11-17-1994 Regular Meeting of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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• • • Page 2 of 5 Planning & Zoning Commission Minutes of November 17, 1994 Mr. Lewis presented staffs report. He noted the property in question is located at 502 North Broadway and consists of a warehouse and office building, a trailer staging yard, and a stormwater detention facility. The property zoning includes Business Industrial; R-2, Mid Density Residential; PUD with an underlying Commercial Industrial land use base. The facility is a freezer warehouse complex that is operating under Special Conditional Use Permit #SCU90-002. The applicants are wanting to amend this permit allowing them to lease the staging area to a shipping firm which would continue to use the lot as a trailer chassis staging yard. It would operate as a separate business and would not be in any way connected with the operation of the freezer warehouse. Staff has reviewed the request and recommends approval of SCU94-004 as an amendment to SCU90-002 with the following amendment conditions: 1. The original landscape buffer being replanted. 2. The development of a new landscape buffer along the west face of the • proposed building to be located in the staging area. Planting shall be approved by the Director of Planning prior to occupancy. 3. The stormwater detention facility is made a part of this P.U.D. and the property owner shall be responsible for all maintenance of the facility. In addition, staff recommended that, except as specifically amended, SCU90-002 remain in effect. A. PROPONENTS Gary Mabray, with Colliers Appelt Womack in Houston, addressed the Commission and asked for their approval of SCU94-004. Councilman Deotis Gay addressed the Commission. He stated he had reservations about this request when he first learned of it, but has since been better informed and has changed his mind. He told the Commission he was in favor of the request. B. OPPONENTS There were none. •