2035 Corridor Committee Meeting Report - Mtg. 8 - SH 114 Sector Plan
Southlake 2035 Corridor Planning Committee Meeting Report
Meeting 8 – February 15, 2017
Southlake 2035 Land Use Plan Meeting 2 – SH 114 Sector Plan
MEETING
LOCATION: Southlake Town Hall – Executive Conference Room, Suite 268
1400 Main Street
Southlake, Texas, 76092
IN
ATTENDANCE:
• City Council Members: Chad Patton, Gary Fawks
• Planning & Zoning Commission Members: Michael Springer, Chris
Greer
• Park Board Member: Frances Scharli
• Community Enhancement Development Corporation: Brandon
Bledsoe
• City Staff: Daniel Cortez, Ken Baker, Dennis Killough, David Jones, Jerod
Potts, Kyle Hogue
AGENDA
ITEMS:
1. Call to Order.
2. Opening Comments.
3. Southlake 2035 Land Use Plan – Development of the State Highway 114
Sector Plan.
4. Adjournment.
MEETING
OVERVIEW:
On February 15, 2017 the Southlake 2035 Corridor Planning Committee
held their eighth meeting. The Committee was sent a packet of materials
prior to the meeting that were to be discussed during the session. A
meeting agenda was posted and the meeting time was advertised on the
City’s website. The following meeting report focuses on discussion points
made during the meeting by members of the Committee, public and City
staff. This report is neither verbatim nor does it represent official meeting
minutes; rather it serves to inform elected and appointed officials, City
staff, and the public of the issues and questions raised by the Committee,
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City staff, and any attendees of the meeting. Interested parties are
strongly encouraged to follow development cases through the process.
Please visit CityofSouthlake.com/Planning for more information.
This was the eighth meeting of the Southlake 2035 Corridor Planning
Committee, however, this meeting served as the second meeting for this
Committee in terms of the 2035 Land Use Plan. The Southlake 2035
Corridor Planning Committee will provide oversight and help develop the
following sector plans as part of Southlake 2035:
1. SH 114 Plan
2. FM 1709 Plan
3. FM 1938 Plan
The SH 114 Sector Plan functions as the first land use plan element that
will be developed as part of Southlake 2035.
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ITEM #3 DISCUSSION –Southlake 2035 Land Use Plan (Development of the State
Highway 114 Sector Plan):
• Staff made presentation to the Committee
• Ken Baker provided an overview of the MXD studies which informed the
Southlake 2035 Economic Development Master Plan
• David Jones provided an overview of the proposed Visions, Goals and
Objectives (VGO) for Southlake 2035. The items immediately below represent
Committee comments regarding the proposed (VGO):
o Regarding Objective 1.13 -- is there any language in VGO to discuss ROW with
City funds?
o Think trees in diamond estates are good but the back part...
o Should language be focused on major thoroughfares?
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
Can add some language and bring back at the next meeting
o Regarding Objective 3.6 – are we expanding that language anywhere else?
There is a subcommittee that is working on bicycle items, how is that
incorporated into this?
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
Approach will be through education materials. We can take a look at enhancing
the educational component
o Regarding Objective 11.1 -- what type of destination? Should it be a further
description? Luxury destination? Specify? What does that really mean?
Competitors coming online
o Have a marketing campaign focused on lifestyle, "perfect"
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
We will modify with some of the comments from the committee and bring it back
at the next meeting. VGO will be sent forward through the process (P&Z / City
Council) to provide feedback. Can talk to Community Services Director Chris
Tribble about objectives related to parks and natural assets
• David Jones reviewed some of the recommendations from the 2030 Corridor
Plan and a few broader 2030 recommendations applicable to the SH 114
Corridor (presentation at the back of this meeting report). The comments below
represent feedback/questions from the Committee:
o We are less than two years away from a rail station in Grapevine
o How do we get office access to the rail station in Grapevine?
