Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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And you can sit outside.

Sit outside and on the riverbeds. And it was just like, we had just a lovely, lovely experience. No, it was my mom and my mom and my sister. So it was like, we do an international girl's shop like every couple of years. Just something new. And mom was like, well, I want to go to culture now. And it's been a really good experience.

Yeah, the problem with that one was when we went, the line was just wrapped back and forth. So we just went and took pictures and, you know, didn't even go in.

Then we got to find out, my son had mentioned, there, there you go. I mean, the one that when you get a crib in it, you couldn't fit a twin in it. Like right after mass, we'd be on the tour, and it was like, we did the same thing. We went and got a little pizza. But if we could move in your house and then get our house cleaned out, fixed up, so we can do the tour. We did the tour and it was like quiet before the wine started. We were leaving the wine. My inner said she wasn't coming. It's a pro tip. It's a pro tip. And I'm pretty sure Jason and Peter...

Two couples and me, so five of us. Ready? All right.

Call to order the meeting of the Austin City Planning and Zoning Commission for Tuesday, June 9, 2026. One item on the agenda tonight, an open public hearing, but first we need to approve the minutes from our last meeting, which was May 12th. Those minutes were in the packet for this Month's meeting so if no one has any additions or corrections to those minutes We need a motion in a second to approve them as written a motion to approve Second thank you We have a motion from Commissioner Mayer and a second from Commissioner Burroughs to approve the minutes from May 12th as Written all in favor the motion. Please say aye aye all opposed no That motion carries those minutes are approved open public hearing for a request for a platting from the Port Authority.

Yes. So this is being brought on behalf of the Austin Port Authority. So we have actually a little bit of a, it's the scheduling was a little bit off so that you will be reviewing it before the Port Authority. And then the council will give a final, make a final decision. You're making a recommendation to council. The location is the I-90 Business Park, which is essentially being established with this plat. The current land use and zoning classification, it's undeveloped. It's an I-1 light industrial district. North and west of this area is zoned I-2 and I-3 industrial. East is R-1 single family residential and Maurer County. South is B-2 commercial. The petitioner is requesting to plat this property while the city is requesting essentially to plat this property for infrastructure improvements and commercial development. The site is approximately 25 acres adjacent to 14th Street Northeast and north of I-90. Let's see. The area is approximately 25 acres. It will be platted into 11 lots. Two lots will be outlots for stormwater ponds. And then it will also add public right-of-way. There are no conditions of approval. This was developed and designed per city staff criteria. So if the Planning Commission has any suggestions or questions, those could be added if there are any changes to be made. And this is a preliminary and final plat recommendation to council. And I'll pull up the map. And I think our city engineer is here to provide any additional details. And I understand that there were some updates that he would like to share with you.

Let's take your calls. Okay.

Sure.

Would you like me to go through it, Mr. Byram, or did you? Okay. So this view right here is a good overlay of the project, being it's a 25-acre parcel located north of the Quick Trip truck stop near 14th Street Northeast. And as we look at this neighborhood, the first thing that we looked at when developing this parcel, and we've talked about it for the last few years, is trying to create a connection across the southern part of this property for 12th Avenue Northeast, getting 12th Avenue connected over to 14th Street. Also, when you look at this area, the depth of these lots here that would come out to 12th Avenue are not very deep. So they lend themselves toward smaller one-acre parcels, generally. Then when you look at these lots up in here, they are much deeper, so they lend themselves toward bigger lots. So when we looked at laying out this development, we looked at creating larger, deeper lots here along 14th Street, and then shallower, smaller lots here along 12th Avenue. So that's just a little precursor before we get into the actual plat itself. I'm going to skip to the second one in your backup material. Zoom out just a bit. So here you can see again, that general L-shaped property with smaller one acre lots here fronting what will be a new 12th Avenue roadway, and then larger five acre lots, three of them to be exact here, that will be fronting 14th Street. And now getting into a bit of the detail, Here on these larger five acre lots, we have some designated easements for drainage ponds that would be constructed as part of these parcels. The drainage evaluation has been done to determine the sizing of necessary ponds for commercial development. Here on what would be lot one, lot two, there is a pond here in the southwest corner. And then in lot three, there is again an extension of a pond that would occur here also in the southwest corner. As I mentioned, these lots along a future 12th Avenue northeast are smaller in nature and meet that one acre lot size for development. If a business came in that wanted two acres, we could just look at combining two of these lots together to make a two or three acre lot as needed. We've designated an outlot here, outlot A, in the very southwest corner of the development, and outlot B in the southeast corner of the development. Those would also be for retention ponds. So in total, we have nine developable lots and two outlots that will hold retention ponds. Also as part of the plat, we looked at platting out what will be 12th Avenue Northeast. We currently... have an existing bike trail and overhead power lines that run through some out lots that are here along the south side and also some easements here. So some of that public infrastructure that would normally fall within the right of way is currently in place and some easements and some out lots to the south. So we would look to incorporate two of those out lots into this plat of right of way for 12th Avenue. And then we are also working with what we call a sliver of property located right here along the west side adjacent to 14th Street. This sliver of property will be incorporated into the 14th Street right-of-way so that these properties will have direct access across the sliver onto public right-of-way to ensure that they have right-of-way access for the property. So that is how we've deciphered and looked at the best, in our minds, the best possible layout for lot sizes for commercial development. And then, as was standard with any plat, there are multiple folks that need to sign off and agree to this. Since this document was sent out, Some of these signatories have changed a little bit. Being this is generally Port Authority property, they will be a primary signatory to this here under Port Authority. City approval will still also occur here as part of the city approval process. We've got title opinion completed by our city attorney, Byram, as well as generally surveyor certificates, county auditor, and recorder. So those are all have been slightly edited from this version to make sure we've got the proper names. For instance, getting our city administrator changed from Clay Clark to acting city administrator, and some of those minor edits have occurred this past week as we've been working to finalize this document. So with that, I'll open it up to any questions that you might have.

