The Angleton Planning and Zoning Commission debated a rezoning request for property at 1030 South Anderson Street on June 5, 2025, considering whether to change about 1.193 acres from Single-Family Residential (7.2) to the Manufactured Home (MH) district to allow an expansion of the Blackman Manufactured Home Community.

The rezoning matter matters because it would add manufactured-home spaces within a neighborhood undergoing new single-family construction and implicates fire access, parking, sidewalks and parkland-dedication requirements that staff said must be satisfied before development proceeds.

City planner Mr. Spriggs told the commission the petition asked to rezone the parcel from Single-Family 7.2 to MH for an expansion of the existing Blackman mobile-home park. "This is a rezoning petition, from the, single family 7.2 District to the MH, mobile home community district," Spriggs said, and he presented a concept plan showing six proposed spaces and a staff recommendation to consider scaling the rezoning to only the acreage needed for those spaces.

Applicant Antonio Gonzales, who identified himself at the podium, told the commission he recently purchased the property and that he intends to manage it. When asked whether the project is his, Gonzales answered, "110%." He said there is no homeowners association for the park and that he conducts business in Lake Jackson and checks the site frequently. Gonzales told commissioners the four spaces he previously added to the park are owner-occupied and described anticipated prices of new units.

Neighbors and commissioners raised multiple concerns during public comment and discussion: the physical condition of existing units in the park, enforcement of parking and fire-lane restrictions on Maxey Lane (a private drive), whether visitor parking could be accommodated, whether the proposed six spaces remain feasible after the applicant clarified the rezoning footprint, and utility capacity and sewer/tap availability. Staff said a fire-hydrant gap could require an additional private hydrant within 300 feet of units and that hydrant installation would be a developer expense. Staff also said Angleton currently has roughly 300 water taps available above already-approved developments but that some of those approvals have not yet been constructed.

A commissioner motion to find the review criteria met and to rezone 0.894 acres (the acreage shown on the revised concept) from Single-Family Residential 7.2 to Manufactured Home Park, forward the ordinance to city council, and impose multiple conditions (including limiting uses to four manufactured-home spaces, filing a minor subdivision plat, meeting fire-hydrant and fire-lane access requirements, posting no-parking/one-way signage on Maxey Lane, meeting parking standards in Angleton Code §28-54 and §28-101, hard-surfacing Maxey Lane, providing 4-foot concrete walkways unless a waiver is granted, and complying with parkland dedication per §23-20) did not pass. The chair announced, "So the motion fails."

Because the Planning and Zoning Commission serves in an advisory role, Spriggs reminded commissioners and the applicant that the item will be considered by Angleton City Council at its next meeting and encouraged Gonzales to attend to answer council questions.

The commission did not adopt a rezoning ordinance at this meeting. No formal direction to staff to prepare an alternative ordinance was recorded; the matter will be taken up again by the city council.