Residents ask Fairview council to justify zoning approval for LDS temple, cite protest‑letter rules

Several Fairview residents urged the Town Council on May 6 to explain why the council approved a zoning change and conditional use permit for property north of Stacy Road and west of Meandering Way — a proposal for a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑day Saints temple — without applying a supermajority protest threshold they said was triggered by written protests.

The concerns centered on whether the town properly calculated the 200‑foot protest buffer and whether property owners representing at least 20% of the land area within that buffer filed valid written protests, which residents said would require a three‑quarters vote to approve the zoning change. Resident Marlo Ballard said she delivered letters representing five homeowners within the 200‑foot boundary and, in an email to the mayor and staff, asked why the town had not applied ordinance 14.02.002 and its supermajority rule. Ballard told the council she had not received a written response explaining the town’s calculations or rationale.

Residents also submitted a written challenge that cited Texas Local Government Code…