Temple council workshop reviews Split P Road rezoning, developer agrees to density and buffering conditions

City staff briefed the Temple City Council at its March 6 workshop on a developer-led rezoning and planned development concept for roughly 20 acres near Split P Road and Prairie View Road.

The presentation said developer Josh Welch’s plan would set aside 3–5 acres for neighborhood-service uses and use multifamily-1 (MF-1) zoning on the remaining roughly 15 acres with a binding cap of no more than 12 dwelling units per acre — a limit the applicant agreed to even though MF-1 allows up to 15 units per acre. Under that cap the draft plan development would allow about 204 total dwellings and calls for construction of townhouses rather than traditional large apartment buildings.

City staff described a package of conditions attached to the PD: limiting building heights along the site perimeter, requiring an 8-foot masonry or precast concrete wall (described in the presentation as a sound-attenuating precast panel) where the project abuts…