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ALL RIGHT, IT'S SIX O'CLOCK.[1. Call to order and roll call of members]
LET'S GO AHEAD AND HAVE OUR, UH, ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS TO ESTABLISH A QUORUM.SO WE'LL CALL A MEETING TO ORDER AT SIX O'CLOCK.
AND UH, JACKIE'S HERE
CAN'T EVEN NOTE THAT THE MINUTES THAT SHE WAS TWO MINUTES LATE.
[2. Approval of January 8, 2024, minutes]
OKAY.THE NEXT ITEM ON THE UH, AGENDA WOULD BE THE APPROVAL OF THE JANUARY 8TH, 2024 MINUTES.
UH, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS TO THOSE MINUTES THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED? IF NOT, WE'LL JUST CONSIDER THOSE APPROVED AS SUBMITTED.
ITEM THREE, CITIZEN COMMUNICATION MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO GIVE COMMENTS AT THIS TIME LASTING.
ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WANT TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSION?
[4. Public Hearing and Action Items]
EVIDENTLY NOT AT THIS TIME.WE'LL GO TO ITEM FOUR, PUBLIC HEARING AND ACTION ITEMS. THE FIRST ITEM IS A HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING AND TAKE ACTION ON ZONING CHANGE APPLICATION MAP 23 0 0 0 6 23 0 9 19TH STREET TO REZONE, APPROXIMATELY 1.67 ACRES FROM SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL.
SEVEN TO GENERAL COMMERCIAL LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS LOT ONE THROUGH FIVE, SEVEN THROUGH 11, AND PORTIONS OF LOTS SIX AND 12 BLOCK 2 23 OF THE MOORES EDITION.
GENERALLY LOCATED FOUR BLOCKS WEST OF HIGHWAY THREE, THREE BLOCKS SOUTH OF FM 6 46, AND ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF 19TH STREET IN LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS.
I'LL JUST GIVE YOU A BRIEF SUMMARY.
I THINK I'LL GO AHEAD AND OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 6 0 2 AND YOU GO AHEAD AND GIVE YOUR PRESENTATION.
UM, SO THE PROPERTY, AS YOU MENTIONED, IS A REZONING REQUEST FROM RSF SEVEN, WHICH IS SINGLE FAMILY, UH, DISTRICT TO GENERAL COMMERCIAL PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON 19TH STREET.
UM, JUST A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PROPERTY, IT WAS ANNEXED SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
WHEN PROPERTIES ARE ANNEXED, THEY ARE AUTOMATICALLY GIVEN A DESIGNATION OF RSF SEVEN.
UM, AND SO NOW THE APPLICANT'S COMING IN TO REQUEST THE COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICT, UM, THERE'S BEEN SOME COMMERCIAL TRANSITION IN THE AREA.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE PROPERTIES, FRONTING HIGHWAY THREE, UM, THEY WERE REZONED TO GENERAL COMMERCIAL LAST YEAR.
AND THEN THE PROPERTIES JUST IN THE NORTH OF IT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DITCH WERE ALSO ZONED TO GENERAL COMMERCIAL, UM, SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
AND THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN DOES CALL FOR THESE PROPERTIES TO TRANSITION TO COMMERCIAL USES.
AND THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A LANDSCAPING BUSINESS AT THE LOCATION.
UM, STAFF'S RECOMMENDING APPROVAL AND WE'VE NOT RECEIVED ANY, UM, ANYTHING FROM ANYBODY IN OPPOSITION OR IN FAVOR OF THE REQUEST.
SO MAYOR, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, BELIEVE THE, ALL THE NOTIFICATIONS AND NOBODY RESPONDED.
TODAY, ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSION ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM.
THAT BEING THE CASE, WE'LL CLOSE THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING AT 6 0 3, UH, MEMBERS OF, UH, COMMISSION.
ANY COMMENTS OR, UH, QUESTIONS OF STAFF? UM, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? I NEVER TALK INTO THIS THING.
UM, SO GOING BACK TO THE 200 FOOT BUFFER, UM, THOSE SUBDIVISIONS WERE NOT NOTIFIED BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT IN THE 200 FOOT BUFFER.
SO ONLY ANYTHING WITHIN THAT BLACK LINE THAT'S SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY, THAT'S THE 200 FOOT BUFFER.
SO THOSE WOULD BE THE ONLY PROPERTIES WHO WERE NOTICE OF IT.
AND SO THAT LOT THAT'S NEXT TO IT, JUST SOUTH OF IT IS ALSO RESIDENTIAL, RIGHT? YES, MA'AM.
EVERYTHING ON THE MAP TO THE LEFT AND YELLOW IS ZONED RESIDENTIAL.
