07-21-1988 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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EXCERPTED TRAnSCRIPT OF PUBLIC HEARING A~u REGULAR MEETING OF LA PORTE CITY COUNCIL AUGUST 10, 1987 CouncilDerson Llovd: I guess I would like to address that same question to Mr. Paulissen. Boat storage, my understanding, is not covered in any of the classifications. At least this is my reading from way back when. Where does it best fit? Would it best fit in a neighborhood commercial with conditions or do you put that in industrial or where? Dav id Paul i ssen, Bu ild ing Offic ia 1: Okay, at this po int I feel 1 ike Staff can support the neighborhood commercial with conditional use in the use tables. Again keeping in mind what the conditional use is designed to do is to .... Again a conditional use permit impacts a zone more substantially than just a permitted use unless you and the Plann ing and Zon ing Commiss ion rev iew each of those uses before it goes in. I think that you have a good boat storage facility and then you have the norm and I think what we're interested in is getting a good boat storage facility and I think Staff can support neighborhood commercial with a conditional use in the use table which would require fencing or screening. It would also require that the parking lot be surfaced to control dust and all light sources are hooded from the surrounding neighborhood and that sort of thing. Again, based on what Planning and Zoning had to go on and the fact at the time, Staff had to concur with Planning and Zoning at the time. The developer has done a considerable amount of homework and at this point the facts that were presented tonight were not presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission. In light of that, we can support Neighborhood Commercial with a Conditional Use. Councjlperson LIQYQ: David, I probably ought to say I shouldn't put you on the spot, but I enjoyed it. Councilperson Matuszak: I have one further question to Mr. Gray or Janet, one of them. Which is a concern on my part. Will the removal of this particular tract make the R-3 of the remaining part of that tract any less useable or workable? Eddie Gray: We considered that. I think there is enough depth on the north side of this tract on up to the north boundary so that the R-3 use starting down at Fairmont Park with a nice entrance, off of that, could come up and wrap around this without distracting from the use of the R-3. It's still separated from all the rest of the property by an R-3 area. I don't know that this boat storage should affect the R-1 area just north of the R-3. : Councilperson Matuszak: So in effect this wouldn't be, particular rezoning wouldn't be used as a stepping stone to the one, so to speak, for further rezoning of this R-3 property as it smaller. I think you've answered my question. this next gets EXHIBIT H