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HomeMy WebLinkAbout778-OB DATE: March 28, 2011 TO: Planning Commission and City Council FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager SUBJECT: Consider a request for the disannexation of a 436.81 acres of land FILE: 778-OB NOTE: This is the second of two required public hearings. On March 21, 2011, the Planning Commission recommended approval of the disannexation. STAFF REPORT The Planning Manager recommends approval. Kim Ivy, representing Oiltanking Beaumont, L.P., has applied for a disannexation of 436.81 acres of land that Oiltanking Beaumont owns in the southeast part of the City of Beaumont. The property is located at 6275 Highway 347. This property was part of 2,600 acres annexed into the City in 1988. In 2001, Oiltanking Beaumont Partners, L.P. purchased approximately 1,400 acres of land and improvements consisting of docks, tanks, and related pipelines from BP/Amoco. Oiltanking Beaumont has added in excess of $100 million of investment since its purchase. In 2009, Oiltanking Beaumont paid approximately $570,000 in property taxes based on $89 million of property value to the City of Beaumont. Oiltanking Beaumont is a bulk liquid storage terminal that stores and transports hydrocarbon liquids and chemicals. Most of Oiltanking Beaumont=s customers are the various refining and chemical companies located within Southeast Texas. Most terminals like Oiltanking Beaumont=s are located within industrial districts. They have industrial district contracts with the respective cities and make payments in lieu of taxation and annexation. Oiltanking Beaumont would like to have a similar structure for its Beaumont facilities so it can compete with terminals in other cities= industrial districts. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION Notices mailed to property owners 1 . Responses in Favor . Responses in Opposition . LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES BEING a 436.81 acre tract of land situated in the Phelam Humphry League, Abstract No. 32, Jefferson County, Texas and being more particularly described as follows: COMMENCING at the intersection of the East right-of-way line of the K.C.S. Railroad and the South line of the Texas Gulf Sulphur tract and the North line of the Amoco 465 acre tract; THENCE Northeasterly along and with the South line of said Texas Gulf Sulphur tract and the North line of the Amoco 465 acre tract to an angle point in said line; THENCE Easterly along and with the South line of said Texas Gulf Sulphur tract and the North line of the Amoco 465 acre tract to the POINT OF BEGINNING of the tract herein described, said point being the most Northeasterly corner of that certain called 24.6091 acre tract as conveyed to TX Energy, LLC as recorded in Clerk=s File No. 2009022171, Official Public Records of Real Property, Jefferson County, Texas, said 24.6091 acre tract being out of the Amoco 465 acre tract; THENCE Easterly continuing along and with the South line of said Texas Gulf Sulphur tract and the North line of the Amoco 465 acre tract to the point of intersection with the Neches River bank; THENCE Southerly along the meanders of the West bank of the Neches River to a point of intersection with the Northwesterly line of the DuPont Canal and the Southerly line of the said Amoco 465 acre tract; THENCE along and with the South line of said Amoco 465 acre tract in a Southwesterly and Northwesterly direction, to the most Northerly South corner of said 465 acre tract and the Southeast corner of a Texas Gulf Sulphur 31.65 acre tract; THENCE Northwesterly along the Northeasterly line of the said Texas Gulf Sulphur 31.65 acre tract and the Southwesterly line of the said Amoco 465 acre tract to the most Southerly corner of the said 24.6091 acre TX Energy, LLC tract; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY along and with the Southeasterly line of the said 24.6091 acre TX Energy, LLC tract to the PLACE OF BEGINNING and containing 436.81 acres, more or less. GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES APPLICANT: Kim Ivy for Oiltanking Beaumont. L.P. PROPERTY OWNER: Same LOCATION: 6275 Highway 347 EXISTING ZONING: HI (Heavy Industrial) District PROPERTY SIZE: 436.81 acres, more or less EXISTING LAND USES: Bulk liquid storage terminal FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be outside 500-year floodplain; Shaded A X @ - Areas of 500-year flood or areas of 100-year flood with average depths of less than one foot; A A @ - Special flood hazard areas inundated by 100-year flood SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING: NORTH: Industrial, vacant Outside City Limits EAST: Neches River Outside City Limits SOUTH: Industrial Outside City Limits WEST: Commercial, industrial, vacant C-M (Commercial-Manufacturing) District COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Heavy Industrial STREETS: Highway 347 - Major arterial with 4 lanes DRAINAGE: Open ditch WATER: 6" and 8" water lines SANITARY SEWER SERVICE: 4" and 8" sanitary sewer lines PROPERTY OWNERS OILTANKING BEAUMONT, L.P.