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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1984-10-29STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TARRANT CITY OF GRAPEVINE The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Grapevine, Texas, met in a Special Session Monday, October 29, 1984, which was recessed on the meeting scheduled on Tuesday evening, October 23, 1984. The reconvene was held in the Conference Room, Roan 204, of the Police- Library Building, 307 West Dallas Road, with the following members of the Planning and Zoning Commission present, to wit: Sharron Spencer Ron Cook Harlen Joyce Richard Atkins Peggy Engholm Chairman Vice - Chairman Member Member Member constituting a quorum, with members Shane Wilbanks and Gerald Norman absent, and the following City Staff, to wit: J.R. Baddaker, P.E. Director of Public Works H.T. (Tommy) Hardy Director of Community Development John F. Boyle, Jr. City Attorney Joy Carroll Planning Aide Sue Martinez Secretary RECONVENE Chairman Spencer declared that the meeting be reconvened from Tuesday, October 23, 1984 at 11:15 P.M., and explained the procedures and purposes thereof. OLD BUSINESS The Planning and Zoning Commission considered proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance No. 82 -73 to make recommendations to the City Council. R -20 Single - Family District Regulations The items reviewed in this district were as follows: Item B - Accessory Uses - Chairman Spencer reviewed the previous amendments to the first paragraph relative to customary have occupation. Item D - Limitation of Uses - Number 1, review was relative to the number of persons unrelated by blood or marriage allowed to occupy residences in the R -20 Single - Family District. Item E - Plan Requirements - Number 3, Minimum Open Space, Chairman Spencer discussed the rate of square footage per dwelling unit. She noted that City Attorney, John Boyle, had recommended that this be applied to the developments with 20 units or more, rather than a subdivision with 100 units or more. She noted that open space is now written to be applied at the rate of 200 square feet per dwelling unit. Further discussion was relative to changing that rate from 200 square feet to some other number. The consensus was to change the rate of square footage from 200 to 300 square feet. There being no further discussion or review to amendments in this district, a motion was made by Vice - Chairman Cook to recommend the proposed amendments to the City Council for approval and Peggy Engholm seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Engholm and Atkins Nays: Joyce Absent: Wilbanks and Norman P &Z Minutes October 29, 1984 Page 2 R -12.5 Single - Family District Regulations The Commission briefly reviewed previous amendments to this district, which are the same as the R -20 District. Then a motion was made by Peggy Engholm to recommend the amendments to this district to the City Council for approval and Vice - Chairman Cook seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins and Engholm Nays: Joyce Absent: Wilbanks and Norman R -7.5 Single - Family District Regulations Then the Commission briefly reviewed previous amendments to the R -7.5 District, which are the same as the R -20 and R -12.5 Single - Family Districts. Then a motion was rendered by Peggy Engholm to recommend the amendments to the City Council for approval and Vice - Chairman Cook seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins and Engholm Nays: Joyce Absent: Wilbanks and Norman R -3.5 Two - Family District Regulations The Commission briefly reviewed previous amendments to Item D - Limitation of Uses, Number 3 and Item H - Buffer Area Regulations and then a motion was made by Peggy Engholm to recommend the amendments to the City Council for approval and Vice - Chairman Cook seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins, Engholm and Joyce Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman R -3.75 Three and Four Family District Regulations The Commission reviewed previous amendments to the following items in this District: Item B - Accessory Uses - Review was relative to customary home occupation. Item D - Limitation of Uses - Review was relative to the number of persons unrelated by blood or marriage allowed to occupy residences in the R -3.75 District. Item H - Buffer Area Regulations - Review was relative to the rewording of this item. There being no further review to the amendments in this district, a motion was made by Vice - Chairman Cook to recommend to the City Council for approval and Peggy Engholm seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins, Engholm and Joyce Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman TABLE OF CONTENTS Chairman Spencer noted the amending of page 1 of the Table of Contents, Section 52 to eliminate the two words reserved for. P &Z Minutes October 29, 1984 Page 3 Then a motion was made by Richard Atkins to recommend to the City Council for approval and Peggy Engholm seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins, Engholm and Joyce Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Section 31 - "LI" Light Industrial Chairman Spencer noted the amendments to this section as follows.: Add Section C.4, which is a new section concerning batch plants. Delete Section D.10 concerning batch plants. There being no further amendments or review to this section, a motion was rendered by Peggy Engholm to recommend to the City Council for approval and Harlen Joyce seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins, Engholm and Joyce Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Section 32 - "IG" General Industrial District Then Chairman Spencer requested for a motion to delete this section entirely from the Ordinance and recommend to the City Council for approval, which was rendered by Richard Atkins and seconded by Harlen Joyce, which prevailed the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins, Engholm and Joyce Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Section 50 - Screening Chairman Spencer made a request for a motion to add the two words and Fencing to the title of this section and to recommend to the City Council for approval, then Richard Atkins made the motion and Peggy Engholm seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins, Engholm and Joyce Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Section 20 - R -TH Townhouse District Regulations The Commission then reviewed and made necessary amendments to the items in this district. Chairman Spencer first noted that under Item B - Accessory Uses, the words source of income would be left in the first paragraph, since home occupation is not listed. Next for discussion was Item D - Limitation of Uses - Number 2, relative to the number of persons unrelated by blood or marriage which would be allowed to occupy residences in an R -TH District. Then a motion was made by Richard Atkins to change the number from (4) four to (2) two persons and Peggy Engholm seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins and Engholm Nays: Joyce Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Then there was discussion concerning the setback and height limitations for P &Z Minutes October 29, 1984 Page 4 storage buildings. After a brief discussion relative to setbacks and height of storage buildings, a motion