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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPZ 2015-02-19 Minutes MINUTES OF THE WORK SESSION AND REGULAR MEETING OF THE PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS FEBRUARY 19, 2015 WORK SESSION The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of North Richland Hills, Texas met in work session on the 19th day of February 2015 at 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Workroom prior to the 7:00 p.m. regular session. Present: Randall Shiflet Place 4, Chairman Don Bowen Place 3, Secretary Mark Haynes Place 1 Kathy Luppy Place 5 Jerry Tyner Ex-Officio Mike Benton Place 2 Bill Schopper Place 6 Steven Cooper Place 7 Staff Members: Paulette Hartman Assistant City Manager Clayton Comstock Planning Manager Chad VanSteenberg Assistant Planner Craig Hulse Director of Economic Development Mike Curtis Managing Director of Dev. Services Caroline Waggoner City Engineer Mark Callier Management Assistant David Russell Engineer Associate Katasha Smithers Recording Secretary Call to Order Chairman Shiflet called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. A.1 Recent City Council Action, Development Activity Report, and General Announcements Senior Planner Clayton Comstock spoke about the City Council approving everything that Planning and Zoning had sent to them from their previous meeting. Regarding recent development activity, the McDonalds on Davis Blvd and Starnes Rd will remodel the McDonalds. The building itself will look new. Regarding general announcements, Paulette Hartman Assistant City Manager began in July. As of February 1st she now oversees Planning & Development, Building February 19,2015 P&Z Minutes Page 1 Inspections, Neighborhood Services, Parks & Recreations, and Communications. We had some reorganization; you might have noticed on the website that we have an open position for Principal Planner so we will have a new member in the next couple of months. Clayton Comstock has been promoted to Planning Manager, so he oversees the Planning Department. Election of officers will be elected in the City Chambers and we are going to start the Texas Pledge. Our goal is to start the new agenda system that the City Council uses. Author, Joanne Fluke will be at the library on February 26th to discuss the book "Double Fudge Brownie Murder." Between now and April 13th, on Mondays and Thursdays from 9am to noon there is an AARP tax help at the Library. We have a new severe weather emergency notice system. Tornado season is around the corner and the sirens do go off on Wednesdays at 1pm. A.2 Briefing of Items on the February 19, 2015 Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Session Agenda Senior Planner, Clayton Comstock came forward to present ZC 2014-19 Public Hearing and consideration of a request for a Zoning change AG to TC Town Center on 1.83 acres located at 8008 & 8012 Newman Drive. It is south of Liberty Bank. This ordinance that you approve and City Council approves will change regulating plan for town center zoning district with this we will amend the east side of the lakes with all the new development with the lots. The purpose of this is to add 20 townhomes. ZC 2015-04 Bodyguard Sports it is another indoor shooting range at the old Home Depot Expo; the old application expired on January 1st, 2015. The new user does not have the same scope; they only plan to take only half of the Expo Center. They want a zoning change from NR-PD Nonresidential Planned Development and C-2 Commercial to C-1 Commercial. They would like to add recreation indoor uses and entertainment uses on the other half. ZC 2015-01 was advertised but we have missed 2 property owners so we have re-notified owners to move the meeting to March 5, 2015. B.0 Adjournment There being no other business, Chairman Shiflet adjourned the meeting at 7:00 p.m. REGULAR PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING A.0 CALL TO ORDER Chairman Shiflet called the February 19, 2015 meeting to order at 7:04 p.m. February 19,2015 P&Z Minutes Page 2 A.1 ROLL CALL Present: Randall Shiflet Place 4, Chairman Don Bowen Place 3, Secretary Mark Haynes Place 1 Kathy Luppy Place 5 Jerry Tyner Ex-Officio Mike Benton Place 2 Bill Schopper Place 6 Steven Cooper Place 7 Staff Members: Paulette Hartman Assistant City Manager Clayton Comstock Senior Planner Chad VanSteenberg Assistant Planner Craig Hulse Director of Economic Development Mike Curtis Managing Director of Dev. Services Caroline Waggoner City Engineer Marrk Callier Management Assistant David Russell Engineer Associate Katasha Smithers Recording Secretary A.2 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Kathy Luppy led the Pledge of Allegiance. A.3 ELECTION OF OFFICERS APPROVED BILL SCHOPPER NOMINATED RANDALL SHIFTLET AS CHAIRMAN. STEVEN COOPER SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIED 6-0. APPROVED STEVEN COOPER NOMINATED BILL SCHOPPER AS VICE CHAIRMAN. MARK HAYNES SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIED 6-0. APPROVED STEVEN COOPER NOMINATED DON BOWEN AS SECRETARY. MIKE BENTON SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIED 6-0. February 19,2015 P&Z Minutes Page 3 B.0 CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES B.1 CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES FROM THE DECEMBER 18, 2014 PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION APPROVED DON BOWEN MOVED TO APPROVE DECEMBER 18, 2014 MINUTES. MARK HAYNES SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIED 7-0. B.2 CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES FROM THE JANUARY 