1981-04-01 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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e e . MINUTES JOINT PUBLIC HEARING AND REGULAR MEETING OF THE LA PORTE CITY COUNCIL APRIL 1, 1981 1. Meeting called to order by Mayor Meza at 7:00 P.M. Members of the City Council Present: Mayor J. J. Meza, Councilman John Tomerlin, Councilman I. J. Kibodeaux, Councilwoman Virginia Cline, Councilman Tom Simons. Members of the City Council Absent: Councilman Norman L. Malone. Members of Planning and Zoning Commission Present: Pat Muston, Walter Springall, Lindsay Pfeiffer, Dallie Wright. e Members of Planning and Zoning Commission Absent: J. B. Womack, Sidney Grant, R. J. Blackwell Other City Officials Present: City Manager James R. Hudgens, City Attorney Knox Askins, City Secretary Betty T. Waters, Chief of Police Herbert F. Freeman, Director of Public Works Jerry Hodge, Fire Marshal Paul Hickenbottom, John Joerns of Engineering, David paulissen of Code Enforcement and Stanley Sherwood of Parks and Recreation. There were 69 other persons present in the Council Chambers. 2. The invocation was given by Councilman Simons. 3. Mayor Meza stated this is a Joint Public Hearing held by Planning and Zoning and the City Council to consider a request by the Happy Harbor Methodist Home for the Aged to rezone Bayview Block between Bellair and Parkway Streets from resi- dential to commercial for the purpose of constructing addi- tional housing for the elderly. He asked if the representative from Happy Harbor would come forward to address the issue before the public. . Mr. John Neel introduced himself as the person retained by Happy Harbor to obtain a housing project for the elderly grant. The project would be constructed on their property which you have just described. We are at the point now of having obtained from the local HUD office a loan to build that building. It is