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11.

City Council Regular Meeting

Meeting Date:

09/07/2021

BACKGROUND

Nine (9) public hearing notices were mailed to surrounding property owners within two hundred feet (200') of the subject property on August 13, 2021, and a public hearing notice was published in the "San Antonio Express" on August 20, 2021. At the time of this report, Staff has recevied one (1) in neutral to the amendment.

The Planning and Zoning Commission met on August 25, 2021 and made a recommendation to City Council that the Comprehensive Plan be amended to add a new land use designation of Commerical Light Industrial and proposed new land use designation, Commercial Light Industrial, for this property. Subsequent to the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, the applicant indicate they only wanted to rezone the 42 acre area along the frontage of IH-35. The proposed new land use designation would mirror the current Commercial Campus designation under the Schertz Sector Plan. It would still be encouraged that the, Commercial Light Industrial, would be intended to be located at mid block region along the interstate highway frontage. This new land use designation would support the uses of office, flex office, and light industrial. It would also intend for the building scale/height to maintain low rise office with scale transitions between development. Another key item would be to have all loading dock doors and truck trailer parking be situated on the back of the building not viewable from public right-of-way and screened. The building materials are no longer regulated by the City of Schertz but instead for the Commercial Light Industrial designation it would be encouraged to have the buildings to be esthetically pleasing from roadway. The last item would be to maintain the landscaping requirements of softening the highway and screening from public right-of-way as well as any vehciular use sscreening.

GOAL

The project goal is to amend the Comprehensive Land Use Plan by changing approximately 42 acres of the Future Land Use Map from the Commercial Campus land use designation to the new land use designation, Commercial Light Industrial.

COMMUNITY BENEFIT

It is the the City's desire to promote safe, orderly, efficient development and ensure compliance with the City's version of future growth.

SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDED ACTION

The 2013 Sector Plan Amendment of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan sought to establish future development objectives that balance the traditionally retail/office and industrial identity that has shaped the North Schertz/IH-35 corridor with the opportunity for smart growth as the City continues to develop along the interstate highway.

The purpose of creating a new land use designation was truly created to mirror the Commercial Campus designation, which allows for light industrial, but was also created in order to modify some of the issues that were made apparent by the applicant. Another reason for creating this new land use designation was also done as the zoning distrcit, currently General Business District (GB), does not allow office/warehouse type development. Which is why we have the Comp Plan amendment and zone change for this property as they are both contingent on each other moving foward. As mentioned the Commercial Light Industrail is being created in order to support development of light industrail/office-warehouse type uses located at mid-block regions. The Commercial Light Industrail land use designation would mirror the Commercial Campus designation but would allow for a mixture of office, flex office and warehouse type development within the new land use designation.

FISCAL IMPACT

none

RECOMMENDATION

The Planning and Zoning Commission made a recommendation to recommend approval of the new land use designation, Commercial Light Industrial with a vote of 7-0.

Staff supports the Commissions recommendation to City Council to approved the new land use designation of Commercial Light Industrial for the 42 acres.

Attachments
Ordinance 21-S-37
Aerial Map
Proposed Schertz Sector Plan Text
Land Use Designation Map