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06-09-2002Planning and Zoning Minutes 9 June 2002 The Schertz Planning and Zoning Commission convened in regular session on 25 June 2002 at 7:OOpm in the Municipal Complex at Council Chambers, 1400 Schertz Parkway, Schertz, Texas. PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION David Richmond, Chairman Ernie Evans, Vice-Chair Ken Greenwald, ex-officio Gary Wallace Joyce Briscoe William Sommers Keith Van Dine Tony Moreno COMMISSIONERS ABSENT CITY STAFF Ron Youngblood, City Planner Misty Nichols, Recording Secretary OTHERS PRESENT #1 Call to Order: Chairman Richmond called the meeting to order. #2 Approval of Minutes: Chairman Richmond stated the first order of business was to approve the minutes of 23 April 2002. There was no discussion on the minutes as stated. Chairman Richmond called for a motion. Commissioner Briscoe moved #o approve the minutes as stated. Commissioner Van Dine seconded the motion. #3 Status of Final Plats: The Isenhauer Plat is ready for signatures and recordation. #4 BOA Actions: The next Board of Adjustment meeting is tentatively scheduled for July 22, 2002. #5 Citizens' Input Other than Agenda Items: None Before the meeting started, Mr. Youngblood asked the Chairman for a minute to pass along the following. Mr. Youngblood stated that it was extremely hard to understand the tapes to do minutes if all the Commissioners were talking or rattling papers during the speaking portion of the meeting. Mr. Youngblood asked that the Commissioners be cognitive of when others were speaking and limit their noise. Consider and Take Appropriate Action: On the previously tabled request from Quail Construction for a site plan approval for an Office \ Warehouse building in Schertz Industrial Park on Bell North Drive. (PC# 526-02) Chairman Richmond asked for a motion to un-table this item. Commissioner Evans moved to un-table and Commissioner Briscoe seconded the motion. Mr. Youngblood stated that Quail Construction had come back to the staff to correct the items noted at the previous P&Z meeting and apologized for not getting in the corrected copies as promised. The staff researched the UDC concerning the irrigation system required by each site plan and stated the UDC only says "watering system". Technically, a hose bib annotated on the site plan could be classified as a watering system. The staff have to authority to make a developer/builder put in an irrigation system. Commissioner Summers asked if we have any authority over landscaping dying. Mr. Youngblood said we did. Chairman Richmond stated that it is very important that each site plan have the method of how the occupant will keep the landscaping alive. Commissioner Summers stated he didn't believe the staff was manned to go out and check every landscape to ensure compliance with the site plan. Mr. Youngblood stated in this case (Tri-County Industrial Park) they had covenants that required a strict landscaping and maintenance of that landscaping that complimented our UDC. Mr. Youngblood asked Mr. Moore in the audience to summarize the covenants by Tri-County. Mr. Moore explained how the rules and by-laws works in Tri-County--bottom line each tenant must keep and maintain their landscaping. With no more discussion, Chairman Richmond called for a motion. Commissioner Van Dine moved to approve the site plan and the motion was seconded by Commissioner Wallace. Motion approved by all with the exception of Commissioner Evans. Consider and Take Appropriate Action: On the previously tabled request from Bill Hunter for a site plan approval for an Office \ Warehouse building in Schertz Industrial Park at 17352 Bell North Drive, Block 2, Lot 14. (PC# 525-02) Chairman Richmond asked for a motion to un-table this item. Commissioner Wallace moved to un-table and the motion was seconded by Commissioner Van Dine. With no additional discussion from the Commissioners on this item, Chairman Richmond called for a motion. Commissioner Moreno moved to approve the site plan and the motion was seconded by Commissioner Wallace. Motion approved by all with the exception of Commissioner Evans. Consider and Take Appropriate Action: On the previously tabled request from Jim Moore for a site plan approval for an Office \ Warehouse building in Schertz Industrial Park at 17317 Bell North Drive, Block 1, Lot 5. (PC# 528-02) Chairman Richmond asked for a motion to un-table this item. Commissioner Briscoe moved to un-table and Commissioner Van Dine seconded the motion. With no additional discussion from the Commissioners on this item, Chairman Richmond called for a motion. Commissioner Wallace moved to approve the site plan and the motion was seconded by Commissioner Summers. Motion approved by all. #9 Consider and Take Appropriate Action: On the previously tabled request from Jim Moore for a site plan approval for an Office \ Warehouse building in Schertz Industrial Park at 17345 Bell North Drive, Block 1, Lot 12. (PC# 529-02) Chairman Richmond asked for a motion to un-table this item. Commissioner Wallace moved to un-table and Commissioner Van Dine seconded the motion. With no additional discussion from the Commissioners on this item, Chairman Richmond called for a motion. Commissioner Van Dine moved to approve the site plan and the motion was seconded by Commissioner Wallace. Motion approved by all. Consider and Take Appropriate Action: On the previously tabled request from ARC Enterprises for a site plan approval for an Office \ Warehouse building in Schertz Industrial Park on Bell North Drive Block 1, Lot 7. (PC#527-02) Chairman Richmond asked for a motion to un-table this item. Commissioner Moreno moved to un-table and Commissioner Van Dine seconded the motion. With no additional discussion from the Commissioners on this item, Chairman Richmond called for a motion. Commissioner Van Dine moved to approve the site plan and the motion was seconded by Commissioner Wallace. Motion approved by all. Discuss and make recommendations: On zoning and rezoning various areas in the City. Mr. Youngblood stated that Chris Hertz from Ford Engineering was working very hard to capture all the changes noted from the last planning meeting. The product we are seeing is very accurate in that