Chimney Hill Redevelopment Rezoning
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Agenda Item # 1
Chimney Hill RedevelopmentRezoning
Rezoning Overview
• Property owned by the City of College Station. The City has entered into an Economic Development Agreement and Sale and Purchase Agreement with PM Realty Group.
• Redevelopment of old commercial shopping center along University Drive East, a primary image corridor.
• Rezoning will remove the OV Corridor Overlay for the property and have a base zoning of a modified GC General Commercial and R-6 High Density Multi-Family.
• Includes a vertical mixed use building with a parking garage and four buildings that orient toward an interior plaza, and allows hotel use in place of residential.
Concept Plan
Meritorious Modifications
• Building Setbacks: Reduced along front and rear
• Parking Setback: Reduced along Tarrow Street
• Minimum Parking: No additional parking for intense uses; residential at 1 space per bedroom
• Right-Of-Way Dedication: None anticipated
• Non-Residential Architecture Standards: Exempt accessory buildings; exempt parking garage as long as painted to compliment building
Meritorious Modifications
• Additional/Modified Signage:– Allow Wayfinding signage;– Allow Light Pole signs in the interior plaza;– In addition to a Freestanding sign, allow one Low
Profile sign per building;– Allow Apartment Identification signs at each
intersection of Tarrow Street with University Drive East;
– For Attached signs, count residential public entry façade and back of commercial buildings facing University Drive East as part of calculation for allowable signage; and
– Appeals to staff determinations can be appealed to Design Review Board (DRB).
Concept Plan
Recommendation
• At their May 1st meeting, the Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval with the conditions that:– an additional right-turn lane be provided on
southbound Tarrow Street at the intersection University Drive East; and
– the ordinance is not effective unless a deed executed for purchase of the property is recorded in the Official Records of Brazos County, Texas on or before September 15, 2014.