Planning and Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay. Okay. At this time, we'll call to order the planning and zoning commission meeting. What do we do? Oh, you want to do the Okay. All right. Very well. Board of adjustment. Okay. At this time, we'll uh call to order the board of adjustments uh regular session uh public comments. Public comments are limited to three minutes. The board of adjustment members are not permitted to respond to uh comments from the public for the Texas Open Meetings Act. Agenda number three, approve the minutes from November 12th, 2024 meeting. I hear a motion to approve.

I make the motion to approve the minutes. Second. I second. I. All in favor? I.

Motion approves. Agenda number four, the BOA 2026 1-B. Hold the public hearing to discuss and consider the request from Robert Merritt, Mr. Robert Merritt, for the approval of a variance for zoning code section 15547. Reduce the required off streetet parking for a mini storage facility from one parking space per thousand square feet of building square footage nine spaces to two spaces on block 135 lot 9 located on North Washington Avenue on property known as Mount Pleasant City block 135 lot 95303 acres also addressed as 124 North Washington Avenue.

Good evening, board members. Um, let me get a couple slides up here. So, is proposing to do a uh a miniage storage unit. And so, essentially, he's um this building's existing. This was where the old brown plumbing building was, if some of you are familiar with the area. Um, so that building was uh removed and he's proposing to do it's a 7,000 foot mini storage up here and a little 2,000 foot mini storage here. and he's proposing two parking places. Uh this is the the elevations of it. It's a basic mini storage facility. And so going through our code, the Mount Pleasant code, currently we do not have a use as a mini storage, nor do we have a parking requirement for a mini storage. Uh our code's from 1987, so it's a little bit outdated. We are actually looking forward and lyn here um to moving forward with our uses and adding the mini use um use as well as the parking requirements. And so I did a little homework you can see um on ours right here that storage and warehouse which is generally towards more like an Amazon type facility for example is one space for each two employees or one space for each thousand square feet whichever is greater. Um, so for his 9,000 square foot buildings, it would require nine parking places. And as we all know with mini storage, you typically pull up to your unit and grab your stuff, unload or load. Um, so I did a little research and Texar Canada, for example, theirs is uh anything less than a,000 square feet is one space for each 50 units. And Roy Cities is um one parking space for each 50 to 100 units plus uh parking for on-site staff. This particular development will have no on-site staff. It'll just be many storage units uh with bay doors. And so um the city does not object to Mr. Merritt's request, but he is here if you have any questions for him. So it would be allowing two parking places instead of the required none.

At this time, we'll open it for public uh hearing. Does anybody in the public out there have anything to say?

I hear a motion to approve. I make a motion to approve. Second. I. All in favor? I I. Motion approved. At this time, I'll make a motion to

And number five. Uh, do I hear a motion to adjurnn? Make the motion to adjurnn. A second. All in favor?

I I We'll call to order uh the planning and zoning meeting uh uh March 2010 or March 10th, 2026. Public comments. Public comments are limited to three minutes for the commission is not permitted to respond to comments from the public for our Texas Open Meetings Act. Number three on the agenda, consider approval of the minutes from February 10th, 2026 planning and zoning commission meeting and take any action necessary.

Make the motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I

All right. Agenda number four, PP 2026-01 consider the request of applicant John Anderson on behalf of Creative Designations LLC for the approval of a uh preliminary perhap one block one Anderson Town Crossing commercial phase one subdivision with new street right away being a 5.469 469 acre property in the ATC PD2 zoning district. A portion of the 10 acre.3 acre track 1,000 in the Mitchell James RS uh abstract 0384 survey and the 36.248 acres abstract 1900 out of the port uh Reese Mitchell Survey abstract. I'm sorry. Porter Ree survey abstract 00441 in the real property records of Titus County, Texas. Located approximately 1/3 mile north of Tankersley Road intersection on the west side of US 271 adjacent to 2621 West Ferguson in the city of Mount Pleasant, Texas. So, that was a mouthful. I'm going to work through this pretty quickly. Um, we have six cases tonight. So, um, this is short. That That was a long way to describe the commercial academy retail preliminary plat um property. So, it's a one lot subdivision um that's adjacent to Atwoods. It's the site of the new academy store. It's on a large track however because of considerations

