1. Approval of the Minutes from the Regular Meeting of March 11, 2003.

1. Consider and act upon authorizing the consultant firm MAXIMUS, Inc. to conduct a water and sewer rate study.

   Executive Summary
   The City will soon be facing the challenge of increasing utility rates in order to defray the costs and operation of the regional Muddy Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. To meet this challenge, the City has sent out a Request for Proposal (RFP) for consultant services to perform a utility rate study. The proposal submitted by Maximus calls for approximately 15 weeks to complete the study and report findings to Council in July. The focus of the study is to establish the amount of revenue required to support water and sewer operations for the next 5 years. The goal is to propose and adopt new rates to be effective October 1, 2003 in conjunction with the adoption of the 2004 Budget. The cost of the study provided by Maximus Inc. is $24,500.00. The City has budgeted $35,000.00 for the study in this budget year.
     

2. Hold a Public Hearing to consider and act upon adoption of certain proposed revisions to the Landscape Requirements, Section 4.4.E.1.a.(1) of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of Wylie.

   Executive Summary
   The City of Wylie first adopted zoning regulations in 1962, and significantly revised these in 1974, 1985 and 2001. Minor revisions have been made to each of these Zoning Ordinances in response to changing trends or public desires. The 2002 Zoning Ordinance increased the required landscaping for nonresidential uses to twenty percent (20%) of the site for Neighborhood Services, Community Retail and Corridor Commercial Districts and ten percent (10%) in Business Center and Industrial Districts. The currently-adopted landscape regulations favor retail centers of several small buildings which separate landscaping and parking into smaller courts, rather than free-standing "big box" buildings with landscaping and parking consolidated into large masses. To address the special characteristics of "big box" retailers within the Community Retail and Corridor Commercial Districts in a manner which the current Ordinance already accommodates such developments within the Business Center and Industrial Districts, the following amendment is proposed to be added Section 4.4.E.1.a.(1) of the Zoning Ordinance: "When a single building of 100,000 square feet or more is constructed in the CR or CC Districts, at least 10 percent shall be landscaped."
     

3. Hold a Public Hearing to consider and act upon a change in zoning from Single-Family Residential (SF-8.5/17) to Corridor Commercial (CC), generally located east of Paul Wilson Road and south of Skyview Drive, being all of a certain 2.00 acre tract of land situated in the Francisco de la Pina Survey, Abstract No. 688-1, Tract 201, City of Wylie, Collin County, Texas. (Zoning Case 2003-01)

   Executive Summary
   The subject 2-acre tract was annexed into the City as part of a 46.5-acre tract in September of 1984, and was zoned for residential uses at the time of annexation. In April of 1994, 14 acres immediately abutting the subject property was disannexed due to the City's failure to provide sewer services and adequate fire and police support to the area as required by State Law. In September of 2002, the City Council denied a request by the current owner of the subject tract to be disannexed from the City, also based on the lack of City services and the owner's desire to develop uses which were allowed by the County (with no zoning authority) but not by current City zoning. Both Paul Wilson Road and Skyview Drive are currently rural roadways, and generally dead-end routes to the north and west of the intersection where the subject tract is located. However, Park Boulevard is to be extended as a regional thoroughfare to align with the Skyview corridor, and improved to six lanes with divided median. Paul Wilson will remain a local two-lane street, even if reconstructed in the future. Staff is recommending approval due to the proposed commercial use being more compatible than low-density residential uses with the major traffic intersection which Park Boulevard at Paul Wilson is planned to become, and the NTMWD limits opportunity for strip commercial development.
     

4. Consider and act upon an ordinance disannexing a 1.53 acre tract located east of Lavon Parkway, and generally northeast of the Cascades Subdivision.

   Executive Summary
   The property in question is a portion of a 4 acre tract that is located partially in St. Paul and partially in Wylie. The access to the property is from the southern end of Lavon Parkway, a portion of which was closed several years ago by St. Paul to prevent the road from becoming a through street to the tract in Wylie, which was subsequently developed as the Cascades Subdivision. Because there was not the opportunity to connect the areas, the Cascade Subdivision was designed with the lots backing up to the property in question (please see included plat). The property owner has requested disannexation simply to bring the property into a single jurisdiction, and is not alleging a failure to provide services.

• Discussion of intersections and median openings along SH 78 and discussion of the 1999 bond projects.

In addition to any specifically identified Executive Sessions, Council may convene into Executive Session at any point during the open meeting to discuss any item posted on this agenda. The Open Meetings Act provides specific exceptions that require that a meeting be open. Should Council elect to convene into Executive Session, those exceptions will be specifically identified and announced. Any subsequent action, as a result of this Executive Session, will be taken and recorded in open session.

I certify that this Notice of Meeting was posted on this ____ day of ___________________, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. as required by law in accordance with Section 551.042 of the Texas Government Code and that the appropriate news media contacted. As a courtesy, this agenda is also posted to the City of Wylie Website at www.ci.wylie.tx.us

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