Council approves zoning and final development plan for Lexington Commons, an 8‑acre medical‑office and retail campus

The Sugar Land City Council voted 6–0 to approve a rezoning to a Planned Development and the Final Development Plan for Lexington Commons, an 8.041‑acre project south of US Highway 59 and north of Lexington Boulevard that proposes three office buildings, two parking garages and limited ground‑floor retail intended primarily for professional and medical offices.

Jessica Echols, the city's senior planner, described the proposal as an FDP (final development plan) that combines GDP and FDP steps and said the plan calls for a two‑phase buildout: "Phase 1 includes 2 office buildings and 1 parking garage adjacent to Ditch H, as well as the surface parking adjacent to US 59," Echols said. She described two alternative site layouts — one with two Lexington Boulevard connections and a second version adding a curb cut to the US‑59 eastbound frontage road (TxDOT has since…