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<br /> <br />, CITY OF Lf PORTE <br /> <br />PHONE(713)471.5020 . P.O.BOX1115 . LAPORTE. TEXAS 77571 <br /> <br />August 30, 1988 <br /> <br />Honorable Mayor Norman Malone & City Council <br />P. O. Box 1115 <br />La Porte, Texas 77571 <br /> <br />RE: Zoning Ordinance Text Change <br /> <br />Dear Mayor Malone, <br /> <br />The Planning & Zoning Commission at our August 25, 1988 Public <br />Hearing and Regular Meeting, was scheduled to consider a request to <br />increase allowable sign heights in General Commercial Zones. <br /> <br />McDonald's Corporation is requesting that the City's Zoning <br />Ordinance be amended to change the allowable height of freestanding , <br />on premise advertising signs, located in G. C. zones from forty five <br />(45') to seventy five (75') feet. <br /> <br />The Commission, in our August 25, 1988 Public Hearing and Regular <br />Meeting, considered this request and received public input and Staff's <br />report. The Commission met on August 30, 1988 to consider a <br />recommendation to the City Council for this request. The Commission <br />voted (5 ayes and 1 abstain) to recommend granting an amendment to the <br />interim sign regulations to include a "Controlled Access Highway Zone" <br />for signs. The Commission recommends further that a maximum height of <br />sixty five feet (65') be considered and a width of five hundred feet <br />(500') along and parallel to each side of the controlled access <br />highway, as shown on the City of La Porte Thoroughfare Plan be <br />considered as the limits of the Controlled Access Highway Zone. <br /> <br />RespectfuIIy/:ubmitted, <br /> <br />~Jr ~~ <br /> <br />J/Jet Graves, <br />Chairman, Planning & Zoning Commission <br /> <br />JG/nd <br /> <br />cc: Robert T. Herrera, City Manager <br />John Joerns, Assistant City Manager <br />Joel H. Albrecht, Director of Community Development <br />John Armstrong, Assistant City Attorney <br />