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REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
SEPTEMBER 3, 1985
The Schertz City Council convened in Regular Session, Tuesday,
September 3, 1985, at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 1400
Live Oak Road. The following members were present: Mayor Earl
W. Sawyer, presiding; Charles B. Sharpe; Hal Baldwin; Ray
Stanhope; Adolph Aguilar and Ken Greenwald. Staff present were
City Manager 'Jimmy G. Gilmore and City Secretary June G. Krause.
JOINT PUBLIC HEARING: Mayor Sawyer welcomed everyone to the
meeting and explain~d the City Council and Planning and Zoning
Commission members were holding a joint public hear ing. The
purpose of the hearing was to receive input from the public on a
rezoning request by Morton Southwest for a 105 acre tract of land
from Single Family Dwelling District (R-l and R-2) to General
Business and Planned Unit Development (PUD). He then turned the
hearing over to Mr. Tom Yar1ing, Chairman of the Planning and
Zoning Commission.
Mr. Yarling said that, as stated, this hearing was to receive
input from citizens on Zoning Change No. 72. No input will be
received after this hearing is closed. According to our
ordinance, Planning and Zoning has ten daxs in which to make a
recommendation to the City Council, who w1ll act on the request
at their next regular meeting after that. The procedures for the
hearing will be to first have an orientation by staff; then the
owner will give his presentation and then questions and comments
from the public will be heard.
Mr. Hartzog showed a plat of the area, which is located on Jack
Hays Boulevard between Woodland Oaks and Savannah Square
Subdivisions. A portion of this area is already zoned General
Business. There were 24 property owners notifed of the hearing,
with no letters being returned. The petition for zoning was
circulated among the various departments, with no problems being
noted. We do have the facilities to service the area.
Mr. Wendell Davis, representing Morton Southwest, presented their
rezoning request and pointed out on the plat the main entrance,
stub-out streets and stated the drainage would be in accordance
with the ordinance. They are asking for a planned unit
development on 105 acres with minimum lot size of 5500 square
feet for the single family lots.
There were two citizens speaking: Mr. John Gallagher of Woodland
Oaks and Mr. Wayne Kinzel of Autumn Winds. Neither of these men
had any objection to the rezoning request.
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Council questioned Mr. Davis on the lot sizes, which he said were
compatible with the adjoining property. Although he is asking
for 5500 square foot lots, of course the lots would vary in size 0
according to the topography - he just would not have any smaller ('
than the 5500 square feet. Mr. Davis did say that he would bring
the subject of larger lots up to Morton Southwest.
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There being no further questions, Mr. Yarling said that the
planning and Zoning has ten days in which to make a
recommendation to the city Council and then the Council would act
at their next regular meeting after that.
Mayor Sawyer declared the Joint Public Hear ing closed at 7: 22
p.m. and called for a short recess.
The Regular Meeting was reconvened at 7:29 p.m.
PUBLIC HE~ING: Mayor Sawyer explained this public hearing was
to receive input from citizens on the proposed annexation of
approximately 88.9 acres of land out of Comal County.
Mr. Gilmore pointed out the area on the map, showing it to be off
135 at Schwab Road. The entire area is to be utilized; however
the middle section is all that is not already in the city limits.
There were no citizens wishing to speak for or against this
proposed annexation.
Mayor Sawyer closed the public hearing at 7:30 p.m.
#1 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: A. Special Meeting of August 14
and B. Regular Meeting of August 20,1985.
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I Council requested the minutes of August 14th be corrected as
I follows:
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Page 249, item #5, paragraph three, first sentence should
correctly read:
"Mr. Sharpe said a question had come up concerning if we are
going to have Borgfeld Road open prior to opening of school."
The next paragraph should correctly read: "Mr. Sharpe also asked
about the lack of sidewalks at Sabastin Apartments and the fact
that we required the Sycamore Creek Apartment owners to put in
sidewalks."
Also on the same page, the next to the last paragraph should
read: "Mr. Sharpe reminded staff that this is the month that we
were to have Mr. Gutierrez move the trailer on his property. Mr.
Gutierrez needs to be notified."
second sentence should
if they could get a
next Cibo10-Schertz Joint
Page 250, item #5, sixth paragraph,
correctly read: "Mr. Gilmore asked
representative of each to attend the
Coordinating Group meeting."
The minutes of the Regular Meeting of August 20th were corrected
by Council as follows: The beginning paragraph should show that
Councilman Hal Baldwin was absent rather than ~r. Sharpe.
