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DATE: October 17,
2011
TO: Planning Commission and City Council
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for a zone change from HI (Heavy Industrial)
District to GC-MD (General Commercial-Multiple Family
Dwelling) District or more restrictive district
FILE: 2109-Z
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval.
George Newsome, representing Soutex Surveyors, Inc., has applied for
a zone change from HI to GC-MD or more restrictive district. The
property is located at 1585 Calder.
The subject property is zoned HI while the rest of the owners= property
is zoned GC-MD. Mr. Newsome states that the property owners wish
to have all of their property at the southwest corner of Calder and
Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway under the same zoning classification.
This will allow the property to be developed with uniform building
setbacks.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION
Notices mailed to property owners 7 .
Responses in Favor . Responses in Opposition
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LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES
Being Lots 5 and 6, Block 11, Calder Addition, City of Beaumont,
Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.344 acres, more or less.
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT: Soutex Surveyors, Inc.
PROPERTY OWNER: Abdullah Moosa, Hamidullah Habib
and Saleem Meghani
LOCATION: 1585 Calder
EXISTING ZONING: HI (Heavy Industrial) District
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.344 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES: Vacant restaurant
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be
outside 500-year floodplain
SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Commercial GC-MD (General Commercial-Multiple Family
Dwelling) District, lI (Light Industrial) District
EAST: Vacant GC-MD
SOUTH: Commercial GC-MD, HI (Heavy Industrial) District
WEST: Railroad right-of-way HI
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Conservation and
Revitalization
STREETS: Calder Avenue - Secondary
arterial with a 70' wide
right-of-way and a 50' pavement
width
DRAINAGE: Curb and gutter
WATER: 6" and 8" water lines
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: 8" and 36" sanitary sewer lines
PROPERTY OWNERS
EVANS WALTER ET AL % WALTER EVANS
FAMILY DOLLAR STORES OF TX LP
HABIB HAMIDULLAH M ET AL
MUNRO DRY CLEANING CO INC
TILLERY LARRY