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DATE: April 21, 2008
TO: Planning Commission and City Council
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for an amended specific use permit to allow
the expansion of an existing church in a RS (Residential Single
Family Dwelling) District
FILE: 1935-P
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval.
Unity Church of Beaumont has applied for an amended specific use
permit to allow the expansion of an existing church in a RS
(Residential Single Family Dwelling) District. The property is located
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at 1555 S. 23 Street.
An 1,800 sq. ft. addition will be constructed on the south side of the
existing church building. Reverend von Gyllenband states that the
addition will serve the young people of the church.
In August, 2000, City Council approved a specific use permit for
Unity Church.
Exhibits are attached.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION
Notices mailed to property owners 12 .
Responses in Favor . Responses in Opposition
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LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES
Being a 10.292 acre tract of land out of and a part of Block 37 of
the Cartwright and Roberts Subdivision A A @, said tract being more
particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point 140' south of the southeast corner of the
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intersection of Cartwright Avenue with the 80' wide 23 Street
right-of-way, said point being in the southwest corner of Lot 1, Block
8, Washington Manor Addition, Unit 3, Beaumont, Texas, Jefferson
County Map
LEGAL DESCRIPTION continued
Records Volume 9, Page 195; thence west a distance of 10' to a point
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in the east right-of-way line of the 23 Street 60' wide
right-of-way; thence south along the east right-of-way line of the 60'
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wide 23 Street a distance of 356', more or less, to the Place of
Beginning of the subject 10.292 acre tract, being the northwest
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corner of the aforesaid tract; thence south along the 23 Street east
right-of-way line a distance of 366' to a point for corner in the
southwest corner of the 10.292 acre tract; thence east along the
south line of the aforesaid tract a distance of 1060' to a point for
corner in the west line of the relocated Hillebrandt Bayou, a 160'
wide DD#6 drainage facility; thence northeast along the Bayou a
distance of 491' to a point for corner; thence west a distance of
1388' to the northwest corner of the aforesaid tract, being the Place
of Beginning.
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
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
X
8. That the proposed use is in accordance
with the Comprehensive Plan. X
X
ANALYSIS continued
This application is in conformance with all eight conditions necessary
for approval. Comments on Conditions 1, 2, 7 and 8 follow:
1. The site contains over 10 acres. The property allows
adequate space for the expansion without impacting the
surrounding area. Much of the property remains in its
natural wooded state.
2. The existing church has not impeded the normal and orderly
development of the vacant RS zoned land surrounding the
church site to the north and west.
Churches are assets to developing residential areas if
designed and sited so as to not interfere with neighborhood
growth. The church has ample room to expand.
7. A buffer of existing trees have been left along the north
and east property lines to screen the church.
8. The proposal is in conformance with the Comprehensive Plan.
The Comprehensive Plan designates the site as a A Stable
Area @. One of the residential land use objectives of the
plan is to A Provide residential neighborhoods with
convenient, easily accessible community facilities and
support services that are a customary part of the
neighborhood environment.@
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT: Rev. Sondra von Gyllenband
for Unity Church of Beaumont
PROPERTY OWNER: Same
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LOCATION: 1555 S. 23 Street
EXISTING ZONING: RM-H (Residential Multiple
Family Dwelling-Highest
Density) District
PROPERTY SIZE: 10.292 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES: Church
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be
outside 500-year floodplain
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES continued
SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Vacant RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling)
District
EAST: Industrial LI (Light Industrial)
SOUTH: Commercial RS and GC-MD (General
Commercial-Multiple Family Dwelling) District
WEST: Residential RS
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Stable Area
STREETS: S. Twenty-third Street - Major
collector with a 60' wide
right-of-way and a 20' pavement
width
DRAINAGE: Open ditch
WATER: 12" water line
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: 48" sanitary sewer line
PROPERTY OWNERS
BOUTTE SHARON DENISE
CHRISTUS HEALTH SOUTHEAST TX
HOANG HAI H & OANH MAXIM HOANG
LEWIS FRANK & SHARON Y
MOUTON DANIEL J DBA
ORANGE ENTERPRISE LLC
OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE #4434
PATRIZI DANIEL J & RITA S & WM E TOWNSLEY
STEVE NOAH ENTERPRISES LP
UNITY CHURCH OF BEAUMONT INC
VAN METER GENE A