I've got a question on the What's behind the property, in between the property and that subdivision that's, I guess, that's to the east?

Let me go back to the first map view that we were looking at. It shows a wider view.

I actually have the GIS map pulled up if you want that.

No, this should be okay. and just a little bit more.

Talking on the east side?

Yeah. So this property here. That's what you're questioning, right? So that property is currently located outside of the city limits and. I I don't know offhand what those properties are currently zoned. But they are outside of the city limits, so we do not have jurisdiction. Of course, over there zoning or use.

We do actually have some extra territorial subdivision authority within two miles of the city limit. So if it was further subdivided, those properties that are adjacent, the city would have some input.

And the only reason I ask is, again, I don't... You know, that subdivision there to the east, I mean, if it's an area that they're going to expand to, I mean, I... I don't know if they, do they know that it's going to be an industrial, you know, plotted piece of property there? You know what I mean? So you'd end up having a different kind of a neighbor?

I think a couple of the members of the Port Authority actually live in that area. But I don't know how much it's been.

Okay, and then... You're talking Nature's Ridge 3rd Edition? Right, yeah.

One... One comment to that is this property got annexed to the city probably five years ago, and it came in as industrial. So everyone has known for a period of time that there was a strong potential that it would be developed as such.

Got it.

The zoning is not changing.

And then you said that on the street where the bike trail is on, now it's currently just a bike trail. Will the bike trail just turn into a sidewalk? Is that how it's going to be like it is over by the... Recycling center.

Yeah, it'll serve both purposes. It'll serve as just a pedestrian route Sidewalk slash bike trail will stay existing just how it is and the road will be constructed to the north of it.

Okay I had a question about the infrastructure that's going in Steven I don't know if it's pertinent to whether or not we approve the plat but just out of curiosity the sewer tie-ins are I assume they'll go to the west and tie into the industrial system that's there?

They're generally in approximately this area right here, the current terrain splits. So from here, it flows west toward 14th Street. And again, from this high point, it flows east toward 17th Street. So both systems, both sanitary and stormwater from that high point will flow east and west. It'll go both directions.

Okay, the only other thing I had was when I was looking at the drawings I got a little confused. You probably already noticed this, but the plat drawings by the surveyor and then when you look at the engineering drawings for the drainage work, the The engineering drawings, the lot numbers are all different. And they even label 12th Avenue as 12th Street. So I just wanted to point that out, but you probably already knew that.

Yeah, working with the Port Authority, they wanted this numbering system, which is more current than the drainage plans that were constructed a couple years ago. And then the error on the avenue versus street, of course, yes.

But what we're approving is the plot drawing anyway, right? So it doesn't... Okay. Any other questions, commissioners?

I would note that you would be approving or recommending for approval the plat drawing with the corrections that Mr. Lang mentioned with regard to some of the names and signatories on the plat. Administrative edits. Yeah.

No more questions? Anybody ready to make a motion?

Motion.

I'll make a motion to recommend a council with, as presented with administrative edits.

Got a second?

Second.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER NORMAN AND A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER BURRELLS TO RECOMMEND A COUNCIL TO APPROVE THIS PLATTING REQUEST CONTINGENT ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE EDITS. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT, ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY AYE. ALL OPPOSED, NO. MOTION CARRIES. Anything else for us?

No. No, I don't have anything else.

All right. Any other business from any of the commissioners? Anything else you got in your mind? If not, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. All right. We have a motion from Commissioner Swenson and a second from Commissioner Norman to adjourn. All in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. We're adjourned.

And then just kind of an update for you all. I'm going to be doing surgery on my other knee this summer, and we might end up having to do a planning meeting off of our normal schedule, maybe the end of June. So I'll let you know once I know for sure. I should know, actually, by the end of this week. So I just wanted to update you. Sounds good.

All right, thanks, everybody. Is that a new knee?

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