SO, SO JUST SOUTH OF THAT IS A SUBDIVISION AND IF THAT GETS, UM, ZONED AS COMMERCIAL GENERAL, THEN THAT LITTLE STRIP OF LAND RIGHT THERE IS GONNA EVENTUALLY BE COMMERCIAL GENERAL BECAUSE NOTHING ELSE IS GONNA BE DEVELOPED THERE.
WOULD THAT BE CORRECT? UM, IT COULD BE.
I MEAN, YOU COULD HAVE A HOUSE DEVELOPED THERE IN THE FUTURE WITH ITS CURRENT ZONING DESIGNATION.
UM, THAT LOT JUST TO THE SOUTH IS KIND OF AN AWKWARD LOT 'CAUSE IT'S CUT OFF BY A, UM, HIGH POWER UTILITY CORRIDOR OVER THERE.
UM, SO NOT SURE HOW IT'LL DEVELOP IN THE FUTURE.
WE JUST SEE THESE TWO SETS OF BLOCKS GOING TO COMMERCIAL USES.
SO THAT LOT OVER THERE, IF IT DOES GET DEVELOPED, WELL IT'S NOT GONNA GET DEVELOPED.
SO IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE DEVELOPED FOR COMMERCIAL GENERAL AND THEN
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THE PEOPLE IN THAT SUBDIVISION JUST SOUTH OF THERE'RE GOING TO BACK UP TO A COMMERCIAL, UH, COMMERCIAL POTENTIALLY INDUSTRIAL OR WHATEVER THAT GOES IN COMMERCIAL.WOULD THAT BE A POSSIBILITY? WHICH SUBDIVISION EXACTLY ARE YOU SPEAKING OF? THE ONE TO THE WEST OF BENSON BAYOU, UH, TO THE EAST, JUST SOUTH OF, UM, JUST SOUTH OF THE PROPERTY.
SO NOT THE BLOCK SOUTH, BUT THE BLOCK, THE TWO BLOCKS SOUTH, SOUTH OF THE MT BLOCK THAT'S, THAT'S BELOW IT.
UH, POTENTIALLY THEY COULD HAVE COMMERCIAL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD FROM THEM.
AND OUR CITY LIMIT LINE IS ACTUALLY THAT ROADWAY, UM, 20TH STREET THERE.
DOES THE SAME APPLICANT OWN THE OTHER PLOT THAT'S GONNA BE LEFT AS RESIDENTIAL? NO, SIR.
THIS IS THE PROPERTY THAT THEY OWN.
SO THEN, SO THEN WE, IF WE CH AND Y'ALL PREDICT THAT EVENTUALLY ALL THIS IS GONNA BECOME GENERAL COMMERCIAL, UM, YES SIR.
THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN CALLS FOR ALL OF THESE PROPERTIES EVENTUALLY TURN INTO COMMERCIAL, I GUESS.
SO THE REASON THAT IT'S, UH, SINGLE FAMILY RIGHT NOW IS THAT WHEN SOMETHING IS, UH, ANNEXED, IT COMES IN AS SINGLE FAMILY? THAT'S CORRECT, YES.
AND THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE, THAT WAS A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, IS THAT RIGHT? IT WAS, YES SIR.
DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IT WAS ZONED AS BEFORE IT WAS ANNEXED? IT DID NOT HAVE ANY ZONING 'CAUSE IT WAS IN THE COUNTY.
AND SO COUNTY PROPERTIES DON'T HAVE ZONING AND IT'S GONNA BE A NURSERY.
IS THAT AT THIS POINT? YES SIR.
IT CAN BE ALMOST ANYTHING LATER ON THAT IF THAT'S THE PROPOSAL, AS OF TO DATE, THEY CHANGE A LANDSCAPE SALES AND SERVICES WITHIN THE, WITHIN THE GUIDELINES THAT, THAT ARE, IT'S CALLED FOR ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? DO WE HAVE A MOTION? STAFF HAS RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THE, UH, THE CHANGE OF ZONING.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
MR. HYDE MADE THE MOTION TO APPROVE.
IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND IT.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
I DON'T THINK YOU, DO YOU HAVE GROUNDS FOR ABSTENTION THEN? I'LL SAY NO.
ARE YOU PRO THEN, THEN, THEN I, THEN I WILL VOTE NO, THEN NO.
I HAVE THE, THE ABILITY TO ASK FOR THE GROUNDS FOR ABSTENTION.
RIGHT? THERE'S NOTHING PROHIBITING YOU FROM ASKING FOR THAT.
AND THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT YOU CAN, THAT CAUSES YOU TO BE ABLE TO ABSTAIN.
THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE INHERENT CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.
AND IF SO, THERE ARE PROCEDURES THAT ARE TO FOLLOW.
UM, BUT YOU DO HAVE THE OPTION BECAUSE WE GOVERN THIS BOARD BY ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER.
AND ABSTENTION IS A POSSIBILITY.