relating to um deadlines for construction rather than go through the entire thing which has not actually been formulated yet. This is a one lot one block commercial subsidy. It was already zoned part of the PD too over the whole entire um project that also is over there um and includes the new here is an example of where we are on the site uh on the right you see the purple circle that is the side of this of this development we're talking about and um to I placed the um proposed store tracked on the map so you can see where we're talking. This is the preliminary plat. Um they have gone ahead and uh typically a preliminary plat's just a block and it it' be the right of way which has got the striping diagonal striping on it for the old that was the old entrance to Atwoods. However, they're going to repurpose and and reconstruct the city standards dedicated to the city um so that they have the access that they need for the store. Um, the architects chose to actually show details that you usually don't see on a preliminary plat. It doesn't really matter. It's a preliminary plat. We got extra information. So, it's it's helpful. It gives you an idea where we are. Um, and so staff is recommending that it be approved. Any questions? He's here. You need

Um, at this time we'll make a motion. Do I have a motion to approve? I make a motion to approve. Second. I second. All in favor? I I you um all of these cases have been vetted by the DRC uh development review committee. So I don't want to have to keep repeating myself. I forgot that piece. So we'll go into the next one.

Okay. Agenda number five, PP 2026-2. Consider the request of John Anderson on behalf of Created Designation LLC for the revision of the preliminary plat of the Anderson Town Crossing phase 1 subdivision PP 2024-3 proposing an additional commercial lot created from lot 2 and reflecting the approval construction of right away from John Anderson Parkway.

Okay, so we're on the same general development but in a slightly different location down by Tankersley. So this is part of the multif family portion that's already under construction right now. These are the additional properties that came forward um that were uh to basically to one side um of the multif family and they've been set aside. They were set aside in the PD zoned appropriately for the uses that they um had uh basically named as any kind of retail, commercial um hotel. And so the only reason that this preliminary platus coming forward is the change in the configuration of block four which is where the new hotel site is um has been chosen. So um this is the preliminary plat that was approved in August 2024 and you can see where the the lot four is. Well, that's now changed to and and the site plan also shows it in the same place, but the new preliminary plat, this is a revision of it. It has gotten bigger and it's kind of expanded. Um, and so it doesn't really it doesn't hurt anything on the map other than um it just rearranges things. The the utilities were put in properly, so it doesn't really do anything other than the the configuration, but it the reason it's being brought forward now was because there's a final plat on this agenda. Two final plat this lot, but we had to revis any question. Again, it's all been reviewed by DRC.

So, you basically just move that entrance down and create a little bigger lot, right? Yeah. I hear a motion to approve. I'll make the motion to approve. I hear a second. I second. All in favor? I I.

All right. Agenda number six, FP 2022601. Consider the request from U applicant Jason Bale for the approval of a final plat for symmetry addition. addition subdivision on 7.329 acres creating a 6.617 617 acre one lot non-residential subdivision and dedicating uh 712 acres of a rightway of the adjacent Chalkall Street to the city as a 30foot strip from the existing center line located on the west side north of the section intersection of Chalkall and East Ferguson address 25 East Ferguson Street.

So, another final plat again all all been reviewed over a number of years actually. Um, this predated my arrival in the beginning. Um, and the architect is here if you have any questions. Um, it is under construction because they had gotten all of the approvals they needed and had gotten DRC approval for all the construction plans while this that was in limbo. And it was in limbo um because the um the way the property records were done here, the street or chalk tall street was never actually dedicated to the city. according to anything that the surveyors could find. So, uh technically Mr. Bell owned to the center line of the adjacent street and his neighbor across the Carl Chalk owned from the center line to his side on the east. So, um, even though on the map, if you look at the appraisal district, they'd already taken it taken the right away and called it right away, but there was really no legal ramification because according to the official records, Jason owned it. So, we had to work through all that because he had to actually give up something um that the city wasn't going to pay for. So, that's why we're here. Um, it would be This would be an administrative plat if it wasn't for the street. So, um this kind of shows you the two um pieces of property um that that are being combined into this one lot. And you'll see the strip of chop tall with the on the right hand side. I wish I could make this bigger so you can see it. But that is the dedication. any

dedication of right of way or any kind of dedication to the city has to come first to you to make a recommendation and then city council because they accept the dedication. That's why we're here. Other if it wasn't for this street, we would have done it administratively probably nine months ago at least. So, um, staff is recommending and Chris Bash's here if you have any questions. Is Jason uh asking about the ownership of the to the center line? Uh, I went to school over there when that school was built. city's maintained that street for correct longer than I've been alive.

