On Oct. 6, 2025 the City of La Porte Common Council approved an ordinance rezoning a parcel southwest of the Monroe Street and Boyd Boulevard intersection to permit a planned residential development of about 122 units.

The change, enacted by voice vote after a motion on the floor, amends the city's official zoning map to reclassify the property from R‑1B single‑family residential to a mix of R‑2B townhouse residential and R‑1D single‑family residential. The Plan Commission had made a unanimous recommendation in favor of the rezoning before it reached council.

The rezoning clears the way for a development the city and the developer say will include 15 executive single‑family homes, 60 single‑family homes and 47 townhomes. Bert Cook, executive director of the La Porte Economic Advancement Partnership, told the council the developer has adjusted site plans in response to neighbor feedback to preserve a larger portion of the parcel's existing woods. "We nearly doubled the amount of open space that we have on the plan without sacrificing the unit count," developer John Kopchak said.

Councilman Buchanan moved approval. After a brief discussion and no roll‑call objections, the council approved the rezoning; the record shows a voice vote and the motion passed.

The ordinance and a development agreement that preceded it remain the governing documents for the project; speakers said the site plan will continue to be refined as engineering and permitting proceed. Council members and the developer emphasized the plan is still subject to final site‑plan approvals and that details such as exact open‑space acreage and construction phasing would be refined in later steps.

What happens next: the rezoning now authorizes the revised plan to proceed to the permitting stage and to subsequent administrative reviews under city land‑use rules.