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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPZ 2013-12-19 MinutesMINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE WORK SESSION PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS DECEMBER 19, 2013 A.0 CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Chairman Randal Shiflet at 6:00 p.m. PRESENT ABSENT Chairman PRESENT WERE: CITY STAFF Director of Planning & Dev Senior Planner Director of Economic Dev. City Engineer Recording Secretary Randal Shiflet Bill Schopper Don Bowen Steven Cooper Mark Haynes Jerry Tyner Mike Benton Kathy Luppy John Pitstick Clayton Comstock Craig Hulse Greg VanNieuwenhuize Teresa Koontz A.1 Recent City Council Action, Development Activity Report and General Announcements A.2 Briefing of Items on the September 19, 2013 Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Session Agenda Clayton Comstock presented the items. December 19, 2013 P&Z Minutes Page 1 B.0 Adjournment There being no other business, the meeting adjourned at 6:52 pm. Chairman Secretary Randal Shiflet Don Bowen December 19, 2013 P&Z Minutes Page 2 MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS DECEMBER 19, 2013 A.0 CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Chairman Randal Shiflet at 7:01 p.m. A.1 ROLL CALL PRESENT Chairman Randal Shiflet Bill Schopper Don Bowen Steven Cooper Mark Haynes Jerry Tyner ABSENT Mike Benton Kathy Luppy CITY STAFF Director of Planning & Dev. John Pitstick Senior Planner Clayton Comstock Director of Economic Dev. Craig Hulse City Engineer Greg VanNieuwenhuize Recording Secretary Teresa Koontz A.2 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Jerry Tyner led the Pledge of Allegiance. B.1 Consideration of Minutes from the November 7, 2013 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting APPROVED Bill Schopper motioned to approve the minutes of the November 7, 2013 meeting. The motion was seconded by Steven Cooper and passed unanimously (5-0). December 19, 2013 P&Z Minutes Page 3 B. 2 Consideration of Minutes from the November 21, 2013 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting APPROVED Bill Schopper motioned to approve the minutes of the November 21, 2013 meeting. The motion was seconded by Steven Cooper and passed Unanimously (5-0). C.1 SUP 2013-06 Public Hearing and Consideration of a request from Ralph Schwab for a Special Use Permit for an Accessory Structure larger than 500 square feet on 2.23 acres located at 8713 Stewart Drive. Ralph Schwab, 8713 Stewart Drive, NRH, came forward requesting for an Accessory Structure to house his motor home. The construction has been built without a permit but with the instruction of the City Staff, plans are to do the landscape, brick work and painting required and permits will be obtained. Clayton Comstock said this request for the Special Use Permit for an Accessory Structure larger than 500 square feet which has already built but the applicant intends on complying with the Staff recommendations to complete a 4 foot tall waynes coat and landscaping to the western fagade to screen from adjacent residential properties. Staff recommends approval of this request. Steven Cooper asked Mr. Schwab if it was just an oversight on his part to construct the building without permits? Mr. Schwab said there was an existing shop already on the property and was only going to put an awning up, but decided to just construct the building then realized a permit should have been obtained. Chairman Shiflet asked the applicant about his roofing business and equipment stored on property. If recommended for approval to the City Council, it would not allow him to run a roofing business from his home. Mr. Schwab stated he owns other property and the trailers are for trimming trees on the existing properties in order to not keep a dumpster onsite. There are no intentions on running a business from the home address. Chairman Shiflet opened the Public Hearing and asked if anyone wished to speak on the matter. Seeing none, a motion was entertained. Steven Cooper asked Staff if anyone had received any comments or concerns from adjacent property owners. December 19, 2013 P&Z Minutes Page 4 Clayton Comstock said not anyone that he aware of. APPROVED Don Bowen motioned to approve SUP 2013-06 subject to the agreement with the City to apply the four foot masonry and carport columns. The motion was seconded by Mark Haynes. The motion passed (5-0). C.2 RP 2013-13 Consideration of a request from Claymoore Engineering for a Replat for Lots 2R1 and 2112, Block 1, Davis -North Tarrant Parkway Addition on 