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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1996-01-16STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OFTARRANT CITY OF GRAPEVINE The Planning & Zoning Commission of the City of Grapevine, Texas met in Special Briefing Session on this the 16th day of January, 1996 at 7:00 p.m. in the Police Training Room #104, 307 West Dallas Road, with the following members present to- wit: Larry Oliver Marvin Balvin Darlene Freed Steve Stamos Kathy Martinez Steve Newby Kristin Antilla Chairman Member Member Member Member 1 st Alternate 2nd Alternate with Cathy Martin and Curtis Young absent, constituting a quorum with the following members of the City Staff: H. T. (Tommy) Hardy Director of Development Services Marcy Ratcliff Planner Teresa Wallace Planning Secretary CALL TO ORDER Chairman Oliver called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M. ITEM 1. BRIEFING SESSION Chairman Larry Oliver announced the Planning & Zoning Commission would conduct a briefing session relative to the following cases: CU96 -33 - Multi- Restaurants Management, Inc. CU96 -35 - Bill Crabtree CU96 -36 - Mills Corporation to discuss development issues. P & Z Briefing Session January 16, 1996 ADJOURNMENT After a brief discussion, Chairman Larry Oliver adjourned the meeting at 7:25 P.M. • I &CI of-AINVA I ill I= I WXA�-Koj 04 am 0 1 IM 9 0 1 W4411 is SYMA91 = 2:23 1.1 1"101-TAI orl CHAIR AN ATTEST: SECRETARY NOTE: Planning & Zoning Commission continued with the Joint Public Hearing. STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TARRANT CITY OF GRAPEVINE The Planning & Zoning Commission of the City of Grapevine, Texas met in Joint Public Hearing on this the 16th day of January, 1996 at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, Room #205, 307 West Dallas Road, with the following members present to -wit: Larry Oliver Cathy Martin Curtis Young Marvin Balvin Steve Stamos Kathy Martinez Darlene Freed Steve Newby Kristen Antilla Chairman Vice - Chairman Member Member Member Member Member 1 st Alternate 2nd Alternate constituting a quorum, with the following members of the City Staff: H. T. (Tommy) Hardy Marcy Ratcliff Teresa Wallace Scott Dyer Ed Kellie Director of Development Services Planner Planning Secretary Senior Civil Engineer Junior Civil Engineer Mayor Tate called the joint meeting to order at 8:00 P.M., and Chairman Larry Oliver called the Planning & Zoning Commission deliberation session to order at 8:45 P.M. CU95 -33 - MULTIRESTAURANT MANAGEMENT INC. First for the Commission to consider and make a recommendation to the City Council was Conditional Use request CU95 -33 submitted by Jeanne Pendery requesting to amend the approved Conditional Use Permit CU92 -13 (Ordinance 92 -66) to allow the possession, storage, retail sale and on- premise consumption of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine & mixed drinks) in conjunction with the Dallas /Fort Worth International Airport. The site is located in Terminal 3E, Level 2, Location .55 and Columns 82 -83. The applicant is also requesting a waiver to Section 47.E.2. in accordance with Section 47.F. 1 P & Z Minutes 1/16/96 Marcy Ratcliff, Planner, explained the proposed Cowboys Sky Box Bar is to be located at DFW International Airport where alcoholic beverage sales for on premise consumption are allowed without the requirement to impose the fifty /fifty rule with food sales. With no questions, guests to speak, nor letters or petitions, the public hearing was closed. In the Commission deliberation session members briefly discussed the proposed use. Steve Stamos moved to approve CU95 -33 with a waiver to Section 47.F. Curtis Young seconded the motion which prevailed with the following vote: Ayes: Oliver, Martin, Young, Balvin, Stamos, Freed, and Martinez Nays: None CU95 -35 BILL CRABTREE Next for the Commission to consider and make a recommendation to the City Council was Conditional Use request CU95 -35 submitted by Bill Crabtree requesting a Conditional Use Permit to allow development of a 3,000 square foot mini warehouse storage building at the rear- of the lot. The proposed building would be 15 feet high and set back the required building and buffer yard setback of 25 feet. The applicant is also requesting a waiver to Section 47.E.2. in accordance with Section 47.F. Marcy Ratcliff, Planner, explained the applicant is proposing the mini warehouse storage building to have a masonry front elevation and metal sides and rear elevations. The building is proposed to have a total of 27.4 percent masonry. The Highway Commercial District requires at least 70 percent of the total exterior walls, excluding doors and windows, to be constructed of brick, stone or other masonry or material of equal characteristics in accordance with the City Building Code and Fire Prevention Code. The applicant is scheduled to go before the Board of Zoning Adjustment on February 6, 1996. Mr. Bill Crabtree of Benco Properties and Robert Schneeburg, Engineer, were introduced to respond to questions relative to the request. Mr. Crabtree told the Council and Planning & Zoning Commission that he was proposing to develop the mini - warehouse structure similar to the free standing buildings