE OPAQUE SCREENING BE PROVIDED FOR ALL GARAGE FACES ALONG ALL GARAGE FACES, UM, AND CHANGE THAT DISTANCE.
THE HEIGHT OF THE GARAGE SCREENING THE OPEC SCREENING FROM 42 INCHES TO 50 INCHES.
SO THAT IS A NOTABLE CHANGE, AND THE SCREEN WILL BE PROVIDED IN ALL TIER.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE CURRENT ORDINANCE, AGAIN, UM, BEYOND 50 FEET, IF THE PARKING GARAGE IS BEYOND 50 FEET TALLER, THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT OF THE OPAQUE, UM, EXTERIOR COVER.
AND WE ARE CHANGING THAT AND REQUIRING FOR ALL TIER, REGARDLESS OF THE HEIGHT OF THE PARKING GARAGE.
UM, ANY, UH, THE PROPOSED RULE SAY THAT ANY PART OF THE COMMERCIAL OR MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT USED AS A PARKING STRUCTURE SHALL PROVIDE AN EXTERIOR COVER TO ADDRESS LIGHTING FROM CAR HEADLIGHTS.
UM, THE OPEC SCREEN MUST BE A MESH OF SUFFICIENT RATING AND BLOCK HEADLIGHTS, UM, AT LEAST 50 INCHES IN HEIGHT FROM THE FINISHED FLOOR PER EVERY TIER.
AND THEY MUST BE POSITION POSITIONED TO BLOCK HEADLIGHTS SHINING INTO ADJACENT PROPERTIES FROM RAMPS AND OTHER SLOPE SURFACES, AND THEY MUST MEET THE OPENNESS REQUIREMENT IDENTIFIED IN THE BUILDING CODE.
ANOTHER CONCERN WE WANT TO ADDRESS IS THE LIGHTING FROM THE INTERNAL PARKING GARAGE, UH, CEILING FIXTURES.
SO WHEN A PARKING GARAGE STRUCTURES ABOUT, ABOUT A PUBLIC STREET OR A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, WHICH INCLUDES SINGLE FAMILY AND THE MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL, ONE OF THE FOLLOWING IS REQUIRED TO MINIMIZE LIGHT TRESPASS FROM THE INTERNAL GARAGE CEILING LIGHTS.
NOW THIS IS A NEW ADDITION, WHICH WE DID NOT HAVE IN THE ORDINANCE BEFORE REQUIRING, UM, SCREENING TO AVOID THE LIGHTS FROM SHINING OUTSIDE TO MINIMIZE LIGHT TRESPASS FROM THESE INTERNAL GARAGE CEILING LIGHTS.
THERE IS AN OPTION YOU SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING, EITHER PROVIDE A PHOTOMETRIC PLAN FOR ALL INTERNET GLA GARAGE CEILING LIGHTS TO SHOW THAT NO LIGHT IS TRESPASSING BEYOND THE PROPERTY LINE THAT EXCEEDS 0.2 FOOT CANDLES MEASURED AT GRADE ON THE PROPERTY LINE, OR PROVIDE SCREENING FOR THE ENTIRE HEIGHT OF THE GARAGE FACING THE STREET OR THE ABUTTING RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT TO PREVENT LIGHT FROM TRESPASSING THAT EXCEEDS 0.2 FOOT CANDLES MEASURED AT GRADE ON THE PROPERTY LINE, AND PROVIDE AN ACKNOWLEDGING NOTE ON THE PLANS FOR COMPLIANCE.
SO THERE IS TWO OPTIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE LIGHT FROM THE GARAGE CEILING IS, UM, NOT SHINING ON THE BUTTING PROPERTIES OR ALONG THE STREET.
ONE OPTION IS THE PHOTOMETRIC PLAN.
THE OTHER OPTION IS TO SCREEN THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE AND PROVIDE AN ACKNOWLEDGING NOTE ON THE PLANTS.
UM, THE NEXT SLIDE WILL SHOW YOU IMAGES OF WHAT, UH, THE CURRENT STANDARDS ARE AND WHAT THE CHANGES ON THE PROPOSED STANDARDS.
SO HERE YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE IS NO 30 FEET DISTANCE.
WE ARE REQUIRING THAT 50 INCH OPAQUE COVER EXTERIOR COVER FOR ALL TIER.
AND YOU CAN ALSO SEE THAT, UM, THE INTERNAL GARAGE FIXTURES HAVE TO PROVIDE THE PHOTOMETRIC PLAN IF THEY'RE NOT PROVIDING FULL SCREENING.
WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO STOP HERE AND TAKE QUESTIONS ON THE LIGHTING FIXTURE STANDARDS.
ANY QUESTIONS? YES, COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, IS, UH, THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY GONNA HAVE ANY CHANCE TO COMMENT ON THIS? HAS THIS BEEN DISCUSSED WITH THE PUBLIC AT LARGE? JUST FROM MY LIMITED KNOWLEDGE, UM, MOST OF THESE THINGS SOUND LIKE THEY'RE GONNA CREATE THE ISSUE OF LESS THAN 50% GARAGE, UM, VENTILATION, WHICH IS GONNA REQUIRE VENTILATION SYSTEMS IN ALL THE GARAGES, WHICH IS GONNA DRASTICALLY INCREASE CONSTRUCTION COSTS, UH, AS WELL AS ENERGY USAGE.
SO I'M NOT SAYING I'M NOT FULLY IN SUPPORT OF MINIMIZING THE EFFECTS ON ADJACENT PROPERTY, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY GETS TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
SO I'D LIKE TO RESPOND TO THAT.
THESE ARE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HAVE COME OUT OF THE LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE, WHICH INCLUDES REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AT THE, AT THE VERY ONSET, UH, MEMBERS OF THE, UM, HOUSTON REAL ESTATE COUNCIL OR MEMBER ARE ON THE LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE.
THERE ARE REPRESENTATIVES FROM NEIGHBORHOODS, FROM SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS AND SO FORTH.
SO IT'S A VERY BROAD BASED, SO THESE ORIGINATED
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WITH THAT COMMITTEE.BEYOND THAT, WE'VE ALSO, UM, WE MEET REGULARLY WITH HREC AND THE GREATER BUILDERS, GREATER HOUSTON BUILDERS ASSOCIATION.
AND WE'VE SPOKEN WITH THEM ABOUT THIS.
MUCH OF THIS WORK IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO CONVERSATIONS FROM THOSE ORGANIZATIONS.
SO I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WHERE WE ARE GOING IS CERTAINLY DOABLE.
WE'VE RECEIVED COMMENTS BACK, UM, FROM SOME OF OUR EARLIER ITERATIONS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN SOME CHANGES THAT SHE'S PRESENTING TODAY.
I I THINK WE'VE GOT A GREAT PRODUCT HERE.
I HAVE A, I HAVE A COMMENT TO MAKE.
UM, MADAM CHAIR, UM, APOLOGIES.
UM, EARLY ON WHEN I FIRST JOINED THIS COMMISSION, ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES, UH, POINTED OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
UM, THIS FALLS NOT SQUARELY WITHIN DEVELOPMENT, ACTUALLY, IT FALLS WITHIN ARCHITECTURE.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT, WHERE, WHERE MY COLLEAGUE, UH, MR. ROSENBERG WAS HEADING WITH THIS.
THIS IS ARCHITECTURE AND IT BORDERS ON DEVELOPMENT.
SO I HEARD YOU, YOU MENTIONED YOU DID YOUR DUE DILIGENCE, WHICH IS GREAT.
I KNOW YOU HAVE AN EXCELLENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DEVELOPER COMMUNITY, AND WE'RE STARTING, UM, A RELATIONSHIP WITH, I MEAN, YOUR DEPARTMENT IS STARTING A RELATIONSHIP WITH, UH, UH, MORE MIXED USE DEVELOPERS AS WE CAN FIND THEM IN, IN HOUSTON.
BUT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS, I'D LIKE TO ALSO SEE MAYBE A, I A WEIGH IN AS WELL.
AND IN FACT, UM, WE, WE DO HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH A I A AND I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE TWO OR MAYBE THREE ARCHITECTS WHO ARE ACTUALLY ON THE LIVABLE PLACES COMMITTEE.
UM, SAVITA, DO YOU WANNA AMPLIFY ANYTHING? I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT WE ARE ALSO PRESENTING TO A, A, A, AND WE HAVE BEEN IN DISCUSSIONS, UH, BUT APPRECIATE THE COMMENT.
AND THESE ARE CHANGES TO THE BUILDING CODE.
ACTUALLY, THE LIGHTING, UM, AND SCREENING REQUIREMENTS WILL BE CHANGES TO THE BUILDING CODE.
THERE, THERE'S THE CODE PERSPECTIVE.
BUT WHEN YOU CAN, YOU CAN, YOU CAN APPROACH THIS WORK AGAIN, FROM A, FROM A DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE, UM, WHICH IS THE CODES THAT WE HAVE.
BUT REALLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOU ARE ALSO GETTING DETERMINISTIC ABOUT ARCHITECTURE.
AND IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THE LIVABLE CENTERS COMMITTEE IS, IS A COMMITTEE.
AND MANY TIMES, UH, PARTICIPANTS AREN'T ABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR PARTICULAR INTEREST AREA BECAUSE OF GROUP THINK.
UH, WHICH IS WHY I CALL FOR A I A AS A GROUP, BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA LOOK AT IT FROM A DIFFERENT SET OF LENSES THAN THE KIND OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE THAT, THAT THE A I A, I'M SORRY, THE ARCHITECTS ON THAT COMMITTEE MIGHT LOOK.
I'M JUST SAYING THAT I THINK THAT WOULD BE PRUDENT BECAUSE YES, WE ARE, WE HAVE A CODE OF ORDINANCES, BUT WE TRY TO DO PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT WITH OUR CODE OF ORDINANCES.
SO HERE WE ARE ALSO ADDING ARCHITECTURE, AND I THINK IT WOULD JUST BE PRUDENT TO ADD THE VIA REVIEW.
WELL, AND YOUR POINT'S WELL TAKEN.
THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
THIS IS SORT OF THE OPENING BELL.
WE HAVE 30 DAYS AND THESE, AND THE GROUPS, EVERYONE MENTIONS, WE WANNA HEAR FROM THEM ON THE DETAILS.
I, I THINK MORE THAN USUAL, YOU KNOW, WE, THAT WE'VE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE REPRESENTING A LOT OF DIFFERENT AREAS IN THE WEEDS ON THIS, YOU KNOW, WITH THE, THE DECIBELS AND THE KELVINS AND, YOU KNOW, IN STUFF WAY OVER MY HEAD.
BUT, UM, AND, AND OUR CHAIR CERTAINLY OVER LINE, A CHAIR COULD TALK MORE ABOUT THAT, BUT, UM, YOU'RE RIGHT.
WE, WE NEED AS MUCH CITY COUNCIL WILL EITHER APPROVE THIS OR NOT APPROVE THIS EVENTUALLY, RIGHT.
SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS KIND OF OPEN AND WE WANT COMMENTS.
YOU KNOW, WE, WE THINK WE'VE HAD AN OPEN PROCESS, BUT WE WANT MORE COMMENTS.
BUT IF I, IF I MAY, COMMISSIONER, WE WILL TAKE YOUR SUGGESTION SERIOUSLY.
AND, AND IN MY NEXT CONVERSATION WITH RUSTY AT, WITH A RA HOUSTON, I'LL BE, I'LL CERTAINLY BRING THIS UP.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS BEFORE WE MOVE TO THE NEXT, THE NEXT THING, UH, I, I'LL COMMENT AS AN ARCHITECT.
THIS IS, UM, I, I AM ACTUALLY APPRECIATIVE THAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WHO, UM, YOU KNOW, SETS SORT OF OUR SETBACKS, UM, IS TAKING A LEAD ON THIS.
UH, I THINK IT'S PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND ARCHITECTURE.
AND WE ALL HAVE OUR PARTS TO PLAY, AND THE ARCHITECTS WILL TURN IN CHAPTER 42 TO FIND OUT WHAT IS THE DISTANCE FROM THE PROPERTY LINE TO DETERMINE, UH, THEIR NEXT CAUSATION.
RIGHT? SO IT'S, EVERYONE IS INVOLVED AND I APPRECIATE THE OPEN FORM.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? OKAY, NEXT.
OKAY, SO THE THIRD TOPIC IS LIGHTING FIXTURE STANDARDS.
AGAIN, THIS CAUSES CHANGES IN THE, UM, ELECTRICAL CODE OF THE BUILDING CODE, UM, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES.
UH, THE OBJECTIVE OF THESE AMENDMENTS IS TO MINIMIZE LIGHT TRESPASS AND KEEP,
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UM, KEEP UNNECESSARY DIALECT LIGHT FROM SHINING ONTO ABORTING RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES OR PUBLIC STREETS.THE APPROACH TO THE AMENDMENTS IS THAT ALL OUTDOOR FIXTURES AND COMMERCIAL AND MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENTS MUST BE FULL CUTOFF WITH HOUSE SIDE SHIELDS.
SO IN THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CURRENT ORDINANCE REQUIREMENT AND WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING.
AGAIN, TOO DIFFICULT TO READ, BUT I'LL HIGHLIGHT THE CHANGES.
THE BUILDING CODE TODAY REQUIRES FULL CUTOFF FIXTURES ON ALL PHASES OF ABUTTING DEVELOPMENT THAT IS LOCATED WITHIN 30 FEET FROM SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOMES TO PREVENT LIGHTS FROM SPILLING OVER, UM, LIGHT.
ON THE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOTH WALL-MOUNTED AND POLE MOUNTED FIXTURES AND LIGHT POLES WITHIN 30 FEET FROM THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOMES TO BE FULL CUTOFF FIXTURES.
HOWEVER, WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IS THAT ALL WALL-MOUNTED AND POLE MOUNTED FIXTURES AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS BE FULL CUTOFF.
AND, UM, MAKE SURE THERE IS HOUSE SIDE SHEETS IN CASE IT'S NEEDED TO AVOID THE LIGHT TRESPASS ONTO ADJACENT PROPERTIES.
UM, IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE COMPLIANCE TO THESE REQUIREMENTS, UM, A PHOTOMETRIC PLAN WILL BE REQUIRED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PROPERTY LINE, THE LIGHT TRESPASS AT THE PROPERTY LINE EXCEED, DOES NOT EXCEED 0.2 FOOT CANDLES MEASURED AT GRADE ON THE PROPERTY LINE, AND ALSO FULL CUTOFF FIXTURES AND HOUSE SIDE SHIELDS MAY, UH, BE USED TO MEET THE CRITERIA.
ADDITIONALLY, ALL OF THE OUTDOOR FIXTURES MUST HAVE A MAXIMUM CORRELATED COLOR TEMPERATURE OF 3,500 KELVINS, AND A MINIMUM COLOR RENDERING INDEX OF 70 AT LEAST ACCESS ACCENT LIGHTS THAT ARE DIRECTED UPWARDS ARE EXEMPT FROM THE ABOVE REQUIREMENTS.
IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN WHAT CORRELATED COLOR TEMPERATURE IS AND WHAT COLOR RENDERING INDEXES, WE HAVE ADDED DEFINITIONS TO THE ORDINANCE, UM, TO THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE.
AND I'LL, IN THE IMAGE, I'LL POINT OUT WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BOTH.
SO IN THE LEFT SIDE IMAGE, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE IS A DISTANCE OF 30 FEET IF THERE IS A SINGLE FAMILY IN CURRENT ORDINANCE.
IF THERE IS A SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ADJACENT TO THE HIGH-RISE STRUCTURE, AND IT IS WITHIN 30 FEET OF THE TALL STRUCTURE ONLY THEN FULL CUTOFF FIXTURES ARE REQUIRED FOR WALL MOUNTED OR POLE MOUNTED.
WHAT WE ARE CHANGING IS THAT 50 FEET, AND ALSO THAT IT IS FOR ALL DEVELOPMENTS, ALL RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS, AND NOT JUST FOR SINGLE FAMILY 3,000 SQUARE FEET.
SO THAT IS THE BIG CHANGE, UM, WITH RESPECT TO LIGHTING FIXTURE STANDARDS.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS PORTION FROM THE COMMISSION? COMMISSIONER JONES? UH, MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU.
UH, I KNOW I UNDERSTAND WHERE A FULL CUTOFF LIGHT FIXTURE IS, BUT THERE'S ALSO, I'LL CALL IT KIND OF THE GLARE EFFECT.
AND I KNOW THAT CENTER POINT OFFERS A SCREEN THAT'S PLACED ON A PORTION OF THAT FIXTURE WHERE YOU DON'T WANT OR DON'T DESIRE THAT EXTRA GLARE.
UH, IT COMES IN SHADES OF GRAY DOWN TO A, A, A REALLY DEEP COLOR, UH, TO KEEP THAT BROADCAST FURTHER AWAY FROM A VERY CLOSE STRUCTURE, EVEN FIVE FEET AWAY.
THOUGH I DON'T KNOW IF THE COMMITTEE'S EVEN VISITED WITH SENATOR OR ANY OF THE LIGHTING ORGANIZATIONS, PROFESSIONALS, UM, UH, TO, TO LOOK AT ADDITIONAL OPTIONS OR ADDITIONAL, UM, FEATURES COULD BE ADDED TO IT.
'CAUSE YOU KNOW, PERSONALLY FOR WHAT I DO, UH, THAT'S THE APPROACH I'VE TAKEN WITH CENTERPOINT AND IT'S WORKED REALLY WELL.
UM, I THINK YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE HOUSE SIDE SHEETS, WHICH ARE USED TO, UM, BLOCK THE LIGHT FROM GOING IN THE DIRECTION THAT WE DON'T WANT THE LIGHT TO GO THROUGH.
SO THAT WAS DISCUSSED, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, INSTEAD OF MAKING IT VERY RESTRICTIVE, THE APPROACH HAS BEEN THAT THE IDEA IS NOT TO CREATE A LIGHT TRESPASS ON THE ADJACENT PROPERTY AS LONG AS THAT CONDITION, AS LONG AS THAT CONDITION IS MET, HOW DO YOU ACCOMPLISH THAT IS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OR WITH, UM, WITHIN THE DEVELOPER'S CONTROL TO MAKE SURE THE LIGHTS ARE NOT SHINING ON THE ADJACENT PROPERTY.
AND IN ORDER TO PROVE COMPLIANCE, THE THING WE REQUIRE IS THE PHOTOMETRIC PLAN.
SO THAT'S THE APPROACH, UM, COMMITTEE TOOK IN ORDER TO ADDRESS, NOT BE RESTRICTIVE ABOUT HOW YOU ACCOMPLISHED THAT, BUT JUST ACCOMPLISH
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THE RESULT WE NEED.IT MEANS THAT WAS DISCUSSION, THAT WAS PART OF THE CONVERSATION, AND THIS IS THE OUTCOME FROM ALL OF THAT.
SO LOOK, I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING, WE'RE SAYING THE SAME THING.
THANK YOU COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM.
UH, ON, ON THAT SAME NOTE, THIS IS ALSO ON ARCHITECTURAL GUIDELINES, RIGHT? UM, ALTHOUGH ARCHITECTS HIRE LIGHTING EXPERTS.
UM, BUT ALSO WE HAVE THE GREEN, UH, BUILDING CENTER AT, IN, IN THE, IN THE CITY, RIGHT? SO STEVE STELER WOULD, WOULD, WOULD TRY TO GET IN THERE AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MINIMIZE LIGHT POLLUTION AS WELL.
AND ALSO HOW TO PERHAPS, UH, BUILD IN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PERFORMANCE FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY.
UM, IF THE DEVELOPER OR IF THE COMMITTEE HAS TOLERANCE FOR THAT.
UM, SO THERE, THERE ARE OTHER THINGS.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY BEYOND JUST THINKING ABOUT THE NEIGHBOR, AND IF WE'RE GONNA GET IN THERE AS WELL, WE COULD MINIMIZE LIGHT POLLUTION, WHICH IS THE, THE, THE LIGHT GOING UP TO THE AIR, WHICH ISN'T SERVING ANYBODY ANY PURPOSE.
AND ALSO ENERGY EFFICIENCY USING LELE DS, IF POSSIBLE.
AND OTHER, OTHER, OTHER, UH, OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE WE ARE PRESCRIBING, RIGHT? WE'RE SCRIBING DETAIL WITH REGARDS TO WHAT THEY CAN AND CAN'T USE.
UM, I HAVE A LONG ANSWER,
SO WE LOOKED AT BUG RATINGS AND WE STARTED WITH ANALYZING IF WE WANT TO INTRODUCE THE BUG RATING SYSTEM.
HOWEVER, AFTER DISCUSSIONS WITH THE COMMITTEE, AGAIN, THE APPROACH HAS BEEN, INSTEAD OF BEING RESTRICTIVE, GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL, WHICH IS NOT TO SHINE LIGHTS ON THE ADJACENT PROPERTIES.
AND TO ADDRESS THE QUESTION ABOUT GLARE, THE 3,500 KELVINS WAS INTRODUCED IN ORDER TO TALK ABOUT THE WARM LIGHT AND TO MAKE SURE THE, UH, GLARE IS MANAGED.
AND, UM, THE CRI AND, UM, SORRY, LET ME LOOK AT MY DEFINITIONS, BUT THEY WERE INTRODUCED FOR THE PURPOSE OF MANAGING GLARE.
YEAH, SAVITA KNOWS A LOT MORE ABOUT LIGHTING THAN SHE EVER THOUGHT SHE WOULD.
UH, ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? OKAY, WHAT'S NEXT? OKAY, NEXT, AND THE LAST ITEM TO BE DISCUSSED IS THE, UH, BULK CONTAINER SCREENING STANDARDS.
SO THE OBJECTIVE FOR THESE STANDARDS IS TO PROTECT ALL RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS FROM AN UNSIGHTLY VIEW OF BULK CONTAINERS AND TO IMPROVE THE VIEW ALONG ALL PUBLIC STREETS.
THE APPROACH, UM, IN THE AMENDMENTS IS TO REQUIRE SCREENING FOR ALL BULK CONTAINERS ADJACENT, SENT TO RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ALL PUBLIC STREETS.
IN THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, YOU WILL SEE THE SIDE BY SIDE AND THE HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT IS THE CHANGE FROM WHAT IS IN THE CURRENT ORDINANCE TO WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING.
SO THE, THE FIRST CHANGE IS IN THE ORDINANCE.
