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ALLEN CITY COUNCIL/PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
Called - Special Joint Workshop Session
November 29, 1982
Present•
City Council
Mickey Pierson, Mayor
Joe Farmer, Mayor Pro Tem
Jim McClure
H. R. Daugherty
Don Rodenbaugh
Ward Paxton
Dennis Offutt
City Staff:
Planning & Zoning Commission
Gary Koch, Secretary
Jack Decatur
Winston Stallings
Bobby Glass
Absent•
Jim Pendleton, Chairman
Jim Wolfe, Vice Chairman
Larry Larsen
Jon McCarty, City Manager
Marty Hendrix, City Secretary
Bill Petty, Director of Community Development
Guest:
{ Vern Lehart, DLM
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The called - special joint workshop session of the Allen
City Council and the Planning and Zoning Commission was called
to order by Mayor Pierson at 7:40 p.m. on Monday, November 29,
1982, at Rountree Elementary School, 800 E. Main Street.
Mayor Pro Tem Farmer, Chairman of the Council/Commission
Subcommittee, provided information on the preparation and work
done by the subcommittee.
Mayor Pro Tem Farmer presented an overhead transparency
of the charge to the subcommittee, that being:
"To formulate a proposed design for identifying,
through broad-based community interaction,
describeable characteristics to guide Allen's
development."
Mayor Pro Tem Farmer then provided the outline of the draft
report prepared by the subcommittee consisting of the following:
Section
I
Introduction
Section
II
Questions to be
Addressed
Section
III
Data Collection
Strategies
Section
IV
Data Treatment,
Reporting and Validation
Section
V
Task/Timeframe
Mayor Pro Tem Farmer referenced the documents that had been
used by the subcommittee, those being:
The Sam Wyse Document entitled City of Allen,
Texas Comprehensive Urban Plan 1977-2000
Environment
Housing
Land Use
Implementation
The Sam Wyse Document entitled City of Allen,
Texas Comprehensive Urban Plan 1978-2000
Community Facilities
Thoroughfare Plan
Environmental Assessment
Development Controls
City of Allen Subdivision Ordinance
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The Ronald E. Fix & Associates Document entitled
City of Allen, Texas, General Comprehensive Plan
Parks & Recreation
Water System Study
Waste Water System Study
Solid Waste Disposal Study
The Frank Osgood Document entitled Allen Compre-
hensive Plan Partial Update with Focus on Planning
District Four Issues
The City of Allen Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance
Another member of the subcommittee to speak regarding
the work and the preparation of the report was Don Rodenbaugh.
Discussion of the Council and the Planning & Zoning Com-
mission centered around what the survey should contain; what
type of format should be used, i.e., in a questionnaire form
or interview form; what the survey hopes to accomplish; and
what random selection process should be used, i.e., using
the water connection routes, the entire voter registration
list, or just the individuals that voted in the last city
election, or the entire city.
Mayor Pro Tem Farmer recessed the called - special workshop
session at 9:10 p.m. The meeting reconvened at 9:22 p.m.
Mayor Pro Tem Farmer divided the individuals present at
the meeting into three discussion groups headed by members
of the subcommittee. The groups consisted of the following
individuals and discussion in the groups centered around
questions to be addressed by the survey:
Group I: Don Rodenbaugh
Mickey Pierson
Gary Koch
Winston Stallings
Marty Hendrix
Group II: Dennis Offutt
Jack Decatur
H. R. Daugherty
Bill Petty
Group III: Bobby Glass
, Jim McClure
Ward Paxton
Jon McCarty
The discussion groups proposed the following ideas be
included in the survey and these ideas were presented by
the subcommittee members:
Group I - Don Rodenbaugh
1. Summary of what we have now
2. Accesses in city
3. Thoroughfares
4. School System -- if poorer would you leave
5. Boughtanother house in Allen -- would it be:
bigger
smaller
same
would you stay in Allen
6. Industry -- would you work here
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Group II - Dennis Offutt
1. Housing
a. Distribution of size
b. Economics
C. Spacing (lot size) and density
d. apartments
2. Local Retail Service
a. Neighborhood shops
b. Regional Shopping Centers
3. Industry
a. Location
b. Size and type
C. Employment
9. Commercial
a. Size and location
b. Employment
5. Community Facilities
a. Size and location and type
b. Maintenance
6. Higher Education (Junior College Dist.)
7. Community Involvement
Citizen Action Groups
8. Citizen Priorities
a. Streets
b. Parks
C. Library, etc.
Group III - Bobby Glass
1. Physical Development
Land Use
a. Residential development
1. Types
2. Variety
3. Spectrum
9. Size of residents
b. Industrial (low priority)
location
2. Population - size
3. Balance of jobs & work force
9. Rate of growth
Mayor Pro Tem Farmer advised that the subcommittee would
now take these lists of ideas and integrate them and provide
a report back to the City Council and the Planning and Zoning
Commission.
In further discussion, the Council and the Planning and
Zoning Commission talked about the status of the Commission's
review of the policy statements prepared by the Council and
their recommendations or comments on such.
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It was the consensus of the City Council and the Planning
and Zoning Commission to call another special workshop session
for Tuesday, December 7, 1982 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss and
review the policy statements as prepared by the City Council
and the comments or recommendations from the Planning and
Zoning Commission on the them.
The city staff was directed to select the meeting place and
provide copies of the policy statements to both bodies for review
prior to the workshop session.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:24 p.m.
These minutes approved on the 9th day of December ,
1982 by the Allen Planning & Zoning Commission.
ary Inch, Secr6tary JIq Pendleton, Chairman
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These minutes approved on the 16th day of December
1982 by the Allen City Council.
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M. B. Pierson, MAYOR
11�'Marty Hen rix, CITY SECRETARY
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