11-16-1989 Reconvened Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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® • • Planning & Zoning Meeting Minutes of 11-16-89 Page 2 of 8 Mr. Hayes of the La Porte Independent School District stated that they had met with the Architect for the additions to be made at the school. In order to satisfy the objections and construct the proposed improvements in a manner which would minimize any inconvenience, the LPISD is prepared to take the following actions: 1) Construct the proposed building no closer than approximately 12.7 feet from the north property line of the residence at 608 Fairfield Drive, Shoreacres, Texas; 2) Construct for the property owner, at the expense of the school district, a six foot (6') cedar fence on the rear property line, and on the east property line to the front set-back line; 3) The school district will install and operate a mercury vapor or sodium security light to be mounted on the new building at a point near the center of the rear property line, for security purposes; 4) The district will landscape the area between the property • owner's east boundary and the proposed parking lot to meet or exceed the code of the City of La Porte since the City of Shoreacres has no landscaping requirements. The district has investigated with its architects and mechanical engineers the possibility of relocating the current classroom expansion and the parking lot to the east side of the existing building. The district has been advised that the relocation of the proposed classrooms would require a major redesign of the existing mechanical configuration within the building. Additionally, the flow of students to the library, offices, and specialty instructional areas would become restricted. The relocation of the parking facility would prohibit an orderly flow of goods to the loading dock of the new cafeteria. At this point, Mrs. Graves asked Ron Lyle, the architect, why the 20 foot set-back could not be met as required in the Zoning Ordinance. Mr. Lyle stated that the circulation system that is currently in place within the existing building suggests that there is an exit that exists that is one classroom deep within the building. To continue to use this system that is currently in place and extend that as we are doing, we have turned the classrooms and moved them as tightly on that access way as we can, but we are maintaining a current ® access pattern within that building and if we choose to