Planning & Zoning Meeting - Regular Meeting

This is the July 6th meeting, P&Z Commission. And I guess we'll do a roll call.

Patrick Cusick.

Here.

Chelsea O'Young. Tony Love. Here. Doug Thomas. Here. Michelle Bocheski. I didn't do it right, did I? Michael Chappell.

Here.

Would anybody like to do an invitation? Great. move to approve the minutes from the june 1st 2026 regular meeting and public hearing is there uh

Any public comments that's not on the agenda this evening that somebody would like to talk about?

I don't think we have anybody to speak under citizen comments on section two.

He knows.

Mr. Chairman, yeah, no citizens. If we want to go into item 4.1, that public hearing will not be able to be held tonight. The reason being that Not all property owners within 200 feet received the written notification as required by the Texas local government code. That was brought to my attention unintentionally by a neighbor, and we discovered the error as we were looking for the copy of their letter. We will resend letters, re-advertise on the newspaper, and we will have this public hearing in the month of August. So we can go ahead and skip that item. I don't think anybody here was here to speak on the item anyway, so we can just skip that item and go immediately to item 4.2.

All right, item 4.2, case number zone 26-001, 520 Milton Street, plan development.

Sorry, that's 4.1.

Yeah, I got shuffled here.

all okay 4.1's uh case number again zone dash 26-001 520 melt street plan development are there any uh public comments no that's that's the one we're skipping mr chairman oh yeah so we need to start with 4.2 what i need to start drinking

Consider, all right, item 4.2. Let's see if we can get it all together. Consider the approval of a concept site plan for Joseph Retail. And this, I know it's at 680 East Cook Street.

Mr. Chairman, this is a site plan that's been a while, a long time in the making for a strip mall. on FM 6, known as East Cook Street. It is a five-suite strip mall. The project went into construction early last year. It was discovered that a site plan was necessary to continue construction, so work was stopped for a bit. The city allowed some of the work to continue because it wasn't consequential to the project, so that they wouldn't be delayed as much. The project went through 13 rounds of review from our consulting engineers. Two different firms actually reviewed this over time. All drainage comments which were really the primary issues have been addressed. There will be a pond built at the far south side of the property in the very far in the rear to serve this and future development. of this site, of this property. The site plan that was attached to this report shows a projected hardware store in the rear of the property. The drainage pond is expected to accommodate that pond, but further engineering review will be required at the time they want to build something else there. Given that all subdivision and zoning regulations are met by the site plan, we recommend approval.

On the map that you gave us. Yes. You're talking about that hardware store. It actually says hardware storage.

That's a typo, but this this site plan would only approve what's shown and that's not in the like the hatch on the screen that you're looking at right now. It was just for reference because it was to help inform the engineer that, hey, this pond is being built for more than just the strip mall and the existing gas station. We're planning to do more stuff there to assess the potential capacity of that pond. When that time comes, for any construction that's beyond the current gas station and that current strip mall, they will need to come for another site plan and engineering review.

All right.

And just a reminder, you are the final approving authority on site plans. So after this, the city engineer will continue to review their construction plans for the pond and water and sewer. But that's it. After that, they can get their building permit.

So of all the drainage issues and all the other issues been cleared up and signed up by the city engineer?

The drainage design issues have been addressed in this plan and the site plan and the construction plans. They will be required to build the pond before getting their certificate of occupancy for those stores. Because technically this building shouldn't have gone vertical until after the pond had been built. The... sidewalks and that is part of the building the ada compliance distribute as part of the building permit not a site plan stage the aerobic septic system on here that's not part of what we're approving isn't that required for the that's already existing uh i believe it's it's already been there for the septic system has been there for a long time yeah

You get the joint is the detention bond in the back.

I'm going to go ahead and make a motion to approve the concept plan site plan at 680 East Cook Street as presented with the understanding that this approval applies only to the existing development and associated site improvements and that separate site plan approval will be required for any future development including the proposed hardware store. I'll second.

All in favor?

All right.

All right. Next item is consider the approval of a concept plan on FM 1777 Josephine Retail located on the east side of FM 1777 north of Lonesome Dove Ranch.

Mr. Chairman, members of the commission, Miguel Inclan for the record. This site plan you're probably familiar with. You approved a subdivision waiver last month for the single point of access for this development. The city council approved that waiver at their June meeting, which allowed this to continue to the process. So all subdivision regulations are met by this project except for that one which was waived. Because this project is in the ETJ, there are no zoning regulations. So given that the project meets the subdivision regulations, we recommend approval.

TxDOT signed off on it?

TxDOT is processing the driveway application this week. We submitted that late last week. The city has to be the permit requester on behalf of the developer. So the developer provides the engineering work, we just sign the application, and it's like a joint application that gets sent out to TxDOT. That is being processed by their McKinney office right now.

Is this the plot of land where it's had up for two or three years, retail pad site?

Yeah, I believe, no, that's... No, that's part of it. Okay. yes there there's there's several parcels that one the one with the sign is not this one this is a different one but it's it's also on the same side of the road okay a little bit closer to royce city yes it's right at the southern entrance to the magnolia subdivision on lonesome dove branch okay all right anybody want to make a motion or any questions up here on this

I move to approve case number SP 26001 for the concept plan site plan located along FM 1777 as presented subject to the condition that all remaining comments from the city engineer are addressed to the satisfaction of the city prior to final approval.

That comment was only there because the city engineer's letter wasn't ready in time for the agenda posting. We didn't want to wait another month, so no comments need to be addressed.

I didn't know if it was recording or not. There's a drive-through component on this building. I'm assuming the parking counts and things like that have been assessed for the...

So this is a unique situation. Given that it's in the ETJ, the parking and stacking are typically part of zoning, so they're not applicable to this project as much as we would like to look at them. I will say that in the design process throughout this project, we asked for things that were not required, like parking, for example, and some of the configuration We asked them to make the, so when you make the right turn onto the property, it's a little bit of a greater distance before you can turn either left or right. That was not. The throat depth, yes. Yeah, the throat depth, you know, so. Okay, I'm still learning here too. We talked about the standards and what we have in place.

And yeah, if it's not applicable, then that's.

Yeah, I mean, but we tend to look and suggest, you know, we say, hey, can you look at this? More often than not, they'll go ahead and do it. but there's no issue here, so we should be good to go.

Okay. All right. Second the motion.

You can make the motion to approve as presented, and that would be good to go.

I make the motion to approve as presented case number SP26001, the concept plan located along FM 1777. Second. All in favor?

All right.

Nothing, then just go US, right? Let's go watch that game. No updates. Thank you.

The meeting's adjourned.

Oh, yeah. I'll make a motion we adjourn.