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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
AUGUST 14-1984
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The Schertz City Council convened in Special Meeting, Tuesday,
August 14, 1984, at 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers, 1400 Live
Oak Road, with the following members present: Mayor Earl W.
Sawyer, presiding, Charles B. Sharpe, Hal Baldwin; Ross Hoover;
Adolph Aguilar and Ken Greenwald. Staff were City Manager Jimmy
G. Gilmore and City Secretary June G. Krause.
PRESENTATION: Mayor Sawyer introduced Mrs. Ann Richard,
representing the Schertz Business Club, who presented a plaque
to Russell Bundy as the Employee of the Quarter. After the
presentation, Mayor Sawyer told Officer Bunde that the City was
real proud of him for the off-duty work he had accomplished in
behalf of the City.
PUBLIC ZONING HEARING: The Schertz City Council and the Planning
and Zoning Commission jointly held a public zoning hear ing to
receive input from the public on Zoning Change #58, #59 and #60.
He then turned the hearing over to Mr. Tom Yarling, Vice-Chairman
of the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Mr. Yarling explained that the three items would be taken
separately.
;- A. Zoning Change #58 - Mr. Yarling said this is a request
by Charlie Kucherka to rezone approximately 2.7 acres of land
from Single Family Dwelling District (R-l) to Neighborhood
Services (NS). He then asked Mr. Earl Hartzog to point out on
the plat the location of this requested change.
Mr. Kucherka said he was a local Realtor and introduced his son
Dennis, a builder in the Seguin area. Mr. Kucherka said they
requested the Neighborhood services classification and would like
to put in some professional offices on the property, which would
include doctors, dentists, realtors, lawyers, etc.. He said that
they feel that with all the residential construction in this
area, there will be a need for these types of businessess. He
went on to say they plan to keep as many of the trees as
possible.
Mr. Yarling asked for comments either pro or con from the
audience.
Mrs. Sue Medinger and Mr. Pat White both questioned the
definition of Neighborhood Services. Mr. Hartzog read the long
list of business that could fall under this category according to
the zoning ordinance. After which, both Mrs. Medinger and Mr.
White stated they were against the rezoning.
r- Mr. Clyde Dishong felt there might be a need for these businesses
but they should be located centrally somewhere else. Also a man
from Greenfield Village suggested another location.
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The citizens brought out the additional traffic problems this
would create, especially if Mr. Kucherka added two additional
entrances from FM 3009. Council discussed using just the one
entrance belonging to Mr. Rubin Beck, of which Mr. Kucherka has
unconditional use, to keep down the number of entrances/exits
from FM 3009. Mr. Kucherka said he would work closely with both
the City and the Highway Department on this.
Mr. Dennis Kucherka said that that very afternoon there was a
meeting of developers, City and Highway Department officials,
looking at creating a very attractive entryway to Schertz. They
discussed types of building materials, slow down lanes as well as
the number of entrances off FM 3009.
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Councilmembers then discussed these different aspects with Mr.
Kucherka. There were no additional comments from P&Z members.
Mr. Yarling closed this public hearing at 7:32 P.M and
immediately opened the next hearing.
B. Zoning Change .59 - a proposal to rezone approximately
513 acres of land from Predevelopment (PD) to Industrial District
(M-l).
Mr. Hartzong again pointed out on the map the location of this
513 acres of land, that was recently annexed into the city, as D
being off FM 3009 and between the Missouri Pacific and Missouri-
Kansas-Texas Railroad tracks.
The only citizens to speak on this zoning change was Mr. Adolph
Scheele, who owns 83 acres of land in this area. He said he had
no objection to the zoning change as it should be all industrial.
There being no comments from either Councilmembers or P&Z
members, the zoning hearing was declared closed at 7:38 P.M. by
Mr. Yarling, who then opened the next zoning hearing.
C. Zoning Change 160 - a request by Leon Parker to rezone
approximately 70 acres of land from Predevelopment District (PD)
to Mobile Home Distr ict (MH) with permission for a low water
crossing across the Cibolo Creek.
