The hearing examiner recommended approval and placed a set of expedited petitions onto the Metropolitan Development Commission docket for Nov. 5 during the Oct. 9 examiner hearing.

Tim Button of Riley Bennett Egloff, representing Community Health Network, described petition 2025 APP 012 as a request to provide a new driveway entrance from Shelby Street for the MD Anderson Cancer Center portion of the Community Health Network South Campus. "This petition is to provide for a new, driveway entrance to Shelby Street from the MD Anderson Cancer Center located on the Community Health Network South Campus," Button said. Staff had no objection and the examiner recommended approval.

Other petitions the examiner recommended for placement on the Nov. 5 MDC docket included:

- 2025 ZON099, 1548 South Belmont Street (Wayne Township) — Applicant Josh Smith said the rezoning from C1 to D5 was sought because the property has been a single‑family home and the owner wants to add on; staff recommended approval. "We are seeking to rezone from C1 to D5... they're trying to add on to the home and cannot do so with the commercial designation," Smith said.

- 2025 ZON101, 3901 English Avenue (Center Township) — Samuel Salazar, the petitioner, asked for notice waivers; staff raised no objection and the examiner recommended approval of rezoning from D5 to C3 to allow light retail uses and remodeling of the property.

- 2025 ZON103, Davidson and Bates Streets (Center Township) — Dan Fair of Holiday Properties said the request would rezone I4 and C3 parcels to residential zoning to enable housing; staff had no objection and the examiner recommended approval.

Each of the recommended applications was placed on the MDC agenda for Nov. 5 so the full commission can make final decisions. The examiner explained that expedited items were those for which staff recommended approval and where remonstrators were not present or where concerns had been addressed through outreach or commitments. The examiner read the list of expedited petitions, sworn in those who intended to testify en masse, and called each petitioner for brief testimony before making the recommendations.