It is six PM.

March twenty fourth, Richard Hills Planning and Zonic Commission meeting item two.

Okay, so we will briefly meet executive session with City Train.

We will move on to item number three, public comments.

Uh this is the public's opportunity to address the planning and zoning commission meeting about non-agenda items in compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Commission members and city staff are prevented from discussing non-agenda items and may only respond with statements of factual information or existing city policy.

So

is there anyone who would like to speak during the public comment

portion?

All right.

Last chance.

All right, seeing none, uh, we'll move on to the regular agenda.

Uh first item is approved minutes from the December first, 2025 planning and zoning commission meeting.

All in favor.

All right,

let's put one more time.

All in favor?

All right, that's unanimous in favor.

All right.

Next item consider a replat for the property described as lot one and lot or sorry, lot one R and lot four R, block fifty.

Richland Hills edition, otherwise known as 3913 Norton Drive.

Richland Hills, Texas 76118.

Thank

you, Chair, members of the commission, JP2K Development Services.

Presenting item B.

This is a replat for 3913 Norton Drive.

Uh the subject property is 2.446 acres, and it's currently zoned professional office.

The applicant and owner is the Richland Hills Christian Church.

Uh again, this is a replat and it's under case 20260120.

Um the application itself, like the plat itself is complete and meets all the requirements of uh of our Article 2 section of our uh platts ordinance.

Except for there are going to be three uh zoning variances that are associated with this plat that we'll go over um in a couple slides

here.

Here's an aerial image of the subject property.

You can see the star in the little um image at the top left of your screen.

Uh the property is off of Glenview, Ruth, and Norton.

And here is the uh aerial image uh next to the proposed plat.

And really kind of the uh reason for this replat is the area that's highlighted in red.

Obviously, the whole plat uh includes the entire property, that entire two point four acres uh that contains the original Hills Christian Church.

Uh but the purpose of this is that uh Richard Hills uh Christian Church would like to allow for their parish house.

Um that's kind of currently on the church property to operate separately as a residential use, uh to then be rented out by non-church affiliated individuals.

Um the purpose of trying to subdivide it out of the existing lot and under the same operation of the church, uh, is because it's currently under the same tax account and with it under being under the same tax account, um it obviously cannot be utilized as a as a residential property.

And

so through replatting, uh two separate lots would be created, which would allow for the church and the residential use to operate independently.

As I mentioned previously, there are some variances associated with this replat.

So if it's approved, the applicant would then concurrently rezone uh this specific lot, the one that contains the parish to SF7, which is our smallest um single family residential zoning district, in order to allow for uh a residential use uh to operate there and better align with the surrounding residential zoning.

So to the south and to the west, uh all of the residential in that area is zoned SF7 as well.

And

so the proposed replat uh will not fully comply with the SF7 area regulations and the accessory structure ordinance.

Um the following variances are being requested in conjunction with this replat.

So this table uh on the the bottom left side of your screen is essentially a breakdown of all of the SF7 single family residential area regulations and the areas that are highlighted in red are the ones that uh will not be um in compliance if this plat is approved.

The first being the side yard street uh setback.

Our ordinance currently requires a 15 foot minimum side yard setback when you're next to the street.

Um this plat would be proposing a 14-foot setback, but I do think it's important to note uh that when this property was previously platted and when this uh structure was originally built, the setback at that time was 12.5 feet.

And so uh with seeing the structure this seeing the structure is currently set back at 14 feet, uh it was at one point in compliance, and when we adopt a new um zoning standard specifically uh side yard setbacks in this case, we then essentially grandfathered this this structure in in place, and um the only way to bring it into compliance moving forward would be to change our zoning ordinance or obviously a complete redevelopment of that site.

The next standard would be the rear yard setback.

It's not the primary structure, the primary structure is going to be set back, the minimum 25 feet from the property line.

It's actually a a really small uh wooden shed that's in the backyard.

You can see a star highlighting its current location.

Uh, our accessory structure ordinance requires that any shed or any accessory structure be at least five feet from a property line.

In this particular case, they're drawing the boundary about half a foot away from where that shed currently sits.

And then the last item is the lot depth.