1981-07-15 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• • • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting, July 15, 1981, Page 3 to build on them. Secondly, if we come across some situa- tions in our discussion of Lomax tonight where someone has a building site prior to the consolidation that does not comply, there is a clause in our zoning ordinance called the grandfather clause that says that if you have a building site that does not conform, let's say has less than 6,000 feet and it could be established that this was under one common ownership prior to the date of the consolidation, this would come into La Porte under the grandfather clause. So I think the lady who spoke would qualify under one of those clauses. Norma Hutchins - 10503 North Avenue "P": I would like to ask if there are any changes in the Commercial, Residential, and Industrial areas, and I would like for Planning and Zoning to tell me what their plans are for that area. Meza: Madam Chairman, would you explain what your recommenda- tions are, please? Muston: If I understand the question, I will try. The bound- aries of those. original zones have not changed, but the classi- •. fications don't quite agree with the La Porte ordinance. The original commercial along both sides of 26th Street and Under- wood Road would stay the same; we have recommended R-2 for the original residential zone with no change in the boundaries; and since there is no Light Industrial classification in our ordinance we don't recommend an industrial zoning for that area previously zoned Light Industrial along and south of the Southern Pacific tracks. We recommend that area be zoned commercial to give the Council tighter control. Delbert Walker - 11438 North "P" Street: We were wondering if the P & Z has any plans for future mobile home parks other than what we already have, and also if they are recommending any commercial zones for Lomax School Road? Muston: We have no definite plans at this time. However, we do see the need for the City as a whole for less expensive housing such as mobile homes and mobile home parks and modular homes somewhere to satisfy the need to provide needed housing. We have no plans to zone anything along Lomax School Road commercial. Faris: Was any of that property commercial prior to consoli- dation? Walker: No.