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HomeMy WebLinkAbout825-OB DATE: November 19, 2012 TO: Planning Commission FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager SUBJECT: Consider a request to abandon two alleys FILE: 825-OB STAFF REPORT The Planning Manager recommends approval. Faust Engineering & Surveying, Inc. has applied for a request to abandon two alleys. The alleys are located at 1415 and 1455 Pennsylvania. The former Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club and Resale Shop are under contract for sale. Frontier Machine Works, LLC proposes to purchase the property for use as a machine shop. A specific use permit for the machine shop will be considered by the Planning Commission and City Council under today=s Joint Public Hearing. This item was sent to all interested parties. No negative responses have been received. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION Notices mailed to property owners 3 . Responses in Favor . Responses in Opposition . LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES Being two 10 foot wide alleys as recorded in Volume 120, Page 520 and Volume 690, Page 627, Jefferson County Deed Records, City of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.06 acres, more or less. GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES APPLICANT: Faust Engineering & Surveying, Inc. PROPERTY OWNER: City of Beaumont LOCATION: 1415 and 1455 Pennsylvania EXISTING ZONING: C-M (Commercial-Manufacturing) District PROPERTY SIZE: 0.86 acres, more or less EXISTING LAND USES: Vacant commercial property and unimproved alley FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be outside 500-year floodplain SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING: NORTH: Commercial C-M (Commercial-Manufacturing) District EAST: Commercial C-M SOUTH: Vacant C-M WEST: Commercial, vacant C-M COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Commercial STREETS: 10' unimproved alleys DRAINAGE: N/A WATER: N/A SANITARY SEWER SERVICE: N/A PROPERTY OWNERS SALVATION ARMY DOWNTOWN BRICK AND TILE CO., INC. PORT OF BEAUMONT