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DATE: January 28,
2013
TO: Planning Commission and City Council
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for a specific use permit to allow a cellular
telecommunications tower in a HI (Heavy Industrial) District
FILE: 2157-P
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval subject to the following
condition:
1. Site and driveway shall be graded to drain towards the
street. No storm water shall drain onto adjacent
properties.
Shep Poland, agent for Verizon Wireless, has applied for a
specific use permit to allow a cellular telecommunications tower
in a HI (Heavy Industrial) District. The property is located
2390 Dollinger Road.
The facility will include a 180' monopole type radio tower,
equipment cabinets placed on a raised platform and a generator
placed on an 4' x 8' concrete pad. The facility will be placed
on a 0.062 acre tract of land leased from T.C. Renfrow Companies,
LLC. A security fence will enclose 34' x 36' of the leased
space. An existing driveway will be used to access the site.
The facility will be visited and serviced by a technician
several times a month. There will be no traffic in or out of
the facility other than those visits and for any emergency
situations that should arise.
Exhibits are attached.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION
Notices mailed to property owners 9 .
Responses in Favor . Responses in Opposition
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LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES
Tract 1 - Being a certain 0.0612 acre tract of land situated in the A. Williams Survey,
Abstract No. 385 in Jefferson County, Texas, being out of a called 9.93 acre tract of land
conveyed to T.C. Renfrow Companies, L.L.C., by Special Warranty Deed recorded in
Clerk=s File No. 2009001820 of the Jefferson County Official Public Records of Real
Property, City of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.0612 acres, more or
less.
Tract 2 - Being a certain 0.0707 acre tract of land situated in the A. Williams Survey,
Abstract No. 385 in Jefferson County, Texas, being out of a called 9.93 acre tract of land
conveyed to T.C. Renfrow Companies, L.L.C., by Special Warranty Deed recorded in
Clerk=s File No. 2009001820 of the Jefferson County Official Public Records of Real
Property, City of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.0707acres, more or
less.
ANALYSIS
CONDITIONS FOR APPROVAL OF SPECIFIC USE PERMIT
(SECTION 30-26.E, ZONING ORDINANCE)
Application
Application
is in is not in
Comments
Compliance
Compliance Attached
CONDITIONS:
1. That the specific use will be
compatible with and not injurious
to the use and enjoyment of other
property, nor significantly diminish
or impair property values within
the immediate vicinity; X
X
2. That the establishment of the
specific use will not impede the
normal and orderly development and
improvement of surrounding vacant
property; X
3. That adequate utilities, access
roads, drainage and other necessary
supporting facilities have been or
will be provided; X
4. The design, location and arrangement
of all driveways and parking spaces
provides for the safe and convenient
movement of vehicular and pedestrian
traffic without adversely affecting
the general public or adjacent
developments; X
5. That adequate nuisance prevention
measures have been or will be taken
to prevent or control offensive odor,
fumes, dust, noise and vibration; X
6. That directional lighting will be
provided so as not to disturb or
adversely affect neighboring properties; X
7. That there are sufficient landscaping
and screening to insure harmony and
compatibility with adjacent property; and X
8. That the proposed use is in accordance
with the Comprehensive Plan. X
ANALYSIS continued
This application is in conformance with all of the eight conditions
necessary for approval. Comments on Condition 1 follow:
2. The proposed location of the cellular tower will be
approximately 260' away from any residentially zoned
property. The site will be located on a vacant
industrially zoned property.
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT: Shep Poland, agent for
Verizon Wireless
PROPERTY OWNER: T.C. Renfrow Companies, LLC
LOCATION: 2390 Dollinger Road
EXISTING ZONING: HI (Heavy Industrial)
District
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.13 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES: Shuttered steel mill
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be
outside 500-year floodplain
SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Industrial HI (Heavy Industrial) District
EAST: Industrial HI
SOUTH: Industrial HI
WEST: Industrial HI
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Conservation and
Revitalization
STREETS: Dollinger Road - Local street with
a 50' wide right-of-way and a 20'
pavement width
DRAINAGE: Open ditch
WATER: 6" water line
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: 8" sanitary sewer line
PROPERTY OWNERS
BABIN W C
JEFFERSON COUNTY D D 6
T C RENFROW COMPANIES LLC
TRANSIT MIX CONCRETE & CO