1981-07-15 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• LJ Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting, July 15, 1981, Page 8 we don't have a classification in the La Porte ordinance that has as minimum square feet of 1250. I think the input here tonight will be valuable to P & Z on the new permanent ordinance for the entire City. T look at what is being proposed tonight as a temporary holding pattern thing until the entire zoning can be done, and when that comes up every- body in La Porte will get a mail notice. To have an oppor- tunity to be heard. The. last time we did this we made it available in the newspaper so everybody could make themselves familiar with it and be heard. at that time.. What I am trying to say is that the most Council can do for you tonight under the existing ordinances is a minimum of 1050 square feet. That is the highest under the present ordinance. Now the second issue I would like. to speak to you have some areas in Lomax where those outlots and acreage have been subdivided and deed restrictions have been placed on your deed. Now, those of you who live in such subdivisions, there is a para- graph in the La Porte zoning ordinance to the effect that if your deed restriction requires a greater size or amount, your deed restriction is going to control. Example: If some of you live in a recorded subdivision and your deed restrictions • calls for a minimum of 1500 square feet, it will have to be built regardless of what the City's restrictions are. There is a clause in the zoning ordinance that says., "If there is a conflict between the deed restrictions and the Zoning Ordinance, the higher one will prevail." You may have a situation where the zoning is more. stringent; in that case, the zoning ordi- nance will prevail. Should your deed restrictions out there be in conflict,. then the higher standard will apply. Malone: What can we do to set the minimum square footage at 1250 square feet? Askins: Well, we would have to have a, well, the hearing be- fore us tonight is for a classification change. The unusual thing about it is that it is for a vast area, more than a square mile or so. We would have to change the square footage by creating another classification in the .zoning ordinance and a public hearing would have to be held on the language. Then there would be a hearing on the decision as to what areas would go into this classification. Faris: How long would it take to go through that? Eighteen to 24 months? Askins: It would be pretty severe, and. actually that is what we are about. And after hearing what has been said here to- night., it seems to be pretty uniform as to the feelings of the public on that issue. It should be very helpful to P & Z