BRENHAM CITY COUNCIL TO HEAR PAVEMENT ANALYSIS REPORT

  

The Brenham City Council will hear a report on the status of roads around the city at its meeting Thursday.

Last fall, the city contracted with Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) to collect data on road conditions within city limits.  After assessing and analyzing approximately 94 centerline miles of city-maintained roadways, IMS will present their findings to the council in a pavement management analysis report.

Also at Thursday’s meeting, the council will consider an ordinance regarding major multi-tenant shopping center sign regulations.  According to Project Planner Shauna Laauwe, the city’s current sign ordinance does not address sign standards or the need for a master sign plan for major shopping centers and mixed-use developments that have more than five retail tenants occupying at least 100,000 square feet of retail floor area.

Laauwe believes a master sign plan would ensure unified signage throughout those developments, while also giving flexibility to provide for unique environments and making the sign permit process more efficient.

The council will also hold a series of public hearings and consider action on items that were approved at Monday’s Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.  Those include the rezoning of 14 tracts of land on and around East Tom Green Street, Loesch Street and Niebuhr Street; the amendment of the planned development district for Section Two of the Lakes at Vintage Farms; and the rezoning of just under an acre of land at 1408 North Park Street.

The council will also hold a workshop to discuss allowing a car wash as a specific use in the local business/residential mixed use zoning district.

The council will meet Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Brenham City Hall.