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<br />Staff Report <br /> <br />July 17, 2008 <br /> <br />Zone Change Request #R 08-001 <br /> <br />Requested by: SWINC Acquisition, Inc. c/o Marcus Deal <br /> <br />Requested for: 21.289 acres being out of Lots 367, 368, 369, 369A, <br />and 370, La Porte Outlots <br /> <br />Location: 1241 Underwood Road <br /> <br />Land Use: Commercial and Residential <br /> <br />Present Zonin!!:: General Commercial (GC), Large Lot Residential (LL) <br /> <br />Requested Zonm!!:: Planned Unit Development (PUD) <br /> <br />Surroundin!!: Zonin!!:: <br />North - GC, LL <br />South - GC, LL <br />East - LL <br /> <br />Back2round: <br /> <br />The property in question consists of 21.289-acres described as being out of <br />lots 367, 368, 369, 369A, and 370 of the La Porte outlots (Volume 61, Page <br />374 as per H.C.D.R.) and being situated in the Enoch Brinson Survey, <br />Abstract No.5 and N. Clopper Survey, Abstract No. 198, City of La Porte, <br />Harris County, Texas. The subject tract has existing buildings used as <br />administrative office and mechanical shops. A front portion of the facility <br />has been used for miscellaneous shop fabrication since the mid 1990's. The <br />subject property is within the vicinity of commercial and light industrial <br />facilities along Underwood Road. <br /> <br />The existing facility primarily houses personnel and equipment associated <br />with the maintenance and construction operations in and around Harris <br />County and the Gulf Coast Region. The facility is also involved in <br />miscellaneous shop fabrication of metal products; however, the process <br />occurs inside the mechanical shop and is not visible to the public. The <br />applicant wants to expand the business by utilizing the property to the fullest <br />extent by using some of the buildings for activities such as pipe compression, <br />cutting pipe to size, distribution of steel pipe and tubes, light fabrication, and <br />outside storage of pipes, etc. <br />