09-11-1997 Regular Meeting of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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Staff Report October 16, 1997 Replat of Block 29; Lots 13-1G; Town of L~ Porte Requested Bv: Patricia Maner, property owner Requested For: Block 29; Lots 13-16; Town of La Porte Location: 225 and 229 So. 8~' Street and 816 West B Street Present Zoning: General Commercial (G.C.) Background: Block 29 is part of the original plat of La Porte as recorded in Volume 57, Pg. 320, of the Harris County Map Records. The applicant has requested a replat of the property in question for the purpose of establishing two separate lots of.developed property. The property is currently identifiedby the Hams County Appraisal District records as being the.east: half and west:haif of Lots 13-16. An existing, single family residence is currently located on.the back or_east half of the property. .This is considered a:pre-existing,.von-conforming use in .a;;General,~:Commercial~(G.C:). As_proposed,_.the, replat_,of:the lots ,in. question-_would:create' a 60 X `1 Q0' or 6,000 square -foot:. tract of land (See_ Exhibit A) and the pre-existing, non-conforming use would. continue. Under. construction~°at thistime at the front or west half of the.`property are two garage°apartments. The proposed replat would. resuit_in this~tract of land being 65 x 100' or 6,500 square feet in size (See Exhibit A). The multi- family use would be a permitted use in a G.C. zone. As shown in Exhibit B, the garage apartments would exceed the minimum G.C. setbacks which are: Front - 20'; Rear - 10'; North Side - 0' and the South Side - 10'. The garage apartments are being served with water from West B Street right- ot=way and the structures are all electric so no gas service is needed. However, an 8' private utility access easement will be needed (See Exhibit B) to allow the installation and maintenance of the customer's sanitary sewer line and an intermediate pole for overhead electric, cable and telephone lines. Currently, the sanitary sewer line is within 3' of the single family dwelling slab and is tied into the sewer line of the residence. With a replat, the property owner will be responsible for the installation of a sewer line (within the proposed 8' utility easement) and for obtaining and tying into a separate sewer tap for the garage apartments. Tl~e replat, as proposed would result in the current four lots becoming two independent tracts of land.