10-20-1994 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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• • Requested For: 502 North Broadway, which is further described by the legal descriptions attached to and following this report. (See Exhibit A) Requested By: Mr. Gary A. Mabray, on behalf of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, property owner. Zoning: Business Industrial; R-2, Mid Density Residential; PUD with an underlying Commercial Industrial land use base. (See Exhibit B) Puraose of Request: The facility located at 502 North Broadway is a freezer warehouse complex. The facility, which was developed as a Planned Unit Development, is operating under the provisions of Special Conditional Use Permit #SCU90-002 (see Exhibit C). The applicants are seeking to amend this permit. Bac und: The facility in question consists of three basic components, a warehouse and office building, a trailer staging yard, and a stormwater detention facility. As noted in the caption section of this report, the site extends into three different zoning districts. Exhibit B illustrates the zoning boundaries. Exhibit D illustrates the facility's layout. The warehouse, loading docks and parking are located in the PUD and Business Industrial (BI) portions of the tract. The staging yard and Barbour's Cut access are located exclusively in BI zoning. The residentially zoned portion of the property is used as a stormwater detention facility. Originally, the area was also to include an employee's park. As of this date, it has not been developed. Use of this section of property for detention and open space is compatible with the Comprehensive Plan's intent for residential land use. It was also felt by the City that maintaining residential zoning would maintain a buffer between the warehouse and residential properties located further to the • east. The warehouse could not be expanded to the east without first obtaining a rezoning of additional property. For these