RIGHT NOW, SCREENING IS ONLY REQUIRED IF THE BULK CONTAINER IS LOCATED ALONG THE ADDRESS SIDE OF THE PROPERTY.
SO IMAGINE A PROPERTY THAT IS AT THE INTERSECTION OF TWO STREETS, AND IF THE BULK CONTAINER IS ON THE SIDE STREET, THEN THERE IS NO SCREENING REQUIRED.
HOWEVER, THAT SIDE STREET MAY BE A FRONT AND ONLY STREET FOR A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
SO IN ORDER TO AVOID, UM, OR REQUIRE PROVIDE SCREENING, WE ARE MAKING SURE ALL, UM, BULK CONTAINERS LOCATED ALONG ALL PUBLIC STREETS BE SCREENED, AND WHEN THEY'RE IN THE SERVICE DRIVE, AND IF THE SERVICE DRIVE IS ADJACENT SENT TO A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, THEN ALSO THERE IS A REQUIREMENT OF SCREENING OF EIGHT FEET.
IF IT'S PUBLIC STREET, WE ARE PROPOSING SIX FEET SCREENING HEIGHT.
AND IF IT IS A LONG, UH, ABETTING RESIDENTIAL, WE ARE PROPOSING EIGHT FEET, UM, SCREENING HEIGHT.
UM, I THINK THAT IS THE BIGGEST CHANGE.
AND, UM, TODAY IN THE ABOVE, IN THE CHAPTER 39, THERE IS NO SCOPE DEFINITION.
SO WE INTRODUCED THE SCOPE FOR THIS PORTION OF THE ORDINANCE, UM, TO SAY THAT THIS APPLIES TO ALL NEW DEVELOPMENTS LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY THAT PRODUCED TRASH AND ARE NOT SERVICED BY THE CITY OF HOUSTON SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT.
ALL SUCH DEVELOPMENTS SHALL IDENTIFY THE LOCATION OF THE SERVICE CONTAINERS OR BULK CONTAINERS WITHIN, UM, AND THE SCREENING IF REQUIRED ON THE SITE PLANS.
SO THAT IS A REQUIREMENT AND SCOPE, UH, THAT WE HAVE INTRODUCED WITHIN THE ORDINANCE.
AND THESE HAVE BEEN WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH THE SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT.
UM, WITH THAT, I'M READY FOR QUESTIONS ON THE LAST ITEM.
COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM IS, IS THIS, UH, COMPATIBLE WITH OUR FENCE RESTRICTION? I THINK WE HAVE A FENCE
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RESTRICTION.WHAT IS IT? LESS THAN SIX FEET? LESS THAN EIGHT FEET.
WE DON'T EIGHT LESS THAN EIGHT.
WE DON'T GET INVOLVED, RIGHT? YES.
SO HERE YOU'RE SAYING SIX OR EIGHT? SIX OR EIGHT, YES.
MAXIMUM EIGHT IS WHAT WE ARE, I MEAN, YOU CAN PROVIDE MORE THAN EIGHT, YOU'LL HAVE TO GET A PERMIT TO BUILD HIGHER THAN EIGHT.
YOU SO, SO, SO IF IT WAS COMPATIBLE, IT WOULD BE YOU NEED A, SO WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND PRESCRIBE SOMETHING THAT'S LESS THAN EIGHT, WHICH IS YOU CAN DO SIX, IT'S, IT'S A MINIMUM.
BUT THEN WE, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET IN.
ARE WE GOING TO GET INVOLVED IN, IN THE MATERIAL THAT THEY'RE USING? YES.
SO THAT IS ALREADY IN THE CURRENT ORDINANCE.
THAT'S WHY I DID NOT MENTION, BUT UM, YES, THE MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED.
YOU, YOU DON'T NEED TO GO THROUGH THE DETAILS, BUT THAT'S, YEAH.
DUMPSTERS, COMMISSIONER JONES.
WANTED TO QUESTION ON SECTION 11.
THAT'S, AND THAT DEALING WITH SOLID WASTE AND LITTER CONTROL, IS THE REFERENCE HERE SIMPLY CHANGING THE TITLE OF, OF THAT EXCEPTION OR CHA REFERENCE ACTUALLY TO EXCEPTION FROM A PREVIOUS WORD? OR IS THAT, I SEE SCHOOL IN THERE AND I, I'M TRYING TO APPLY REALLY THE, THE FOCUS ON SCHOOL, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S EVEN APPLICABLE, IF ALL WE'RE DOING IS CHANGING THE WORD THAT KIND OF DEFINES THE TOPIC.
SO WE ARE CHANGING THE TITLE OF THE SECTION, WHICH IS 39 DASH 1 0 2, FROM, IT ONLY SAYS DIFFERENCES, BUT IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT OFFENSES AND DEFENSES.
SO WE ARE CHANGING THE TITLE AND THE SCHOOL THAT YOU MENTIONED, IT IS ALREADY EXEMPT.
SO IF THERE IS A BULK CONTAINER ON A SCHOOL PROPERTY, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE SCREENED.
I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT THAT'S HOW IT IS.
WELL, IN FACT, THAT WAS MY QUESTION TO ASK WHY SCHOOLS AND IF, IF, IF THEY'RE EXEMPT, WHY, YOU KNOW, NOT CHURCHES AND OTHER RELIGIOUS, UH, I'M FACILITIES SAME WAY.
BUT, BUT I QUESTIONED WHETHER OR NOT SCHOOLS SHOULD BE EXEMPT, BUT I LEAVE THAT ANOTHER DAY.
BUT WE DID NOT EXPLORE, UM, THAT QUESTION.
COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER NELSON, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT? ANYONE? WE ALL LOOKING AT MARGARET? NO.
I THINK KIDS SNEAK BEHIND THE FENCE AND DO THINGS THAT THEY SHOULDN'T BE DOING, AND IT PROVIDES THEM COVER.
AND I'M NOT SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I'M JUST GUESSING.
I WAS GONNA SAY, YOU KNOW, TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS
I LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY.
I GUESS PROBABLY, I HONESTLY DUNNO WHY, WHY SCHOOLS ARE EXEMPTED.
I, I THINK IT'S AS GOOD A REASON AS ANY, UM, IF THERE'S NO, NO OTHER COMMENTS.
WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO CHAIRMAN OF THE CO-CHAIR, CO-CHAIR, THE LISA CLARK COMMITTEE.
TWO YEARS LATER, NO ONE SAID IT WOULD TAKE TWO YEARS.
SO, UM, FIRST OF ALL, I WANTED TO, UM, BEFORE I THANK, UH, AVITA AND THE DEPARTMENT TO TALK TO ALL OF YOU ABOUT WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON.
GRANTED, THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO YEARS, AND FIRST FOR THE STAKEHOLDERS, WE HAVE NEIGHBORHOODS.
WE HAVE FROM MUSEUM PARK TO FREEDMANS TOWN.
WE HAVE A DEVELOPER IN THE FOURTH WARD.
WE'VE GOT ARCHITECTS, WE'VE GOT BUILDERS, WE'VE GOT DEVELOPERS, WE'VE GOT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT INVOLVED WITH THE DEVELOP, UH, DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, BUT WHO REPRESENT THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO FIRST OF ALL, THE, THE CORE OF OUR SUBCOMMITTEE IS VERY, VERY DIVERSE AND VERY BROAD.
AND WE HAVE TRIED, LISA CLARK AND I HAVE TRIED TO TO, TO BUILD, UM, A COALITION OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FREE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY, WHAT THEIR THOUGHTS ARE.
AND THOSE COMMISSIONERS WHO ARE ON THAT COMMITTEE WILL TELL YOU THAT PEOPLE ARE VERY FREE TO SAY WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT A PARTICULAR ISSUE.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE ASK FOR CONSENSUS, AND I WILL LITERALLY, AND LISA AND I WILL LITERALLY SAY, ARE THERE NAYSAYERS HERE? IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH THIS THAT WE'RE NOT SEEING? WE ARE ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
SO FIRST I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE'VE TAKEN GREAT PAINS TO GET AS MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED WHO ARE EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELDS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK.
NEXT, WE'LL OF COURSE WE'LL GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT BEFORE WE EVEN GO THERE, AND THE ORDINANCE LANGUAGE THAT YOU ALL RECEIVED, WE HAVE AN IMPLE IMPLEMENTATION GROUP THAT WE GO TO THAT IS ALSO WITH THE CITY THAT'S QUITE DIVERSE, THAT WHEN WE SAID, WE DON'T WANNA INTRODUCE SOMETHING THAT'S PIE IN THE SKY THAT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE ACHIEVED.
AND THEY KIND OF REIGNED US BACK, BROUGHT US BACK TO EARTH AND SAID, YOU CAN DO A, BUT YOU CAN'T DO B, YOU COULD DO B IF YOU TWEAK IT AND MAKE IT C.
SO I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT ALL THESE, NOW THAT WE'RE AT ORDINANCE LANGUAGE, ALL OF THIS HAS BEEN VERY, VERY WELL THOUGHT OUT.
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COMMENT, WE WANT TO GET MORE IDEAS THERE.I'M SURE THERE ARE TOPICS THAT WE HAVE NOT COVERED YET, OR TWEAKS THAT WILL BE NECESSARY.
AND I INVITE YOU ALL TO LOOK AT THE ORDINANCE LANGUAGE THAT YOU WERE SENT AND TAKE A LOOK AT THAT YOU'LL BE GETTING THIS SAVITA REALLY COVERED THE HIGHLIGHTS TODAY BECAUSE IT'S VERY LENGTHY.
UM, THE NEXT TOPIC, AND IT'LL BE SHORT, I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT SAVITA STARTED WITH EQUITY.
IT WAS REMARKABLE IN OUR VERY FIRST FEW MEETINGS THAT WE DISCOVERED THAT SINGLE ONLY SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS WERE PROTECTED HIGH, UH, MID RISES APARTMENTS, UH, CONDOMINIUMS. THEY WERE LIKE, NO, YOU, YOU BOUGHT WHAT YOU GOT AND YOU'RE DONE.
AND SO THE FIRST THING THAT WE DID WAS WE SAID, EVERYONE SHOULD BE PROTECTED.
IE BUFFERING LIGHTING, NOISE, UH, DUMPSTERS.
AND THAT CHANGED THE ENTIRE PERSPECTIVE OF THIS SUBCOMMITTEE.
UM, EVERYONE SAID, WELL, IF, IF WE'RE GONNA DO A, THEN WE HAVE TO DO B, C, D, E, AND F, WHICH, WHICH THEN LAUNCHED ALL THIS INVESTIGATION INTO ALL THESE OTHER THINGS.
SO I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE, THE THING THAT I'M MOST PROUD OF FROM THIS COMMITTEE IS WE SAID, EVERYONE IN THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE PROTECTED, NOT JUST THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING IN AN INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOOD.
EVERYONE AN APARTMENT DWELLER, A GUY, UH, IN SCHOOL LIVES, IN A FOURPLEX, A MOM, SINGLE MOM, EVERYONE SHOULD BE PROTECTED, NOT JUST THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD A SINGLE FAMILY HOME.
SO, UM, LET ME LOOK AT MY NOTES REAL QUICK.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY VETTED.
WE'VE TALKED TO ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE.
WE ARE NOW OPENING UP TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
I, AGAIN, UM, ANTICIPATE ALL OF YOU WILL WANNA GET INVOLVED, AND WE APPRECIATE AND WOULD BE VERY HAPPY TO SEE YOUR COMMENTARY ON ALL OF THIS.
AND THEN LASTLY, I WANT TO THANK AVI IN THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING ON THIS PROJECT.
AGAIN, TWO YEARS GOING, I ONLY SHOW UP ONCE A MONTH FOR THIS MEETING.
AND I WILL TELL YOU FROM MEETING TO MEETING THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE IS AMAZING.
AND THE DEPARTMENT'S WILLINGNESS TO CHANGE A STANCE, WE HAVE THIS IDEA INPUT COMES IN AND WE GO, WELL, THAT WON'T WORK, OR WE NEED TO TWEAK IT.
AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS NOT BEEN RETICENT AT ALL TO TAKE THE ADVICE OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND MAKE CHANGES.
SO AS THE, AS ONE OF THE CO-CHAIRS WHO'S BEEN HERDING CATS FOR TWO YEARS, AND I DO MEAN HERDING CATS, I WANNA TELL YOU I HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY PLEASED AND VERY HAPPY TO BE A PART OF THIS AND AM EXCEPTIONALLY HAPPY TO SEE THE RESULTS THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS BROUGHT FORWARD.
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE DEPARTMENT, MR. GARZA.
I'M SORRY, I HAVE ANOTHER COMMENT.
ASHLEY, THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT ALL OF THE WORK THAT WENT INTO IT.
I, I ALMOST FORGOT IT WAS A LARGE COMMITTEE AND, AND IT WAS TWO, TWO YEARS WORTH OF WORK.
SO I COMMEND YOU GUYS FOR EVERYBODY CAN'T DO THAT.
I TIRED, BUT I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT.
AND THIS WAS JUST, THIS WAS JUST THE FIRST TASK.
THIS IS JUST TO, I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE.
SO, SO I SHOULD HAVE TWEAKED MY QUESTIONS DIFFERENTLY.
UH, EARLIER I MENTIONED GETTING ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, BUT YOU ALREADY WENT THROUGH, WENT THROUGH THAT EFFORT.
SO I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU, AND THAT IS, WHAT WAS THE DISCUSSION AROUND SYNCHRONIZING THIS WITH THE CITY'S, UH, GREEN ENERGY PLAN OR ENERGY PLAN? YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WITH THE LIGHTING IN PARTICULAR, WHAT WAS THE DISCUSSION? WELL, TO BE FRANK, NOW YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER I'M A VOLUNTEER AND I'M THE OVERSEER.
THAT'S REALLY MORE A QUESTION FOR, UM, THE, THE DIRECTOR OR FOR SUV VITA.
BUT I MEAN, THAT'S AS, AS, AS MARTY SAID, A LOT OF THIS IS, YOU KNOW, NOT MY BAILIWICK, IT'S OVER MY HEAD.
FORTUNATELY, WE HAVE EXPERTS IN ON EVERY LEVEL TO HELP GUIDE THIS COMMITTEE.
SO MARGARET, IF YOU'D LIKE TO TAKE THAT OR LEMME FINISH, LEMME FINISH WITH ADDING TO MY COMMENT.
BECAUSE I HEAR YOU'RE, YOU'RE DEFERRING IT TO THE STAFF, WHICH IS FINE.
UM, THE OPPORTUNITY, LET ME TALK ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY THERE FIRST, JUST BECAUSE I KNOW YOU GUYS THOUGHT ABOUT IT, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC RECOGNIZES THIS AS WELL.
UM, CURRENTLY THE CITY'S GREEN ENERGY PLAN IS FOCUSED ON THE CITY'S, UH, RESOURCES THAT THE CITY ACTUALLY MANAGES, UH, BUILDINGS, UH, FLEET AND STAFF EXERCISE, GETTING STAFF TO AND FROM WORK IN SOME CASES.
UM, IF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO BE OFFERING A, A NEW BUILDING STANDARDS, NEW, NEW, NEW NEW, UH, UH, UH, BUFFERING, RESIDENTIAL BUFFERING STANDARDS, AND WE ARE ALREADY GONNA GET INTO PRESCRIBING LIGHTING.
IF WE WERE TO ADD ENERGY EFFICIENCY CAPACITIES OR PERFORMANCE TO THAT, THEN THE CITY CAN ACTUALLY CALCULATE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXPECTED NUMBER OF BUILDINGS A YEAR AND EMISSIONS.
AND WE COULD ALSO ADD THAT TO THE CITY'S PERFORMANCE IN TERMS OF OUR GREEN ENERGY STANDARDS.
SO IT, IT WOULD BE A HUGE WIN.
UM, AND TO LEAVE THAT OUT WOULD BE, WOULD BE A GLARING MISSED OPPORTUNITY.
I, I'M THINKING, SO, SO WITH THAT, I'M WONDERING, YOU KNOW, IS, IS IS THERE A POSSIBILITY TO TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY
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TO COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER, UH, AGAIN, ADDING SOME KIND OF ENERGY PERFORMANCE, UH, TO THIS LIGHTING STANDARD? UM, I'LL JUST MENTION THAT INITIALLY WHEN WE OPENED UP THE LIGHTING TOPIC, IT'S VERY VAST AND IT'S, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF I SHOULD SAY THIS, BUT UNFORTUNATE THAT WE DON'T HAVE LIGHTING STANDARDS FOR CITY OF HOUSTON.UM, THERE WAS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, UH, HOW MUCH WE CAN INTRODUCE AND TALK ABOUT WITH THE LIVABLE PLACES COMMITTEES WORK AND WHAT SHOULD BE THE SCOPE.
SO THERE WERE DISCUSSIONS ON WHAT SHOULD BE THE SCOPE OF THESE CHANGES.
AND AFTER A LOT OF, UM, THINKING THROUGH, THERE WAS, UM, A DISCUSSION THAT WHATEVER IS INCLUDED IN THE BUILDING CODE RIGHT NOW, THE FOCUS WILL BE ON, UM, WHAT IS INCLUDED THERE ABOUT FULL CUTOFF LIGHTS FOR, UM, HIGH RISE STRUCTURES.
EVENTUALLY, I HAVE BEEN VERY CLOSELY WORKING WITH PUBLIC WORKS OFFICIALS, UM, WHO MANAGE LIGHTING AND, UM, THERE COULD BE DISCUSSIONS WITH PUBLIC WORKS ON, UM, HAVING A LIGHTING ORDINANCE, A FULL FLEDGED LIGHTING ORDINANCE WHERE WE CAN TALK ABOUT EMISSIONS AND LIGHTING FOR THE ENTIRE CITY OF HOUSTON STANDARDS.
UM, SO WE HAD TO, UM, MAKE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHAT WE CAN DO NOW AND WHAT COULD BE LATER.
SO, SO ONE OTHER PIECE AND, AND THEN I SWEAR I'M GONNA ADD, WE NEED TO MOVE OUR AGENDA HERE.
ONE SMALLER PIECE, ONE SMALLER PIECE, ONE SIMPLE LINE ITEM THAT SAYS IT NEEDS TO BE AN LED BULB.
ONE VERY, WHAT IS THAT? IT NEEDS TO BE LED FIVE WORDS.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT A FULL-BLOWN CHAPTER.
YOU KNOW WHAT, THE BUILDING COMMUNITY ALREADY IS RECOGNIZING THAT LED IS PRUDENT BECAUSE IT'S ENERGY EFFICIENT.
BUT I'M SAYING IF IT'S LEFT OUT, THE CITY CAN'T REALLY TAKE CREDIT FOR GOING THAT DIRECTION TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
THE MARKET IS KIND OF ALREADY DOING IT.
YOU CANNOT, YOU CANNOT GET CLASS A OFFICE SPACE UNLESS IT'S LEAD CERTIFIED.
AND THE GSA WON'T FUND ANYTHING UNLESS IT'S AT LEAST LEAD SILVER.
SO THIS IS KIND OF AN OMISSION, I THINK.
AND MAYBE IT'S COMPOUNDED WITH A FULL BLOWN LIGHTING ORDINANCE, JUST, JUST, IT SHOULD BE LED IN ADDITION TO THE OTHER THINGS YOU HAVE IS ALL I'M ASKING THE COMMITTEE TO, TO POSSIBLY CONSIDER.
DEFINITELY WILL CONSIDER THAT AND DISCUSS THAT, UM, WITH OUR COMMITTEE LEADERS.
I JU JUST FOR FOR CONTEXT, THIS WHOLE, UM, SCREENING, UM, TOPIC WAS CAME ABOUT WHEN WE HAD THE WALKABLE PLACES ORDINANCE ON THE AGENDA, AND WE HAD SOME NEIGHBORHOODS WHO HAD SOME REAL CONCERNS WITH DEVELOPMENT PERIOD IN, IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND THIS WAS A PROMISE THAT THE DEPARTMENT MADE WAS THAT WE WE'D TAKE UP SOME BUFFERING STANDARDS AT OUR LIVABLE PLACES COMMITTEE, WHICH FRANKLY HAD A WHOLE LAUNDRY LIST OF THINGS WE WANTED TO ADDRESS THAT WERE MORE GEARED TOWARD DEVELOPMENT AND FRONTLOADING DRIVEWAYS AND THAT KIND OF THINGS.
WE AGREED TO TAKE THIS UP FIRST THINKING IT WAS LOW HANGING FRUIT, THAT WE WOULD KNOCK THIS OFF IN A FEW MONTHS AND I MEAN, TWO YEARS LATER, HERE WE ARE, WE DO WANNA MAKE GOOD ON OUR PROMISE TO GET THIS DONE.
AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU CAN ALWAYS MAKE SOMETHING BETTER.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THERE'S POINTS WELL TAKEN THAT WE SHOULD LOOK INTO, BUT YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE ENDED UP WITH PRESENTING SOMETHING WE THINK CAN GET DONE THAT, THAT MAKES GOOD ON OUR PROMISE TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT, THAT SORELY NEED THIS.
SO THAT, THAT'S KIND OF THE CONTEXT OF THE DISCUSSION.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? OKAY, THANK YOU.
UH, LET'S MAKE SURE WE GET ALL THE SLIDES.
I KNOW THEY'LL BE ON NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT THE PUBLIC SURVEY IS OPEN FOR PUBLIC TO COMMENT AND THE COMMENT PERIOD STARTS TODAY AND ENDS ON OCTOBER 30TH.
AND, UH, QUICKLY JUMPING TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, THE NEXT STEPS WILL BE THE 30 DAY COMMENT PERIOD, AND WE'LL COME BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR YOUR VOTE ON, UH, NOVEMBER 10TH AFTER LOOKING AT ALL OF THE COMMENTS WE RECEIVE.
UM, COUNCIL COMMITTEE PRESENTATION IS, UM, WILL BE IN NOVEMBER, AND WE PLAN TO GO TO CITY COUNCIL IN DECEMBER.
UM, WITH THAT, I AM DONE WITH MY PRESENTATION, SO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND TIME WITH THIS.
I THINK DIRECTOR WALLACE BROWN HAS A COMMENT.
I JUST WANNA ADD ONE MORE THING.
FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA, I TRULY WANNA THANK OUR CO-CHAIRS, LISA CLARK AND SONNY GARZA, WHO HAVE LED US THROUGH THIS SO WELL.
