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MEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND
MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
FROM: BRUNO RUMBELOW, CITY MANAGER t
SCOTT WILLIAMS, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR
MEETING DATE: SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
SUBJECT: ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT AM17-02—AMENDMENT
TO SECTION 38, "GU" GOVERNMENTAL USE DISTRICT
RELATIVE TO HOTEL OR MOTEL USES AS A CONDITIONAL
USE
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council consider the
amendment to Section 38, "GU" Governmental Use District relative to hotel or motel uses
as a conditional use and take any other action necessary.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
As part of the TexRail regional commuter rail project, the City of Grapevine is partnering
with Coury Hospitality to construct a world class rail station, hotel, and parking facility. This
facility will be unlike anything in the region, and will contain elements that could never have
been foreseen in the zoning ordinance.
In anticipation of this project, staff has identified the need for a minor amendment to the
zoning ordinance to accommodate this project, specifically, an amendment to Section 38,
"GU" Governmental Use District to allow for hotels or motels within the district through the
conditional use process. The subject 4.5 acre tract is currently zoned "LI" Light Industrial
District and will be before the Commission and Council at the October 17 meeting for
consideration of a zone change to "GU" Governmental Use District to accommodate the
uses previously described; i.e. rail station, hotel, and parking garage.
As currently written, the "GU" Governmental Use District has no provision for hotel or motel
uses and has been subsequently amended to allow these uses only through the conditional
use process. Since the "GU" Governmental Use District has never had a provision for
these types of uses, and given the unique aspects of this development, the minimum room
count, minimum room size, restaurant, meeting space, and swimming pool requirements
have been omitted from this amendment. See the attached ordinance.
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DRAFT SECTION 38. GU
091917
C. CONDITIONAL USES: The following conditional uses may be permitted provided a
Conditional Use Permit is issued pursuant to Section 48.
1. Government maintenance facilities.
2. Public utility facilities.
3. Jails, detention facilities or work camps.
4. Public incinerators.
5. Sanitary landfills.
6. Alcoholic beverage sales provided a special permit is issued in accordance
with Section 42.13.
7. Airports and airport -related facilities and services including, but not limited to,
terminals, runways, taxiways, tramways, airport hangers, warehouses,
heliports, helistops, service establishments catering to the airport and airport -
related facilities and excavation or fill for any airport related facility.
8. Any use allowed within this district with outdoor speakers.
9. Hotels or Motels.
D. LIMITATION OF USES: None required.
E. PLAN REQUIREMENTS: No application for a building permit for construction of a
building or structure shall be approved unless:
1. A Plat, meeting all requirements of the City of Grapevine has been approved
by the City Council and recorded in the official records of Tarrant County;
2. A Site Plan, meeting the requirements of Section 47, has been approved;
3. A Landscape Plan, meeting the requirements of Section 53, has been
approved.
F. GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY:
1. Upon petition of the applicant, the City Planning and Zoning Commission
012009 2 Section 38