10-05-1992 Special Called Meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission

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• • LJ Staff Report Glen Meadows Subdivision December 10, 1992 Background Agenda Item No. V concerns the remaining undeveloped portion of the Glen Meadows Subdivision. As some Commission Members may recall, a Master Plan (General Plan) was previously approved several years ago (March 28, 1977}. This plan has been included as Exhibit B in your packet. Over the years, circumstances have changed. Hams County Flood Control now requires detention of stormwater runoff. This requires the addition of some type of detention facility on the undeveloped land. In addition, the airport is now planning an extension of a runway which requires that the Famngton Blvd. extension shown on the Comprehensive Thoroughfare Plan be adjusted. In order to account for these problems, the developer and the City of La Porte have been working together to develop a revised General Plan which will address all of the problems and also provide a subdivision which has the aesthetics normally expected in new developments. The resultant revised General Plan is shown on Exhibit A in your packet. • The key items that have addressed the problems include: A. The City of La Porte will trade the existing park located in the northeast portion of the subdivision for a site located adjacent to the proposed detention facility and Big Island Slough. A trade of 3.97 acres for 8.38 acres of land for the new park site. B. The detention facility and the new park will be combined to allow for a shallow detention facility which will be used for park facility during dry times. C. ~ The proposed Farrington Blvd. extension can now be made and still allow for the runway extension. D. The new street alignment now more closely resembles what is standard design principles. It has eliminated the straight street concept for the newer approach of short, non-thoroughfare type streets. This concept eliminates houses facing collector or arterial facilities. E. The new General Plan allows for the phasing of the subdivision which will be done in conjunction with market conditions.