was made by Harlen Joyce to limit height of storage buildings to 12 feet, with no restrictions on floor area and Vice - Chairman Cook seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Cook, Joyce and Engholm Nays: Spencer and Atkins Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Then there was further discussion relative to the height of storage buildings for which Peggy Engholm rendered another motion to rescind the previous motion and Richard Atkins seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Atkins, Engholm and Spencer Nays: Cook and Joyce Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Then a motion was rendered by Richard Atkins for height limitation of storage buildings not to exceed 10 feet and there be a square footage limitation of 100 square feet and Peggy Engholm seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Atkins and Engholm Nays: Joyce and Cook Absent: Wilbanks and Norman The next item for discussion in the R -TH District was Item G - Area Regulations - relative to accessory building setbacks. Following the discussion, Number 3, (c) was added to this item which states: Accessory building setbacks should be as specified in Section 37 -C except dealing with common lots. Next for discussion was Item I - Height Regulations - The discussion was addressing height of storage buildings for which an addition to the height regulations was made as follows: Number 3 - Height of storage building - 10. Then there was discussion concerning Item H - Buffer Area Regulations - relative to the districts which should be included to require a buffer which resulted in the rewording of Buffer Area Regulations as follows: Whenever an R -TH Townhouse development is located adjacent to a developed residential district (R -20, R -12.5, R -7.5, R -3.75, R -NF-1, R -MF -2) or a non residential district... Then there was a motion made by Peggy Engholm to recommend this amendment to this section to the City Council and'Harlen Joyce seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Joyce, Atkins and Engholm Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Then there was discussion relative to the minimum setback of the buffer to be (40) forty feet from the adjoining property line in all the districts. Following a brief discussion, a motion was made by Richard Atkins that the buffer regulations be required to have a (40) forty foot minimum setback of principal buildings and structures from the adjoining property line in all districts and Peggy Engholm seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Engholm and Atkins Nays: Joyce Abstain: Cook Absent: Wilbanks and Norman P &Z Minutes October 29, 1984 Page 5 The next item for discussion was Item J - Off - Street Parking, relative to the types of vehicles which will be allowed to be parked in the required front yard and also a time limitation for those vehicles. Following discussion, the second paragraph was reworded as follows: Parking of recreational vehicles, recreational trailers, motor homes or boats for a period not to exceed (4) four days is allowed in the required front yard. Then the Con-nission proceeded discussion of off - street parking, relative to towed trailers and the like. Members rendered examples of vehicles which might be defined as towed trailers and the like for which City Attorney, John Boyle, would provide legal wording of to be included in the definition section of the Ordinance. Following the discussion, a motion was made by Richard Atkins to add all parking do's and don'ts to all the residential sections under consideration in this meeting and Peggy Engholm seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Joyce, Atkins and EngholM Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Section 52 - Tree Preservation Chairman Spencer proceeded with the review relative to the amendments to the Tree Preservation section of the Ordinance. A review of the previous amendments was made and there was discussion concerning a suggestion of Texas Power & Light to make an addition to the Ordinance; Item G - Issuance of Permits, Number 4 - Exceptions, paragraph 4, which would read as follows: Utility companies franchised by the City may remove trees which endanger public safety and welfare by interfering with utility service, operations and installations... Further discussion concerned the intention represented by the addition of the words operations and installations. Then Mr. Joe Wright, who was present for this meeting spoke, requesting the Ordinance be revised to eliminate some of the mechanics of the Ordinance to make it less restrictive. He rendered his views of the tree preservation section stating, that the developer's should be required to clear lots on an individual basis, which he thinks would diminish the removal of all trees from lots. Mr. Wright continued the discussion, noting some of the procedures he utilizes for developing property. Further discussion was relative to permits to remove trees. It was suggested that a preliminary plat be submitted indicating location and size of trees, to the Director of Public Works for review prior to issuance of a permit for the tree removal. Then there was suggestions rendered relative to the possibility of rewording Item E - Application - concerning, at what stage of property development the tree removal permit should be required. Chairman Spencer suggested to include a sentence to explain that a permit for tree removal in public right -of -way's and easements only, need to be acquired through the Director of Public Works and removal of trees utilizing the clearing of land on the per lot basis to be tied into the acquisition of the building permit. The discussion relative to tree preservation was concluded for the evening, to be reviewed further at a later date. At this time Chairman Spencer proceeded the evenings discussions relative to open space, stating that she had received a phone call from Mr. Marlin Smith, the Consulting Attorney on zoning for the City of Grapevine, concerning a draft of a completely new section on open space. Ms. Spencer noted that the draft is similar to what is presently written and that it keeps the concept of applying to the 20 unit subdivision. She also noted that there is a proposed provision which would allow a developer at his option, to make a cash donation in lieu of providing the open space. Then there was discussion concerning the draft and how the Planning and Zoning Commission has amended the open space requirements relative to differences in the two. P &Z Minutes October 29, 1984 Page 6 There being no further discussion to the evenings agenda on amendments to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance No. 82 -73, a motion was made by Peggy Engholm to send the amendments to the City Council for approval and Harlen Joyce seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins, Engholm and Joyce Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman Then there was a motion made by Peggy Engholm to table agenda that was not covered and Richard Atkins seconded the motion, which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Spencer, Cook, Atkins, Engholm and Joyce Nays: None Absent: Wilbanks and Norman PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE PLANYLNG AND ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS ON THIS THE DAY OF ,1985. / 0 • •••• 'JIB Chairman