Bastrop City Council to host another public hearing following Reed Ranch zoning changes
Published: Sat, 10/07/23
Bastrop City Council to host another public hearing following Reed Ranch zoning changes
A public hearing over the Reed Ranch development will be held at the Oct. 10 City Council meeting.
(Jane Turchi/Community Impact)
Community Impact
By Jane Turchi
Updated
A further public hearing will be held at the Oct. 10 Bastrop City Council meeting regarding the rezoning of the Reed Ranch development property from a P2 rural to a planned development district.
Due to a 0.419-acre piece of land in the southeast corner of the property not being included in the original paperwork, the public was renotified.
“The way zoning works, it is very, very, very specific to the property that is going to be rezoned,” City Manager Sylvia Carillo said at the Oct. 5 Bastrop Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. “There was an additional piece of property that was left off the original, and so we had to renotice it and bring it back.”
Charley Dorsaneo of The Drenner Group, the agent contact, gave an updated presentation of the development plans.
Current situation
Per the commission’s recommendation, the Reed Ranch zoning concept eliminated any connection at Jessica Place. A two-story maximum of apartments facing toward the residential area was included in the updated plans.
Other updates to the development plans include increased setbacks and landscaping between apartments and residential areas to give the property a more appealing look.
The specifics
In response to The Drenner Group's request to waive transportation impact fees for the development, the commission made a recommendation to City Council to extend the impact fees grace period for Reed Ranch from 12 to 18 months.
“The timeline expansion is a nice middle ground. ... [The impact fees are] not really set in stone yet, which I think is a fair consideration—it also protects us from having to make complete waives of impact fees across future developments,” commission member Ashleigh Henson said at the Oct. 5 meeting.
The hearing will be held at the regular council meeting at 6:30 p.m Oct. 10 at 1311 Chestnut St., Bastrop.