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i <br />• . <br />Staff Report Lakes at Fairmont Greens July 15, 2004 <br />General Plan <br />And <br />Special Conditional Use Permit #SCU04-012 <br />Request:. . <br />Requested Bv: <br />Requested For:. <br />Present Zoning: <br />Approval of a General Plan and Special. Conditional Use Permit for single- <br />family and commercial developments. <br />Arete Real Estate & Development Co., <br />135.4t acres of land located in the W, P. Harris Survey, A730, La Porte, <br />Harris County,. Texas. This property is further described as being located. - <br />between State Highway146. and the Bay Forest Golf Course. <br />Planned Unit Development (PUD) <br />Requested Use Single -Family Residential and Commercial <br />Background: This property is located at the northeast corner of SH 146,--Wharton Weems <br />Boulevard, and McCabe Road. It is bounded on the east by the Bay Forest <br />Golf Course. Mr. Joe . Fogarty, President of the. Arete Estate and <br />Development Company, . met: with the City staff on several occasions -to <br />present -conceptual. layouts for -residential development, multifamily and <br />commercial uses on approximately .150- acres surrounding Bay Forest Golf <br />Course.. . <br />At the Commission's March 20, 2003 meeting, Mr. -Joe Fogarty described. <br />his development plans. for the proposed golf course community. Mr. Alton. <br />Porter, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Tax Increment Reinvestment <br />Zone (TIRZ) also addressed the Commission. He indicated .that the TIRZ <br />board supported the subject liroject. .. <br />After the presentation, the Commission offered the following comments: <br />• . Consider relocating the proposed multi -family development to either at. <br />the Wharton Weems Blvd. intersection or McCabe Road intersection; <br />• Provide "pocket parks" within the proposed development. <br />• "Design a -landscape berm.. that .serves as an effective buffer and screens . <br />from noise and other impacts associated with SH 146. <br />Based upon the initial General Plan, SCU#03-002, including the multi-'. <br />family portion (apartments) of the development as. submitted by Mr. John <br />Hettig, was approved in- 2003 as a joint venture. Integrated into the plan was <br />a . land swap between Mr. Fogarty and Mr. Hettig, ..with Mr. Fogarty <br />controlling a.20+/- acre tract at :the Northeast corner of McCabe Road and ` <br />S.H. 146 where Mr: Hettig's apartments were being considered. Mr. Hettig,- <br />ID <br />