09-05-1985 Regular Called Meeting

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i,~~. ,~ .ti • August 29, 1985 Hon. Andrew Wilson, Chairman La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission City Hall La Porte* Texas Dear Andy: I will surely appreciate it if you will have page one of the Minutes of the Planning and Zoning Commission of August 15, 1985 corrected to include my name as one of the seven speakers that evening. I did sign up and speak. Correction is also in order, I believe, on pageeight, line.twenty- seven. I did not indicate I did not with to speak to the Comm- ission. I said I wished to speak in my proper order of signing up rather than as requested to speak by IV'ir..Smith. I will also appreciate it very much if ,you will have included in the Minutes the objections I stated to R-3: 1. It allows large apart;:~ent complexes in areas with • single family homes. At present the two types of residential are geographically separated in La Porte for the most part. 2. The list of permitted uses and the density in the "~ proposed R-3 sounds like it would be a shabby, un- happy place to live, perhaps a slum. 3, Group Care Facilities (defined Sec.. 3 100, Vo1.2, Page 12, Comp. Flan) can or may be (among other in- appropriate things for a residential neighborhood) half-way houses for drug addicts. This in a family neighborhood with permitted homes, schools, parks, playgrounds and, presumably, children. 4. If an R-1 or R-2 is rezoned to R-3, or has an R-3 implanted within ifs area, it will reduce greatly the quality of liv ~~g for the people in the adjacent homes remaining R l,~as well as in the newly created R-3. (Shovrn Vol. 1, Lx::ibit 2, Comprehensive Flan) I am-sorry I was not able to make myself clear. I did not mean anybody would be likely to start an R-3 from scratch. I meant to ~~oint out it was such a bad combination it would be bad to put one in an existing R-1 or R-2 district. I hope there v:ill~ never be any R-3, as proposed, in La Forte at all. •