03-20-1997 Regular Meeting of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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Boncosky Trucking TeZ'~fiinal • 4/17/97 - P&Z Meeting Page 3 of 6 11. Ask the developer to place any buildings near the front or South 16th Street frontage along with the landscaping referenced in Item #9. The tank cleaning and truck operations would be located in the rear or west side of the property. 12. Ordinance #1352 amended Chapter 25, Article V, S. 25- 84, of the City's Code of Ordinances, to read: Truck terminals shall be located in areas directly adjacent to the right-of--way of a designated truck route. Section 25-81 identifies 16th Street, from Barbours Cut Blvd. south to Fairmont Parkway, as a designated truck route. The property is located south of Fairmont Parkway and is not currently on a designated truck route. Approval of the proposed truck terminal (SIC #4231) should be subject to this portion of 16th Street being approved as a truck route by La Porte City Council. The rezoning would be conditional upon said approval. On November 11, 1996, City Council considered Zone Change Request #R96-004 and Ordinance 1501-V was approved by Council granting the P.U.D. with Special Conditional Use Permit #SCU 96-003 for a trucking operation with tank truck cleaning. Based on the ordinance, eleven of the twelve conditions recommended by the Commission were attached to the SCUP and the SCUP and conditions are required to be set forth upon the face of the plat. The only condition no longer necessary is the requirement for the applicant's submittal of a SCUP application. Analysis: Zoning Ordinance Section 8-100 states that the purpose of the (P.U.D. zoning) district is to provide for ..."development as an integrated coordinated unit as opposed to traditional parcel by parcel, piecemeal, sporadic and unplanned approach to development." The P.U.D. zoning assigned to the tract in question was to great extent based on the large amount of undeveloped, unsubdivided acreage located in this area. The PUD development requirements were an effective means to ensure that development of the tract in question would be in accordance with sound planning guidelines.