12-05-1983 Public Hearing La Porte City Council'

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Minutes, Public Hearing, La Porte City Counc~ December 5, 1983, Page 2 • honky-tonk or anything like that put there in front of 200 homes--that would be ruinous to them. Mayor Cline replied to the second inquiry that all property coming into the City limits will be zoned R-1, residential-one. Any commercial establishments coming in would have to be rezoned before planning and zoning and public hearing. City Manager Jack Owen replied to the street lighting problems that is was the City's anticipation to immediately take over, and request that those lights be turned back on. Mr. Cary Burnley spoke in favor of annexation. He feels that Brookglen community, which is part of College View M.U.D., will be an asset to the City of La Porte. Their tax growth is such that they will be able to carry their own weight. He thinks it is time the City exercises their powers of annexation and request that they do so. B. Mayor Cline asked that anyone present who wished to speak in opposition to the annexation of Spenwick and College View to address the Council. Mr. Harold Trahan, 8707 Collingdale, addressed the Council. He had several questions for Council regarding annexation.. • 1. Why is it, that after several years of being neglected, College View M.U.D. has suddenly become so attractive for annexation? Mayor Cline replied that it had not been right to do the annexation before now. In order to annex College View, we had to annex Spenwick first. So we had to do them both. To get College View we had to do Spenwick, so we're doing both at .one time. And, I think the City of La Porte is just now in a position to be able to do that much annexation. • Councilperson Skelton added that from what he'd been told through the years, the City fathers have had this in mind for a number of years and when the Municipal Utility Districts were formed they still had it in mind sometime in the future and they talked in generalities of 15 or 20 years away. And that time has well passed and it's time that we either annex you or turn you loose and somebody else will. I feel you're all part of La Porte; you. use the La Porte schools, we should all be trading here if we get the shopping centers and things that we're looking forward to, and we have a lot of new commer- cial things that will be coming in shortly, and I think there will be a lot more things to offer all the citizens of La Porte. And when you get a few more numbers in there, well you have more people to come in with better stores and better prices, and I think we'll all gain from that.