facing Northwest Highway which have metal exteriors. In response to further questions Mr. Crabtree explained he was proposing a 6 foot wooden screening fence at•the rear property line where large trees are in place. Also, 2 P & Z Minutes 1/16/96 he was proposing ten rental units with no office area, two units would have 12' overhead doors to allow larger uses. Each unit would have one 100 watt light bulb and there would be 24 hour security lighting. With no questions, Mayor Tate asked any guests to speak. Mr. Chris Bowles, 1326 Wall Street, addressed the Council and Planning & Zoning Commission explaining he was the property owner adjacent to the proposed development. He expressed concerns about the height of the structure and appropriate screening from his residential use. He also expressed concern about the potential use of the buildings and if a business could be operated from a rental unit. He requested a 8 foot fence and a 100% masonry requirement be imposed. Linda Huff, City Secretary, stated there had been two letters of opposition. With nothing further, the public hearing was closed. In the Commission deliberation session, members discussed the concerns of the adjacent property owner with users having 24 hour access to the property. Noise and lighting were also discussed. Members agreed the masonry requirement should be enforced. Also members agreed an 8 foot screening fence would be more appropriate to protect the adjacent residential use. Marvin Balvin moved to approve CU95 -35 with a waiver to Section 47.F. with a condition to install a 8 foot screening fence across the rear of the property. Steve Stamos suggested extending the screening fence up the east and west property lines to screen the building from the residential property. Marvin Balvin amended his motion to include the condition to extend the screening fence 55 feet up the side property lines from the rear property line. Steve Stamos seconded the motion which failed by the following vote: Ayes: Balvin and Stamos Nays: Oliver, Martin, Young, Newby, and Martinez After the motion failed, members discussed the masonry requirement and the ability for the Board of Zoning Adjustment to hear exceptions if they make the 70% masonry requirement a part of the zoning. Curtis Young moved to approve CU95 -35 with a waiver to Section 47.F. with a condition to install an 8 foot wooden fence along the rear property line extending 55 3 P & Z Minutes 1/16/96 feet up the side property lines and the building must meet the masonry requirement of the "HC" Highway Commercial District. Again discussion followed the motion. Members expressed concerns about imposing the screening fence to be extended up the side property lines. Curtis Young amended his motion to read as follows: move to approve CU95 -35 with a waiver to Section 47.F. with the conditions that the building must meet the 70% masonry requirement and to install an 8 foot wooden screening fence along the rear property line. Darlene Freed seconded the motion which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Oliver, Martin, Young, Balvin, Freed and Martinez Nays: Stamos CU95 -36 - MILLS CORPORATION Next for the Commission to consider and make a recommendation was CU95 -35 submitted by Elizabeth Link for the Mills Corporation. The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit to allow a Planned Commercial Center in excess of 1,000,000 square feet of gross leasable area and conditional use poles signs. The applicant is also requesting a waiver to Section 47.E.2. in accordance with Section 47.F. The proposed Grapevine Mills Mall has a total building coverage of 2,098,255 square feet and a gross leasable area of 1,811,260 square feet. The applicant is proposing to develop 9,065 parking spaces, which exceeds the minimum required number of spaces by five. Planned Commercial Centers in excess of 1,000,000 square feet may request to establish different amounts and methods of providing the minimum open space requirement and landscaping requirements in off - street parking and vehicular use areas and nonvehicular open space. The Community Commercial District requires at least twenty percent of the total lot area be devoted to nonvehicular open space. The applicant is proposing to devote an open space area of 6.3% (476,850 square feet) of the total lot area. This open space area does not include the out parcels ( 1,376,710 square feet). The open space area in the out parcels will be determined as development occurs. Sheets 8, 9, 10 and 11 of 11 illustrate the location of the open space areas. The Landscaping Regulations require interior and perimeter landscaping. The interior landscaping includes planter islands with trees at the terminus of all rows of parking and one every twelve parking places. The perimeter landscaping requires parking lots 0 P & Z Minutes 1/16/96 and vehicular use areas to be screened from public right -of -way and adjacent properties. The applicant in most cases has provided planter islands at the terminus of all rows of parking. However, where driving lanes create traffic conflicts at intersections with the ring road, the applicant has provided a large continuous planter island to divert traffic away from the intersection. The applicant