AS A CHAIR, YOU DO HAVE THE RIGHT AND ANY PERSON CAN ASK FOR REASONS WHY THEY WANT TO ABSTAIN FROM IT IF THEY DON'T WANNA DISCLOSE IT.
I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANYTHING THAT COMPELS IT FOR ABSTENTION.
BUT FOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST, PERHAPS, I THINK THERE'S AN AFFIDAVIT THAT'S REQUIRED TO BE FILED.
BUT IF IT'S NOT A LEGAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, AND AGAIN, PART OF OUR TRAINING IS THAT WE GIVE TO THE BOARD IS IF YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT SOMETHING FINANCIALLY RELATED AND YOU WANNA TALK WITH US, WE'LL GO THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF THAT.
BUT ABSTENTION IS DIFFERENT THAN CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
AND THE REST THOUGH, WE HAVE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 4, AND TWO AGAINST.
SO THE MOTION CARRIES 5, 2, 6 2.
ITEM B IS HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING AND TAKE ACTION ON AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 1 25 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY, OF LEAGUE CITY BY REMOVING APPENDIX IS B, C, D, AND E.
WE'LL OPEN THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING AT 6 0 9.
CHRIS, YOU WANNA GO AHEAD AND TELL US WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT? I THINK THERE'S SEVERAL QUESTIONS THAT HAVE COME UP ALREADY.
UM, SO WHEN THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE WAS ADOPTED IN 2020, UM, THE PURPOSE OF THAT WAS TO KIND OF CONSOLIDATE ALL DEVELOPMENT RELATED ORDINANCES AND REQUIREMENTS INTO ONE PLACE FOR EASE OF USE, EASE OF PEOPLE TO FIND IT.
UM, AS PART OF THAT WE ADOPTED FIVE APPENDIXES, UM, WHICH WERE SUPPOSED TO BE AS REFERENCE DOCUMENTS.
UM, THESE ARE LIKE THE DEVELOPMENT HANDBOOK, FOR EXAMPLE.
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IT'S A HOW TO GUIDE OF HOW TO NAVIGATE THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, WHICH CHANGES FROM TIME TO TIME.AND I'LL GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES HERE IN A SECOND.
UM, HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGN GUIDELINES.
THOSE ARE ALSO ADOPTED BY COUNCIL, BUT THEY'RE ADOPTED BY A SEPARATE ORDINANCE.
SO THEY WERE ADOPTED BY AN ORDINANCE AND THEY WERE PUT IN HERE AS A REFERENCE TO THAT ORDINANCE.
UM, ENGINEERING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARD.
THEY WERE ADOPTED BY ANOTHER ORDINANCE BY CITY COUNCIL AND PLACED IN HERE SO PEOPLE COULD FIND THEM EASILY.
UM, WHAT WE DID NOT HAVE THE INTENTION OF DOING IS HAVE THESE ADOPTED AS A SECOND ORDINANCE IN THIS UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE.
AND SO, UM, THIS CAME ABOUT BECAUSE WE WERE, WE WERE LOOKING AT ADOPTING A NEW FEE SCHEDULE AND WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY RESOLUTION.
ALL FEES IN THE CITY ARE ADOPTED BY RESOLUTION BY CITY COUNCIL.
AND WHEN WE CONFERRED WITH OUR CITY ATTORNEY ON ON IT, UM, SHE INDICATED THAT THE APPENDIXES, UM, REFERENCED THAT FEE SCHEDULE.
AND SO WE NEEDED TO AMEND THE APPENDIXES AS WELL.
AND SO, UM, BY REMOVING THESE APPENDICES, THESE DOCUMENTS WILL NOT GO AWAY.
THEY'LL JUST BE ABLE TO BE CHANGED IN THE MANNER THAT THEY WERE ORIGINALLY APPROVED IN.
SO THE FEES WILL BE CHANGED BY, UM, RESOLUTION.
THE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WAS ADOPTED BY AN ORDINANCE WILL BE CHANGED BY THAT ORDINANCE.
UM, HERE'S SOME EXAMPLES OF SOME THINGS IN THESE APPENDIXES.
UM, HERE IS THE LIST OF STAFF ON DRC.
EVERYONE IN RED NO LONGER WORKS HERE.
AND SO THIS IS A LIVING DOCUMENT THAT SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE CHANGED AS PEOPLE COME AND GO.
UM, RIGHT NOW, AS IT WAS ADOPTED IN 2020, MANY OF THESE PEOPLE NO LONGER WORK HERE.
UM, HERE'S THE SUBMITTAL REVIEW CALENDAR THAT'S IN THIS DOCUMENT ON MUNI CODE CURRENTLY.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S FROM 2021.
OBVIOUSLY THIS GETS UPDATED EVERY YEAR AND DOES NOT NEED AN ORDINANCE TO GET UPDATED.
