1982-03-03 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting La Porte City Council, March 3, 1982 Page 3 Ford: I believe our request is pretty well set out in the agenda. This is an 18-plus acre tract we plan to develop and put in a rail spur. This will not be a container yard. We request the Council grant this change of zoning. Tf there are any questions, I will try to answer them. Meza: If it is not for containers, what is the reason for the rezoning? Ford: Spec warehouses with a spur to serve the warehouses. Longley: Will there be any hazardous material stored in that area? Ford: None that I know of, and I am sure that the City of La Porte has ordinances that govern that. They are spec, so I can't really say what the tenants would have. Meza: Is there someone from the public wishing to address • this matter? From the floor (unidentified) the question was asked: ~rVhat is a spec warehouse? Ford: It's a real estate term. These are an investment project built with the hopes of getting tenants. In other words, I don't have any occupants right now, but T will build in hopes of getting some. We will bring in a rail spur to serve the warehouse. There will be truck traffic; that is the reason we are requesting the industrial zone. Skelton: Mr. Ford, will you tell us what kind of construc - tion you plan for this project? Ford: I would imagine it would either be tilt wall or metallic. It's economics right now as to which way we go. Skelton: The tilt wall would be masonry? Ford: We haven't determined that yet because of cost factors. We have to compete with other areas and other warehousing types. I think most of the facilities along 16th are metallic. It would be pretty hard to compete with them if you went masonry or anything like that. • Skelton: I don't think there's any along 16th south of Broad- way except one building, that I know of.