Planning & Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

And to order, it's Tuesday, July 28, 2026, and it's 631. So with that, administrative comments. Ms. Hensley?

Chairman, we don't really have any this evening. There has not been a council meeting since the last commission meeting because council did not meet last week. So I don't have any council action items or administrative comments tonight.

Wow. Okay. And the only... Well, we have two agenda items. D1 is to consider the minutes for July planning and zoning commissioning. Any comments, additions, corrections? Anybody? And item E1 is to consider a special use permit for an approximately 1,800 square foot detached garage at 1289 Pottinger. Ms. Zimmerman?

Yes, so as you said, this is a specific use permit for an approximately 1,815 square foot detached garage with an average height of 15 feet 8 inches. There are two SDP triggers for the structure, the first to exceed 1,200 square feet in the SF 36 zoning district, and the second for that height to exceed an average of 15 feet tall. The proposed site plan shows that the structure will be located behind the front facade of the main home and will conform to the setback requirements of the zoning. There's actually an existing structure on the property that I believe was the main home on the property before the current one that's under construction that will be removed and replaced with this detached garage. The applicant will be here if you have any questions about the use or their plans for the structure, but we have not received any public opinion letters about it.

Okay. Any questions? Comments? I need to consider a request to approve amendments to the Keller Unified Development Code Town Center medical overlay. Is that where it's essential? Alexis is going to fill out this tonight. Yes, sir.

So this will look very familiar. If you remember of the July 14th meeting, we had a very similar request. It's a text amendment to the use table for the Town Center Medical Overlay District this time regarding veterinary clinic and kennels grooming only. We're proposing to change that from permitted by right to SEP as we did in the Town Center Zoning District. proposing to amend the use charts. Currently the veterinarian clinic and kennels grooming only uses are permitted by right, meaning they would just need to get a CO. We're proposing that it's done by specific use permit going forward. It's an identical request that we did to the UDC amendment on July 14th. Just when we presented that one, we did not include the town center medical overlay, so looking to fix that.

Thank you.

And so veterinary and kennels will fall under medical in the 8.18?

I guess that's where it kind of gets a little, just in looking at and reading it. Those two uses are already in that use table. Just as I said, they're currently permitted by right. And so this change would make them by a specific use permit, same as town center, if council does approve that amendment on August 4th.

Okay. Anybody else? Before we adjourn, is there anybody on the commission that's going to go to that August 7th?

Is that in our email?

Yeah, did I get an email?

Yeah, you're registered, Dr. Scott. You're registered, Dr. Scott. I did?

I'm registered. You're registered.

That's Friday? Yes.

What time am I registered?

I believe it starts at 9 a.m. Yeah, I think so. I can send out a reminder as we get closer.

I definitely should go.

You got an email just yesterday or today telling you if you don't cancel by the 21st, if you're signed up for it, if you don't cancel by the 31st, you can't get your money back.

The email came in.

We had to pay? No.

Well, they covered it for us.

Oh, yeah.

If someone is registered and can't go, we can probably transfer it to someone else.

Yeah, my thoughts are I don't know. I've got a gig, you know, I'll work on Friday. Okay. That could be my thing.

I think I don't have that email.

Can you run on 624?

Yeah, I don't remember seeing anything. Oh, I'm looking at 728. Oh, yeah.

It's this one. Okay. Yeah. And it looks like that.

Oh, the workshop on this? All right.

I don't know if Bill needs to see it.

Yeah, I would love to see it.

Can you forward? Anyone forward that to me? Okay.

Well, I'm signed up, and if I'm not, if I work, you can take my place. I think she said we all are. We just need to let her know. No, no, no.

No, no. Only does that let me know. Did you want to go? Yeah.

Anybody else for the workshop? I'm going to pull my emails up. Okay.

I'm like... You're buying.

I'm buying.

Yeah, you can't blame me. John's helping me. Oh, no, no, I was there.

He told me that on the way in. Okay.

Okay, I guess you can figure out whether you're going to be there. We'll figure this out. Thank you, Mr. Dean. All right, with that, we're going to go for the business pre-meeting, so let's adjourn. This is the City of Keller Planning and Zoning Commission meeting on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, called to order at 7 p.m. And with that, would you please stand? We'll say the pledges to the flags.

