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Commission approves landscape-tree variance for 5905 E. Sam Houston Pkwy S.; Rosenberg recorded as opposed
Summary
The commission granted a variance allowing the project at 5905 East Sam Houston Parkway South to purchase tree-planting credits for up to 30% of required street trees and approved not meeting the remaining street-tree requirement because easements constrain planting; Commissioner Rosenberg recorded opposition.
The Planning Commission approved a landscape variance for a new office-warehouse development at 5905 East Sam Houston Parkway South that reduces the on-site street-tree planting requirement because utility and pipeline easements limit plantable areas.
Planner Ed Buckley and Jeff Butler explained that the freeway right-of-way is owned by TxDOT and that roughly 100 feet of private frontage along the freeway is overlain with utility,…
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