Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Barton Village Sp Amendment topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Barton Village plan amendment and rezoning deferred after staff and developer negotiate sign rules, building locations and a proposed medical use
Summary
Developers seeking a series of plan and zoning changes for Barton Village North—including a specific-plan amendment that would add 33 townhomes and an inpatient rehabilitation building—were asked to revise sign language and remove illustrative building footprints from the SP; the commission deferred action to next month pending a complete resubmittal.
The commission reviewed a multi-part amendment request affecting roughly 127.99 acres in the Barton Village North specific plan (and a separate 1.4-acre rezoning). Applicants seek a future land use change from residential 4 units per acre to downtown mixed-use, an overlay amendment to the South Hartman overlay's town-center subdistrict, and an SP amendment to add 33 townhomes and revise internal building-story rules.
Staff urged several changes: remove illustrative building footprints from the master plan because the applicant had added text giving the developer freedom to move buildings within broad subareas (staff said showing buildings while also allowing relocation is confusing), and omit the applicant’s bespoke sign standards in favor of the city's adopted sign code and existing overlay sign rules. The applicant agreed to remove one pole-banner type proposed in the SP. Staff noted an earlier draft showed a grocery store in the southeast corner but that has been replaced in the SP by an inpatient rehabilitation medical building—an allowed use in the subdistrict—although staff called attention to a portion of that building being partially within the airport's flight path centerline and noted the airport commission had recommended removing some residential parcels previously.
The applicant also reduced an earlier set of requested changes for the medical building to a single request changing the first-story minimum ceiling height from 14 feet to 9 feet; staff said it had no issue with that change for the proposed use. The SP text revisions and sign standard discussions arrived the morning of the meeting, and commissioners said they preferred to review a finished package. The commission voted to defer the matter to next month, directing the applicant to work with staff to resolve outstanding items and to provide a complete package in advance of the hearing.
Chris Jansen of CSDG (landscape architect and planner on the project) and Dear Ventura of SunCrest commented that the applicant wanted a sign package tailored to Barton Village to create a unified community identity; staff responded that the recently adopted South Hartman overlay and city sign code were intended to provide a consistent look across the area. The commission asked the applicant to coordinate with staff and resubmit a complete set of ordinance changes and SP edits for the next meeting.
