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DATE: December 21,
2009
TO: Planning Commission and City Council
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for a specific use permit to allow the
expansion of a cemetery
FILE: 2015-P
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval.
Community Cemeteries, Inc. has submitted a request for a specific use
permit to allow the expansion of cemetery. The property is located
at 3965 Scranton.
In June, 2001, City Council approved an expansion of Greenlawn
Cemetery. That property was located east and west of Scranton and
south of Gill. This latest expansion incorporates 0.193 acres
immediately south of the previous expansion.
No buildings or other structures are proposed for this site. The only
improvements will be the private drives, along with the necessary road
ditch culverts, to provide direct vehicular access onto the property and
the drainage swales adjacent to the private drives to provide drainage.
Exhibits are attached.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION
Notices mailed to property owners 40 .
Responses in Favor . Responses in Opposition
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LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES
Lot 6 and the North 2 of Lot 5, Block D, Magnolia Addition, City of
Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.193 acres, 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 eight conditions necessary
for approval. Comments on Condition 1 follow:
1. The proposed expansion is immediately south of a cemetery
expansion that was approved by City Council in 2001. This
expansion will not impair surrounding property values.
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT: Donald Taft for Community
Cemeteries, Inc.
PROPERTY OWNER: Community Cemeteries, Inc.
LOCATION: 1995 Gill
EXISTING ZONING: RM-H (Residential Multiple
Family Dwelling-High Density)
District
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.193 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES: Vacant
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be
outside 500-year floodplain
SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Cemetery RM-H (Residential Multiple
Family-High Density) District
EAST: Vacant RM-H
SOUTH: Vacant RM-H
WEST: Residential RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling)
District
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Conservation and
Revitalization
STREETS: Scranton Street - Local street with
a 60' wide right-of-way and an
18' pavement width
DRAINAGE: Open ditch
WATER: 2" water line
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES continued
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: 6" sanitary sewer lines
PROPERTY OWNERS
ABUSALEH FARID
ANTHONY CEMETERY CO
BARNES KARON L & BRIDGETTE
BLUITT E W
BROWN HAZEL
CITIZEN JAMES C ET UX
COLLINS REGINALD
COMMUNITY CEMETERIES INC
FONTENOT ARTHUR RAY
GIBSON BESSIE B
GREENLAWN MEM PK CEMETERY
GUIDRY GEORGE OLAR % ROBERT LEE MILES
HAWTHORNE DOROTHY
JONES SAM ESTATE
LAZARD SEDONIA
LEVINE SAMUEL JR
LEWIS THOMAS
NOBLES MARY B ESTATE
OWENS WILLIE MAE ESTATE % SHENETRA MYERS
SIMMONS CEMETERY
SIMMONS JAMES
SMITH KENNETH C
SMITH KENNETH CHARLIE
SMITH VERNA M
TAFT WILLIAM H D/B/A COMMUNITY CEMETERIES
TIMS JAMES
VON LEUWEN KARL
WRIGHT LESTER