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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1451-ZDATE: April 19,1999 TO: Planning Commission and City Council FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Director SUBJECT: Request for a zone change fi-orn RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling) and RM-H (Residential Multiple Family Dwelling -Highest Density) to GC -MD (General Commercial -Multiple Family Dwelling) District. FILE: 145 1 -Z STAFF REPORT The Seitz Group of Dallas, Texas, represented by Benn Bundy of the Foxworth Real Estate Company, wish to rezone a 19.76 acre Amoco Production Company tract located north and east of the new Tobe Hahn Post Office which is at the northeast comer of Folsom Drive and F-117129-11017*71 "I The Seitz Group is a retail development company that plans to build a commercial center on the tract, The Seitz Group developed the commercial center anchored by Circuit City, Petsmart and OfficeMax located on the Eastex Freeway in Beaumont. The company has designed a center with two anchor stores, containing 55,000 sq. ft. and 30,000 sq. ft., respectively. Two other retail stores would contain from 4,350 sq, ft, to 12,000 sq. ft. There would be a 12 acre parking lot for 618 autos in front of the stores and six out -parcels containing from one to two acres. These pads would abut Dowlen Road and Folsom Drive. The north half of the subject property is wooded, zoned RM-H and lies south of Lowe's center and a 100' wide DD#6 drainage ditch. Dowlen Road is the west boundary of the RM-H property. Across Dowlen is the Texaco Credit Union and other commercial uses. The RS tract is bound by the Hillebrandt Bayou, the Tobc Hahn Post Office and Folsom Drive. This tract is west of some rental townhomcs located east of the Hillebrandt Bayou and east of the Dowlen Road commercial developments. Exhibits are attached. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION Notices mailcd to property owners 13 Responses in Favor _., Responses in Opposition I LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES ON PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: Being 19.76 acres of land, more or less out of the Frederick Bigner Survey, Abstract 1, and the A. Duwc Survey, Abstract 459, Jefferson County, Texas, in the City of Beaumont, being part of a tract of land called to contain 364,7 acres and described as FIRST TRACT in a Deed dated February 13, 1933, between Treadaway Land Company et al as Grantor and Yount -Lee Oil Company as Grantee, and recorded in Volume 374, Page 113 of the Deed Records of said County, said 19.76 acres being more particularly described as follows: Bounded on the most Northerly West (or Northwest) line by the East (or Southeast) right-of- way line of a 17.01 acre tract of land for Dowlen Road (100 feet in width) described in a Deed dated October 7, 1971, between Amoco Production Company as Grantor and the City of Beaumont as Grantee, and recorded in Volume 1711, Page 47 of said Deed Records; Bounded on the Northeast line by a 2.63 acre tract of land for a drainage easement (100 feet in width) described in a Right -of -Way Deed dated April 6, 1977, between Amoco Production Company as Grantor and the City of Beaumont as Grantee, and recorded in Volume 2012, Page 288 of said Deed Records; Bounded on the Southeast line by a 2.47 acre tract of land for a drainage easement (70 feet in width) described in a Right -of -Way Deed dated October 5, 1971, between Amoco Production Company as Grantor and Jefferson County Drainage District No,6 as Grantee, and recorded in Volume 1703, Page 461 of said Deed Records (said easement encompasses Hildebrandt Bayou); Bounded on the most Easterly South line by the North right-of-way line of Folsom Road (80 feet in width); Bounded on the most Southerly West line by a 5.40 acre tract of land described in a Deed dated August 31, 1996, between Amoco Production company as Grantor and the United States Postal Service as Grantee; Bounded on the most Westerly South line by said 5.40 acre tract. I Z' IT a DEVELopmumSui, OF RuAILPROPER MS City of Beaumont MAR C/O Planning Division, Room 210 801 Main Street Beaumont, TX 77704 Re: Application for Amendment of the Zoning Ordinance To Whom It May