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DATE: August 15,
2005
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for the abandonment of Cottonwood Street
between Concord and St. Helena.
FILE: 686-OB
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends denial of this request.
Fittz & Shipman, Inc., the applicant for Beaumont Independent School
District (BISD), has made a request to abandonment Cottonwood
Street, between Concord and St. Helena.
BISD is developing the properties on either side of this section of
Cottonwood for a school bus yard facility (see 1794-P). The
applicant states that the closure of Cottonwood would greatly enhance
the use of the adjacent properties for the proposed school bus yard.
Both the Streets and Drainage Manager and the Transportation
Manager object to the abandonment. In addition, the Streets and
Drainage Manager states that city vehicles use this street to access
Concord and the North Yard Facility. The City=s materials yard is
across the tracks and Cottonwood is the most direct route between it
and the North Yard Facility. The St. Helena and Concord intersection
is blind and is dangerous for city trucks to use.
Exhibits are attached.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCES PURPOSES
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT: Fittz & Shipman, Inc.
PROPERTY OWNER: City of Beaumont
LOCATION: Between Concord and St. Helena
EXISTING ZONING: RM-H (Residential Multiple
Family Dwelling-Highest Density)
District
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.314 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES: Public street
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be
outside 500-year floodplain
SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Vacant GC-MD (General Commercial-Multiple
Family Dwelling)
EAST: Concord, City streets and drainage facility GC-MD
SOUTH: Vacant GC-MD
WEST: St. Helena, residential RM-H (Residential Multiple Family
Dwelling-Highest Density) District; RS
(Residential Single Family Dwelling) District
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Conservation and
Revitalization
OTHER PHYSICAL
FEATURES: None
STREETS: Cottonwood Street - Local street
with a 60' wide right-of-way and
a 36' pavement width
DRAINAGE: Curb and gutter (15" storm sewer)
WATER: 6" water line
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: None
FIRE PROTECTION: Fire protection is provided by
Station #2, Wilson at Ironton.
ADEQUACY
OF SERVICE: Services are adequate.