15, 2015 PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION APPROVED MARK HAYNES MOVED TO APPROVE JANUARY 15, 2015 MINUTES. MIKE BENTON SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIED 7-0. C.0 CONSIDERATION OF PLANNING & ZONING REQUESTS C.1 ZC 2014-19 PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST FROM CAMBIUM CAPITAL, LLC FOR A ZONING CHANGE FROM AG AGRICULTURAL TO TC TOWN CENTER (NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER SUBZONE) ON 1.83 ACRES LOCATED AT 8008 & 8012 NEWMAN DRIVE. APPROVED Chairman Shiflet opened the public hearing and Planning Manager Clayton Comstock presented the item. Planning Manager Clayton Comstock stated that there are two properties that were previously residences located here and both have been demolished. The Comprehensive Land Use Plan indicates this area to become Town Center. The current Regulating Plan would be revised with this case and this area would indicate the Neighborhood Center subzone. Town Center zoning regulations stipulate a certain process for rezoning properties into the TC zone. The next step following the zoning change would be Concept Plan, which is a staff review at the Development Review Committee level. Preliminary and Final Plats are also required as well as building permits approvals supplemented with the Town Center's Town Architect which is governed by the HOA. February 19,2015 P&Z Minutes Page 4 The concept plan is for twenty townhomes that share a common alley with the existing townhomes on Sherbert and Caladium. Open space is included in the plan. A five foot strip was retained by the original developer that runs the length of the alley so that any future development would require approval from the existing owner in order to access the alley. Applicant Kelly Dykes, Silver Oak Land Development Company, 8240 Mid Cities Blvd; NRH, TX presented the request and stated that his company expects to get started as soon as they can. The plan design is underway, and should be completed by the end of this year. There will be twenty town homes that are between 1600 to 1800 square feet. These townhomes will be compatible with the surrounding area in Hometown and will be part of the Hometown HOA. The Commission had no questions for staff or the applicant. Chairman Shiflet asked for anyone wishing to speak on the item to come forward. There being no one wishing to speak, Chairman Shiflet closed the Public Hearing. MIKE BENTON MOVED TO APPROVE ZC 2014-19. STEVEN COOPER SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIED 7-0. C.2 ZC 2015-04 PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST FROM BODYGUARD SPORTS, LLC FOR A ZONING CHANGE FROM C-2 COMMERCIAL TO NR-PD NONRESIDENTIAL PLANNED DEVELOPMENT ON 9.04 ACRES LOCATED AT 7901 BOULEVARD 26 (FORMER HOME DEPOT EXPO) TO INCLUDE ZONING APPROVAL FOR AN INDOOR SHOOTING RANGE, OTHER INDOOR AMUSEMENT AND RECREATIONAL USES, AND SMALL VEHICLE SALES. APPROVED Chairman Shiflet opened the public hearing and Planning Manager Clayton Comstock presented the item. Planning Manager Clayton Comstock stated that this is at the old Home Depot Expo Center at Boulevard 26 and Davis Boulevard. Every Non-Residential Planned Development must adopt a base district and this is adopting C-1 Commercial. Back in 2013 this property received approval for a Special Use Permit for an Indoor Shooting Range. That SUP expired on January 1, 2015. This is a new user that is before you this evening and they do not plan the same scope of work as the previous applicant. This would take up only about fifty percent of the building and the rest of the building has a list of twenty uses that the NR-PD is proposing which is mostly indoor recreation or indoor entertainment. Small vehicle sales are also included such as wave runners. February 19,2015 P&Z Minutes Page 5 As in the previous approval, the sale and consumption of alcohol will not be permitted within the Indoor Shooting Range use and that use does expire if a C.O. is not issued by January 1, 2017. A list of requirements from the previous SUP is included in the approval of the new SUP. Among them are landscaping, speed bumps, parking, striping, chain link fencing, and lighting. Chairman Shiflet mentioned the discussion at the previous public hearing from the residents for the screening wall along the north side of the property. Do the restriction approved at that meeting apply to this applicant as well? Clayton Comstock said that Code Enforcement found the fence met the requirements of the City. If it were found to be in need of repair in the future, the commercial property owner would be required to repair the fence. Mike Benton asked about the sign on the property and if a monument sign was going to replace the current sign at the site. Clayton Comstock said that the Sign Review Board, which is the City Council, would need to consider replacing the existing sign. Steven Cooper asked about the list of approved uses for the other half of the building and if the repair of small recreational vehicles would be allowed. Clayton Comstock said that the sale of those types of vehicles is what would be permitted. Applicant William Brandenburg, Bodyguard, 7917 Kristi Ln; NRH, TX presented the request and was available to answer questions from the Commission. We are looking to buy the building and use half of the property as an indoor shooting range with several different uses in the building. We will be taking 47,200 square feet. We plan to have two bays; one bay with eleven lanes with rifle and pistol. The second bay will have more tactical style type shooting with beefed up baffling and more