Concern: Please accept this Application for Amendment of the Zoning Ordinance of Chapter 30 of the City Codes of Beaumont, Texas from the Seitz Group, Inc., a retail development company located in Dallas, Texas. The request is for an amendment to change the current zoning district of R-S and RM-H to GC -MD for the tract of land of approximately 19.76 acres, located near the northeast comer of Dowlen Road between the West Beaumont Post Office and the commercial development anchored by Lowe's Home Improvement Center. The parcel also has frontage on Folsom from behind the West Beaumont Post Office to the 100' wide Drainage District #6 drainage canal. - The Seitz Group, Inc., is under contract to purchase property from Amoco Production Company for the purpose of developing a commercial center. We feel this would accommodate not only the strong local retail market, but also the need for a neighborhood grocery store for the surrounding neighborhoods. It is our understanding that the city designated this particular tract as a "growth area", and probably best utilized for commercial development ever since the West Beaumont Post Office located on the 5.4 acres on the immediate comer of Dowlen and Folsom The Post Office use is typically categorized as a General Commercial use. This project will not be the first by the Seitz Group, Inc. located in the Beaumont area, In 1995, The Seitz, Group, Inc. successfully developed the commercial center on Eastex Freeway anchored by Circuit City, OfficeMax, and PETsMART. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, R. Eric Seit, 6805 Hillerest Avenue - Suite 200 Dallas, Texas 75205 2141360-0400 - Aax 2141360-0333 w twy •ry a n dtlr'YW va I.v x00r1' 7 ltW'orc Wi 1NRS wwy. v+eM +y vw•+9 V+re CrP gavyq 'IA#'? SYF3t WKWM3® S f 7 b gY6x rF351q! tsnwr S-" ♦ ano ti op r ueuomwt a prod ,Irwaa a Cp 1?HWdOiNoign v C M lit 0 < Q� D -0 CL CL 13i w � T� w� A. 1. CL e J 14 v h ko cz3 add/ddddd,�i,'f�'dddddddl 'h � '4 - _ �'d�dddddd�dddddddddddd"'t "�` Ij1�\ t 1 1, VI\ Z M e � �/,�'df/Jd✓dddd/d/ddd/d/df-1 I \ t�/9 U. U. N vW En � 0 r� "' . �` • v �� 00 ©J 0n P Lr, m tL 1 < od p q /y �r od '< CL D .t © L.i U J_ -t .Z � < = < F- r'1 a l r lo"IL E 1451-?: Zone change request from RS (Residential Single. Family Dwelling) & :NORTH RA141(Residential Multiple Family Dwelling - High Dinsity) to G(."-MD (General Commercial , Multiple Family Dwelling) Location: Northwest corner of Dowlen Road an(] Folsom, 19.76 acres. WAIA', A', Applicant: The Seitz Group, Inc. I"=20o, SUBJECT 'P4ST O" IFFICE PT. 6aAi1G�► . d:36.1? tv GC -Mu n i0050N FOLSOM DRIVE F F\V7 " L0WV'VS a L,Ndi MEZc1(1AW wlt L. -:41$ t GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES, APPLICANT: PROPERTY OWNER: STATUS OF APPLICANT: LOCATION: EXISTING ZONING: PROPERTY SIZE: EXISTING LAND USES: FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: SURROUNDING LAND USES: NORTH: Commercial developments EAST: Hillebrandt Bayou, Regency Townhomes SOUTH: Folsom, post office, two churches WEST: Dowlen Road, commercial development COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: OTHER PHYSICAL FEATURES: The Seitz Group - Dallas Amoco Production Company Developer Northeast comer of Folsom and Dowlen F-Mvi "I, a a & "10 19.76 acres Vacant, wooded "C" - (Minimal hazards) and "A- I" - G 00-year flood zone) SURROUNDING ZONING: GC -MD (General Commercial -Multiple Family Dwelling) GC -MD and RM-M (Residential Multiple Family Dwelling - Medium Density) District GC -MD and RS (Residential Single Family Dwelling) GC -MD Neighborhood Growth Unit Folsom Drive - a secondary arterial widened to a 70' right-of-way with a 44' concrete pavement. Dowlen Road is a major arterial with a 136' right-of-way and two 24' wide pavements and a divided median. Storm sewers in Folsom and Dowlen. DD#6 ditch and Hillebrandt Bayou. There is a 6" water line in Dowlen Road and a 2" line in Folsom. (Water line may have been enlarged during construction of Folsom.) GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES continued SANITARY SEWER There is an 8" sanitary sewer in Dowlen and SERVICE: a 21 " line in Folsom. FIRE PROTECTI Fire protection is provided by Station #8, 6297 Hwy. 105 @ Lampman. ADEQUACY OF SERVICE: Existing services are adequate.