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Home My WebLink About1994-01-25STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TARRANT CITY OF GRAPEVINE The Planning and Zoning Commission Tri- Annual workshop Meeting of the City of Grapevine, Texas, met Tuesday evening, January 25, 1994 at 5:30 p.m., in the Conference Room #204, Police Building, 307 west Dallas Road, Grapevine, Texas, with the following members present to wit: Ron Cook Larry Oliver Cathy Martin Curtis Young Marvin Balvin Sharron Spencer Ted ware Chairman Vice Chairman Member Member Member City council Representative Mayor Pro -Tern constituting a quorum, members Steve Stamos and Darlene Freed were absent, and the following city staff: H. T. (Tommy) Hardy Director of Community Development Marcy Ratcliff city Planner Teresa Wallace Planning Secretary After dinner, the Planning and Zoning Commission convened in room #204 where Chairman Ron Cook called the meeting to order at 6:30 P.M. NEW BUSINESS: CONSIDER AMENDINGCOMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE 82-73 SECTION 5B OFF- STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS RELATIVE TO APARTMENTS CONDOMINIUMS, TRIPLEX AND FOURPLEX MULTIFAMILY UNITS Director of Community Development, Tommy Hardy, introduced Brett Nichols of Real Estate Corporation of America and Sanford Steinberg, Architect, to address parking requirements of the R -MF -Z Multifamily District. Brett Nichols explained they were proposing to develop a new apartment complex near Charter Hospital. He was requesting the Planning and Zoning Commission consider reducing the 2.5 parking space requirement to allow more room on the development for open space and recreational activities. He said a parking study had been done on the other apartment complexes in the area and found that the 2.5 required parking spaces were more than were necessary. 1 Durin g discussions Commission members discussed the close proximity to the lake and the large amount of boats and recreational vehicles stored on these properties snake the additional parking necessary. There was no consensus to change the current parking requirements Tommy Hardy, Director of Community Development, then introduced Randy Howell to speak to off - street parking space requirements for triplex and fourplex units. Again, there was no consensus to change the current parking requirements with a suggestion that if he could not meet the current requirements he needed to request a variance from the Board of Adjustment. CONSIDER AMENDING COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE 82-73---TO ALLOW STORAGE BUILDINGS AS PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES IN COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS Ron Yeary and Craig Johnson of Burger Street, Inc. were introduced to discuss their request to allow an outside storage building as a permitted accessory use in any commercial district. Specifically, Burger Street would like to have an outside storage building to be used as a freezer for frozen food in a community Commercial District. Currently, Highway Commercial is the only commercial district that allows an outside storage building as a permitted accessory use. Commission members discussed attaching the frozen storage area to the rear of the building rather than having it placed at the rear of the lot. The Commission carne to a consensus that there was no reason to amend the Zoning Ordinance to allow outside storage as an accessory use in any commercial zoning districts. CONSIDER AMENDING COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE 82 -73 TO REQL�IRE EXISTING BUSINESSES TO PROVIDE SCREENING FROM RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS Mrs. Joni Espinoza - Smith was introduced to address the request to require existing commercial businesses to provide screening from adjacent residential districts. She was expressing a complaint about the time of the dumpster pickup early in the mornings and the amount of noise from employees on break in the rear of the building that backs up to her property. The Commission discussed they could not retroactively require existing businesses to provide a screening fence. In order for them to require screening fences the zoning on the property must change. The Commission suggested that she contact the property owner and propose to share the cost of a screening fence between her property and the existing commercial use. They also told her the time of the durnpster pick up could be controlled and Staff would research the problem with Laidlaw, Inc. 2 CONSIDER AMENDING COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE 82 -73 SECTION �7 PROFESSIONAL OFFICE DISTRICT TO AMEND BUFFER AREA REGULATIONS Tim Lancaster was introduced to explain his request to consider amending the buffer yard requirements to reduce the placement of a building or structure from two times the height of the building or structure or twenty five feet as a minimum in the Professional office District to one and one half the tunes of the height of the building or structure required before September 21, 1 993 to any residentially zoned property. His concern was that he could not make his professional office district, adjacent to Baylor Hospital, work with the new restrictions. Staff provided a map showing professional office districts adjacent to residential zoning districts. The Commission explained the reason they changed the ordinance was to allow residential use abutting professional office districts a greater measure of privacy, They explained that parking is allowed in the buffer yard with a ten foot landscape requirement. They further stated they save no reason to change the requirement and if he could not make a development work he could seek a variance from the Board of Zoning Adjustment. CONSIDER AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE 52 -73 OFF - STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS SECTION 56 RELATIVE TO EATING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS WITH NO SERVICE TO AN AUTOMOBILE, Councilwoman Sharron Spencer suggested the Planning and Zoning Commission make a report to the City Council at the February 15, 1993 meeting that they will survey the parking requirements of eating and drinking establishments with no service to an automobile. She further suggested the Planning and Zoning Commission at the February 15th meeting make a formal recommendation to consider placing no parking signs on CrossRoads Drive, Larry Oliver moved, with a second by Cathy Martin, to study and report to City Council on February 15, 1994 on the off - street parking requirements, Section 56, relative to eating and drinking establishments with no service to an automobile and consider making a formal recommendation to the City Council to place no parking signs on CrossRoads Drive which prevailed by the following vote: Ayes: Cook, Oliver, Martin, Young, Balvin Nays: None Absent: Freed and Stamos 3 QONSIDER COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN RELATIVE To STATE HIGHWAY 360 CORRIDOR Staff asked the Commission for direction to proceed with the State Highway 380 Corridor Study. The Commission agreed the State Highway 380 Corridor Study was needed and directed Staff -to provide a colored land use reap at the same scale as the existing zoning reap to make a better comparison at the February 15, 1994 meeting. They discussed setting a mobile workshop to view the corridor relative to the current Master Land Use Plan. They also discussed initiating a zone change to governmental use for park land in the Bear Greek flood plain. OLD BUSINESS: Marc y Ratcliff, Planner, told the Commission the topographical maps of the northwest quadrant of Grapevine would soon be ready to begin review and study a land use plan of the area. Chairman Ron Cook made a recommendation that the Commission have a workshop on March 1, 1994 to discuss the State Highway 360 Corridor and the Northwest Quadrant to provide a land use plan for both areas. Marcy Ratcliff also asked if anyone would like to participate at the National APA conference in San Francisco, California April 18, 1994. Member Curtis Young was chosen to attend. ADJOURNMENT: With no further business for the Commission to consider a motion by Marvin Balvin and a second by Cathy Martin was to adjourn the meeting at 8:40 P.M., with the prevailing vote as follows: Ayes: Cook, Oliver, Martin, Nays: gone Absent: Freed and Stamos Young, and Balvin 4 PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, ON THIS THE -DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1994. ATTEST: SECRETARY . . . . . . ................. law ivi ri" I