a robust targeting system. We have three fixed targeting system and one where robotics happened. This bay will let you choose the lighting, from dark to moonlight to bright. There will be a non-ballistic area that will be simulated with different scenarios like law enforcement tactics, zombies and so forth. We also will put a 5 stand sport shooting clay; shotgun bay. I went out and spoke with a professional shooter on the Beretta and a shotgun completion team is helping me with different formalities. Those are our main function in our area of the building. We also will have a food area and a full gunsmith. We will have an event center as well, for example, for meetings, seminars and so forth. We are looking to have retail and of course the offices and Bodyguard staff offices. In the retail we will fairly robust with inventory with firearms, apparel and accessories. On the simulator, the software program will capture the laser shooting and that will February 19,2015 P&Z Minutes Page 6 upload to the web to anywhere the shooter wants it to go. Education will also be included from pistol training, tactical shooting and etc. We are looking at the family, to teach them how to shoot and protect themselves. There will be additional training more than you can get on paper shooting. The two bays will have eleven lanes in each; they will be for twenty-five yard shooting. This is a destination business, which means many people will travel from all over the surrounding cities around the North Richland Hills area to come to this shooting range. We are looking at 60,000 consumer visits per year; most of these consumers will be from outside of the city. I spent my time going around the country to the best of the best ranges talking to the ATF, Management Company, OSHA, and federal agencies that we have a good plan to ensure a safe environment for our employees and customers. No consumption of alcohol or drug use will be tolerated on the premises. The applicant went over the types of materials that will be used inside the gun range from filters to what type of baffling will be used. We will have video monitoring throughout the facility. Chairman Randall Shiftlet asks about the skeet range, what is the containment process for the top? Applicant said there will baffling there as well; we won't have anything larger than a 7 or an 8 shot. So the distance is where the pellets will go will go into the baffling. We will still have the same concrete walls in between the areas. Chairman Randall Shiftlet asked if there is a replacement process for that because that will become full of lead. Applicant said I am looking at Kevlar, baffling and then wood. All I have to do is take the outer portion off and replace it. I have been talking to lead management companies. I am more concerned with the disposal of the lead and the clay. Chairman Randall Shiftlet asked the applicant to go into more detail on the other requests for the uses in the complex. Applicant said ideally we will like to have this property as a sporting entertainment complex. We will not put any tax exempt places inside the property. We want to make this a destination type venue and have them complement each other. Even if it is putting an indoor archery, go kart type of business so we can have the family come do activities. The front has the three main entrances; the one in the middle is the largest entry door. Chairman Randall Shiflet asked about the six foot masonry screening wall. Applicant William Brandenburg said if it falls below code, it has to be replaced. We want to partner with the neighborhood. February 19,2015 P&Z Minutes Page 7 Mike Benton asked about the Ballistic panels. Who inspects how it will be installed and once installed is that a one time deal or will there be more inspections? Applicant William Brandenburg said Lead Management will defer to the feds which would be OSHA. Mike Benton asked so who would inspect? Applicant William Brandenburg said it would be us, the business owner. Kathy Luppy asked about the Archery lanes. Applicant William Brandenburg said is a proposal for a use. Kathy Luppy said is says that out of the nine things on the list, archery lanes are one of those uses. Applicant William Brandenburg said we are teetering on the archery. On day one will not have an archery type area there but want to get is zoned to put one in. It will be a good compliment to what we are already doing in the facility. Mark Haynes asked if I will be able to use his rifle on the shotgun lanes Applicant William Brandenburg said slugs only. Chairman Shiflet asked for anyone wishing to speak on the item to come forward. There being no one wishing to speak, Chairman Shiflet closed the Public Hearing. MARK HAYNES MOVED TO APPROVE ZC 2015-04. MIKE BENTON SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIED 7-0. C.3 ZC 2015-01 PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST FROM TRINITY PARTNERS COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE FOR A ZONING CHANGE FROM NR-PD NONRESIDENTIAL PLANNED DEVELOPMENT AND C-2 COMMERCIAL TO C-1 COMMERCIAL ON 0.4304 ACRE LOCATED AT 8533 DAVIS BOULEVARD, ADJACENT SOUTH OF THE ALDI FOOD MARKET. THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS ITEM HAS BEEN MOVED TO MARCH 5, 2015. APPROVED DON BOWEN MOTIONED TO APPROVE CONTINUATION OF ZC 2015-01. KATHY LUPPY SECONDED THE MOTION. February 19,2015 P&Z Minutes Page 8 MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIED 7-0. ADJOURNMENT Chairman Shiflet adjourned the meeting at 7:57 p.m. Chairman Secretary „..111,1,47? 3' QO ' Randal Shiflet Don Bowen February 19,2015 P&Z Minutes Page 9