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Page 247, item #5, the second motion should correctly read: "Mr.
Sharpe moved to approve the ordinance taxing the property in the
City of Schertz at a rate of $0.436 per $100 valuation, (which
includes a 3% increase) and declaring an emergency."
Mr. Sharpe moved to approve the minutes of the Special Meeting of
August 14 and the Regular Meeting of August 20, 1985 as
corrected. Mr. Aguilar seconded the motion, which carried with
the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Stanhope and Aguilar
NAYS: NONE
ABSTAINING: Councilmen Baldwin and Greenwald
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#2 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: None
#3 RESOLUTION: Mayor Sawyer introduced a resolution and
read the caption as follows:
RESOLUTION NO. 85-R-11
A RESOLUTION BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS, SETTING A TIME; DATE AND
PLACE FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS PURSUANT TO THE
PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF 83.22 ACRES OF LAND,
MORE OR LESS, OUT OF BEXAR COUNTY.
Mr. Sharpe moved to approve the resolution setting the time, date 0
and place for public hearings on the proposed annexation of 83.22
acres out of Bexar County. Mr. Aguilar seconded the motion.
Mr. Baldwin asked if the City cleared up the question of annexing
a portion of Randolph. Mr. Gilmore said he had Richard Harris
check but at the same time we altered the route so that we will
not be annexing any Federal property.
Mayor Sawyer then called for a vote on the motion before Council.
The motion carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aguilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
14 P&Z APPOINTMENT: A. Mr. Greenwald moved to approve the
appointment of James Harden to fill the position of secretary of
the Planning & Zoning Commission. Mr. Baldwin seconded the
motion which carried as follows:
AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aguilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
B. Mr. Greenwald moved to approve Dave Allen to fill the vacancy 0
on the Schertz-Cibo10 Joint Planning Committee. Mr. Aguilar , :
seconded the motion, which carried with the following vote:
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AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aguilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
#5 VARIANCE: Mayor Sawyer explained that this item was to
consider granting a var iance to Ordinance No. 80-F-7, Section
VIII (c) to allow Good Shepherd Church to connect two meters to
one service.
Mr. Gilmore said we do have an ordinance that does not allow two
meters on one service line and at the same time, we do have a
Court action involving the same thing. This variance, if
9ranted, could affect that action. We need to do some
1nvestigation as to where the line will run - from the drawing we
have now, they want to put the meter where it will take security
away from the house.
Mr. Aguilar moved to table this request at this time. Mr.
Stanhope seconded the motion, which carried as follows:
AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aguilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
#6 ZC #72: Council briefly discussed the pros and cons of
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item as they had not received a recommendation from Planning and
Zoning.
#7 EXECUTIVE SESSION: None needed.
#8 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: Mr. Gilmore said he had received
a thank-you letter from the Mission Bautista "El Calvario" for
our cooperation, specifically the police department, during their
recent parade.
#9 ITEMS BY COUNCIL: Mr. Greenwald apologized for not being
able to attend the recent budget meeting. Mr. Greenwald
mentioned that our local newspaper did not put anything at all in
the paper about the recent BVYA tournaments, which brought in
about 5,000 people to the area.
Mr. Baldwin apologized for missing the last budget meeting and
then announced the first football game of the season on Friday
night against Seguin.
Mr. Sharpe asked about the meeting with City Public Service and
Mr. Gilmore said they would be meeting at the Municipal Offices
on Thursday at 10: 00 a .m. The Schertz Post Off ice has been
authorized to delivery mail to the Tri Country Industrial
! District so the local postmistress has been invited to attend
this meeting. Mr. Sharpe said the next phase for postal delivery
is to go out toward Garden Ridge Pottery and San Antonio Machine.
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Mr. Sharpe said he had received a business card from Mike Cary
who will be covering Council Meetings for the Herald Newspaper.
#10 ITEMS BY MAYOR: Mayor Sawyer said that on behalf of the
City Council he accepted the apologies of both Mr. Baldwin and
Mr. Greenwald. Mayor Sawyer asked if the City has dog patrols
other than during regular day-time duty hours. Mr. Gilmore said
no. The Mayor said that with three people down there on duty, it
seems we could get them to split shifts and cover some odd hours
for patrol.
ill ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Baldwin moved the meeting be
adjourned at 8 :07 p.m. Mr. Stanhope seconded the motion, which
carried unanimously.
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