The Bryan city council held eight public hearings Tuesday night before voting 5-0 to adopt recommendations made by the planning and zoning commission.
The council approved the expansion of an eastside manufactured housing community by almost 60 lots. Stone Haven is located on the north side of Highway 21 between the freeway and Coulter Field. The addition would be on land that was once a concrete manufacturing plant.
The council also approved allowing someone to live in an RV or a trailer during the construction of more than 50 stick built homes at the site of the Hope’s Crossing housing development near Kemp elementary school. City staff recommends approval due to unidentified “unique circumstances” on the property along Bruin Trace between MLK and Saunders.
Four years after the announcement of the Oakmont master planned community, featuring 800 new homes in east Bryan, the council approved amending the agreement that reduces lot depths, reconfigure street locations, and remove one detention pond.
The council agreed to allow the owner of the Stella Hotel to install a lighted sign on top of the building that’s almost 18 feet tall and almost 47 feet wide. The sign will not be facing residential properties.
The council approved rezoning land along the southbound freeway service road at Long Street, between MLK and William Joel Bryan. The council learned the applicant wants to build a hotel.
Approval was also given for rezoning land along Highway 30 near Hardy Weedon Road for commercial uses, return zoning at a house on North Congress to residential, and clarify an ordinance regulating the installation of underground power lines in new residential subdivisions.
