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City Council Approves School Permit

Special Use Permit Approved by 5 to 2 Vote

By Marilyn Clark, League City Area News Online

August 3, 2005

The city council of League City voted to place the Special Use Permit (Ordinance 2005-19) back on the table for consideration as ordered by Judge Susan Criss of the 212th District Court at the Special Meeting of the City Council on August 2, 2005 at the Civic Center.

Next, the city council voted 5-2 to approve the Special Use Permit for the Clear Creek Independent School District's High School #4 on Palomino Road in Single Family Residential zoning with five stipulations they discussed during closed session. Mike Barber, Thomas Cones, Jim Nelson, Tad Nelson and Rusty Tidwell voted to approve the Special Use Permit for High School #4 on Palomino Lane. Councilmen Katie Benoit and Jon Keeney voted against the Special Use Permit.

According to Councilman Tad Nelson, the five stipulations or recommendations, including one added by the members of the city council during the closed (executive) session, include:

"• Internal site traffic impact analysis be done as a condition,

• An overall external site traffic impact analysis,

• The directional lighting for anything that they might have out there,

• The hours of operation of all lighting except security lighting be in accordance with ordinance - that compliance with all other ordinances and regulations of the City of League City Code of Ordinances are followed and

• The fifth one would be that we have a 50 foot buffer between 518 and the Creek (Clear Creek) on the west side of the project (on the back side of Creekside Estates)."

Some of the councillors voted for the Special Use Permit "under protest" after being warned by Councillor Tad Nelson, a lawyer who practiced law with Judge Criss in the 90s that messing around with Judge Criss would be a mistake.

"We have ways to handle this (an appeal) but telling a Judge 'We are not listening to you and we don't accept you' is not one of the ones to do," warned Tad Nelson. "She is the same women who put a two billion dollar bond on Robert Durst," said Nelson.

Some councillors protested the Palomino location for the school. Others protested the stipulations added to the Special Use Permit.

After the meeting, Councilman Jim Nelson indicated that the 50 foot buffer zone between High School #4 and Creekside Estates is wider than the buffer zone that is usually required of a business.


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