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o Should explore transit access options
o Cannot use express lane because you cannot get off on Main St.
o Could be a commuter bus we use Hotel Tax for
o Encourage a place for a station in the Land Use Plan
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
Short term as part of the Mobility Plan a recommendation is to look at alternative
transportation modes. Have enough talked about a gondola system. Forming a
public-private partnership to provide shuttle service to the (rail) station may be
something we want to explore in this study. Land Use Plan formulation is a great
time to also identify mobility (and other) plans. Can use land use plans to identify
and memorialize recommendations for other future plans such as the Parks Plan,
Mobility Plan, Sustainability Plan
o Regarding the corporate corridor along Kirkwood Blvd: Are you considering
where it will end? Gaps where undeveloped tracts are
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
That will be our primary corporate campus, want to show it off so we need to
come up with almost an urban design plan for that corridor while protecting
adjacent residential uses and add value to the area
o Carillon Small Area Plan: How does this committee move forward on this Carillon
point? Have a distant but very real proposal. What do you mean by small area
plan?
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
Concept plan coming forward reflects desires of the community. May not have to
do a small area plan. Did a small area plan for Park Village and the Prade /
Rucker Property. That is where the idea for the fountain, walkable environment
came from. We saw dividends from that small area plan where we provided
details and developer conceptually matched those. Thought we needed to
conceptually come up with plan for Carillon, but new group taking ownership of
Carillon may lead to this before the committee could get to it
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
May need to think about this area of the plan proposal does NOT move forward
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
How specific do you get in these plans?
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
Very conceptual in nature. Talked about a substantial corner feature for Park
Village. Not to the Site Plan level. Developing plans for a large project proposal
can be expensive; you know that you have a chance to get through the
entitlement process if you are consistent with the small area plan
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
Conceptually it is a great idea. A lot of work on the front end. Gives the developer
information
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
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If there is a first and second reading on a deal and someone keeps tabling and
tabling, that's the whole process. Then if you have to re-notice instead of all that
deliberation, try to avoid all that on the front end
o Regarding recommendation #8 (right of first refusal), would not cost much
money.
o Is there room for a turnaround at SH 114 / Kirkwood bridge?
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
Looking at a Texas Turnaround with the frontage road project. Will have to
acquire property to get frontage road
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
Acquire property and donate to TXDOT?
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
Easier to acquire property directly and donate to TXDOT
o Regarding massing study recommendation: When did campus style office
development evolve into scale that involved big, tall buildings. Not what we had
many years ago
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
What we were seeing along SH 114 were the one-offs, doctor buildings, and the
fear was the garden office would eat up the corridor and with the widening of SH
114 the positioning was such to ensure that development was to the appropriate
scale.
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
Is there a limit to the height?
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
Six (6) stories, 90 feet
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
Think about what we want there.
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
May need to be better defined
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
May need to talk more about that. The higher uses to the less intense uses as
you move north. May want that on corners, maybe not a row of high rise, but you
are possibly going to need multi-tenant, not the garden kind, but not the
corporate. Discussion needs to evolve into where we would find those taller
buildings. The tone of things is how to encourage institutional quality
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
Think about what districts do we want it. Want it on 114? Don't want to see us
create a canyon
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
Idea of putting campuses, need to explore. Can showcase with the right type of
amenities, lighting. This is leaning more towards build to suit clients
RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
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Dovetails into ED side of things. Paying for parking, city participation. What we
are talking about here needs to be paralleled with ED. We have been patient this
long, and we can continue to be patient to get what we want
o Regarding empty nester strategy recommendation: Aren't more people staying?
RESPONSE BY STAFF:
Average family size has dropped in the past 10 years
• RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
Trying to keep empty nesters in Southlake?
• RESPONSE BY STAFF:
What is the city's strategy and policy...when you think of the city's parks are they
active parks or passive parks? Within the land use plan we have the parks
category
• RESPONSE BY COMMITTEE:
Connection to land use?
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STAFF PRESENTATION SHOWN TO COMMITTEE
(Land Use Recommendations):
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