1981-07-15 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• • • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting, July 15, 1981, Page 9 and the City Council. For those of you who are not aware, the City Council going on two years ago now, entered into an agreement with Texas A&M to do some study and a master plan and recommendations for the zoning ordinance. That is some- thing that is ongoing even before the consolidation. It is going a little slower than was hoped and is a little behind so.hedule, but we hope to use. their input and present a brand new ordinance to the community within the next year. The community will then make comment as to the type of develop- ment that you want. Westergren: But that would affect the entire City. Norma Hutchins: I would. like for you to consider is that maybe 20 percent of the Lomax area is subdivided. That leaves 80 percent in acreage. Most of the people here that you are talking about is on acreage, so that's the reason why we are concerned about permitting these small homes. Subdivisions have deed restrictions; those of us on acreage have nothing. We would like for you to consider large square footage for our acreage. It's not like town, like in the City of La Porte. •- We feel like the bigger homes on bigger acreage is more benefit to us. Malone: Mrs. Hutchins, how many subdivisions are in Lomax that are not paved? Hutchins: I would say five. Faris: Mrs. Hutchins, I think I speak for the P & Z, if not I know they wall correct me. One. of the biggest problems the P & Z is facing in zoning the whole city, is just what do we do with Lomax? Because of the. acreage and the farm type atmos- phere in some areas. The housing areas and the different re- quirements each group has. Certainly there are areas in Lomax that confound La Porte planners a great deal after the merger took place because it doesn't meet any classification that we have. That is something P & Z will take a look at after what they have heard tonight. There are real problems in Lomax, such as our requirements for a barn don't fit a piece of prop- erty 750 feet deep and 150 feet wide.. These things are in the uppermost part of our minds. Hutchins: That's why we are here, is to make you aware of these things. We all want our horses, our barns and our nice homes with our acreage. C7