11-18-1999 Regular Meeting and Public Hearing of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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• Staff Report December 16,1999 Zone Change Request #R 99-004 Location: TRS IA, 2A, Lots 3,4, & 5 Block A, tracts 1B, 2B, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 Block B, Moody Lloyd, T U/R; TR 13C-1,13C-2, & 13C-3, Abstract 30, W. P. Harris; Units 1-25, Bldg. I, II, & III, Sunrise T/H, Sunrise Dr.; Units A-L, Bldg. A, B, & C, Bay Colony Condos, Bay Colony Drive. Present Zoning: Planned Unit Development (P.U.D.) Requested Zoning: Medium Density Residential (R-2) Background: • The properties described above are currently zoned Planned Unit Development (P.U.D.) as per City's Zoning Map. Planned unit development means a land area characterized by a unified site design which (a) has individual building sites and provides common spaces, and (b) is designed to be capable of satisfactory use and operation as a separate entity without necessarily having the participation of other building sites or other common property. Mr. Charles Whittenton, authorized representative for the property owner, Bernice Polly Whittenton, is seeking permission to develop a single-family dwelling on tracts IA & 2A, Block A, Moody Lloyd T. 14.484 acre tract out of 200 acre W. W. Ralston Tract, located on Sunrise Drive (Exhibit A). • Development of a single-family residence on an existing subdivided lot is not an effective use of P.U.D. zoning. • The applicant and the City staff are using this opportunity to remove some existing subdivided lots, existing townhouses, and condos from the P.U.D. zone and place them in Medium Density Residential (R 2) zone. At the time of annexation, the Shady Oaks Subdivision off South Broadway west of Galveston Bay, was assigned a zoning classification of Low Density Residential (R-1). Later, a comprehensive rezoning was carried out in conjunction with adoption of the City's present Zoning Ordinance. The properties, as mentioned above, were taken into Planned Unit Development (P.U.D.) along with tract 13C, an approx. 9.4380 acre undeveloped site between North Shady Lane and the Bayport Channel south of the subdivision.