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PUBL IC H EAR I N G
B OAR D OF ADJUSTMENT
March 20, 1987
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
CITY HALL, BEAUMONT, TEXAS
1:00 P.M.
A meeting of the Board of Adjustment was held on March 20, 1987 with the
following members present:
Chairman Milton Bell
Commissioner Whit outlaw
Commissioner Ron Lanier
Commissioner Charles Thompson
Commissioner Gerald Farha
Commissioner Bettye Smith
Commissioner absent: Preston Shaw.
Also present: Kirt Anderson, Senior Planner/Landscape Architect, Norman
Whitaker, Planning Director; Tyrone Cooper, Assistant City Attorney; Walterine
Brown, Recording Secretary.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The minutes for January 8, 1987 were approved.
Commissioner Outlaw made a motion to approve the minutes.
Seconded by Commissioners Lanier and Thompson.
Vote carried 5-0.
FILE 317—BA. Request for a variance to allow the area of a sign to be increased
from 20 square feet to 36 square feet at the Bingman Elementary School described
as part of tracts 17 and 19, plat B-21, J. Vetch Survey AB 1, Beaumont, Texas.
The staff is recommending approval of the variance based on the following:
1) that it would be in the public interest 2) that the literal enforcement
of the ordinance would result in unnecessary hardship due to the physical
condition or situation on the property or related to the property 3) that
it would be in the spirit of the ordinance. The applicant State Sign is
representing the Bingman Elementary School PTA. The: PTA desires to install
a sign essentially similar to the Amelia School District sign that was reviewed
several months ago. The purpose is for a reader board to place messages
such as PTA meeting tonight, etc. The sign would 15' high with a 25' setback
both of which complies with the ordinance.
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SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF THIS REQUEST
Mike Mayfield
815 Boyd
Commissioner Thompson made a motion to approve the variance.
Seconded by Commissioner Smith.
Vote carried 5-0.
Commissioner Thompson withdrew due to a conflict of interest with File 318-BA.
FILE 318-BA. Request for a variance from the required 10 foot side yard
setback to a 62 foot setback for a sign at 6140 Eastex Freeway on property
described as a part of tract 66-C, plat D-24, F. Bigner AB. 1.
The staff is recommending denial based on the following: the literal enforcement
of the ordinance will not result in an unnecessary hardship due to a unique
physical condition or situation on the property or related to the property.
2) the granting would not be within the spirit of the ordinance. The applicant
Roland Angelle is building a new automobile dealership at this location and
he wishes to install a sign to be approximately 23.5' high to a 10, front
yard setback both of which complies with the ordinance however, he also proposes
a 62 foot side yard which does not comply with the ordinance which requries
a 10 foot setback. The applicant has installed a concrete foundation for
the sign without a building permit. The property is commercial. It is located
in an regional activity center.
SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF THIS REQUEST
Vincent White, General Manager of Roland Angelle
Port Neches, Texas
Phil Roebuck, General Contractor Golden Triangle Constructors
1204 Ave. H
Nederland, Texas
REBUTTAL
Vincent White
Commissioner Outlaw made a motion to deny the variance because it does not
meet the three requirements.
Seconded by Commissioner Farha
Vote carried 5-0.
DISCUSSION OF NEW APPLICATION FORMS
The staff has redone all the application forms not just for the Board of
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Adjustment but for the Planning Commission and other forms that the staff
processes. The Bylaws related to the Board of Adjustment as well as the
Planning Cornaission require that the forms that the staff uses to take applications
be approved or accepted by the Board. There are b different forms that are
involved in conducting or administering the business of the Board of Adjustment.
The forms are very similar to the existing forms. The staff repackaged them
making them a little bit clearer and sequence the information. The only
problem that the staff has had is that applicants are coming in with incomplete
applications. They were scaled down to a single page rather than numerous
pages.
Commissioner Thompson made a motion to accept the application forms.
Seconded by Commissioner Farha.
Vote carried carried 5-0.
AMENDMENTS TO THE FLOOD HAZARD AREAS ORDINANCE
The Flood Hazard Areas Ordinance pertains to the board not as the Board of
Adjustment but as the Flood Control Board. The Flood Control Board essentially
oversees variances that pertain to the Flood Hazard Areas Ordinance. It's
and ordinance that the City of Beaumont has adopted in order to participate
in the national Flood Insurance Program, a program that is put together by
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) under the direction of the Federal
Government to address flood problems.
The Flood Hazard Areas Ordinance is just for the Commissioners information.
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