Mr. Neil Fisher, representing Mr. Parker, explained this property
is immediately behind the Reidel Trailer Park. They propose a 50
foot street down the east side of this property from FM 78 all
the way to the Cibolo Creek, where they wish to put in a low-
water crossing. He estimated this crossing would flood
approximately one time every five years. They plan to up-grade
the existing mobile home park with curb, drainage etc. and
continue into the new area in the rear. At this time the
existing mobile home park is connected to city water and sewer D
and they plan to continue that into the new park.
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Mr. Quinton stanton, said he was an attorney representing Mrs.
Burgess, who owns land to the south of the area in question.
Their concern mainly was that the access road now available to
this property is only a 30 foot gravel road and they can for see
terrific traffic use of this road. Mr. Fisher said they do not
plan to use that road, except as an emergency exit in the case of
flooding. Mr. stanton was also concerned with who would be
taking care of the low water crossing to keep it clear. Mr.
Fisher said if they keep it, the developer would, otherwise they
would dedicate it to the City, who would maintain it.
There were about six additional citizens who spoke against this
proposed zoning. They were mainly concerned about the access
road use, traff ic, k ids from the park going on their property,
derelicts and drunks causing trouble for them, poachers, and
trespassers. They also mentioned that when they bought their
property, they were told by Bexar County they could only have
three mobile homes on ten acres and now this man wants to put in
a mobile home park right next door.
Mr. fisher ~ explained that the mobile homes will be out of the
floodplain area and only RVs will be allowed in the floodplain.
After final discussion by Council and P&Z members, the public
zoning hearing was closed at 8:23 P.M.
;- Mayor Sawyer declared a short recess at this time.
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SPECIAL BRIEFING: Mayor Sawyer said that rather than have a
joint briefing, Mr. Gilmore would brief Council and Mr. Hartzog
would brief Planning and Zoning members in the Conference Room.'
Mr. Gilmore said that he had called a planning session with all
the land owners and developers along FM 3009 to discuss
development and get their input. There were between 35 and 40
people present, including representatives of the Department of
Highways and Public Transportation. Discussed widening FM3009 to
fi ve lanes with curb and gutters, an overlay zoning distr ict
which does not change the existing zoning but adds additional
restr ictions to the current distr icts. This take into
consideration air traffic, detention ponds, and landscape buffer
areas, establishes requirements for flood hazards. Mr. Gilmore
said they were fortunate to have Mr. Risinger out of Dallas to
present slides showing what we would like to do.
Mayor Sawyer said this is a start on the ordinance that Council
asked for.
Mr. Gilmore said the Highway representatives did present their
i plans for FM 3009, which would cost over two million dollars -
the City's share would be abou,t $248,000. Various ideas were
thrown out to the owners and developers and they have agreed to
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sit down and work with the city. They felt we were heading in
the right direction, that we can now 'act' rather than 'react'.
Overall they were for it, they will participate in it and will
support it. A sub-committee has been set up to work with the
planning. We will have another planning meeting with developers
in late September.
#1 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Mr. Sharpe moved to approve the
minutes of the Regular Meeting of July 10, Regular Meeting of
July 17, Special Meeting of July 25, and Special Meeting of
August 1, 1984. Mr. Greenwald seconded the motion, which carried
with the following vote:
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AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Baldwin, Hoover, Aguilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
12 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: One gentleman asked what time
frame Council was talking about in widening FM 3009. Mr. Gilmore
said the district Highway officials would first have to draw up
the plans and then forward them to the State for approval and
fund allocations - probably within five years.
13 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced an ordinance
approving the FY 1984-85 budget and read the caption as follows:
AN ORDINANCE
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PROVIDING FUNDS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING
OCTOBER 1, 1984, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30,
1985, BY APPROVING THE BUDGET FOR SAID PERIOD
AND APPROPRIATING THE NECESSARY FUNDS OUT OF
THE GENERAL AND OTHER REVENUES OF THE CITY OF
SCHERTZ, TEXAS, FOR SAID YEAR FOR THE
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF THE VARIOUS
DEPARTMENTS AND FOR VARIOUS ACTIVITIES AND
IMPROVEMENTS OF THE CITY, AND DECLARING AND
EMERGENCY.