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Okay. At this time, I'd like the commissioners to introduce yourselves, starting at my far right, please.

Deborah Johnson.

Aaron Farner.

Bill Schlegel. John Scott.

Michelle Sandoval-Cavanez.

Ross Brensinger.

Andrew Young.

And I'm John Baker, your chairman for this evening. This is under our agenda, Persons to be Heard. This is a time for the public to address the Commission on any subject. However, the Texas Open Meetings Act prohibits the Planning and Zoning Commission from discussing issues which the public has not been given three business days notice. Is there anybody here that wishes to address the Commission? Okay, seeing nobody, we'll move on. We have two items on the agenda today, a new business. Both of them are public hearings. If you were here to speak, it doesn't look like it's going to be too big of a crowd to speak. But you would wait until the public hearings unless that would be appropriate. Let's move on to the consent agenda. Consider the minutes for the July 14, 2026 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. I'm open for comments or questions from the commissioners. Seeing none, could I have a motion, please?

I move that we accept the minutes as presented.

Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Okay. We have a Motion from Ms. Farmer and a second from Commissioner Scott. All those in favor, let's vote. Okay, this system is caught up now, I believe. Vote again. All right, that passes. Could I see that again? Was that seven to zero? All right, thank you all. All right, under new business, this is a public hearing. Consider a request for a special use permit for an approximately 1,815 square foot detached garage located on 1.108 acres on the south side of Ottinger Road, located 968 feet northeast from the Florence and Ottinger Road intersection. And this is address 1289 Ottinger Road, and this is SEP-2606-0018. And Ms. Zimmerman.

Thank you, Chairman. I have the aerial and zoning maps. The subject property is zoned SF 36. The applicant requests an SUP for a 1,815 square foot detached garage with an average height of 15 feet 8 inches. This structure is proposed to fulfill the zoning requirement of a two-car garage on the property. There are two SUP triggers, an SUP to construction accessory structure that exceeds 1,200 square feet in the SF 36 zoning district, and the SUP for the maximum height of that building to exceed 15 feet. Here is the proposed site plan showing that the structure will be located behind the front facade of the existing which is currently under construction, and will conform to the setback requirements of the SF 36 zoning district. Here are some elevations provided by the applicant. The average height of the structure will be approximately 15 feet, eight inches, and will have a single slope roof shown here. The exterior of the structure will be black to match the home's black roof and overall architectural color scheme. The proposed structures will be used for storage space for vehicles, equipment, and household items. No commercial business activity, retail use, or industrial operations are proposed. The floor plan does show two garage doors on the east elevation and one door on the north elevation. So I mentioned the main home is still currently under construction, but is approximately 5,998 square feet. There is an existing 1,500 square foot building on the property, that was actually the main home before the current one being constructed, that will be demoed and replaced with the proposed detached garage. There are no other accessory structures on the property. On July 16th, the City mailed out 11 letters of notification for this public hearing to all property owners within 300 feet of the subject site. Staffers received no public feedback in response to this request. Section 8.02 of the UDC states that when considering an SUP, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall consider the following. Whether the use is harmonious and compatible with surrounding existing uses, the activities requested by the applicant are normally associated with the permitted uses in the base district, the nature of the use is reasonable and appropriate in the immediate area, any negative impact on the surrounding area has been mitigated, and that any additional conditions specified ensure that the intent of the district purposes are being upheld. Again, the request for you this evening is that SEP for the proposed accessory structure to exceed 1,200 square feet in SF 36 zoning district, and for the height of that structure to exceed an average of 15 feet tall with the proposed average height of approximately 15 feet 8 inches. The Commission has the following options when considering an STP request. Recommend approval as submitted or with modifications. Table or recommend denial. If a recommendation is provided tonight, this application will be forwarded to the August 18th City Council agenda. Staff and the applicant are here if you have any questions.

All right. Thank you very much. Is the applicant here and do you wish to make a statement, sir?

Just that Alexa and Sarah are very good at what they do.

Would you identify your name and address, please? Jonathan Savas.

My current address is 7704 Shadowwood. And my upcoming address, hopefully, will be 1289 Ottinger Lane. Okay, thank you. And if you have any questions, as Alexa said, we need to build the structure in order to satisfy the garage requirement for the house. The house currently has no attached garage to it.

