O-2004-1501-RRR scup04-007 amending 03-002/no action taken

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e e StafTReport May 20, 2004 Bayforest Ranch Special Conditional Use Permit #SCU 04-007 Reauest: Reauested Bv: Reauested For: Present Zonin2: Reauested Use: Baclmround: Approval of a Special Conditional Use Permit (SCUP) for a 100-units multi- family development. (freestanding individual rental units) This request is es~entially an amendment to the existing SCUP #03-002 and General Plan approved for this site. Hettig Management Corp. 15:f: acres of land located in the W. P. Harris SurveYt A-30, La Porte, Harris Countyt Texas. This property is further described as being located between State Highwayl46 and the Bay Forest Golf Course. This property is located at the northeast corner of McCabe Road at SH 146. It is bounded on the east by the Bay Forest Golf Course. On the north, it is adjacent to the La Porte GOlf Course Community, a proposed single-family residential development on approximately 150 acres surrounding Bay Forest Golf Course. Planned Unit Development (PUD) with a previously approved (10/13/03). . General Plan . SCUP #03-002 for muhi-family with density and driveway access to be determined by a future development agreement. Multi-Family Residential Development (100 freestanding individual units). During the presentation the Commission may hear comments/positions taken that the Cityts definitions of multi-family do, and/or do not prevent the proposed l00-unit (freestanding) multi-family units from being defined as multi-family and thus allowable under the existing SCUP. Since this is a new concept for this City, the Staff focused on the merits of the concept presented and not on the definitions of multi-family development. This project is not, per se, defined within the current ordinance. In staff's opinion, this project requires this new/amended SCUP because it does not resemble the materials and proposed project presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council when the existing General Plan and previous SCUP were approved. - - =-.", - - - - - - ,. - p .. - - - - ... -... - --- -- -_. - -- - -- .- - - - - P. ... . - _. - The developer (Arete) submitted a General Plan and Special Conditional Use- Permit SCU#03-OO2 for :f:150 acres located at SH 146 just south of the Baypomt 10wnnomes and west of the Btly Forest GotfCoUfSC. 'The GeBeral Plan proposed single-family residential, multi-family residential, and neighborhood commercial uses within the Planned Unit Development zoning district (PUD). At the Planning and Zoning Commission's August 27,2003, meeting, a public hearing was held. During the public hearing, the Baypoint Townhomes residents questioned the extension of Stb Street through their