Planning and Zoning Commission

Bastrop Planning and Zoning Commission Agenda Bastrop City Hall City Council Chambers 1311 Chestnut Street Bastrop, TX 78602 (512) 332-8800 January 30, 2025 Agenda - Planning and Zoning Commission at 6:00 PM Bastrop Planning and Zoning Commission meetings are available to all persons regardless of disability. If you require special assistance, please contact the City Secretary at (512) 332-8800 or write 1311 Chestnut Street, 78602, or by calling through a T.D.D. (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf) to Relay Texas at 1-800-735-2989 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting. __________________________________________ 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. CITIZEN COMMENTS At this time, three (3) minute comments will be taken from the audience on any topic. Anyone in attendance wishing to address the Board/Commission must complete a citizen comment form and give the completed form to the Board/Commission Secretary prior to the start of the Board/Commission meeting. In accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, if a citizen discusses any item not on the agenda, the Board/Commission cannot discuss issues raised or make any decision at this time. Instead, the Board/Commission is limited to making a statement of specific factual information or a recitation of existing policy in response to the inquiry. Issues may be referred to City Manager for research and possible future action. It is not the intention of the City of Bastrop to provide a public forum for the embarrassment or demeaning of any individual or group. Neither is it the intention of the Board/Commission to allow a member of the public to slur the performance, honesty and/or integrity of the Board/Commission, as a body, or any member or members of the Board/Commission individually or collectively, or members of the City’s staff. Accordingly, profane, insulting or threatening language directed toward the Board/Commission and/or any person in the Board/Commission’s presence will not be tolerated. 3. ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION 3A. Consider and act to approve meeting minutes from the December 19, 2024 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting. Submitted by Alondra Macias, Development Services Planner I Planning and Zoning Commission Agenda January 30, 2025 Page 1 of 3 3B. Consider and act on the Pecan Park Commercial Lot 2 final plat of a portion of a 38.544-acre tract of land from the Nancy Blakey Survey, Abstract No. 98, within the City Limits of Bastrop, Texas being 0.895 acres located south of State Highway 71 and east of Orchard Street, within the City Limits of Bastrop, Texas. Submitted by: Kennedy Higgins, Senior Planner, Development Services Department 3C. 1) Hold public hearing, consider, and act to amend section 6.3.004 PROTECTED & HERITAGE TREES to decrease the caliper per tree that will be protected from future development. This amendment seeks to increase protection of trees by reducing the caliper inch when mitigation begins from 13 caliper inches to smaller. 2) Hold public hearing, consider, and act to amend section 6.3.004 PROTECTED & HERITAGE TREES to add the requirement of a tree survey, add penalties, and further explanation of the requirements for tree protection. This amendment seeks to improve tree protection by adding requirements for a tree survey and also adding penalties when not followed. 3) Hold public hearing, consider, and act to amend TABLE 2.1.003 PREFERRED PLANT LIST in the Technical Manual to add the Pecan Tree amongst others and remove some current trees. This amendment seeks to add additional species to the existing plant list and remove some trees based on recommendations from the native plant society and independent arborists. 4) Hold public hearing, consider, and act to amend Chapter 10, Definitions to include definitions of ISA-Certified Arborist, Native Plants and others. This amendment seeks to add clarity. 5) Hold public hearing, consider, and act to amend Appendix A, Fee Schedule for tree mitigation fees and establish penalty for violation. This amendment seeks to clarify the cost of mitigation, and introduce a penalty for violation. 4. UPDATES 4A. Updates From Previous Meeting 4B. Updates Regarding Upcoming Code Amendments 4C. Future Development Related Items 4D. Individual Requests from Planning & Zoning Commissioners that particular items to be listed on future agendas (no group discussion allowed). 4E. Development Services Department Monthly Project Volume Report. 5. ADJOURNMENT Planning and Zoning Commission Agenda January 30, 2025 Page 2 of 3 ******************************************************************************************** Notice is hereby given of the possibility of a quorum of any of the City of Bastrop Boards and Commissions and City Council at this Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. NO Board/Commission/Council action will be taken; NO deliberations will be held; and NO Board/Commission/Council business will be conducted, with the exception of P&Z. ******************************************************************************************** I, the undersigned authority, do hereby certify that this Notice of Meeting as posted in accordance with the regulations of the Texas Open Meetings Act on the bulletin board located at the entrance to the City of Bastrop City Hall, a place of convenient and readily accessible to the general public, as well as to the City’s website, www.cityofbastrop.org and said Notice was posted on the following date and time: __Friday, January 24, 2025______ at 4:30 p.m. and remained posted for at least two hours after said meeting was convened. /s/ Kennedy Higgins Kennedy Higgins, Senior Planner Planning and Zoning Commission Agenda January 30, 2025 Page 3 of 3