Planning commission recommends zone change for Huffines Boulevard warehouse plan

The Lewisville Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6-0 Tuesday to recommend approval of a zone change and plan development that would allow two warehouse-distribution centers on the east side of Huffines Boulevard, about 1,000 feet west of Holford's Prairie Road.

The application, which staff materials name Prologis and which the agenda lists as submitted by Pulley Studios Incorporated and Prologix on behalf of property owner Dallas Broadcasting LLC, would place two buildings — together a little under 700,000 square feet of industrial space — on the north and south sides of the future Corporate Drive extension. "For the most part, they are meeting, all of the supplemental standards or the intent of the supplemental standards," John, a city staff member, told the commission during the public hearing.

The plan development (PD) includes several requested alternative standards from the city's warehouse-distribution supplemental standards. Those alternates would: allow a truck court to face a public right-of-way in one location; permit keeping existing vegetation in lieu of installing the required multiple rows of trees, shrubs and berming in several places; and avoid constructing an 8-foot masonry wall adjacent to a residence for roughly 175 feet by preserving the natural buffer there. Staff said the northern building will have a brick feature on the office-facing elevation, while the southern building will be primarily tilt-wall construction and is more heavily screened by existing vegetation.

The PD also commits to preserving 15% of the site's currently protected trees, providing a 50-foot landscape buffer along public rights-of-way where possible, and including a 12-foot-wide trail that will connect the Bunker Hill neighborhood to the future Corporate Drive trail. "They are committing to keeping 15% of the existing protected trees, as well as these 50 foot landscape buffers, and they are a 12 foot wide trail is included with this plan development," John said.

During public comment, Robert Dossett of Half Associates, the applicant's engineering representative, described measures the developer expects to use during construction to protect the remaining trees and the new culvert work required for storm drainage. "We'll protect it all with silt fence. We'll have the orange fence and all that kind of stuff up there," Dossett said, adding that large box culverts and retaining walls already are incorporated into grading and drainage plans and that trail alignments may meander around preserved trees.

Commissioners asked about long-term maintenance of the natural areas and trail. John said a future agreement between the parks department and the applicant will define maintenance responsibilities; those details will be worked out as the project moves toward construction.

After closing the public hearing, the commission voted to recommend approval. "I recommend approval of zone changes as presented," the presiding official said before a motion was made and seconded; the vote carried 6-0. The commission's recommendation will be considered by the Lewisville City Council at a second public hearing and final decision on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, at 7 p.m.

The proposal has several outstanding administrative steps: city council review and a maintenance agreement with the parks department. Staff noted the applicant and city met on the site before the warehouse-distribution supplemental standards were adopted (staff records show an initial meeting in November 2022 and the supplemental standards adopted in February), which the staff said informed use of the PD path for flexibility on site layout and tree preservation.