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DATE: January 22,
2007
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for the abandonment of a 20' alley in Block
66, North Addition
FILE: 709-OB
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends denial of this request.
Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church is requesting the abandonment of
a 20' alley in Block 66, North Addition. The church states that
when it purchased the land to build their present structure, they did
not know the subject alley existed.
Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church was severely damaged during
Hurricane Rita. The church is now requesting abandonment so that
they can rebuild the church facility.
This item was sent to all interested parties. Water Utilities
recommends denial of the abandonment. It states that it has a 6"
sanitary sewer main within the alley that provides service to the
church and a residence on St. Charles.
Exhibits are attached.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCES PURPOSES
Being the 20' alley located in Block 66, North Addition, City of
Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.05 acres, more or
less.
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT: Fellowship Missionary Baptist
Church
PROPERTY OWNER: City of Beaumont
LOCATION: Block 66, North Addition
EXISTING ZONING: LI (Light Industrial) District
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.05 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES: Unimproved alley
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be
outside 500-year floodplain
SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Vacant LI (Light Industrial) District
EAST: Church LI
SOUTH: Vacant LI
WEST: Church LI
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Conservation and
Revitalization
STREETS: 20' wide unimproved alley
DRAINAGE: Unimproved
WATER: None
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: 6" sanitary sewer line