HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_P&Z_05.05.1998_a1. The public convenience and welfare will be substantially served by providing for setting aside additional parking
spaces and providing for more efficient traffic circulation to the administrative facility; and
reducing the overall cost of the school without degrading the overall performance of the
school; and
2. The appropriate use of surrounding property will not be substantially or permanently impaired
or diminished because the variance provides additional parking areas and separates
employee and school traffic; and because open space does not require additional
landscaping; and
3. The applicant has not created the hardship from which relief is sought because a similar
variance to the required number of parking spaces was approved for the Georgetown Village
elementary school site and the drive access onto Georgetown Inner Loop allows more
efficient access between the school and administrative offices; and because of the
agricultural nature of the property, there’s no existing vegetation, so the applicant hasn’t
created that lack of vegetation; and
4. The variances will not confer upon the applicant a special right or privilege not commonly
shared or available to the owners of similar and surrounding property because similar
variances have been granted in circumstances of this nature for both parking and
landscaping; and
5. The hardship from which relief is sought is not solely of an economic nature because the site
plan provides for additional parking areas and more efficient traffic circulation; and because
the shared uses of the different buildings allows for the parking areas to be better utilized in
different usage requirements, you wouldn’t need additional parking or plantings because of
this; and
6. The variances are not contrary to the public interest because it will address parking and
traffic concerns; and because reducing the overall cost of the school, definitely everyone is
interested in; and
7. Due to special conditions, the literal enforcement of the ordinance would result in an
unnecessary hardship, those special conditions being additional parking areas and
eliminates the need for vehicles traveling between the school and offices to negotiate the
FM971/Georgetown Inner Loop intersection; and because the taxpayers would otherwise
have to pay for the landscaping; and
8. In granting the variance the spirit of the ordinance is observed and substantial justice is
done."