AND THE CO ALL THE COMPLIMENTS THAT HE HEAPED ON THE DEPARTMENT A MOMENT AGO REALLY BELONG TO THE CHAIR.
THEY, THEY HAVE BEEN GREAT LEADERS IN THIS AND HAVE GUIDED US ALONG THE WAY.
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THE COMMITTEE IS NOT DONE.THE NEXT FEW, THE NEXT THINGS YOU ALL WILL SEE ARE FOUR MAJOR TOPICS ASSOCIATED WITH RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
UM, SMALL NARROW LOT DEVELOPMENT, WHAT'S FREQUENTLY CALLED FRONT LOADERS.
WE HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO IMPROVE THEM.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE, WE ARE DEVELOPING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INCREASING, UM, AM I TAKING YOUR, WERE YOU GONNA SAY THIS? NO.
WE HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INCREASING, UM, ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS.
WE HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PARKING RELATED TO RESIDENTIAL AROUND TRANSIT, BIKE LANES AND SO FORTH.
AND, UM, WE ARE ALSO DEVELOPING A NEW STYLE OF REGULATIONS AROUND WHAT IS, WHAT WE'RE CALLING, UM, COURTYARD STYLE DEVELOPMENT.
SO YOU'LL SEE THE REST OF THESE IN THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, BUT THEY ARE NOT FINISHED WITH THEIR WORK YET.
AND AGAIN, WE, AS WE ALWAYS SAY, WE, WE ANNOUNCE THE LIVABLE PLACES COMMITTEE, I THINK AT MOST OF THE TIME, AT AT PLANNING COMMISSION MEETINGS, THEY'RE ALL VIRTUAL.
UM, YOU'RE ALL WELCOME TO TUNE IN.
WE HAVE, WE I THINK HAVE THREE COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE VOTING OR CONSENSUS CASTING MEMBERS, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S, THEY'RE VERY, THEY'VE BEEN VERY INTERESTING AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE GREAT.
AND WE WELCOME YOU GUYS TO ALL, YOU KNOW, TUNE IN AND THEN MAKE COMMENTS.
COMMISSIONER SIGLER, WHO IS ONE OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UM, AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY SUNNY AND LISA, THEY DID A GREAT JOB NAVIGATING US, THE STAKEHOLDERS.
IT WAS AN EXTREMELY DIVERSE GROUP.
UM, WE DID COME TO CONSENSUS ON, ON THESE IDEAS AND STAFF DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB PUTTING THEM IN ORDINANCE FORM, BUT I, UM, STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT ALL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND PUBLIC THAT HAS, UM, REALLY A DOG IN THE HUNT REVIEWS THIS, READS IT AND MAKES SURE IT'S, UM, WHAT THEY THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE.
AND Y'ALL, Y'ALL DID DO A GREAT JOB.
THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT I'M DONE.
WE, AND WE ALL ON THE COMMISSION WILL LOOK FORWARD TO, YOU KNOW, GOING THROUGH THESE SLIDES IN, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE CAN READ EVERY LITTLE WORD.
COMMISSIONER GARCIA, UM, COMMISSIONS.
I DO INVITE YOU TO COME AND, UH, COME AND SIT IN ON THE MEETING, BUT I WILL, UH, I WOULD UH, APPRECIATE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT AT THE END BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT BE VOTING MEMBERS.
YOU WILL NOT BE CONSENSUS VOTING MEMBERS, BUT DO COME, WE, WE WANT EVERYONE TO COME.
WE'VE HAD A LOT OF COMMISSIONERS WHO HAVE SAT IN AND AT PUBLIC COMMENT GIVEN US REALLY GOOD PERSPECTIVES ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT MAYBE WE HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT.
LIKE YOU JUST MENTIONED SCHOOLS.
AND I WAS LIKE, WOW, I DON'T THINK THAT EVER CAME UP.
SO AGAIN, I THINK IT DID WE INVITE YOU DIDN'T DID IT.
WELL WE INVITE YOU TO PARTICIPATE, UM, HOWEVER YOU, UH, YOU CAN THANK YOU.
WE'RE VOTING MEMBERS RIGHT AT THIS LEVEL HERE, NOT THERE.
AND THAT'S, THAT HAS TO DO THE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS THE ABILITY TO, UH, TO FORM AND APPOINT COMMITTEES TO, FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES AD HOC COMMITTEES AND, BUT WE CAN'T HAVE A, YOU KNOW, A QUORUM OF, OF THE COMMISSION ON THERE TO DO THAT WORK.
THERE'LL BE OTHER COMMITTEES FOR IF ANYBODY'S INTERESTED IN MORE, IN MORE WORK.
[Platting Activities a & b]
UH, ROMAN NUMERAL TWO IS PLATTING ACTIVITY.GOOD AFTERNOON MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
SECTIONS A AND B ARE PRESENTED AS ONE GROUP, WHICH INCLUDES CONSENT AND REPLANT ITEMS NOT REQUIRING NOTIFICATION.
SECTIONS A AND B ARE ITEMS ONE THROUGH 1 27 SECTION A.
CONSENT ITEMS ARE NUMBERS ONE THROUGH 63 AND SECTION B REPLANT ITEMS ARE NUMBER 64 THROUGH 1 27.
NO ITEMS NEED TO BE TAKEN OUT OF ORDER AND THERE ARE NO CHANGES TO STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS MADAM CHAIR, IF THERE ARE NO INDIVIDUALS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THESE ITEMS, THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REQUESTS THE APPROVAL OF ALL STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONSENT AND REPLANT ITEMS NOT REQUIRING NOTIFICATION.
UM, AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, WE DID HAVE A SPEAKER SIGNED UP ON ITEM 22, BUT IT HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.
UM, COMMISSIONERS, ARE THERE ITEMS THAT WE MAY NEED TO TAKE SEPARATELY? COMMISSIONER SIGLER? UM, YES.
ITEMS EIGHT THROUGH 11, 25, 39, 40 AND 69.
OKAY, AND COMMISSIONER? YES MADAM CHAIR.
ITEMS TWO EIGHT THROUGH 11 24, 27, 39, 40 69 AND 82.
ANYBODY ELSE? UM, THEN WE CAN PROCEED WITH VOTING ON THE CONSENT ITEMS AND WE'D ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS ON ALL ITEMS IN SECTIONS A AND B SAVE.
AND EXCEPT FOR ITEMS TWO EIGHT THROUGH 11 24, 25, 27, 39, 40, 69 AND 82, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION JONES? IS THERE A SECOND? ROSENBERG? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
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AYE.UH, AND THEN ON THE REMAINDER, WHICH WILL BE ITEMS TWO EIGHT THROUGH 11 24, 25, 27, 39, 40 69 AND 82, ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? BORIS PERLE IS THERE SECOND VICTOR? UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES AND NOTE THAT COMMISSIONERS, HE AND SIGLER ABSTAINED.
[c. Replats requiring Public Hearings with Notification (Dorianne Powe-Phlegm, John Cedillo, Devin Crittle) ]
AND THAT'LL TAKE US TO SECTION C PUBLIC HEARINGS.GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
ITEM 1 28 IS BRINKMAN GREEN, THE SIZE LOCATED AT THE, WE LOCATED WEST ALONG DENTON STREET, BETWEEN WOODLAND AND LOWER COFFEE ROADS AND HOUSTON CORPORATE'S LIMITS.
THE REASON FOR REPLIED IS TO CREATE FOUR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS.
STAFF ASKED THE APPLICANT WHAT HE WOULD CONSIDER A SHARED DRIVEWAY LAY FOR THIS PLAT AND THE APPLICANT RESPONDED THAT HE PREFERRED THIS LAYOUT.
THE OWNER PREFERRED THIS LAYOUT.
THERE ARE NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS PLOT.
THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT PER THE CBC 1 0 1 FORUM CONDITIONS.
STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM.
MADAM CHAIR OF PLEASE COMMISSION.
YOU MAY OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 28 IS OPEN.
I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK MR. CALVERT.
IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON 1 28 BRINKMAN GREEN.
IF NOT, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
IS THERE DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? BALDWIN? IS THERE A SECOND? ROBINS? ROBINS.
ITEM 1 29 IS CLAREMONT PLAYS SECTION ONE PARTIAL PLA NUMBER 11, THE SIZE LOCATED AT WEST ALONG DENTON STREET, BETWEEN WOODLAND AND LOWER COPY ROADS IN HOUSTON.
THE REASON FOR REPL IS TO CREATE SIX SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS.
STAFF THIS, UH, THIS, THIS REPL, UH, THERE IS NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS, UH, PLAT.
THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
THE PLAT WAS DEFERRED AT THE LAST PLANNING COMMISSION PER LEGAL REVIEW AND LEGAL HAS REVIEWED THE ITEM AND SAID THAT THIS PLAT WOULD NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILES SEPARATELY, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO PROVE THE PLAT PER THE CBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM, MADAM CHAIR, BUT PLEASE THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 29 IS CONTINUED.
UM, I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK.
DO WE HAVE NO ONE IN THE CHAT? IS THERE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON CLAREMONT PLACE? UM, SECTION ONE PARTIAL REPL NUMBER 11, HEARING NO RESPONSE.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION SER SIGLER SECOND VICTOR.
I JUST WANNA CORRECT SOMETHING.
THE ITEM 1 28 WAS AT THE CORNER, WOODCREST AND BRINKMAN STREET.
I, I I INDICATED THE WRONG LOCATION.
ITEM ONE 30, ITEM ONE 30 IS FOSTER.
ONE 30 IS FOSTER PLACE PRY PLA NUMBER 32, THE SIZE LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF ST.
THE REASON FOR RELAID IS TO CREATE THREE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS.
THERE ARE NO VARIANTS REQUESTED WITH THIS PLAT.
THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT PER THE CBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM.
MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM.
AT THIS TIME, THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ITEM ONE 30 FOSTER PLACE IS OPEN.
I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED IN ADVANCE.
IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 30? IF NOT, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
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IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? AYE.ITEM 1 31 IS JOHN DRAPER VILLAS THE SIZE LOCATED AT THE SOUTHWEST INTERSECTION OF JOHN DRAPER DRIVE AND HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS.
THE REASON FOR RE PLAT IS TO CREATE TWO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS.
THE APPLICANT IS ALSO SEEKING A VARIANCE TO AVOID PROVIDING FIRE.
FEET STREET WIDENING DEDICATION ALONG JOHN DRAPER DRIVE.
STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THIS REQUEST.
THIS SITE IS A REPL OF A FOUR LOT SHARED DRIVEWAY SUBDIVISION CREATED IN 2018.
THESE FOUR LOTS ARE ALSO AT THEN THESE FOUR LOTS WAS A REPL OF ONE LOT IN THE MCGINTY ACRES SECTION ONE THAT WAS CREATED IN 1964.
THE APPLICANT TODAY IS, UM, REPL TO CREATE ONLY TWO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS WITH ONE SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE ON EACH LOT.
JOHN DRAPER DRIVE IS A LOCAL STREET WITH AN EXISTING 50 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY ACCORDING TO CHAPTER 42 DASH 1 22.
A LOCAL STREET RIGHT OF WAY IS 50 FEET IF ADJACENT EXCLUSIVELY TO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS OR 60 FEET.
IF IT'S ADJACENT TO OTHER, TO ANY OTHER DEVELOPMENT, THERE IS ONLY ONE COMMERCIAL PROPERTY LOCATED ALONG JOHN DRAPER DRIVE AND THAT IS AT THE INTERSECTION OF YORKTOWN STREET AND JOHN DRAPER DRIVE.
ALL OTHER PROPERTIES ALONG JOHN DRAPER DRIVE ARE RESIDENTIAL LOTS AND WERE PLANTED AS RESIDENTIAL LOTS.
JOHN DRAPER DRIVE IS A LOOP STREET THAT TURNS INTO, UH, CHEVY CHASE DRIVE WHEN, WHICH IS, WHICH IS AN EXISTING EXCLUSIVELY SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL STREET.
THERE ARE NO PLANS TO WIDEN THE STREET AT NO ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES ALONG THE STREET.
HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS STAFF HAS NO OBJECTIONS TO THIS REQUEST.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OF THOSE FILED SEPARATELY.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUEST OF VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO THE CBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
WE DID RECEIVE A PROTEST LETTER FROM RESIDENTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT THEY ARE NOT A PART OF THE ORIGINAL SUBDIVISION, SO THE PROTEST WOULD NOT CONSTITUTE A SUPER MAJORITY VOTE TO APPROVE THIS PLAQUE.
THE PROTEST LETTER IS A PART OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION APPENDIX POSTED ONLINE.
HOWEVER, THEY DID STATE CONCERNS THAT IF THE OWNER WOULD KEEP THE FOUR LOT SUBDIVISION, THEN THEY WOULD LIKE THE STREET TO REMAIN 60 FEET.
BUT IF THE PROPERTIES, UH, WOULD REMAIN TWO LOTS OR THEY WOULD CREATE TWO LOTS, THEN THEY WOULD NOT BE OPPOSED TO THE, UH, VARIANCE REQUESTS.
MADAM CHAIR PLEASES THE COMMISSION AND HE ALSO WAS CONCERNED ABOUT DRAINAGE ISSUES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
MADAM CHAIR PLEASES COMMISSION.
YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING IS OPEN AND WE DO HAVE A SPEAKER, I THINK, WHO IS VIRTUAL? MICHAEL INTI.
MR. INTI, ARE YOU THERE, MR. IT'S IN DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT.
UM, THE APPLICANT, UH, RUBY NUNEZ IS, UH, IS HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS IF, JUST TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND I DON'T SEE ANY INDICATION THAT WE HAVE QUESTIONS.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 31? JOHN DRAPER VILLAS? NO ONE IN THE CHAT.
UM, THEN WE WILL GO AHEAD AND CO PARDON ME.
SO YOU GUYS DIDN'T SIGN UP? WE DID BY EMAIL, YEAH.
WE SOMEHOW DON'T HAVE YOU, SO LET'S JUST, WHO WANTS TO GO FIRST? OKAY.
WE DON'T HAVE YOU IN OUR DATABASE AND UM, NORMALLY IF YOU'RE HERE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO FILL ONE OF THESE OUT, SO THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T HAVE MY APOLOGIES ABOUT THAT.
MY NAME IS THOMAS AND MY LAST NAME ISRA, R-A-I-T-H.
UM, WELL AS A RESIDENT OF JOHN DRAPER DRIVE, I LIVE ACTUALLY ACROSS THE, THE STREET FROM WHERE THIS PROPOSAL IS, UH, GOING TO HAPPEN.
UM, IT'S ORIGINALLY, WELL, IT WAS PLATTED FOR FOUR.
UM, YOU KNOW, I AM CONTENT WITH THIS NEW, UH, SORT OF TWO HOUSES ON THE LOT.
YOU WELL KNOW HOW HOUSTON IS, WHERE I THINK YOU CAN CRAM AS MANY, OR BUILDERS CAN CRAM AS MANY AS THEY WANT ON ONE LOT.
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I'M MORE THAN CONTENT WITH THE IDEA OF TWO AND ALSO JUST TWO STORIES AS WELL.UM, AND YOU KNOW, SO DON DRAPER IS KIND OF LIKE THIS COOL LITTLE ENCLAVE, WHICH IS HOUSTON'S KIND OF FULL OF THESE KIND OF LIKE PEBBLE STONE SIDEWALKS AND 1970S BUILT AND I FEEL LIKE WIDENING THE STREET BESIDES CHANGING THE AESTHETICS, I WORRY ABOUT KIND OF DRAINAGE ISSUES IF WE DO THAT.
AND IT WOULD ALSO TAKE AWAY SORT OF LARGE SWATHS OF PEOPLE'S YARD.
UM, THE COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES ON YORKTOWN, IT FACES YORKTOWN, SO WE NEVER REALLY HAVE ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES GO INTO JOHN DRAPER.
IN FACT, THE TRAFFIC IN JOHN DRAPER'S VERY LIGHT, UM, ON A, ON A GOOD DAY, ON A BAD DAY.
I'D BE VERY HAPPY IF WE DIDN'T HAVE TO WIDEN THE STREET.
AND I'M ALSO VERY HAPPY WITH THE TWO THAT'S PROPOSED, SO.
APPRECI, JUST THOUGHT I'D LET Y'ALL KNOW THAT.
APPRECIATE YOU, YOUR SUPPORT COMMISSIONER BALDWIN, AND YOU UNDERSTAND WE'RE NOT WIDENING THE STREET RIGHT, RIGHT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE SPEAKER? THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TODAY.
WHO WANTS TO GO NEXT? YES, COME RIGHT FORWARD.
LAST NAME IS LI FIRST NAME, MING.
AND THEN, UH, I ALSO AM HERE TO, UH, SUPPORT NOT WIDENING THE, YOU KNOW, THE ROAD BECAUSE I'M JUST WANT TO SHARE FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, UH, FIRST OF ALL, ME AND MY WIFE, SHE'S ALSO PRESENTED HERE.
WE MOVED TO THIS NEW NEIGHBORHOOD THREE MONTH AGO 'CAUSE KIDS ARE ATTENDING A SCHOOL NEARBY.
SO I KNOW THAT THIS, THIS NEIGHBORHOOD TRADITIONALLY, UH, QUITE A FEW, UH, SENIOR PEOPLE LIVING THERE AND VERY, YOU KNOW, ENJOY THE QUIETNESS OF THE, OF, OF THE AREA.
AND FOR US, WE HAVE TWO LITTLE KID, UH, BOY, TENT AND ADULT.
MY DAUGHTER'S EIGHT AND THEN THEY RUNNING AROUND AND A VERY ENERGETIC, RIGHT, ACTIVE.
AND THEN I WAS A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED WHEN I RECEIVED THIS, UH, INFORMATION BECAUSE, UH, UH, I ALREADY SEEN ON ONE, UH, ONE NIGHT, YOU KNOW, ONE EVENING, YOU KNOW, SEE, I BELIEVE, UH, THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE RIGHT ACROSS THIS VACANT LOT, YOU KNOW, IS, IS FOR RENT.
CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT, UH, THEN, UH, IT OCCASIONALLY CAUSED SOME ISSUES, YOU KNOW, MULTIPLE, YOU KNOW, VISITORS COME, CAME AND THEN PARK THEIR CARS ALONGSIDE SIDE, WHICH ACTUALLY ALREADY CAUSED THE CON CAUSED THE ISSUE FOR US BECAUSE, UH, UH, WE DIDN'T, WE COULDN'T FIND A, A, A SPACE TO PARK OUR CARS IN THAT CASE.
THEN WITH THIS, IF WE WANTED A STREET AND WHICH ESSENTIALLY WILL TAKE UP, UH, ENCROACH OUR, YOU KNOW, AND UH, INTO OUR FRONT YARD, YOU KNOW, WHICH IS WAREHOUSE IS, UH, SITUATED.
AND THEN IT ALSO CAUSES SOME ISSUES FOR KIDS ACTIVITY, THINGS LIKE THAT CAUSE SOME SAFETY ISSUES THERE.
SO I'LL ALSO SUPPORT IF WE ARE NOT GOING TO WIDENING THE STREET AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, I JUST WANNA SHARE, SHARE MY THOUGHTS ON THIS.
YOUR REMARKS ARE PART OF THE RECORD.
WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING DOWN.
LET ME ASK IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
OKAY, I THINK WE HAVE ANOTHER SPEAKER.
MY LAST NAME'S ROCKWELL AND MAYBE I DON'T EVEN NEED TO SAY ANYTHING.
I THOUGHT I HEARD MR. BALDWIN SAY WE ARE, WE'RE NOT PLANNING TO WIDEN THE STREET.
IF THAT'S THE CASE, THAT'S WHAT I AND MANY OF THE OTHER NEIGHBORS THAT COULDN'T SHOW UP TODAY WANT, WE DON'T WANT THE STREET TO BE WIDENED.
THE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE VARIANCE TO NOT DEDICATE THE LAND.
WE'RE ALL GOOD WITH THAT AND WE SUPPORT THAT.
UM, OKAY, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 31? JOHN DRAPER VILLAS? IF NOT NOW, WE WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND TURN TO THE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION, WHICH IS, I'LL WAIT UNTIL MS. FL COMES BACK.
UM, IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLOT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? BALDWIN? IS THERE A SECOND? ABRAHAM? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ITEM 1 32 IS LAKEWOOD PINE, SECTION 14, PARTIALLY PLATINUM NUMBER ONE.
THE SITE IS LOCATED WEST OF LAKE HOUSTON PARKWAY AND SOUTH OF LAKEWOOD PINES IN HOUSTON, X EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION IN HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS.
THE REASON FOR RE PLAT IS TO CREATE NINE LOTS AND THREE RESERVES AND ADJUST RESERVE LINES.
THERE ARE NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED.
SEPARATELY, THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
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APPROVE THE PLAT PER THE C BBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM.
MADAM CHAIR OF YOUR PLEASES COMMISSION.
YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 32 LAKEWOOD PINES IS OPEN.
I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED IN ADVANCE.
DO WE HAVE ANYBODY IN THE CHAT AND ANYONE LISTENING WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON LAKEWOOD PINES HEARING? NO RESPONSE.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION FOR PERLE SECOND JONES.
ITEM 1 33 IS LONG POINT ACRES PARTIAL, I MEAN LONG POINT ACRES.
REPL NUMBER ONE, REPL NUMBER 10, I'M SORRY.
THE SITE IS LOCATED EAST ALONG ELM VIEW STREET NORTH OF U UON, DALE STREET AND WEST OF LAY LOCK STREET AND HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS.
THE REASON FOR RELA IS TO CREATE 40 LOTS AND NINE RESERVES.
THERE ARE NO BEARINGS REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT.
OF THOSE FILED SEPARATELY, THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT PER THE CBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
MADAM CHAIR, IF THE PLEASES COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
OKAY, THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ITEM 1 33 LONG POINT ACRES IS OPEN.
I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED, NO ONE IN THE CHAT.
IS THERE ANYONE LISTENING WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 33? UM, THEN THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? GARZA? SECOND.
UH, ITEM 1 34 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.
ITEM 1 35 IS PARK AT CHAMPIONS.
ITEM 1 35 IS PARKED AT CHAMPIONS PARK.
THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST INTERSECTION OF C ROAD AND CHAMPION CENTER DRIVE.
