HomeMy WebLinkAbout(PH 1) City Council Presentation Agricultural to HDR 8.15.2023
CITY OF PORT ARTHUR
PUBLIC HEARING
August 15, 2023
10:00 A.M.
ZONING CHANGE
Z23-05
Agricultural (A) to High-Density Residential (HDR)
Department of Development Services
Division of Planning
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Request…
City Council is being asked to consider granting a Zoning Change for approximately 7.404-Acres of Land consisting of Lot 16 and part of Lot 17, Block 7, Hillcrest 2 Addition of Port
Arthur, Jefferson County, TX (located south of U.S. Highway 69 and Laura Lane and west of 90th Street), Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas.
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Background…
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Current/Proposed Zoning…
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Zoning…
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Site
Location…
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Street View
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Public Notice Requirements
(Zoning Commission)
Texas Local Government Code
Sections 211.007(b)(c)
(b) The zoning commission shall make a preliminary report and hold public hearings on that report before submitting a final report to the governing body. The governing body may not
hold a public hearing until it receives the final report of the zoning commission unless the governing body by ordinance provides that a public hearing is to be held, after the notice
required by Section 211.006(a), jointly with a public hearing required to be held by the zoning commission. In either case, the governing body may not take action on the matter until
it receives the final report of the zoning commission.
(c) Before the 10th day before the hearing date, written notice of each public hearing before the zoning commission on a proposed change in a zoning classification shall be sent to
each owner, as indicated by the most recently approved municipal tax roll, of real property within 200 feet of the property on which the change in classification is proposed...
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Public Notice Requirements
(Governing Body)
Texas Local Government Code
Sections 211.006(a)
“The governing body of a municipality wishing to exercise the authority relating to zoning regulations and zoning district boundaries shall establish procedures for adopting and enforcing
the regulations and boundaries. A regulation or boundary is not effective until after a public hearing on the matter at which parties in interest and citizens have an opportunity to
be heard. Before the 15th day before the date of the hearing, notice of the time and place of the hearing must be published in an official newspaper or a newspaper of general circulation
in the municipality...”
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Public Comment…
Public Notices were mailed on June 30, 2023, to thirty-four (34) property owners within a 200 feet radius of the proposed site and published in the Port Arthur Newspaper on July 1, 2023,
in preparation for the following public hearing dates:
July 17, 2023 (P&Z Commission)
Written Opposition: 7
Verbal Opposition: 3
Letter Returned 0
May 2, 2023 (City Council)
Written Opposition: 14 (Written Petition)
Verbal Opposition: 0
Letter Returned 0
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RESIDENT CONCERNS
Jeopardize the privacy of existing residences
Increase Traffic (90th,95th, and El Paso Streets are much too narrow for additional traffic)
Decrease the value of the neighborhood
Thirty (30) duplexes would bring in sixty (60) additional families, which could add one hundred twenty (120) extra vehicles to the neighborhood
Too close to the airport
Flooding Issues
Safety Concerns
Utilities and infrastructure cannot support any more people
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DEVELOPERS REMARKS
Market valued rental housing (between $1,800 to $2,000 per month rent)
No low income housing
Gated community
Detention Pond (will build infrastructure that will not allow drainage to adjacent residential properties)
No airport interference
Development will not bring down property values
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Section 211-006 (d)
A City Council may approve or deny the proposed matter by a simple majority vote. In the event, however, that a proposed change to a regulation or boundary is protested by twenty (20)
percent of the owners of property located within two hundred (200) feet of the affected property, then the proposed change must be approved by at least three fourths (3/4) of all members
of the City Council who are qualified to vote.
Protest letters must be written and signed by the owners of at least twenty (20) percent of the area of the lots or land immediately adjourning the area covered by the proposed change
and extending two hundred (200) feet from that area.
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Requirement
The Planning & Zoning Commission has received eighteen (18.5) percent of letters of opposition from the property owners within two hundred (200) feet of the proposed development; therefore,
the City Council must approve this request by a Simple Majority Vote.
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