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Section 106-inimum 25-foot landscape <br />frontage along rights-of-way for development greater than 10 acres in size. <br /> <br />Chairman Rothermel opened the public hearing at 6:10. <br /> <br /> <br />a. Staff Presentation <br /> <br />City Planner Ensey presented -93000003 in which S <br />th <br />16 Street Partners is requesting to encroach on the landscaping frontage requirements <br />th <br />along S. 16 Street and W. M Street. <br /> <br />City Planner said that the City does plan to construct a street in the W. M Street right-of- <br />way but there is no timeline for the project. <br /> <br />b. Applicant Presentation <br /> <br />th <br />Joseph Llamas, 1503 Ridgecrest Drive, Austin, Texas, presented on behalf of S. 16 Street <br />Partners. Mr. Llamas said that his end user for the building would not have room for the <br />trucks to back in and out without the variance. The applicant also noted that they were <br />th <br />donating to the City of La Porte a 40-foot portion of right-of-way in order to widen 16 <br />Street in the future. <br /> <br />c. Public Comments <br /> <br />There were no public comments. <br /> <br /> Chairman Rothermel closed the public hearing at 6:33 PM. <br /> <br />d. Question and Answer <br /> <br />Chairman Rothermel asked Assistant City Attorney Clark Askins if there was any way the <br />City could compel the applicants to put in berms on M Street. Assistant City Attorney <br />Askins said that they could add a condition to their approval of a variance. <br /> <br />Motion by Dennis Oian to Variance Request 16-93000003, a request by S. 16th Street Partners <br />(Joseph Llamas) for the property located at 1401 S. 16th Street, legally known as Tracts 1B-3, <br />Abstract 35, Johnson Hunter Survey, to allow for a landscape frontage on S. 16th Street of 14.75 <br />feet and a landscape frontage on the unimproved W. M Street right-of-way of 10 feet for <br />construction of a new warehouse/distribution facility, contrary to the provisions of Section 106- <br />-foot landscape frontage along <br />rights-of-way for developments greater than 10 acres in size, subject to the condition that <br />berms be installed along the W. M Street right-of-way at the time of initial construction of the <br />site. <br /> <br />Second by Chester Pool. Motion Carried. <br /> <br /> <br />