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HomeMy WebLinkAbout877-OB DATE: October 16, 2017 TO: Planning Commission and City Council FROM: Chris Boone, Director of Planning and Community Development SUBJECT: Request for amendments to the Zoning Ordinance, Sec. 28.03.021(d). FILE: 877-OB STAFF REPORT The Planning Staff is recommending changes be made to Sec. 28.03.021(d) of the Zoning Ordinance. In July of 2000, City Council voted to create the Major/Dowlen/Gladys/Hwy. 105 Sign Overlay District. The ordinance states that the purpose of this district is to, ". . . provide for the essential identity of facilities along the streets and prevent needless clutter in the area through uniform signage." As the intent of this ordinance was to prevent needless clutter in this developing area, it stands to reason that properties not facing, or contained within the boundary of these thoroughfares should not be included in the boundary of the district. The property at 5710 Highway 105 faces Eastex Freeway. In order to be consistent with other commercial properties bordering Eastex freeway, staff recommends altering the boundary of the sign district to exclude this property (similar to the new credit union across the street). In addition, in September of 2016, City Council voted to approve the annexation of 77.73 acres of land at the southwest corner of Major Drive and Folsom Drive. This property contains several existing developments. Staff recommends extending the boundary of the sign district to include the property located within 100 feet of Major Drive in this newly annexed area. Changes to the boundary of the Major/Dowlen/Gladys/Hwy. 105 Sign Overlay District regulations should be as follows: For place of beginning, begin at a point in the north right-of-way line of Tolivar Road, a 60-foot- wide street right-of-way, said point also being in the southwest corner of Lot 7 and the same being the southeast corner of Lot 8, Neches Terrace Addition, an unrecorded subdivision out of the Daniel Easley Survey, Abstract No. 20, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas; Thence in a northerly direction along the common side lot lines of said Lots 7 and 8, a distance of 322.4 feet, more or less, to a point in the south right-of-way line of State Highway 105; thence continuing north a distance of 50 feet to the centerline of said State Highway 105 to a point for corner; thence west along the centerline of State Highway 105 a distance of 200 feet, more or less, to a point for corner; thence north a distance of 50 feet to a point in the north right-of-way line of State Highway 105; Thence north 750 feet to a point for corner; thence east 870 feet to a point for corner in the west right-of-way line of Major Drive (FM 364); thence continuing east a distance of 60 feet to a point in the centerline of Major Drive (FM 364); thence south a distance of 200 feet, more or less, to a point for corner; thence east a distance of 60 feet to a point in the east right-of-way line of Major Drive (FM 364); Thence east along the south line of Block 1, Griffing Villa, Unit 1, recorded in the Jefferson County Map Records in Vol. 12, Page 80, and also being in the north line of Lot 2, Rand Addition, recorded in the Jefferson County Map Records in Vol. 15, Page 39, a distance of 660 feet to a point for corner in the northeast corner of Lot 2, Rand Addition; thence south a distance of 526.07 feet to a point for corner; Thence east along a line which is 200 feet north of and parallel to the north right-of-way line of State Highway 105 to a point in the west line of a 60-foot-wide Drainage District #6 drainage easement; thence in a southeasterly course along the west line of the DD#6 drainage easement to a point which is 100 feet north of the north right-of-way line of State Highway 105; thence east a distance of approximately one mile to a point in the west right-of-way line of the Eastex Freeway (U.S. Highways 69, 96 and 287), said point lying 100 feet east of the east right-of-way line of Old Dowlen Road if Old Dowlen was extended north across State Highway 105; west line of Tract A out of Lot 1, out of Lot 2, Block 2, W.E. Johson Addition, said point lying 100 north of State Highway 105; Thence south to a point in the centerline of Highway 105; thence east approximately 250 feet to a point in the centerline of Highway 105 and approximately 100 feet east of the east right-of-way line of Old Dowlen Road; thence Thence south crossing State Highway 105 and continuing south along a line 100 feet east of the east right-of-way line of Old Dowlen Road to a point in the north property line of the Wal-Mart Stores Subdivision; thence east along the north line of said subdivision a distance of 954.83 feet to the northeast corner of said subdivision; thence south along the east side of said subdivision a distance of 