Title
Ordinance - Third and Final Reading on an Ordinance Approving a Change of Zoning from C-2 Community Business District to PD Planned Development District for Eating Place Without Drive-Through Service on Approximately 2.069 Acres Located at 1768 & 1770 N. US 287; Daniel Smith of Foremark, on behalf of Robert Mahoney of TYL Energy, LTD (ZC#17-021)
Requested Action
To consider the subject zoning change request.
Recommendation
The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on October 16, 2017, and voted 7 - 0 to recommend approval as presented.
Description/History
First Reading
The subject property consists of 2.069 acres and is located on the east side of N. U.S. 287, immediately south of Baylor Emergency Medical Center. The property is less than a quarter-mile south of FM 157 and less than a quarter-mile north of Debbie Lane. The property is currently vacant and wooded.
The applicant is seeking to re-zone the property from C-2 Community Business District to PD Planned Development District for an eating place without drive-through service. The applicant is proposing a 7,240 sq. ft. Saltgrass Steak House restaurant, oriented roughly in the center of the property, with parking on all sides of the building. The property will be accessed by an existing shared access point at the northwest corner of the property serving both Baylor Medical Center and the subject property. In addition, a new access point will be constructed south of the property; this access point will require a shared access easement across the adjacent properties to the south.
The restaurant will include a 149-space parking lot, which well exceeds the 73 required parking spaces, but which the applicant feels is necessary to accommodate patrons and employees during peak hours. The development will include extensive shrubs around the foundation of the building, trees in the parking lot islands, and trees in the required 20’ front landscape buffer yard and the 10’ side lands...
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