A small hospital is a step closer on South Beauchamp Boulevard. The Princeton City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the final plat for the Princeton Micro-Hospital Addition, a single 1.64-acre lot on the west side of Beauchamp just south of U.S. Highway 380.
The item is on the special meeting that starts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, at the Princeton Municipal Center, 2000 E. Princeton Drive.
What the plans show
The plat, prepared by Ringley & Associates, labels the property Lot 1 and marks it for a hospital. The land is zoned C-2. A concept site plan filed by the applicant, Cross Engineering Consultants of McKinney, shows a building with one-story and two-story sections, a covered canopy, a loading zone and parking.
According to a memo from Development Services Director Shai Roos, the site would have two driveways off Beauchamp and would share a drive with the property to the north. The applicant wants the southern Beauchamp entrance to serve ambulances only, and the concept plan marks it that way. The city would provide water and sewer service.
The agenda materials do not name a hospital operator, and no state construction filing for the project turned up in the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation's database as of Monday.
The lot is the fifth of six carved out of a larger tract under an earlier preliminary plat; four lots were already final-platted and the sixth is still undeveloped, the memo says.
An engineering letter in the packet says runoff from the hospital site would drain into the existing detention pond next door, which was designed under plans for the Braum's Princeton site, and that a new private storm drain would be built because the public storm lines crossing the property cannot take more flow.
The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended conditional approval on Sept. 9, pending non-design comments. Staff say the applicant has since submitted a revised plat that addresses all of them, and that the city's third-party engineers found it consistent with the preliminary plat and city code. Under state law, platting is ministerial: if a plat meets the city's rules, the council must approve it.