Chris is putting in all our plats, subdivisions, building additions in AutoCad and GIS and they are very accurate. He stated that the depth of I-35 general business zoning is 500 feet along I-35, but was still trying to find the City ordinance that verified that fact. Commissioner Summers stated that there still appeared to be some errors with the zoning map. Commissioner Evans agreed. He pointed out that at FM 78 and FM 3009; the storage area still .shows PD vs GB. Mr. Youngblood also pointed out the mobile home park that Mr. Johnson has out on FM 1518 is also not correct, and we know that was rezoned several years ago. There are lots of these and Ford Engineering is going back thorough all the ordinances to ensure we have all the changes and a good base map. All the Commissioners agreed we need to have an accurate base map before we set about changing the zoning for our City. Commissioner Richmond stated we needed to clean up Schertz Parkway and FM 3009 as soon as possible. Commissioner Evans agreed and stated in his opinion, we should not have any M-1 Industrial areas on this side of IH-35. He said for simplicity, we should recommend to Council that the M-1 area on the South side of 35 be rezoned as General Business. Commissioner Richmond stated that the Ridge at Savannah was mis-marked and should be corrected to read R-6. Commissioner Evans also stated that the two lots at Savannah Drive should be rezoned to NS from GB as Schertz Parkway is soon to be completed, it made more sense to rezone them as neighborhood service. Commissioner Richmond stated that the two lots on both sides of Woodland Oaks Drive should be rezoned from GB to NS. Also the two areas on both sides of Live Oak Road need to be rezoned from GB to NS. Commissioner Evans stated that the two new churches on Live Oak Road need to be corrected to reflect PUB and that the City had the property next to the Catholic Church. It should also be PUB. Commissioner Evans also stated the holding pond for Woodland Oaks Subdivision should be designated as PUB. Commissioner Richmond stated that on FM 3009, the property at FM 78 and 3009 was never changed. City Council approved R-4 last December and the zoning was never changed on the map. The Barshop Oles property stays NS. Texas Shine should be rezoned as NS. The property by Berry Creek on 3009 is PUB. The frontage on FM 78 by Pecan Grove GB vs PB. Commissioner Evans stated that the zoning for FM 1518 (start of the blue area) should be zoned not GB, but PD. Commissioner Van Dine asked if Mr. Johnson's zoning change was affected by the one-year rule. It was agreed that July was the end of his time to have the zoning changed to MHP. Chairman Richmond asked that this item be put on the August P&Z agenda to have it revert back to RA. Chairman Richmond also recommended that the GB at Elbel and FM 3009 be rezoned as NS. Amy Madison, Economic Development Director, stated she had some concerns as several clients were looking hard at these areas for GB. All the Commissioners agreed that for the most part NS had almost all of the permissible uses GB had and that it should not affect what would be allowed there. Commissioner Wallace stated that the CCMA property at Dietz Road was PUB and that the Methodist Church on Green Valley Road was also PUB, along with Green Valley Elementary School. Commissioner Evans pointed out that there is a church on FM 1103 and it should be PUB also. On Chelsea Drive off 1103, the storage area should be NS. Mr. Youngblood asked the Commissioners a hypothetical question. Where would be the best place to put a mall in our City? Commissioner Richmond stated he would hold off just to rezone for a mall, why not just wait until the City is approached and then ask them to rezone for that use. Ms. Madison stated as we looked now, the only places for a mall would be in the M-1 area or the RA areas in the South of the City. Discuss and make recommendations: On the Sexually Oriented Business (SOB) Ordinance. Chairman Richmond stated that the SOB Ordinance was discussed again at the last City Council Meeting. There was considerable discussion on the zoning of where SOBs could be located. Right now they can be placed in GB, which as you can see by the zoning map, that is a large area of our City. Chairman Richmond had a conversation with Council and Mayor. All agree that the zoning for SOBs need to be changed from GB to M-1 and for P&Z to press on. Commissioner Van Dine stated that he thought our UDC did a pretty thorough job of protecting SOBs in the City. Councilman Greenwald stated the proposed ordinance went from four pages to over 28 pages. Chairman Richmond stated that the general feelings are to put them in the M-1 area and keep them off the I-35 and I-10 frontage roads. Councilman Greenwald stated that the new ordinance would do a pretty thorough job of helping us manage them whereever they go. Our new ordinance covers about everything you could think of to not make it easy for one to get started in the City. #13 Items by Commissioners and City Planner: Mr. Youngblood informed the Commissioners that Steve Simonson had been asked to come back to help on a part time basis. This was well received from the staff especially with the recent circumstances of loosing the City Manager and not having an Assistant City Manager. He also briefed the Commissioners that he had a conversation with Ms. Pias of Walgreens about the dead trees. She was very receptive to having them taken care of. The regional manager for Walgreens had called me to say the trees were being removed and that they would plant new trees in the fall when the weather was not so hot. General Discussion: Gary Wallace: None Evans: Reminder to the Commissioners that the letters are in their packets. Ron Youngblood, City Planner: Stated the Public Forum has been rescheduled for the 5th of Aug. Tony Moreno: None Keith Van Dine: None Gary Wallace: None Joyce Briscoe: Will be out of pocket in Santa Fe, NM David Richmond Please pass to Mr. Truitt the derelict sign on 2252 and FM 482 needs to come down as soon as possible. Ken Greenwald: None William Sommers: None Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 9:57 p.m. Chairman Planning and Zoning Commission Planning Secretary, City of Schertz