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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1242-P DATE: November 19, 2012 TO: Planning Commission and City Council FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager SUBJECT: Consider a request to revoke a specific use permit to allow a two family dwelling (duplex) in a RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling) District FILE: 1242-P STAFF REPORT The Planning Manager recommends approval of the revocation based upon the fact that the specific use permit was obtained by deception. In June, 1994 Fredrick Joubert, Jr. received a specific use permit to allow a two family dwelling (duplex) at 255 Pollard. A two family dwelling is permitted in a RS (Residential Single Family) District with a specific use permit. At the time of the request, there was an existing single family structure on the property. The site plan attached to the application for the specific use permit showed that the existing single family structure was to be demolished. According to the June 20, 1994 Joint Public Hearing Minutes, Mr. Joubert was asked when he was going to demolish the building and he stated A that when he finished the building in about a year.@ However, it was not made a condition of approval of the specific use permit. Mr. Joubert never did demolish the single family structure. Upon receiving a complaint in the summer of 2010 about having three residences on property zoned RS, Mr. Troy Joubert, the new property owner and son of Fredrick Joubert, was given four weeks to correct the violation. The single family structure was not demolished so charges were filed. However, when the case went to Municipal Court, the City=s Municipal Court Attorney felt that the appropriate action was to revoke the specific use permit. An inspection of the single family structure in October, 2012 found that the electricity has been disconnected. On November 8, 2012, the Planning Manager spoke with Troy Joubert. When asked what he intended to do with the single family dwelling, Mr. Joubert said that it was his intention to rehabilitate the structure and rent it. This would be in direct violation of the approved specific use permit. Sec. 28.04.001(h) of the Zoning Ordinance states that a specific use permit may be revoked or modified, after notice and hearing, for either of the following reasons: 1. The specific use permit was obtained or extended by fraud or deception; or 2. That one or more of the conditions imposed by the permit has not been met or has been violated. Exhibits are attached. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION Notices mailed to property owners 40 . Responses in Favor . Responses in Opposition . LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES Being Lots 13 and 14, Block A, Pine Hill Addition, City of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.193 acres, more or less. GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES APPLICANT: City of Beaumont Planning Division PROPERTY OWNER: Troy Joubert LOCATION: 255 Pollard EXISTING ZONING: RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling) District PROPERTY SIZE: 0.193 acres, more or less EXISTING LAND USES: Single family residence and duplex FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: Shaded A X @ - Areas determined to be within 500-year flood plain SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING: NORTH: Vacant RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling) District EAST: Residential RS SOUTH: Residential, vacant RS WEST: Residential RS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Conservation and Revitalization STREETS: Pollard Street - Local street with a 50' wide right-of-way and an 18' pavement width DRAINAGE: Open ditch WATER: 6" water line SANITARY SEWER SERVICE: 10" sanitary sewer line PROPERTY OWNERS ARLINE NAZREE CALLAHAN CHARLOTTE ESTATE CANTUE RUSSELL CANTUE RUSSELL & DEBRA CARTER ROBERT ESTATE CASTILLE ROSELLA ESTATE CHRIST HOLY SANCTIFIED CHURCH COLEMAN ILLYA COLLEY J C CRITON ORENE DAVIS DOROTHY S DE CORDOVA DONALD ET AL HANEY MERDRE HARRIS WILLIE HARRIS WILLIE ET UX HARTMAN MARGARET MOSE HEBERT NANDO J EST JEFFERSON COUNTY D D 6 JEFFERSON COUNTY D D 6 JEFFERSON COUNTY D D 6 JEFFERSON COUNTY D D 6 JONES FABIUS AND EDNA JOUBERT LEONARD JR JOUBERT SAMPSON JR JOUBERT TROY JOUBERT WILLIE MAE PERRAULT KENNETH J & POLLARD LYDIA PRYOR JETTIE ESTATE REED ELAINE I ROBERTS GEO ET UX RUBEN KENNETH SR RUBIN MORRIS SIMMONS MARY MS SMITH SADIE R SMITH SADIE R SMITH SADIE R WALKER JEWETT LYNIUS REV WILLIAMS AARON WYATT WILMA