BRENHAM CITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS ZONING CHANGES
Brenham City Council will consider an amendment and act upon a resolution during their meeting Thursday to change a section of land from a recreational/open space district to a multifamily district on a tract of land located on the north side of Old Mill Creek Road. The Council will also consider an amendment to change the zoning district from a single family residential use to a mixed residential use for land located on the north side of Old Mill Creek Road.
A public hearing will be held to consider granting a specific use permit to allow a multifamily development on a site of 2 or more acres located on the north side of Old Mill Creek Road. The public hearing is also being held to consider changing a district from recreational/open space to commercial/retail at the northwest corner of the intersection of Old Mill Creek Road and S. Saeger Street as well as changing the zoning district from single family residential use to a local business/residential mixed use at the same spot.
The Council will go into regular session to possibly act upon the previous considerations. It will take a super majority to pass either of the considerations – 6 of the 7 council members must vote in agreement. They are also expected to act upon a resolution to change a plot of land being bound by Rucker Street, North Park Street, West Blue Bell Road, and Ewing Street from single family residential use to commercial/retail use as well as changing the zoning district from single family residential to local business/residential mixed use for land at the southeast intersection of Ewing and Rucker Streets.
A contract for participation in the City’s rotation log for non-consent tows is expected to be approved as well as a noise variance request from Shawna Wills for a graduation dinner on May 7th from 3:00pm to 10:00pm.
The Brenham City Council will meet at 10:00am on Thursday in the second floor council chambers at City Hall located on west Vulcan Street.
When are the taxpaying citizens of Brenham going to learn that their opinions and thoughts on things do not matter to the Brenham city Council or city hall. We are supposed to just pay our steadily increasing taxes and shut up like good little sheep. The worst enemy this city council has is educated voters. They are counting on your ignorance.
City Council. Please listen to the people. The zoning change on Old Mill Creek Road should not be supported by the Planning Manager. It is a horrible planning move and it is appalling that the planning department would even suggest or support the move after the planning department failed to widen Old Mill Creek Road when they could have, before selling off the right-of-way. Please do not compound the problem !!!!
I agree completely. Another concern I have has to do with emergency services. With the added traffic on the already too narrow road, will EMS and fire trucks have adequate room to respond to emergencies in our area? Seems like widening the road before making these decisions would have been better planning! If some Joe Blow knows this, then why doesn’t the city of Brenham planner know this?