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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_P&Z_01.04.20051 of 5 CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS MINUTES PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2005, 6:00 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS 101 E. 7TH STREET, GEORGETOWN, TEXAS 78626 Members Present: Johnny Anderson, Chair; Audrey McDonald, Secretary; Marlene McMichael, William Moore, Jennifer Shield, and Harry Gibbs. Alternates: Sarah Milburn, Don Padfield. Members Absent: Brian Ortego; Russell Phillips, Alternate. Staff Present: Amelia Sondgeroth, Director of Planning & Development Services; David Munk, Development Engineer; Carla Benton, Development Planner; Melissa McCollum, Development Planner; Bobby Ray, Chief Current Planner; Ed Polasek, Chief-Long Range Planner; Rhonda Conklin, Recording Secretary. Chair Anderson called the meeting to order at 6:03 p.m. Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Commissioner Anderson stated the order of the meeting and that those who speak must turn in a speaker form to the recording secretary before the item that they wish to address begins. Each speaker will be permitted to address the Commission one time only for a maximum of three (3) minutes, unless otherwise agreed to before the meeting begins. Regular Session - To begin no earlier than 6:00 p.m. 1. Action from Executive Session. There were no executive session items. Consent Agenda The Consent Agenda includes non-controversial and routine items that the Commission may act on with one single vote. A Commissioner or any member of the public may request that any item from the Consent Agenda be pulled in order that the Commission discuss and act upon it individually as part of the Regular Agenda. The Planning and Zoning Commission's approval of an item on the Consent Agenda will be consistent with the staff recommendation described in the report, unless otherwise noted. 2. Consideration of the Minutes of the December 7, 2004 regular meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission. There were no corrections to the minutes. Motion by Shield to approve the minutes as written. Second by McDonald. Motion passed 7 - 0. Regular Agenda 3. Public Hearing and possible action on a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to amend the Land Use Map from Residential, designated for multi-family use, to Light Industrial for the Amended Plat of Madison Oaks, Phase I, Block B, Lot 4 and Madison Oaks, Phase II, Block B, Lot 5, located on Madison Oaks Avenue. 2 of 5 Staff report was given by Ed Polasek. Applicant would like to amend the Land Use Map from multi-family use, to light industrial use to allow heavy commercial, assembly, warehouse and manufacturing type uses. The intent is to put a wholesale retail lumberyard on that property. The property had been previously zoned from light industrial to multi-family for potential development of an apartment complex. A portion of the land was dedicated as parkland use, which was never developed because the multi-family use was never developed. The applicant is going through a public hearing process with the Parks Board and City Council to get approval to take a rail spur from the Georgetown railroad across parkland to this property. Staff is in support of this, taking into account that the applicant is taking this industrial park back to an industrial park designation and eliminating potential multi-family in an industrial park. Staff recommends approval of the Century Plan Amendment. Motion by Shield to recommend to City Council approval of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to amend the Land Use Map from Residential, designated for multi-family use, to Light Industrial for the Amended Plat of Madison Oaks, Phase I, Block B, Lot 4 and Madison Oaks, Phase II, Block B, Lot 5, located on Madison Oaks Avenue. Second by McMichael. Approved 7-0. 4. Public Hearing and possible action on a Rezoning from C1, Local Commercial District to IN, Industrial District for the Amended Plat of Madison Oaks, Phase I, Block B, Lot 4 and from MF, Multifamily District to IN, Industrial District for Madison Oaks, Phase II, Block B, Lot 5 located on Madison Oaks Avenue. Staff report was given by Bobby Ray. Directly related to the Land Use Plan Amendment, is a rezoning request for two parcels. The larger parcel approximately 14 acres in size, is currently zoned for Multi-Family and the smaller lot to the west of that is currently zoned for C1 local commercial. The Phase II subdivision, the easterly subdivision was platted for multi-family development, which did have parkland dedicated to the north as part of that