Eagle Lake City Zoning Code
§ 14.01.013
District P, public building or public use district.
(a)
District P description.
The public building or public use district is designed to accommodate governmental facilities, community buildings and other facilities owned and/or operated by governmental or other public entities.
(b)
District P use regulations.
The following uses are permitted in the P district:
(1)
Country clubs or golf courses, but not including miniature golf courses, driving ranges or similar forms of commercial amusement.
(2)
Parks, playgrounds, community buildings and other public recreational facilities, owned and/or operated by the city or other public agency.
(3)
Public buildings and grounds, including but not restricted to churches and other places of worship, libraries, museums, police and fire stations.
(4)
School, public elementary, junior high or high school.
(5)
Schools, private, with curriculum equivalent to that of a public elementary, junior high or high school.
(6)
Water supply reservoirs, pumping plants or towers.
(7)
Public airports and related accessory uses including retail sales, and private hangar rental and sales.
(c)
District P area regulations.
(1)
Size of yards.
(A)
Front yard.
Where all the frontage on both sides of the street between two (2) intersecting streets is located in district P, a five (5) foot front yard is required. Where the frontage on one side of the street between two intersecting streets is located partly in district P and partly in any R district, the front yard shall conform to the R district regulations for a distance of not less than 300 feet from the district boundary. Where a front yard is required along the frontage on one side of a street, the front yard requirements of the property directly opposite on the other side of the street shall be not less than twenty (20) feet; except that such yard requirement shall not apply where the property in the R district backs up to the street. No storage or similar use shall be allowed in required front yards in district P.
(B)
Side yards.
A five (5) foot side yard is required, except that a side yard not less than ten (10) feet in width shall be provided on the side of a lot adjoining any R district.
(C)
Rear yards.
A five (5) foot rear yard is required, except that a rear yard not less than ten (10) feet in depth shall be provided upon that portion of a lot abutting or across a rear street from an R district, except that such yard requirement shall not apply where the property in the R district also backs up to the rear street.
(2)
Side of lot.
There are no side yard limitations.
(3)
Lot coverage.
There are no lot coverage limitations.
(d)
District P parking and loading regulations.
Off-street parking spaces shall be provided on dust-free, hard surfaces, in such numbers as necessary to accommodate regular traffic, including disabled parking spaces, as provided below:
(1)
Community center, library, museum or art gallery, five (5) parking spaces plus one additional space for each 800 square feet of floor area in excess of two thousand (2,000) square feet. If an auditorium is included as a part of the building, its floor area shall be deducted from the total and additional parking provided on the basis of one space for each four seats it contains.
(2)
Private club, lodge, country club or golf club, one (1) parking space for each three hundred (300) square feet of floor area or for every ten (10) members, whichever is greater.
(3)
School, elementary, one (1) parking space for two (2) classrooms, whichever is greater.
(4)
School, secondary and college, one (1) parking space for each sixteen (16) seats in the main auditorium or two (2) spaces for each classroom, whichever is greater.
(5)
Accessible parking shall be provided in accordance with the standards of the Architectural Barriers [Act and the] Texas Accessibility Standards.
(Ordinance 2016-002 adopted 4/26/16)