THE REASON FOR THE REPLY IS TO CREATE ONE RECREATIONAL RESERVE.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE FROM SECTION 42 DASH 1 93 TO ALLOW A COMMERCIAL RESERVE TO BE REPLIED INTO RECREATION RESERVE.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OF THOSE FILED SEPARATELY.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER THE PLAT FOR TWO WEEKS.
MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM.
AT THIS TIME, STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS.
UH, THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 35 PARK AT CHAMPIONS PARK IS OPEN.
I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK.
IS THERE ANYONE LISTENING WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON PARK AT CHAMPIONS PARK? UM, HEARING NO RESPONSE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER UNLESS THERE'S DISCUSSION.
IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER AND CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING? BALDWIN BALDWIN.
IS THERE A SECOND? HEES HINES? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ITEM 1 36 IS PECAN PARK RELA AND EXTENSION PARTIAL RELA NUMBER ONE.
THIS THE SITE IS LOCATED NORTH ALONG PALMETTO STREET AND WEST OF REDWOOD AVENUE.
THE REASON FOR RELAID IS TO CREATE, IT'S TO REVISE THE BUILD LINE.
I'M SORRY, FROM 25 FEET TO 10 FEET NOW NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OF THOSE FILED SEPARATELY.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO THE CBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM.
AT THIS TIME, STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM.
THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 36 PECAN PARK RE PLAT AN EXTENSION IS OPEN.
I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED IN ADVANCE.
IS THERE ANYONE LISTENING WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 35 PECAN PARK? HEARING NO RESPONSE, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION? IS THERE A SECOND? BALDWIN? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
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ITEM 1 37 IS RUTH STREET ESTATES.THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED SOUTH ALONG ROUTE STREET AND EAST OF ALAMEDA ROAD AND HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS.
THE REASON FOR REPLIED IS TO CREATE SIX LOTS ALONG THE SHARED DRIVEWAY THAT NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY.
THE APPLICANT HAS, UH, FAILED TO MEET THE NOTICE REQUIREMENTS.
SO STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DISAPPROVE THE PLAT FAILURE TO MEET NOTICE, UH, REQUIREMENTS.
MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
AND STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY, UM, ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM.
UM, THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 37 RUTH STREET ESTATES IS OPEN.
I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED IN ADVANCE.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE OR LISTENING WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 37? RUTH STREET ESTATES HEARING NO RESPONSE.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DISAPPROVE YES.
BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO PROVIDE NOTICE? YES.
UM, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? ABRAHAM ABRAHAM SECOND JONES.
THE MOTION CARRIES TO DISAPPROVE.
ITEM 1 38 IS SHEPHERD OAKS PARTIALLY PLAT NUMBER TWO, THE SIZE LOCATED AT THE SOUTHWEST INTERSECTION OF JANET AND RICKMAN STREETS AND HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS.
THE REASON FOR REPLY IS TO CREATE NINE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS.
UH, STAFF DID ASK THE APPLICANT WOULD HE CONSIDER A SHARED DRIVEWAY LAYOUT FOR THIS, UM, PLOT.
AND THE APPLICANT RESPONDED, THE OWNER PREFERRED THE FRONT LOADER, UH, LOTS.
INSTEAD, THERE ARE NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS PLAT.
THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
THIS PLAT WAS DEFERRED AT THE LAST PLANNING COMMISSION.
LEGAL HAS REVIEWED THE ITEM AND THIS PLAT DOES NOT VIOLATE DEED RESTRICTIONS ON THE, ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT.
THEY DO NOT VIOLATE DEED RESTRICTIONS,
AND, AND THEY ALSO DO NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT.
UH, STATUS RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT PER THE CC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM.
MADAM CHAIR PLEASES COMMISSION.
YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC MAY CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 38 SHEPHERD OAKS IS CONTINUED.
WE HAVE A SPEAKER, UH, WHO I THINK IS A PREVIOUS SPEAKER.
UM, SO YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE.
YEAH, WE DID HAVE A SPEAKER LAST TIME.
WHAT'S NOT INDICATED ON THE REPLY IS THE SOUTHWEST CORNER IS ACTUALLY DURHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
AND THE REPLANT AS PROPOSED INTRODUCES MULTIPLE DRIVEWAYS INTO THE PRIMARY WALKTHROUGH GATE PICKUP AND DROP OFF AREA FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
IT IS ALSO THE PRIMARY AVENUE FOR BUSES, UH, FOR SCHOOL BUSES HAULING CHILDREN ALL TIMES OF THE DAY, UH, AS WELL AS THE WEST SIDE OF BRINKMAN STREET IS THE PRIMARY STAGING AREA FOR THIS RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE PROPOSED NINE DRIVEWAYS.
UH, MY CONTENTION IS THAT THIS WOULD INTRODUCE A SIGNIFICANT SAFETY HAZARD THAT DOES NOT EXIST CURRENTLY.
UH, IT IS NOT NEEDED AS AN INTERIOR DRIVEWAY WOULD, WOULD CIRCUMVENT THIS PROBLEM.
THE ADDITIONAL PROBLEM OF TRASH CANS AND TRASH RECEPTACLES FROM MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH USUALLY THURSDAY MORNING, UH, WOULD GREATLY HAMPER THIS TRANSACTION.
IT WOULD GREATLY HAMPER TRAFFIC IN THIS AREA AS WELL AS HE'S PROPOSED, THE REPER PUTS DRIVEWAYS IN FRONT OF SPEED HUMPS AND, UH, THEN FORCES TRASH CANS INTO THIS BUSY INTERSECTION AS WELL.
TIME, UH, THIS IS, I GO AHEAD AND WRAP UP.
THIS IS AN I I FEEL THIS IS AN UNNEEDED, UH, REDEVELOPMENT THAT HAS OTHER, UH, DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS TO THEM THAT WOULD NOT INTRODUCE SAFETY HAZARDS TO OUR KIDS AND CROSSING GUARDS.
UM, I, I WON'T, I, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR STAFF, BUT AS, AS MS. POPE PHLEGM SAID, WE DID MAKE EVERY ATTEMPT WITHIN OUR POWER TO, UM, HAVE THE APPLICANT, UM, PROVIDE A DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT HERE WITH A SHARED DRIVEWAY TO PREVENT ALL THESE NUMEROUS CURB CUTS.
WE, UM, WE HOPE WE CAN DO SOMETHING TO MITIGATE THIS IN THE FUTURE THROUGH OUR LIVABLE PLACES COMMITTEE, BUT RIGHT NOW, THIS DEVELOPMENT AS IS, UH, THIS PLAT MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF OUR CURRENT BUILDING CODE, AND IT'S AS SUCH A SHALL APPROVE ITEM FOR US.
SO, UM, BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR
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COMMENTS.AND, UM, AGAIN, PERHAPS YOU'LL HAVE MORE LUCK IF YOU TALK TO THE DEVELOPER YOURSELF ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT, THAT MAY ENSUE FROM THIS DEVELOPMENT.
UH, ANY DISCUSSION COMMISSIONERS OR ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE SPEAKER? I MEAN, UH, NOT FOR THE SPEAKER.
I WONDERED IF THE DEVELOPER WAS PRESENT.
DO WE, IS THE APPLICANT PRESENT? DO WE KNOW? HELLO? I GUESS NOT.
WE, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS AS THE DIRECTOR SAID WE ARE LOOKING AT, AT THINGS LIKE THIS, BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THESE ARE, WHAT, 22, 25 FEET WIDE.
THEY TAKE ALL THE PARKING OFF THE STREET.
THE, IT'S A 1710, WHICH MEANS CARS SHOULDN'T BE OVER THE SIDEWALK, BUT THEY VERY OFTEN ARE.
AND I THINK RIGHT NOW THE BIGGEST, UM, BARRIER TO OUR CHANGING THIS IS THAT RIGHT NOW, UM, CITY ORDINANCES REALLY INCENT DEVELOPERS TO BUILD THEM THIS WAY INSTEAD OF THE WAY THAT WE WANT TO BUILD THEM FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS.
SO YOU'VE SEEN US OVER AND OVER ASK IF WAS THE DEVELOPER, YOU KNOW, GIVEN A SEPARATE RECOMMENDATION, AND THE ANSWER IS YES.
AND YET SOMEHOW THEY ALWAYS CHOOSE NOT TO TAKE IT BECAUSE IT IS HONESTLY MORE EXPEDIENT TO DO WHAT IS CURRENTLY IN THE ORDINANCE.
SO THE NEXT TIME AROUND, YOU'LL SEE SOME THINGS THAT WILL BE HAPPENING IN LIVABLE PLACES.
AND OUR HOPE AND OUR GOAL WILL BE TO ELIMINATE THAT.
ONE OF WHICH I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT IS PROXIMITY TO A SCHOOL OR A CHURCH MIGHT BE A GOOD WAY OF DISSUADING THAT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT IN A CERTAIN PROXIMITY TO A CHURCH OR A PUBLIC, UM, MEETING PLACE.
WELL, I JUST WANTED TO AMPLIFY A LITTLE BIT WHAT, UM, COMMISSIONER GARZA SAID THE, THE THIRD THING THAT WE SEE.
AND IF YOU COULD SHOW THE AERIAL, COULD YOU, COULD SOMEBODY GO TO AN AERIAL? CAN YOU TELL, IS THIS OPEN DITCH? I SEE SIDEWALKS.
THE, THE, THE OTHER THING THAT HAPPENS TYPICALLY WITH FRONT LOADING DEVELOPMENT LIKE THIS IS THAT IT INTERRUPTS THE DRAINAGE SYSTEM, WHETHER IT'S A CURB AND GUTTER OR AN OPEN DITCH.
IT INTERRUPTS THE DRAINAGE SYSTEM EVERY TIME THERE'S A DRIVEWAY PUT IN.
AND SO IT IS A CHALLENGE FOR US WITH DRAINAGE.
IT, IT DOESN'T SUPPORT THE, THE CITY'S NEED TO KEEP OUR DRAINAGE GOING AS, AS SMOOTHLY AS POSSIBLE.
AND SO WE FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT THERE HAS TO BE A WAY THAT WE CAN IMPROVE THESE DEVELOPMENTS.
THESE ARE DEVELOPMENTS THAT CLEARLY THE PUBLIC IS BUYING.
UM, BUT THERE HAS TO BE A WAY WE CAN HELP THE DEVELOPERS AND THE BUILDERS LOOK AT, UM, CHANGES TO IMPROVE THEM SO THAT THEY BENEFIT THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, NOT JUST THE PROPERTY OWNERS THAT ARE BUYING THEM.
AND, AND IN THE COURSE OF TRYING TO, TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS THAT ARE AMENABLE TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BUILDING THESE AND PEOPLE WHO WILL BE BUYING THEM, UH, WE'VE HAD SOME GREAT DISCUSSIONS WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND THEY ARE SUPPORTIVE OF, OF THE APPROACH THAT WE'RE TAKING.
AND AS, AS SONNY SAID, SORRY, COMMISSIONER GARZA SAID, UM, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW THIS KIND OF DEVELOPMENT IS, IS IS, UH, SORT OF INCENTIVIZED IN OUR CODE.
AND IF WE CAN CHANGE THOSE CARROTS, SO SOMETHING ELSE, WE MIGHT GET DIFFERENT PRODUCTS AND WE'RE WORKING HARD ON THAT.
UM, LET ME GO AHEAD AND CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
THAT'S THE ONLY SPEAKER I HAD.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON 1 38 SHEPHERD OAKS? ONE SECOND.
HEARING NO RESP, WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY IN THE CHAT.
IF NO ONE ELSE WISHES TO SPEAK ON, UH, SHEPHERD OAKS PARTIAL REPL NUMBER TWO, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, UM, AND TALK AND SEE IF COMMISSIONERS HAVE COMMENTS.
UM, IS ANYONE FROM PUBLIC WORKS, UH, JOINING US TODAY IN REGARDS TO SOME QUESTIONS SPECIFICALLY, UM, WORKING WITH, UH, TRAFFIC IN THE CITY ROUTINELY WITH WHEN IT COMES TO SAFETY CONCERNS FOR CHILDREN AT SCHOOLS, UH, DRIVEWAY CROSSINGS, INTERSECTIONS, UM, THEY DO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL TIAS, UM, AND SOME OTHER INFORMATION.
IS THERE ANY WAY WE COULD HAVE THEM, UH, KIND OF COMMENT ON THAT? AND IS THERE ANY WAY WE COULD REQUEST SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THAT? 'CAUSE WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT KIDS AND LIFE AND SAFETY, UH, WE SHOULD HAVE SOME ABILITY TO, UH, GET SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
AND WE CAN ASK TODAY OR WE COULD, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ANOTHER DEFERRAL ON THIS ITEM IF YOU WANNA, COULD WE DO THAT? DO WE HAVE ANYONE FROM PUBLIC WORKS WITH US TODAY? I STILL LIKE THE IDEA OF THE DEFERRAL.
I'M MANAGING ENGINEER WITH THE OCE.
DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS? I CAN ANSWER PLEASE.
WHAT'S YOUR QUESTION? JUST COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG'S
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QUESTION.DO YOU WANNA GO AHEAD AND RESTATE THAT? YEAH.
UM, WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF WORK WITH VARIOUS MEMBERS OF, OF PUBLIC WORKS, UH, RELATED TO, UM, NEW STREET STANDARDS, STREET WIDTHS, BICYCLE PATHS, PEDESTRIAN ACCESS, YOU KNOW, NEAR SCHOOLS AND ALL OF THAT.
MY COMMENT IS, IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN REQUEST THAT IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH CURRENT, UH, VIEWS OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT OR IS THERE ANY INFORMATION THAT YOU COULD PROVIDE THAT COULD INDICATE THIS IS NOT A SOUND PLAN FOR US TO DO, THAT WE CAN PUSH BACK WITH? YES, WE HAVE, RIGHT NOW WE ARE DEALING WITH CHAPTER 15 AND CHAPTER 17 OF THE IDM AND WE ALREADY REQUESTING THE WIDER PUBLIC RHYTHM, INCLUDING IMPROVING THE SIDEWALKS MINIMUM FIVE FEET RIGHT NOW.
AND WE'RE IMPROVING THE EDE RAMPS FOR ALL SIDEWALKS.
AND THAT WILL ENHANCE THE SAFETY FOR PEDESTRIANS.
AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE WORKING ON IMPROVING THE MODEL.
THE MULTI MODEL LEVEL OF SURFACE IS NOT JUST A BIT TOWARD VEHICLES, WOULD BE TOWARD VEHICLES, UH, BIKING AND THIS ONES AS WELL.
I DON'T, I DON'T THINK, I DON'T, YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD HIS QUESTION.
HE'S NOT ASKING ABOUT CHANGES THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IN THE IDM.
IS THAT EXISTING TODAY? IS THERE SOME WAY YOU CAN LOOK AT THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT ON SCREEN? OH, FOR THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT, WE WILL ASK THEM TO THE SIDEWALK.
BECAUSE IT IS ADJACENT TO A SCHOOL AND IT INTER AND IT MAY INTERFERE WITH A SCHOOL PICKUP LINE.
IS THERE A, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR BAG OF, IN YOUR TOOLBOX THAT COULD ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THE NUMBER OF DRIVEWAYS THAT ARE CROSSING THE SIDEWALK? YES.
THAT CAUSE SAFETY PROBLEMS? YES.
WE CAN, I CAN TAKE IT BACK NOW TO THE PERSON'S CHARGE OF THE SCHOOL ZONING AND WE'LL SEE HOW WE CAN ENHANCE IT EITHER WITH THE SIGNAGE, MORE SIGNAGE, AND YOU CAN LOOK WHERE EXACTLY THE PICKUP AND DROP OFF AREA OF THE SCHOOL.
AND WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT IT SPEC SPECIFICALLY, IF YOU COULD ASK IAN HALA CHECK TO LOOK AT THIS AND GET SOME FEEDBACK TO US, WE'D APPRECIATE IT.
WE CAN DO THAT TWO WEEKS WITHIN WITH ME.
WELL, I HAVE A QUESTION, MADAM CHAIR.
COULD WE GET YOUR NAME PLEASE? I'M SORRY I DIDN'T HEAR YOU.
AHMED, A-H-M-E-D, LAST NAME G-H-A-L-Y.
UM, WERE YOU FINISHED COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG FOR THE MOMENT? YES.
OKAY, COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM, UH, I'M GONNA PITCH THIS QUESTION TO YOU IN TWO PARTS.
UM, THE FIRST PART IS, UH, WE HAD, WE HAD A RESIDENT, UH, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE AERIAL.
AND THERE IS A SCHOOL ON THE OPPOSITE CORNER OF OF THAT THAT, UH, MAYBE, MAYBE STAFF CAN BLOW IT UP A BIT.
YEAH, SO, SO THE QUESTION IS, ONE RESIDENT SAID HE THINKS THIS MIGHT BE A SAFETY CONCERN FROM PUBLIC WORKS PERSPECTIVE BASED ON OUR ORDINANCES CURRENTLY.
IS THIS A SAFETY CONCERN HAVING, UH, DRIVEWAYS CROSS A SIDEWALK THAT THE, UH, THE BUILDERS GOING TO PUT IN? I NEED TO LOOK AT IT TO GIVE YOU THE DETAILED ANSWER.
AND THEN WE'LL GO BACK AND, UH, COME OR COME BACK TO YOU WITH THE, SO, SO THE NEXT QUESTION IS, SO, SO PUBLIC WORKS HAS NOT REVIEWED THIS, UH, I DID PERSONALLY, I DID NOT LOOK AT IT.
DID YOU REFER IT TO US FROM, UH, FOR THIS POINT OF VIEW? YEAH.
GOOD AFTERNOON MEMBERS PLANNING COMMISSION.
SO THE PUBLIC WORKS, UH, IS ONE OF THE AGENCIES THAT REVIEWS ALL THE PROJECTS, BUT THEY LOOK AT IT THROUGH PLATING, UH, STAGE RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE IT IS PLANNING STAGE, UH, THE DRIVEWAYS ARE PROBABLY NOT LOOKED AT AS OF YET.
BUT I THINK IF WE ARE RECOMMENDING DEFERRAL AND THE COMMISSION CHOOSES TO DEFER IT, I, I THINK THAT COULD BE LOOKED AT AND WE COULD COME BACK TOGETHER AND GIVE YOU GUYS A, UH, ANALYSIS OF WHAT THE DRIVEWAYS WILL DO TO THE PICKUP AREA.
AND WE CAN DO THAT WELL IN, IN DIPTY.
IT'S A LITTLE BIT BIGGER THAN THAT.
I DROP MY DAUGHTER OFF AT SCHOOL EVERY MORNING AND THE SCHOOL HAS TO GO OUT EVERY DAY WITH CONES AND CONE OFF THE DRIVE.
DRIVEWAYS AND CURBS BECAUSE THE BUSES CAN'T TURN.
THE BUSES HAVE NOWHERE TO STOP AND START.
UM, AND TRULY LIFE SAFETY CONCERN.
COMMISSIONER GARZA, UH, DIPTI, ONE OTHER THING.
I JUST NOTICED THAT ACROSS THE STREET, THE HOUSE, THE HOUSES HAVE SIDEWALKS AND THERE'S NO CURB CUTS AT ALL, WHICH INDICATES THAT THERE'S AN ALLEY ENTRANCE INTO ALL THOSE HOUSES.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE ON THE EAST SIDE, THE SAME THING THAT THERE'S OSTENSIBLY SOME KIND OF ALLEY RUNNING NORTH SOUTH BEHIND THIS PROPERTY.
ANOTHER THING YOU'RE WORKING ON, ANOTHER THING I'M WORKING ON
SO, UM, I I WONDER THAT WE COULD TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AS MAYBE, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, UM, AGAIN, I KNOW THAT YOU'VE BEEN TALKING TO THE
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DEVELOPER, BUT THE, WITH THE IDEA THAT WE'RE GOING IN THE DIRECTION OF, OF PROVIDING BETTER ALLEY ACCESS, THE FACT THAT ACROSS THE STREET THERE IS NOT A SINGLE CURB CUT TO IMPEDE CHILDREN'S WALKING, UH, OR PEOPLE PEDESTRIANS WALKING TO SCHOOL AND ACTUALLY WHERE THE SCHOOL IS, THERE'S NOT A SINGLE CURB COULD BY THE LOOK OF IT.UM, SO I THINK THERE'S, WE MIGHT HAVE ENOUGH LEVERAGE HERE TO GO BACK TO THAT DEVELOPER WITH SOME NEW INFORMATION AND MAYBE SOME TOOLS OUTTA PUBLIC WORKS TO TAKE SOME DIFFERENT ACTION IF WE DEFER.
IT LOOKS LIKE THAT'S JUST A STREET.
OH, IT IS A STREET JUST LOOKS LIKE IT REGARDLESS.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING AT.
BUT, UH, I AGREE AND I THINK, UM, I, I WOULD REQUEST THAT THE APPLICANT OR THE DEVELOPER BE PRESENT NEXT TIME TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER CERTAIN QUESTIONS.
UM, UH, WE WILL TRY TO TALK TO THEM AGAIN AND WORK WITH OUR PUBLIC WORKS PARTNERS AND SEE HOW WE CAN FIGURE OUT EITHER COMBINING DRIVEWAYS TO MAKE INSTEAD OF NINE, MAKING FOUR OR FOUR AND FIVE DRIVEWAYS OR ZERO WHILE MAKING A SHARED DRIVEWAY AT THE BACK OF IT.
SO WE'LL, WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AGAIN, UH, OR REQUEST THE APPLICANT TO CONSIDER IT AGAIN.
THANK YOU COMMISSIONER SIGLER.
AND, UM, I'LL MAKE A MOTION FOR DEFERRAL.
AND, BUT ALSO WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE SCHOOL'S CURRENT PLAN IS FOR BUSING FOR CARPOOL AND HOW THEY CURRENTLY OPERATE.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, CHANGES THAT THIS MIGHT MAKE THEM HAVE TO MAKE OR VICE VERSA.
OBJECT TO THAT DATA WE NEED TO COLLECT BEFORE MAKE FILING.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? COMMISSION? WE HAVE A MOTION, UM, FOR DEFERRAL.
IS THERE A SECOND BEFORE WE, BEFORE WE VOTE? YES, GO AHEAD.
I JUST WANT TO ADD, I'M A BIG ADVOCATE OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT THERE IS PRECEDENCE TO SOUTH OF OAK STREET WHERE THERE'S A SMALL DEVELOPMENT.
