1981-07-15 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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~~ • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting, July 15, 1981, Page 10 Faris: We certainly don't intend to deprive you of the things you intended to have originally. The problem is that what you have out there just doesn't fit into the scheme of things today. We are trying to make a program today that will take care of today's needs. The entire program to take care of everyone's needs is in the mill and is under way. We have not forgotten Lomax. Hutchins: Like you say, if an area of say, 20 acres, were to be subdivided they would have their own deed restrictions, but for those of us sitting on acreage with. our homes right in the middle, don't try to put us under the same restrictions as the rest of La Porte. You just can't do that. Askins: I think the new zoning ordinance, and again I think what is being done tonight should be looked at as a holding pattern, I th-ink the new ordinance is going to have to look at a classification called rural. residential or something of that sort., that will require a lot size of an acre or maybe more. As Gus pointed out, with provisions for barns and for animals that would be different than the rest of the City be- • cause of the nature of the neighborhood. Hutchins: Our minimum lot size was 75' x 100'. Askins: Well., see, the La Porte ordinance requires 60 feet x 100 feet; that's not a great deal of difference. Hutchins: Of course, a lot of developers went through the Board of Adjustments to get a variance on lot size. Askins: I might give you some history on ours, because we had to amend our zoning ordinance several years. ago because as land got higher and higher and has become more valuable, we felt forced to go to smaller lots. Fairmont Park, Sec- tion 1, is much larger than the other sections out there. La Porte has one of the strictest subdivision ordinance prob- ably in Harris County, by what we require. Over the years in order for the developer to build a house.a person can af- ford to buy, lot sizes have gotten smaller. You are getting down to typical lot sizes are going to 60 feet x 110 feet in California. They are going to zero lot lines and lots even smaller than that as land development gets more and more expensive. Hutchins: Well, we are not against subdivisions as such if a developer wants to come in and-build in accordance with La Porte rules and regulations. I don't think anyone here is against that. We are opposed to small houses on this acreage.