1981-07-15 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting, July 15, 1981, Page 5 out there can't stand any more. If they come in there and build us some adequate drainage and put storm sewer out there to handle the run-off, that will change things. As of right now, it is not feasible to put one more house out there, much less what we are talking about here now. Walter Valentine - 10915 San Jacinto Drive (Lomax): On top of the fact that we don't have adequate drainage in Lomax, the crime rate is going up. Tuesday night of last week somebody slashed the tires on my daughter's car and also my car. Before there is so many houses goes up, we need the sanitary sewer in the whole area and police protection, and also the drainage. I have lived out there 7 years, and in the last two years when it rains there is no place for the water to go. The ditches next to Santa Anna and Louisiana Chemical haven't been cleansed, so the water just backs up. Faris: Is there somebody planning a housing addition in Lomax that I'm not aware of? Stan Ballard - 11000 San Jacinto (Lomax): We have a flooding • problem out there and it's getting worse. Santa Anna, which runs along the east side of the subdivision out there, acts as a dam. It's got to get up high enough to go over Santa Anna before we get any relief. The sewage problem, when we get a one-inch rain we can't flush our commode. We've only been there two years, so we're a fairly new house. You start adding more houses in there and it can't do anything but get worse. I am in total agreement with the letter that was read, and am totally against 850 square foot houses. C. E. Furlow - 11030 North "H" Street: I object to lowering the standards. Howard Potts - 1210 Travis: I object to it. That is one of the reasons why I moved to Lomax, because of the quality of housing out there. I like the larger houses. When you start building smaller houses there are going to be more of them. You can build 850 square foot house for $34,000; you build one 1250 square feet and you are going to spend $50,000. So it stands to reason you are going to get more 850 than 1200. So I am totally against it. Westergren: Mrs. Muston, would you clarify something for me? Are we talking about changing them to 1200 square foot houses or 1050 square foot houses? If we go back to the standard • residential in La Porte, isn't it 1050 square feet?