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<br />Staff Report <br /> <br />June 19,2008 <br /> <br />Sleep Inn & Suites <br />Special Conditional Use Permit #SCU08-002 <br /> <br />Requested by: <br /> <br />HKP Investment, Inc. <br /> <br />Requested for: <br /> <br />Location: <br /> <br />Zonin!!:: <br /> <br />Land Use MaD: <br /> <br />Back!!:round: <br /> <br />EXHIBIT C <br /> <br />Lots 1 thru 32 and abandoned alley in Block 1150, Johnson Hunter Survey, <br />Abstract No. 35, La Porte, Harris County, Texas. <br /> <br />1332 South 8th Street <br /> <br />General Commercial (GC) <br /> <br />Commercial <br /> <br />The applicant is proposing to develop a hotel on approximately 2.5 acres of <br />land bounded by West 'L' Street (unimproved ROW) on the north, Little <br />Cedar Bayou Drive (60'ROW) on the south, South 8th Street on the east and <br />South 9th Street R.O.W. (unimproved) on the west. The property is located in <br />the vicinity of area restaurants, a hotel, cemetery, Little Cedar Bayou (F-216) <br />and Little Cedar Bayou Park. <br /> <br />The subject property is zoned General Commercial (GC). Hotels and <br />Motels are a permitted use in the General Commercial zoning district. In <br />addition, hotels/motels are classified as a 'Conditional Use' in GC zone <br />when adjacent to residential zoned properties (R-1, R-2, and R-3 zoning <br />districts) per a recent amendment to the Code of Ordinances. A time line of <br />activities which lead to this Special Conditional Use Permit request are as <br />follow: <br /> <br />January 10, 2007 - Applicant met with the staff for pre-screening meeting, <br />mentioned 4-story, 75-80 rooms Hampton Inn & Suites (not confirmed), <br />lack frontage along State Highway 146, wished to close West 'L' Street <br />for possible frontage along SH 146 and South 9th Street between blocks <br />1149 and 1150. <br /> <br />January 16, 2007 - Applicant had a pre-development meeting with the <br />staff to discuss parking lot detention/storm sewer, street closing process <br />and was asked to coordinate with TxDOT for access to frontage road and <br />sIgn. <br /> <br />May 22, 2007 - Planning and Zoning Commission held a workshop <br />meeting to discuss hotels/motels adjacent to residential zoning districts. <br /> <br />June 21, 2007 - Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing to <br />consider hotels/motels as a 'Conditional Use' when adjacent to residential <br />zoned properties (R-l, R-2, and R-3 zoning districts). <br /> <br />July 23, 2007 - City Council approved Ordinance #1501-X5 to make <br />hotels/motels as a conditional use when adjacent to residential zoned <br />properties. <br />