is proposing to provide trees around the perimeter ring road of the entire property. The total number of trees to be provided in these areas are 882 plus 53 trees in the directional ring road canoe islands. The applicant is also indicating landscaping areas adjacent to the building to be provided by either the developer or tenant as development occurs. Sheet 10 of 11 illustrates a conceptual landscape treatment. The applicant is also requesting conditional use pole signs to provide directional signage on site. The applicant is proposing two different types of signs at this time. These proposed signs are larger in height and size of allowable ground signs. Ground signs have a maximum height of 6 feet and a maximum gross surface area of 60 square feet. Conditional use pole signs allow a maximum height of 40 feet and a maximum gross surface area of 288 square feet. The first sign, type B, is a conceptual entry magazine directional sign 10 feet high and - 14.5 feet wide containing 145 square feet. The second sign, type C, is a conceptual ring road directional sign 10 feet high and 11 feet wide containing 110 square feet. Sheet 2 of 11 illustrates the location of the proposed signage and sheet 7 of 11 includes the signage elevations. A note is included adjacent to the sign data on sheet 2 of 11 stating that: signage indicated in the sign data chart is typical and conceptual. Additional signs may be approved that meet the requirements of Section 60, Sign Regulations. Signs listed as type "B" and type "C" are approved as a conditional use permit. Additional type "B" and type "C" signs may be approved that do not exceed the height and size as shown on sheet 7 of 11. Another note is included on sheet 7 of 11 stating: All public entryway elevations shall be approved by resolution by City Council after receiving a recommendation by the Planning and Zoning Commission. No building permits for construction of the entryways shall be issued prior to Council approval. Tommy Hardy, Director of Development Services, explained the Mills Corporation was proposing to develop a 173 acre site north the of DFW Hilton Hotel with a value oriented retail mall which would have a total gross leasable area of 1,811,260 square feet. He stated the subject property was rezoned in September of 1995. An amendment to the Zoning Ordinance was also approved to allow Planned Commercial P & Z Minutes 1/16/96 Centers in excess of 1,000,000 square foot to submit an alternate landscaping plan to be considered by the Planning & Zoning Commission and Council Mr. Hardy introduced Elizabeth Link of the Mills Corporation to address the request. She explained she would be leaving the project soon and Mr. Erick Collazo would be assuming the position of Development Director to oversee the project until completion. She complimented Staff on the cooperation she had received to meet the goals of the City of Grapevine and the Mills Corporation. Addressing the landscaping issues she explained that having trees in the parking islands required by the City presented serious security problems for the mall. She explained that security cameras were placed on the buildings to continuously scan the parking areas. Trees in parking islands make it impossible to maintain security for the customers. She said they were proposing to have all of the trees required on the project planted along the perimeter road and the site entry areas of the mall. Further, she explained that landscaped areas would be provided adjacent to the buildings at entryways and specific anchor tenant exterior doorways. Elizabeth Link introduced Ann Dedrow of RTKL Associates, Inc. to address the design concepts for the mall. Displaying colored exhibits, Ms. Dedrow explained the theme approach to create the environment of the mall. She explained they had been working with Staff to ascertain the historical concepts they are proposing to use the design of the mall. She explained conceptually one of the entrances would feature large wine barrels with depictions of wine bottle labels of local wineries with a history of the area. They are also proposing areas of the mall that would highlight the annual festivals of the City of Grapevine. Colors and themes will be designed to be user friendly with supplementary signage for shoppers to identify the parking lot area where they entered the building. Tary Arterburn of Mesa Design Group was introduced to address the landscaping plan for the proposed mall. He explained they were proposing to plant over 900 trees along the perimeter road and an additional 175 trees are to be planted beyond the property. Again, he stated they were not proposing to plant trees in every parking planter island because of security cameras. He explained that the Mills Corporation will control the landscaping around the exterior of the building where anchor tenants will be located. Further, he explained the outparcels were not a part of the landscaping calculations. In response to questions on the types of trees they were proposing to use, Mr. Arterburn explained they would be using only one or two types of trees that were indigenous to the area. With no further questions, letter or petitions, the public hearing was closed. A P & Z Minutes 1/16/96 Trent