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DATE: January 5, 2017
TO: Board of Adjustment
FROM: Adina Ward, Planner II
SUBJECT: To consider a request for a variance to perimeter landscaping requirements.
FILE: 713-BA
STAFF REPORT
Soutex Surveyors & Engineers is requesting a variance to the perimeter landscaping for 1480
Interstate Highway 10. The owner, Chaudhry Bashir, states that there is insufficient room for
vehicles to maneuver in front of the fuel island along the Interstate Highway 10 right-of-way as
is. If even three (3) feet of the concrete must be removed, access will become limited. TXDOT
(Texas Department of Transportation) has agreed to a required sidewalk, but will not allow any
of the required landscaping on the Highway right-of-way. Mr. Bashir would also like a variance
to the landscaping along M.L. King Parkway, south of the driveway due to the location of the
fuel island. The Beaumont Zoning ordinance sates:
Perimeter requirements.
(A) A landscaping edge or buffer shall be required along each side of a parking lot that faces
towards a public right-of-way.
(B) The landscaping edge shall be no less than six (6) feet wide and may use up to three (3)
feet of the city public right-of-way, if unused and available at the time of permitting.
(C) The landscaping edge shall be for the parking lot’s entire length.
(D) The landscaping edge shall contain no less than one (1) class A tree or two (2) class B
trees for each twenty-five (25) lineal feet or fraction thereof of the edge.
(E) The required trees may be located anywhere within the six (6) foot landscape edge with a
minimum of ten (10) feet apart for class A trees and a minimum of five (5) feet apart for class B
trees. Refer to definitions on tree size.
(G) A screen no less than three (3) feet height comprised of a wall, solid fence, berm, or plant
material or combination of shall be provided along the entire length of the landscaping edge or
buffer, if any part of the landscaping edge is within ten (10) feet of the right-of-way. The screen
does not have to be straight with the street or parking edge.
The applicant shall have the burden of proof to demonstrate that all three conditions necessary
for a variance have been met.
Exhibits are attached.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION
Notices mailed to property owners 25 .
Responses in Favor . Responses in Opposition .
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
Being Lots 1-3, Block 1, Mcfaddin Heights Addition and Plat A-5, Tracts 41-42, J Drake Survey,
Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.744 acres, more or less.
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT: Soutex Surveyors & Engineers
PROPERTY OWNER: Arian, LLC
LOCATION: 1480 Interstate 10 East
EXISTING ZONING: LI (Light Industrial)
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.744 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES: Vacant
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: “X” - Areas determined to be outside 500-
year floodplain
SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Vacant LI (Light Industrial)
EAST: Residential LI
SOUTH: Interstate Highway LI
WEST: Commercial LI
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Conservation and Revitalization
STREETS: Interstate 10 East - Freeway with a 200'+
right-of-way and 42' pavement width.
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES (continued)
Isla Avenue - Local Street with a 60' right-
of-way and 25' pavement width.
Martin Luther King Parkway - Major
Arterial with a 60' right-of-way and 55'
pavement width.
DRAINAGE: Curb and gutter and open ditch
WATER: 6” water line
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: 8" sanitary sewer line
PROPERTY OWNERS NOTIFIED WITHIN 200'
ARAIN LLC
ARC JBBEATX001 LLC
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BENNETT DEWITT MRS
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