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DATE: October 21, 2002
TO: Planning Commission and City Council
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for a zone change from RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling)
to LI (Light Industrial) District.
FILE: 1640-Z
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval of this request.
Mike Doguet, property owner, wishes to re -zone this 0.499 acre tract of land at 685 S. Major
Drive. The subject property is immediately adjacent to Doguet's Rice Milling Company at 795
S. Major Drive. Mr. Doguet states that the company would like to expand their facility by
adding office space, warehouse space and parking area. The existing rice milling facility is
zoned LI (Light Industrial) District.
This vacant property is at the southeast corner of Major Drive and Morgan Lane. Morgan is
a 14'wide street with a 40'wide right-of-way. On the south side of Morgan are three houses.
One house, Amelia School and ball fields are on the north side.
If re -zoned, Doguet's will be required to provide an 8' tall screening fence and a 10' wide
landscape strip along the east side of the property
Exhibits are attached.
Notices mailed to property owners 7
Responses in Favor -. Responses in Opposition
LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES
All that certain tract, piece or parcel of land, out of and a part of the C. Williams League,
Abstract 59, Jefferson County, Texas, being a portion of that certain 4.78 acres (also called 5
acres) described in Deed from Gulf Pipe Line Company to A.D. Cannon, dated 12-18-1922 and
recorded in Vol. 222, page 270 of the Deed Records of Jefferson County, Texas, the portion
thereof being more fully described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a stake which is 30 feet East of the center line of the Farm to Market Road No.
364 and the dividing line between the A. Savery and C. Williams Leagues, which stake is the
Northwest corner of the 5 acre (4.78 acre) tract conveyed by the Gulf Pipe Line Company to
A.D. Cannon by Deed recorded in Vol. 222, Page 270, Deed Records of Jefferson County,
Texas;
Thence South parallel with said Farm to Market Road to a point in the West line of said 5 acre
tract which is 40 feet South of the Northwest comer of said 5 acre tract for the BEGINNING
CORNER of the tract herein described;
Thence East parallel with the North line of said 5 acre tract a distance of 290 feet for second
corner;
Thence South and parallel with the West side of said 5 acre tract a distance of 75 feet for third
corner;
Thence West and parallel with the North line of said 5 acre tract a distance of 290 feet to the
West line of said 5 acre tract for fourth corner;
Thence North along the West line of said 5 acre tract a distance of 75 feet to the place of
beginning of the tract herein described.
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FILE 1640-Z: Request for a zone change from RS, (Residential Single Family
Dwelling) to Ll (Light Industrial) or a more restrictive district.
Location: 685 S. Major Dr.
Applicant: Douget's Rice Milling Company
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GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT':
Mike Doguet, Douget's Rice Milling Company
PROPERTY OWNER:
Same
LOCATION:
685 S. Major Drive
EXISTING ZONING:
RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling)
District
PROPERTY SIZE:
0.499 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES:
Vacant
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE:
"X" - Areas determined to be outside 500-year
floodplain; small part possibly areas of 500-
year or I 00-year flood
SURROUNDING LAND USES:
SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Residential and Amelia School
RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling) District
EAST: Residential
RS
SOUTH: Doguet's Rice Milling Company
Ll (Light Industrial) District
WEST: Major Dr. and commercial
RS and GC -MD (General Corninercial-Multiple Family
Dwelling) District
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN:
Stable Area
OTHER PHYSICAL
FEATURES:
Property is vacant.
STREETS:
Major Drive - approximately 290'wide major
arterial with 4 lanes and left turn lane; Morgan
Lane - 40' wide local street with 14' pavement
width,
DRAINAGE Major Drive - curb and gutter; Morgan Lane -
open ditch
WATER: 8" water line in Major
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: 6" sanitary sewer line in Morgan
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES continued
FIRE PROTECTION: Fire protection is provided by Station #6, 1880
S. Major Drive.
ADEQUACY
OF SERVICE: Services are adequate.