16.394 acres located at 8450 Davis Boulevard. CONTINUED FROM THE NOVEMBER 21, 2013 MEETING Clay Kristy, Claymore Engineering, 2328 Lotus Avenue, Fort Worth, came forward with a request to create two separate lots, one for client to retain and the other for another company to purchase. There was previous development planned for this property, but at this time there is no knowledge of the intended development. Clayton Comstock said this request for Replat at the stated address is to combine different parcels into just two parcels for future development. All access, utility and drainage easements seen are based on a previous development approval and it is intended this will be Replatted again in the next year or two to accommodate future development. Staff recommends approval. APPROVED Mark Haynes motioned to approve RP 2013-13. The motion was seconded by Steven Cooper. The motion passed (5-0). C.3. PP 2013-07 Consideration of a request from J & J NRH 100 FLP for a Preliminary Plat of Thornbridge East Phase V; 43 single family residential lots and 4 open space lots on 16.407 acres located near the southwest corner of Belshire Drive and Precinct Line Road Jason Weaver, Project Engineer with Goodwin and Marshall, 2405 Mustang Drive, Grapevine, TX came forward with a request for 15 acre parcel for 43 lots to build single family homes with a future detention facility. Clayton Comstock said this is the natural continuation of two existing streets, Bentley and Glendara to create Phase V of Thornbridge East. One of the open space lots for the detention pond will require a Special Use Permit and one that connects at Grace Meadows to the south giving an opportunity to create pedestrian connection between December 19, 2013 P&Z Minutes Page 5 the two. In addition, there are other open space lots with landscape buffers at Precinct Line Road. APPROVED Steven Cooper motioned to approve PP 2013-07. The motion was seconded by Bill Schopper. The motion passed (5-0). C.4 FP 2013- 10 Consideration of a request from Montage Development for a Final Plat of Steward Estates, 15 residential lots and 2 open space lots on 5.508 acres located at 6721 Crane Road Derek Murway with Montage Development, 170 Players Circle, Southlake, TX came forward with a request for Final Plat of Steward Estates. Chairman Shiflet asked the applicant about the drainage concerns. Derek Murway answered stating when he bought the sight, there were as-builts showing storm drainage on the property. The engineer discovered there are no inlets to the storm drain. During the development phase, all intentions were to drain onto Crane Road into the storm drainage. The underground pipe does not tie into the storm drains. There will be a modified drainage plan with an expensive retaining wall endeavor to keep drainage from going onto any neighboring property. Chairman Shiflet stated that Jerry Court and Paula Court could be affected; it will be drastically reduced but concentrated. Are we improving or compounding for the house on Paula Court? Derek Murway stated we are drastically improving the issues and the homeowners do not want a drainage flume to take up a portion of their lot. The drainage flow from 13 to 5 will be a 60% decreased water volume. Tim Welch, Welch Engineering, 1308 Norwood Drive, Suite 200, Bedford, TX came forward stating the subdivision regulations for the City of NRH state we need to provide some kind of either drainage easement or an impact to the post -development condition. It does not say anything about the opportunity of where you can reduce the overall flows, we have met the intention of not increasing the run-off, but we have reduced the run-off. If there was an existing system in Crane Road that was available, a lot of this water would have been transposed over to that collection point. We also looked at a storm drainage system to the west to run there, but unfortunately, the older neighborhood has sidewalks and irrigation systems and violations to setbacks and other issues that make it cost -prohibitive. One of the solutions for this difficult site is to redirect the water into Jerry Court and also build a retaining wall which will help the neighbors to the south and overall making a positive impact on seven residential lots who have drainage problems. It will reduce over 60 % of the flow and will overall help many residential lots. December 19, 2013 P&Z Minutes Page 6 Steven Cooper asked if in the future Crane Road would open up drainage would it be a simple modification to run the water down not feasible. Tim Welch said no, because now it is going east to west, you would have