1981-04-15 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• • C~ Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting April 15, 1981, Page 7 Mr. Harold Pfeiffer, a resident of 619 South Brownell: Apparently, this is a good, clean type of construction that will blend in with the area. It can only add to the City. Mayor Meza: Anyone else? I would like to hear from Planning and Zoning. Pat Muston~ Our only concern is visual clearance on 146. • U Mayor Meza: If there are no further comments, we will go on to item B. 3b. A joint Public Hearing held by Planning and Zoning and the City Council to consider a request to rezone a parcel of land be- tween State Highway 146 and 16th Street. All and part of Blocks 1174, 1173, 1179 and 1180 from Commercial to Industrial zoning with a special use permit for containers. This request is made by Pierside Industries, Inc. Phillip Beeson, General Manager of Pierside Industries, Inc.: We came to La Porte better than two years ago, at the invita- tion of one of the steamship lines that are normally doing busi- ness at one of our five other branches on the east coast. We have been doing on port repairs of oceanic containers and chassis for the past two years and trading in La Porte for the past two years. It is now time for us to build our container yeard storage repair facility. Some of you may recognize me; I was here before you about a year and a half ago with a similar request, for a different location. After reviewing that location's size limitation, location and things like that, we settled on this area south of Fairmont Parkway on 16th Street between Highway 146 as a much more suitable and larger area for our type of buisness. It is undeveloped and will be a good opportunity for us, and it looks like Interamerican established some sort of precedent in that undeveloped area down there, for clean, carefully though out warehousing, storage, light repair type facility. We have appeared before the Planning and Zoning Commission; we were pleased to get a favorable recommendation from them. The land encompasses exactly 13 acres, bordering on 16th Street itself; there is approximately 1300 feet of woods separating our easternmost boundary from the right-of-way of Highway 146; the yard will be virtually invisible from Highway 146 or Fairmont Parkway. The land, improvements, and building are projected to cost right at $900,000. We have already got $182,000 invested in it at this time. We are ready to go to work. Ede will employ within six .months, right at 35 people, clerical and mechanical people.