Planning commission keeps staff comments on Palm Lake master plan after debate over short dead-end streets

The Planning and Design Commission on Feb. 6 reviewed a revision to the Palm Lake Subdivision master plan, a proposed residential, multifamily and commercial reconfiguration for an existing development, and voted to keep staff comments that require turnarounds on dead-end streets.

The applicant identified on the record as San Jacinto Southwest and represented by engineers described in the hearing asked the commission to remove a staff comment requiring a turnaround because three short dead-end streets on the revised plan measure about 30 feet, the developer said. Grama Juara of Sunet Engineering told the commission the streets are “so short” that a 20-foot cul-de-sac would take up a large area and that the…