AND THEN FINALLY, HERE'S A APPENDIX E, WHICH IS JUST A REFERENCE DOCUMENT GIVING YOU SOME CODES THAT WE CURRENTLY ARE UNDER.
THIS REFERENCES THE 2015 BUILDING CODES.
WE'RE NOT UNDER THE 2015 BUILDING CODES.
AND SO, AND ALSO HAS A BUNCH OF WEBSITES THAT CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME.
SO THESE, THESE DOCUMENTS ARE DOCUMENTS THAT GET UP UPDATED FREQUENTLY, THEY GET UPDATED OUTSIDE THE PROCESS OF A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE TEXT AMENDMENT.
UM, SO STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THESE CHANGES.
AND I'M HERE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
SO, LONG STORY SHORT, THIS IS A LIVING DOCUMENT THAT'S JUST BEING UPDATED, NOT BEING EXCLUDED.
SO WE'LL STILL HAVE A LINK TO ALL OF THESE APPENDIXES IN OUR HARD COPY OF THE UDC THAT'S ONLINE.
SO WHEN YOU CLICK ONLINE AND YOU GO TO THE UDC ON OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT WEBSITE, IT'LL STILL HAVE ALL THESE DOCUMENTS ATTACHED TO IT.
IT JUST WON'T BE ADOPTED AS AN ORDINANCE WITH THE UDC.
SO, SO THEY'LL BE OFF MUNI CODE, BUT THEY'LL STILL BE ONLINE AS REFERENCED IN THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE.
AND THEY'RE STILL, THEY'RE STILL ENFORCEABLE.
UH, CHRIS, UH, WHEN THIS DEVELOPMENT CODE WAS ADOPTED BACK IN 2020, THE IDEA WAS TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT EASIER FOR DEVELOPERS TO COME IN AND NAVIGATE OUR VERY CIRCUITOUS SYSTEM.
AND SO BY REMOVING THESE, UH, WILL, WILL THEY STILL BE EASY TO FIND? BECAUSE THAT'S BEEN A HUGE COMPLAINT HERE PRIOR TO 2020 THAT YOU JUST COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT.
SO IN THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT THAT YOU'LL GO TO ON, ON THE WEBSITE AND YOU CLICK ON UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE, ALL OF THESE DOCUMENTS WILL STILL BE AS APPENDIX IS IN THEM THAT WE'RE JUST REMOVING THEM FROM THE ACTUAL ORDINANCE THAT ADOPTS THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE.
BECAUSE WHEN YOU AMEND AN ORDINANCE, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH A PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS, YOU HAVE TO POST NOTICE OF IT, AND IT'S A VERY ARDUOUS PROCESS TO JUST DO THAT.
AND SO THESE DOCUMENTS CAN BE AMENDED OUTSIDE OF THAT PROCESS, BUT STILL BE A PART OF THE MOTHER DOCUMENT OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE.
DID WE CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? WE DIDN'T, DID WE? DO WE HAVE ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO TALK TO THIS SUBJECT? WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AT SIX 13.
ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE UH, COMMISSION STAFF? WANNA MAKE ANYTHING? ANY OTHER COMMENTS? NO, SIR.
A MOTION TO APPROVE IS SECOND IS YOUR SECOND.
AND WE HAVE A SECOND BY MS. ARNOLD.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[5. New Business]
OKAY.CONSIDER AND TAKE ACTION ON A PRELIMINARY PLATT LEGACY SECTION EIGHT PLAT 23 0 0 5 4.
GENERALLY LOCATED ALONG THE SOUTH SIDE OF LEGACY DRIVE AND EAST OF WEST BOULEVARD.
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SO THE PLATT BEFORE YOU TODAY, IT DOES MEET ALL STATE AND LOCAL REQUIREMENTS.UM, IT CONSISTS OF 90 LOTS AND IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF PHASE ONE OF THE LEGACY DEVELOPMENT STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL.
AND I'M HERE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS.
STAFF HAS RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THIS.
UH, AND IS, UH, IS A SHALL MOTION.
SO, UH, IS THERE A MOTION TO, UH, TO, UH, APPROVE IT AS RECOMMENDED BY STAFF? I'LL MAKE A MOTION.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
[6. Staff Comments ]
MOTION CARRIED.JUST A QUICK UPDATE ON PAST ITEMS, UM, THAT WENT TO CITY COUNCIL.
SO THE REZONING, UM, THAT WAS IN THE WESTWOOD SUBDIVISION WAS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL AT THE LAST MEETING AS THE PALM TREE ORDINANCE WAS ALSO APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL AT THE LAST MEETING.
UM, THAT WOULD BE EVERYTHING THAT'S ON THE AGENDA.
UH, WE WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT AT THIS POINT.