So this would satisfy that requirement for the city as well as giving us a garage Okay, thank you If you'll stay close by it doesn't look like we're gonna have much business this evening But at this time is there anybody who wishes to come forward and speak on this application? Seeing no one Miss partner I motion that we close the public hearing I And Commissioner Scott? Second. We have a motion and a second to close public hearing. Any further discussion? Let's vote, please. Okay, that passes seven to zero. At this time, are there any questions? I entertain Commissioner Bresinger.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Question for staff. How did we get here? You showed a picture of the house almost built, but the building permit must have been approved, and I thought we were required to have at least a two-car garage in every house.

It's because the detached structure has a two-car garage in it that's on the property. The one they want to demolish has a garage that has served as, fulfilled that requirement for them.

Thank you. Okay. Commissioner Scott.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a few questions for you, if you don't mind, if you wouldn't mind. Sure. Thank you for coming up. I didn't see, are you putting a bathroom in it or anything like that? No, no, no plumbing whatsoever, just electricity for the garage doors, lighting, and outlets. And you're not planning on using it for any business or anything of that nature?

No, no.

And does the house have a garage with it? No.

No, that house is strictly for living space. There's no garage structure whatsoever. The plan was always to use that existing structure as the garage. It just took a while for us to get the final design and everything together. But his question, too, before anything was approved, Sarah sent me a letter, and then I had explained all that, that that was the garage, there was a garage structure there, and went through it all, and then that would be the new garage once we updated it. Because the building's in pretty bad shape. It was built back in the late 80s when it was still a horse farm.

Got it. That was my question. Thank you, sir.

Yeah.

Thank you. All right. Thank you. I see we have a motion. Commissioner Farner?

A motion that we approve item E1 as presented.

And Commissioner Sandoval-Cabanas?

I second.

Okay. We have a motion to approve and a second. Any further discussion? Let's go ahead and vote, please. Motion carries seven to zero And sir, you've heard the staff say you'll be before the City Council on August 18th And we wish you success with your project and thank you very much Okay item e2 Public hearing, consider a request to approve amendments to the City of Keller Unified Development Code adopted by Ordinance Number 1746, dated July 7th, 2015, by amending Article 8, Section 8.18, Town Center Medical Overlay, relating to allowable uses. This is UDC-2607-0007. And again, Ms. Zimmerman?

Thank you again. So as I mentioned in the pre-meeting, this item will look very familiar. In fact, a similar UDC amendment for the town center zoning district went before this commission on July 14th and is proposed to go before the city council on August 4th. Just a very brief background. In 2024, when city council approved several amendments to the town center zoning district use chart, they did not make any amendments to veterinarian clinic or kennels grooming only uses. And so the proposed amendment would apply the same medical services and personal grooming services specific use permit requirements in the town center medical overlay district for animals that currently apply to humans. So what we're proposing is currently these two uses are listed in the town center medical overlay zoning district use table as permitted by right. We're proposing that they are done by specific use permit. That's basically saying the same thing. An amendment to the text of the UDC does require public hearing notice to be published in the local newspaper 10 days prior to the public hearing. Staff has not received any comments from the public regarding this proposed UDC amendment Planning zoning Commission has fallen options when considering a UDC amendment recommend approval as submitted or with modifications Table or recommend denial if a recommendation is provided tonight. This will also be forwarded to the August 18th City Council meeting Staff is here if you have any questions All right.

Thank you very much. This is a public hearing does anybody Wish to come forward and speak. And seeing none, Commissioner Young.

I motion to approve the language as is.

Okay, to close the public hearing.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Okay, we've had a change of, okay, Commissioner Sandoval-Cabanas.

I move to close the public hearing.

Okay, and Commissioner Schlegel.

I second that.

All right, we have a motion and a second to close the public hearing. Any further discussion? Let's go ahead and vote. Okay, the public hearing is closed by a vote of seven to zero. And at this time, are there any questions? Okay, thank you. All right, Commissioner Scott?

I move to adopt this motion.

All right, thank you. And Commissioner Johnson? Second. So we have a motion and a second to approve item E2. Is there any further discussion? Let's go ahead and vote. Okay. That motion is approved by a vote of 7-0. And I guess staff, you'll be before the city council on August 18th. So with that, unless there's any other comments, I think we've completed our agenda for the night, and we are adjourned at 7-16.

Thank you.