BRENHAM PLANNING & ZONING RECOMMENDS ZONING CHANGE FOR NEW SUBDIVISION
The Brenham Planning and Zoning Commission gave its recommendation on Monday to allow a zoning change for a new subdivision on the west side of town.
subdivision as presented during Monday's Brenham
Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.
(courtesy City of Brenham)
The commission voted unanimously in favor of Clayton and Kelli Collier’s request to rezone 35.31 acres of land addressed as 1402 West Jefferson Street, northwest of North Saeger Street, from single-family residential use to a planned development use district. The new zoning would allow for the development of the Wilkins Valley subdivision, containing 116 single-family residential lots.
Some features of the subdivision, according to the agenda packet, include a house square area of at least 1,225 square feet, a minimum of a two-car private garage per single-family dwelling, public sidewalks on one side of the public right-of-way, and common areas with amenities to be maintained by the Homeowner’s Association. Planned amenities are a pavilion, picnic tables, benches, a concrete basketball or pickleball court, a tether ball pole and 3-hole frisbee golf.
The commission’s recommendation comes with two conditions. Members asked that the developer work with the City of Brenham and Grace Lutheran Church for an improved street alignment of the intersection of Saeger Street and West Jefferson Street. They also requested that the development incorporate a small common area with a few trees planted along the rear of the lots backing up to West Jefferson Street.
The item will now go to the Brenham City Council for consideration.
In other business at Monday’s meeting, the commission elected officers for 2024. Keith Behrens was elected chair, Deanna Alfred was chosen as vice chair, and Calvin Kossie will serve as secretary.
Click here to view the agenda packet for Monday's meeting.
How can this be approved as a large subdivision with only one entrance and exit onto West Jefferson Street ? Please correct me if I am wrong but I don’t see another exit or entrance. Especially a concern with multi autos at each home .
Do people in Brenham CONSTANTLY complain about EVERYTHING? Geez…
I said the same thing. They don’t want to see progress. I don’t know how many nice housing developments have been shot down because for no other reason other than people don’t want it. If it is not about them its not about nobody. Its sad but they want to try to keep it like Mayberry. but guess what when they finish the new overpass on 290 west they are going to see all kinds of commercial and housing development on 290 west.
Why are all the houses so close together? Homebuilder greed is out of control.
I have to agree. Drive around Brenham proper and look at all the beautiful houses set on big lots with lots of grass and trees. Then drive into the new subdivision on 36 and look at the houses stacked on top of each other. It’s sad really.
And affordable? Really? The median salary of the people living in these new affordable subdivisions are really high. I can think of three or four couples off the top of my head who live there and their income is well into the six digit range. Those are the people affording these houses, not people like me who make less than $50,000 a year.
I know progress is good, but do we really need to turn our town into Houston, the place everyone is running from??
Here’s hoping the zoning commission scrutinized flooding and traffic concerns before recommending rezoning this property from R1 to the higher density PDD. Water run-off from 1402 West Jefferson currently flows down W Jefferson to MLK Jr Pkwy & W Main St, which was closed due to flooding this week. Traffic will be an issue: this property is ~ 1 mile from downtown Brenham, the proposed TxDOT 290/36 interchange, and Blinn College. Please city officials, let’s make wise decisions.
Being close to the highway would let people get onto it and off of it and access businesses along it without driving longer distances through town and other people’s neighborhoods. Also, I would think that putting dense housing close to downtown instead of further would mean fewer miles driven, so safer, and more and more frequent customers for downtown. Is there actually any better place to put new housing than between the highway and downtown?
And if runoff is a concern, wouldn’t higher density mean less pavement per dwelling unit? Maybe just add a bigger detention pond but everywhere drains somewhere and it’s always somebody’s concern, so again is there anyplace that’s much better for new housing?
I don’t have a dog in the fight on this proposal, it’s just that these kinds of NIMBY complaints emerge for nearly every housing project of every kind just about everywhere, and they’re rarely paired with suggestions or a positive vision about what to actually do instead with what we’ve got. Please use common sense and don’t California our Texas.
Just more tract homes poorly built and overpriced! Let see who will be the next bunch of folks getting tricked into signing your life away! Oh it has icing on this deal an HOA run Forest run.
Brenham the new subdivision of Houston
Don’t we have enough cookie-cutter home subdivisions already?
This is Great, Brenham needs a subdivision with amenities like Play area and a pavilion. I hope they follow through with all the planned areas, Another Subdivision a few years back promised a “Common area Building” and a Gated entrance but never followed through on it leaving the people Living there without what was promised to them when they purchased. , We need more subdivisions with Private use space like play areas and walking trails, I am very interested in this new subdivision,
I have noticed that the square footage minimum is 1225 with a double garage most double garages are that big more cracker box houses for Brenham on tiny lots
Gary I see people complaining on this site about “Having no affordable housing in Brenham” Then when someone wants to Build them I see complaints about Small Houses The average two car garage is about 360 sq ft so not sure where your getting 1200 sq ft for a garage from? If you want large homes on Large lots there are plenty of them here in Brenham right outside the city limits , In fact there are two for sale in my neighborhood in Rolling Ridge
well Klaus 1200 sq ft was a sarcastic remark of course wake up and read between the lines and I have to agree with Steve on his comments
I can see it now. 10 people crammed into a cracker box house with 5 cars (some parked in yard of course), tucked into an out of the way trac of land. Meanwhile the town moves on with a soon to be overwhelmed water system, 1 major grocery store with pitiful parking, and streets that are under construction for months and months. BUT, we must continue to grow at any cost. Build those low income homes; we gotta have a place for those quarter of a million illegals that come across Texas don’t we. By the way, please identify for me those that are complaining about affordable housing!
How can you keep approving and building new subdivisions without accounting for the necessary infrastructure such as schools, shopping, adequate medical facilities?