Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District

1. Neighborhood Conservation Overlay
Process and Standards Recommendations

2. 1. Process Improvements
2. District Changes
3. Defined Areas
4. NCO Standards
5. Number of Unrelated

3.  Neighborhood process and standards handbook
 Neighborhood meeting letter template with map and NCO overview
 Petition template with map and standards
 Define maximum time between petition creation and application
 Alter committee make-up: minimum of 4, minimum of 1/subdivision
 Application submission triggers Staff’s project management
 Public meetings
 Map creation
 Notifications
 Conservation Study
 Certified support / dissent letter
 Notify all adjacent subdivisions
 Waive rezoning fee, but charge notification costs

4.  Currently 3 Single Family Overlay Options:
▪ Neighborhood Preservation Overlay (NPO)
▪ Neighborhood Conservation Overlay (NCO)
▪ Historic Preservation Overlay (HPO)
 Eliminate Neighborhood Preservation Overlay (NPO) option

5.  Current definition of a neighborhood:
 “A subarea of the City in which the residents share a common identity focused around a school, park,
community, business center, or other feature. For the purposes of a Single-Family Overlay District, a
neighborhood must contain at least thirty (30) single-family structures in a compact, contiguous area, or
be an original subdivision or phase of a subdivision if the subdivision contains fewer than thirty (30)
single-family structures. Boundary lines must be drawn to include blockfaces on both sides of a street,
and to the logical edges of the area or subdivision, as indicated by a creek, street, subdivision line, utility
easement, zoning boundary line, or other boundary.”
 Staff Recommendation:
 Use original subdivisions
 Each subdivision must meet 50%+1

6.  Lot Coverage
 Tree Protection
 On-Site Parking
 Lot Sizes only applying to new lots
 Garage Requirement

7.  If the policy direction is to limit the number of unrelated,
then staff recommends creating an additional Overlay
 Similar to the City of Bryan’s process / regulation
▪ Higher threshold of buy-in – 58%
▪ Grandfathering
 City-wide Neighborhood Standards
 Define and limit parking in the rear of single-family structures
 Limit impervious cover

8.  Process Improvements
 Neighborhood responsibilities & City responsibilities
 District Changes
 Eliminate NPO
 Defined Area
 Original Subdivision, 50% + 1
 NCO Standards
 As recommended by Council in August 2018
 Number of Unrelated
 Additional (new) Overlay to limit unrelated household occupancy
 Neighborhood Integrity items standards related to impervious cover and parking
limitations

9.  2007: Single-FamilyOverlay districts created
 2008: Summerglen NPO approved
 2015: McCulloch NCO approved
 February 2018: City Council requested community feedback on NCO modifications.
 April / May 2018 : 2 Community Workshops and online and paper surveys
 July/ August 2018: P&Z / City CouncilWorkshops
 November 2018: City of Bryan presentation to P&Z / Council on R-NC zoning district
 February 2019: Heart of Southside NCO approved
 March 2019: P&Z / CouncilWorkshops