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Consider public testimony regarding, and an ordinance zoning 7.71 acres of land located southeast of the intersection of Louis Henna Boulevard and S. A.W. Grimes Boulevard to the Planned Unit Development (PUD) No. 120 zoning district. (First Reading)*
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These two adjacent tracts, which are owned by Employee Owned Companies, Inc., are referred to as the Vermeer tract and the Bobcat tract. Both are in the City’s ETJ (extraterritorial jurisdiction) and within the City’s water and sewer service areas. The Vermeer tract has been developed as a heavy equipment sales and leasing facility since 1999. The owner’s intent to develop the Bobcat tract with a similar facility led to an agreement with the City, which was approved on May 10, 2018. The agreement between the City and the owner states that the annexation and zoning of the two tracts is to occur after construction of a heavy equipment sales and leasing facility on the Bobcat tract is complete, which has occurred.
The agreement states that both tracts are to be zoned as a PUD (Planned Unit Development), using the I (Industrial) district as a base, and providing for the outdoor display of heavy equipment in front of the buildings. The Vermeer tract, as developed in 1999, conforms with the I (Industrial) zoning district standards. The Bobcat tract conforms with those standards and also with PUD requirements for masonry on the front façade of the building, design options for screening of the service bays, landscaping along the SH 45 frontage and a retaining wall with landscaping along Roundville Lane.
The Planning and Zoning Commission conducted a public hearing at their meeting on May 20, 2020 and voted 7-0, with one abstention, to recommend approval of the zoning. There were no speakers at the public hearing.