Coppell City Council meets in regular session to discuss everything except the Mira Mar brouhaha

by PegNews wire

When the Coppell City Council meets in regular session at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14 (at City Hall), they'll be talking about many things, though hopefully none of them will have anything to do with the Mira Mar infrastructure funding brouhaha which they will have just finished mulling over the evening before.

First up will be consideration of a proclamation to name Wednesday, April 22 as National Secretary's/Office Professional's Day, which - if adopted - would result in a real politically correct mouthful for anyone attempting to correctly refer to said occasion.

A single consent agenda will contain all of the following items:

* approval of the minutes of March 24 2009, March 31, 2009 and April 7, 2009 meetings

* approval of an ordinance to designate the name Point West Boulevard to that section of roadway connecting Dividend Drive with the IH 635 Frontage Road northward

* approval of an ordinance to abandon right-of-way now known as Doggett Cove, in the Westfork Addition, in order that the subdivision can be re-platted

* approval of an ordinance to increase the amount of purchases of personal property by the City Manager, which do not require competitive bidding, from $25,000 to $50,000 (to comply with state law)

* approval of the annual Camp-Do-It-All Standards of Care

* approval of an ordinance affecting Doggie’s Wonderland which would expand the detail site plan to allow an increase in the pet care outdoor play area (on 1.01 acres of property located at 120 E. Bethel School Road)

* approval of the detail plan to expand the area by 3.4 acres to allow 362 additional parking spaces and generator locations to serve the future tenant of an existing 182,700-square-foot office building on 15.296 acres of property located at the southwest corner of Dividend Drive and S. Belt Line Road

Following disposition of the consent agenda, these public hearing items will come up:

* a zoning change request from The Chateaus of Coppell to allow up to 12 of the 56 single-family homes to have stucco exteriors (where no two stucco homes shall be spaced any closer than every second lot), on 20 acres of property located at the southwest corner of Bethel and Denton Tap Roads.

* a zoning change request to establish a Concept Plan for a nine-lot commercial development on 12.362 acres of property located at the northwest corner of S.H. 121 and Denton Tap Road.

* a zoning change request to allow the development of a 6,468-square-foot restaurant with a drive-thru on 2.067 acres of property located at the northwest corner of S.H. 121 and Denton Tap Road (a.k.a. Rosa's Cafe)

* a zoning change request to allow the development of a 8,100-square-foot structure with professional/medical office and personal service uses, on 1.624 acres of property located at the northwest corner of S.H. 121 and Denton Tap Road

* a zoning change request to allow the relocation of a previously approved 1,656-square-foot six-car garage and storage area on 20.965 acres of property located 1717 Belt Line Road.

* consider approval of the Gunner Subdivision to allow the relocation of a portion of a fire lane easement resulting from the proposed relocation of a previously approved garage & storage area on 20.965 acres of property located 1717 Belt Line Road (see above)

* a zoning change request to allow a 560-square-foot cover over the existing outdoor patio area serving the existing 3,580-square-foot restaurant located at 215 S. Denton Tap Road, Suite 100 (Fat Daddy's)

* consider approval of the Westfork Addition, (including the abandoned right-of-way containing 2.172 acres of land) to create two single-family lots each containing approximately 1.1 acres of property located on the south side of Bethel School Road across from Glencrest Circle.

Three additional proposals will also be considered:

1) a zoning change to allow a 52,317-square-foot (123 beds) Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility on 6.47 acres of property located along the north side of Sandy Lake Road, between Riverchase and Riverview Drives

2) possible approval of a contract proposal for Teague, Nall & Perkins in the amount of $237,000.00 for the design of residential street improvements as provided by the 1/4 Cent Sales Tax for Streets Maintenance

3) approval of the Public Agency Retirement System Trust (PARS) Section 457 FICA alternative retirement plan, appointment of a plan administrator, and the authorization of said plan administrator to execute all required PARS legal documents on behalf of the City and to take whatever additional actions are required to administer the City’s PARS plan(s)

(Whew.)

Finally, there will be a report from Mayor Stover regarding the Metroplex Mayors' Meeting and a report from Councilmember Tunnell on the National League of Cities Congressional Conference.

All of which will be followed by a (no doubt) welcome adjournment, at which point one might be forgiven for proclaiming it officially "Miller Time."

posted by JM