896.70 feet to a point in the north right-of- way line of the 100-foot wide Dowlen Road; thence south a distance of 200 feet to a point 100 feet south of Dowlen Road; Thence in a northeast and easterly direction along a line 100 feet south of Dowlen Road to a point in the west line of the Ed Snowden Properties Subdivision (Vol. 13, Pg. 120, Jefferson County Map Records); thence south along the west line of the Ed Snowden Subdivision and then continuing south along the west line of Tract 3 of the South Parkdale Addition (Vol. 14, Page 234, J.C.M.R.), and continuing south along the west line of a 60-foot-wide Drainage District No. 6 drainage easement to a point in the north line of a 70-foot-wide DD#6 drainage easement (Hillebrandt Bayou); thence south a distance of 35 feet to the centerline of the Hillebrandt Bayou; thence in a southerly direction along the centerline of Hillebrandt Bayou and following the meanderings of the bayou and crossing Folsom Drive and Delaware Street a total distance of approximately 6,500 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of Hillebrandt Bayou; Thence west to the northeast corner of Lot 7, Block 1, Park West Addition; thence continuing west a distance of 261.69 feet to a point, and continuing west across the north lines of Lots 1–4, Block 1, Park West Addition (J.C.M.R Vol. 15, p. 208) an additional distance of 370.32 feet to a point in the northwest corner of Lot 1, Block 1, Park West to a point for corner in the centerline of Dowlen Road, a 100-foot-wide right-of-way; Thence south for 700 feet along the centerline of Dowlen Road to a point at the north intersection of Dowlen Road and Wellington Place, a 60-foot-wide street right-of-way, said point lying in the east line of Dowlen Road; thence east a distance of 30 feet to a point in the centerline of Wellington Place; thence south along the centerline of Wellington Place a distance of 1,800 feet, more or less, to a point for corner; thence due west and continuing along the centerline of Wellington Place a distance of 900 feet, more or less, to a point for corner, said point lying 100 feet east of the east right-of-way line of Dowlen Road; Thence south along a line 100 feet east of and parallel to Dowlen Road a distance of 1,600 feet, more or less, to a point for corner 100 feet south of the south right-of-way line of Gladys Avenue; Thence west crossing Dowlen Road and continuing west along a line 100 feet south of the south right-of-way line of Gladys Avenue to a point for corner 100 feet west of the west right-of-way line of North Major Drive (FM 364) and 100 feet south of the south right-of-way line of Gladys Avenue. Thence north along a line 100 feet west of the west right-of-way line of North Major Drive (FM 364) to a point in the south right-of-way line of Dishman Road, said point being the corporate limits of the City of Beaumont; thence east to a point in the centerline of North Major Drive (FM 364) being the corporate city limits; thence north approximately 3647 feet along the centerline of North Major Drive (FM 364) to a point; thence west approximately 50 feet to the west right-of way line of Major Drive (FM 364) and the southeast corner of Tract 2, Abstract 33, A Houston Survey (33.5870 acres); Thence west along the south property line of Tract 2, Abstract 33, A Houston Survey (33.5870 acres) approximately1004 feet to the southwest corner of Tract 2, Abstract 33, A Houston Survey (33.5870 acres); thence north approximately 3286 feet to a point in the north line of the A. Houston Survey and the south line of the D. Easley Survey said point lying 941 feet west of the west right-of-line of North Major Drive (FM 364); at the intersection of the southeast corner of the D. Easley Survey, Ab-20 and the northeast corner of the A. Huston Survey, Ab-33; thence east west to a point being in the south line of the D. Easley Survey and in the north line of the A. Huston Survey, said point lying 100 feet west of the west right-of-way line of North Major Drive (FM 364); Thence continuing north along a line 100 feet east of and parallel to North Major Drive to a point in the north right-of-way line of the L.N.V.A. Canal (Lower Neches Valley Authority Canal); thence in a southwest direction along the northerly line of the L.N.V.A. Canal a distance of 800 feet, more or less, to a point for corner; Thence north 1,400 feet, more or less, to a point at the southeast corner of Western Hills, Unit 2, mobile home subdivision recorded in the J.C.M.R.’s in Vol. 11, Page 42; thence continuing north along the east line of Western Hills, Unit 2 a distance of 810 feet to a point for corner in the south right-of-way line of the 60-foot-wide Tolivar Road right-of-way; thence north 32° east a distance of 70 feet to the place of beginning, containing an area of 2,613 acres or 4.08 square miles, more or less.