subdivision and the MF for Multi-Family that was applied at the time that the subdivision was intended to implement that development proposal. Lot 4, which is the smaller, westerly lot is currently zoned C1 local commercial and that zoning district was intended to serve as a transitional zone between the heavier industrial zone along Austin Avenue and the Multi-Family zoning in the Phase II subdivision to serve as a buffer for a transition between the two. The applicant is seeking to rezone these two parcels to Industrial, which is the implementation zoning for the light industrial land use designation, in order to accommodate a proposed lumberyard at this location. Staff is supportive of the rezoning request on the basis that the industrial district is consistent with the industrial zoned properties along Austin Avenue, west of the site, and is generally compatible with the area. Motion by Gibbs to recommend to City Council approval of Rezoning from C1, Local Commercial District to IN, Industrial District for the Amended Plat of Madison Oaks, Phase I, Block B, Lot 4 and from MF, Multifamily District to IN, Industrial District for Madison Oaks, Phase II, Block B, Lot 5 located on Madison Oaks Avenue. Second by McMichael. Approved 7-0. 5. Public Hearing and possible action on a partial vacation of the Amended Plat of Madison Oaks, Phase I, Block B, Lot 4 and Madison Oaks, Phase II, Block B, Lot 5, located on Madison Oaks Avenue. 3 of 5 Staff report was given by Melissa McCollum. This plat is currently recorded in Williamson County. With that are Exhibit B1 and B2, (the front page of these recorded plats.) There are many plat notes and references to the nature of multi-family use. If the zoning and land use are changed and the rail spur is obtained, these notes would not be applicable to that site. Staff is proposing a vacation of Madison Oaks, Phase II, Lot 5, which is a 14 acre tract as well as on Exhibits B2, Madison Oaks, Phase I, Lot 4, which is 2.412 acres. The site is a total of a little over 16 acres. These are the same two tracts that Ed Polasek is looking to change the Land Use on and Bobby Ray is talking about rezoning. With that we would be vacating those two lots and they would be returned back to vacant unplated land and then the applicant would come through with a plat for that property. That would negate all the plat notes for that property. The rest on the plat would remain in tact as it is now. If Lot 5 is vacated the multi-family status would be lost and returned back to unplated land. The applicant, David Starr was present to answer any questions and gave an overview of the proposed project. Motion by McMichael to recommend approval of partial vacation of the Amended Plat of Madison Oaks, Phase I, Block B, Lot 4 and Madison Oaks, Phase II, Block B, Lot 5, located on Madison Oaks Avenue. Second by McDonald. Approved 7-0. 6. Public Hearing and possible action on a Rezoning from AG, Agricultural and OF, Office District to C-3, General Commercial District for 5.04 acres in the Joseph P. Pulsifer Survey, located east of the intersection of State Highway 29 and River Chase Boulevard. Item #6 was withdrawn by applicant. 7. Public Hearing and possible action on a Rezoning of 21.198 acres in the Fredrick Foy Survey from AG, Agriculture district to PUD, Planned Unit Development, to be known as the Planned Unit Development of Sun City Georgetown, Neighborhood Nineteen, located west of Sun City Boulevard at Armstrong Drive. Staff report was given by Melissa McCollum. This is the next development that has come in for Sun City Georgetown, Neighborhood Nineteen. It is a 21.198 acre tract. They are proposing a tract of 59 single family units. They are in conformance with the standards that are required for the PUD application and staff is recommending approval of this rezoning from Agriculture to PUD. They are currently in the city limits. Motion by McDonald to approve recommendation to City Council for approval on a Rezoning of 21.198 acres in the Fredrick Foy Survey from AG, Agriculture district to PUD, Planned Unit Development, to be known as the Planned Unit Development of Sun City Georgetown, Neighborhood Nineteen, located west of Sun City Boulevard at Armstrong Drive. Second by Shield. Approved 7-0. 8. Consideration and possible action on a Public Review Final Plat for 21.198 acres in the Fredrick Foy Survey to be known as the Planned Unit Development of Sun City Georgetown, Neighborhood Nineteen, located west of Sun City Boulevard at Armstrong Drive. Staff report was given by Melissa McCollum. This plat goes along with the Rezoning of Sun City Georgetown, Neighborhood Nineteen, item number 7. They are proposing a total of 59 residential single family units. These will all be detached single family units. They are surrounded by Neighborhood 20A and future sections. 