Minutes September 15, 2000CITY OF DENTON CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
SEPTEMBER I5, 2000
Work Session of the City of Denton City Council on Friday, September 15, 2000 at 10:00 a.m. in
the Council Work Session Room in City Hall.
PRESENT: Mayor Brock; Mayor Pro Tem Beasley; Council Members Burroughs, Cochran
and Kristoferson
ABSENT: Council Member Durrance and Young
1. The Council received a report, held a discussion, and gave staff direction regarding the
release of the Draft Development Code for public review:
a. Introduction: Purpose and structure of the draft Development Code and the draft
Development Code review process
b. Code Committee Report: Dave Neal, Code Committee Chairman, will summarize
Code Committee comments related to the draft code.
c. Release of the draft Development Code for public review, for the following
topics:
i. Draft Development Code 1. Zoning Regulations
2. Subdivision Regulations
ii. Draft Zoning Map: Official Map & Future Zoning
d. Draft Public Review Program:
i. Draft Public Review Schedule
ii. Draft Development Code Video
iii. Draft Interactive Website Format
iv. Draft Publication
Doug Powell, Director of Planning and Development, stated that this meeting was intended to
provide an opportunity to review the draft comprehensive plan, discuss outstanding issues, and
for the Council to provide direction to staff regarding the public review and approval process.
Dave Neal, Chair-Code Committee, felt that the Committee's work was a success. He thanked
staff, the committee and the consultant for all of the work that was done.
Council discussed various issues relating to the proposed Development Code. Amendments
were made and incorporated into the Code per Council direction.
Powell reviewed the current schedule for releasing the proposed document to the public.
However, based on the comments made by Council at this meeting plus the work still needed to
be done by staff, it was felt that the schedule should be pushed back by 30 days or so.
Council Member Durance arrived at the meeting.
John Fregonese, consultant, suggested having an afternoon meeting to review just the zoning
map.
Consensus of the Council was to have one more meeting regarding the draft, to make
adjustments on the feedback given at this meeting, at the next meeting go through the GIS
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system for zoning, any outstanding legal issues and any further issues that Council might want to
discuss.
With no further discussion, the meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.
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k~ITY SECRETARY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
EULINE BROCK, MAYOR
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS