Min - Planning and Zoning Commission - 1988 - 10/13 - RegularALLEN PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
[", REGULAR MEETING
��I{ OCTOBER 13, 1988
ATTENDANCE:
Commission Members Present:
Wayne Armand, Chairman
Eileen Karlsruher, Vice -Chairman
Harold Biggs
Kenneth Fulk
John Garcia
Commission Members Absent:
Charles Lee
Melissa Owen
City Staff Present:
Bill Petty, Director of Community Development
Tom Keener, Development Coordinator
Sally Leeper, Secretary
CALL TO ORDER:
The Allen Planning &
Zoning Commission
was called to
order at 7:30 p.m. by
Chairman Armand at
the Allen Municipal
Annex, City
Council Chambers, One
Butler Circle, Allen,
Texas.
Approve Minutes
September 22, 1988 (Agenda Item 11)
Chairman Armand read the agenda item into the record as follows:
"Approve minutes of September 22, 1988."
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Consider Review
Allen Subdivision Ordinance (Agenda Item III)
Chairman Armand read the agenda item into the record as follows:
"Consider review of Allen Subdivision Ordinance."
Mr. Bill Petty addressed the Commission regarding the Subdivision Ordinance. He
stated the following items should be considered in the review process.
1. Subdivision regulations are a requirement of State law.
2. Rules must be set out in advance; they must be established and the propo-
nents must follow them. The request must be approved if it meets the
stated requirements.
3. New State laws need to be taken into consideration, such as:
a. Replatting process in areas that have had one or two-family dwellings
that requires a public hearing process.
4. Linear Greenbelt Park Study requirements for platting must be incorporated
into the Subdivision Ordinance.
5 Engineering issues include:
a. Distances between drive cuts.
b. Length of left -turn lanes for thoroughfare stacking.
C. Minimum distances between the division of the median cuts.
d. Collector streets
e. More criteria is needed for the design of streets; residential streets
should not feed into thoroughfares.
I. Explore the possibilities of how often curb cuts are to be allowed, and
consider maximum and minimum widths.
g.
Circular drives in residential
areas.
h.
Criteria for water, sewer and
street
drainage is
currently in place.
i.
Also currently in place is the
water,
sewer and
street guidelines.
6. The handling of pro rata agreements.
7. A format for facilities agreements.
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8 Preliminary platting allows some review by the Commission; however, the
final plat must be approved if it complies to the preliminary plat.
9. Curvilinear streets vs. straight line streets.
10. Lane markings... stripes or buttons.
11. Street lighting design.
12. Minimum width to be built on a street where the developer owns only one
side of the street.
13. The present ordinance states that the City Engineer has primary enforce-
ment of the Subdivision Ordinance. The Ordinance should be a specific
instrument to show a developer exactly what steps should be followed as to
the approval process.
14. The ordinance should lend itself to a checklist capability for engineering
approval.
15. The ordinance needs to be clear that only the Planning & Zoning Commis-
sion needs to approve the plat.
Mr. Petty advised the Commission regarding the City Council Subcommittee on
Development. This subcommittee will be making reports to the City Council and
the Subdivision Ordinance is one item that they have been assigned. When the
Commission is nearing completion of the review, the subcommittee will be
scheduling a joint meeting with the Commission.
Mr. Tom Keener advised the Commission that Dr. Goldsteen and Mr. Dunkin
were unavailable on Thursday nights to speak to the Commission. He suggested
a special workshop meeting to hear the speakers, specifically October 19, 1988,
at 6:30 p.m. for the convenience of the speakers.
The Commission discussed the possibility of hearing both speakers on the same
evening, or scheduling them on separate evenings. Staff was directed to sched-
ule the two speakers as is most convenient for their timetables.
MOTION: Upon a motion by Commissioner Garcia and a second by Commissioner
Fulk, the Commission voted 5 FOR and 0 OPPOSED to set a workshop
meeting for October 19, 1988, at 6:30 p.m.
Adjourn:
MOTION: Upon a motion by Commissioner Garcia and a second by Commissioner
Biggs, the Commission voted 5 FOR and 0 OPPOSED to adjourn the
October 13, 1988, meeting of the Allen Planning & Zoning Commission
at 8:35 p.m.
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These minutes approved this a 7 day
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Waynd L. Armand, Chairman
of 1988.
Charles L. Lee, �iee-Ghaii�e�en
Secretary