* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:01] FROM CITY HALL ANNEX, IT'S THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING RIGHT HERE ON HTV. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. [CALL TO ORDER] IT IS 2:33 PM ON MARCH 16TH, 2024. I'M LISA CLARK, CHAIR OF THE HOUSTON PLANNING COMMISSION, AND I'M CALLING THIS MEETING TO ORDER AS AN IN-PERSON MEETING AT CITY HALL ANNEX 900 BAGBY. WE HAVE DISCONTINUED THE VIRTUAL MEETING PARTICIPATION OPTIONS, HOWEVER, YOU MAY MONITOR THE MEETING BY VIEWING HTV AND THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA SPEAKERS. IF YOU'VE NOT YET SIGNED UP TO SPEAK AND YOU WISH TO SPEAK, TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSION ON AN ITEM, PLEASE FILL OUT THE SPEAKER'S FORM BEFORE THE ITEM IS CALLED AND TURN IT INTO STAFF NEAR THE FRONT DOOR. TO ESTABLISH WE HAVE A QUORUM OF 11 MEMBERS. I'LL CALL THE ROLE, TURN ON YOUR MICS, AND PLEASE EVERYONE TURN ON YOUR MICS. AS YOU ANSWER, SAY YOUR LAST NAME AND SAY THAT YOU'RE PRESENT. I'M LISA CLARK. CHAIR PRESENT. COMMISSIONER GARZA GARZA. PRESENT, COMMISSIONER ALLMAN ALLMAN. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER BALDWIN BALDWIN. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER VAR VAR. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER. HE ISH. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER HINES HINES. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER JONES JONES. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER KLI KLIK. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER MORRIS IS ABSENT. COMMISSIONER LINDA POR PERLE PRESENT. COMMISSIONER ROBBINS? HERE. COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG ROSENBERG. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER SIGLER SIGLER. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER STEIN STEIN. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER TAHIR TAHI. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER VICTOR VICTOR. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER VERA BLAND. VERA BLAND. PRESENT. COMMISSIONER DALTON IS NOT PRESENT. COMMISSIONER PATRICK MANKA. MANKA PRESENT. AND COMMISSIONER KAIN IS ABSENT. AND OUR SECRETARY, JENNIFER OLIN. UH, OSLAN PRESENT. 19. OKAY. WE MEMBERS, UM, LET'S SEE. WE HAVE 19, SO WE HAVE A QUORUM. THANK YOU. OKAY, THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE WITHDRAWN AND WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED TODAY. THAT'S ITEM NUMBER 91 AND NUMBER 1 0 7. AND, UM, WE'LL [Director’s Report] GO NOW TO MS. OSLAN FOR THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. UH, GOOD AFTERNOON COMMISSIONERS. I'M JENNIFER OLAND, SECRETARY OF THIS COMMISSION AND INTERIM DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. UH, WANTED TO NOTIFY EVERYBODY THAT PLAT TRACKER PAYMENTS WILL BE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE STARTING 5:00 PM ON FRIDAY, MAY 24TH TO THE END OF DAY ON MAY 30TH. AS WE MIGRATE TO A NEW PAYMENT PROVIDER SYSTEM, THE DEPARTMENT ADVISES CUSTOMERS TO MAKE ALL PAYMENTS FOR PLAT TRACKER APPLICATIONS BEFORE 5:00 PM ON MAY 24TH. PAYMENTS FOR RECORDATION PLAT APPLICATIONS OR AMENDING PLATS DURING THIS TIME CAN BE MADE BY CALLING 8 3 2 3 9 3 6 6 3 2 OR EMAILING PLANNING PAYMENTS@HOUSTONTX.GOV. THE CHANGE ONLY APPLIES TO ONLINE PAYMENTS AND IS NOT RELATED TO THE NEW PLA TRACKER LAUNCH COMING THIS SUMMER. FOR ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, PLEASE CALL US AT (832) 393-6600 AND WE WILL HAVE MORE. YOU KNOW, WE'LL REPEAT THIS MESSAGE. UH, WE'LL E-BLAST IT OUT TO ALL OF OUR APPLICANTS. ALSO, BIKE TO WORK MONTH, UM, IS HAPPENING NOW. MAY IS, UH, BIKE MONTH. UM, SO BIKE, UH, AND I THINK BIKE TO WORK DAY IS ACTUALLY TOMORROW. UH, YOU CAN VISIT HOUSTON BIKE PLAN.ORG OR CALL 8 3 2 3 9 5 2 7 0 0 FOR MORE INFORMATION. ALSO, I'D LIKE TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT WE ARE HOSTING A SPANISH ONLY VERSION OF THE LIVABLE PLACES WORKSHOP ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH FROM 10 30, UH, AM TO 12:30 PM AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A, A VIRTUAL SESSION. A WOULD YOU PLEASE REPEAT THAT IN SPANISH? GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU. UM, UH, IF ANYONE HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS [00:05:01] INFORMATION OR ANYTHING ELSE, THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT CAN BE REACHED AT 8 3 2 3 9 3 6 6 0 0 OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE@HOUSTONPLANNING.COM. UM, AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. THANK YOU, MS. OLIN. NOW WE WILL, UH, [Consideration of the May 2, 2024 Planning Commission Meeting Minutes] CONSIDER THE MEETING MINUTES OF OUR MAY 2ND, 20, 24 MINUTES. UM, THOSE PRIOR MINUTES HAVE BEEN CIRCULATED TO THE COMMISSION. MAY I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO ACCEPT THESE MINUTES? MOTION KALIK. MOTION KALI. SECOND. SECOND GARZA. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. OKAY, BETWEEN THIS LAST MEETING WE DID THAT LAST MEETING, I WAS LOOKING FOR IT 'CAUSE I SAW THAT. YEAH, I DON'T SEE IT ON THERE. SHOULD MADAM CHAIR? YES. ON THE MINUTES ON, UM, PAGE NINE OF NINE, ITEM NUMBER THREE INDICATES A LOT OF, UH, THE COMMISSIONERS ABSTAINED. I DON'T RECALL THAT BEING THE CASE. IS THAT A MISTAKE OR AM I MISREMEMBERING? WELL, IT SAID, I, I MADE THE MOTION AND I ABSTAINED, WHICH SEEMS LIKE AN ODD THING FOR ME TO DO. WE'LL MAKE THE CORRECTION. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER ROBBINS. OKAY, MOVING ALONG TO PLATTING ACTIVITY. UM, LET'S SEE. WE HAVE SOME ABSTENTIONS, [Platting Activity a & b] UH, COMMISSIONER? HE, YES, MADAM CHAIR. I'M GONNA ABSTAIN FROM ITEMS 2, 3, 4, NO, I'M SORRY, NOT 3, 2, 4, 5, AND 13. SCRATCH THE THREE. BEG YOUR PARDON. OKAY, THANK YOU. SO, UH, COMMISSIONER HAYES IS GOING TO ABSTAIN FROM 2, 4, 5, AND 13. ARE THERE ANY MORE ABSTENTIONS? OKAY. VERY WELL. OKAY, SO WE'LL VOTE ON ALL ITEMS ONE THROUGH, EXCUSE ME, YOU NEED TO WAIT. PRESENTATION. OH, YEAH, WE GOTTA DO THE PRE, I'M, I'M TRYING TO HURRY UP HERE. IT'S BEEN A LONG MEETING ALREADY. SORRY ABOUT THAT. MS. BANDI, PLEASE PROCEED. MADAM CHAIR BEFORE I GET STARTED. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. MY NAME. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. UH, MY NAME IS AVITA BANDI. MADAM CHAIR, BEFORE WE GET STARTED, MAY I, UH, ASK COMMISSIONER HASH TO PLEASE ALSO ACCUSE AND ITEMS THAT IS PART OF THE CONSENT SECTION, WHICH ARE A REPETITION FROM MAY 2ND. SO PLEASE, IF YOU GO THROUGH THE ONE-LINERS AGAIN, THERE ARE SOME ITEMS FROM THE PREVIOUS CYCLE THAT WE ARE GOING TO TAKE ACTION. SO YOU MAY WANT TO RECUSE FROM THEM AS WELL. JUST PASSED. NUMBER 7 57 PAGE. IT'S ON PAGE THREE, THE TOP OF PAGE THREE. THESE WERE ABSTENTIONS FROM LAST MEETING AND THERE'S A LITTLE CONFUSION ON THE VOTE. SO SHE'S ASKING YOU TO ABSTAIN FROM THOSE AS WELL. SO YOU NEED TO NOTE THOSE? YES, SIR. OKAY, GOOD. I'M GONNA ALSO ABSTAIN FROM ITEMS 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, AND 14 UNDER THE CONSENT FROM THE MAY 2ND, FROM MAY 2ND AGENDA. OKAY, THANK YOU. CAN WE REPEAT THOSE PLEASE? YES. SO FROM THE CONSENT FROM MAY 2ND AGENDA, COMMISSIONER HEIS IS ABSTAINING FROM 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, AND 14. SO SEVEN THROUGH 14. THANK YOU. UM, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. SO, UH, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, STAFF WOULD LIKE TO TAKE SECTIONS A AND B SEPARATELY FOR THIS CYCLE. SECTION A CONSISTS OF ITEMS ONE THROUGH 57 OF CURRENT MAY 16TH AGENDA, AND ITEMS SEVEN THROUGH 14TH OF MAY SECOND AGENDA THAT INADVERTENTLY GOT LEFT OUT FROM THE MOTION. MADAM CHAIR, WE ALSO HAVE A CHANGE OF RECOMMENDATION FOR ITEM 24 THAT IS ON THE CURRENT CYCLE MAY 16TH, AGENDA FROM DEFER TO APPROVE. THE NAME OF THE ITEM IS JDS HOFFEY ROAD, SECTION FIVE. THERE ARE NO OTHER ITEMS THAT ARE TAKEN OUT OF ORDER AND THERE ARE NO OTHER CHANGES TO STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS MADAM CHAIR, IF THERE ARE NO INDIVIDUALS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ANY OF THE ITEMS, THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REQUEST THE APPROVAL OF ALL STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONSENT SECTION. CONSENT ITEMS, NOT REQUIRING NOTIFICATION. THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE A SPEAKER ON ITEM NUMBER 24, SO WE'LL [00:10:01] NEED TO TAKE THAT SEPARATELY. OKAY. OKAY. SO WE NEED A MOTION FOR CONSENT SECTION A, ITEMS ONE THROUGH 57 AND CONSENT ITEMS FROM THE AGENDA. THE MAY 2ND AGENDA SEVEN THROUGH 14, AND WE ARE GOING TO TAKE ITEMS 2, 4, 5, 13. AND THE CONSENT ITEMS ON THE MAY 2ND AGENDA ITEM SEVEN THROUGH 14. WE'LL TAKE ALL OF THOSE SEPARATELY. SO DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE ONE THROUGH 57, SAVE AND ACCEPT ALL THE ITEM NUMBERS THAT I'VE MENTIONED. MOTION TO HEAR. MOTION TO HEAR. BLAND, SECOND VEER, BLAND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. OKAY, NOW FOR B, THE ITEMS THAT NEED, UH, NOW I GOTTA TAKE THE ONES. YES. OKAY. YES. SO NOW WE'RE GONNA VOTE ON ITEMS IN THE CONSENT AGENDA NUMBER A OR LETTER A, ITEMS 2, 4 5 13 7 THROUGH 14 ON THE MAY 2ND AGENDA. MOTION POROUS PER MOTION. POUROUS PER SECOND. SECOND. BALL ONE. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. OKAY, NOW WE'LL DO SECTION B, WHICH CONTAINS ITEMS 58 THROUGH 1 0 3. NO ITEMS NEED TO BE TAKEN OUT OF ORDER WITHIN THIS SECTION AND THERE ARE NO CHANGES TO STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION. MADAM CHAIR, IF THERE IS NO INDIVIDUAL SIGNED TO SPEAK ON THESE ITEMS, THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REQUEST THE APPROVAL OF STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION FOR SECTION B REPLIED ITEMS NOT REQUIRING NOTIFICATION. OKAY, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA DO THE MOTION FOR THAT AND THEN WE'LL HEAR THE SPEAKER ON NUMBER 24. YES. OKAY. SO COMMISSIONERS, I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR, UH, ITEM B, RELAS NUMBER 58 THROUGH 1 0 3. MOTION GARZA. MOTION GARZA, SECOND BALDWIN. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. OKAY, SO NOW MADAM CHAIR YES, I, I GUESS I JUST STILL NEED SOME CLARIFICATION. YEAH, SO FROM THE, FROM THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING MINUTES, IT'S CLEARLY, IT, IT SHOWS WHICH ITEMS I ABSTAIN FROM, WHICH WAS 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, AND 16. SO I'M CONFUSED WHY I'M ABSTAINING FROM THESE OTHER ITEMS. YEAH, I, I WAS GONNA SAY, THESE ITEMS ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA FOR BECAUSE COMMISSIONER, HE SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM THEM. THEY WERE SKIPPED IN THE MOTIONS IN BETWEEN BECAUSE THEY FELL IN BETWEEN THE ITEMS. ITEMS I THINK HE ABSTAINED FROM FROM. SO YEAH, HE DOES NOT NEED TO ABSTAIN FROM THOSE ITEMS ON THIS, ON THIS AGENDA. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING. THANK YOU . I'M FOLLOWING Y'ALL'S LEAD, SO LEAD ME WHERE YOU NEED ME TO GO. I DON'T THINK YOU NEED TO VO HOWEVER I THINK WE CAN CORRECT THE RECORD. THERE YOU GO. REFLECT THAT HE THANK YOU MS. MICKELSON. ABSTAIN FROM THOSE. DO YOU WANNA VOTE ON SOMETHING? NO, THANK YOU. OKAY, SO NOW WE'LL DO NUMBER 24. AND I HAVE MS. JENNIFER CURTIS. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR COMMISSIONERS. JENNIFER CURTIS, META PLANNING AND DESIGN. WE ARE THE APPLICANT FOR THIS ITEM. UM, THIS ITEM WAS RECOMMENDED TO DEFER DEFERRAL, UM, DUE TO SOME COMMENTS, BUT I'VE BEEN TALKING WITH STAFF TODAY, UM, AND WITH STAFF APPROVAL AND IF, IF IT PLEASES YOU, UM, I THINK WE HAVE EVERYTHING WORKED OUT AND I'D LIKE TO REQUEST THAT IT BE APPROVED. OKAY, THANK YOU. YEAH. YES, MADAM CHAIR, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE? THANK YOU. NO, THE ITEM IS BEING RECOMMENDED. STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO CHANGE IT FROM DEFER TO APPROVE. OKAY. THANK YOU. MOTION BALDWIN, SECOND SIGLER. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I KNOW YOU GUYS JUST KEEP MESSING WITH ME. IT'S OKAY, I CAN TAKE IT. I GOT, I GOT BROAD SHOULDERS. OKAY, WE'LL MOVE ALONG NOW TO SECTION [I.c. Replats requiring Public Hearings with Notification (Devin Crittle, John Cedillo, Dorianne Powe-Phlegm, and Wilson Calvert)] C PUBLIC HEARINGS REQUIRING NOTICE. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSTON PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS DEVIN CRIDDLE. ITEM 1 0 4 IS BAKER STEEL PROPERTIES. THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE HARRIS COUNTY ETJ AT THE SOUTHWEST INTERSECTION OF ORANGE GROVE DRIVE AND CONNOR STREET. THE PURPOSE OF THE REPL IS CREATE ONE UNRESTRICTED RESERVE. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE FROM SECTION 42 DASH 1 93 TO CONVERT A SINGLE FAMILY LOT INTO AN UNRESTRICTED RESERVE. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT [00:15:01] OF THIS REQUEST. THE SITE IS A REPL OF TWO LOTS FROM THE ORANGE GROVE SUBDIVISION. THE PROPERTY IS OWNED BY BAKERSFIELD PROPERTIES, WHICH IS A FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION COMPANY. THE EXISTING STRUCTURES ON THE SITE WERE ORIGINALLY BUILT AS SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, BUT WERE CONVERTED TO COMMERCIAL USE IN 2008. SINCE THEN, THE SITE HAS OPERATED WITH OFFICE BUILDINGS, A PAINT SHOP, AND FABRICATION BUILDING ON THE PROPERTY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS RE PLAT IS TO AMEND THE SINGLE FAMILY RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT AND ALLOW THE RESERVE TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE COMMERCIAL USE ON THE GROUND. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OF THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. AND, UH, HARRIS COUNTY ENGINEERING HAS VOICED NO OBJECTION TO THIS REQUEST. STAFF RECOMMENDS GRANTING THE, GRANTING THE REQUEST OF VARIANCE AND APPROVING THE PLAT SUBJECT TO THE CCPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU MR. CRIDDLE. THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM IS NOW OPENED. I DON'T HAVE ANY SPEAKERS SIGNED TO SPEAK. NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WE WISH TO SPEAK. OKAY. UH, ANY QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND I'LL ACCEPT A MOTION AND A SECOND. MOTION HINES SECOND VERA BLAND. MOTION HINES. SECOND VERA BLAND. STAFF RECOMMENDATION. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS JOHN PHILLIPS. IDA 1 0 5 IS BELLAIRE. THE SUBJECT SITE IS AN OVER 9,000 SQUARE FOOT PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HARRIS COUNTY EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION WEST OF KIRKENDAL AND SOUTH OF LONDON WAY DRIVE. THE PURPOSE OF THE RE PLAT IS TO CREATE ONE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOT. THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM AND THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THE PLAT DOES NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILES SEPARATELY, AND STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS APPLICATION. SITE RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLA SUBJECT TO CCPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPENED ON THIS ITEM. I DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKERS. ANYONE ELSE LISTED? OKAY. NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE. THANK YOU. I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR MOTION. I'M SORRY. MOTION MANKA. SECOND JONES. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS DORIAN FLM. ITEM 1 0 6 IS BYWOOD OASIS, THE SIZE LOCATED NORTHEAST INTERSECTION OF DARIEN AND BYWOOD STREETS EAST OF HOMESTEAD ROAD IN HOUSTON. CORPORATE LIMITS. THE PURPOSE OF THE REPLY IS TO CREATE THREE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS. THERE ARE NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM. THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS PLAT. THIS PLAT WAS DEFERRED AT THE LAST PLANNING COMMISSION PER THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST. LEGAL INDICATED AT THAT TIME THAT THE PLAT VIOLATED DEED RESTRICTIONS. THE APPLICANT PROVIDED A REVISED DRAWING, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN NOW, AND LEGAL REVIEW THE REVISED DRAWING AND HAS INDICATED THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO PROVE THE PLAT PER THE C BBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU MS. POPE FLYNN. WE'LL CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING. I HAVE NO SPEAKERS SIGNED. ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WISHES TO SPEAK? OKAY, I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. ALLMAN MOTION VICTOR SECOND ALLMAN. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 1 0 8 IS ORANGE GROVE, SECTION TWO PARTIAL RELA NUMBER ONE. THIS SITE IS LOCATED IN HARRIS COUNTY, SOUTH OF ALDI, MALE ROUTE AND WEST ALONG G LOGGER STREET. THE PURPOSE OF THE RELA IS TO CREATE A PRIVATE STREET DEVELOPMENT WITH 15 LOTS AND FOUR RESERVE. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TWO VARIANCES. THE FIRST IS TO EXCEED INTERSECTION SPACING AND THE SECOND VARIANCE IS TO ALLOW A REDUCED BUILDING LINE OF 15 FEET ALONG A MAJOR FAIR AIRFARE. UH, JOHN F KEN KENNEDY BOULEVARD STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST TO EXCEED INTERSECTION SPACING AS THE STREET, AS THE STREET PATTERN IS SUFFICIENT FOR TRAFFIC CIRCULATION. HOWEVER, STAFF IS NOT IN SUPPORT OF THE REDUCED BUILDING LINE REQUEST. MORE IMPORTANTLY, DURING OUR REVIEW, STAFF DISCOVERED THAT, UH, HARRIS COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT'S RECORD INDICATE THAT THIS PROPERTY OWNER OWNS ADDITIONAL LAND THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THIS PLAT BOUNDARY. STAFF [00:20:01] IS REQUESTING REQUESTING A SECOND AND FINAL DEFERRAL TO ALLOW TIME FOR THE APPLICANT TO REVISE THE PLAT BOUNDARY TO ACCOMMODATE THE ADDITIONAL LAND OR PROVIDE SUFFICIENT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE SHOWING OTHERWISE. MADAM CHAIR, THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION AND YOU MAY CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU MR. CRIDDLE. THE PUBLIC HEARING HAS CONTINUED FOR THIS ITEM. I HAVE. I JUST HAVE, UM, MS. OWENS THE APPLICANT FOR QUESTIONS. COMMISSIONERS, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY, WELL, WE WILL CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING COURT AND I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. MOTION BALDWIN SECOND VERA BLAND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE OF THE DEFERRAL. SORRY, I SHOULD HAVE SAID STAFF RECOMMENDATION FOR DEFERRAL OPPOSED. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS WILSON CALVERT. ITEM NUMBER 1 0 9 IS PARK STREET VISTA. THE SUBJECT SIDE IS A 5,000 SQUARE FOOT PROPERTY LOCATED IN HOUSTON CITY LIMITS ON PARK STREET WEST OF DUN LAVY IN NORTH OF VERMONT AND THE MONTROSE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE PURPOSE OF THE RE PLAT IS TO CREATE TWO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS. THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM AND THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THE PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FACE OF THE PLAT OR THOSE FILED SEPARATELY. STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. WE DID RECEIVE ONE COMMENT AGAINST THE PROJECT ON THE BASIS OF DRAINAGE AND ELIMINATION OF ON STREET PARKING. UH, I BELIEVE THAT PERSON IS ALSO HERE TO SPEAK TODAY. UH, MADAM CHAIR, IF IT PLEASES THE COMMISSION, YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU MR. CALVERT. WE'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ITEM 1 0 9. I HAVE LYNN WALKER SIGN TO SPEAK. YES, MA'AM. I'M GONNA LET, UH, I'M GONNA LET MY CLIENT GO FIRST. UM, ROBERT ARNETTE, HAS HE, HAVE YOU SIGNED UP, SIR? YES, I PHONE DID YESTERDAY, BUT I'VE GOT OH, OKAY. YEAH, IF YOU WOULD GIVE IT TO STAFF, PLEASE, THAT'D BE GREAT. AND THEN IF YOU'D STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE SPEAK TO THE OKAY. MADAM CHAIR, UH, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION. MY NAME IS ROBERT NETTE AND I'M A NEIGHBOR OF THE, UH, LOT BEING REPLANTED AND I'M HERE TO, JUST TO PRESENT A, AN ISSUE READY ANYWAYS. SO ONE SECOND. HTV PLEASE. CAMERA PLEASE. OKAY. YEAH. UH, YOU CAN SEE, UH, ON THE SCREEN THERE. UH, I LIVE ON LOT FIVE. THE LOT BEING REPLANTED IS LOT FOUR. AS OF THIS TIME, THE SEWER OUT OF MY LOT, THE FOLLOW THE DIAGRAM GOES TOWARD THE BACK AND THEN ACROSS THE BACK OF LOT FOUR. SO THE REPLANTING AND WHATEVER ACTION IT'S TAKEN, UH, THERE NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERATION OF MY, UH, USE OF, OF THE PIPE THAT'S RUNNING ACROSS THAT, UH, PROPERTY. UM, AND, AND IF IT'S CUT OFF, THEN I'M, I DON'T HAVE AN EXIT TO THE SEWER, UH, SEWER SYSTEM. AND AS YOU SEE THE, ON THE FAR RIGHT OF THAT, UH, DIAGRAM SHADED NUMBER FOUR, THAT'S THE WAY THE LINE, UH, ENDS UP. AND THE PLUMBER RAN A C SEA SNAKE THROUGH THAT AND THAT'S AS FAR AS IT WOULD GO. BUT, UH, APPARENTLY THE LINE GOES EAST AND PRESUMABLY, UH, GOES TO THE CITY LINE AT THE STREET. AND I'VE MADE THE NOTES ON HERE. I CAN LEAVE THIS FOR ANYBODY PLEASE TO READ PLEASE. ALRIGHT, YES, PLEASE LEAVE THOSE STAFF. OKAY. SO I'LL ADD JUST, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S ON THE RECORD AND CONSIDERATION IT'S TAKEN OF WHATEVER INTEREST THAT I HAVE. GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONERS? OKAY. THANK YOU. I'M SORRY. THANK YOU. LYNN WALKER. OKAY, THANKS. UH, YES MA'AM. CAN YOU GO AHEAD AND DO THAT UP? UH, I'M JUST GONNA REITERATE A COUPLE OF, UH, A COUPLE OF DETAILS. UH, MY CLIENT'S HOUSE IS BUILT IN 1935, AND SO THIS SEWER LINE IS THE ONLY SEWER LINE THAT'S BEEN, UH, IN EXISTENCE FOR THIS PARTICULAR, UH, HOME THAT HE'S IN. UM, IT IS AN OLD SEWER LINE. IT'S, UH, CEMENT OR CLAY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. HOWEVER, IF, IF THIS NEW LOT IS RE PLATTED, IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE, UH, THERE'S GONNA BE NEW CONSTRUCTION ON THERE AND EVERYTHING ELSE. AND SO AT SOME POINT THE RE PLATTING IS GOING TO CAUSE HIM LIKELY TO LOSE HIS SEWER LINE. UH, THEREFORE HE NEEDS SOME TYPE OF SOLUTION. THE SOLUTION, UH, INDICATED WOULD BE THE LINE AT THE BOTTOM UNDER LOT FIVE, THE ORANGE DOTTED LINE, UH, NUMBER FIVE TO CONNECT A SEWER LINE DIRECTLY FROM HIS PROPERTY STRAIGHT TO THE CITY SEWER LINE THAT IS UNDER PARK STREET. AND, UH, THERE SHOULD BE CON, UH, CONSIDERATION FOR THE RE PLATTING AND [00:25:01] CONSIDERATION FOR SOME TYPE OF COMPENSATION FOR HIM TO HAVE TO, UH, UH, REDO HIS SEWER LINE IN THAT CAPACITY. I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS THAT THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO THROUGH THIS COMMISSION, BUT YOUR COMMENTS ARE NOTED. AND, UH, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. WALKER? YES. COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG? ACTUALLY NOT MR. WALKER STAFF. OKAY. STAFF. THANK YOU MR. WALKER. OKAY. YES. MY, MY KNOWLEDGE IS THIS IS A MULTI-USER SUPERVISOR MICROPHONE, PLEASE. IT'S ON. OH, THANK YOU. UM, WOULDN'T THAT DICTATE THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO DEDICATE AN EASEMENT AND WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO BUILD ACROSS IT? SO SEWER LINES ARE A LITTLE BIT OUTSIDE OF MY EXPERTISE. I WOULD TEND TO GO WITH PUBLIC WORKS BECAUSE WE DON'T TYPICALLY SHOW THINGS LIKE THAT. I KNOW MR. SMITH HAS STEPPED AWAY MOMENTARILY. MR. BROWN'S HERE. MR. BROWN. MR. BROWN THERE. EXCELLENT. MR. BROWN, CAN YOU COME UP AND HELP US WITH THIS? COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, WOULD YOU MIND RESTATING YOUR QUESTION, MR. BROWN? UM, MY KNOWLEDGE OF, UH, THE SITUATION IS AS A MULTI-USER SEWER LINE, WHEN THE PROPERTY OWNER BUYS THIS LOT, THEY WOULD NEED TO DEDICATE AN EASEMENT TO ENSURE THE USE OF THAT SEWER SO THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO BUILD OVER IT UNLESS THEY REROUTED IT. I WOULD, I WOULD HAVE TO GET INSPECTORS OUT THERE AND, AND VALIDATE THAT, BUT MY KNOWLEDGE IS THAT LINE SHOULD BE PROTECTED. OKAY. NOT DISAGREEING, BUT I'LL, I'LL BE GLAD TO. THANK YOU TO FOLLOW UP WITH THE INSPECTORS. THANK YOU. MS. MICKELSON, CAN YOU ADD ANY LIGHT ON THIS? WE ADD THAT GENERALLY YES. THAT IS THE RULE. WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE BUILDING OVER LINES, UM, BECAUSE WE WANT TO GET TO THEM TO FIX THEM AND SO FORTH. RIGHT. SO YEAH, WE WOULD, WE WOULD NOT ISSUE A BUILDING PERMIT THAT SHOWED THAT IT WAS GOING OVER SEWER OR WATER OR ELECTRICAL LINES. RIGHT. SO ASSUMING THIS GETS APPROVED TODAY, MR. CALVERT, YOU'LL WORK WITH, UH, THE PERMITTING OFFICE, MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE A NOTE OF ALL OF THIS AND THAT IT'S ADDRESSED. YES. AND THIS PLA WILL ALSO HAVE TO COME BACK FOR A FINAL APPROVAL AS WELL. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU. OKAY. I HAVE NO OTHER SPEAKERS SIGNED. DID I CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? NO. OKAY. NOW I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING, UM, AND I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION, WHICH WAS TO APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS LISTED. MOTION KLIK. MOTION KLIK ALLMAN SECOND ALLMAN. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. MADAM CHAIR, IF I CAN ALSO ASK THAT, UH, PUBLIC WORKS ADDRESS THE DRAINAGE ISSUE. THAT WAS ONE OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS IN THE PACKET. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER CULVER. OKAY, MS. FLM. ITEM ONE 10 IS ROSEWOOD ESTATE PARTIAL RE PLAT NUMBER THREE. THE SITE IS LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST INTERSECTION OF SHREVEPORT ROAD AND SPRINGDALE STREET IN HOUSTON. CORPORATE LIMITS. THE REASON FOR REPLIED IS TO CREATE FOUR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS. THERE ARE NO VARIANCE REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM. THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS PLAT. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS FILED SEPARATELY. THE APPLICANT HAS REQUESTED THAT THIS ITEM BE DEFERRED TO PROVIDE A REVISED DRAWING AND CONFER WITH LEGAL CONCERNING THE SEPARATELY FILED DEED RESTRICTIONS. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO DEFER THE PLAT PER THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST. MME. TERRY PLEASES COMMISSION. YOU MAY OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU MS. PFL. THIS THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM IS OPEN. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANY ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONERS? IF NOT, I WILL CLOSE. UH, CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND I'LL ACCEPT A MOTION AND A SECOND. MOTION GARZA. SECOND VERA BLAND. MOTION GARZA. SECOND VERA BLAND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM ONE 11 IS STNL HAWK'S VIEW. THE SUBJECT SIDE IS A 1.27 ACRE PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HARRIS COUNTY, EXTRA TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION NORTH ALONG HAWKS VIEW STREET SOUTH OF WILL, CLAYTON, AND SOUTHEAST OF LAKE HOUSTON PARKWAY. THE PURPOSE OF THE RE PLAT IS TO CREATE ONE COMMERCIAL RESERVE. THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM AND THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. THE PLAT WAS PREVIOUSLY DEFERRED AS LEGAL REVIEW INDICATED THAT THE PLAT WOULD VIOLATE SEPARATELY. FILE D RESTRICTIONS AS SAID, RESTRICTIONS REQUIRED APPROVAL FROM THE ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL REVIEW PARTY PRIOR TO PURSUING ANY PLATTING OR SUBDIVISION. THE APPLICANT HAS PROVIDED SET APPROVAL AND LEGAL NO LONGER FINDS THE PLAT TO BE IN VIOLATION. 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 FOR PLEASE THE COMMISSION. YOU MAY CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU MR. CILLO. UH, THE PUBLIC [00:30:01] HEARING HAS CONTINUED FOR THIS ITEM. I DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT HAS ANY, WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? IF NOT, I WILL, UH, CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND CALL FOR A MOTION. MOTION. MAD MOTION. MONICA POS. SECOND POS PER, PER. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? A OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ITEM ONE 12 IS UPTOWN DISTRICT PARTIAL RELA NUMBER ONE. THE SITE IS LOCATED SOUTH ALONG WASHINGTON HEIGHTS STREET NORTH OF PAGEWOOD LANE AND WEST OF JEANETTA STREET IN HOUSTON. CORPORATE LIMITS THE REASON FOR RELAID IS TO CREATE A RECREATION RESERVE. THE APPLICANT IS ALSO REQUESTING TWO VARIANCES. THE FIRST VARIANCE IS TO ALLOW A RESERVE RESTRICTED TO LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPING AND OPEN SPACE TO BE REPLA INTO A RECREATION RESERVE. AND THE SECOND VARIANCE IS TO ALLOW A RESERVE RESTRICTED TO RECREATION. UH, TO HAVE A FRONTAGE OF 18.5 FEET ALONG A TYPE TWO PAE INSTEAD OF THE REQUIRED 50 FEET. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THESE REQUESTS. THE SUBJECT SITE IS A REPL OF A 5,415 SQUARE FOOT LANDSCAPE IN OPEN SPACE RESERVE THAT WAS CREATED IN A 91 LOT SINGLE FAMILY SUBDIVISION IN 2022. THE RESERVE WAS CREATED AS AN AMENITY AND GREEN SPACE FOR THE FUTURE RESIDENTS OF THE SUBDIVISION. THE DEVELOPER OF THE SUBDIVISION DESIRES TO CONSTRUCT A SWIMMING POOL ALONG WITH A POOL HOUSE WITH BATHROOMS ON THIS RESERVE. SINCE THIS IS A PARTIAL PLAT, IT IS A CHANGE IN USE THAT IS NOT ALLOWED PER CHAPTER 42 DASH 1 93 OF VARIANCES REQUIRED. THE CHANGE IN USE WILL PROVIDE A GREAT AMENITY AND BENEFIT TO THE FUTURE OWNERS OF THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN THE COMMUNITY. WITH THIS RESERVE, THE APPLICANT WILL PROVIDE WALKWAYS THAT WILL BE EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO THE POOL. AN AMENITY. THE 18.5 FEET FRONTAGE ALONG THE STREET WILL BE ADEQUATE BECAUSE THE AREA WILL ONLY BE USED FOR THE POOL AND WALKWAYS THROUGHOUT THE SUBDIVISION. THE SUBDIVISION IS STILL UNDER DEVELOPER'S CONTROL AND NO HOUSES HAVE BEEN SOLD. THE CHANGE IN RESTRICTION WILL PROVIDE A GREAT AMENITY AND BENEFIT OF THE FUTURE OWNERS OF THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN THE COMMUNITY. THE APPLICANT HAS MET ALL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS PLAT. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT THIS PLAT WILL NOT VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS FILED SEPARATELY 'CAUSE THERE IS ONLY FACE OF PLAT RESTRICTIONS. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUEST OF VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLAT PER THE CBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. MADAM CHAIR PLEASES THE COMMISSION. YOU MAY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. MS. PO FLYNN. PUBLIC HEARING IS OPEN FOR THIS ITEM. I DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? IF NOT, I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. MOTION GARZA. MOTION GARZA SECOND SIGLER. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? A OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES. ITEM ONE 13 IS VASQUEZ ESTATES ON ALASKA. THE SUBJECT SIDE IS OVER 8,700 SQUARE FOOT PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CITY LIMITS AT THE NORTHWEST INTERSECTION OF BAKER DRIVE IN ALASKA STREET WEST OF GALVESTON ROAD AND NORTH OF HOWARD DRIVE. THE PURPOSE OF THE PLT IS TO CREATE TWO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS AND THERE ARE NO VARIANCES REQUESTED WITH THIS ITEM. STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ADVANCED COMMENTS FOR THIS PLAT. REVIEW BY LEGAL INDICATES THAT WHILE THE SUBDIVISION ITSELF WILL NOW VIOLATE RESTRICTIONS, THE NEWLY INCURRED BUILDING, UH, DEED RESTRICTED BUILDING LINES WOULD ALLOW THE SITE TO VIOLATE FILE DEED RESTRICTIONS. THERE ARE MULTIPLE EXISTING STRUCTURES ON THE PROPERTY. WHILE THE MAIN STRUCTURE WAS BUILT IN 1946. THE CARPORT AND SMALL FRAME STRUCTURE IN BLUE WERE ADDED IN 1985 WITH A SMALL FRAME STRUCTURE BELIEVED TO BE AN ADDITIONAL DRILLING UNIT. THE REAR DRILLING UNIT IN GREEN WAS ADDED IN 2009 AND THE APPLICANT HAS STATED THAT THE OWNERS HAVE NO DESIRE TO DEMOLISH AND DEVELOP THE PROPERTY ONLY TO SUBDIVIDE TO SEPARATE TO TWO OWNERS. THE RELA WAS PLACED, UH, THE RELA WOULD PLACE A 30 FOOT DE RESTRICTED BUILDING LINE ALONG LOT TWO ALONG ALASKA THAT WOULD NOT ONLY BE ENCROACHED BY THE EXISTING STRUCTURE BUT WOULD EFFECTIVELY MAKE THE SITE UNBUILDABLE. THE FOUR FOOT DE RESTRICTED INTERIOR LOT LINES WOULD BE ENCROACHED BY THE CARPORT AND THE SHED WITH THE CARPORT ALSO ENCROACHING THE PROPOSED 19 FOOT GARAGE BUILDING LINE. THE PLAT WAS PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED IN DECEMBER OF 2023 AND HAD THE SAME MARKUPS WITH STAFF NOTIFYING THE APPLICANT OF THE IMPENDING VIOLATIONS. BUT THE APPLICANT, UH, WELL THE APPLICANT WAS WITHDRAWN DUE TO NOTIFICATION ISSUES. AS THE APPLICANT HAS PROVIDED NO VIABLE REPL LAYOUT THAT MEETS COMPLIANCE AND HAS NOT SUBMITTED ANY NEW LEGAL DOCUMENTATION ADDRESSING THE DEED RESTRICTIONS. STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO DISAPPROVE THE PLAT. MADAM CHAIR IT PLEASE. THE [00:35:01] COMMISSION. YOU MAY CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CONTINUED. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? IF NOT, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. UH, ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONERS, I ENTERTAIN A MOTION STAFF RECOMMENDATION OF DISAPPROVAL. MOTION BALDWIN SECOND JONES. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO D [I.d. Subdivision Plats with Variance Requests (Aracely Rodriguez, Geoff Butler, Petra Hsia, and Tammi Williamson)] VARIANCES. MADAM CHAIR, I'M GONNA ABSTAIN, ACTUALLY I'M GONNA RECUSE MYSELF FOR MY ONE 14 AND ONE 15. THANK GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS RODRIGUEZ. ITEM ONE 14 BRIDGELAND CENTRAL SECTION SEVEN. THE SITE IS LOCATED IN HOUSTON, ETJ IN HARRIS COUNTY WEST OF MASON ROAD AND NORTH OF BRIDGELAND QUICK PARKWAY. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARI TO ALLOW A ZERO FOOT BUILDER LINE FOR LOT FRONTING ON A PUBLIC STREET. TAKING REAR VEHICLE ASSETS FROM A PRIVATE ALLEY STEP IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THE PROPOSED SECTION IS PART OF A BRIDGE LINK CENTRAL GP WHERE ANY URBAN PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT IS BEING PROPOSED. CHAPTER BOSU ALLOW LOT TO HAVE J FOOD FROM BORDERLINE WHEN ULAR ASSETS IS TAKEN FROM THE BACK OF THE LOT THROUGH PUBLIC ALLEYS. THIS PROPOSED LOT WILL HAVE J FOOD FROM BORDERLINE WITH VEHICULAR ASSETS TAKEN FROM PRIVATE ALLEYS. SO GRANTING OF THE VARIANCES WILL HELP TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF DRIVEWAYS ALONG THE PUBLIC STREET AND WOULD ALSO MINIMIZE THE PEDESTRIAN AND VE VEHICLE TRAFFIC INTERACTION PLANNING COMMISSION HAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED SIMILAR VARIANCE FOR OTHER SESSION WITHIN BRICKLAND CENTRAL GP. HARRIS COUNTY HAS EXPRESSED NO OBJECTION TO THE REQUEST. STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLA SUBJECT TO THE CCPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITION. THANK YOU. UM, I HAVE, I WANNA NOTE FOR THE RECORD THAT COMMISSIONER ISH IS ABSTAINING ON ITEM ONE 14 AND ITEM ONE 15. AND I, THE ONLY SPEAKER I HAVE SIGNED IS MS. HARRIS AND SHE'S SAYING JUST FOR QUESTIONS, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, IS THIS FOR MS. HARRIS OR FOR STAFF? STAFF. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, LOOKING AT THE PLAN, THERE'S A 10 FOOT BUILDING LINE ON THE SIDE STREETS, SO TO SPEAK. SOME, SOME OF THE LOT WILL HAVE, UM, SOME OF THE LOT WILL NOT HAVE PUBLIC ALLEY, I MEAN PRIVATE ALLEY. SO THOSE LOT WILL HAVE 10, 10 FEET, 20 FEET GARAGE BY THE LINE. MY QUESTION IS, WILL THESE UNITS HAVE SIDEWALKS ON ALL THE SIDEWALKS UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY WILL HAVE SOME SIDEWALK PEDESTRIAN? UM, THERE IS AN EXHIBIT. JAMES, CAN YOU PLEASE PULL IT OUT BEFORE THE RECOMMENDATION THERE? SO HERE YOU CAN SEE THERE'S GONNA BE SOME KIND OF PEDESTRIAN TRAIL AND LANDSCAPE TRAIL RESERVE , BUT I WOULD THINK THEY NEED SIDEWALKS ALONG THE MAIN ROADS. I THINK THE, I'LL BE GONNA HEAR, HE CAN CLARIFY IF THERE WOULD BE MORE SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF THE, LET ME, LET ME CALL MS. HARRIS UP. SHE COULD PROBABLY ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS FOR US. MM-HMM . MS. HARRIS. HELLO AGAIN. KATIE HARRIS. LJ UM, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE NEXT SECTION I BELIEVE. UM, THE, THE VARIANCE FOR THE SAME THING, SAME PRODUCT. THE, THERE'S ANOTHER EXHIBIT THAT HAS THE LOTS, UM, THAT HAVE TRADITIONAL RIGHT OF WAY. THERE IT IS. AND YOU CAN SEE, UM, ALL OF THE LOTS WILL HAVE EITHER A FIVE FOOT OR EIGHT FOOT SIDEWALK IN FRONT. THAT ANSWER QUESTION. THANKS. THANK YOU. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, THEN I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR ITEM ONE 14. MOTION AKA MOTION AKA ALLMAN SECOND ALLMAN. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM ONE 15. ITEM ONE 15. WOODLAND CENTRAL SECTION NINE. THIS IS THE SECTION JUST IMMEDIATELY START FROM THE PREVIOUS SECTION THAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT. SO THIS SITE IS LOCATED IN HOUSTON, ETJ IN HARRIS COUNTY, ALSO WEST OF MASON ROAD AND NORTH OF WOODLAND CREEK PARKWAY. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TRUE VARIANCES. ONE IS TO ALLOW GEO PUT FROM BORDERLINE FOR LOT TAKING VEHICLE ASSETS FROM PRIVATE ALLEYS. AND THE SECOND VARIANCE IS TO ALLOW, UM, PRIVATE ALLEY SERVE LOT TO HAVE [00:40:01] FRONTAGE ON AN OPEN SPACE RESERVE INSTEAD OF PUBLIC STREET STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THE PROPOSED SESSION IS ALSO PART OF THE WOODLAND CENTRAL GP WHERE THEY'RE PROPOSING NEAR URBAN PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT AND CHAPTER 40 TO LOT TO HAVE GEO FUND BUILD LINE WHEN THEY TAKE VEHICLE ACID FROM PUBLIC ALLEY. THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE PRIVATE ALLEYS AND THEN, UM, THE LOT WITH, SO ACID FROM PRIVATE ALLEY WITH NO ED FRONTERS WILL BE FRONTING AN OPEN SPACE HER WITH INTERCONNECTED SIDEWALK. UM, SO GRANTED THE VARIANT WILL BE, WILL HELP TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF DRIVEWAY AND ALSO MINIMIZE, UM, INTERACTION BETWEEN THE PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICLES. SO HARRIS COUNTY ENGINEERING OFFICE IS ALSO IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCES AND APPROVE THE PLA STEPS TO THE CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITION. THANK YOU AGAIN. MS. HARRIS IS HERE FOR QUESTIONS. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONERS? OKAY. IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION. MOTION MANKA. MOTION MANKA. SECOND JONES. SEGLER. WHICH ONE WANTS IT? SEGLER. SECOND. SEGLER. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM ONE 16. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE HOUSTON PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS JEFF BUTLER. ITEM ONE 16 IS LACEY ESTATES. THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE HARRIS COUNTY ETJ ALONG LACEY ROAD, SOUTH OF NORTH POINT BOULEVARD AND EAST OF HUFF SMITH CORALVILLE. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES A SUBDIVISION OF 22 SINGLE FAMILY LOTS ALONG A PUBLIC STREET. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO EXCEED INTERSECTION SPACING REQUIREMENTS BY NOT EXTENDING MEMORIAL SPRINGS PAST THROUGH THE SITE. STAFF RECOMMENDS A SECOND DEFERRAL PER THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST THEN THIS IS THE LAST OPPORTUNITY TO DEFER. THE SITE IS LOCATED BETWEEN LACEY AND A STUBBS STREET FROM THE ASHFORD GROVE COMMUNITY. THE APPLICANT IS REQUIRED TO EXTEND THIS STREET APPROXIMATELY 120 FEET IN ORDER TO CREATE A CONTIGUOUS STREET SEGMENT AS WAS ENVISIONED ON THE ASHFORD GROVE GENERAL PLAN. CITY AND COUNTY STAFF HAVE CONCERNS THAT THIS REQUEST WOULD HAVE A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON AREA TRAFFIC, CIRCULATION AND ACCESS. AND OVER THE LACK OF THE DEMONSTRATED HARDSHIP FOR PROVIDING A RELATIVELY SMALL STREET SEGMENT. THE APPLICANT HAS REQUESTED A SECOND DEFERRAL AND IS A PROCESS IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING UP A MEETING WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY STAFF. STAFF RECOMMENDS THIS DEFERRAL, UH, DEFERRAL PER THEIR REQUEST. WE'VE RECEIVED NO ADVANCE WRITTEN COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. THANK YOU MR. BUTLER. I DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO FOR THE SECOND DEFERRAL OF ITEM NUMBER ONE 16. MOTION MANCA. MOTION MANCA GARZA SECOND GARZA. ALL IN FAVOR OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM ONE 17. ITEM ONE 17 MANFIELD TERRACE. THE SITE IS LOCATED ALONG MANFIELD STREET NORTH OF TIDWELL ROAD AND WEST OF WHITLEY STREET IN ACRE HOME AREA. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANT TO NOT PROVIDE A NORTH SOUTH PUBLIC STREET THROUGH THE SITE. STAFF DO NOT SUPPORT THIS VARIANT REQUEST. HOWEVER, STAFF DO SUPPORT GRANTING A VARIANT TO ALLOW A 40 FOOT WIDE RIGHTWAY DEDICATION INSTEAD OF THE REQUIRED 50 FEET WITH A REVISED FUTURE PLOT. THE PROPERTY OWNER RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF ADDRESSING MOBILITY CONCERN IN THIS AREA AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE NEED OF THE DEDICATION OF THE PUBLISHED STREET THROUGH THE SITE. THE APPLICANT PROVIDED A PRELIMINARY PLAN DEPE DEPICTING THE POTENTIAL ALIGNMENT OF THE FUTURE PUBLISHED STREET THROUGH THE SITE. WHEN THE ADJACENT PROPERTY TO THE SOUTH IS REDEVELOPED, THIS RIGHT AWAY WILL BE REQUIRED TO BE EXTENDED TO PAUL QUINN STREET IMPROVING TRAFFIC CIRCULATION AND THEN, UM, WHICH WOULD ALSO BE INCOMPLIANT WITH THE RECOMMENDATION MADE WITH ACRE HOME MOBILITY STUDY. SO DUE TO THE HIGH NEIGHBOR PUBLIC STREET AT THIS AREA, STAFF RECOMMEND GRANTED A VARI TO ALLOW A 40 FEET WIDE RIGHT AWAY. DEDICATION, SUBSTITUTE, SUBMITTING A NEW PRELIMINARY PLOT APPLICATION FOR POOL WITH YOU AND STAFF DID NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT IN EVENTS. THANK YOU. I DON'T HAVE ANY SPEAKERS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION. MOTION BALDWIN. SECOND. SECOND STEIN. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. [00:45:01] ITEM ONE 18. ITEM ONE 18 IS PARK THREE A DEVELOPMENT. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE HARRIS COUNTY ETJ ALONG A TACA CEDAR ROAD WEST OF WOODLAND HILLS. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES A RESERVE FOR A PROPOSED COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO EXCEED INTERSECTION SPACING REQUIREMENTS BY NOT EXTENDING DORA KNOWLES DRIVE THROUGH THE SITE. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THE SITE IS LOCATED ALONG ATAS CAA, NORTH AND EAST OF THE BLACKSTONE CREEK SINGLE FAMILY HOME COMMUNITY. THE ACKMAN PROPOSES A LOGISTICS FACILITY WITH EIGHT WAREHOUSES AND A DETENTION AREA. STRICT INTERPRETATION OF CHAPTER 42 WOULD REQUIRE THE STREET FROM THE NEARBY NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE EXTENDED THROUGH THE SITE. THE REQUEST WOULD LIMIT ACCESS TO A TASK ACE ROAD, A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE. THIS WOULD BE A MORE PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVE THAN EXTENDING A RESIDENTIAL STREET THROUGH A COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT WOULD LIKELY GENERATE TRUCK TRAFFIC. HARRIS COUNTY HAS EXPRESSED NO OBJECTION TO THIS REQUEST AND STAFF FINDS THE REQUEST TO BE CONSISTENT WITH SOUND PUBLIC POLICY AND RECOMMENDS APPROVAL. UH, WE'VE RECEIVED NO ADVANCE WRITTEN COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. THANK YOU MR. BUTLER. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? IF NOT COMMISSIONERS ANY QUESTIONS, THEN WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR, UH, STAFF RECOMMENDATION MOTION AKA MOTION AKA. SECOND. HI. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM ONE 19. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS PETRA SHAW. ITEM ONE 19 IS RETREAT AT GUMERT. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE HOUSTON ETJ IN HARRIS COUNTY ALONG GUMERT ROAD WEST OF BARKER CYPRESS ROAD AND SOUTH OF WEST LITTLE YORK ROAD. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING 29 LOTS IN EIGHT RESERVES, RESTRICTED TO DRAINAGE, DETENTION, COMPENSATING OPEN SPACE AND PARKING, AND IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO NOT EXTEND NOR TERMINATE B BRENTWOOD MANOR DRIVE WITH A CUL-DE-SAC. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. B BRENTWOOD MANOR DRIVE IS NOT NEEDED FOR INTERSECTION SPACING. THE APPLICANT IS REQUIRED TO EXTEND B BRENTWOOD MANOR DRIVE AS THE EXISTING STEP STREET IS MORE THAN ONE LOT IN DEPTH AND THE PROPOSED SUBDIVISION IS EXTENDING RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. HOWEVER, THE RECORDED SUBDIVISIONS TO THE EAST BARKER CYPRESS EXPRESS SECTION ONE AND BARKER CYPRESS EXPRESS SECTION TWO HINDER THE EXTENSION OF BRENTWOOD MINNER DRIVE TO BARKER CYPRESS ROAD. IN ADDITION, TRAFFIC CIRCULATION IS BEING ADDRESSED BY THE EXISTING STREET PATTERN IN THE AREA. HARRIS COUNTY HAS NO OBJECTIONS. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? IF NOT COMMISSIONERS, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. MOTION. MOTION. MAD PACA. SECOND HINES. SECOND HINES. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. WE'LL MOVE ON NOW. THERE'S NOTHING UNDER E SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS. WE'LL MOVE TO F [I.f. Reconsideration of Requirements] RECONSIDERATION OF REQUIREMENTS. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS TAMMY WILLIAMSON. ITEM ONE 20 IS HEIGHTS EATS. THIS APPLICATION HAS BEEN DEFERRED TWICE AND CANNOT BE DEFERRED AGAIN. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON CITY LIMITS ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF WEST 20TH STREET AND EAST OF NORTH SHEPHERD DRIVE. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING ONE UNRESTRICTED RESERVE AND IS REQUESTING A RECONSIDERATION OF REQUIREMENT WITH THE VARIANCE TO ALLOW A REDUCED BUILDING LINE OF FIVE FEET ALONG MAJOR THOROUGHFARE WEST 20TH STREET IN LIEU OF THE ORDINANCE REQUIRED 25 FEET. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THE SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT IS THE REMODEL AND REAR ADDITION OF AN EXISTING 1930 STRUCTURE, WHICH CURRENTLY ENCROACHES INTO THE NOW 25 FOOT ORDINANCE REQUIRED BUILDING LINE ALONG WEST 20TH STREET BECAUSE OF ITS DESIGNATION AS A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE AND A NEW OUTDOOR DINING PATIO TO BE CONSTRUCTED UP TO THE FIVE FOOT BUILDING LINE. THE EXISTING BUILDING FACADE IS 11.8 FEET FROM THE PROPERTY LINE, WHICH WILL REMAIN, THE PATIO WILL BE ELEVATED TO THE EXISTING BUILDING'S FINISHED FLOOR, WHICH PUTS IT AT BETWEEN TWO AND THREE AND A HALF FEET ABOVE FINISHED GRADE. WITH THE FIVE FOOT BUILDING LINE, THE BACK OF CURB DISTANCE TO THE EDGE OF THE ELEVATED PATIO IS 18 AND A HALF FEET. WITH A LANDSCAPE BUFFER BETWEEN THE SIDEWALK AND BOTH THE ELEVATED PATIO STRUCTURE AND THE TRAVEL LANES FOR SAFE, COMFORTABLE WALKING, STRICT INTERPRETATION OF THE ORDINANCE WOULD REQUIRE EITHER THE DEMOLITION OF OR WOULD NOT PERMIT ANY STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EXISTING STRUCTURE. THE PROPOSED PATIO WILL ENGAGE THE PUBLIC WELL WHILE STILL MAINTAINING SUFFICIENT SPACE FOR PUBLIC MOVEMENTS. MOR HEIGHTS IS STATED THAT THEY REVIEWED THE PLAT AND DO NOT HAVE ANY OBJECTION TO THE VARIANCE REQUEST FOR THE REDUCED BUILDING LINE. AND THE PROPOSED PATIO WOULD NOT INTERFERE WITH ANY SIDEWALKS THEY WOULD PROPOSE ALONG WEST 20TH STREET. THE EASTERN PARKING LOT, ALTHOUGH OUTSIDE OF THE PLAT BOUNDARY, WILL BE REQUIRED TO MEET ALL IDM AND ORDINANCE REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING [00:50:01] THE RESIDENTIAL BUFFER OF THE MINIMUM SIX FOOT HIGH SOLID FENCE. DURING THE DEFERRAL PERIOD, THE OWNERS AND THEIR DESIGN TEAM MET WITH SEVERAL MEMBERS FROM PUBLIC WORKS AND PLANNING STAFF TO DISCUSS CONCERNS BROUGHT UP BY THE NEIGHBORING RESIDENTS AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OPTIONS. OF THE 38 FOOT WIDE HOUSTON MAINTAINED PUBLIC ALLEY. THERE WERE SEVERAL IDEAS CONSIDERED, UM, BUT ULTIMATELY ADDITIONAL SPECIFIC DATA REQUESTED BY PUBLIC WORKS AND TIME TO CONSIDER WHAT WOULD BE REQUIRED AND WHAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE SOLUTIONS IS STILL NEEDED. THIS CONVERSATION WILL BE ONGOING WITH PUBLIC WORKS AS PART OF THE PERMIT PROCESS AND WILL NEED TO BE ADDRESSED FOR THE OVERALL SITE DESIGN. THE MULTI-SITE DESIGN STAFF BELIEVES THE SCOPE OF THIS PLAT AND THE REDUCED BUILDING LINE VARIANCE REQUEST IS NOT DEPENDENT ON THE FINAL SOLUTION FOR THE ALLEY. HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS HAS NO OBJECTION TO THE REQUEST. