02-19-2004 Regular Meeing and Public Hearing of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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• • Staff Report Bayforest Ranch Preliminary Plat March 24, 2004 and Special Conditional Use Permit #SCU 04-002 Request: Approval of a Special Conditional Use Permit (SCUP) fora 100-units multi- family development. (free standing individual units) This request is essentially an amendment to the existing SCUP and General Plan for this site. Reauested Bv: Hettig Management Corp. Requested For: 15± acres of land located in the W. P. Harris Survey, A-30, La Porte, Harris County, Texas. This property is further described as being located between State Highway146 and the Bay Forest Golf Course. This property is located at the northeast corner of McCabe Road at SH 146. It is bounded on the east by the Bay Forest Golf Course. On the north, it is adjacent to the La Porte Golf Course Community, a proposed single-family residential development on approximately 150 acres surrounding Bay Forest Golf Course. Present Zoning: Planned Unit Development (PUD) with a previously approved (10/13/03). • General Plan • SCUP #03-002 for multi-family with density and driveway access to be determined by a future development agreement. Requested Use: Multi-Family Residential Development (100 free standing individual units) During the presentation the Commission may hear comments/positions taken that the City's definitions of multi-family do not prevent the proposed 100- unit (free standing) multi-family units from being defined asmulti-family and thus allowable under the existing SCUP. Staff disagrees with this inference. We also feel that this project requires a new/amended SCUP because it does not resemble the material and proposed project presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council when the existing General Plan and SCUP were approved. Bacla:round: The developer (Arete) submitted a General Plan and Special Conditional Use Permit SCU#03-002 for 150 acres located at SH 146 just south of the Baypoint Townhomes. The General Plan proposed single-family residential, multi-family residential, and neighborhood commercial uses within the Planned Unit Development zoning district (PUD). At the Planning and Zoning Commission's August 27, 2003 meeting, a public hearing was held. During the public hearing, the Baypoint Townhomes residents questioned the extension of 8~' Street through their neighborhood into the proposed development. In addition, the residents submitted a petition against the extension of S. 8~' Street.