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MINUTES
CITY OF THE COLONY
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
AUGUST 14,2007
After determining that a quorum was present, the Planning and Zoning Commission
of the City of The Colony, Texas convened into regular session which was held on
August 14, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers located in City Hall, 6800
Main Street, The Colony, Texas, at which time the following items were addressed:
Present: Brian Wade, Chairman; DeVille Hubbard, Vice-Chairman; Karen
Hames; Marlene Milsak; and Debbie Morrison
Absent: Michael Barrett; & Fernando Villarreal
Present from Staff: Donna Bateman, Development Services Director; Wes
Morrison, City Planner; Jennifer White, Administrative Assistant; and
Ellen Dabbs, Permits Technician
11.0 I CALL REGULAR SESSION TO ORDER
Chairman Wade called meeting to order at 6:38 pm.
11.1 I Citizen Input
No citizen input received
2.0 CONSENT AGENDA
2.1 Consider a roval of the minutes of the Jul 10, 2007 Re ular Session.
Commissioner Hames moved to approve the consent agenda as presented. It
was seconded by Chairman Wade and the motion carried (4-0, Commissioner
Morrison abstained).
3.0 WORKSESSION
3.1 Conduct a worksession and discuss the overall process and timeline for re-
writing the Zoning and Subdivision Ordinances.
Donna Bateman presented the staff report.
Vice-Chairman Hubbard asked if the commission only needed to pick out one of the
zoning regulations from the list that was presented by staff. Ms. Bateman answered
that the city could have more than one of the regulations off of the list.
Vice-Chairman Hubbard asked ifthese zoning regulations would be city wide. Ms.
Bateman answered yes.
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Vice-Chairman Hubbard asked if 90% of vacant property is zoned Planned
Development. Ms. Bateman answered yes.
Vice-Chairman Hubbard asked if we have Industrial Zoning with a Planned
Development. Ms. Bateman answered yes. We have Industrial with a Planned
Development in the Cascades and Ridgepoint area.
Ms. Bateman stated that staff would like to take several items from the code of
ordinances and apply them to the zoning ordinance, or create a unified ordinance.
Ms. Bateman stated that if the city had a unified ordinance then everything would
need to come through the P&Z commission.
Vice-Chairman Hubbard asked if the commission and the city needed to go down the
list presented by staff until Unified Development. Ms. Bateman answered yes.
Ms. Bateman stated that staff will come up with some items to have the commission
review and see if they would like to add it to the zoning ordinance.
Conduct annual training for Commission members.
Commission members and staff watched a video on Legislation.
4.0 DIRECTOR'S REPORT
4.1 City Council Results from August 6,2007.
Ms. Bateman went over the results with the Commission.
Chairman Wade adjourned the meeting at 8:13 pm.
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