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TOWN OF WESTLAKE, TEXAS
MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING
OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
November 23, 1998
Present: Scott Bradley, Mayor
David Loeser, Member
Abe Bush, Jr., Member
Fred Held, Member
Jerry Dinsmore, Member
Paul Isham, Town Attorney
Bill Greenwood, Planning & Zoning Chairperson
Don Redding, Planning & Zoning Commissioner
Allen Heath, Planning & Zoning Commissioner
Jim Morris, Legal Counsel
Dennis Wilson, Town Planner
Rowland Jackson, Landscaping Consultant
Rod Kelly, Traffic Engineer
Robert Jenkins, Traffic Consultant
Ernest Hedgcoth, Town Engineer
Ginger Crosswy, Town Secretary
Absent: Charla Bradshaw, Mayor Pro Tem
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The meeting was called to order at 6:07 p.m. by Mayor Bradley. The Board recessed into
executive session at 6:08 p.m. as Mayor Bradley read each agenda item to be discussed. The
executive session was adjourned at 7:30 p.m. Mayor Bradley reconvened the meeting into open
session at 7:38 p.m.
Item #3: No action was needed on this item.
Item #4: Debra Heath of 5944 Stagecoach Circle thanked the Board for the enjoyable evening spent
at the Roanoke/Trophy Club/Westlake Chamber of Commerce event, Christmas in November.
Item #5: Motion by Alderman Bush, seconded by Alderman Held, to approve minutes of the regular
meeting held on November 9, 1998 as presented.
The motion carried unanimously.
Item #7: Consider the appointment of a member to the Board of Directors of the Lone Star Hospital
Authority. There being no nominees for these positions, the Town secretary was asked to keep this
item on the agenda for the next regular meeting.
Item #6: Motion by Alderman Bush, seconded by Alderman Dinsmore, to pay all o-tstanding bills
except the Point Communication bills.
The motion carried unanimously.
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Item #8: Consider a request for funding from Project Graduation at the Keller High School. Motion
by Alderman Bush, seconded by Alderman Held, to donate $250.00 to Keller High School Project
Graduation and a like amount to both Carroll and Northwest High School if requested.
The motion carried unanimously.
Item #9: Consider an application from Scott and Kelly Bradley to extend the time limit for a
temporary structure on 56 acres of land located in the southeast corner of Dove Road and J.T.
Ottinger Road. At this time Alderman Loeser assumed the chair and asked for a motion. Motion by
Alderman Held, seconded by Alderman Dinsmore, to adopt Resolution No. 98-18 granting this
extension.
The motion carried unanimously.
Item #10: Consider and take action on a request by Richard Myers for a variance to the setback
limitation for his home to be constructed in the Estates of Westlake. Mayor Bradley resumed the
chair and asked if the Planning and Zoning Commission had a recommendation on this matter. Mr.
Greenwood, the Planning & Zoning Chairperson, told the Board that the Commission recommended
approval. Mr. Myers told the Board that this request was made to save trees. Motion by Alderman
Dinsmore, seconded by Alderman Loeser, to adopt Resolution No. 98-17 granting this variance.
The motion carried unanimously.
Item #11: Discuss and review Hillwood Development Corp.'s preliminary plat of tract 8-3 in Planned
Development No. 8 for 41.281 acres located at the corner of Lake Turner Parkway and U.S. 377. Bill
Resch of Hillwood Development Corporation addressed the Board.
Item #12: PUBLIC HEARING on amendments to the Westlake Unified Development Code, Article
V, Subsection 2.2 and Article VII, Subsection 3A.B. The Public Hearing was opened at 8:14 p.m.
Dennis Wilson, the Town planner, addressed the Board as to the amendments. There was no further
testimony and the Public Hearing was closed at 8:16 p.m.
Item # 13: Consider and take action on amendments to the Westlake Unified Development Code,
Article V, Subsection 2.2 and Article VII, Subsection 3A.B. Mr. Greenwood, the Planning & Zoning
Chairperson, told the Board that the Commission recommended approval. Motion by Alderman
Bush, seconded by Alderman Held, to adopt Ordinance No. 318 amending the Westlake Unified
Development Code as stated.
The motion carried unanimously.
Item # 14: Consider and take action on revisions to Articles I & II of the Westlake Engineering
Design Standards. Dennis Wilson, the Town planner, and Rod Kelly, the Town's traffic engineer, told
the Board that this was only to remove parts of the Thoroughfare Plan and add them to the Westlake
Engineering Standards. At this time the Board agreed to consider items #15 & 16 before acting on
item # 14.
Item # 15: PUBLIC HEARING on an amended Thoroughfare Plan which also sets the alignment for
FM 1938. The Public Hearing was opened at 8:26 p.m. Mr. Greenwood, the Planning & Zoning
Chairperson, explained the Commission's recommendation to the Board. Commissioner Redding and
Commissioner Heath gave a video presentation as to the recommended alignment for FM 1938 and
why the Planning & Zoning Commission recommended this alignment. After much discussion on
this matter the Public Hearing was closed at 9:03 p.m.
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Item #16: Consider and take action on an amended Thoroughfare Plan which also sets the alignment
for FM 1938.
The Board then took up Agenda Item # 14. Motion by Alderman Dinsmore, seconded by Alderman
Bush, to adopt the revisions to Articles I & Il of the Westlake Engineering Design Standards,
recognizing that there will be an ordinance at the next Board meeting.
The motion carried unanimously.
Motion by Alderman Dinsmore, seconded by Alderman Loeser, to approve Ordinance No. 317
adopting an amended Thoroughfare Plan as presented.
The motion carried unanimously.
Motion by Alderman Dinsmore, seconded by Alderman Bush, to set the alignment of FM 1938 as the
Board originally approved, inclusive of the changes to the south section where it joins the City of
Southlake and the section at the intersection of Precinct Line Road and Dove Road that the Planning
and Zoning Commission has recommended that the Board approve.
The motion carried unanimously.
Item #17: PUBLIC HEARING on an Open Space Plan. The Public Hearing was opened at 9:47 p.m.
No one wished to address the Board and this item was continued to the next Board meeting on
December 14, 1998.
Item #18: PUBLIC HEARING concerning the applications of AIL Investments, L.P., to establish
public improvement districts. The public hearing was opened at 8:05 p.m. As no one wished to
address the Board concerning this item, the public hearing was continued until the next regular
meeting.
Item #19: Other business: Alderman Loeser thanked David Brown for letting the Town put a
dumpster on his property over the weekend for the residents to use in cleaning up their property.
Mayor Bradley stated that had prepared a petition for residents to sign asking the Mayor to call a
special election to see if the Town would like to change to a city manager form of government.
Mayor Bradley then signed the petition and told the assembly that the petition will be in the Town
Hall for anyone wishing to sign it.
Item #20: Motion by Alderman Bush, seconded by Alderman Dinsmore, to adjourn.
The motion carried unanimously.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:55 p.m.
Sco Bradley, Mayor
ATTEST:
Ginger Crosswy, Town Secretary
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