O-2020-3805 Zone changes from R-3 to PUD for lots on Broadway, Oregon, East L, Texas Ave.

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Sylvan Beach Enclave Planned Unit Development and Special Conditional Use Permit Sylvan Beach Enclave, the Project is located near Sylvan Beach Park and is bounded by South Broadway, South Oregon Street, Churchill Place Senior living Community and City of La Porte's Hike and Bike Trail. Sylvan Beach Enclave is al�o located across the street from the City of La Porte's Recreation and Fitness Center. The site is currently zoned for High Density Residential District (R-3). We are applying for both a Planned Unit Develop (PUD) and Special Conditional Use Permit (SCUP). Sylvan Beach Enclave's use is single-family residential attached dwelling units. The Residential Area Requirements are a mixture of the Single -Family Special Lot Line, 0 Lot Line and Townhomes. The City of La Porte's Comprehensive Plan encourages small infill development and the supply of diverse housing. Sylvan Beach En&ve is designed as an age in place development. This project is designed to appeal to single parents with one or two children, couples just starting home ownership and empty nester who are looking for reduced maintenance living and compact building design. The community promotes walkability as it is on the City's Hike and Bike Trail, across the street from the City's Recreation and Fitness and Senior Center and a short walk to Sylvan Beach Park. All 38 proposed home sits will be slab on grade homes of one story, one and half stories and two stories. The exteriors oft a homes will be a combination of brick, fibrous cement horizontal siding and fibrous faux wood shake siding. First floors will have nine feet ceilings and second floors a combination of eight- and nine -feet ceilings. All the homes will have a two -car garage. Back yards will vary in size depending on the size of the first floor of the house. We will need to install water, sanity sewer, drainage and a concrete street in the Broadway property. The first row of houses, lots 1 to 14, that back up to South Broadway will have a fence on the property line between the property and Broadway. We will work with Texas Department of Transportation to install trees in the right-of-way, to give the neighborhood a visual barrier between Broadway and the neighborhood. The development is in th flood plain and the homes need to be raised three to four feet above the existing grade so that the finish floor height is not in the flood plain. In order to raise the homes, we will remove soil between the ow of houses on South Oregon Street and second row of homes on the South Broadway and place the soil on the building sites. Where the soil has been removed, we will install tress to create a park like environment. The area we are removing soil from will be deep in the flood plain, we do not anticipate building any structures. Sylvan Beach Enclave will have a homeowner's association who will maintain the flood mitigation area and enforce maintenance standards on the appearance of the homes. There are three landowners that we need to acquire property for this project. We currently have both properties, the property on Broadway and the property on Oregon under contact to be purchased. The third property owner is the City of La Porte who owns the 100 feet street right-of-way between the Broadway property and Churchill Senior Living Community and 60 feet street right-of-way between the Broadway and Oregon pr perties. The 60 feet right-of-way contains both a large sanity sewer main and a drainage ditch/facility. When we purchase the property from the city, the property will have an easement agreement all wing both facilities to remain and not allowing us to build over the sanity sewer main. The entrance to the subdivision is in the 100' right-of-way.