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.