postponed<\/a> voting on the item at its Feb. 24 meeting.<\/p>\nThe vote<\/p>\n
Council members Courtney Chadwell and Tom Crews voted against approving the permit.<\/p>\n
After the vote, council member Andy Mann proposed that the council vote \u201cfirst and final\u201d on the motion; however, council voted 3-5 against first and final, meaning City Council will hear and vote on whether to finally approve the request at a later meeting.<\/p>\n
Council members Chad Tressler and Tommy Cones voted with Mann to approve a first and final reading.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s changed<\/p>\n
Council asked the engineering firm to redraw and \u201cflip\u201d the site plan to add conditions that would address residents’ concerns, including:<\/p>\n
The fueling station must be moved to the north end of the property, moving it further from the closest residential areas.Eliminating the Austin Street entrance, forcing traffic to access the gas station through South Egret Bay Boulevard.Additionally, the applicant\u2019s updated plan included several changes addressing residents’ concerns from the Feb. 12 meeting, including:The site will meet the Texas Department of Transportation\u2019s standards, which exceed city requirements, and include an extra 5% water volume detention.Trees must be a minimum of 2-inch caliper (up from 1.5 inches) to provide a more mature buffer.Business hours will be restricted to 5 a.m. to midnight.A 10-foot-tall fence, 4 feet higher than the standard requirement, will be installed on the eastern property line.Pole lights were removed and replaced with shielded wall fixtures to ensure zero light trespass onto neighboring properties.What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n
Kim Speer, who said she had owned her home in the area for 20 years, said that while developers have rights, the city should take into consideration property owners who purchased their homes based on existing zoning.<\/p>\n
\u201cTexas is indeed a property rights state, but property rights exist on both sides,\u201d Speer said at the meeting.<\/p>\n
William Speer defended concerned residents against accusations of \u201cNot in My Backyard,\u201d or NIMBY, attitudes and said that his concerns stemmed from compounding impacts on traffic, drainage and lighting, as well as compatibility with the city\u2019s unified development code.<\/p>\n
“It’s not random. It’s not NIMBY. It’s what happens when a project creates multiple overlapping impacts at once,\u201d William Speer said at the meeting.<\/p>\n
Another viewpoint<\/p>\n
Mateus Calix, the project\u2019s civil engineer with Houston-based ALJ Engineering<\/a>, said his team was committed to mitigating flood impacts, noting that the project would provide 40% more water detention than the city required.<\/p>\n\u201cThe main thing we never want to do is make sure that no neighborhood is flooding,\u201d Calix said at the meeting.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned<\/p>\n
City Council will hear and vote on whether to finally approve the request at a later meeting, which has not yet been disclosed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After postponing a February vote on whether to approve a special use permit to build a gas station…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,86546,86547,86548],"class_list":["post-222385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-league-city-business","tag-league-city-coming-soon","tag-new-business-in-league-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}