Planning commission approves Parkway Bend rezoning with 2-car garage condition, asks for more green space

The Denison Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend rezoning roughly 25 acres at the southeast quadrant of South Eisenhower Parkway and South Vann Avenue to a planned development (PD) overlay to allow single-family patio-home development, with a condition that homes include two-car garages and with a request that the applicant consider adding more green space on the site’s southern exposure.

The commission’s action follows a staff presentation that said the applicant’s concept plan proposes 152 single-family lots, dedicates about 2 acres for open space and requests several deviations from the city’s single-family patio-home standards (Section 28.25), including minimum lot area, garage placement and visitor-parking requirements. Staff recommended approval of the rezoning as consistent with the city’s future land use plan.

In a presentation to the commission, a city planner explained that the current PD on part of…