Req. for less dense zoning Sandy Lake Road Limited Padnersh'p
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73118 i ~
(405) 842-1081
February 13, 1989
City of Coppell, Texas
Planning & Zoning Committee
P. O. Box 478
Coppell, Texas 75019
RE: ZC 518
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
As the owners of a tract located immediately east of the
property which is the subject of the zoning case referenced
above, we hereby notify you that we protest the desired use
of PD SF-7.
While we do not think the current use designation of
retail is realistic for a tract of this size, we feel that a
move to SF-7 is not helpful to realizing the use potentials
for property in this area. For the property along Coppell
Road to serve as an effective buffer to the future industrial
uses mandated by the airport noise zone to the west, higher
density residential uses are more appropriate and certainly
just as marketable. Since usual land planning concepts
dictate a preference for low-density residential uses only
where they can be appropriately buffered from industrial
uses by high-density residential uses, we cannot understand
this request.
Presently only two tracts of land that lie west of
Coppell Road are used for single-family detached homes. In
both instances the subdivisions are quite old and were
developed before the airport was built. Is not the proposed
zoning a major step backwards to a time when the airport was
not a reality?
Coppell will need to house the supporting workforce that
will inevitably come as the industrial area created by the
noise zone becomes a reality. Coppell Road can effectively
move higher amounts of traffic north and south where it can
then move west via Sandy Lake Road, Ruby Road, and Bethel
Road to the proposed Freeport Extension, State Highway 121,
and LBJ Freeway.
Long term Coppell cannot benefit by approving this
Sandy Lake Road Limited Partnership
request. High-quality, high-density housing will be needed
to house the work force which will be required to support the
many industrial projects currently under way in Coppell.
Most industrial users look for nearby housing areas that can
serve their workforce. Without such areas available,
industrial development can lag dramatically. The tax base of
Coppell needs the revenue that rapid industrial development
can bring.
Please consider these thoughts when you consider voting
on this proposal.
Yours truly,
Steve Anderson, III
GENERAL PARTNER