Uh correct. If anybody's gonna pay anybody, he ought to pay us for taking care of the darn street.

No, he he just wasn't he wasn't aware, I guess, or nobody was aware. Well, and it went through preliminary plat approve before I got here and it was clearly shown on the preliminary plat as the center line of the street was the property line. It should have been noted then and it just kind of escaped everybody's notice until it came time for the final plat. I'm like wait a minute we can't have that. We have to have the street right away. And that's when when the surveyors were like we we don't we can't find a record that it is actually the cities. But yes, you're correct. Chalkaw Street itself is there. City has been maintaining it. So this is just clearing up the paperwork but it has to go through the channels. I couldn't do it administratively because we're giving he's giving something to the city. It's a dedication and even though it everybody probably thought it was done years ago, they could find no evidence that it had.

That makes sense. Well, I'm for it. Let's take it. Okay. All right. Do I hear a motion to approve uh the final plat for Senator? I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I I

All right, let's move on to agenda number seven, the FP 2026. Consider the request from applicant Gabriel Lo for the final plat for lot one, block one, Mount Pleasant Trail subdivision on a 4.368 acres in a multifamily MF zoning district. Property ID 15338 described in instrument 20253555 in the real property records of Tatis County, Texas and addressed 999 Tennyson Road Lyn.

So this will look familiar to you. Um we just did the preliminary PL site plan approval for the tax credit on on tennis and this is the final step. Um they don't have any dedication of right away. So the final plat is um basically needed in order for them to go forward with their building permit and particular occupancy and that sort of thing. So, here's the property. Again, this is the final plat. Um, again, it's pretty basic. This is a final plat that doesn't have all the details on it, which is generally the way you find them. This will be the recorded version of what you approved last last time for the preliminary. And again, staff is recommending approval of that final pack. Okay. Do I hear a motion to approve the final plat?

I make the motion to approve. Second. A second. All in favor? I.

All right. Let's move on to agenda number eight. FP 2026-03 consider the request of applicant Creative Destinations LLC to approve a final plat of lot 4 in the Anderson Town Crossing phase one subdivision in the ATC PD2 zoning district dedicating a section of Anderson Parkway from Tankersley Road North Rotan Road as a public rideway in the city of Mount Pleasant.

Okay. So, this takes the lot four that we just talked about um that had been finalized on its location and size and makes a final plat out of it using the Anderson Parkway as its um public access. So, it has to be dedicated. Um, the Anderson Parkway was permitted and allowed to be constructed separately last year, I believe. Yeah, I think last year. So, it it was finished. It's finished. It's been accepted by the city. Um and it is the access from tanker's le into the uh ATC property and will give direct uh right ofway access to lot 4 of course doesn't run on technically um and so that they can sell it in order to um convey the property to the new owners that are going to be the hotel they have to be able to uh do that and so that's why this is coming forward like um the utilities and the roadway construction are completed. The only their only things that are left were arrows um turn arrows in the middle of the in the middle of the turn lane to the apartments actually. So this is a circle approximately our overhead maps are not up to date. Um now it's there's no vegetation on that property left. Um and the final plat is shown uh on the right hand side as you can see it takes its access from um the Anderson Parkway rideway. Um text had given their approval for the buildout of the additional lots and I have the um their uh okay to go forward on this and the

TIA had it also um all of the build out on this side. It's all uh part and parcel of their uh requirement to Mr. Anderson to work on Tankersley and then to get road 10 completed. But Anderson Parkway itself is is the right of way for this lot. So of course as you know a lot has to have um public access. Staff recommends approval. Do I hear a motion to approve the Anderson Town Crossing phase one lot for final flat?

I'll make a motion to approve. Second. A second. All in favor? I I.

All right. Moving on to agenda number nine, SP 20226-01. Consider the request of John Anderson on behalf of Creative Designations LLC for approval of a site plan for the for a new Academy Sports Retail Project on lot one of Anderson Town Crossing commercial phase one subdivision property in the ATCPD2 zoning district located adjacent to 2621 West Ferguson Road. So, um, as you are probably aware, the PD for all of Anderson Town Crossing requires site plan approval, um, which the hotel will be coming next on the on property just approved. So, uh because this is um being fasttracked, this is the new retail building and parking lot for academy site plan. Um it is almost impossible for you to be able to review this from this screen. However, you were sent the overall site plan. There are a number of sheets in it, including um landscaping details and uh a variety of details. This is the overall site plan that shows um if you can read it uh the pavement widths um the right ofway dedication that will occur um on the access. It's got different um configuration. So the existing Atwoods driveway of course is ex is already con constructed. They're going there are some um pavement uh challenges that have been identified. They're going to have to read uh they're going to have to repair that up to city standards and when they're constructing