IT WAS WHAT, FIVE UNITS, FRONT LOADERS.
WE CAN'T BELIEVE I'M SAYING THIS.
UM, WE SHOULD HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVELOPER AND EXPLORE, SEE IF WE COULD FURTHER EXPLORE OPTIONS IN THE TWO WEEKS.
SO DOES THE NOTICE I'M ASSUMING, GOES THROUGH THE SCHOOL AS WELL? CORRECT? DOES WHAT? GO THROUGH THE SCHOOL? DOES NOTICE THE PUBLIC NOTICE? I MEAN, DOES IT GO TO THE SCHOOL? DOES THE SCHOOL HAVE A SAY IN THIS AS WELL? AND HAVE YOU HEARD FROM THE SCHOOL AT ALL? UM, WE, WE DID NOT HEAR FROM THE SCHOOL, BUT WE SEND A NOTICE TO ALL THE PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN, UM, WITHIN THE NOTIFICATION AREA, WHICH IS 300 FEET, RIGHT? YES.
SO IS IT POSSIBLE TO REACH OUT TO SCHOOL AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY BUY INTO THIS PLAN? YES.
SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS.
COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM? MY, SO I'D LIKE TO, I I'D LIKE TO, I'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THE SAFETY QUESTION.
WE, WE HAVE A RESIDENT, WE HAVE RESIDENTS SAYING IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE AND WE, WE WE'RE, WE'RE JUST ASSUMING IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE, BUT IT MIGHT NOT BE A SAFETY ISSUE.
IT MIGHT NOT EVEN BE A SAFETY ISSUE FROM THE SCHOOL'S PERSPECTIVE AND HOW THEY MANAGE TRAFFIC.
SO, SO THAT'S WHY I ASKED THE, THE, THE PUBLIC WORKS STAFFER TO ASK IF THERE'S SOMETHING.
SO IN A, YOU KNOW, MY, MY, MY COLLEAGUE IS ASKING THE SCHOOL TO COMMENT, BUT I'M, I'M INTERESTED IN, IN HIDS, UH, YOU KNOW, POLICIES ON HOW THEY DIRECT CHILDREN AND PUBLIC WORKS STANDARDS OR POLICIES WITH REGARDS TO WHAT WE DO AROUND THE ZONE TO MAKE, TO, TO PUT THAT FRAME OVER THIS TO DETERMINE WHETHER IT IS A SAFETY ISSUE.
BECAUSE IF IT IS NOT A SAFETY ISSUE, WE NEED TO LET THE RESIDENTS UNDERSTAND IT'S NOT, AND HERE'S WHY.
YOU KNOW, WE SHOULDN'T JUST ASSUME IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE BECAUSE PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT IT, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT'S POSSIBLE THAT, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT THE PLANS ARE FOR THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPER AND THEY'RE JUST RESPONDING TO POSSIBLE ISSUES, BUT MAYBE THE SCHOOL ZONE, UH, ORDINANCE, POLICIES, WHATEVER, HAS A WAY TO, TO DEAL WITH THIS, RIGHT? SO I, I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO IT SAYING THERE'S A PROBLEM.
I'D LIKE US TO REVIEW WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN PLACE FIRST AND THEN, YOU KNOW, DETERMINE THAT BASED ON THE, I UNDERSTAND PUBLIC WORKS JUST SAID THAT THERE'S A SCHOOL ZONE KIND OF ORDINANCE OR POLICY.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSION? IF NOT, WE HAVE A MOTION TO DEFER.
GARZA GARZA, YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF DEFERRAL SAY AYE.
AND JUST AS A REMINDER TO STAFF, WE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THE DEVELOPER OR APPLICANT
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IS PRESENT NEXT WEEK.AND I KNOW YOU'LL BE TALKING IN THE MEANTIME AND I KNOW YOU'VE GOT THE OTHER COMMENTS.
THAT WILL TAKE US TO ITEM 1 39, ITEM 1 39 SENTARA, SECTION 16 PARTIAL REPLANT NUMBER ONE, THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN THE ETJ ALONG, SO BEND DRIVE SOUTH OF STOCKDALE SCHOOL ROAD AND WEST OF THE WALLER HARRIS COUNTY LINE.
THE PURPOSE OF THE REPLANT IS TO CHANGE THE NAME OF SUNSET GABLES DRIVE TO SUNRISE GABLES DRIVE REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THE PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE ANY RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT.
ARE THOSE FILED SEPARATELY? THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS AND THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM.
WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THE PLAT STAFF.
RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
MADAM CHAIR, IF PLEASES WITH COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ITEM 1 39, SUN TERRA, SECTION 16 IS OPEN.
I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK.
IS THERE ANYONE LISTENING WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 39? HEARING NO RESPONSE? THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? A? IS THERE A SECOND? HEES HEES.
OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES ITEM ONE 40, ITEM ONE 40 SUNTER SECTION 24 REPL NUMBER ONE, THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN THE ETJ ALONG SENTARA SHORES DRIVE NORTH OF CLAY ROAD AND EAST OF SCHLEPP ROAD.
THE PURPOSE OF THE REPL IS TO CREATE 112 SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS AND FOUR RESERVES.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THE PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT.
ARE THOSE FILED SEPARATELY? THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS AND THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM.
WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS PLAT.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ONE 40 SUN SECTION 24 IS OPEN.
I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED, NO ONE IN THE CHAT.
IS THERE ANYONE LISTENING WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 40? HEARING NO RESPONSE.
STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
IS THERE DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION FOR PERLE SECOND NELSON? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES ITEM 1 41.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
ITEM 1 41 IS TIMBERMAN ESTATES.
THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS WEST ALONG HILL STREET, SOUTH OF TIDWELL ROAD AND WEST OF MESA DRIVE.
THE PURPOSE OF THE RELA IS TO CREATE TWO NARROW FRONT LOADING SINGLE FAMILY LOTS.
THERE ARE NO VARIS REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM AND THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THE PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE ANY RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY.
WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THE PLAT STAFF.
RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER THE PLAT PER THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST TO CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE LAYOUTS FOR THE PROPERTY.
MADAM CHAIR, IF YOU PLEASE THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE PUBLIC HEARING ON 1 41 TIMMERMAN ESTATES IS OPEN.
WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE IN THE CHAT.
IS THERE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON TIMMERMAN ESTATES? 1 41 HEARING NO RESPONSE.
UM, PUBLIC OR THE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER IF THERE'S NO DISCUSSION, IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER AND CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING? GARZA SECOND BALDWIN BALDWIN.
ITEM 1 41 IS DEFERRED ITEM 1 42.
THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS AT THE NORTHEAST INTERSECTION OF BRUN STREET AND WELCH STREET, EAST OF SHEPHERD DRIVE AND SOUTH OF BUR VERMONT STREET.
PURPOSE OF THE RELA IS TO CREATE TWO SINGLE FAMILY LOTS.
THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM AND THE PLAT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THE PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE ANY RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY.
WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THE APPLICATION STAFF.
RECOMMENDATIONS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS CHAIR FOR PLEASE THE COMMISSION.
YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1 42 WELCH CROSSING IS OPEN.
ANYONE WITH US WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 42 WELCH
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CROSSING, HEARING NO RESPONSE.STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.
IS THERE DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION JONES? IS THERE A SECOND?
UH, ITEM 1 43 WEST HAVEN ESTATES HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.
ITEM 1 44 IS WHISPERING PINES ESTATES PARTIAL RE PLATINUM NUMBER 13 DECIDED LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS SOUTHEAST INTERSECTION OF WHISPERING PINES DRIVE AND FLOWERDALE STREET NORTH OF WESTVIEW DRIVE AND WEST OF ANTOINE DRIVE.
THE PURPOSE OF THE RELA IS TO CREATE FIVE SINGLE FAMILY LOTS ALONG A SHARED DRIVEWAY.
THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM.
AND THE PLAT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
THE PLAT WAS DEFERRED LAST CYCLE TO ALLOW MORE TIME FOR LEGAL REVIEW.
LEGAL HAS COME BACK INDICATING THAT THE PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE ANY RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY.
WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS APPLICATION.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME.
THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CONTINUED FOR ITEM 1 44, WHISPERING PINES.
WE HAVE A SPEAKER, KLAUS GUNLOCK.
SO, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A GOOD OMEN BECAUSE OF THE LAST CASE HERE, BUT, UH, AND I HAD EXPERT WITH ME, BUT I GOT A PHONE CALL THIS MORNING, HAD A DEATH OF THE FAMILY.
YOU COULDN'T PRE, UH, BE WITH ME.
ANYHOW, UH, WE, I, THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I'M HERE LISTENING.
SO APPARENTLY ONCE IT'S BEING ACCEPTED, UH, WITH THE CODE 42, IT'S A DONE DEAL AS FAR AS IN GENERAL, ACCEPTING OUT OF MAKING ONE, VALUING FIVE.
UM, NOW, UH, I REPRESENT THE BOARD OF GRACE COVE, WHICH ARE THE TOWNHOUSE, RIGHT, RIGHT NEXT DOOR.
AND WE HAVE GRAVE CONCERN ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ISSUES FLOODING THE TRAFFIC, PARKING AND THE SECURITY AS FAR AS THE GATE IS CONCERNED, RIGHT? RIGHT NOW, THE ONE DWELLING HAD A, A GATE.
AND UH, ALSO THERE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, AFTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF THOSE FIVE, UH, DWELLINGS, THAT, UH, A GATE WILL BE, UH, ESTABLISHED BECAUSE WITH THE, WITH THE NEW ROAD BEING BUILT THERE, YOU WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO ALL OUR HOUSES, THE BACKSIDE OF OUR HOUSES EASILY REACHABLE, AND WE WILL, WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT OUR SAFETY IN THAT RESPECT.
MY QUESTION TO YOU GUYS IS NOW, SO IF IT'S NOW ACCEPTED THAT THOSE FIVE DWELLINGS WILL BE BUILT, BUT TO WHOM DO WE GO AND SIT DOWN AND SAY, ARE ALL THOSE, UM, ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS AS FAR AS FLOODING IS CONCERNED TO, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, I LEARNED 360 SQUARE FOOT OPEN SPACE IS REQUIRED FOR EACH LOT.
IF I CALCULATE THOSE FIVE TOWNHOUSES, I WOULD'VE NO, NO CLUE WHERE THEY WOULD CREATE THOSE SQUARE FOOTAGE.
SO WE NEED SOMEBODY, OR WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AN ADDRESS.
IS IT PUBLIC WORK? IS IT, UH, THE, UH, WHO, WHO ENFORCE THOSE COATINGS IN ADDITIONAL TO? OKAY.
THE, THE, WE HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT THOSE FIVE TOWNS WILL BE BUILT.
BUT THAT'S JUST IN MY, UH, UNDERSTANDING THE FIRST STEP BECAUSE SO CAN YOU GUIDE US OR CAN GUIDE ME WITH WHOM WE CAN SIT DOWN MONITORING THAT THOSE CODES ARE BEING, UM, FOLLOWED? YES.
WE, WE CAN HELP POINT YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
AND AS YOU SAID, THIS IS A VERY PRELIMINARY STEP IN THE DEVELOPMENT.
THEY MAY OR MAY NOT GET BUILT, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST STEP I ASSUME SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUILD THOSE HOUSES.
UM, THE, UM, AS WE SAID, THE, THIS DOESN'T VIOLATE ANY OF THE CHAPTER 42 RESTRICTIONS.
HOWEVER, IN THE PERMITTING STAGES, IF AND WHEN SOMETHING IS BUILT, DRAINAGE AND, AND TRAFFIC AND THOSE OTHER ISSUES WILL BE ADDRESSED.
AND, UM, WE CAN PUT YOU IN TOUCH WITH SOMEONE FROM PUBLIC WORKS TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THAT PROCESS.
AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE, GET IN TOUCH WITH THE APPLICANT, I WILL ASK MS. FLM WHEN SHE'S FINISHED HER WORK HERE TO GET WITH YOU AND, AND GIVE YOU THAT CONTACT INFORMATION OR A WAY TO CONTACT HER THAT SHE CAN LATER GET YOU THE CONTACT INFORMATION OF THE DEVELOPER AND YOU COULD MAYBE TALK
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TO THEM.SO THE BUILDER TO THE BUILDER? YES.
IF YOU CAN, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
SO TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY CONSIDER OUR CONCERN, THAT'S ALL WE WANT.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE CAN DO.
LET ME SEE IF ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION.
THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TODAY.
DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 44 WHISPER SPRING PINES? IF NOT, THEN THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED AND UH, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT CONDITIONS.
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION ORRIS PERLE.
IS THERE A SECOND? GARZA GARZA.
[d. Subdivision Plats with Variance Requests (Aracely Rodriguez, Geoff Butler, and Devin Crittle) ]
TAKE US THEN TO SECTION D VARIANCES.IF YOU'D GET WITH MR. GUNDERSON.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
THE SITE IS LOCATED IN HOUSTON CITY LIMIT NORTH OF VILLE ROAD AND EAST OF TITI JET.
THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING 46 SINGLE FAMILY LOT WITH A CHAIR DRIVEWAY AND PRIVATE STREET.
TWO VARIANCES ARE BEING REQUESTED.
ONE IS TO ALLOW A 15, A 15 FOOT BUILDING INSTEAD OF 25 ALONG MAY 3RD TWELL ROAD.
AND SECOND IS TO NOT PROVIDE A NORTH SOUTH HARBOR STREET THROUGH THE SITE THAT IS NOT IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST.
AT THIS TIME, THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A SECOND DEFERRAL TO ALLOW MORE TIME TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECAUSE THIS IS THE SECOND DEFERRAL STAFF WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION.
OKAY, THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN ACRE HOME AND IT'S A REFL OF TWO LOTS OUT OF HIGHLAND HEIGHT SUBDIVISION.
THIS SUBDIVISION WAS PLOTTED BACK IN 1926 WITH MOSTLY ONE ACRE NARROW A LOT AND VERY FEW NORTH SOUTH PUBLIC STREET.
FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS, WE HAVE SEEN AN INCREASE IN THE AMOUNT OF REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN THIS AREA.
SINCE 2016, THERE HAVE BEEN 144 REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS SUBMITTED IN THIS AREA.
ABOUT 40 14% OF THE LAND HAVE BEEN REDEVELOPED.
MANY OF THIS NARROW LOT HAD BEEN SUBDIVIDED.
SO ON AB, ON AVERAGE EACH LOT, ONE ACRE LOT IS SUBDIVIDED INTO 19 SMALLER LOT.
THEREFORE MORE THAN 2,400 NEW SINGLE FAMILY LOT HAD BEEN CREATED IN THIS AREA.
SOME OF THE LOTS WHEN THEY'RE REDEVELOPED ARE REQUIRED TO DEDICATE A 50 FOOT WIDE NORTH SOUTH PUBLIC STREET TO ADDRESS MINIMUM INTERSECTION BASIN REQUIREMENTS.
THAT IS ESTABLISHED BY CHAPTER 42.
HOWEVER, DEDICATING THE REQUIRE 50 FOURT NORTH SOUTH PUBLIC STREET ON A 70 FEET WIDE LOT MEET THE LOT UNDEVELOPED.
SO THE APPLICANT HAS SUBMITTED VARIANT REQUEST TO ALLOW EXCESSIVE INTERSECTION SPACING BUT NOT PROVIDING NORTH SOUTH PUBLIC STREET.
SENATE COMMISSION HAS GRANTED THIS VARIANCE, BUT THIS AREA IS CONTINUED TO GROW AND THIS RE DEVELOPMENT ARE CREATING MORE SERIOUS MOBILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY CHALLENGES.
SO A MOBILITY STUDY IS BEING, UM, CONDUCT RIGHT NOW BY PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND PUBLIC WORK TO IMPROVE THE STREET NETWORK.
THE MOBILITY STUDY, UM, THE NORTH SOUTH PUBLIC STREET THAT GO THROUGH THIS PROPERTY IS IDENTIFIED AS A POTENTIAL STREET CONNECTION TO IMPROVE MOBILITY.
AS SHOWN ON THE SCREEN THAT ALSO COORDINATED WITH THE APPLICANT AND PROJECTED TO PROVIDE A, UM, 40 FOOT RIGHT AWAY, WHICH WILL STILL BE ADEQUATE TO IMPROVE MOBILITY AND, AND ALSO PROVIDE SIDEWALK.
THIS CROSS SECTION WITH THE 40 FOOT RIGHTWAY HAS BEEN APPROVED BY PUBLIC WORK.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING, UM, AFER, BUT FOR A SECOND TIME THE STAFF RECOMMENDS TO DEFER THE PLAT FOR THE APPLICANT REQUEST.
STAFF DID NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS IN EVENT AND DID CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. RODRIGUEZ? UM, NO.
THERE IS A PUBLIC COMMENT AND I ASKED TO SPEAK.
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TO CALL ON YOU.
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NO QUESTIONS FOR STAFF.SO THE SPEAKER THAT I HAVE SIGNED IS CARL SANDLIN, S-A-N-D-I, SANDIN.
I AGREE WITH STAFF AND WE DO NEED SOME STREETS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
PAUL QUINN STREET IS IN VERY POOR CONDITION.
UH, THESE KIND OF COMPLEXES ARE ALREADY CREATING STREET PARKING ON PAUL QUINN THAT THERE'S NO, UM, REALLY PLACE FOR 'CAUSE IT'S AN OPEN DITCH AREA.
AND, UH, RUNNING CON YOU KNOW, CONTINUING GOLD SPEAR STREET FROM ACROSS THE STREET IS A GREAT PLACE FOR THIS INTERSECTION.
AND LOOKING AT IT, I THINK IT WOULD ALLOW THE DEVELOPER TO STILL PUT ABOUT 40 LOTS IN.
UH, I WOULD AS A NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENT, I LIVE ACROSS THE STREET ON PAUL QUINN JUST UP A LITTLE BIT.
UH, I'D BE HAPPY TO HAVE, AND I DON'T THINK THEY'D NEED GUEST PARKING AND I'D BE HAPPY TO WAVE THE GREEN SPACE IF THEY WOULD GIVE US A STREET.
'CAUSE WE'RE ABOUT THREE, 3000 FEET BETWEEN STREETS ON PAUL QUINN RIGHT NOW IN THAT AREA.
AND THIS WOULD BE A REALLY GREAT PLACE FOR A STREET.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING WITH US TODAY.
UH, IS THERE ANYBODY WHO ELSE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 45 LEXAN COURT? I I WANTED TO ASK A QUESTION IF I COULD.
I DON'T, I KNOW IT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT AND I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING ABOUT IT, BUT I'M, IT'S A PUZZLE TO ME TO LOOK AT THIS PLAT AND, AND TRY TO IMAGINE WHERE 40 WATER METERS ARE GONNA GO.
NO, THAT PUZZLES ME A LOT SOMETIMES, BUT I, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT CAN BE PART OF IT, BUT I WOULD, THEY SEEM TO BE PRETTY DETAILED IN WHAT THEY'RE GONNA BUILD.
I'D JUST LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT.
WELL, AND THEY HAVE TO HAVE A WATER METER PER HOUSE.
UM, THAT, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT, UM, MS. RODRIGUEZ, YOU COULD GET US AN ANSWER FOR? I, I THINK WE'RE, YOUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER.
SO IS THAT YEAH, SO WATER METER EASEMENT IS, UM, IS A REQUIREMENT FOR PUBLIC WORK.
IF THEY DON'T SHOW IT AT THE PLOT, UM, THEY WOULD STILL BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE WATER METER EASEMENT AT PERMITTING.
SO THEY WOULD REQUIRE IT AT PERMITTING.
JUST, BUT IT'S A GOOD QUESTION WHERE, RIGHT.
I MEAN, IT CAN, I CAN ADD THE APPLICANT, UH, AND PROVIDE THE ANSWER NEXT TIME.
LET 'EM KNOW THERE WAS A QUESTION.
ANYBODY, ANYBODY ELSE WANNA COMMENT ON THIS? OKAY.
UM, SO I, I HEAR, I HEAR AN APPROVAL WAS, WAS, WAS, UH, AN APPROVAL WAS RECOMMENDED AND THEN, AND THEN YOU GUYS WANTED TO LOOK AT DISAPPROVAL.
DISAPPROVAL WAS RECOMME DISAPPROVAL, DISAPPROVAL WAS RECOMMENDED.
AND THEN, AND THEN NOW YOU'RE SAYING THAT, UM, THE APPLICANT WANTS MORE TIME TO CONVINCE AND THAT THAT THE DIS WHAT WAS THE REASON FOR THE DISAPPROVAL? WE FEEL THAT WE NEED THE STREET FROM MOBILITY.
SO, SO IF THE APPLICANT IS NOT GOING TO BE AMENABLE TO THAT STREET GOING NORTH SOUTH, THEN STAFF RECOMMENDATION RECOMMENDATION IS GOING TO BE TO DISAPPROVE.
YES, THAT WAS, THAT WAS THE QUESTION.
ANYBODY ELSE? THE REALTOR WILL JUST WEIGH IN.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN, BECAUSE I VISIT WITH A NUMBER OF THESE PEOPLE AND I THINK THE MOBILITY STUDY IS GREAT AND I I'M ALL FOR PUTTING IN THE STREET, HONESTLY.
UH, BUT I DO THINK THESE PEOPLE GET CAUGHT AND THEY BUY THESE TRACKS OF LAND AND YOU TAKE 40 FEET OUT OF IT, YOU'RE TAKING 25% OF THEIR LAND.
THERE'S GOTTA BE SOME MECHANISM TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THIS IS COMING DOWN THE PATH.
YOU KNOW, IF WE HAD A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE PLAN KIND OF THING THAT OVERLAID THERE THAT WOULD FLAG THESE LOTS SOMEHOW THAT THESE PEOPLE WOULD KNOW THIS OR WE COULD DO A BETTER JOB OF EDUCATING THEM BECAUSE I, YOU KNOW, AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE SMALLER TRACKS, THE SMALLER THEY ARE, THE HIGHER THE BURDEN IT BECOMES.
AND I THINK AS WE GET MORE STREETS IN THESE AREAS, WE'VE GOTTA DO A BETTER JOB OF EDUCATING PEOPLE BEFORE THEY BUY IT AND GO DOWN THIS PATH.