4 of 5 Applicant, Rainer Ficken was present to answer any questions and gave an overview of the proposed project. Motion by McDonald on a Public Review Final Plat for 21.198 acres in the Fredrick Foy Survey to be known as the Planned Unit Development of Sun City Georgetown, Neighborhood Nineteen, located west of Sun City Boulevard at Armstrong Drive. Second by Milburn. Approved 7-0. 9. Comments from Director. The most significant case presented to City Council on December 14, 2004 that generated discussion was the Preliminary Plat for subdivision Shadow Canyon, which had a waiver from the driveway spacing requirement and the Planning and Zoning Commission did recommend that to the Council. Council approved the waiver, but there was a lot of discussion. Staff presented the Planning and Zoning recommendation and answered questions with regard to that waiver. All of the other items that went from the December Planning and Zoning Agenda were approved by the Council. Council has requested that a representative of Planning and Zoning Commission be present at City Council to voice reasoning when an item from Planning Staff has been overturned by P&Z. Amelia invited Chairman to elaborate on this point. Johnny Anderson indicated that a City Council member suggested that it was probably not appropriate for the applicant to make the Planning and Zoning Commission’s case of why they did not agree with the staff recommendation. The Planning and Zoning Commission needs to provide some feedback in terms of a representative to speak at the Council when such topic arises if recommendation is different from that of staff. If it is not feasible for a Planning and Zoning Commissioner to attend, then the Planning and Zoning Commission should provide written feedback to Council as to what their thought rationale was. Amelia reminded Planning and Zoning Commission of the January 12, 2005 Conservation Design Workshop at Southwestern University. She did request a formal RSVP as space is limited. It was requested that Rhonda Conklin, Recording Secretary submit a communication to Planning and Zoning Commission reminding them of the workshop and formally requesting RSVP. Commissioners were reminded that parking would be provided downtown between 9th and 10th, with a shuttle that will transport participants to Southwestern University. Amelia reported that we do not as yet have a final date on the upcoming road trip as she is still waiting to hear from a few Council members. She should be able to confirm a date by the beginning of next week. Tentative dates were February 10, 11, 17 or 25, the last three weekends in February. 10. Discussion and possible action regarding "2005 P&Z Work Plan" Chairman Anderson followed up with a continuation of the discussion we had last meeting on putting together a work plan that describes and outlines what our priorities are and what we will work on for 2005. We had a number of suggested topics since last meeting. Based on feedback from other Commissioners, there are three main areas to work on. These areas would be split out into sub-groups and comprise of A.) Revision of the Comprehensive Plan, B.) the Transite Oriented Development Program and C.) Redevelopment of the corner of Williams Drive and I-H 35 and what can be done to improve Williams Drive from I-H 35 to Lakeway Drive. A fourth item would possibly be to provide some guidance on 2005 Capital Improvements Budget. Johnny requested Commissioners sign up for sub-groups to develop a plan and present to Planning and 5 of 5 Zoning Commission. It was noted that Commissioners could volunteer for as many sub-groups that they would like, including alternates. Harry Gibbs chose to address A and B, Don Padfield chose B, Jenni Shield, Sarah Milburn, and Marlene Michael chose to address C, Johnny Anderson and Will Moore chose to address A, Brian Ortego chose to address B and Russell Phillips chose to address A. Rhonda Conklin, Recording Secretary would email Commissioners confirming which sub-group they volunteered for. She will notify the Director and Chairman of notification requirements. City Attorney said she would have to re-read by-laws on whether or not we have to post when meeting as a sub-group. We may have to post public hearings at City Hall when sub-groups plan on meeting. 11. Comments from Commissioners. No further comments. Motion by Gibbs to adjourn. Second by Milburn. Meeting adjourned at 7:03 p.m. _______________________________ __________________________________ Approved, Johnny Anderson, Chair Attested, Audrey McDonald, Secretary