the rest of it and it will all become uh a city right away. Uh we on a preliminary plat um we named it all good drive and so um that will be the entrance into the Anderson Town Crossing um proper once it comes forward. will have a preliminary plat of the entire thing um including this access road and o other um parcels that are planned will all be preliminary platted at a later date. The reason that this has been cut off by itself is because of this in in imminent development and it didn't really need to or wasn't possible for it to wait for the entire planning on the rest of the acreage. So it has a name. It will continue on um into the the rest of the development and which will have um both commercial and um some residential components. So staff has reviewed this multiple times through uh a number of meetings including all of the details on the water sewer and um those lines. the construction, civil construction plans, some of the construction details are still being hammered out, but the site plan will be in compliance with those. We don't have all every single tiny detail on a site plan. So, it is compliant with what has been discussed. Um as you know um and probably remember from the PD and at on these PDS there is uh the component for um looking at the elevations for the buildings. There's only one difference that needs to be pointed out from the plan development um which was actually drafted in 2021

I believe a long time ago. Um they had Ephus as building material as um at that as an um an accessory piece to rather than a primary building material. But the new academy course academy has its own plans, its own construction. They're all the same all over Texas. this particular iteration of their stores all use ephus with um they have design elements in the ephus but rather than it being an uh uses an accessory material it is the primary material. However, the site plan controls it and it certainly looks like an academy store and it would, you know, not not be a detriment to the city in it in any shape, form or fashion. So, um, this is the way it was proposed to look and Mr. Anderson is here if you have any questions, but staff um, and the both recommend So, do I hear a motion to approve the site plan for the new academy retail project on lot one?

I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I I All right. Agenda number 10, planning director's report. Lyn,

um, we are busy and I guess you can tell. I don't know, Aronnie, you've been on the board a long time. If we've ever had six cases at one meeting. I didn't think so. Um, and so we there are a lot of there's a lot of activity in the city. Um, our office feeling a lot of inquiries. I've already talked about that. We've got some other things that will be headed your way. Um we'll probably have a meeting um my guess is every month. Um it looks like we've got enough in the pipeline so that we won't be skipping meetings like we did for a little while. So appreciate your service. Um I don't we're we're also working on getting the time to come forward with our zoning. We haven't forgotten about that. So, we are still working on the downtown zoning district with the committees for um there's two main street committees that are they're working alongside to bring that forward through council through here to kind of um probably have maybe hopefully even a um just main meeting just for that. It'll be a new zoning district for downtown. it'll be an an entity instead of having multiple zonings in one place like it does now. Um we're working on the development standards for that. We'll have um we're planning on having vacant building registration um applied to that district as well. uh the boundaries the group is Main Street Historic Preservation Group is pretty much in essence approved the vision of the committee that I'm working with and now we're just I'm just working on with them and drafting all of the development standards that we want to start. Of

course, any kind of zoning ordinance can be amended as you go along and so um but we have to start some place. The one thing that has not come forward yet, it has to be part of the downtown um zoning district design standards for downtown. Um and so I we haven't started on tackling that. So I'm I'm unclear as to whether we're just going to go forward with it without the sign um piece or if we're going to work on it together. and that's going to require some coordination um with the business community downtown in that area will be more interested than anybody else. So um if that's working its way forward then we're going to have probably start with four or five small code changes in our zoning ordinance um within the next couple of months and then I've got a list of probably 15 but I'm not going to do them all at once. It's too much. So we'll do strategic pieces. Um so a lot of those are help our code enforcement and and like you saw tonight for example um it was brought to our attention we have warehouse parking standards. We don't have many storage parking standards. Many storage used to be considered warehouse but it isn't the way that that they're run now because there's no staff. it's all you know all digital online all that there is no reason really to bargain at all but there you know it ends up being a couple and so that was part of um the discussion we had that's being added too so that'll be come forward is um we're going to take arcan as it seemed to be have the most um common sense piece approach to it so that's a little bit of what we're doing um appreciate your

because you're I'm going to put you to work.

Okay. At this time, I'll make Do I hear a motion to adjurnn? Make the motion to adjurnn. Second. A second. All in favor? I I