to tear up existing concrete and raise two feet then run back over. In the future, when Public Works makes the modifications on Main Street, bring the box culvert up and run into Jerry Court and enclosed into a drainage system. Don Bowen asked if drainage on both streets goes to Main Street and are we decreasing or increasing the Main Street flow. Tim Welch answered the flows presented are the same ones in the City of NRH 1985 Master Plan with the same calculations in the 2001 Study of Crane Road. It is just redirecting and going to Main Street. The future Capital Improvements will help take care of these issues. There was not adequate funding to make the connections in 2001 and no additional funding was given for the improvements on Crane Road. Clayton Comstock summarized stating the above mentioned request is for a Final Plat for 15 residential lots and 2 open spaces. There are no necessary easements required because a connection is there for the flume. The variance request is for lot grading as is relates to the Public Works Design Manual. Greg VanNieuwenhuize came forward stating the lots west of Jerry Court and north of Paula Court are getting about 13 cubic feet per second of water during the 100 year rain event. The engineers stated that amount of water is drastically reduced, but because the subdivision is draining from an easement onto property without an easement, Public Works criteria requires that drainage be contained within a drainage easement and an acceptable drainage structure, such as a flume, or the downstream owner's acceptable of the water they are getting. After speaking to both of the property owners at Lot 13 and 14, they want to speak about the concerns they have. Property owns at lot 13 are not in town at the time and want to wait until next week to decide. Public Works Department cannot support the variance until such time we know both property owners are in favor of the variance. Mark Haynes asked if on average if the flow has been at 13, how the flows compares between the properties affected. Greg VanNieuwenhuize said the 100 year rain event is fairly significant and is rarely seen. The 2007 rain events did not even hit 100, so that tells you how substantial a 100 year rain event is. No strict comparison can be really made. Steven Cooper asked for clarification of the proposal. There was general discussion about the variance and proposal. Clayton Comstock said regarding the Plat itself, the lot dimensions meet the Zoning Ordinance and Staff recommends approval of the Plat, the hang-up is on the variance request and Staff recommends waiting until the property owner has his questions addressed before recommending approval of the variance. The Planning and Zoning December 19, 2013 P&Z Minutes Page 7 Commission can either recommend approval or denial of the variance to City Council, when City Council reviews the variance, they have 4 criteria they have to approve or deny the variance on. They are stated as such: 1. The conditions upon which the request for a variance is based are unique to the property and are not applicable generally to other properties; 2. A tract has peculiar physical surroundings, severe topographical conditions, or unique environmental qualities worthy of protection; 3. Where a hardship to the owner would result rather than a mere inconvenience; or 4. The variance will not have an adverse effect Chairman Shiflet asked the Commission if there was a consensus to allow a 3 minute presentation to citizens wishing to speak. Alex and Kelly Dixon, 6516 Paula Court, NRH came forward with their drainage concerns. He stated he is quite happy with the recommendations made and is in agreement with the development. Derek Murway asked if it would be acceptable to approve the request contingent upon meeting with the other property owner prior to City Council which will allow moving forward and not losing a month for development. APPROVED Bill Schopper motioned to approve the Plat for FP 2013-10 and recommend approval of the variance subject to Lot 13 being in agreement. The motion was seconded by Don Bowen. The motion passed (6-0). Don Bowen asked for clarification from Greg VanNieuwenhuize about the Public Works recommendation. He said if Mr. Day is of the same sentiment from Lot 14, we would recommend approval of the variance. Or if Mr. Day wants some sort of drainage easement and the developer is willing to construct it, he would no longer need the variance. D.O. ADJOURNMENT There being no other business, the meeting adjourned at 7:57 pm. Chair n G Randal Shiflet December 19, 2013 P&Z Minutes Page 8 Secretary " A