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE PLA SUBJECT TO CPC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. UM, WE HAVE RECEIVED SEVERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS IN ADVANCE, PRIMARILY CONCERNING TRAFFIC IN THE ALLEY. SAFETY, NOISE AND TRASH. THERE ARE SPEAKERS PRESENT ALSO. THANK YOU MS. WILLIAMSON. YES, I DO HAVE A COUPLE SPEAKERS. THE FIRST SPEAKER WE HAVE IS LISA KARI. GOOD AFTERNOON. GIVE JUST A MINUTE. DO I GIVE YOU THESE DOCUMENT CAMERA PLEASE? THANK YOU. UM, TO THIS PART THEN I NEED TO SHIFT. THANK YOU. COULD YOU STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD PLEASE? AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. THANK YOU. UM, THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR AND PLANNING COMMISSION BOARD. MY NAME IS LISA KERRY. I'M A NATIVE, UH, HOUSTONIAN LIVING, UH, IN HOUSTON FOR ABOUT 45 YEARS AND ABOUT HALF OF THAT IN THE HEIGHTS. UM, NEARLY A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE RESIDENTS ON THIS BLOCK, THE 600 BLOCK OF WEST 21ST AND WEST 20TH STREET. UH, PART OF THIS PROJECT THAT IS OWNED BY THE BURGER JOINT TACO STAND. HAPPY GO LUCKY LIQUOR STAND AND THE UNNAMED PROJECT THAT IS BEFORE YOU TODAY. UM, AGREE ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE AND SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS THAT WE HAVE ALLOWING THIS VARIANCE TO PASS WHEN ENDANGER PEDESTRIANS AND CAUSE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND WILL LIMIT, UH, VISIBILITY TO ONCOMING TRAFFIC WHILE ENTERING AND EXITING THE PARKING LOTS. AS 20,000 VEHICLES DRIVE ON WEST 20TH STREET DAILY, THERE IS A PROTECTED 130 4-YEAR-OLD LIVE OAK TREE ON THE PUBLIC ALLEYWAY THAT WOULD BE HARMED OR KILLED WITH A CURRENT VARIANCE DUE TO THE CURRENT FOOTPRINT OF THE PROPOSED PLAN. AND NO OTHER CONSTRUCTION ALTERNATIVE HAS BEEN OFFERED. THERE'S TREE MOST LIKELY DATES TO THE 1890S WHEN THE HOUSTON HEIGHTS WAS FOUNDED. THIS IS BASED ON SCIENTIFIC DATA PROVIDED BY THE CITY OF HOUSTON URBAN FORESTRY DIVISION IN CODE SECTION 33 OF THE ORDINANCES, ALLOWING THIS VARIANCE TO PASS WILL INCREASE THE REQUIRED PARKING SPACES AS THE SQUARE FOOTAGE WOULD INCREASE AND ALSO INCREASE NUISANCE NOISE AND TRASH TO THE AREA RESIDENTS. THE INGRESS AND EGRESS ON THE SITE PLANS CURRENTLY WOULD CONFUSE DRIVERS AND CAUSE ACCIDENTS. IT GOES AGAINST THE NATURAL INCLINATION TO PULL INTO THE FIRST DRIVEWAY FOR THE EGRESS OF THE ALLEY AND WILL FURTHER DA HMM, UH, WILL FURTHER DAMAGE THE PROTECTED TREE AND VEHICLES. UM, WILL ALSO HIT A PUBLIC UTILITY POLL WHERE THEY WANT TO GAIN ACCESS TO THAT PUBLIC ALLEY. PUBLIC, UH, EXCUSE ME, PARKING ORDINANCE IN CHAPTER 26 OF THE CODE REQUIRES 10 PARKING SPACES PER 1000 SQUARE FEET, WHICH REQUIRE THEM TO HAVE ANYWHERE BETWEEN 61 AND 63 SPACES FOR THEIR 6,300 TO 6,500 SQUARE FOOT RESTAURANT BAR. AND THEY ARE, UH, ERRONEOUSLY LISTED AS 47 SPACES ON THE SITE PLANS. UM, BUT IF YOU COUNT THEM MANUALLY, THERE'S ONLY 45. SO THEY'RE ALREADY SHORT THERE. UM, EVEN IF THEY'RE ALLOWED TO DO SHARED PARKING, THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AS THE OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS THAT THEY OWN ALSO ARE OPEN AT THE SAME EXACT TIME. PLEASE JUST WRAP UP QUICK, QUICKLY. SURE. WELL, I DIDN'T GET TO THE SOLUTIONS. UM, MR. JOHN BROWN HAS BEEN TO THE SITE MULTIPLE TIMES AND HAS OBSERVED AND DOCUMENTED THESE SAME ISSUES. UM, WE HAVE GIVEN A LIST OF POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO BOTH, UH, MR. BROWN AND ALSO TAMMY. UM, AND PERHAPS YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN THOSE SOLUTIONS AS WELL. UM, I HAVE ONE QUICK DRAWING I COULD SHOW REALLY QUICKLY. THANK YOU. SO IN THIS PROPOSAL, IF YOU DON'T ALLOW THE VARIANCE TO GO THROUGH, THEY CAN ACTUALLY USE THAT FIRST PART OF THEIR BUILDING SPACE AS A PORTICO TO ALLOW TRAFFIC TO GO AROUND VERSUS DRIVING TRAFFIC INTO THE ALLEY CAUSING ACCIDENTS. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONERS? THANK YOU MS. KARI. THE NEXT SPEAKER I HAVE IS JAMES WALKER. [00:55:12] DOCUMENT, CAMERA PLEASE. OKAY. LOOKS FOR GRAPHICS. OKAY. COME. YOU CAN COME ON UP. AND, AND AGAIN, WHILE THEY'RE FIXING THAT, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. JAMES WALKER. I'M A RESIDENT CLOSE TO THIS DEVELOPMENT. I WAS HERE TWO WEEKS AGO, UH, AND SPOKE MAYBE A LITTLE PASSIONATE ABOUT, ABOUT THE TOPICS. AND I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU. THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THAT. I MADE A NOTE THAT YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE SINCE YOU SPOKE PREVIOUSLY. SO TALK QUICK, QUICK, QUICK, QUICK. SO THIS TIME I HAVE PICTURES SO YOU CAN SEE, YOU'VE HEARD ALL THE DETAIL FROM LISA. I'M GONNA GO, I'M ACTUALLY AMERICAN ACCENT, I'M SORRY ENGLISH ACCENT, BUT I AM AMERICAN KIDS, GREW UP IN HOUSTON 23 YEARS. THIS SLIDE THEN MY HANDWRITING, YOU SAW ONE JUST NOW WHERE THE TRAFFIC'S GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES AROUND THE ONE PARKING LOT. IN ACTUAL FACT, THE EGRESS AND INGRESS COMES FROM ABOUT FIVE OR SIX DIFFERENT AREAS. AND REALLY WHAT YOU ACTUALLY NEED IS PING ING ENGLISH SHOULD BE A ROUNDABOUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LOT BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN SOLVE IT. BUT PEOPLE DRIVE DOWN THE 12 FOOT ALLEYWAY BOTH WAYS. THEY DRIVE ACROSS THE BACKYARDS. UH, CAN I YEAH. CHANGE IT. SO HERE'S A SHOT DOWN THE ALLEY, RIGHT? OH, GOOD GRIEF. 12 FOOT WIDE PARKING LOT. YOU, YOU GET IT. YOU'VE GOT THE GIST. AND IN ACTUAL FACT, THREE OF THE HOUSES ON THE RIGHT PEOPLE DRIVE ACROSS THE BACKYARDS. THERE'S NO GRASS. IT'S A MESS. IT NEEDS A FENCE. IT'S THE POINT. RIGHT? AND THEN THE LAST SLIDE I LOOKED ACROSS AT THE ALLEYWAY ACROSS LAWRENCE AND THERE ARE 15 FOOT HIGH FENCES WITH HORRIBLE LOOKING STUFF ON IT. AND THAT'S STILL THE CITY OF HOUSTON ALLEYWAY. SO YOU'VE ALLOWED THAT. BUT WE DON'T WANT THAT. WE WANT SOMETHING PRETTY, UH, BUT THE TRAFFIC IS AN ISSUE. IF THEY CAN'T PARK IN THAT LITTLE CYCLE, THEY GO AND THEY COME BACK OUT, UP LAWRENCE DOWN AT 21ST STREET AND GO ROUND AND THEN COME BACK IN. IT'S A CIRCLE IN A CIRCLE OF TRAFFIC. OKAY. IT'S NOT. THANK YOU MR. WALKER. WE APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. THE TIME. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ABSOLUTELY. COMMISSIONERS ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE A QUESTION. COMMISSIONER GARZA. UM, MS. WILLIAMSON. SO, UM, MS. KARI WAS, UH, JUST TALKING ABOUT SOME RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THEY HAD MADE, UH, TO BROWN AND THE STAFF. AND SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF THOSE HAD BEEN TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION OR LOOKED AT AT THIS POINT. YES. SO, UM, SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IS TO LIMIT ACCESS TO THE ALLEY, UM, OR TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NOT AS MANY OPENINGS INTO IT OR LIKE ONE WAY OR SHRUB BUFFERS OR, OR, AND ORS, YOU KNOW, LIKE, AND JUST DIFFERENT, AT THE VERY LEAST PROBABLY SOME SORT OF STRIPING TO KIND OF KEEP PEOPLE INSIDE OF THEIR LANE MARKING, YOU KNOW, THAT TYPE OF JUST AN ORGANIZATIONAL METHOD. UM, BUT REALLY I THINK THEY WOULD RATHER JUST NOT HAVE SO MANY ENTRANCE INTO THE ALLEY BECAUSE THEN, YOU KNOW, LIKE AS A HUMAN, EVEN IF IT IS ONE WAY AND I SEE THAT THERE'S AN ACCESS POINT OVER THERE, I'M GOING TO IGNORE THAT AND CRO YOU KNOW, LIKE, SO IT'S JUST TRYING TO COMBAT HUMAN NATURE, UM, AND GET SOME ORDER TO THE ALLEY IS WHAT I THINK THAT BIG ASK IS. SO IS ANY OF THAT PART OF THIS RECOMMENDATION FOR GRANTING THE, UH, VARIANCE? NO. SO, UM, BECAUSE THE PLAT, UM, DOESN'T EVEN HAVE NECESSARILY THAT EASTERN PARKING LOT AS PART OF IT, UM, I DON'T WANT TO RUSH INTO A DECISION THAT EITHER DOESN'T MEET ALL OF PUBLIC WORKS' STANDARDS FOR HOW WE SHOULD UTILIZE ALLEYS OR OBSTRUCT VISIBILITY OR, YOU KNOW, LIKE ANY OF THOSE THINGS. THIS PLAT IN MY OPINION, CAN MOVE FORWARD FOR THE REDUCED BUILDING LINE KNOWING THAT A LOT OF WORK STILL NEEDS TO HAPPEN TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE THAT ALLEY RESPONSIBLY FOR ALL USERS. UM, AND THAT STILL SHOULD BE AN ONGOING THING WITH PUBLIC WORKS. THANK YOU. QUESTION COMMISSIONER COVAR. OKAY, SO, UM, I WAS READING ALL THE PUBLIC COMMENTS, AND I, I SAW SOME OF THE OTHER SUGGESTIONS WERE TO INSTALL A FENCE FIRST. IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF ISSUES WITH TRASH AND PEOPLE DRIVING OVER PEOPLE'S PRIVATE PROPERTY RUINING THEIR LANDSCAPING AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER, YOU KNOW, SHENANIGANS. UM, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S A GREAT IDEA TO INSTALL THE FINS FIRST, YOU KNOW, SO THEY CAN PROTECT THIS, PROTECT THEIR SITE WHILE THE CONSTRUCTION IS ONGOING AS WELL. BUT, UM, YEAH, I DON'T KNOW. I'M KIND OF CONFLICTED HERE. UM, I I, I LIKE THESE ESTABLISHMENTS A LOT, BUT, UM, I ALSO THINK THAT THERE'S A GREAT NEED TO PROTECT PUBLIC SAFETY AND, UM, I'M KIND OF HESITANT, YOU KNOW, TO, TO APPROVE IF WE'RE NOT COMFORTABLE OR CONFIDENT THAT SOME OF THESE SAFETY CONCERNS WILL BE ADDRESSED. AND, AND THEN I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE LIVE OAK. WHAT PROTECTIONS EXIST FOR THAT? SO, UM, FOR THE TREE, I KNOW, SO JOHN BROWN, OH THERE [01:00:01] YOU ARE. IT'S LOOKING IN YOUR CORNER. UM, HE ACTUALLY MET ON SITE WITH URBAN FORESTRY THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS MORNING OR MIDDAY, UM, TO ESTABLISH IS THE TREE IN THE ALLEY? YES. SO THEN IT IS A CITY OF HOUSTON TREE. IT'S PROTECTED. SO ANY TRIMMING, ANY, YOU KNOW, PERMIT OR ANY REMOVAL WOULD HAVE TO GET APPROVAL FROM URBAN FORESTRY. SO THAT'S JUST THE STATEMENT THERE. AND THEN I NOTE DURING THE DESIGN MEETING ABOUT THE FENCE, UM, THERE ARE VISIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR, UM, ALLEYWAYS ALSO. AND SO IF YOU HAVE A DRIVEWAY APPRO OR DRIVE APPROACH INTO AN ALLEY IT PRESENTATION, PLEASE DOCUMENT CAMERA OFF. OH, THANK YOU. SORRY. UM, UH, PUBLIC WORKS HAS SOME RULES ABOUT THAT, YOU KNOW, TO NOT HAVE A FENCE SO CLOSE SO THAT YOU CAN'T SEE IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE ENCROACHING INTO AN ALLEY. UM, SO THERE'S JUST, THERE'S SOME CONSTRAINTS THAT HAVE TO BE LOOKED AT IN DETAIL, UM, WHICH IS WHY I THINK IT SHOULD BE WITH THE ENGINEERS. COMMISSIONER VICTOR. SO MS. TAMON, UH, MISS TAMON WILLIAMSON, I HAVE MIXED TWO. YOU'RE FINE. UM, WOULD IT, YOU, SO ALL THIS, YOU, YOU CLEARLY SAID THAT THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE. DO WE NEED TO PUT NOTES IN BEFORE WE APPROVE IT OR HOW DOES THE PROCESS WORK OR DURING PERMITTING, UM, MR. BROWN WILL MAKE SURE THAT ALL THESE THINGS ARE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT FOR THE SAFETY. UM, HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? BECAUSE YES, WE'LL APPROVE THIS RIGHT NOW POTENTIALLY. AND IF WE DO, WHAT ARE, WHAT IS FOR THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND THAT, HEY, THIS IS THE NEXT STEP IS THE PERMITTING PROCESS? YEAH, SO, UM, I MEAN WE CAN PUT CONDITIONS ON THE CPC, BUT IT WOULD HAVE TO BE RELATED TO THE PLAT BEFORE YOU. UM, THERE ARE BLANKET STATEMENTS THAT THINGS HAVE TO MEET ORDINANCE AND CODE REQUIREMENTS JUST AT PERMITTING. SO LIKE, UM, MS. CARR'S RESPONSE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE PARKING, THAT IF IT DOESN'T MEET THE PARKING RULES, IT WON'T GET A PERMIT OR THEY'LL BE BEFORE YOU FOR A PARKING VARIANCE, WHICH THEN, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC KNOWS. SO IF IF THEY DON'T MEET THE RULES, THEY'RE NOT GETTING A PERMIT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, IS THERE ANY WAY YOU COULD SHOW US WHERE THE TREE IS? UM, YEAH, THERE'S SOME PICTURES. WELL, ON THE SITE PLAN. OH YEAH, IT'S IN THE ALLEY, RIGHT, BUT WHERE DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET OR MIDDLE? RIGHT. LEFT. ANY IDEA? THAT'S IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER. NORTHWEST CORNER. YEAH, IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THE AERIAL. YEAH. THERE WE GO. SO THAT'S THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER. THAT'S IT? YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. SO IT'S ESSENTIALLY BEHIND THE EXISTING STRUCTURE THAT IS INTENDED TO BE REMODELED AND THEN EAST OF THE METAL BUILDING THAT'S INTENDED TO BE DEMOLISHED, IF THAT KIND OF MAKES SENSE. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONERS? OKAY. I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO RESTATE THE RECOMMENDATION, PLEASE. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE, UM, AND APPROVE THE PLAT SUBJECT TO C PC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. THE VARIANCE IS ONLY FOR THE FRONT BUILDING LINE, JUST FOR REDUCED BUILDING LINE ALONG WEST 20TH STREET OF FIVE FEET FOR THOSE, THE SPECIFIC ENCROACHMENTS OKAY. THAT ARE SHOWN ON THE SITE PLAN. THANK YOU. OH, COMMISSIONER COLVARD. SORRY, I'M NOT TRYING TO BELABOR IT. UM, THERE WAS ONE OTHER STATEMENT THAT, ONE OTHER SUGGESTION THAT THEY WOULD SUPPORT THE EXTENSION OF THE SETBACK TO EXTEND NO FURTHER THAN THE EXISTING BUILDING SLASH PATIO SLASH PLANTINGS AT THE ADJACENT, UH, COMMERCIAL PROPERTY. IS THAT MAKING ANY SENSE? THAT IS WHAT WE'RE DOING. WHICH PATIO IS, IT WAS ONE OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND I I JUST JOTTED IT DOWN, THAT THERE ARE ADJACENT COMMERCIAL PROPERTY, THERE'S ALREADY SETBACK THERE. AND I AM NOT SURE HOW TO DECIPHER THIS. THE BURGER JOINT ADJACENT PROPERTY, THE BURGER JOINT, IT DOES MEET THAT. YOU CAN SEE IT ON THE AERIAL IS THAT WE'RE JUST KEEPING THE EXISTING BUILDINGS. IS THAT, YEAH. AND IS THAT A REASONABLE, CAN I MAKE THAT, CAN WE ADD THAT TO THE MOTION AND TEAR ALL PART OF THE BUILDING, RIGHT? I MEAN, IT'S ALL THE SAME. IT'S THE SAME COMPANY. SO YEAH. I'LL MOVE ACCEPTANCE OF THE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION. SO WE HAVE A MOTION FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION. DO WE HAVE A SECOND. SECOND. UH, SO THE MOTION WAS MADE BY PAUL. ONCE SECOND. GARZA ALL IN FAVOR? A OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES COMMENT. YES. COMMENT FROM COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, MS. WILLIAMSON. I, I DO THINK, UM, TO BE AS PART OF A, A GOOD NEIGHBOR AND, AND TO DEVELOP QUALITY DEVELOPMENT, UM, I'D ASK YOU TO TALK TO THE APPLICANT. THE U-TURN BEHIND THE BUILDING, WHICH WOULD MAKE IT SMALLER, UM, WOULD BE A REALLY GOOD GESTURE. I DON'T THINK IT'S A HAVE TO, THAT [01:05:01] RIGHT AWAY IS PUBLIC. BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, AS THEY MOVE FORWARD AND, AND LOOK AT DEVELOPING THIS, UM, IT'D BE MY OPINION TOO, AT LEAST REMIND THEM THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, THEY NEED THE, THE NEIGHBORS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY JUST AS MUCH. THANK YOU. GOOD COMMENT. MR. BROWN'S PAYING REALLY CLOSE ATTENTION. UM, SO HE'S GOT A LOT OF WORK AHEAD OF HIM AND HE'LL, HE'LL, DO YOU WANNA SAY HE'LL WORK ON THIS? DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS? THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. NO, THIS IS A, THIS IS A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY FOR PLANNING TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND MEETING WITH FORESTRY THIS MORNING. UH, THIS TREE, LOOKING AT THE SITE, THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT STOOD OUT TO ME. THE TREE IN A TO UTILITY POLE, JUST, THERE'S A LOT OF ISSUES THAT, THAT HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED. DOCUMENT CAMERA PLEASE. AND THE, UM, MEASURING THE, THE ALLEYWAY. YOU CAN SEE THE, YOU CAN SEE THE UTILITY POLE AND YOU CAN SEE THE TREE BEHIND IT. THOSE ARE IN THE ALLEYWAY. YOU CAN SEE IT'S OPEN. SO RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST A, IT'S JUST A CONUNDRUM. IT'S A MAD DASH OF TRAFFIC. SO IT, THE ORDER THAT THE PLANNING COULD DO TO THIS ALLEYWAY, WHETHER IT'S FENCES OR DELINEATION OR PARKING, WOULD BE HELPFUL. IT'S A CLOSER SHOT OF THE TREE. UM, AND LIKE I SAID, THE WORK ORDER HAS BEEN SUBMITTED THIS MORNING AND THEY CAME OUT MAKING MEASUREMENTS AND ASSESSING THE TREE. THAT MAY HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE FOOTPRINT. IF IT'S PROTECTED, IT MAY HAVE AN IMPACT. COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, FOR THEM TO DO MAYBE THE NEXT RIGHT THING TO HAVE THAT ROOM, MAYBE SACRIFICE A FEW OF THOSE PARKING SPOTS AND CHANGE THE GEOMETRY. NOT GIVE UP SQUARE FOOTAGE, BUT CHANGE THE GEOMETRY OF THE BUILDING LAYOUT SO THAT THEY COULD HAVE A TO GO OR TRAFFIC COULD EGRESS AND INGRESS WITHIN THEIR OWN PROPERTY AND NOT HAVE TO EXIT IN AND OUT. YOU CAN'T TELL TRAFFIC WHAT TO DO, WHETHER IT'S A ONE WAY OR A TWO WAY ALLEY. WE'VE DETERMINED THAT IT'S A ONE WAY ALLEY, BUT YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN'T MAKE PEOPLE DO THE RIGHT THING. THEY'RE NOT ALL GONNA FOLLOW THAT. SO THE PROPER PLANNING WITH THIS WILL HELP, I THINK, TREMENDOUSLY. THE SAFETY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND IT'S A GREAT, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL LOCATION AND THAT NEIGHBORHOOD IS JUST VERY, VERY SPECIAL. AND I JUST REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD THAT FORESTRY SHOWED UP WITHIN THE HOUR TODAY TO LOOK AT IT, AND WE'LL WAIT TO SEE WHAT THEY HAVE. BUT THIS MAY PRESENT THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO HELP THAT FOOTPRINT, AS YOU SAID, FOR A U DRIVE OR A PORTICO ALL THE WAY AROUND. OKAY. YEAH. MY KNOWLEDGE OF FORESTRY, THEY WILL PROTECT THAT TREE, THAT THE TREE ROOT SYSTEM AND WILL REQUIRE A, UM, OFFSET FOR THE DRIP LINE TO PROTECT THAT TREE. YEAH. YES SIR. PART OF IT IS SHALE, PART OF IT IS CON CREATES PART OF IT'S ASPHALT. SO WHEN THE FORESTERS WERE OUT THERE TODAY, THEY WERE LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE THINGS. THEY WERE MEASURING THE CANOPY. IT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PATIO TO MAYBE EVEN BE UNDER THE SHADE OF THAT TREE. I MEAN, IT'S, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES THEY HAVE TO MAKE THIS PROPERTY REALLY MUCH, MUCH BETTER FOR THE, FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND I JUST THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO JUST ITERATE SOME OF THOSE POINTS AND, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING WHAT THE FORESTRY GROUP HAS TO SAY WITH THE TREE. GREAT. THANK YOU MR. BROWN. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, SO WE ARE MOVING ON TO ITEM 1 21. ITEM 1 21 IS HOLMAN ANNEX. OH, WE NEED THE NORMAL PRESENTATION. PRESENTATION PLEASE. PERFECT. THANK YOU. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON CITY LIMITS IN HARRIS COUNTY, SOUTH OF ELGIN STREET, NORTH OF ALABAMA STREET, EAST OF EN STREET, AND ALONG THE COLUMBIA TAP, HIKE, AND BIKE TRAIL. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING FIVE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS ALONG A SHARED DRIVEWAY AND IS REQUESTING A RECONSIDERATION OF REQUIREMENT WITH THE VARIANT NOT TO DEDICATE RIGHT OF WAY WIDENING ALONG BRILEY STREET, A SUBSTANDARD STREET STAFF REQUEST TO DEFER THE APPLICATION FOR TWO WEEKS. WE'RE WORKING TO DETERMINE IF VELASCO STREET IS CONSIDERED A STREET THAT WOULD REQUIRE A BUILDING LINE AND VISIBILITY TRIANGLES, WHICH WOULD AFFECT THE PROPOSED SITE PLAN, OR IS JUST A PARCEL THAT WOULD NOT REQUIRE BUILDING LINES. I DON'T KNOW. STAFF HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS IN ADVANCE. AND THIS CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. I DON'T HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? IF NOT COMMISSIONERS. ANY QUESTIONS? A MOTION. MOTION TO DEFER. MOTION TO DEFER STEIN SECOND JONES. ALL IN FAVOR? A OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 1 22. ITEM 1 22 IS JESSICA FARMS GP. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON'S ETJ IN HARRIS COUNTY AND WALLER COUNTY BOUNDED BY FM 5 29 TO THE SOUTH FUTURE, FUTURE WEST ROAD TO THE NORTH AND FUTURE SLIP ROAD TO THE WEST. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A [01:10:01] 611 ACRE GENERAL PLAN FOR PREDOMINANTLY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND IS REQUESTING A RECONSIDERATION OF REQUIREMENTS WITH THE VARIANCE TO EXCEED MAXIMUM INTERSECTION SPACING ALONG ITS EASTERN BOUNDARY. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. AT THE PREVIOUS DEFERRALS, THE APPLICANT WAS PROPOSING ONE STUBB STREET CONNECTION SOUTH OF LONGEN BALL ROAD ON THE EASTERN BOUNDARY WITH AN INTERSECTION SPACING OF APPROXIMATELY 4,000 FEET. THE APPLICANT HAS REVISED THE GENERAL PLAN AND VARIANCE REQUEST NOW PROPOSING TWO STUB STREETS WITH AN INTERSECTION SPACING FROM THE SOUTHERN STUB STREET TO FM 5 29 OF 2,800 ISH FEET ALONG THE EASTERN BOUNDARY EDGE. STRICT APPLICATION OF THE ORDINANCE WOULD REQUIRE THREE STUB STREETS ALONG BETWEEN LONG ABA ROAD AND FM 5 29. HOWEVER, THE PROPOSED ALIGNMENT OF FUTURE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE BARTLETT ROAD WITH THESE TWO STUB STREETS ALLOWS FOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR CIRCULATION WHEN THE PROPERTY TO THE EAST DEVELOPS. LIKEWISE, THE GP IS PROPOSING AN INTERNAL NORTH SOUTH COLLECTOR STREET TO ALLOW FOR SUFFICIENT DISTRIBUTION OF TRAFFIC. HARRIS COUNTY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT HAS VOICED NO OBJECTION TO THE REQUEST. THEREFORE, STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO GRANT THE REQUESTED VARIANCE AND APPROVE THE GENERAL PLAN SUBJECT TO CBC 1 0 1 FORM CONDITIONS. WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS IN ADVANCE. THANK YOU MS. WILLIAMSON. UH, I DON'T HAVE ANY SPEAKERS SIGNED UP. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK? IF NOT COMMISSIONERS ANY QUESTIONS? I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF STAFF RECOMMENDATION. MOTION. MOTION ALLMAN. SECOND. SECOND, CCA. ALL IN FAVOR? A OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. NOW WE'LL MOVE ALONG TO, UM, [I.g. Extensions of Approval] EXTENSIONS OF APPROVAL. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS ANTONIA JOHNSON, SECTION G. EXTENSIONS OF APPROVAL CONSIST OF ITEMS 123 THROUGH 137. THERE ARE NO ITEMS FOR SECTIONS H, I AND J. THE PLAN AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REQUESTS THE APPROVAL OF ALL STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SECTIONS G, NOT JUST G. THERE'S NO ITEMS FOR THERE'S NO I, I OR J? JUST G. OKAY. MOTION STEIN. MOTION STEIN. SECOND. VE BLAND. SECOND. VE BLAND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. KAY. DEVELOPMENT [I.k. Development Plats with Variance Requests] PLATS WITH VARIANCE REQUESTS. ITEM 1 33 IS 35 0 5 NORTH MAIN STREET. THIS WAS DEFERRED AT THE LAST MEETING. THE STUDY IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON'S CORPORATE LIMIT BETWEEN NORTH MAIN STREET AND INTERSTATE 45. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES A NEW TWO STORY OFFICE BUILDING. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A REDUCED BUILDING LINE VARIANCES ALONG THE NORTH AND WEST SIDES OF THE PROPERTY WHERE IT ABUTS A T OFF RAMP. STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THIS REQUEST. THE SITE IS LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF NORTH MAIN STREET IN AN OFF RAMP OF INTERSTATE 45. THE SITE FEATURES A BACK, A CURB DISTANCE OF 27 FEET ALONG THE WEST AND 80 FEET ALONG THE NORTH. THE APPLICANT INITIALLY PERMITTED A RENOVATION TO AT A TWO STORY OFFICE BUILDING DUE TO UNANTICIPATED CHANGES DURING CONSTRUCTION. THE PROJECT IS NOW DEEMED AS NEW CONSTRUCTION AND THE LONG EXISTING SETBACKS WERE NO LONGER GRANDFATHERED. THE APPLICANT IS NOW REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A VARIANCE FOR REDUCED BUILDING LINE. THE NEW STRUCTURE IS ROUGHLY WITHIN THE SAME FOOTPRINT OF THE PREVIOUS ONE AND FEATURES A SIMILAR HEIGHT. THE REQUEST WOULD ACHIEVE A SIMILAR RESULT AS TO RENOVATING THE PREVIOUS STRUCTURE. IN ADDITION, THE APPLICANT IS PROVIDING A SEVEN FOOT SIDEWALK AND A FOUR FOOT BUFFER WITH THREE INCH CALIBER STREET TREES ALONG NORTH MAINE TO IMPROVE THE PEDESTRIAN REALM. STAFF FINDS THE REQUEST TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE INTENT OF THE BUILDING LINE REQUIREMENT AND RECOMMENDS APPROVAL. WE'VE RECEIVED NO ADVANCE WRITTEN COMMENT. THIS ITEM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR. BUTLER. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? IF NOT, DO I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONERS. ALL RIGHT. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. MOTION. MOTION. VICTOR SECOND ALLMAN. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 1 39, ITEM 1 39 IS 81 27 VENUS STREET. THE SUBJECT SIDE IS A 2,750 SQUARE FOOT PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE HOUSTON CORPORATE LIMITS AT THE SOUTHWEST INTERSECTION OF TAF AVENUE AND VENUS STREET WEST OF CARVER ROAD AND NORTH OF SOUTH VICTORY. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A SINGLE FAMILY HOME ON AN EXISTING 25 FOOT WIDE LOT. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO ALLOW A THREE FOOT BUILDING LINE ALONG TAPPED AVENUE AND UNIMPROVED. LOCAL STREET STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THE SITE IS AN EXISTING LOT OUT OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ANNEX SECTION TWO THAT WAS PLANTED IN THE EARLY 19 HUNDREDS. TAP AVENUE WAS CREATED WITH THIS SUBDIVISION, BUT WAS NEVER IMPROVED. THE NARROW LOT FORMATION OF THE EXISTING LOT COMBINED WITH THE SIDE BUILDING LINE REQUIREMENTS HINDERS THE REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ON THIS PROPERTY. THE UNIMPROVED RIGHT OF WAY DOES ALLOW FOR THE INTENDED RESULT TO BE SIMILAR TO WHAT WOULD BE ALLOWED WITH THE INTERIOR LOTS WHILE [01:15:01] STILL ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE GROWTH SHOULD THE RIGHT OF WAY EVER BE IMPROVED. SIMILAR VARIANCES HAVE BEEN GRANTED IN THIS AREA. AND GRANTED THE THREE FOOT BUILDING LINE WOULD NOT BE INJURIOUS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY. UH, STAFF RECOMMENDS GRANTING THE VARIANCE AND APPROVING THE SITE PLAN WITH THE CONDITIONS LISTED. MADAM CHAIR, THIS CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION. THANK YOU MR. SEDILLO. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK SEEING NONE. COMMISSIONERS, ANY QUESTIONS? IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. MOTION. MOTION JONES SECOND TO HEAR. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NOW WE WILL SAB ESTABLISH A PUBLIC HEARING DATE OF JUNE 13TH, 2024. FOR THE AGENDA ITEMS LISTED ON THE SCREEN, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. MOTION GARZA. MOTION GARZA. SECOND COLLEAGUE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. NOW WE'LL MOVE ALONG [III. Consideration of a Landscape Variance for 1905 Brittmore Road (Ed Buckley)] TO ROMAN THREE, ROMAN THREE. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS ED BUCKLEY. ROMAN NUMERAL THREE IS A LANDSCAPING VARIANCE REQUEST AT 1905 BRIMORE ROAD. THE SITE IS LOCATED ON BRIMORE ROAD NORTH NORTH OF FULLERTON DRIVE. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING AN EXPANSION OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL AND IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO WAIVE THE REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE A SIX FOOT WOOD MASONRY OR CONCRETE FENCE OR 15 FOOT EVERGREEN LANDSCAPING BUFFER BETWEEN THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION AND THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE RESIDENCES TO THE SOUTH. STAFF RECOMMENDS DEFERRAL TO ALLOW MORE TIME TO COORDINATE WITH THE APPLICANT TO ASSESS COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR THE VARIANCE REQUEST AND TO EXPLORE SOLUTIONS SUCH AS PROVIDING ADDITIONAL LANDSCAPING ALONG THE PART OF THE PROPERTY ADJACENT TO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES. THANK YOU. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK. IS THERE ANYONE WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE. COMMISSIONERS, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? MOTION TO DEFER. MOTION TO DEFER. STEIN SECOND CULVER. SECOND BALL ONE. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. ROMAN NUMER FOUR [IV. Consideration of an Off-Street Parking Variance at 201 Eastwood Street (Geoff Butler)] ITEM FOUR IS A OFF STREET PARKING VARIANCE FOR 2 0 1 EASTWOOD STREET. THIS ITEM WAS DEFERRED AT THE PREVIOUS FLOOR PLANNING COMMISSION MEETINGS. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON'S CORPORATE LIMIT NORTH OF HARRISBURG ALONG CANAL IN WEST OF LOCKWOOD. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES A MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY OF 11 UNITS. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO ALLOW TWO OFF STREET PARKING SPACES RATHER THAN REQUIRED. 14 STAFF IS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST. THE SITE IS LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF EASTWOOD AND SHERMAN STREETS IN THE SECOND WARD. COMPLETE COMMUNITY. THE SITE CONSISTS OF A PRIMARY MULTI-FAMILY STRUCTURE WITH A REAR ACCESSORY STRUCTURE CITED. LONG BEEN USED AS A FIVE UNIT MULTIFAMILY COMMUNITY WITH THREE ON STREET, EXCUSE ME, ON ONSITE PARKING SPACES ALONG SHERMAN AND HEADEND PARKING ALONG EASTWOOD. THE HEADEND SPACES ALONG EASTWOOD CANNOT BE APPLIED TO THE PARKING REQUIREMENT BECAUSE HEADEND PARKING AT THE RIGHT OF IS NOT ALLOWED. THE APPLICANT HAS EXPANDED THE NUMBER OF UNITS TO 11, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE 14 OFF STREET SPACES. THEY HAVE RECENTLY REVISED THEIR APPLICATION TO INCORPORATE TWO OFF STREET PARKING SPACES AT THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING ONE RESERVE FOR THE DISABLED. THE APPLICANT HAS ALSO AGREED TO CONDITIONS TO REMOVE AN EXISTING CARPORT ENCROACHING INTO THE RIGHT OF WAY AND TO CLOSE THE HEAD END PARKING ALONG EASTWOOD. THE SITE IS ALSO WITHIN A COMMUNITY THAT HAS NUMEROUS MODES OF TRANSPORTATION OTHER THAN PRIVATE AUTOMOBILES. THESE INCLUDE CLOSE PROXIMITY TO RAPID TRANSIT BUS ROUTES, MULTI-USE PATHS, AND A ROBUST STREET GRID SYSTEM THAT ENCOURAGES PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY. STAFF IS RELAYED PLANNING COMMISSION SUGGESTIONS FROM THE PREVIOUS MEETING, INCLUDING REDUCING THE NUMBER OF UNITS AND ACQUIRING PARKING OFFSITE. THE APPLICANT MAINTAINS THEIR DESIRE TO HAVE THE APPLICATION CONSIDERED OR AS CURRENTLY SUBMITTED, STAFF FINDS THE APPLICATION TO MEET THE INTENT OF THE OFF STREET PARKING ORDINANCE AND RECOMMENDS APPROVAL. WE'VE RECEIVED NO ADVANCE WRITTEN COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. BUTLER. I HAVE, UH, I HAVE, YES. I THINK IT'S JUST THE APPLICANT. LUKE FRY. GOOD AFTERNOON. IF YOU'LL STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE. UH, MY NAME IS LUKE FRY, THE OWNER OF 2 0 1 EASTWOOD STREET. UH, MADAM UH, CHAIR, LADIES AND GENTLEMAN OF THE COMMISSION. UH, APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION WITH THIS PROJECT. UH, IT'S A VERY PERSONAL PROJECT FOR ME. UM, I BELIEVE IT'S, UH, I BELIEVE IT SERVES THE GREATER GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY. UM, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LAST MEETING. I WAS NOT HERE. UH, BUT I SAW THE VIDEO AND THERE WERE SOME GOOD POINTS THAT WERE WERE RAISED DURING THAT, UH, DURING THAT MEETING. BOTTOM LINE IS THAT I BOUGHT AN 11 UNIT PROPERTY. UM, I CAN'T PROVE THIS. UH, IT'S NOT IN THE HCAD. IT'S NOT IN THE LISTING. AND I DON'T HAVE ANY PICTURES. I DIDN'T TAKE THESE PICTURES 'CAUSE I THOUGHT THIS WHOLE THING WAS GRANDFATHERED AND THAT [01:20:01] WAS MY MISTAKE. UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, HOWEVER, YOU KNOW, KNOWING THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE ARE MANY MULTIFAMILY, UH, PROPERTIES THAT WERE NOT LISTED ON JEFF'S, UM, MAP. I MEAN, PROBABLY, I, I TOURED THE NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU KNOW, THERE'S PROBABLY A QUARTER TO A THIRD OF THE HOMES THAT I SAW, OR MULTIFAMILY THAT WERE NOT LISTED AS SUCH. UH, THAT'S JUST A CONDITION OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. UH, JUST A BIT, NOT JUST YET. DOCUMENT CAMERA PLEASE. NOT JUST YET. OKAY. . ANYWAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S NOT UNHEARD OF FOR SOME OF THESE PROJECTS TO FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS. YOU KNOW, I'M NOT BLAMING JEFF. I'M NOT BLAMING HA OR, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A FUNCTION OF, OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE, YOU KNOW, THE OWNERS WHO, YOU KNOW, SEE A NEED AND THEY, AND THEY DEVELOP THESE PROPERTIES AND THEN THEY SELL THESE PROPERTIES. AND, UM, AS A PROFESSIONAL AND AS CITY OFFICIALS, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO DIRECT, YOU KNOW, THESE OWNERS IN THE PROPER DIRECTION TO DO THESE THINGS PROPERLY. UM, I MISS THAT ON THE PURCHASE OF MY OWN PROPERTY. OKAY. AND THAT'S, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE. YOU KNOW, I'M DEALING WITH THIS ISSUE AND I WANT TO GET THIS ISSUE STRAIGHT WITH YOU GUYS AND WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE CITY. SO ALL OF THAT SAID, WE HAVE A CLEAR PATH FORWARD FOR A PERMIT FOR CONSTRUCTION ITSELF ON THE PROPERTY AS IT CURRENTLY EXISTS AS AN LEVI UNIT PROPERTY. UM, YOU KNOW, AND I'M HERE ASKING FOR THAT PARKING VARIANCE. UH, WE DO HAVE REMEDIES FOR OUR PARKING, OUR LACK OF PARKING. AND WE KNEW THIS GOING INTO THIS PROJECT, UH, THAT WE WOULD HAVE PARKING ISSUES, UM, UH, OUR REMEDIES FOR IT. WE DO HAVE THE TWO CITY COMPLIANCE SPACES, INCLUDING A HANDICAP SPACE. AND WE DO HAVE ROOM FOR SEVEN PARALLEL STREET SIDE SPACES, BIKE RACKS TO ACCOMMODATE UP TO 14 BIKES. UM, WE HAVE TWO SEPARATE BUS STOPS WITHIN A A FOUR MINUTE WALK AND A RAIL STOP WITHIN A SEVEN MINUTE WALK. UM, WE HAVE A, UH, WE HAVE A CITY MAINTAINED BIKE TRAIL WITHIN A TWO MINUTE WALK OF THE PROPERTY. UM, WE HAVE COMPLIANCE. WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, REMOVING THE AWNING ALONG EASTWOOD STREET, REMOVING THE FRONT PORCH OFF OF, OH MAN, I'M LIKE HALFWAY DONE. TALK QUICK WRAP UP QUICKLY. ALRIGHT. UM, SO WE'VE GOT THESE, WE'VE GOT THESE REMEDIES TO, UH, UH, UH, KIND OF COVER THIS. THE OTHER THING IS WE HAVE, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE SIGNATURES. I, I WENT AROUND, I CANVASSED THE, THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND, UH, WE HAVE SIGNATURES FROM MANY RESIDENTS WHO SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE PARKING ISSUES. I EXPLAINED THE PRO PROJECT TO THEM AND WHO THESE, THESE U UNITS WE'RE GOING TO BE RENTING 'EM TO, UH, LOW INCOME, UH, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TENANTS, TENANTS. AND I ONLY HAD A SINGLE PERSON TURN ME DOWN FOR THEIR SIGNATURE. UH, AND I GOT ALL THESE SIGNATURES IN UNDER TWO HOURS. SO, OVERWHELMING SUPPORT. UH, IN CONCLUSION, UH, WE'RE HAPPY WORKING WITH YOU GUYS WITH OTHER CITY ENTITIES TO TRY TO BRING THIS INTO COMPLIANCE. UH, WE THINK THIS IS A GOOD PROJECT. WE THINK IT'S GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY. UH, WE THINK THE CITY OF HOUSTON NEEDS IT. AND, UM, ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER? COMMISSIONER STEIN? YEAH. SO JUST ON YOUR, UH, PETITION, WHAT DOES IT SAY AT THE TOP? DOES IT, OH, I CAN'T READ THAT. IT SAYS THIS CONCERNING THE PROPERTY OF 2 0 1 EASTWOOD STREET AT 11 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX. AS A MEMBER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, I'VE MET WITH MR. FRY. DISCUSSED THE LACK OF PARKING AT THE COMPLEX AND DISCUSSED HOW HE WAS PLANNING ON DEALING WITH THE SITUATION. UH, WE ARE IN FAVOR OF THE PROJECT AND THINK IT WILL BE AN OVERALL POSITIVE IMPACT ON OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND YOU, YOU'VE JUST STATED FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE RECEIVED ALL THE NECESSARY BUILDING PERMITS THAT YOU NEED TO GO FOR. WE HAVE, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS. THE PARKING BARRIER PROCESS IS, IS IS HOLDING IT UP. YEAH. OKAY. IT'S HOLDING THIS UP. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER BALDWIN. IN GENERAL, WHAT WOULD THESE RENT FOR? YOU'VE BEEN THINKING IT THROUGH. YEAH, YOU KNOW, INITIALLY WE WERE GOING FOR A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH, BUT THIS'S JUST NOT GONNA HAPPEN. YOU KNOW, NOT WITH THE LACK OF PARKING AND, AND NOT WITH THE, THE CURRENT CONDITIONS. UH, THE MARKET WILL TELL WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT NUMBER ENDS UP BEING, BUT IT WILL BE, YOU KNOW, LESS THAN NEIGHBORING PARKING, YOU KNOW, APARTMENT UNITS. THE LACK OF PARKING IS GONNA DICTATE THIS. YEAH. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UM, YEAH, MR. GARZA, WHICH IS, YOU HAVE 11 UNITS. ARE THEY ALL ONE BEDROOMS OR HALF, BUT ONES, AND THEN WE'VE GOT EFFICIENCIES. WE'VE GOT SEVEN ONE BEDROOMS, AND WE'VE GOT FOUR EFFICIENCIES. OKAY. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . ANY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER? ROBS, WE BOUGHT IT. WERE THERE ANY OCCUPANTS WHEN YOU BOUGHT IT? YEAH. YEAH. WAS WAS IT FULL? NO, NOT, NOT IN THE LEAST. I THINK THERE WERE, THEY [01:25:01] WERE IN REALLY BAD SHAPE. I THINK THERE WERE THREE UNITS THAT WERE OCCUPIED. THREE WERE OCCUPIED AND THE WERE THE OTHER EIGHT DOWN UNITS OR WERE, THEY JUST HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO LEASE 'EM. THEY HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO LEASE 'EM AND THEY WERE IN SUCH BAD SHAPE. I CAN SEE WHY. YEP. OKAY. SO THEY WERE, YEAH, I MEAN, IT WAS JUST, IT WAS A WRECK. THANK YOU. YEAH. MR. VAR, UM, I JUST WANNA THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE TO OBTAIN COMMUNITY SUPPORT. WE WERE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE BURDEN BEING PUSHED ON THE, YOUR NEIGHBORS AND YEAH. YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE THAT YOU, YOU KNOW, TOOK THE INITIATIVE TO GO AND, AND SPEAK WITH THEM AND MAKE THEM AWARE. SO I JUST WANNA THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND ALSO FOR THE ACCESSIBLE PARKING. THANK YOU. YEAH, I KNOW THAT WAS ALSO A BIG DEAL. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WE'RE LOOKING AT HOUSING VOUCHERS FOR THESE AND A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE ON HOUSING VOUCHERS ARE DISABLED, YOU KNOW, COMMISSIONERS. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU, MR. OH, WAIT A MINUTE. COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, I JUST WANNA REITERATE WHAT I SAID LAST MEETING. THAT, UM, WE'VE ISSUED VARIANCES LIKE THIS MANY TIMES BEFORE. UM, IT FEELS LIKE REWARDING FOR SOMEONE, FOR DOING SOMETHING WRONG, BUT I DO BELIEVE WE WOULD'VE GIVEN SUPPORT FOR THIS HAD IT BEEN DONE PROPERLY. UM, WE DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS FIVE OR 11. WE DON'T KNOW. UM, IF EVERYTHING IS, IS, IS A FACT, BUT I DO KNOW I'VE MADE THOSE SAME MISTAKES MYSELF BEFORE. SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO REITERATE MY SUPPORT THAT, UM, UH, WE SHOULD GRANT THE VARIANCE, BUT ALSO, UM, CONFIRMING THE FACT THAT MARKET WILL DICTATE WHAT HE GETS FOR RENT, NO PARKING SPOT. UM, THE MARKET WILL DICTATE. YEAH. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I'D LIKE TO MAKE A STATEMENT. 'CAUSE I COMMENTED LAST MEETING ABOUT, UM, MY OPPOSITION TO THIS. BUT THE, THE FACT THAT YOU BROUGHT UP THAT CHANGED MY MIND ON THIS IS THAT IT WAS 11 BEFORE, AND I KNOW THERE'S NO WAY TO VERIFY IT, BUT IF YOU'RE TELLING US, AND I'M, I'M INCLINED TO BELIEVE YOU, THAT THAT'S WHAT WAS THERE. THAT'S THE BIG ISSUE FOR ME IS GOING FROM FIVE TO 11 IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT THAN HAVING 11 IN PLACE WITH THE EXISTING PARKING, LACK OF PARKING CAPACITY. UM, AND SO I'M INCLINED TO SUPPORT THIS, NOTWITHSTANDING ALL THE PROBLEMS I DO THINK IT'S GOING TO CREATE. THAT IS THE BIG DIFFERENCE FOR ME. IF THERE WERE 11 UNITS THERE, THEN REALLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS PUTTING THOSE UNITS IN A BETTER CONDITION, WHICH WE REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE. UM, BUT IF YOU WENT FROM FIVE TO 11 THAT THEN ASKED FOR THE PARKING VARIANCE, THAT'S WHAT I HAD A LOT OF TROUBLE SUPPORTING. I DON'T BLAME YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER? BALDING? I'LL JUST WEIGH IN BECAUSE I WAS VISITING WITH A, ANOTHER DEVELOPER RECENTLY WHO BUILT IN A MARKET BASED PARKING AREA WITH VERY LITTLE PARKING, ASSUMING THAT THE TENANTS WERE THEN GONNA PARK ON THE STREET. AND THEN WHEN THE NO PARKING AND THE PERMITTED PARKING AND THE PAID PARKING CAME IN. NOW THOSE TENANTS ARE EXTREMELY BURDENED AND LOOKING TO THE CITY FOR SOME HELP THERE. AND THERE IS NO HELP THERE. SO MY MY OBJECTIVE IS FOR YOU TO LEASE THESE TO SOMEONE WITHOUT A CAR, WHICH WOULDN'T FURTHER BURDEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND PROVIDE HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. UH, AND SO I, I DO BELIEVE THEY'RE OUT THERE. SO YEAH. WHEN YOU'RE TAKING APPLICATIONS, IF ONE HAS A CAR AND ONE DOESN'T, I'M HOPING THAT YOU CHOOSE THE ONE WITHOUT A CAR. WELL, THEY CAN'T. THEY'VE GOT NOWHERE TO PARK. THEY'VE GOT NOWHERE TO PARK. MEAN THEY CAN'T , YOU KNOW, AND IF THEY PARK DOWN THE STREET, THEY GET BROKEN INTO. YEAH. WHICH FURTHER A ROADS THAT, I MEAN, IT'S VERY EXPENSIVE FOR PEOPLE NOT TO HAVE TO HAVE A CAR AND NO PLACE TO PARK. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. OKAY. ANY FINAL COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU MR. FRY. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. THE NEIGHBORHOOD SUPPORT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US, THOUGH. I JUST, YEAH. YEAH. I REAL, LIKE I SAID, I, I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT MAKING IT TO ALASKA MEETING. I'M ASSUMING MANY OF YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE HERE WITH YOU TODAY. UH, ARE SOME OF THESE PEOPLE HERE FROM NEIGHBORHOOD? NO, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK SO. I, I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T ASK HIM TO SHOW UP AND SPEAK FOR ME OR ANYTHING, BUT I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS. THANK YOU. GREAT. THANK YOU. SO COMMISSIONERS, DO WE NEED TO RESTATE THE RECOMMENDATION? STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVING THE VARIANCE OF TWO PARKING SPACES. THANK YOU. PRESENTATION, PLEASE. DO I HAVE A MOTION? OKAY. MOTION ROBINS FOR STAFF RECOMMENDATION. COLLE. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OPPOSED? I PLEASE NOTE THAT COMMISSIONER HINES IS OPPOSED. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. ROMAN NUMERAL FIVE. [V. Consideration of an Off-Street Parking Variance at 1414 Rosalie Street (Geoff Butler)] UH, ROMAN NUMER FIVE IS 14. 14 ROSALIE. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON'S CORPORATE LIMIT NORTH OF BELGIAN AND EAST OF MAIN STREET. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES A 43 UNIT MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT. THE APPLICANT'S REQUESTING AN OFF STREET PARKING VARIANCE TO PROVIDE 43 SPACES ON SITE AS OPPOSED TO THE REQUIRED 48 STAFF RECOMMENDS DEFERRAL TO ALLOW THE APPLICANT TIME TO CONSIDER IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ROSALIE AVENUE PEDESTRIAN REALM. WE'VE RECEIVED NUMEROUS WRITTEN COMMENTS WITH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC OBJECTING, LARGELY DUE [01:30:01] TO LIMITED PARKING AND SUPPORT, CITING THE AREAS NUMEROUS MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION ASSETS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONERS? ALL RIGHT. I HAVE SPEAKERS SIGNED UP. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS TAIN. IS THAT A R MANN MANN. SORRY ABOUT THAT. I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE TO ANYONE THAT I BUTCHER YOUR NAME. OH, MY NAME IS SHTA MANN. UM, GOOD AFTERNOON. UM, MADAM CHAIR AND ESTEEM COMMISSIONERS. I'M A HOMEOWNER LIVING ONE BLOCK AWAY FROM THE PROPOSED, UM, PARKING VARIANCE REQUEST. AND THE VARIANCE REQUEST SHOULD BE DENIED BECAUSE, UM, THERE SIMPLY JUST ISN'T ENOUGH PARKING, STREET PARKING IN THE AREA. UM, THE CODE REQUIREMENT REALLY SHOULD BE SEEN AS A MINIMUM AND NOT RECOMMENDED. UM, YOU CAN EXPECT THAT THESE APARTMENT BUILDINGS ARE GOING TO HAVE MORE, UH, RESIDENTS THAN UNITS, YOU KNOW, WITH TWO PEOPLE RENTING A ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT. SO, AND EACH RESIDENT WILL LIKELY HAVE THEIR OWN VEHICLE. SO NOT ONLY IS THIS NOT ENOUGH SPACES FOR THE UNITS THEMSELVES, THIS CONGESTS MORE PARKING IN THE AREA. UM, SO THE ISSUE IS THAT ON, I LIVE BETWEEN ROSALIE AND ANITA AND WE HAVE A BIG PROBLEM ON ANITA, WHICH THERE'S ALLOWED, UM, TWO-SIDED STREET PARKING. AND SO WHEN THAT IS COMPLETELY, WHEN ALL THE VEHICLES ARE PARKED ON TWO SIDES OF THE STREET, IT EFFECTIVELY BECOMES A ONE-WAY STREET WHERE YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER VEHICLE TO PASS IN ORDER TO GO DOWN THE STREET. AND THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IF WE HAVE THIS PARKING VARIANCE GRANTED, BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE WILL BE PARKING ON THE STREETS, THE SURROUNDING STREETS, AND PEOPLE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET BY. UM, THERE'S ALSO THE ISSUE WHERE, UM, WE HAVE, THERE'S A, UM, THERE'S, SORRY, THERE'S A MECHANIC, UM, THAT'S AT THE CORNER OF ANITA AND AUSTIN. AND THEY PARK THE VEHICLES THAT THEY WORK ON DAILY ON ANITA AND THE SURROUNDING, UM, AREAS. AND SO THEY TAKE UP VALUABLE PARKING AS WELL. SO THAT CAN FURTHER CONGESTS THE PARKING ON THE SIDE STREETS AND SURROUNDING AREA. AND, UM, AND WITH THE NEW COMPLEXES DRIVEWAY THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE ON ROSALIE, THAT WILL FURTHER REDUCE THE EXISTING STREET PARKING. UM, I ALSO JUST HAVE A FEW MORE POINTS, UM, WRAP UP REALLY QUICKLY. SURE, SURE. BECAUSE WE HAVE OTHER SPEAKERS. UM, AND SO, UM, THAT ALSO JUST CREATES A PROBLEM FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES TO PARK ANYWHERE, TO RESPOND TO ANY TYPE OF EMERGENCIES BECAUSE THERE'S JUST SIMPLY NOWHERE FOR THEM TO PARK ON THE SURROUNDING AREAS. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU, MS. MANN. ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS KEVIN HENDERSON. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR. AND I'M MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION. UH, MY NAME IS KEVIN HENDERSON. I HAVE A, UH, DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE AND I, I'VE PRACTICED IN THE FIELD FOR THE LAST 32 YEARS. I'M A MEMBER OF MIDTOWN, OR I LIVE, I'M A RESIDENT OF MIDTOWN AND I HAVE LIVED AT MY RESIDENCE IMMEDIATELY TO THE WEST OF THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION. I'VE LIVED THERE FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS AND BUILT EQUITY IN THAT HOME, UH, FOR THE PAST 25 YEARS. I'M HERE TO EXPRESS MY OPPOSITION TO THE, UH, THE VARIANCE, UH, REQUEST. UH, PRIMARY REASON, UH, IS THAT THE, THE SCOPE AND THE SCALE OF THE PROJECT IS WAY TOO BIG FOR THE, FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHAT THE PROPERTY CAN, UH, ACCOMMODATE. UH, IN THE APPLICANT'S STATEMENT OF FACTS UNDER POINT NUMBER TWO, IT SAYS, THE QUESTION IS THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES SUPPORTING THE GRANTING OF THE VARIANCE ARE NOT THE RESULT OF A HARDSHIP IMPOSED OR CREATED BY THE APPLICANT. AND I FEEL THAT THE APPLICANT DID DO, UH, IMPOSE A SELF, UH, HARDSHIP BY DESIGNING A UNIT THAT IS WAY TOO LARGE FOR THAT PROPERTY. UH, AND THAT'S, THAT'S MY MAIN OPPOSITION AMONGST MANY OTHERS ON THE LIST. BUT I HOPE YOU TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. HENDERSON. ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JOSE ARANDA FOR THE NEXT VARIANCE. OKAY. HOW ABOUT [01:35:01] KELLY? I CAN'T READ THAT. UM, IT LOOKS LIKE KELLY, YOU DID NOT GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL. ZITO, , BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU LEARNED PENMANSHIP. , UH, SO IS KELLY HERE? IT LOOKS LIKE RETO. IS THERE A KELLY IN THE HOUSE? REYNOLDS? IS IT REYNOLDS? OH, REYNOLD. YOU DID NOT GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL. . HEY, MY HANDWRITING'S NOT VERY GOOD. GOOD. I'M HERE TO TELL YOU. YOU, THANK YOU. NO APOLOGIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR. REYNOLDS, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THIS RECORD. KELLY REYNOLDS. AND, UM, I'M A MEMBER OF THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD AND I LIVE IN MIDTOWN, UM, SINCE 2012. AND I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF. THERE'S A GIANT OLD OAK TREE ON THIS PROPERTY AT THE BACK, AND I HOPE THAT IT'S PROTECTED AND THAT Y'ALL WILL TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN BUILDING IT. UM, I'M JUST GONNA KIND OF ADD SOME THINGS 'CAUSE I KNOW THE OTHER TWO PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY SPOKE. UM, ALSO, UM, THE AREA RIGHT THROUGH THERE IS KIND OF LOW AND THERE'S BEEN, OVER THE YEARS, A LOT OF FLOODING AND STUFF. SO I HOPE THAT THAT'S TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WITH THIS PROJECT. UM, THERE IS THE TOUM PROJECT WHERE THEY'RE TAKING THE STORM AND DRAIN ALL THE WAY THROUGH THEIR EAST AND WEST HAS DISPLACED EVERYTHING FOR ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE BLOCKS BECAUSE, UH, NOBODY CAN PARK ANYWHERE RIGHT THROUGH, THROUGH THERE. AND, UM, IT'S MADE IT QUITE DIFFICULT. AND, UH, I'M, I JUST HOPE THAT THEY, THESE PEOPLE WILL BUILD A, UH, A BIGGER PARKING GARAGE OR A BIGGER BUILD OR A SMALLER ONE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER IT TAKES. I KNOW THAT THE ORDINANCE CALLS FOR 1.33, UH, UH, SPACES PER PER UNIT. AND, UM, I THINK THEY SHOULD JUST ADJUST TO FOLLOW THE RULES AND THE ORDINANCE AND ADJUST THE PROPERTY ACCORDINGLY. UM, ROSALIE'S VERY NARROW. UM, OKAY. THAT'S IT FOR ME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU MR. REYNOLDS. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS TIMOTHY ARO ARO BURROW. THAT IS GREAT. OKAY, GREAT. HOW ABOUT THAT SOUNDS TRUE TO ME. HELLO ALL. HELLO, MY NAME'S TIMOTHY AARON BURROW. I CURRENTLY LIVE AT 3 1 0 4 CRAWFORD STREET, WHICH IS ON THE CORNER OF CRAWFORD AND ROSALIE, THE FIRST BLOCK OF ROSALIE. MY BLOCK DEALS WITH THE PARKING ISSUES FROM BALDWIN PARK 'CAUSE MY HOUSE IS DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM YES, BALDWIN PARK'S ON THAT CORNER. AND THE SECOND BLOCK PRETTY MUCH HAS ON STREET PARKING. AND THAT IS BASICALLY BUMPER TO BUMPER, WELL SPACE TO SPACE. THE LOT WHERE THIS DEVELOPMENT, PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL TAKE PLACE. IT CURRENTLY HOUSES, WELL, THERE'S CURRENTLY ABOUT A DOZEN RESIDENTS IN THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT PARK THEIR CARS THERE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH PARKING SPACES. SO I BELIEVE THAT THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD CANNOT ACCOMMODATE PARKING FOR THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENTS, RESIDENTS AND THEIR VISITORS BASED ON THE NUMBER OF UNITS AND THE BEDROOMS THAT ARE GOING TO GO ALONG WITH THOSE BEDROOMS. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT 1.33 IS SUFFICIENT FOR PARKING. I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS OTHER ALTERNATIVES THE VEVER COULD HAVE OR COULD STILL EXPLORE, LIKE MAYBE A PARKING GARAGE OR, I DUNNO, OTHER THINGS. UM, THANKS FOR LISTENING AND THANKS FOR WHAT Y'ALL DO. TAKE CARE. BYE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANY QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONERS? OKAY, THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER, MS. VIAL FOR QUESTIONS. DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK OR? OH, SHE ASK. OKAY. LONG TIME TO SEE. MY NAME'S MARY VIREO WITH THE INTER FIELD GROUP. UM, UH, AS YOU KNOW, THE APPLICATION IS DEFERRED. UH, WE WILL BE WORKING WITH STAFF. WE'RE ALSO REACHING OUT TO SOME OF THE NEIGHBORS THAT HAVE EMAILED US TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO. UM, I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO MENTION THAT ALONG. UM, THE, WHERE WE HAVE THE HEAD IN PARKING, UH, THERE WERE THREE, UH, CURB CUTS THAT WERE CUT DOWN TO TWO. AND SO WE'D [01:40:01] LIKE TO SEE IF WE CAN, UH, MAYBE WORK SOMETHING TO HAVE ONE, NOT AS HEAD IN PARKING, BUT MAYBE WHERE THE CARS COME IN AND THEN PARK TO THE SIDES. THIS WOULD OPEN A LITTLE BIT MORE FOR, YOU KNOW, ON STREET PARKING, BUT YET STILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PARKING FOR THE NEW RESIDENCES, WHICH WOULD, I BELIEVE, UM, MAKE THE NEIGHBORS HAPPY. UM, AND AS YOU KNOW, I KNOW THERE WAS SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THE, UM, DRAINAGE. THIS PROJECT WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE PROCESSES THROUGH THE PERMIT DEPARTMENT AS WELL WITH, UH, ANY DRAINAGE OR DETENTION, UTILITIES THAT'LL HAVE TO BE APPROVED. THAT WAS ALL GREAT. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONERS? I HAVE QUESTIONS. YES. UH, ROSENBERG WAS FIRST, COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, YOU'LL YIELD THE FLORA TO . UM, YEAH, I, I THINK, UM, I WOULD REALLY, MR. SMITH , UM, I'D REALLY LOVE TO SEE THE TWO-WAY PARKING SITUATION. YOU KNOW, LOOK, IF SOMEONE COULD TAKE A LOOK AT THAT, UM, IN PARTICULAR, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS, I MEAN, I AM VERY FAMILIAR WITH AREAS LIKE THAT. IT MAYBE THERE NEED TO BE KIND OF SOME DIFFERENT LITTLE AREAS WITH NO PARKING SIGNS, YOU KNOW, SO THAT EMERGENCY VEHICLES CAN GET THROUGH, NEIGHBORS CAN GET THROUGH. I, UM, I, I ALSO SAW SOME COMMENTS WHERE THIS IS NOT REALLY A WALKABLE PLACES TYPE, UM, UM, DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THERE'S MORE DRIVEWAYS, THERE'S FRONT PARKING AND SUFFICIENT CLEARAGE AND SO FORTH. I MEAN, IT IS NEAR THE PUBLIC TRANSIT. SO THAT'S IN YOUR FAVOR FOR THIS. BUT, UM, I, YOU KNOW, I, AGAIN, WITH THE CONCERNS THAT I HAD WITH THE PREVIOUS PROJECT, WAS PUSHING THE BURDEN ON THE COMMUNITY AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY ALREADY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PARKING. AND THEN TO MAKE ADDITIONAL BURDEN REALLY KINDA TROUBLES ME. SO I'M, I'M, I'M GLAD THAT YOU'RE WILLING TO LOOK AT THOSE OPTIONS DURING THE DEFERRAL PERIOD. ABSOLUTELY. AND TRY TO COME TO SOME SORT OF SOLUTION THAT WILL, AND HOPEFULLY YOU CAN MEET WITH THE NEIGHBORS, MEET WITH PUBLIC WORKS. YES. AND, YOU KNOW, EXPLORE THOSE OPTIONS. YES. I'M GONNA REACH OUT. THEY DID SEND AN EMAIL WHILE THEY WANTED TO MEET, UH, FOR A JUNE 12TH, BUT THIS WILL COME BEFORE. MARY, CAN YOU COME UP TO THE MICROPHONE? I'M SORRY. UH, YES, THEY ARE. DID WANNA MEET, WANTED THE DEVELOPER TO MEET WITH THEM. I'M TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING , SORRY. UM, ON JUNE 12TH, BUT, UM, THIS WILL BECOME, COME BEFORE YOU, SO I'M GONNA SEE IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO MEET WITH US IN ZOOM. SO I'LL REACH OUT TO THE, THE COMMUNITY FOR THAT. YES, THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG. I THINK THIS IS THE EXACT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT MIDTOWN NEEDS, UM, AND SHOULD HAVE. BUT I DO HAVE A COUPLE COMMENTS. 'CAUSE YOU'RE DEFERRING CORRECT? THAT'S THE REQUEST. MM-HMM . UM, IF YOU COULD LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING COUPLE ITEMS. ONE, THE BICYCLE SPOTS ARE ABSOLUTELY INACCESSIBLE. ONCE YOU PARK ONE, YOU CAN'T GET TO THE OTHERS. AND THE, THE VISITOR SPACE IS, I'LL CALL 'EM THE ONES OUTSIDE THE PERIMETER. UM, BASICALLY WHAT MOST LIKELY IN MANY CASES BLOCK THE SIDEWALK. AND THE SIDEWALK APPEARS TO BE VERY NARROW. UM, I THINK A BETTER STRATEGY MIGHT BE CONSIDERING TANDEM PARKING TO ALLOW THAT FRONTAGE TO BE ALL, UM, STREET PARKING. UM, WHICH WILL STILL GIVE THEM ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT OF SPACES, MIGHT REQUIRE SOME RECONFIGURATION OF THE FLOOR. UM, BUT THEY DEFINITELY NEED TO MAKE THE, THE BIKE PARKING, UM, ACCESSIBLE. AND THE SIDEWALKS APPEAR TO BE FIVE FEET. AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S, UM, APPROPRIATE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE HEAD END PARKING. SO IF YOU COULD DISCUSS THAT WITH THEM, JEFF, I'D APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. I ALSO HAVE, UH, ROBERTO AAS SIGNED UP FOR QUESTIONS. DID YOU WANNA SPEAK? UH, YES, SURE. COME ON UP. GOOD AFTERNOON. UM, CURRENTLY WE'RE WORKING WITH THE PLANNING STAFF DOCUMENT CAMERA PLEASE. UH, TO TRY TO HAVE LIKE DIFFERENT, UM, SOLUTIONS LIKE MAYBE JUST ONE DRIVEWAY HEADING, HEADING PARKING, UM, TO AVOID, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE IT IN THAT ONE, TO AVOID, UM, GOING IN AND OUT TO, UH, TO THE STREET. LIKE FOR THE PEDESTRIANS. THAT'S LIKE A DIFFERENT IDEA THAT WE HAVE. UM, IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE PROJECTS, BECAUSE I'M LIKE THE DESIGNER. OKAY. YOU'RE THE DEVELOPER. YOU'RE, YOU'RE THE ARCHITECT, SOMETHING. UH, YES, THE DESIGNER. THE ARCHITECT. YEAH, HE'S THE ARCHITECT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I'M SURE THAT, UH, MR. BUTLER WILL BE WORKING WITH YOU CLOSELY, UH, IF THIS GETS DEFERRED, SO THANK YOU. OKAY, THANK [01:45:01] YOU. OKAY, OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MARILYN CHAN CHAIN. PUT YOUR GLASSES ON CHAN DOCUMENT CAMERA PLEASE. UM, THIS IS JUST, THANK YOU. SORRY. HI. GOOD AFTERNOON COMMISSIONERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. I KNOW WE'RE TOWARDS THE END OF THE AGENDA. UM, MY NAME IS MARILYN CHAN. LIVED IN MIDTOWN FOR 17 YEARS IN THE SAME TOWN HOME. I'M A BLOCK AWAY FROM THE PROPOSED, UM, DEVELOPMENT. MY CONCERN IS THERE IS ALREADY NOT ENOUGH PARKING. UM, IF YOU CAN SEE, THIS IS THE STREET THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. ROSALIE. THERE IS A VEHICLE THERE, A LANDSCAPE VEHICLE. YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT CANNOT BE A TWO-WAY STREET. IF THERE'S GONNA BE TWO PARKING, UM, ON EITHER SIDE. UM, I'M NOT EVEN SURE HOW YOU'D FIT FOUR OR EVEN THREE, UM, VEHICLES THROUGH THERE. SO, UM, MY CONCERN IS SAFETY. WITH THE AMOUNT, UM, OF UNITS BEING REQUESTED, IT'S 40 UNITS, MORE THAN LIKELY, IT'S NOT JUST ONE PERSON PER UNIT. UM, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT AN, AT LEAST AN ADDITIONAL 40 PLUS. UM, IN, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN THIS SMALL SECTION. THERE'S ALSO NO PARKING AVAILABLE ALONG, UM, THE BUS STOP ON LA BRANCH, UM, THAT ELIMINATES THAT BLOCK. THERE IS NO PARKING ON AUSTIN BECAUSE OF THE BIKE LANE, WHICH WE, WE ARE IN FULL SUPPORT OF. MY HUSBAND TAKES THAT, UM, TO WORK EVERY DAY. UM, BUT THERE'S NO PARKING ON AUSTIN ON THAT SIDE. AND AS A PREVIOUS, UH, NEIGHBOR, UH, MENTIONED, UM, THERE IS A LOCAL BUSINESS WHO, UM, REPAIRS CARS AND HE DOES A NICE JOB AND HE'LL, HE'LL PARK ON THE STREETS DURING THE DAY WHEN HE HAS TO MAKE ROOM TO WORK ON VEHICLES, BUT THEN HE'LL MOVE THE CARS IN AT NIGHT. UM, BUT THAT TAKES AWAY FROM THE PARKING DURING THE DAY. UM, AND AGAIN, AS MENTIONED, EMERGENCY VEHICLES WILL HAVE A HARD TIME. WE ALSO HAVE AMAZON, PEOPLE LIKE TO SHOP , SO WE, WE HAVE THOSE ISSUES. UM, SO I, I WOULD REALLY ASK THAT YOU GUYS WOULD RECONSIDER. UM, MY PROPOSAL IS A SMALLER, UM, UNIT, 20 UNITS HALF, UM, THAT COULD ACCOMMODATE THAT VERY SMALL AREA. IT'S NOT EVEN A FULL CITY BLOCK, IT'S MAYBE A QUARTER OF A BLOCK. UM, SO PLEASE TAKE THAT ALSO INTO CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THE LAST SPEAKER I HAVE SIGNED IS, UH, JOSH ALOR. HI, UH, SORRY. YOU'LL HAVE TO FREE MY HANDWRITING. UH, MY LAST NAME IS, UH, I'M JOSH ALVEAR. SO I'M ACTUALLY THE HOMEOWNER THAT'S DIRECTLY LOCATED ACROSS FROM THE PROPERTY THAT'S IN QUESTION. SO I LIVE AT 1 4 1 1 ROSALIE. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO ECHO A LOT OF THE SAME CONCERNS. SO I LIVE IN THAT LITTLE, YOU KNOW, NEIGHBORHOOD AS YOU'LL CALL IT, THAT'S DIRECTLY LOCATED ACROSS. AND AS ONE OF THE OTHER, UH, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY STATED, UH, WE HAVE A SIMILAR SITUATION ON ANITA STREET WHERE THERE'S BOTH TWO WAY, BOTH PEOPLE WHO PARK ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET AND THERE'S BARELY ENOUGH ROOM FOR LIKE ONE WAY TRAFFIC TO MAKE IT THROUGH. AND IT'S GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE IT'S EVEN DIFFICULT TO ENTER THE OWN NEIGHBORHOOD I LIVE IN. AND I DID JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT ON THAT 1400 BLOCK OF ROSALIE, MYSELF AND A LOT OF THE OTHER PE UH, MY NEIGHBORS THAT LIVE ON THAT BLOCK, LIKE THERE'S ALL FAMILIES THAT LIVE THERE. EVERYBODY RELIES ON THAT STREET PARKING, YOU KNOW, JUST FOR THEIR NORMAL RES UH, RESIDENTIAL PARKING. SO I DO HAVE A LOT OF CONCERN THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE ARE GONNA BE BUILDING A UNIT THAT AS BIG AS IT IS THAT TO MEET AT LEAST THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF PARKING REQUIRED OR ELSE THERE'S JUST NOT GONNA BE ENOUGH ROOM. SO, YOU KNOW, ROSALIE IS LOCATED JUST KIND OF OFF ELGIN, WHICH HAS, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF BUSINESSES, RESTAURANTS, BARS. SO IT ALSO SERVES AS JUST KIND OF LIKE A MAJOR SOURCE OF PARKING FOR THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL. SO NOW IT'S JUST KIND OF, YOU KNOW, AMPLIFYING THE FACT THAT THERE'S NOT ENOUGH PARKING, JUST NOT, YOU KNOW, FOR THIS RESIDENTIAL AREA. BUT HONESTLY JUST FOR ALL OF MIDTOWN. AND ADDITIONALLY, I DID JUST WANNA MAKE A NOTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT THAT I DO LIVE, YOU KNOW, RIGHT ACROSS, THERE'S A LOT OF LOW LIVING POWER LINES. I NATIVE HOUSTONIAN. I'VE LIVED AT THIS PROPERTY FOR TWO YEARS AND WITHIN JUST MY TWO YEARS OF LIVING AT THIS PROPERTY, LIKE I SEE CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES ALL THE TIME THAT HIT THESE POWER LINES. I MEAN, AT THE ONE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, IT'S BEEN HIT TWO OR THREE TIMES AND HAD TO BE REBUILT. SO JUST A NOTE TO THE DEVELOPER THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF THESE BIG TRUCKS MOVING IN AND OUT THIS AREA, THAT'S A VERY CONGESTED SPACE. I SEE PROPERTY DAMAGE OCCURRING ALL THE TIME. SO AGAIN, JUST WANTED TO EMPHASIZE WHAT A LOT OF THE OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE SAYING THAT IT'S A VERY CONGESTED AREA. THERE'S NOT A LOT OF ROOM TO DO THINGS AS IT IS. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS, COMMISSIONERS? OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MR. BUTLER, I THINK YOU PROBABLY NEED TO RESTATE THE RECOMMENDATION. THE STAFF RECOMMENDS DEFERRAL PER APPLICANT REQUEST. THANK YOU. OKAY, COMMISSIONERS, WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION FOR DEFERRAL. DO I HAVE A MOTION? ROSENBERG? OKAY. UM, MOTION ROSENBERG, SECOND. KALE. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. [01:50:01] OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM IS DEFERRED. I NUMERAL [VI. Consideration of an Off-Street Parking Variance at 1201 Westheimer Road (Geoff Butler)] SIX. SORRY. THAT'S OKAY. UH, ITEM SIX IS 1201 WESTHEIMER. UH, STAFF WOULD LIKE TO NOTE, UH, THAT YOUR REPORT WILL, UH, HAVE A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL AND A REPORT DETAILING THAT WE, UH, WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE OUR RECOMMENDATION TO DEFER PER COUNCIL MEMBER'S REQUEST. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN HOUSTON'S CORPORATE LIMIT ALONG WEST HEIM OR WEST OF MONTROSE TO NORTH OF ALABAMA. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES TO RENOVATE AN EXISTING SHOPPING CENTER AND THEATER COMPLEX IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO PROVIDE 101 PARKING SPACES AS OPPOSED TO REQUIRED. 203 STAFF RECOMMENDS DEFERRAL PER COUNCIL MEMBER'S REQUEST. WE'VE RECEIVED NUMEROUS WRITTEN COMMENT WITH THOSE OPPOSED, NOTING THE EXACT, THE LACK OF EXISTING PARKING. THOSE IN FAVOR CITED NEIGHBORHOOD WALKABILITY SAFETY CONCERNS OVER ACQUIRING MORE PARKING AND THE SUCCESS OF SIMILAR DEVELOPMENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR. BUTLER. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE WE CALL SPEAKERS? THANK YOU. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS KRISTA COMER. GOOD AFTERNOON. YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. HI. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. SO THIS HAS BEEN CHANGED TO DEFERRAL. THAT'S YOUR RECOMMENDATION? YES, MA'AM. THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD NEWS. UM, SO I'M KRISTA COMER. UH, I LIVE IN THIS AREA. I'M DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THIS, UM, THE, THE REQUEST FOR A VARIANCE. AND, UM, WHAT I WANTED TO SAY, FIRST OF ALL IS JUST THE PARKING IN THIS AREA. I'M VERY, UM, STRUCK BY THE ROSALIE SPEAKERS. IT'S VERY SIMILAR AND THE PARKING BASICALLY IS OUTTA CONTROL. I MEAN, WE HAVE, UM, THE RECENT HANOVER MONTROSE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S GONE UP. OVERFLOW PARKING FROM THAT. WE HAVE OVERFLOW PARKING FROM COLUMBIA OR WE HAVE, UM, WESTHEIMER BUSINESSES. WE HAVE OVERFLOW PARKING FROM THAT. AND WE HAVE THE A OS SCHOOL. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE CONSTRUCTION OF, UM, THE NEW COVENANT HOUSE. SO THERE'S A LOT OF PARKING THAT'S ALREADY ON THE STREET THAT IS CREATING PARKING DIFFICULTIES FOR RESIDENTS. UM, I'M A PROFESSOR AT RICE AND WHEN I'M NOT TEACHING, I WORK AT HOME, UH, YOU KNOW, RIDING, DOING RESEARCH. AND SO RECENTLY I WAS ON SABBATICAL. SO I'VE BEEN AT HOME DURING THE DAY AND WALKING AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SEEING THE PARKING KIND OF ISSUES THAT ARE LIKE PEOPLE PARK IN FRONT OF THE, OUR DRIVEWAY ALL THE TIME. UH, THEY PARK IN CROSSWALKS, THEY PARK AND BLOCK THE STOP SIGNS BECAUSE THEY AREN'T INVESTED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY'RE NOT LOCAL PEOPLE. AND SO WE DO A LOT OF WALKING AROUND. AND JUST BEFORE I CAME OVER HERE, I REALIZED THIS PARKING, UM, HOW TO PARK INFORMATION ABOUT PARKING WAS JUST BY MY FRONT DOOR. 'CAUSE I USE THIS A LOT. AND, UH, LANE LEWELLEN, WHO IS OUR PRESIDENT OF THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION, HAS, UH, INFORMED PEOPLE THAT WHAM IS AGAINST IT. AND I, THE LAST THING I WOULD SAY IS THAT SHE WALKS AROUND WALKING HER DOG. AND THE REASON I HAVE THIS HERE, SHE HAS THIS BIG JACKET THAT HAS A LOT OF POCKETS AND SHE ALWAYS HAS THESE THINGS IN HER JACKET BECAUSE THIS IS HOW OFTEN WE NEED THEM. SO PLEASE MODIFY THIS OR, UH, DON'T OFFLOAD THIS TO THE NEIGHBORS. UM, LIKE WHATEVER THE LAST PERSON SAID, PUSHING BURDENS TO THE COMMUNITY. YEAH, LET'S, LET'S PLEASE NOT DO THAT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. WE'RE ALREADY A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD AND THIS IS, THIS IS, UM, A PROBLEM FOR US TO MAKE IT WORSE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MS. COMER. ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THE LAST SPEAKER I HAVE SIGNED IS JOSE ARANDA. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR AND COMMISSIONERS. MY NAME IS JOSE RDA, A NATIVE HOUSTONIAN, BORN AND RAISED IN THE EAST END AND A GRADUATE OF ST. THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL. I'M ALSO A PROFESSOR OF RICE UNIVERSITY. I'M A PROFESSOR OF MEXICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. I LIVE WITH MY WIFE KRIS COMER AT 34 0 6 MOUNT VERNON STREET. ABOUT THREE BLOCKS FROM THE REQUEST OF A VARIANCE AT 1201 WEST HARMON ROAD. I WANT TO STATE MY OPPOSITION TO THIS REQUEST. APPROVAL OF THIS VARIANCE WILL AGGRAVATE AN ALREADY UNSUSTAINABLE ISSUE WITH, UH, STREET PARKING IN THIS COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR. THE PARKING OVERFLOW INTO THE RESIDENTIAL PARTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE DAILY, BUT ESPECIALLY MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WHEN RESIDENTS MUST ALSO DEAL WITH CONSTRUCTION SITES. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THE PROXIMITY OF THIS REQUEST FOR A VARIANCE TO THE HANOVER MONT, UH, HANOVER, UH, MONTROSE ON MONTROSE BOULEVARD AND HORNE STREET, AS WELL AS THE RESIDENCES AT LO COUM [01:55:01] DE OR ON YOAKUM BOULEVARD AND HARRELL STREET. DESPITE THE PARKING PROVIDED FOR RESIDENTS AT THESE TWO TOWERS OVERFLOW PARKING, UM, ARE A DAILY ISSUE AS WELL AS POSING SAFETY CONCERNS GIVEN THEIR PROXIMITY TO THE SCHOOL AT THE ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH ON THE TOPIC OF CURRENT AND PROPOSED NEW DEVELOPMENT. ONCE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW COVENANT HOUSE IS COMPLETE, AND I'M SURE THEY WILL PROVIDE PARKING FOR THEIR STAFF AND RESIDENTS, THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL NEED FOR STREET PARKING. AND WHILE THERE'S MUCH INTEREST AND EXCITEMENT FOR SOME IN THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPERTIES THAT ONE HOSTED THE HALF PRICE BOOKSTORE, JACK IN THE BOX AND DISCO KROGER, THESE DEVELOPMENTS WILL NO DOUBT CAUSE FURTHER PARKING OVERFLOW ISSUES FOR RESIDENTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ON BOTH SIDES OF THE MONT MONTROSE BOULEVARD. I'M NOT HERE TO ARGUE AGAINST DEVELOPMENT OF THESE COMMERCIAL SITES. I'M HERE TO ASK FOR A BALANCED APPROACH TO COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE WELLBEING OF THOSE OF US WHO ARE HOMEOWNERS. THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. THANK YOU SO MUCH, COMMISSIONERS. ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY, QUESTION COMMISSIONER STAFF. OKAY. FROM STAFF, YOU HAVE A COM COMMISSIONER ROSENBERG, DO YOU NEED STAFF OR THE, UM, SPEAKER STAFF? OKAY, STAFF, GO AHEAD. UM, QUICK QUESTION. UH, I DON'T THINK IT'S A REGISTERED HISTORIC LANDMARK, BUT IT IS A HISTORIC BUILDING, CORRECT? IT, IT'S NOT LISTED. I DIDN'T HEAR YOU MENTION THAT IN THE, WELL, IT'S NOT LISTED ON THE HISTORIC OR FEDERAL REGISTRY, BUT THE, THE LOCAL OR NATIONAL REGISTRY. BUT IT IS A BUT IT MEETS THE AGE REQUIREMENTS AND YEAH, I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT. THANKS. OKAY, GREAT. COMMISSIONER GARZA. SO MR. BUTLER, UH, THE LAST, UH, THE LAST, UH, VIEW, UH, SHOWED PARKING ACROSS THE STREET, UM, WHICH IS USED TO BE AS, AS THE GENTLEMAN SAID THAT USED TO BE YEAH. THE HALF PRICE BOOKS AND WHATEVER ELSE. AND SO IS THERE NOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRACT FOR PARKING LOT? I KNOW, BUT WHEN IS THE QUESTION? WE'VE NOTED THAT ALTHOUGH IT SHOWS ON, YOU KNOW, THE AERIAL, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A BIG SURFACE PARKING LOT. IT'S ACTUALLY USED AS A POP-UP AND IT OCCUPIES MOST OF THE SITES. SO THERE'S NOT A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO PARK THERE. THERE IS A PUBLIC PARKING LOT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF WESTHEIMER ABOUT A BLOCK NORTH. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER VICTOR. MR. BUTLER, HAVE WE GIVEN, UH, VARIANCES, PARKING VARIANCES FOR THESE OTHER PROJECTS THAT THE PREVIOUS SPEAKERS SPOKE ABOUT? UH, ARE THERE ALREADY CARS ON THE STREETS POTENTIALLY THAT WE HAVE GIVEN VARIANCES TO BESIDES THIS PROJECT? THE HANOVER, I, I, I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION, BUT I CAN CERTAINLY LOOK THAT UP IN . SO, SO WHEN WE DO, OR WHEN STAFF DOES ANALYSIS ON WHETHER TO APPROVE OR NOT THE PARKING ANALYSIS, DO WE, DO YOU GUYS LOOK INTO, UH, THE OTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AREA AND SEE WHAT POTENTIALLY THE OVERFLOW COULD BE FROM THE NEW DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED? IT DEPENDS ON THE REQUESTS. OKAY. UM, I, I THINK IN THIS CASE WE, WE GOT TO JUST THE, THE HARDSHIP OF THE EXISTING STRUCTURES THERE, THEY'RE NOT EASILY REMOVED OR ALTERED. AND THEN THE ASSETS AS FAR AS TRANSPORTATION, UH, WE, WE FELT THAT WAS ENOUGH TO SUPPORT, BUT WE DO, UH, SOMETIMES LOOK AT OTHER SIMILAR PROJECTS TO SEE. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER ROBBINS ARE IS THE PLAN TO USE THE EXISTING BUILDINGS? CORRECT. AND SO THE REASON THAT AND THE CURRENT, THE, UM, 101 SPACES PROVIDED ARE SUFFICIENT NOW OR GRANDFATHERED NOW? WELL, THEY'RE NOT, THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE TO OBTAIN A VARIANCE BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE RENOVATING THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE AND CHANGING THE TENANTS FOR, WITH THE NEW TENANT MIX. SO THEY'LL HAVE TECHNICALLY HAVE TO FOLLOW THE CURRENT PARKING REQUIREMENT. OKAY. AND I, I GUESS THAT'S MY QUESTION. THEY'RE LEAVING THE EXISTING STRUCTURES, THEY'RE RENOVATING THEM AND RETENANTING THEM. CORRECT. AND SO THE PERCENTAGE OR THE TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE OF RESTAURANT SPACE IS THE ISSUE? I MEAN, THEY'RE CONVERTING THE COPY.COM, WHICH IS A RETAIL USER AND BREAKING IT INTO SMALLER SPEC SPACES. AND SOME OF THOSE MIGHT BE RESTAURANT AND SOME OF THOSE MIGHT NOT. IS THAT THE ISSUE THEY HAVE? WELL, IT'S, IT'S NOT REALLY AN ISSUE AS FAR AS OUR, OUR RECOMMENDATION. THEY DO HAVE A, A GENERAL GUIDE OF THE, THE TYPES OF TENANTS THEY WANT TO ATTRACT. AND THAT'S, IT'S RELATED TO THE RECOMMENDATION IN THE SENSE THAT SOME OF THEM ARE MORNING INTENSIVE USE AS OTHERS AT THE AFTERNOON AND OTHERS ARE EVENING. SO THAT'S HOW THEY WANNA MANAGE THE, OKAY. SO ALL OF THAT IS, TO GET TO MY POINT, WHICH IS THE, THE BUILDINGS CURRENTLY EXIST MM. AND ARE GRANDFATHERED, THEY'RE TECHNICALLY NOT GRANDFATHER, BUT THEY, THEY'RE EXISTING BUILDINGS. CAN I, IF I, IF THEY WERE TO RETEN THEM WITH THE SAME USERS? WELL IF, IF THEY'RE NOT DOING ANY OF THE, THESE ALTERATIONS, THEN YEAH, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO KEEP THE EXISTING PART IF THEY WERE DOING ALTERATIONS, BUT LEAVING THE EXISTING TENANTS, IF THE TENANTS MOVED OUT AND THEY HAD TO PULL PERMITS TO DO RENOVATIONS, BUT THE TENANT PROFILE DIDN'T CHANGE, THEY WOULD BE IN COMPLIANCE. IS THAT CORRECT OR NOT? IN NOT, CORRECT. [02:00:01] GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR. MEMBERS OF PLANNING COMMISSION. MY NAME IS TI MATH. IF THE USERS AND THE USERS DID NOT CHANGE, THEY WILL BE GRANDFATHERED FOR THE USERS. OKAY. THE REASON FOR THE VARIANCES, BECAUSE OF THE INTENSITY OF THE USERS ARE CHANGING AND SO WHEN THE INTENSITY OF THE USE WILL CHANGE, THE USE CLASSIFICATION ARE CHANGING AND THAT IS THE REASON FOR THE VARIANCE. UNDERSTOOD. AND SO I GUESS WHAT, WHAT, WHAT I HAVE A HARD TIME RECONCILING ON SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS THEY DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THEIR USE CHANGES ARE YET. THEY'RE REDEVELOPING AND THEY HAVE, THEY ARE HOPING TO DRAW RESTAURANTS AND THEY'RE HOPING TO DRAW A COFFEE SHOP AND WHATEVER ELSE IT MAY BE, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TENANTS SIGNED UP YET. AND SO THEY'RE RENOVATING AND PUTTING MONEY INTO THE AREA AND MAKING THIS LOOK BETTER AND BE A BETTER PRODUCT. AND WE ARE KICKING THEM OUT OF THEIR CURRENT STATUS AND THEY'RE LOSING THEIR GRANDFATHER'S STATUS BECAUSE THEY MIGHT EVENTUALLY BE MORE RESTAURANTS IS BASICALLY THE ISSUE. CORRECT. WELL, RIGHT NOW, UH, TODAY THEY ARE REQUESTING A PLANNING, UH, VARIANCE FROM PARKING. WE ARE NOT KICKING THEM OUT OR IN OF ANY GRANDFATHER'S STATUS UNTIL THEY THANK START RENOVATING OR DOING ANYTHING TO, TO MAKE ANY CHANGES. WELL SAID. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND THEN, WHICH I'M CURIOUS, WHICH COUNCIL MEMBER ASKS THAT WE DEFER AND NOT APPROVE. HI, I'M KATE. I'M WITH COUNCIL MEMBER ABBY CAYMAN'S OFFICE. UM, WE WERE MAKING THE REQUEST FOR DEFERRAL FOR ADDITIONAL TIME FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND COMMENT. IT'S NOT BASED OFF OF PARTICULAR POSITION ON THE PROJECT. UM, WE ALWAYS FIND THAT YOU GUYS ARE INCREDIBLY THOROUGH AND RESPONSIVE TO, UM, PUBLIC COMMENTS. SO WE JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL TIME FOR OUR RESIDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN REACHING OUT. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OTHER QUESTIONS? YES, MR. HUNT. MR. BUTLER. THE, THE MATRIX FOR PARKING. UM, THERE, THERE, UH, SEVERAL, UM, UNITS THAT ARE IN GRAY ARE THOSE NO USAGE CHANGE AND IT'S REALLY THE, UH, FOUR ADDING A RESTAURANT, A SALON, UM, ANOTHER RESTAURANT. ANOTHER RESTAURANT ARE REALLY, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT THEY'RE PROPOSING LIKE A USE CHANGE. I DON'T KNOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SHADING. I, I ASSUME THAT ALL OF THESE ARE SPECULATIVE USES THAT THEY WANT TO HAVE FOR THE, THE DEVELOPMENT ONE'S COMPLETED. I CAN CLEAR A LOT OF THESE UP REAL QUICKLY. THE APPLICANT CAN ACTUALLY RESPOND TO THAT. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. EVAN PETERSON. UH, I'M THE PRINCIPAL AT REDONE CAPITAL, THE FIRM THAT DEVELOPED, UH, THE NEARBY MONTROSE COLLECTIVE. UH, JUST TO ANSWER SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS HERE TO COME HELP OUT. SO AS REGARD TO YOUR QUESTION, MR. ROBBINS, YOU KNOW, WE ARE COMMERCIALLY LEASING A CENTER, YOU KNOW, CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW WE HAVE, WELL WE DON'T WANNA PASS JUDGMENT ON HOW ANYONE DOES THEIR BUSINESS. YOU KNOW, CURRENTLY OUR TENANTS THAT ARE NOT GRANDFATHERED, WE'VE GOT ADAM AND EVE, THE SEX SHOP, SMOKE DREAMS, THE SMOKE SHOP, AND WE'RE KIND OF DOING A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A FAMILY ORIENTED APPROACH TO OUR DEVELOPMENT. SO IN RETAINING THOSE SPACES TO A COFFEE SHOP AND MAYBE A RESTAURANT, THAT'S PART OF OUR VARIANCE REQUEST AND OF OUR OVERALL GOAL. AND YOU KNOW, WITHOUT HAVING THIS VARIANCE SOLIDIFIED, IT'S HARD FOR US TO GO TO A TENANT, ASK THEM TO SPEND THOUSANDS OF LEGAL DOLLARS AND KIND OF TO REALLY MORE OR LESS KIND OF COMMIT TO THIS SPACE WITHOUT THIS BEING A GRAY AREA MORE OR LESS. AND THAT WAS REALLY TO MY POINT, WHICH IS IF IF WE'RE NOT GONNA GRANT A VARIANCE, THEN THESE USES ARE GOING TO STAY A COPY CENTER AND ADAM AND EVE AND A SMOKE SHOP. YEAH, I THINK IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE TOWER THEATER IS NOT GRANDFATHERED IN ITS PREVIOUS USE TO WHERE IT WAS A THEATER KIND OF, I THINK IT HAD ABOUT 400, 500 SEATS. ADAM AND EVE PRIOR TO BEING A RETAIL SHOP, WAS A SUSHI RESTAURANT AND A DINER, WHICH WE ARE NOT GETTING GRANDFATHER CREDIT FOR. SO IT PREVIOUSLY WAS THAT USE IN COPY.COM. THERE WAS PREVIOUSLY AN ICE CREAM SHOP, WHICH WE ARE NOT GETTING USED FOR. AND ALSO TOO, WE EVEN HAVE KUNG FU TEA WHO'S CURRENTLY OPERATING RIGHT NOW WHEN WE INHERITED THE CENTER UNDERNEATH A MERCANTILE CO. SO WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW IS WE'RE REALLY COMING TO YOU GUYS TRANSPARENTLY AND TRYING TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD LIKE THIS TO BE PROPERLY PERMITTED UNDERNEATH PARKING GUIDELINES. SO THAT'S PART OF OUR EFFORTS HERE. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY, THANK YOU. YEAH, IT'S ALSO TWO TO BE CLEAR, THE VARIANCE REQUEST IS FOR 55 SPACES, NOT A HUNDRED. YEAH. SO IT'S 55. YES MA'AM. 55 PARKING MATRIX IS CONFUSING. YEAH, I KNOW. IT'S, WE UNFORTUNATELY, WHICH IS WRONG. IS IT? IS THE SPACES REQUIRED WRONG? ARE YOU DEBRA QUINTERO? ARE YOU DEBRA QUINTERO? NO, I'M LISA BROWN. I'M THE APPLICANT. UM, OKAY, SO, UM, I WANTED TO CLARIFY THE MATRIX. SO WE'RE CURRENTLY PLANNING ON REDEVELOPING 33% OF THE PARKING, I MEAN, OF THE SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH IS WHERE THE NET 55 COMES FROM. SO IF YOU CHANGE NOTHING, [02:05:01] RIGHT, WE WOULD HAVE GRANDFATHER PARKING UNDER THE ORDINANCE, THE EXISTING SHOPPING CENTER, IF WE DID IT TODAY, WOULD NOT COMPLY. HOWEVER, JUST THAT 33% WOULD, WOULD REQUIRE 55 SPACES. THAT'S WHAT THE, THE VARIANCE IS FOR. CORRECT. SO, UM, THAT'S KIND OF THE GRAY AND THE BLUE I GUESS. IT DIDN'T PRINT, I GUESS IN COLOR. SO THE, THERE'S MOST OF THE, THE USES ARE NOT CHANGING ONLY A, A MINIMUM. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. I HAVE ANOTHER SPEAKER. DEBORAH QUINTERO. HELLO. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK LANE. I'M WITH WHAM. I LIVE IN THE WHAM CATCHMENT CIVIC ASSOCIATION. MOST OF MY NEIGHBORS HAVE SAID WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY. OUR PRESIDENT COULD NOT BE HERE TODAY AND I WAS, HAVE ALREADY EMAILED MY COMMENTS, BUT I CAME TO SUPPORT HER. SHE COULDN'T MAKE IT. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ABBY CAYMAN'S, PEOPLE FOR SHOWING UP. WE HAVE ALSO EMAILED SALLY ALCORN'S OFFICE. THEY HAVE RECEIVED MANY, MANY EMAILS FROM PEOPLE WHO PARTICULARLY LIVE. CAN WE ZOOM OUT ON THAT MAP JUST A LITTLE BIT TO SHOW HAWTHORNE STREET AT THE SOUTH HAWTHORNE STREET IS LIKE THE FIRST BIG RESIDENTIAL STREET OF WHAM. WE ARE THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE TO ALL THE COMMERCIAL THAT COMES DOWN ON HAWTHORNE HAW, UH, HAWTHORNE STREET CANNOT TAKE ON ANY MORE PARKING. AND THIS PICTURE'S VERY OLD. UM, COVENANT HOUSE IS RAMPING UP. WE KNOW SKASKA IS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THEIR THING ON THE CORNER. WE ARE HOPING SOUTHEASTERN WHO OWNS KROGER AS WE'RE WAITING FOR THEM TO START UP. WE DO GET THE GUESTS IN RESIDENCE FROM THE HANOVER. GUESTS IN RESIDENCE FROM COLUMBIA OR WHAT? UM, SO I DO SOUND LIKE I'M REPEATING MYSELF FROM MY NEIGHBORS. WHAT, UH, WAS NOT MENTIONED ARE ALL THE ILLEGAL SHORT-TERM RENTALS WE HAVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE ALL THOSE GUESTS SHOW UP AND PARK ON THE STREET. AND WE EVEN HAVE SOME HOUSES THAT ARE ILLEGAL WEDDING EVENT VENUE RECEPTION PLACES. AND SO ALL THEIR GUESTS WHO ARE COMING FOR A PARTY OR AN EVENT PARK ON HAWTHORNE STREET, MOUNT VERNON AND ALL THESE STREETS THAT ARE SOUTH. I MEAN, THIS SAYS THE PROPERTIES, PARKING AREAS TO THE SOUTH ARE TYPICALLY VACANT THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. IT'S LIKE I AM THE SOUTH AND I DON'T KNOW THAT PICTURE WHERE COVENANT HOUSE IS COMPLETELY FLAT. Y'ALL NEED TO COME ON OVER AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW. YOU CANNOT GET THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION. THANK YOU. WE'VE APPLIED FOR PERMITTED PARKING. THEY SAID CONSTRUCTION'S ONLY TEMPORARY. NO, IT'S CONSTANT. HANOVER COLOM OR KROGER SKASKA. IT'S THE PAST. IT'S THE PRESENT. IT'S THE FUTURE. HANOVER STREET, I MEAN HAWTHORNE STREET IN WHAM. AND OUR NEIGHBORS CANNOT TAKE ON ANY MORE OF THIS. FREE FOR ALL PARKING. THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MR. BUTLER, COULD YOU PUT A RECOMMENDATION ON THE SCREEN PLEASE? IS TO DEFER RIGHT? DEFER RIGHT. LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT. I THOUGHT THAT WHERE WE WERE GOING, THE ONE ON THE SCREEN WON'T BE ACCURATE. YEAH. 'CAUSE THE SCREEN WILL SAY APPROVED. OKAY. SO THERE'S A, A RECOMMENDATION FOR DEFERRAL. DO I HAVE A MOTION? MOTION HEINS. MOTION HINES. SECOND. SECOND TO HEAR. ALL IN FAVOR A. AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. OKAY, LAST THING ON [VII. Public Comment] THE AGENDA IS PUBLIC COMMENTS. I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK? I JUST WOULD FREE. COULD YOU SAY YOUR NAME, STATE YOUR NAME PLEASE. EVAN PETERSON. THANK YOU. PARDON? THERE YOU GO. THERE WE GO. EVAN PETERSON. YEAH, NO, I JUST WANTED TO, I DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AND I JUST WANTED TO COME UP AND TELL YOU GUYS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR DEVELOPMENT. YOU KNOW, UH, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR TIME TODAY. I'LL TRY AND KEEP THIS BRIEF, BUT, UH, WE ACQUIRED THE TOWER THEATER AT THE END OF LAST YEAR AND I THINK I'VE ALREADY TOUCHED ON THE PRIOR USES THAT ARE THERE. BUT, YOU KNOW, UH, WE'VE KIND OF, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF DEVELOP IN THE AREA. WE'VE DONE MONTROSE COLLECTIVE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN SENSITIVE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU KNOW, WE ARE, WE'RE MORE THAT HEAR THESE PEOPLE BUT, AND UNDERSTAND RIGHT NOW THEY'RE CONCERNED WITH CONSTRUCTION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SO WE'RE GONNA MAKE THE COMMITMENT THAT ANYONE DOING CONSTRUCTION ON OUR PROJECT, WE'LL PARK ON SITE. AS MENTIONED, WE'RE NOT ADDING AN ADDITIONAL SQUARE FOOT AT THIS DEVELOPMENT AT ALL. WE'RE JUST TRYING TO RETEN IT WITH MORE KIND OF HIGHER AND BEST USE TENANTS WITHIN THE AREA. UH, YOU KNOW, THE TOWER THEATER IS A HISTORIC SITE THAT WE INTEND ON PRESERVING AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE FELL IN LOVE WITH THE PROPERTY AND WHY WE ACQUIRED IT. AND WE'RE TRYING TO BRING IT BACK TO ITS PRIOR GLORY WITH THESE FAMILY FRIENDLY BUSINESSES THAT I TALKED ON. YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALSO AT THE INTERSECTION OF TWO BIKEWAYS AND ALSO TWO THE HIGHEST TRA HIGHEST, ONE OF THE HIGHEST USED METRO LINES IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON, THE 82. SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S HONESTLY SURPRISING THAT MONTROSE HASN'T HAD A SPECIAL PARKING DISTRICT YET AT THIS POINT [02:10:01] IN KIND OF THIS AREA ALONG WESTHEIMER. SO I THINK FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING, AND ALSO TOO, IF YOU LOOK AT OUR SITE WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WE'RE KIND OF ON AN ISLAND COMMERCIALLY. HAWTHORNE IS TO THE SOUTH FOR THE MOST PART, BUT EVEN THOUGH THE MAJORITY OF THOSE HOUSES ON THAT STREET ARE TECHNICALLY MULTIFAMILY VIA THE TOWN HOME DESIGNATION. SO THE WAY WE SEE IT IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HELP MITIGATE THIS AS WELL. WE ARE LEASING PARKING FROM SCAN CITY NEXT DOOR. THEY'RE UNWILLING TO RECORD A LEASE WITH US. BUT JUST AS A KIND OF MOVE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WE ARE RECORDING, WE ARE, UH, LEASING ADDITIONAL PARKING INITIALLY TOO. WE'RE GONNA BE PARKING SMART PARKING STRATEGIES VIA FREE VALET AND OTHER WAYS TO THE SITE. SO I PROMISE YOU THAT WE HEAR THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE'RE GONNA DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MITIGATE THE PARKING IN THIS AREA AND TO KIND OF CREATE A TRANSFORMATIONAL PROJECT FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU PROBABLY GET, SHOULD GO WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBER'S OFFICE. YEAH, WE'RE MEETING WITH MS. KADEN. RIGHT? THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANY QUESTIONS? HEY, I'LL JUST LIKE TO ADD, UM, EVAN, RIGHT? YES, SIR. MR. HUNTS, UM, YOU SAID THESE PEOPLE, THESE ARE YOUR NEIGHBORS? YES, SIR. SO LANGUAGE MATTERS AND I WOULD JUST SAY UNDERSTOOD. UNDERSTOOD YOUR NEIGHBORS, NOT THESE PEOPLE. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND WITH THAT WE WILL ADJOURN THIS MEETING AT 4:44 PM NO MOTION TO ADJOURN? NO. NO, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I DO. NO NEW REGIME. DON'T NEED A MOTION TO ADJOURN. YOU WANNA KEEP GOING? * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.