2001-01-08 Regular Meeting and Public Hearing

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• COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE RESPONSE TO COUNCIL COMMENTS DECEMBER 15, 2000 Guy Sutherland Comments in Italics • 1 understand Bret Keast to say that Lomax School Road could become a 3 or 4 lane road. 1 would like the plan make a specific recommendation that it stays as is. His statement was in response to the more general question of what a collector street is. Although Bret may have made the 3 or 4 lane comment, he was trying to explain that improvements could be made to the road to make it more compatible with pedestrians, bicycles, etc. The recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission is to make a connection between .Farrington and H Street, but for Lomax School Road to remain as is. • There is confusion on whether TxDOT and FAA approves of a city street in the RPZ. This will not be clear until our City Attorney gives his opinion on this and he should only do it after personally discussing it with regulatory authorities. The City should avoid becoming. involved in a lawsuit over this. There is a letter from Knox Askins, City Attomey dated October 26, 2000 that clarifies this issue. FAA has knowledge of and approves of the location of the Farrington road extension. • We should rethink extending Valleyview between H and L Streets. Any location between Lomax Drive and the pipeline corridor would destroy property values of several homes, three of them new and expensive. The intent here is simply to provide additional north-south accessibility between H and L Streets. The location for this would ideally be close to Valleyview, but any practical location within this vicinity would serve the same purpose. There is no intent to destroy anyone's home to accomplish this. We would look for a suitable area in-between existing homes or seek an alternate route. Acquisition of a home or other improvements would be the last resort.. The Plan is demonstrating a need for north-south accessibility within this area.