Item 7B SPIN Meeting Report
SPIN MEETING REPORT
Case Number: SPIN16-20
Project Name: Southlake Commons
SPIN Neighborhood: SPIN #10
Meeting Date: July 26, 2016
Meeting Location: 1400 Main Street, Southlake, TX
City Council Chambers
Total Attendance: Twelve (12)
Host: Randy Robbins, Community Engagement Committee
Applicant Presenting: Martin Schelling
City Staff Present: David Jones, Principal Planner, Dennis Killough, Deputy Director of
Planning and Development Services, Steven Anderson, Deputy City
Engineer; Jerod Potts, Planner I; Lorrie Fletcher, Planner I; Kate
Meacham, Deputy Director of Community Services; Seantay Carpenter,
Landscape & Zoning Inspector
Attached to the end of this report are the Blackboard Connect Delivery Results for the July 26, 2016 SPIN
Town Hall Forum
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FORUM SUMMARY :
Property Situation:
130 S. White Chapel Blvd (southwest corner of 1709 / White Chapel Blvd.)
Development Details:
• 7.5 acre site – wraps the First Financial Bank
• Proposing three buildings that front on 1709 totaling approximately 20,000
square feet – proposed uses are retail
• In the southern portion there are five buildings - three that back up to Stratford
Park that are one story garden office and the two buildings to the east that back
up to the existing office complex are single-story office buildings
• Plan is to connect to the existing drives that are already on the property – the one
by First Financial Bank; have a driveway to the west that connects to the medical
complex, and proposing to tie into the existing drive between First Financial Bank
and the existing office buildings on White Chapel
• The five office buildings are approximately 30,000 square feet
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QUESTIONS / CONCERNS:
• Traffic study? What commercial zoning are you asking for?
o Going to conduct traffic study. Full TIA done when the bank came in – will
supplement that. Zoning change will be S-P-1 with C-2 uses with the rear
portion restricted to office uses
• Doing a new traffic study after school starts?
o TIA for bank took in background information – we’ll do the same thing
• Looking for a drive-through?
o Have one building that has a proposed drive-through. Would be restricted
to casual dine or fast casual; would not have fast food
• Are you excluding or including a coffee shop?
o Including a coffee shop
• Concerned about the traffic on that corner
• There is no parking space behind the office buildings? It is office buildings and
open space to the fence line?
o Correct
• How far are the buildings from the fence line?
o 40 feet
• There are other places available that are empty – why do we need more office
and retail?
o Have done market studies and believe we can be successful there. This
portion of town is underserved
• Don’t think people would go 1 mile from the Tom Thumb center to Southlake
Town Center?
o I’m sure they do
• When you say there is a forty foot width from the back of the building to the
housing development – where are the dumpsters located?
o Won’t be any dumpsters behind the building
• You said traffic will go out on White Chapel and the cut-out by Southlake Blvd.,
did you say that some was also going to go to the west where the offices for the
medical people are?
o There is a cross-access that is stubbed out at this location and it only
makes sense to make that connection. Proposing to make that connection
to that complex. It was meant to be connected
• Will you widen White Chapel Rd.? What comes from the TIA?
o TIA tells improvements you could make. There is no ROW on either road
and they are both built to the ultimate according to the Master
Thoroughfare Plan right now. Other than sequencing the lights there is not
much you can do with the cross-section of the pavement
• Concerned about the traffic pattern. We get a lot of traffic through there.
Concerned that putting a drive-through there will lead to more accidents.
Concerned about property values.
o Only proposing one drive-through
• Have had a hard time keeping that strip mall across the street – what is going to
make this side any different?
o Have a lot of tenants that would like to be here
• What is going to keep it from eventually looking like further down 1709 where
they are redoing Davis and a lot of those businesses are going out?
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• You don’t think we will have the same problem with this one – getting in and out?
o You have the opportunity to lap through – you can go east / west and
north / south
SPIN Meeting Reports are general observations of SPIN Meetings by City staff and SPIN Representatives. The report is neither verbatim nor official
meeting minutes; rather it serves to inform elected and appointed officials, City staff, and the public of the issues and questions raised by residents and
the general responses made. Responses as summarized in this report should not be taken as guarantees by the applicant. Interested parties are
strongly encouraged to follow the case through the Planning and Zoning Commission and final action by City Council.
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