AGAIN, I, I DON'T, I KNOW THAT'S A HARD TASK TO, BUT I JUST WANNA PUT THAT RECORD OUT THERE.
GO AHEAD AND MS. MATER AGAIN, DIF MATTER WITH THE PLANNING STUFF.
UM, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER BALDWIN.
I MEAN THERE HAS TO BE A MECHANISM FOR US TO, UM, UPDATE, UH, TO, TO THE PUBLIC THAT THERE IS A MOBILITY STUDY DONE.
AND THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE'VE BEEN, UH, PRESENTING IT AND SHOWING IT AT THIS, UH, FORUM HERE.
BUT THERE IS A WHOLE TEAM WORKING ON IT AND WE'LL COME BACK, UH, WE DO PLAN TO BRING IT BACK AND SHOW IT TO YOU.
IT MAY OR MAY NOT BE, UM, IT'LL NOT BE ON A MAJOR THIRD OF A FREEWAY PLAN BECAUSE THESE ARE LOCAL STREETS, SO WE WON'T HAVE TO PUT IT IN, IN A CODE OR ANYTHING.
BUT CHAPTER 42 REQUIREMENTS STILL ARE THERE.
AND THAT'S WHY THE VARIANCE TODAY THAT WHEN YOU BUY THE PROPERTY, YOU ARE STILL REQUIRED TO PROVIDE STREET, UH, WITHIN 1400.
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AND THIS PROPERTY DOES FALL UNDER THAT.AND THAT'S WHY, UH, THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY, AT LEAST IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS ITEM, THEY DO, THEY, THEY, THEY ARE REQUIRED BY CHAPTER 42 TO PROVIDE A STREET
BUT MY COMMENT AS WE HAVE GRANTED, AS WE'VE GOTTEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR MORE STREETS NOW, THAT'S NOT GONNA BE IN A NORMAL 1400 SQUARE FOOT GRID BECAUSE I CAN LOOK AT THE STREET PATTERN AND TELL YOU THE LIKELIHOOD IS THAT WE'RE GONNA TRY AND LINE UP THE STREETS THAT WE'VE ALREADY GOTTEN IN THE DECADE BEFORE.
SO IT'S BEYOND JUST THE 1400 SQUARE FEET.
IT'S THE WHERE IS THE TRUE LIKELIHOOD OF THE ROAD WANTING TO BE NOW BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE JUST LIKE GOLDEN SPEAR IS NOT ANYTHING TIED TO 1400 SQUARE FEET.
AND THAT'S WHY WE WANT THIS ONE.
AND THE NEXT ONE MAY BE 2000 SQUARE FEET WHERE WE ALREADY HAVE A STREET LINED UP.
BUT I, I THINK YOUR STUDY'S GONNA SHOW THAT.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT IT'S GONNA SHOW YOU IS WHERE DOES THE STREET REALLY WANT TO BE? AND I, I GUESS MAYBE, I MEAN A BUYER OF A BIG PIECE OF PROPERTY FOR DEVELOPMENT HAS TO DO THE DUE DILIGENCE OF LOOKING AT WHAT IS GONNA BE REQUIRED THERE.
AND MAYBE OUR ROLE WOULD BE TO MAKE THAT EASIER TO FIND OUT, UM, WHICH I THINK WE ARE WORKING ON.
ANY, UH, OTHER, LET'S SEE, WHERE ARE WE? WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT LEXINGTON COURT.
WE HAVEN'T, WE'RE STILL TALKING.
YEAH, WE OPEN AND CLOSE BECAUSE IT'S VERY, YEAH.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION FROM THE COMMISSION ON THIS ITEM? IF NOT, UH, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER, IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION? MOTION HINES VICTOR.
IS THERE A SECOND? HINES? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE HOUSTON PLANNING COMMISSION.
THE SITE IS LOCATED ON MANSFIELD STREET EAST OF SEABRA AND WEST OF WHEATLEY.
THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A SUBDIVISION OF SINGLE FAMILY LOTS ALONG A TYPE TWO PAE.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO EXCEED INTERSECTION SPACING REQUIREMENTS ALONG MANSFIELD BY NOT DEDICATING A NORTH SOUTH STREET THROUGH THE SITE.
STAFF RECOMMENDS A SECOND DEFERRAL PER THE REQUEST OF CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT B.
THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE ACRES, ACRES HOME COMMUNITY.
THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAS EXPERIENCED AN INFLUX OF INFLUX OF REDEVELOPMENT AND IS RAPIDLY INCREASING IN DENSITY.
THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN A RECORDED SUBDIVISION, BUT THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT PATTERN WARRANTS ADDITIONAL STREETS TO PROVIDE FOR SAFE ACCESS AND TRAFFIC CIRCULATION STAFFS IN THE PROCESS OF CONDUCTING A MOBILITY STUDY IN THE AREA IN COORDINATION WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS.
INITIAL FINDINGS OF THE STUDY INCLUDE A MAP OF PROPOSED STREET CONNECTIONS TO ALLEVIATE THE SUBSTANDARD STREET SYSTEM.
IT ALSO INCLUDES RECOMMENDED OR RECOMMENDED PARTIAL DEDICATION OF PUBLIC STREETS, ALLOWING FOR NEEDED ACCESS AND CIRCULATION WHILE PRESERVING DEVELOPABLE LAND.
THE SUBJECT SITE FALLS WITHIN AN AREA IDENTIFIED FOR ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS AND STAFF HAS SUGGESTED PARTIAL DEDICATION OF A ROADWAY IN LIEU OF PROVIDING THE REQUIRED 60 FEET.
THE COUNCIL MEMBER'S OFFICE HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC EXPRESSING CONCERN FOR THE PROJECT.
THE COUNCIL MEMBER HAS REQUESTED A SECOND DEFERRAL TO ALLOW TIME TO COORDINATE WITH THE APPLICANT AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS.
STAFF RECOMMENDS DEFERRAL PER THE, UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBER'S REQUEST.
THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAS RECEIVED NO ADVANCE WRITTEN COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
AND THIS CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC SPEAKER.
UH, MR. LARRY EVANS, E-V-A-N-S.
MR. EVANS, ARE YOU HERE? YOU VERY CORRECT.
LET ME BEGIN BY SAYING I OPPOSE FOR THIS PROJECT.
I'M NOT IN NO WAY SUPPORTIVE OF WATCHING AKERS HOME CHOPPED UP BY DEVELOPERS.
THEY LOOK AT IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE MONEY.
MY GRANDFATHER WORKED FOR THE BUS SERVICE THERE WHEN IT WAS AKERS HOME BUS SERVICE BEFORE METRO PURCHASED IT.
MY DAD AND HIS FATHER HAD A FARM THERE UNTIL MY DAD WENT ON TO SCHOOL TO BECOME A PHARMACIST.
THAT LAND HAS HISTORICAL VALUE THAT THOSE WHO TRY TO MAKE MONEY DO NOT CONSIDER.
THEY ARE ONLY LOOKING AT WAYS TO MAKE MONEY, BUT NOT WAYS TO HELP THE COMMUNITY AND DEVELOPER, EXCUSE ME.
THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE TALKING WITH THE RESIDENTS AND THE OTHER NEIGHBORS IN THAT AREA, THEY FEEL IT'S A USELESS FIGHT TO COME DOWN HERE.
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I'M HERE.I'M GOING TO MAKE MY VOICE HEARD.
THE WHOLE PROCESS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE NOT SUPPORTIVE OF, BUT THEY FEEL IT'S USELESS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT.
MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THAT LAND THERE AT THE BEGINNING HAD PASSED AWAY.
THEIR CHILDREN THEN BECAME OWNERS OF THOSE OF THAT LAND.
AND THEN SOME OF THOSE DECIDED TO SELL THE LAND TO DEVELOPERS AND OTHERS WHO WANTED TO BUY IT.
THAT PARTICULAR LAND SITTING NEXT TO MY FATHER'S LAND THAT WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS FATHER, GOING UP THAT HIGH TAKES AWAY THE PRIVACY.
IT ALSO TAKES AWAY THE HISTORICAL LOOK OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACRES HOME, BEEN IN THAT AREA GROWING WITHOUT DEVELOPERS FOR QUITE SOME TIME, AND IT'S NOT NEEDED NOW FOR THAT AREA TO CONTINUE TO GROW TIME.
I WATCH HOW THEY CONSTANTLY ADDING THINGS THERE, BUT RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO MY PROPERTY IS SOMETHING I'M NOT GOING TO SIT BY ANYMORE AND WATCH THAT HAPPEN TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY VOICE.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING YOUR VOICE HEARD.
UM, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 47? UM, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER PER THE COUNCIL MEMBER'S REQUEST.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION, COMMISSIONER? UH, NO.
I'D ACTUALLY LIKE TO CALL THE SPEAKER BACK UP IF HE, IF HE WOULD.
SO, SO, UH, SO, SO DO, UM, I I LIKE TO, I'D LIKE TO TAKE THE POSITION THAT, THAT IF, IF, UH, THE PUBLIC COMES DOWN HERE, TAKES THEIR VALUABLE TIME AND COME HERE, THAT WE, WE DO OUR BEST TO, UH, TO, TO, TO SHARE WITH YOU WHAT WE CAN DO AND, AND WHAT WE CAN'T DO.
AND, AND I FEEL LIKE YOU MADE A VERY, UH, PASSIONATE, UH, APPEAL TO US AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE TERRIBLE FOR US TO SAY NOTHING IN RESPONSE.
UM, WE DO HAVE SOME, UH, SOME OPTIONS IN OUR TOOLBOX AT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
THAT NEIGHBORHOODS CAN, CAN APPLY TO, UH, TO STRENGTHEN, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD IDENTITY.
UM, AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD DO IS ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET WITH STAFF RIGHT NEXT TO YOU, IF HE COULD SHARE HIS CONTACT INFORMATION WITH YOU SO THAT YOU COULD DISCUSS WITH HIM THE DETAILS WITH REGARDS TO WHAT HE CAN DO FOR YOU.
UM,
UM, UNFORTUNATELY OUR CITY DOES NOT HAVE A WAY TO PROTECT, UH, HISTORICAL COMMUNITIES.
I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE MISSING, WE'RE MISSING ON.
UM, BUT WHAT YOU FIND IS THAT DEED RESTRICTED COMMUNITIES DO, ARE ABLE TO, TO DETERMINE EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENS IN THEIR BOUNDARY.
YOU COULD EVEN DECIDE WHAT COLOR THESE HOUSES HAVE TO BE TO GET THAT TODAY IN A COMMUNITY THAT DOESN'T HAVE DEED RESTRICTIONS IS A LITTLE BIT, LITTLE BIT OF A CHALLENGE.
BUT BELOW THAT, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO, UH, GO WITH, UH, A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DESIGN, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHAT IS ON THE STREET, YOU KNOW, HOW THOSE HOMES LOOK, WHAT THE SETBACK IS.
WE CAN, WE CAN PUT TOGETHER A QUASI NEIGHBORHOOD BASED ON, UH, WHAT IS IT? MINIMUM LOT SIZE, MINIMUM LOT SIZE, SPECIAL MINIMUM LOT SIZES.
IF A STREET OR A GROUP OF STREETS ACTUALLY MEET THIS THRESHOLD AND PLANNING STAFF WILL RUN THAT ANALYSIS FOR YOU, THEY'LL TELL YOU WHETHER OR NOT IT'S POSSIBLE TO GET THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN ALSO POTENTIALLY USE THAT.
SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS WE DO HAVE A FEW TOOLS, BUT THE STRONGEST ONE IS FOR YOUR COMMUNITY TO ESTABLISH THE RESTRICTIONS.
YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO DO IT THIS YEAR, RIGHT? BUT WORK ON IT NOW, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, THIS COMMUNITY IS GONNA CONTINUE GOING THAT DIRECTION.
THAT'S THE STRONGEST MECHANISM WE HAVE IN THIS CITY.
THANK YOU COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM.
AND JUST FOR THE VERY PURPOSE THAT YOU MENTIONED ABOUT MANAGING EXPECTATIONS, WE ARE WORKING ON SOME OF THESE THINGS WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBER.
THAT'S WHY IT'S BEING DEFERRED.
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET, UH, BE A PART OF THAT DISCUSSION, MR. EVANS.
BUT LET ME, UM, YEAH, PLEASE, PLEASE TAKE INFORMATION FROM THE STAFF PERSON NEXT TO YOU SO YOU CAN TALK TO HIM FURTHER ABOUT THIS.
WE HAVE SOME, THIS IS A PARTICULAR CHALLENGE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON VERY HARD BECAUSE DEED RESTRICTIONS ARE EXTREMELY HARD TO GET DONE.
AND THIS IS NOT, I MEAN, IT IT'S
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BECAUSE THE OWNERSHIPS IN OLD, OLD PROPERTIES IS NOT CLEAR.WE'VE TRIED IT IN MANY NEIGHBORHOODS, INDEPENDENT HEIGHTS, ACRES, HOMES.
UM, BUT IT IS A HUGE PRIORITY OF THE MAYOR AND, AND THE DEPARTMENT IS WORKING ON IT.
BUT SPEAK TO MINIMUM LOT SIZE 'CAUSE THAT'S A, A WHOLE NOTHER THING.
JEFF, WOULD YOU PLEASE GIVE THE GENTLEMAN LYNN HENSON'S, UM, NAME AND PHONE NUMBER WHEN YOU SPEAK WITH HIM ALSO? UH, WE HAVE AN EFFORT RIGHT NOW THAT WE ARE WORKING ON IN AKERS HOME WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO WORK WITH PROPERTY OWNERS TO ESTABLISH A MINIMUM LOT SIZE ORDINANCE AND A MINIMUM LOT SIZE ORDINANCE IS WE WORK WITH A GROUP OF HOMEOWNERS AND THEY DETERMINE THAT THEIR BLOCK OR THEIR, OR A NUMBER OF THEIR BLOCKS, UM, ARE ESTABLISHED AS THE EXIST.
WHATEVER THE EXISTING LOT SIZE IS FOR THAT BLOCK MUST REMAIN.
UNFORTUNATELY FOR THIS PORTION OF ACRES HOME, PARTICULARLY ON THE SOUTHERN PORTION WHERE THESE LOTS ARE SO LARGE, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TO DO THAT IN ORDER TO DO IT.
THE LOT, THE THE BLOCKS ARE TOO LONG.
THE RESIDENTIAL ASPECT IS NOT HIGH ENOUGH.
AND SO NONE OF THESE HOMES ALL IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION THAT ARE EFFECTIVELY AN ACRE BIG CAN BE IN THE MINIMUM LOT SIZE AREA WE'VE ALREADY FOUND.
YEAH, WE'VE ALREADY TRIED THAT AND HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THAT DOESN'T WORK.
NOW THE MINIMUM LOT SIZE ORDINANCE COULD BE CHANGED.
SO, YOU KNOW, NOTHING IS CARVED IN STONE FOREVER AND ALWAYS, BUT THAT'S THE CIRCUMSTANCE WE HAVE RIGHT NOW WITH THE TOOLS AVAILABLE FOR THIS PARTICULAR BLOCK OR THESE PARTICULAR PROPERTIES.
THE, THE NAME MAKER'S HOME, UH, WAS GIVEN BECAUSE THAT PROPERTY WAS SOLD BY ACRES, NOT BY LOTS.
UM, MY FATHER AND MY FAMILY HAS BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO RETAIN THE PROPERTY THAT THEY PURCHASED WAY BACK THEN.
UM, BUT I DO NOT DOUBT IN MY MIND, NOT FOR ONE SECOND, THAT DEVELOPERS JUST FEEL THE URGE TO SALIVATE AT THE MOUTH BEHIND AN AREA WITH NO D RESTRICTION.
IT IS OPEN, YOU KNOW THAT EXTRA MUSCLE IS NOT THERE AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THAT AKERS HOME HAS.
THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US MR. EVANS.
AND UH, SO IF THERE IS NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, YES SIR.
UH, WE HAVE, DID WE HAVE A MOTION TO DEFER? NO.
THE MOTION CARRIES AND 1 47 IS DEFERRED.
EXCUSE ME, I'M GONNA ABSTAIN ON THIS ITEM.
PLEASE NOTE THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER SIGLER WILL ABSTAIN ON ITEM 1 48.
THE SITE IS PARTIALLY LOCATED IN HOUSTON, ETJ IN THE NORTHEAST, HARRY MONTGOMERY AND LIBERTY COUNTIES NORTH OF GRAND PARKWAY AND EAST OF SAN JACINTO RIVER.
UM, A SHOWN ON THE SCREEN PORTION OF THE GP IS WITHIN CITY OF HOUSTON, ETJ AND CITY OF HOUSTON REVIEW IS ONLY APPLICABLE FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED WITHIN THE AREA IN HOUSTON.
ETJ, WHICH IS THE WHITE BACKGROUND.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TWO VARIANCES.
ONE IS TO EXIT INTERSECTION FACING, BUT NOT PROVIDING ANY PUBLIC STREET CONNECTION TO GUN PARKWAY AND TO NOT PROVIDE ANY NORTH SOUTH AND EAST WEST PUBLIC STREET ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE GP HIGHLIGHTED IN BLUE.
THAT IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE NORTH SOUTH PUBLIC STREET ALONG PARK GRAND PARKWAY TO MEET THE INTERSECTION PATIENT REQUIREMENT AND ALSO IS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE MULTIPLE, UM, NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE GP.
UM, HOWEVER, GRAND PARKWAY IS THE WOODY IN ASSISTANT CONDITION THAT WAS BUILT WITH NO THEATER ROADS.
THEREFORE, THE APPLICANT, THE APPLICANT CANNOT PROVIDE ANY STREET CONNECTION AS THE PROPERTY HAS NO DIRECT ASSETS TO GLEN PARKWAY.
THE WESTERN GP AREA IS IMPACTED BY EACH FOURTH
WITH THIS ASSISTING RESTRICTION, IT WILL BE IMPRACTICAL TO EXTEND PUBLIC STREET TO THE WEST.
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WILL NOT BE DEVELOPED.THE GP WILL PROVIDE AN ADEQUATE INTERNAL TRAFFIC STIPULATION FOR THE PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
HARRIS COUNTY AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY POSTED NO OBJECTION TO THE REQUEST.
THAT RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCES AND APPROVE THE GPS SUBJECT TO THE CPC ONE CCP C 1 0 1 INFORMED CONDITION.
STAFF DID NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT IN EVENT AND THEY CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. RODRIGUEZ? UM, DO WE HAVE ANYONE LISTENING OR WITH US WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON 1 48 TRAILS GENERAL PLAN? IF NOT, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS BEFORE YOU THERE ON THE SCREEN.
IS THERE A DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION OR PERLE? IS THERE A SECOND? JONES? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
UH, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY ITEMS UNDER SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS.
[f. Reconsiderations of Requirement (Geoff Butler) ]
F RECONSIDERATION REQUIREMENTS.ITEM 1 49, DEVIN, SHE PARK THIS SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE HARRIS COUNTY ETJ, SOUTH OF LOA AND NORTH OF CYPRESSWOOD.
THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A SUBDIVISION OF SINGLE FAMILY LOTS ON PUBLIC STREETS.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING RECONSIDERATION OF THE REQUIREMENT TO EXTEND, EXCEED INTERSECTION SPACING STANDARDS BY NOT EXTENDING CANTERBURY WAY THROUGH THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY.
STAFF RECOMMENDS A SECOND DEFERRAL PER THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST.
THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE HARRIS COUNTY ETJ AND IS SURROUNDED BY EXISTING SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY.
THESE SUBDIVISIONS WERE RECORDED WITH SUBST STREETS TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE SUBJECT TRACT, WHICH ARE REQUIRED TO BE EXTENDED TO COMPLETE A CONTIGUOUS STREET SEGMENT.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO TERMINATE THE SOUTHERN PORTION WITHOUT A CUL-DE-SAC.
THIS WOULD RESULT IN A MORE CIRCUITOUS ROUTE AND ADD CONGESTION TO AS SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC WOULD BE DIVERTED.
NORTH STAFF MET WITH THE APPLICANT AND THE COUNTY DURING THE FERRAL PERIOD.
THE APPLICANT IS ASSERTED THAT THE REQUEST IS INFLUENCED BY HARRIS COUNTY MUD NUMBER 1 0 4 AND IS REQUESTING ADDITIONAL TIME TO COORDINATE WITH THEM.
STAFF RECOMMENDS DEFERRAL PER THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST.
STAFF HAS RECEIVED NO ADVANCE WRITTEN COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
THIS CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. BUTLER? UM, DO WE HAVE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 49 DEVONSHIRE PARK? IF NOT, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER.
IF THERE'S NO DISCUSSION, IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER? MOTION GARZA GARZA SECOND A.
OPPOSED? THE MOTION CARRIES ITEM ONE 50.
ITEM ONE 50 IS PARK AT PINE MOUNT.
THIS SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON'S CORPORATE LIMIT ALONG REYNA STREET EAST OF BENGAL AND SOUTH OF PINE, EXCUSE ME, NORTH OF PINE MOUNT.
THE APPLICANT PROPOSED A SUBDIVISION OF 50 SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOMES ALONG TYPE TWO PAES.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING RECONSIDERATION OF THE REQUIREMENT TO DEDICATE FIVE FEET OF WIDENING TO REYNA STREET, A 50 FOOT WIDE RIGHT OF WAY.
STAFF IS NOT IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST.
THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN ALONG RENA STREET, WEST OF THE FOREST WEST SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY.
REYNA IS A PUBLIC STREET WITH AN OPEN DITCH ASPHALT ROADWAY MEASURING APPROXIMATELY BETWEEN 12 AND 20 FEET WIDE.
THE SITE IS OPPOSITE OF MULTI-USE, ATHLETIC COMPLEX THAT ALSO USES RAYA FOR ACCESS.
PER CHAPTER 42, THE APPLICANT IS REQUIRED TO WIDEN RENA BY FIVE FEET IN ORDER TO MEET THE STANDARD FOR PUBLIC STREETS THAT INCLUDE USES OTHER THAN SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL.
THE SITE IS BOUND BY THREE ADDITIONAL 50 FOOT RIGHTS AWAY THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNIMPROVED.
THE APPLICANT IS CHOSEN TO LIMIT ACCESS TO THE SITE TO RENA RATHER THAN IMPROVE ANY OF THESE STREETS.