Mr. Sharpe moved to approve funding for Fiscal Year beginning
October 1, 1984 and ending September 30, 1985 as shown in the
ordinance, as an emergency measure. Mr. Greenwald seconded the
motion.
Mr. Sharpe questioned the total amount of the budget as listed in
Section 1. Mr. Gilmore said it should include only the water and
sewer and general fund expenditures and Mrs. Krause had also
included SAFES. The correct figure should be $2,222,917, and it
will be corrected.
Mr. Baldwin said this is an excellent budget - it has some things
in it this year that we have needed including base rates that 0
should make it easier to retain our people. He said he was
concerned about the Councils continually pumping money into the
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General Fund from Water and Sewer. One thing about taxation is
that it gives people an opportunity to have a say about it, when
taxes go up to a certain level. The shifting of this money is
taking the liability of the tax payers and transferring it to the
water payers. If we are transferr ing money in lieu of taxes,
then the Water and Sewer is the biggest tax payer in the city. I
am not for shifting from Water and Sewer to General Fund.
Mr. Aguilar said he has always felt that the burden should be
held by everyone equally. If you raise taxes on your property,
this is what you are going to pay per iod, and there are more
water users than property owners, therefore the bill is spread
out and everyone shares the burden of the city. If you don't
want to pay, then you conserve on water, which is what we are
trying to get people to do.
Mr. Sharpe said that the city Council in the past months has
granted senior citizens exemptions on taxes. Again, I share the
thought to put the dollar value on water. One of the things we
should do is conserve - year around you can conserve if you so
desire.
Mayor Sawyer then called for a vote on the motion before Council
and the motion carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Baldwin, Hoover, Aguilar and
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\ NAYS: None
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i4 EXECUTIVE SESSION: None needed.
i5 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: A letter received concerning
Emergency Management - there will be a workshop in New Braunfels
at the Civic Center on September 26, 1984 from 8:30 - 4:00 PM.
They are asking the Councils, Fire Chiefs, police Chiefs, Public
works Officials, etc. to attend to discuss plans for disasters.
Have receive a letter from BVYA thanking the City and making
comments on the recently held tournaments. They state that the
people from out of city and state could not see how a city our
size could have such fine facilities.
Also received a letter from the Library Board of Grimes County.
They had come down to see our library operations. Mrs. Moore, a
library volunteer prepared a very nice luncheon for all present.
Mrs. Moore also made cookies, punch and coffee for the meeting
held there this afternoon.
i6 ITEMS BY COUNCIL: Mr. Sharpe reported that the Texas
sesquicentennial Commission has approved our plan and to kick
this off we are having meetings Thursday at 10:00 am and 7:30 pm
to start putting some teeth into the plans and work out details.
He invited other Councilmembers and the public to either meeting.
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Mr. Baldwin asked about the dirt piles on Lindberg - could the
dirt be shoveled out of the street. Other Councilmembers agreed.
Mr. Hoover reported a vehicle jacked up at a residence on
Exchange and asked that it be checked with our recently passed
ordinance.
Mr. Aguilar asked the latest report on East Live Oak Road. Mr.
Gilmore said we are getting the last releases and they will be
given to the state. The hOld-up has been getting the right of
way from two or three owners.
Mr. Aguilar also said he has heard of some type of development
going in across Dietz Road from CCMA. Mr. Gilmore said he had
heard rumors too, but this area is not in our city but in the
extraterritorial jurisdiction of Cibolo.
Mr. Greenwald said the dumpster still has not been placed at the
small pavilion. Also he reported that the pavement at the
intersection of Curtiss and' Live Oak is sinking again and
becoming a traffic hazard.
.7 ITEMS BY MAYOR: Mr. Sawyer said he had received a
certified letter from the Mayor of Converse stating that they are
starting their ambulance service on September 1, 1984. They
complimented SAFES and hoped to have continued good relations.
.8 ADJOURNMENT: On a motion by Mr. Baldwin, seconded by
Mr. Greenwald and unanimously carried, the meeting was declared
adjourned at 9:26 P.M.
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