The commission approved a zoning ordinance amendment allowing shipping containers as a special exception use.Two buildings were planned for the site with access in the rear for tractor-trailers. The property is zoned Light Industrial at present and lies in the вЂњindustrial moduleвЂќ in the cityвЂ™s comprehensive plan. Mainly over traffic and drainage concerns, commissioners unanimously denied a planned development for a proposed warehouse and distribution center on 29 acres located adjacent to U.S.Robertson said the purpose of the rezoning is to revitalize downtown and encourage infill development. The location is known as the Lawson District and the two buildings were purchased last year by the city and have since been sold. An urban village planned development district for mixed-use residential and retail development at 211 and 301 West Main Street was approved.An SUP allowing a restaurant at 4470 East U.S.However, commissioner Mike Rodgers said the SUP allowing a second meter would be permanent, and enforcing a rental restriction would be difficult. Robertson also noted that the property is deed-restricted and the dwelling cannot be used as a rental. Robertson said the plan meets all requirements except that the applicant requested a second electricity meter for the dwelling, because wiring it to the main residence would be cost-prohibitive. Commissioners denied by a 4-1 vote a specific-use permit for a secondary dwelling at 1038 Lakegrove Loop after several neighbors showed up to speak in opposition.This 500- lot development will be developed in three phases, beginning with 278 lots to be delivered by December 2022. This property lies south of FM 875 along Plainview Road and directly abuts Stout Road to the east and the west. A preliminary plat for the 213.421-acre Lone Star Ranch subdivision was approved.The property, to be known as Jordan Meadows, contains approximately 99 single-family lots and is located in the cityвЂ™s extraterritorial jurisdiction. A preliminary plat of a 150.809-acre property east of Norrell Road and south of FM 875 was approved.Vice chairman Scott Koehler presided over the meeting. The motion was approved as presented.Д¬hairman Maurice Osborn and commissioner Angela Stephens were not present. The PD adds multifamily housing on the southern end and no more than 40 townhomes, as well as commercial and retail. The final major development discussed during the long meeting alters an existing PD for a property immediately adjacent to the northeast corner of the U.S.

A 70-foot building height restriction was added to the approved plan. Robertson told commissioners that because staff had some concern over uses next door to Westside Preserve, some prohibitions were added to the PD and the requirement of specific-use permits were added to other potential uses. The Hillwood industrial development is adjacent to the Gerdau solar farm under construction and is immediately south of Westside Preserve. The request was unanimously denied after objections were raised to the addition of the retail. The planned development at the corner of FM 663 and FM 875 reduced the average lot size from one acre to a half-acre, increasing the number of single-family lots from 35 to 53, and added community retail space on the corner of the two highways. The commission added the condition that a specific-use permit requirement be added for the townhome section. The new PD adds 97 townhomes, reduces the commercial and community retail area from 162 acres to 56, and reduces the minimum lot size to 5,000 square feet, raising the total number of single-family lots to 980. The Westside Preserve project was originally zoned as a planned development in 2004, but city planning director Trenton Robertson said the new PD cleans up the many amendments that had been added to the original PD.

67 between Spur 77 and Main Street for a mixed-use development. 67 and east of Ward Road and rezoned a 66.441-acre property east of U.S. Highway 67 and 287 interchange denied a planned development on the northeast corner of FM 663 and FM 875 unanimously rezoned a planned development for the proposed 350-acre Hillwood Midlothian Business Park for commercial and heavy industrial uses north of U.S. The commission approved a planned development zoning change for 506.6 acres for the Westside Preserve west of the U.S.

In a marathon session that lasted more than 4 ВЅ hours, the Midlothian Planning and Zoning Commission tackled no less than four huge development projects at length among numerous other agenda items during its Oct.

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