Final Lodestar PZ PresentationSummary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
Special Use PermitLodestar Stables
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Lodestar
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Summary
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
The Kleespie’s are requesting approval of a Specific Use Permit (SUP) for equestrian riding stable at 800 Lodestar Dr.
Maximum of 8 horses with a 6 riders in the arena at one time.
Maximum
of 8 cars on the property at one time with 10 parking spaces provided.
Hours of operation are dawn to dusk.
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Summary
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
Lodestar Stables is a private hunter/jumper horse barn:
Small group of young girls who have been friends that share an interest in horses as a recreational pursuit and sport.
Lessons
are provided 3 days per week, typically after school and randomly during the summer and the girls are able to ride at their leisure on non-lesson days.
Small, intimate setting with friends
and family providing for a quality of life experience.
Been using the property as such for 2 years, without complaint from any neighbors.
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Background
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
For 50 years, the 4.6 acre tract has been used as equine property.
Over the last 20 years, this property has transitioned between owner occupied - rental – vacant, resulting in a continual
decline from lack of maintenance and disrepair one would expect from age and neglect.
Until 2013, when the Lodestar family moved in and began the dramatic transformation of the property
into the community asset we have today.
Their efforts have served to preserve and protect a portion of Southlake’s natural environment and rural character.
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Initial Request
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
The applicant’s initial SUP request (Nov. 19th P&Z) included:
Allow a lighted riding arena.
Installation of three (3) proposed arena lights.
Hours of operation from 8:00 a.m. – 8:00
p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Maximum of 10 horses.
Variance to Lighting Ordinance No. 693 to allow three (3) 1000 watt high pressure sodium
bulbs in unshielded fixtures on 25’ poles to be directed at the arena from the east side facing west.
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Response
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
Brenda and Hank Kleespies reviewed the original responses to the submitted Notification Response Forms:
Individually contacted each of the property owners submitting comments to listen
to their questions and concerns.
Invited all of the neighbors responding with comments on the Notification Response Forms to a meeting on December 3rd to answer questions, listen to
their concerns and respond to their comments.
Comments primarily focused on lights and the access road.
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Revised Request
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
Removed outdoor lighting from the SUP.
Removed the request for a variance for lights.
Revised the operating hours to between dawn and dusk.
Maximum of 8 horses.
Consulted with a professional
engineer on the access road.
Solicited bids for repairing a degraded portion of the access road.
Negotiated to share in the accessroad costs with the shared user of the road.
In response, Brenda and Hank revised their SUP request:
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Factors for Consideration
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
Allowable use in Ag zoned property.
Has not caused substantial injury to the value of property in the neighborhood as the proposed use has operated since 2013 with no know complaints
from adjacent property owners.
The existing barn, residence, structures and fences on the site are compatible with Ag zoned property as well as adjacent uses.
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Factors for Consideration
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
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Factors for Consideration
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
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Factors for Consideration
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
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Factors for Consideration
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
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Factors for Consideration
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Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
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Factors for Consideration
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Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
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Initial Request
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Lodestar
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Initial Request
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Revised Request
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Lodestar
Stables
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Factors for Consideration
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
Allowable use in Ag zoned property.
Does not cause substantial injury to the value of property in the neighborhood as the proposed use has operated since 2013 with no know complaints
from adjacent property owners.
The existing barn, residence, structures and fences on the site are compatible with Ag zoned property as well as adjacent uses.
Compatible with the Southlake
2030 Consolidated Future Land Use Plan designation as Rural Conservation.
Intended to protect Southlake’snatural environment andrural character.
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Factors for Consideration
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
The Kleespie’s listened to their neighbors and responded by thoughtfully revising their SUP request:
Six (6) additional “In-Favor” comments were submitted from previously notified adjacent
residents.
One (1) previously notified adjacent resident revised their “Undecided” to “In-Favor”.
One (1) previously notified adjacent residents revised their “Opposed” to “In-Favor”
The
Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved a recommendation to Council to approve the SUP request.
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Long-Term Outlook
Summary
Background
Initial Request
Response
Revised Request
Factors for Consideration
Long-Term Outlook
Continued development is putting pressure on horse lands threatening to put the equine experience out of reach.
Lodestar provides for a meaningful quality of life experience for Southlake
families to experience a sport and recreational pursuit that the City of Southlake is unable to provide its young people through its Parks and Recreation System.
Land for such recreational
pursuits must be saved locally, which relates to how well a community plans for and accommodates growth and change.
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Low Water Crossing Image - Current
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Low Water Crossing Image from August 2013
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