TOWN STAFF REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS
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Hold a public hearing, discuss, consider and act on a request for a variance to allow for sports courts to be placed within an easement under the Unified Development Code, located at 1514 Meandering Way, legally described as Lot 12, Block 3, The Estates of Quail Hollow, Town of Westlake, Tarrant County, Texas, zoned as R-1, estate residential district (ZBA Case No. 2025-02)
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STAFF: Christopher Pham, Town Planner
BACKGROUND:
The Unified Development Code (the "UDC") was adopted --- among other purposes --- "[t]o protect, promote, improve and provide for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of the town" and "[t]o ensure the safe, orderly and efficient development and expansion of the town in accordance with and pursuant to its Comprehensive Plan, Thoroughfare Plan, and Open Space Plan". Accordingly, the UDC establishes development standards for residential, non-residential, and government zoning districts. These development standards regulate the use of land, parking, building setbacks, building height, et cetera.
This is a request for a variance --- to allow for the placement of two sports courts and an outdoor living area in an existing 20 feet utility easement located in the rear and side yard of the property. Per Sec. 82-36 of the Unified Development Code, "no buildings, fences, trees, shrubs or other improvements or growths shall be constructed, reconstructed or placed upon, over or across the easements as shown[JA1]". As presented, the property owner is requesting to encroach within the utility easement, specifically where the sewer line runs under the proposed locations of their tennis court, pickleball court, and outdoor storage of pool equipment and air conditioning units. As provided in the application, the determination of the locations of the courts was necessitated due to a "dramatic 30-foot elevation drop", the location of a pond at the rear of the lot, and the desire to maintai...
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