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Board of Adjustment Regular Meeting <br />May 28, 2015 <br />Market at Spencer Setback Variance <br /> <br /> <br />Planning and Development Department <br />Staff Report <br />ISSUE <br /> <br />Consideration of a variance request by Market at Spencer LLC to allow construction of parking <br />and drive aisle improvements to accommodate future development of a commercial pad site, <br />contrary to the provisions of Section 106-443, Footnote 1 of the city’s Code of Ordinances which <br />requires a minimum 20-foot setback adjacent to the B-109 drainage channel where no buildings, <br />parking dumpster or landscaping improvements may be installed, for the property located at the <br />southeast corner of Spencer Highway and Canada Road (case #15-93000008). <br /> <br />DISCUSSION <br /> <br />Applicant: <br />Market at Spencer LLC. <br /> <br />Applicant’s Request: <br />The applicant is seeking approval of variance request #15-93000008, construction of parking and <br />drive aisle improvements to accommodate future development of a commercial pad site. Harris <br />County Flood Control District maintains a 15’ drainage easement on the east property line of the <br />subject site for the B-109 drainage channel. The applicant asserts that a 20’ landscape setback <br />would make any development on the pad site unfeasible with the additional setback. <br /> <br />The attached Exhibit A is a copy of the application and proposed plat showing the general <br />location of the easement in question. <br /> <br />Subject Site: <br />The subject is approximately 2.56 acres in area. The applicant has submitted application for a <br />plat to replat the site into two commercial reserves, one 1.829 acres that contains application <br />for a future ALDI grocery store and the other a 0.7274 acre tract that will be a pad site for future <br />commercial development. The site is located at the southeast corner of Spencer Highway and <br />Canada Road and is currently legally described as Tracts 1-5, Spencer Highway Estates 2 of the <br />deed records of Harris County William M. Jones Survey, Abstract 482, and Lot 1, Texaco at <br />Canada. The attached Exhibit B is an area map that shows the existing conditions of the site as <br />well as the surrounding area. <br /> <br />Background Information: <br />The site is currently zoned GC, General Commercial. The following table summarizes the <br />surrounding zoning and land uses: <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />