Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Welcome to the regular City of New Braunfels Board of Adjustment meeting. We are a five-member board that is appointed by city council. Pursuant to state law, this board hears requests from property owners for variances and special exemptions from locally adopted ordinances. This board may also hear appeals of decisions made by city staff in administering these ordinances. The general procedure for each case is the board will hear first from city staff, who will provide a summary of each applicant's request, Then the applicant or agent will be asked to come forward and advocate f

Here. Thank you so much. First rule on the agenda is the approval of the June 25th, 2026 regular meeting minutes.

Can we have a roll call on that, please?

Yes, thank you. All right, moving down, we have citizens communication and then we're gonna move to our public hearing. Items for individual consideration, let's move down there. First item this evening, CS26-0262, a public hearing and consideration of a request by 24 Design on behalf of owner Kent Black, New Braunfels Holdings, LLC, for an alternate sign plan to allow a proposed American flag to exceed the maximum allowable size for flags for property within the C1B General Business District and with frontage along Loop 337 currently addressed at 936 Loop 337. Mr. Barker, hello, sir. Hello, M

Do we have any questions for Colton this evening?

Let me ask you one question. How far back is the current sign? When I read the packet, I understood they were going to put it where that current sign was, so I might have misread that.

All right, no other questions, thank you. You're welcome. At this point, we would like to ask the applicant to come up and please state your name for the address, name for the record.

Thank you. What would you like to tell us about your project?

The other sign is not on our agenda this evening. We're just only worried about the flag.

All right, do we have any questions? So will this replace the current light that is in the parking lot, or is this going to be in addition to?

Okay, and is it only going to be housing an American flag, or are they going to stack flags all the way down, given that there's a 90, Colton, could you go back to that? There we go. We have a maximum size of 96 square feet. Just trying to envision what else is going to be on there. Just the American flag, okay. All right, do we have any other questions for the applicant?

All right, any other questions for the initial applicant? No? All right, thank you. Thank you. At this time, if anyone else would like to come up and speak in favor of this as the applicant. Anybody else for the applicants like to speak in favor? No? All right, then we'll open the public. Are you coming up for the public? Okay, we'll open our public part of this hearing. If you'd like to come up and speak in favor or in opposition, and state your name, please.

Thank you. Appreciate that. All right. Do we have anyone else like to speak in favor? Please feel free to come up and state your name for the record.

All right. Anyone else like to speak in favor? Okay. Would anyone like to speak in opposition of this? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing. Board members, do we have any discussion? Do we have any motions that someone would like to make?

Okay, discussions. Any motions anyone would like to make on this?

I think if we followed the city's guidelines and saying that they would have to remove the other one if they're going to do this, I have no problem with that.

Colton, could you read what your recommendation was for sitting, please? Yes, sir.

I would use that exact for my motion. And if I need to restate that, I can, or we can just use exactly how Colton properly stated that.

Would you like to motion your motion with the staff's addendum?

Perfect, all right. We have a motion. Do we have a second to that motion? I'll second that motion. Very good. All right. Can we have a roll call, please?

Aye. Thank you. Congratulations. Your motion is passed. All right, items for consideration. Let's talk about ZB266-0009, a public hearing in consideration of a request for a variance from section 144-3.3-2B1III to allow an accessory structure to encroach 25 feet into the required 25 foot corner side setback with the R2HL single-family, two-family historic landmark district currently addressed at 307 North Gunthers Avenue. That's a mouthful right there. Sorry. It's okay.

Thank you, ma'am. Do we have any questions for staff?

Thank you. So is this the exact same size that we saw two months ago? They just removed the garage door?

I think there's a pool on the last one as well that they had. I don't see that either.

And whatever variance, if we approve the variance, if a garage door was added at a later time without approval,

Okay, we have questions for the applicants.

Okay, but I guess your doors will be on the inside of the property, no doors to the street? No doors to the street, all on the inside. Okay. Yeah. All right, now I understand that. Do we have any other questions for the applicant? No? All right, thank you. Thank you. We will open up the public hearing at this time if we have anyone who would like to speak in favor of this applicant. Please come up and state your name for the record.

Thank you, sir. Would anyone else like to step up and speak in favor of this? Okay. Would anyone like to speak up in opposition of this? Seeing none, we will close that segment and go to discussion board. Do we have any discussion, comments, or motions we would like to make?

Okay, you're saying five foot in towards the other side.

Okay. Any other thoughts, comments, otherwise?

Okay, any other comments? Do we have any motions anyone would like to make this evening? Okay, all right, I'm sorry, seeing no motion, we will not be able to approve your variance this evening. We'll be moving on to the next. ZB26-0010, hold a public hearing in consideration of a request for a variance from section 144-5.4E to allow a detached accessory structure to exceed the height of the main dwelling by 10 feet one inch within the R1A6.6 single family residential district currently addressed at 31 Guadacoma Drive.

Thank you, ma'am. Do we have any questions for staff on this?

Just a neighbor thinking they can see in if they're up there, I guess. Okay. Any other questions for staff over here?

All right, any other questions for staff? Okay, if the applicant would like to come up and speak on your behalf, just state your name for the record when you come up, please.

Okay, do we have any questions for the applicant?

All right. Wonderful. Thank you so much.

All right, any other questions for the applicant? Thank you. Okay, we will open up the public hearing. Would anyone like to come and speak in favor of the application? Please come up and state your name for the record.

Thank you, sir. Would anyone else like to come up and speak in favor of this? Okay, would anyone like to speak in opposition of this? Seeing none, we will close the public hearing and go to the board for discussion, comments, or possibly a motion. Well, I'll start. I love this street. It's one of the hidden gems of New Braunfels. I looked at buying a few houses down there over the past 25 years. And I know exactly what she's dealing with. I have a friend that lives right down the street, so I'm familiar with the area. And it's hard. And having kids, having four kids myself, you need a little e

Okay. Do we have anyone to make a motion?

Okay. Do we have a second to that motion?

The uniformity, but they're not, we're asking for the additional structure, not the home. So...

We don't have to approve his motion. We can have a second motion if we don't have a second to his motion.

So do we have a second to his motion? We do not have a second. Okay, would another motion like to be made?

We have a motion, do we have a second? Quidley second. Okay, can I have a roll call then?

Yes. Congratulations, your motion is passed. With... With that, that is the last item of this evening. So I am going to go ahead and call this meeting adjourned.