League City planning commission affirms denial of minor plat for 691 Hewitt Street over missing drainage easement

The League City Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday affirmed staff’s denial of a minor plat for 691 Hewitt Street, known as Reyes Estates, after staff said the most recent plat application omitted a required drainage easement and other standard platting documents.

Christopher Carpenter, planning director for the City of League City, told the commission staff denied the plat because it lacked recorded covenants, conditions and restrictions, a stamped survey, standard plat notes and a dedicatory statement, and it did not show a drainage easement that staff says is needed to preserve an existing drainage corridor. “Where a drainage ditch exists on a property an easement must be dedicated that preserves the flow of that ditch,” Carpenter said while citing the city’s Unified Development Code provisions that govern easements and required drainage plans.

Why it matters: Staff said the ditch runs north–south across the property and can act as a balancing channel during large storms, with flows that ultimately connect to the Robinson Bayou watershed and, in extreme events, can backfeed into the Benson Bayou system. Carpenter said the requested easement width…