Petty, City Manager, addressed Elizabeth Link, regarding her departure from the project thanking her for all her time and energy spent with Staff to develop the Grapevine Mills Mall project. In the Commission deliberation session, Tommy Hardy, Director of Development Services explained that a letter had been received from the Yarmouth Group which now owns the DFW Hilton Hotel. Members discussed the traffic circulation and traffic study conducted in conjunction with the Public Works Staff. Commission members commended the Development Services Staff on their team effort working with the project planners to develop a landscaping plan for the proposed mall. Marvin Balvin moved to approve CU95 -36 with a waiver to Section 47.F. Curtis Young seconded the motion which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Oliver, Martin, Young, Balvin, Stamos, Freed and Martinez Nays: None FINAL PLAT - LOTS 1 & 2 BLOCK 1 TIMBERLINE EDUCATION ADDITION Next for the Commission to consider and make a recommendation was the final plat of Lots 1 & 2, Block 1, Timberline Education Addition being a replat of Timberline - Elementary Addition and Memorial Baptist Church Addition. The Grapevine Colleyville Independent School District and the Memorial Baptist Church are replatting this 13.887 acre tract to modify the existing lots. Additional property is being added to the GCISD (Lot 1) and the remainder of the Memorial Baptist Church Addition (Lot 2) is proposed as a day care facility. The site is located on the east side of Timberline Drive north of Laurel Drive. The site is occupied by the Timberline Elementary School and Memorial Baptist Church. Larry Oliver and Marvin Balvin stated they would abstain from voting on the request. With nothing further, the public hearing was closed. In the Commission deliberation session, Steve Stamos moved to approve the Statement of Findings and the Final Plat Application of Lots 1 & 2, Block 1, Timberline Education Addition with a condition of approval of the zoning application. Kathy Martinez seconded the motion which prevailed by the following vote: F1 P & Z Minutes 1/16/96 Ayes: Martin, Young, Stamos, Freed and Martinez Nays: None Abstain: Oliver, Balvin RUSTS rd A . IOLVAINIM ��� • Next for the Commission to consider was the preliminary plat of Grapevine Mills Addition. The applicant is preliminary platting 173.118 acres for the Grapevine Mills Mall site. The site is located on State Highway 121 North at State Highway 26 and FM2499. Anderson Gibson is proposed to be the ring road around the mall site and is scheduled to be rebuilt to 4 lanes with a continuous center turn lane with the construction of the mall. Darlene Freed moved to approve the Statement of Findings and the Preliminary Plat application of the Grapevine Mills Addition. Cathy Martin seconded the motion which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Oliver, Martin, Young, Balvin, Stamos, Freed and Martinez Nays: None FINAL PLAT - GRAPEVINE MILLS ADDITION Next for the Commission to consider was the Final Plat of Grapevine Mills Addition. The applicant is final platting 173.118 acres for the Grapevine Mills Mall site. The site is located on State Highway 121 North at State Highway 26 and FM2499. Anderson Gibson is proposed to be the ring road around the mall site and is scheduled to be rebuilt to 4 lanes with a continuous center turn lane with the construction of the mall. Darlene Freed moved to approve the Statement of Findings and the Preliminary Plat application of the Grapevine Mills Addition. Cathy Martin seconded the motion which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Oliver, Martin, Young, Balvin, Stamos, Freed and Martinez Nays: None PP95 -02 - GARY CANTRELL Next for the Commission to consider was the revised parking plan to amend PP95 -01 by eliminating one off- street parking space on site, to provide space for a dumpster. The dumpster is proposed to be enclosed by an eight foot wooden fence on all four 8 P & Z Minutes 1/16/96 sides. The applicant has proposed to locate the enclosed dumpster in the northwest corner of the property in a designated parking space. The proposed Parking Plan PP95 -02 provides 30 off - street parking spaces on site and 5 spaces in the public right -of -way for a total of 35 spaces. The appearance and location of the proposed buildings are not changing. Steve Stamos moved to approve PP95 -02 with a second by Curtis Young. The motion prevailed as follows: Ayes: Oliver, Martin, Young, Balvin, Stamos, Freed and Martinez Nays: None Next for the Commission to consider were the minutes of the December 19, 1995 meeting. Curtis Young moved to approve the minutes of the December 19, 1995 as amended. Marvin Balvin seconded the motion which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Oliver, Martin, Young, Balvin, Stamos, and Martinez Nays: None Abstain: Freed ADJOURNMENT Cathy Martin moved to adjourn the meeting at 10:00 P.M. Steve Stamos seconded the motion which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Oliver, Martin, Young, Balvin, Stamos, Freed, and Martinez Nays: None PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, ON THIS THE 20TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1996. ATTEST: SECRETARY 4