1982-03-24 Joint Public Hearing and Special Called Meeting

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• • • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Special Called Meeting La Porte City Council, March 24, 1982, Page 5 Mrs. Sharp: Can't you make them put their fence back up? It's falling all over the street right-of-way. It's dan- gerous, if some child walks in there, it's going to be too bad one of these days. Meza: Thank you. I'll have Mr. Owen and the Inspection De- partment to have a look at it to see what can be done to cor- rect it. If there are no further comments, we will go on to the next item on the agenda. Bridge: I have one more comment. I'd like to say that T'd like to see no further container permits issued until this green belt issue can be straightened out. As it stands right now, we don't have any clear definition of what a green belt is. In my opinion, a 5-foot green belt, densely planted with pine trees, is not going to hide anything. A fully grown pine tree doesn't bear any leaves, if you would like to call them that, until it's about 20 feet high. Driving down the road you are going to see right underneath it. Latimer: Planning and Zoning. has looked at this. Do they have any position on container yards? From what he is say- ing, there are going to be a lot more of them wanting to get in here. I'm sure you have discussed it plenty of times. What do you see, what do you think? Muston: Well, I'm sure that there will be an increased demand for port-related business of all kinds. We are trying to keep container yards located in this place and perhaps one other place, rather than have them scattered all over town. That's been our main concern in trying to set aside a dist- rict. So far, we agree this district should be north of Barbour's Cut. Meza: Our next item would be to continue with our public hearing and we invite input on a request to rezone a 4.5 acre tract on McCabe Road from Residential to Commercial by Mr. Gerald Teel. Dominy: Mr. Mayor and City Council, T am Jerry Dominy. Mr. Teel, one of my partners, is out of town tonight. This re- quest concerns a 4.5 acre tract of land we have bought on McCabe Road just west of Highway 146, surrounded primarily by a mobile home park that was put in prior to the Federal Insurance Act. Our problem is that we now would have to build about 10 feet off the ground if we put mobile homes in. • Which we had hoped to do. We don't think it is economically