THIS WOULD DIRECT ALL TRAFFIC TO RENA, WHICH ALSO PROVIDES ACCESS TO THE NEARBY ATHLETIC COMPLEX.
IN ADDITION, THE APPLICANT IS NOT PROVIDING ANY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE RENA RIGHT OF WAY BEYOND THE REQUIRED SIDEWALK AND MINERAL ADJUSTMENTS TO THE EXISTING ROADWAY.
STAFF FINDS ITS REQUEST TO NOT MEET THE INTENT OF RIGHT OF AWAY WIDENING SECTION OF THE ORDINANCE AS IT WOULD DIMINISH AN ALREADY SUBSTANDARD CONDITION.
STAFF RECOMMENDS DENYING THE VARIANCE AND APPROVING THE PLAT PER THE CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS.
STAFF HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS ADVANCED WRITTEN COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM NOTING TRAFFIC, CIRCULATION AND ACCESS CHALLENGES TO THE SITE.
THE NEAR NORTHWEST MANAGEMENT DISTRICT HAS ALSO EXPRESSED THAT THEY'RE NOT IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST DUE TO THE IMPACT ON ACCESS AND CONNECTIVITY.
THIS CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? WE DO HAVE A NUMBER OF PUBLIC SPEAKERS.
UM, AND SOME OF THE NAMES I'M GONNA CALL, I THINK ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE.
IF YOU DID, YOU GET ONE MINUTE AND I'LL PUT YOU ON THE HONORS SYSTEM IF YOU, IF YOU HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE, IT'S A MINUTE.
IF YOU HAVE NOT, YOU HAVE TWO.
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LEE A EDWARDS E-D-W-A-R-D-S MR. EDWARDS OR? YES, I'M HERE.UH, JUST THAT, UH, WE THINK THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE TO USE AND COMPLETE LOCK FIELD AS THEIR ENTRANCE AND EXIT AS RAINA IS BY THE BALL FIELDS.
IT'S NOT AN ACTUAL STREET AT THIS POINT.
IT STOPS AT THE END OF OUR SUBDIVISION AND IT WOULD INCREASE THE TRAFFIC INTO OUR SUBDIVISION, WHICH WE ALREADY HAVE QUITE A LOT.
AND THERE'S REALLY NO REASON FOR THEM NOT TO CARRY THEIR STREET OUT TO LOCK FIELD SO THEY'D HAVE DIRECT ACCESS FROM PINE MOUNT TO THIS NEW SUBDIVISION RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH OUR SUBDIVISION, WHICH ALREADY HAS A LOT OF TRAFFIC, PLUS THE BALL FIELDS AND A SCHOOL AND A LIBRARY.
SO THE CHILDREN THAT WALK AROUND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BEING PUT INTO AN INCREASED DANGEROUS SITUATION BY THIS BEING THE ACCESS TO THIS NEW RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE SPEAKER? UM, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS WILLIAM DOK.
HELLO? YEAH, THAT'S WHY I WAS SAYING HELLO.
UH, I DIDN'T SIGN UP TO SPEAK, BUT I'LL REITERATE, UH, THE TRAFFIC IS THE SPEED.
AGAIN, I HOPE THESE ACTUALLY DON'T GET BUILT, BUT I KNOW THAT IF THEY DO THE SPEED LIMIT ON THIS STREET AVERAGES 35 AND ABOVE.
REYNA NEEDS IMPROVED SAFETY NO MATTER WHAT.
BUT MY, THAT'S BEEN MY ISSUE FOR YEARS, IS THE SPEED OF THE TRAFFIC IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. DALK? UH, JAMES MATTERN, M-A-T-T-E-R-N.
I SPOKE LAST WEEK, BUT, UH, IT SEEMS LIKE ON THE ORIGINAL PLAT THAT ALL THEM HOUSES WERE TALKING ABOUT BUILDING THESE CONDOS WHERE FOR THE MINIMUM SIZE, LOTS OF THE REST OF THE SUBDIVISION, WHICH IS HOUSES, WOULDN'T THEY NEED TO GET A VARIANCE? I MEAN, ON EACH LOT THAT'S PROPOSED ON THE ORIGINAL PLANT TO BUILD 50 HOUSES WHERE THERE'S ONLY PLANTED OUT MAYBE TO BUILD 20.
AND, UH, THE BALLPARK ON IT, IT'S, IT'S A VERY ACTIVE PLACE, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR.
AND ON SATURDAYS ON BOTH SIDES OF THAT ARENA STREET, THERE'S CARS PACKED ALL THE WAY TO WHERE THE RESIDENTIAL IS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE PARK.
AND THE, THE PARKING LOT IS FULL OF CARS.
IT'S ONLY GONNA FORCE CARS TO PARK FURTHER DOWN THE STREET.
AND IN THE PAST WHEN THE BALLPARK'S BEEN LATE AND THEY DON'T UNLOCK THE GATES, PEOPLE BLOCK YOUR DRIVEWAYS AND THEY'RE EATING CANDIES AND THEY'RE THROWING YOUR TRASH IN YOUR YARD.
IT'S VERY UNDESIRABLE IN MY MIND FOR 'EM TO USE ARENA.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. MATTERN? UM, SEAN JEZZ, JEZ.
SEAN JEZZ DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT.
AND THEN EILEEN EGAN, EGAN, WHO I THINK IS WITH US VIRTUALLY.
GO RIGHT AHEAD AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES,
AS A MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, WE SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT AND WE KNOW THAT WE NEED MORE HOUSING IN THE AREA.
UM, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE'VE GOTTA HAVE THE CONNECTIVITY AND, UM, TO BASICALLY CLOSE OFF ROADWAYS THAT ARE ALREADY PLANTED OR TO NOT PROVIDE THE, THE ADDITIONAL WIDTH THAT'S NEEDED TO MOVE TRAFFIC THROUGH.
UH, JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE FROM SAFETY FOR QUALITY OF LIFE, FROM FUTURE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AND SO, UH, WE AGREE WITH STAFF, UH, THAT, UH, WE'D LIKE TO SEE THIS REQUEST DENIED.
ANY QUESTIONS? UM, OKAY, I DON'T HAVE ANYBODY ELSE SIGNED UP.
WE HAVE JAKE PATRICK, THE APPLICANT.
CAN Y ALL HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN GO RIGHT AHEAD.
UH, HI, I'M JAKE PATRICK WITH CITY CHOICE GROUP, THE DEVELOPER ON THIS PROJECT.
UH, AS THE PLANNING STAFF HAS MENTIONED IN THE PAST, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND THE REST OF THE JOINT REFERRAL COMMITTEE ALLOWED THIS RAINER STREET CLOSING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF OUR PROPERTY TO HAPPEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WHICH
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CREATED THE LACK OF FUTURE ACCESS TO BINGLE.UM, THAT BEING SAID, WE'RE KIND OF STUCK WITH THE REALITY AT THIS POINT.
UH, WE CURRENTLY HAVE A PAVING SECTION ON RAIN OF ABOUT 11 TO 15 FEET WITHIN THE EXISTING 50 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY.
AS A PART OF OUR DEVELOPMENT, WE WOULD BE INCREASING THAT PAVING SECTION TO 18 FEET PRODUCED IN PUBLIC WORKS TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT.
BUT OUR QUESTION IS THIS, WHAT WOULD WE DO WITH THAT EXTRA FIVE FEET OF RIGHT OF WAY IN RAINER STREET? IF YOU HAVE AN 18 FOOT PAVING SECTION IN THE MIDDLE, FIVE FOOT SIDEWALKS ON EITHER SIDE, BOTH BEING ONE FOOT FROM THE EXISTING PROPERTY LINES, UH, AND TWO 10 FOOT OPEN DITCHES ON EITHER SIDE OF THE PAVING SECTION THAT EQUALS 50 FEET, WHERE YOU'RE JUST CONFUSED WHAT THIS EXTRA RIGHT OF WAY WOULD BE USED FOR IN THE EVENT WE WERE TO PROVIDE IT.
UH, WE, WE DID SPEAK WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN'S OFFICE THIS WEEK AND THEY AGREED WITH THESE POINTS AND THAT OUR ARGUMENT MADE SENSE.
UM, WHILE WE DO RECOGNIZE THERE'S A TRAFFIC PROBLEM AND THAT RENA GETS OVERCROWDED WITH CARS FROM THE OAKS DADS CLUB, WE DO NOT REALLY SEE THEM NOT HAVING ENOUGH ONSITE PARKING AS OUR ISSUE TO ADDRESS.
UM, WE ALSO DO NOT SEE SPEEDING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE OUR ISSUE.
UM, WE ALSO HAD A DISCUSSION WITH THE OAKS DADS CLUB AND, AND SAID THAT WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO SPLIT THE COST OF PUTTING IN THE ESTIMATED $400,000 PUBLIC STREET TO GET FROM RAINA TO PINE MOUNT DIRECTLY VIA DALE, BUT THEY SAID THEY DID NOT HAVE THE MEANS TO PROVIDE ANY MONEY TO THIS, AND WE CANNOT FOOT THE ENTIRE BILL.
UM, AND THIS PROJECT STILL BE FISCALLY VIABLE FROM OUR END.
UM, WE'VE DESIGNED THIS SUBDIVISION WITH TWO STORY TOWN HOMES THAT WOULD WORK CLOSELY FIT IN WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP THE DENSITY LOWER AND MORE IN CHARACTER WITH THE SURROUNDING HOMES.
ALL THAT BEING SAID, WE'RE SO EMPATHETIC TO THE CHALLENGES AND REALITIES THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS DEALING WITH, BUT SHOULD YOU NOT GRANT THE VARIANCE, THE ONLY THING WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO IS MAKE THE TOWN HOMES THREE STORIES, MAKE THEM SMALL LOTS, AND INCREASE THE DENSITY EVEN MORE, WHICH WOULD FURTHER EXACERBATE THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM, WHICH WE DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT TO DO.
UM, WE'RE ALREADY DEDICATING RIGHT OF WAY TO BOTH, UH, LOCK FIELD AND LUMBER BEDALE.
UM, BUT WE JUST DON'T THINK WE NEED TO DO IT ON THIS NORTH SIDE BECAUSE THE STREET DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE.
UM, THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT? NONE.
UM, DO WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE WHO IS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK? ANYBODY ELSE WISH TO SPEAK ON PARK AT PINE MOUNT? OKAY.
UM, LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION BACK UP ON THE SCREEN.
THE, THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO DENY THE VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLAT.
UM, WITH THE REASONS STATED BEFORE YOU, UM, ANY DISCUSSION? I DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR STAFF.
COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM, LOOKING AT THIS PLAT, UM, THE, THE VARIANCE THEY'RE ASKING FOR IS TO MOVE THAT STREET OVER, NOT NOT TO DEDICATE THE, IT'S DEDICATE RIGHT AWAY, RIGHT? NOT TO DEDICATE THIS FIVE FEET? CORRECT.
SO THERE'S STILL GONNA BE THAT ENTRANCE ON RENA, RIGHT? YES.
SO WE, WE COULD, WE COULD DENY OR WE COULD, WE COULD OFFER WHAT, WHAT ARE WE ASKING? WE COULD DENY OR WE COULD OFFER ANOTHER EXTENSION, ANOTHER DEFERRAL, ANOTHER DEFERRAL TO, TO, BECAUSE IF WE, IF WE, IF WE DENY RIGHT? UH, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS A MESSAGE TO THE DEVELOPER.
IF, IF WE DENY YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO START OVER AGAIN.
WE CAN GIVE YOU TWO WEEKS TO TALK TO STAFF.
AND ACTUALLY, UM, IS THE, IS THE, IS THE, UH, APPLICANT STILL ON THE LINE? MR. PATRICK, ARE YOU STILL THERE? I AM HERE, YES.
WOULD, WOULD, WOULD TWO WEEKS BE HELPFUL TO YOU TO TALK FURTHER? BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WHAT STAFF IS, IS, IS LEANING TOWARDS AND WE WILL, WE'RE LEANING TO, I AM LEANING TOWARDS SUPPORTING STAFF, UM, AS, AS, UH, SOME OF US MIGHT BE AS WELL.
WOULD TWO WEEKS BE HELPFUL TO YOU TO, UH, FURTHER DISCUSS THIS WITH STAFF AND FIGURE OUT HOW YOU CAN, YOU CAN, YOU CAN FOLLOW WHAT THEY ARE RECOMMENDING OR, OR NO, BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE IS, IS A DENIAL.
UM, WELL, WE DID HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH, UH, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT THIS WEEK.
UM, I'M, I'M STILL UNCLEAR ON WHAT THEY REALLY WANT THIS EXTRA FIVE FEET, FOUR, WHAT, WHAT KIND OF IMPROVEMENTS TO RAIN STREET WOULD ALLOW THIS TO GO THROUGH.
UM, SO MAYBE THEY CAN EXPAND ON THAT AND WE CAN, UH, GO FROM THERE.
UH, ONE ABOUT, UH, THE, THE APPLICATION MOVING FORWARD, OUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO DENY THE VARIANCE BUT APPROVE THE PLAT.
SO IF THEY PROVIDE THE DEDICATION, THEY CAN MOVE FORWARD AND MOVE, SUBMIT THEIR FINAL NEXT WEEK, UH, TO, TO MOVE ON AS SUBMITTED, JUST WITH SOME SMALL REVISIONS TO THE PLATFORM.
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UM, WITH REGARD TO THE, UM, THE RIGHT OF WAY AND, AND THE RATIONALE BEHIND OUR, OUR RECOMMENDATION, UM, THE INTENT OF THE ORDINANCE IS TO HAVE A WIDER STREET OR WIDER RIGHT OF WAY FOR USES THAT ARE GONNA HAVE A HEAVIER DEMAND ON THE ROAD SYSTEM.SO IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS ON A BLOCK THAT HAS A BALL FIELD, WHICH IS GONNA GENERATE A LOT OF PEAK TRAFFIC AND A LOT OF MOVEMENT, WE WANT TO HAVE AS, AS WIDE OF A RIGHT OF WAY AS AS WHAT'S ALLOWED UNLESS THE APPLICANT CAN DEMONSTRATE A REASON WHY THE STANDARD SHOULD NOT BE APPLIED.
AND WE HAVE STATED TO THAT, TO THEM OVER AND OVER AND THEY'VE, THEY'VE DECLINED TO SUBMIT A SITE PLAN THAT WOULD SHOW ANY SPECIFICS OF HOW THEIR PROPOSAL WOULD MEET THE INTENT.
UM, BUT, BUT THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT.
JEFF, THIS IS, THIS IS THE APPLICANT.
I, JEFF, DO YOU, ARE YOU WANTING PARKING ON THIS STREET OR WHAT DO YOU NEED THE EXTRA, WHAT WOULD YOU WANT FOR THIS MR. PATRICK? LET'S, LET'S HAVE THAT DISCUSSION BETWEEN YOU AND STAFF, I GUESS IF WE'RE GONNA DEFER IT SEPARATELY, BUT I, I'M ACTUALLY LEANING TOWARDS STAFF RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE WHAT I'M HEARING STAFF SAY IS WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA, WE, WE CAN TALK TO YOU AFTERWARDS, THEY'LL APPROVE THE PLAT, BUT YOU, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO WITH, WITH THAT FIVE FOOT BUFFER BUFFER THAT YOU, YOU, YOU, UH, YOU'RE STRUGGLING WITH.
UM, AND THEY'LL BE, I'M SURE THEY'LL BE HAPPY TO DISCUSS THAT WITH YOU, BUT I, I DON'T THINK THE DEFERRAL IS GOING TO, TO, TO OFFER YOU ANY MORE RELIEF.
I HAVE A, I HAVE AN ORDER OF SPEAKING HERE.
COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, UH, ANOTHER PUBLIC WORKS QUESTION WHERE I UNDERSTOOD THIS BEING PRESENTED, IT'S 15 FEET OF PAVEMENT NOW EXPANDING TO 18 FEET OF PAVEMENT IT, BUT I THOUGHT TRAVEL LANES AT A MINIMUM THROUGH CITY STANDARD IS TWO 10 FOOT LANES, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE 20 FOOT OF PAVEMENT PLUS A FOOT ON EACH SIDE FOR CURBS, IT'S 22 FOOT OF PAVEMENT.
SO CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT? I I CAN EXPLAIN THE EXISTING CONDITIONS JUST BASED ON MY SITE OBSERVATIONS.
IT, IT'S, THE SURVEY SHOWS IT RANGING BETWEEN 12 AND 20 FEET.
IT PARTICULARLY LEADING UP TO THE, THE PORTION WHERE BETWEEN 18 AND 20 FEET LEADING UP TO THEIR PROPOSED DRIVEWAY, UM, PER PUBLIC WORKS CONVERSATION WITH US, THAT 18 FEET IS SUFFICIENT.
AND ANY, IF THERE IS A SECTION LEADING UP TO THEIR DRIVEWAY THAT ISN'T 18 FEET, THEY WOULD JUST HAVE TO WIDEN IT TO, TO THAT STANDARD.
THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO GO BEYOND THAT.
YEAH, SO I MEAN, I'VE JUST, ALL THE DISCUSSIONS I'VE HAD, THESE LANES HAVE TO BE 10 FEET WIDE.
UM, SO I'M NOT SURE HOW THAT WORKS TO BEGIN WITH.
SO THE FIVE FOOT, UH, DEDICATION WOULD MAKE SENSE.
UH, MAYBE IT COULD BE A LITTLE BIT NARROWER, BUT I DO THINK IN PUBLIC INTEREST, NOT DRIVING THE DEVELOPER TO DO THREE FOOT TOWN HOMES MUCH MORE DENSE IS NOT A GOOD RESOLUTION AS WELL.
SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE DEFERRAL AND SEE IF THERE IS SOME COMBINATION, SOME CONVERSATION THAT COULD HAPPEN.
YOU KNOW, IT DOES DEAD END IT ONE WAY AND ALL OF THAT, BUT IT JUST, A BUNCH OF THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
AND, AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, THE, THE HARDSHIP STATED THAT THEY'D HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, BUILD HIGHER IS IS A, AN ECONOMIC HARDSHIP, WHICH IS NOT A REASON FOR APPROVAL OR VARIANCE? NO, NO, NO.
MY POINT WAS, YEAH, IF WE, IF WE DON'T, IT'S THAT SAME OLD CONVERSATION WE'VE HAD MANY TIMES BY NOT APPROVING, YOU GET SOMETHING WORSE AND IT'S JUST A, A FACT, A FACT OF THE SITUATION.
COMMISSIONER BALDWIN? YEAH, I LEAN TOWARDS THE DEFERRAL ALSO, JEFF, JUST BECAUSE SAME THING, I'M MORE INTERESTED IN A WIDER STREET THAN I AM MORE RIGHT OF WAY THAT'S NOT USED.
SO 55 FEET OF RIGHT OF WAY WITH AN 18 FOOT STREET ISN'T AS GOOD TO ME AS A 50 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY WITH A 25 FOOT WIDE STREET.
SO IS THERE SOME MECHANISM TO MAKE THEM HAVE A BETTER STREET IN THE EXISTING RIGHT OF WAY AS OPPOSED TO JUST GETTING THE FIVE FEET? TO US THAT DOESN'T HELP THE TRAFFIC FLOW OR THE STREET CONDITION.
SO I'M MORE INTERESTED IN THE STREET CONDITION AND USING THE TWO WEEKS TO NEGOTIATE WITH THEM FOR A BETTER STREET IN LIEU OF THE DEDICATION, MR. BUTLER.
SO WE DID HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH THE APPLICANT AND EXPLAIN THAT IF, IF YOU'RE PROPOSING SOME SORT OF MITIGATING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE RIGHT OF WAY, BIG SIDEWALK, BIG BUFFER, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST BUILDING IT TO THE STANDARD OF THE, THE ROADWAY THAT'S IN THE ADJACENT SUBDIVISION.
THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE COULD LOOK AT BECAUSE THEN YOU'RE EXPANDING THE CAPACITY OF THE STREET AND THEN THAT IS MORE TIED TO THE REQUEST.
THEIR RESPONSE WAS THAT THEY'RE REQUIRED ONLY TO DO THE 18 FEET IMPROVEMENT AND RECONFIGURE THE, THE INTERSECTION WITH LUMBER.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE INTERESTED IN DOING AT THE, MAYBE IF HE HAD TWO MORE WEEKS TO THINK ABOUT THE LIKELIHOOD THAT HE'S GONNA BE DENIED
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OKAY.I WOULD LIKE, I WOULD LIKE THE APPLICANT TO RESPOND TO THAT QUESTION THAT WAS JUST POSED.
COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM, SINCE YOU HAD SPOKEN BEFORE, LET ME TAKE, YOU SUFFERED IT TO ME.
SO THAT'S, I KNOW BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO SPEAK EARLIER, BUT WE HAVE A FIRST TIME SPEAKER HERE.
MY QUESTION TO STAFF IS IF THEY'RE BUILDING, IF, IF THEY'RE TAKING ACCESS OFF THAT PUBLIC STREET, DOESN'T IT HAVE TO BE BUILT TO PUBLIC STREET STANDARDS, WHICH WOULD BE THAT 20 FOOT PAVING? AGAIN, I DON'T WANT TO COMMENT FOR ON, ON PUBLIC WORKS' BEHALF, BUT IN OUR, UH, CONVERSATION WITH THEM, THE ROADWAY THAT'S THERE NOW, IT JUST HAS TO BE IMPROVED TO 18 FEET.
AND THAT'S SUFFICIENT AS FAR AS, AND THAT'S FROM PUBLIC WORKS? CORRECT.
CAN WE HAVE THAT VERIFIED IF WE DO DECIDE TO DEFER? YES.
COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM, I, I WOULD LIKE THE APPLICANT TO RESPOND TO WHAT MY COLLEAGUE, UH, UH, MR. BALDWIN PRESENTED TO UNDERSTAND IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY COULD TAKE TWO WEEKS TO MULL OVER BECAUSE MAYBE THEY, THEY DON'T WANNA CONSIDER THAT THEY DON'T, WE DON'T NEED A DEFERRAL.
MR. PATRICK, WE'RE CALL ON YOU ANYWAY.
YES, WE WOULD BE TO WRAP UP, GO AHEAD.
YES, WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO HAVE SOME FURTHER DISCUSSION AND SEE IF WE CAN COME TO SOME SORT OF AGREEMENT, UH, THAT WORKS FOR EVERYBODY.
DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? MM-HMM
ALTHOUGH I THINK WE WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO, TO, TO, TO OFFER SPECS TO STAFF.
MR. PATRICK, DID YOU, I WAS GONNA GIVE YOU YOUR, YOUR REBUTTAL PERIOD TO SPEAK IF YOU WANNA, DID YOU HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS FOR US? NO, I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS OTHER THAN THAT.
UM, WE'RE NOT GONNA, WE DON'T HAVE THE BUDGET TO BUILD A CURB AND GUTTER STREET.
WE COULD POSSIBLY WIDEN THIS STREET FURTHER THAN 18 FEET.
UM, WE'D HAVE TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WITH STAFF ALL THAT PERIOD.
BUT I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR TIME.
OKAY, COMMISSIONER BALDWIN, I'D STILL LIKE FOR YOU TO TRY AND NEGOTIATE FOR A BETTER STREET PATTERN.
AND I, I I'M GONNA SUGGEST THAT WE DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS.
WE HAVE A MOTION TO, UH, DEFER THE ITEM AND NEED A SECOND.
UM, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? NO.
UM, YEAH, YOU, YOU CAN COME BACK IN TWO WEEKS.
IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO DEFER ITEM ONE 50.
VOTE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
POROUS PERLE ROBINS BOTH VOTE NO.
UM, OKAY WITH THAT WE WILL SEE YOU IN TWO WEEKS.
THIS IS A TOUGH, UM, APPRECIATE.
AND AGAIN, JUST FOR, AGAIN, FOR CONTEXT, THE JOINT REFERRAL COMMITTEE HAD ALLOWED A, UM, ABANDONMENT OF THE CONTINUATION OF RAYNA STREET TO BINGLE THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED A CONNECTION THROUGH.
UM, SO WE'RE IN THE POSITION WHERE WE HAVE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY WHEN WE GET IT.
MR. BUTLER, JUST A, A COUPLE OTHER THINGS FOR FULL CONTEXT.
THERE ARE TWO CONTIGUOUS RIGHT AWAYS THAT LEAD FROM THIS PROPERTY TO PINE MOUNT, UH, AND THE SOUTHERN TRACKS THAT FRONT PINE MOUNT ARE OWNED BY THE SAME PROPERTY OWNER.
IT'S JUST THE LITTLE GAP IN BETWEEN THAT WASN'T SO IF, IF THAT'S ANOTHER POSSIBILITY OR WELL, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S SEPARATE FROM THIS VARIANCE.
BUT IF, IF WE'RE GONNA BE CONSIDERING THAT THE STREET SYSTEM IN THE RIGHTS OF WAY THAT ARE SURROUNDING AND, AND PART OF THEIR ASSERTION IS THAT THEY CAN'T, THAT THE ABANDONMENT PRECLUDES THEM FROM IMPROVING THE STREET, IT SHOULD ALSO BE CONSIDERED THAT THERE ARE OTHER, UH, CONTIGUOUS RIGHTS OF WAY THAT LEAD TO THE THOROUGHFARE GRID THAT ARE NOT SEGMENTED.
IF I MAY ALSO 0.1 TAKEN, THERE'S ALSO ONE RUNS PARA THAT RUNS EAST WEST ON THE SOUTHERN EDGE ALL THE WAY OVER TO BINGLE.
THAT RIGHT OF WAY IS STILL THERE.
SO THERE, THERE ARE SOLUTIONS TO THIS.
UM, COMMISSIONER SIGLER, I'VE ASKED THIS BEFORE AND IS THERE ANY WAY A LANDOWNER CAN SHOW US THEIR CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY THAT THEY OWN WHEN THEY PLOT? I KNOW WE DO THIS IN THE COUNTY, IT'S CALLED A GENERAL PLAN.
AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IN THIS CASE WE WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT IT'S A RECORDED SUBDIVISION.
IT APPLIES IN BOTH THE COUNTY AND THE CITY.
IF YOU HAVE ACREAGE THAT'S BEING, UH, DEVELOPED IN, IN INCREMENTS, YOU HAVE TO SUBMIT A GENERAL PLAN.
IF YOU'RE DEVELOPING INCREMENTALLY A RECORDED SUBDIVISION, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SUBMIT A GENERAL PLAN.
AND HOW WOULD WE LEGAL, I MEAN, IS THERE A WAY WE CAN PUT THAT ON ANOTHER COMMITTEE TO GET SOLVED? BECAUSE TIME AND TIME AGAIN, WE ARE SEEING THIS BE ABUSED BY APPLICANTS.
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CLARIFY THE, YOUR MY EARLIER COMMENT, THE PROPERTY THAT'S UNDER COMMON OWNERSHIP IS NOT CONTIGUOUS.THERE IS A GAP IN BETWEEN THIS TRACT AND THE ONES THAT FRONT PINE LINE, IF YOU COULD PULL UP THE MAP.
SO WHERE POPPY IS IN THE UNNAMED ROADWAY THAT IS OWNED BY A DIFFERENT ENTITY, BUT THOSE TWO TRACKS PLUS A CITY TRACK, THAT FRONT PINE MOUNT, THEY'RE OWNED BY THE OWNER OF, OF THIS THE SUBJECT TRACK.
SO IT WOULD BE HALF THE RIGHT OF WAY THAT'S FRONTING HIS PROPERTY THERE, BUT THERE IS THE GAP.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS BEFORE WE MOVE ON? THANK YOU.
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I THINK WE MOVE TO SECTIONS G, H AND I.GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, STAFF WOULD LIKE TO TAKE SECTIONS GH AND I AS ONE GROUP? YES, PLEASE.
SECTION G EXTENSIONS OF APPROVAL CONSISTS OF ITEMS 1 51 THROUGH 1 58 SECTION H.
NAME CHANGES CONSIST OF ITEM 1 59 AND SECTION I CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE CONSISTS OF ITEMS ONE 60 AND 1 61.
THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REQUEST THE APPROVAL OF ALL STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SECTION G, H AND I.
THERE ARE NO ITEMS TAKEN OUT OF ORDER PER STAFF AND NO CHANGES IN RECOMMENDATION.
DO WE HAVE ANY, UH, ITEMS THAT WE NEED TO, PEOPLE TO ABSTAIN ON? COMMISSIONER HYS? YES, MADAM CHAIR? UH, 1 53 AND 1 58.
COMMISSIONER HEIS WILL BE ABSTAINING.
IF, UH, THERE'S NO DISCUSSION.
IS THERE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL ON ALL THE ITEMS AND SECTIONS? GH AND I MOTION GARZA ROBBINS.
WE HAVE NOTHING UNDER JAY NOR KAY.
THAT'LL TAKE US TO ROMAN NUMERAL THREE TO ESTABLISH A PUBLIC HEARING DATE OF OCTOBER 27TH, 2022 ON THE FOLLOWING, UH, FOR THE FOLLOWING, AURORA, SECTION THREE, PARTIAL REPL NUMBER ONE, CARDALE PLACE.
NUMBER 38 ELMWOOD ESTATES FOSTER PLACE PARTIAL REPL.
NUMBER 33, JUTLAND ESTATES REPL NUMBER ONE, RICHMOND SENIOR VILLAGE, SOUTHLAND PLACE, PARTIAL REPL.
NUMBER FOUR, SPRING BRANCH ESTATES NUMBER TWO, PARTIAL REPL.
NUMBER 17, TRINITY AT SPRING HILL AND WEST BELL FLATS.
IS THERE A MOTION TO ESTABLISH OCTOBER 27TH FOR THE HEARINGS? GARZA GARZA.
IS THERE SECOND JONES? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
THAT'LL TAKE US TO ROMAN FOUR, WHICH IS A PUBLIC HEARING IN CONSIDERATION OF A SPECIAL MINIMUM BUILDING LINE BLOCK RENEWAL FOR 600 HARVARD, EAST AND WEST SIDES.
MR. CALDWELL? YES, MADAM CHAIR, THIS IS COMMISSIONER KANE.
I'M GONNA BE LEAVING THE MEETING.
OKAY, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER KANE.
OKAY, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
MY NAME IS DEVONTE CALWELL WITH THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT HAS RECEIVED AN APPLICATION FOR THE RENEWAL OF A 22 FOOT SPECIAL MINIMUM BUILDING LINE BLOCK FOR THE 600 BLOCK OF HARVARD STREET, SPECIFICALLY THE EAST AND WEST SIDES BETWEEN EAST SEVENTH STREET AND WHITE OAK DRIVE.
PREVIOUSLY, THE MINIMAL BUILDING LINE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY CITY COUNCIL ON MAY 1ST, 2002.
THIS BLOCK IS LOCATED WITHIN THE GREATER HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD.
ACCORDING TO OUR ANALYSIS, THIS APPLICATION AREA CONSISTS OF 20 SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS, WHICH REPRESENTS 87% OF THE TOTAL AREA.
ALL PROPERTY OWNERS WERE PROVIDED NOTICE STATING THAT A PROTEST OF THE APPLICATION MUST BE FILED WITHIN A 30 DAY PERIOD IN ONE PROTEST WAS FILED.
EVIDENCE OF SUPPORT IS NOW REQUIRED FOR RENEWAL OR APPLICATIONS, UM, ACCORDING TO CODE SECTION 42 DASH 1 78 D.
THIS APPLICATION IS IN THE HOUSTON HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION PLOTTED IN 1892.
AND SEVERAL OF THE HOMES ON THIS BLOCK WERE ORIGINALLY BUILT IN THE 1920S.
STAFF WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT LETTERS WERE MAILED TO ALL PROPERTY OWNERS AND FOR THE APPLICANT TO PLACE SIGNS ON JULY 15TH OF THIS YEAR.
HOWEVER, THE APPLICANT BECAME UNRESPONSIVE TO OUR, UM, NOTICES AND SIGNS WERE NEVER PLACED ON THE BLOCK DUE TO THE UNFULFILLED PUBLIC NOTIFICATION PERIOD.
OUR STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS FOR PLANNING COMMISSION TO DEFER THIS ITEM FOR TWO MONTHS, WHICH WILL ALLOW STAFF TO EXTEND THIS PROTEST PERIOD FOR ANOTHER 30 DAYS IN FOR SIGNS TO BE PLACED.
UH, WITH THAT SAID MADAM CHAIR, WE ARE READY TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
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THE PUBLIC HEARING IS OPEN FOR ROMAN NUMERAL FIVE, UM, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION AS STATED WILL BE TO DEFER FOR TWO MONTHS.UM, AT WHICH TIME, UM, WILL WE HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER PUBLIC HEARING AT THAT TIME OR, I, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU CONTINUE THIS PUBLIC HEARING.
I KNOW IT'S A VERY LONG TIME OUT WAY OUTSIDE YOUR NORMAL COURSE.
WELL, WE DO HAVE A SPEAKER, UH, MR. A H AND THE LAST NAME IS N-I-K-O-O-E-I.
AND I'LL LET YOU, CAN YOU HELP US PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME? THANK YOU.
I APPRECIATE Y'ALL'S TIME HEARING ME OUT.
UM, I OWN A PROPERTY ON, UM, HARVARD STREET.
UM, I AM A, A CIVIL ENGINEER BY PROFESSION, WORKING FOR STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS BEFORE I RETIRED 14 YEARS AGO.
SO I BOUGHT THIS PROPERTY 15 YEARS AGO WITH THE HOPE OF BEING ABLE TO BUILD IT AND LIVED THE REST OF MY DAYS THERE.
UM, I REALIZED LATER ON, A LITTLE BIT LATER ON THAT, UH, RESTRICTIONS WAS, UH, CREATED BY THE, UM, HISTORIC COMMISSION.
AND SO I WAS UNABLE TO BUILD ON IT THERE, AND I, I ACCEPTED THAT AND IT'S NO PROBLEM IN THE PROPERTY.
IT'S FALLING APART, TERMITE INFESTED.
UH, I SPENT A TON OF MONEY THERE TO KEEP IT GOING, BUT, UM, SO TALKING TO PLANNING DEPARTMENT, THERE'S ALREADY ABOUT 22 FEET OF, UM, EASEMENT, IF YOU WILL.
UM, SO IF YOU ADD ANOTHER 22 FEET, IT WOULD MAKE IT 44 FEET.
THIS PROPERTY, SIR, THAT'S NOT, IT'S JUST REESTABLISHING THE 22 SET BUILD LINE.
IT'S NOT ADDING ANY ADDITIONAL, IT'S JUST REINFORCING THE 22 FOOT BUILD LINE THAT'S BEEN THERE FOR 20 YEARS.
IT'S NOT ADDING ANY ADDITIONAL.
SO JUST SO YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T FOR, I HAD A CONVERSATION, I CALLED THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
I TALKED TO SOMEONE AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE 22 FEET.
YEAH, IT'S FOR 20 ADDITIONAL YEARS OF THE, OF THE SAME RESTRICTION.
SO THE BUILDING LINE, THAT'S, THAT WOULD REMAIN JUST WHAT IT'S WILL REMAIN WHERE IT IS? YES.
IF AT ONE POINT I DECIDE THE RESTRICTIONS ARE LIFTED AND I DECIDE TO BUILD ON IT, THE 22 FEET, I DON'T HAVE TO GO ANY FURTHER.
WELL, NOT AS BAD AS YOU THOUGHT.
FINALLY, LIKE I SAID, I WOULDN'T BE HERE IF HE WASN'T FOR THE, UH, THE CONVERSATION THAT I HAD WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND, AND THAT THEM TELLING ME THAT THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE 22 FEET THAT EXISTS.
I'M SORRY FOR THE, FOR THE MISUNDERSTANDING AND WE APOLOGIZE.
ARE WE STILL, I THINK WE'LL BE TAKING THE SAME ACTION THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING BECAUSE OF THE NOTICE.
UM, SO THIS WILL BE BACK, BACK FOR CONSIDERATION IN TWO MONTHS TIME PROBABLY.
SO THIS IS, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE IT'S 22 FEET.
CAN I PERSONALLY, CAN I PERSONALLY APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCORRECT INFORMATION MY TEAM GAVE YOU? OH, NO.
YOU GOT PLENTY OF TIME TO DO BETTER THINGS THAN TALKING TO US, SO I APOLOGIZE.
DO WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK IN THE PUBLIC HEARING? UH, FOR THE MINIMUM LOCK, MINIMUM BUILDING LINE BLOCK RENEWAL? UH, IF NOT, UM, AND THERE ARE NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, WE'D ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR DEFERRAL FOR TWO MONTHS AND CONTINUATION AND OF THE, SORRY, IF, IF I MAY CLARIFY SO THAT SPECIFICALLY TO HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING HELD TWO MONTHS FROM NOW, ROUGHLY ON DECEMBER 1ST.
SO THAT WOULD BE THE NEXT PUBLIC HEARING DATE.
NO, I, I WOULD MAKE IT MORE SPECIFIC IF I CAN.
IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR FIRST MEETING IN DECEMBER WILL BE DECEMBER 3RD.
I WOULD ASK THAT THE MOTION BE TO DEFER TO DECEMBER 3RD.
I HAVE A CALENDAR RIGHT HERE BECAUSE, OH, DECEMBER ONE.
I'M SO GLAD YOU DOUBLE CHECKED ME.
SO IF THE MOTION COULD BE TO DECEMBER 1ST, IT IS A DATE CERTAIN.
AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS OPINED THAT WHEN YOU MOVE, WHEN YOU DEFER SOMETHING TO A DATE CERTAIN, IT HOLDS A PUBLIC HEARING OPEN.
SO YOU ALL WILL NOT SEE THIS CONTINUALLY ON YOUR AGENDA IN THAT TIME PERIOD.
YES, WE HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT.
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TO DEFER THIS UNTIL DECEMBER 1ST, 2022 AND CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING MOTION? BALDWIN.IS THERE A SECOND? ES ES ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
I'M CALLING ON OUR DIRECTOR FOR A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO INTER TAKE A MOMENT AND, UH, ONE OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS, PETRA SHAW IS CURRENTLY AT TEXAS STATE, TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY IN THE MASTER'S PROGRAM OF URBAN PLANNING.
AND ALL OF HER CLASSMATES ARE HERE.
WHAT? SO HER CLASSMATES, UM, THE STUDENTS OF DR.
LOW HAVE BEEN HERE ALL EVENING WATCHING YOU AND LEARNING.
AND SO I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT AND INTRODUCE THEM.
THE NEXT MEDICAL CHAIR OF BUSINESS, PARDON ME IF I CAN FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
I'LL SEE THEM ALL NEXT SEMESTER IN CLASS.
UM, OH, WE HAVE A, A RECENT STUDENT AMONG US.
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UH, THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS ROMAN NUMERAL FIVE PUBLIC COMMENT, AND WE HAVE A COUPLE PEOPLE SIGNED UP.I AM THE VICE P I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT OF SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 14, AND I'M SPEAKING ON THE ONGOING CONCERNS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE FLOOD PLAIN THAT FLOODS NEIGHBORS IN ATTEMPTS TO CIRCUMVENT CITY DE CORE REQUIREMENTS, WHICH CREATE HAZARDS FOR TODDLERS AND CHILDREN ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL AND DAYCARE.
ON SEPTEMBER 15TH, ELLA GROVE WOOD PLAT WAS APPROVED AGAINST THE OBJECTIONS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND IGNORING ONGOING PLANNING ORDINANCE VIOLATIONS IN ADDITION TO VIOLATIONS CAUTIONS RAISED BY THE PUBLIC WORKS.
AT THE END OF THE SESSION, THE BOARD DISCUSSED AMONGST THEMSELVES THAT A TRAFFIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT THAT WAS MANDATED DURING VARIANCE PROCE THE VARIANCE PROCESS WAS NO LONGER RELEVANT AND THE COMMUNITY SHOULD BE NOTIFIED.
WE'RE EAGER TO HEAR MORE ABOUT, ABOUT THIS ALONG WITH THE DISTRICT C TEAM, WHICH CONTINUES TO OFFER THEIR SUPPORT AND FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PIT PLANNING, PUBLIC WORKS, LEGAL, AND THE COMMUNITY.
FURTHERMORE, DURING THE VARIANCE PERIOD, WELL OVER A HUNDRED COMMUNITY MEMBERS LED BY SUPER NEIGHBOR TWO HOOD 14 BOARD CAME OUT TO VARIOUS PUBLIC SESSIONS TO OPPOSE THE APPLICATIONS INCLUDED HISD CROSSING GUARDS, HISD, TRUSTEES, SINCLAIR, PTO, AND DAYCARE OWNERS, UH, WHO NOTED THE EXISTING SAFETY CONCERNS WOULD BECOME SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE.
AT THAT TIME, THE TWO CONCURRENT APPLICATIONS THAT MAKE UP THE BLOCK WERE TREATED AS A SINGLE SUBJECT BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
PUBLIC WORKS CONTINUES TO TREAT IT AS A SINGLE PROJECT.
ONLY DURING THE LAST SESSION DID PUBLIC PLANNING COMMISSION DECIDE SEPARATE LOTS TO, TO SEPARATE THE LOTS AND NEGATE THE STUDY REQUIREMENT.
THE COMMUNITY REITERATES OUR REQUEST TO FOLLOW SYDNEY ORDINANCES IN THE IDM ON A SEPARATE TOPIC, UH, REGARDING LIVABLE PLACES, I WAS ENCOURAGED BY THE MISSION STATEMENT AND HAVE BEEN A FREQUENT LISTENER, BUT WAS TOLD BY THE COMMISSION THAT IT IS NOT THE FORUM FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AS A SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD REPRESENTATIVE, WE CONTINUE TO SUGGEST THAT SOMEONE FROM THE COMMUNITY BE INVOLVED.
THE NEXT SPEAKER IS TRACY RILEY, R-I-L-E-Y.
UM, I JUST WANNA SAY TODAY, UM, COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM ROSENBERG, THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTFUL DIALOGUE ON THE SAFETY OF STUDENTS AROUND SCHOOLS.
ADDING COMMISSIONER GARZA TO THE WORK WE HAVE FOR NINE MONTHS BROUGHT UP WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
WHERE ARE SCHOOLS IN THIS PICTURE? AND, AND SPEAKING NOT FOR HISD, BUT AS AN HISD RESIDENT AND PARENT, AND WHETHER WE BRING DAN BANKHEAD TO THE TABLE, ANDREAS PEOPLES THE FIRM OF RICE GARDNER, WHO REPRESENTS THE DISTRICT AND IS A FOURTH LARGEST DISTRICT IN OUR COUNTRY.
WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE AT THE TABLE RIGHT NOW.
SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU ALL AND COMMISSIONER BROWN TO INVITE THEM.
I WILL INVITE THEM AS WELL TO BE A PART OF THE CHAPTER 42 PROCESS.
UM, WE HAVE SPOKEN FOR SO MANY MONTHS, AND YOU ALL HAVE SUPPORTED US IN NEGOTIATING FOR THE SAFETY OF STUDENTS.
BUT IT'S NOT JUST HISD IN YOUR PURVIEW, IT'S ALE.
IT'S ALL DEAN, IT'S SPRING BRANCH ISD.
AND I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE US CONTINUING TO PUT SAFETY AS A PRIORITY AT THIS PLOTTING PHASE AND NOT JUST AS WE EXIST TODAY SAYING THAT, WELL, THAT'LL HAPPEN IN THE PERMITTING PROCESS.
AND COMMISSIONER ABRAHAM, YOU, YOU MENTIONED IT MAY NOT BE A SAFETY ISSUE.
I'M A PARENT OF FOUR SMALL CHILDREN.
MY KIDS RIDE THEIR BIKES, THEY WALK, WE DON'T HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE RIGHT NOW WHEN IT COMES TO PERIMETERS AROUND SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT.
AND IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT WE REALLY DO NEED TO INCLUDE PEOPLE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING THIS DAY TO DAY AND HAVE A VOICE, LIKE YOU MENTIONED
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IN ACRES HOMES.THEY'RE HAVING A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT AND THEY DON'T HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE.
AND WE'RE TOLD, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT.
AND IT ALL GOES DOWN TO SAFETY OF STUDENTS, SAFETY OF OUR ELDERLY, OUR FURRY FRIENDS.
LET'S BRING THESE PEOPLE TO THE TABLE AND DURING THE PROCESS AND NOT HAVE IT BE AN AFTERTHOUGHT.
UH, I DON'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE SIGNED TO SPEAK.
SO A, A MOTION TO ADJOURN WOULD BE IN ORDER.