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Council denies townhouse rezoning after neighborhood opposition; tables industrial rezoning and approves several CUPs
Summary
Mission — The Mission City Council on July 28 denied a townhouse rezoning near Meadow Creek after residents objected that the proposed change would increase density, tabled three industrial rezoning items at the applicant’s request, and approved several other rezoning and conditional‑use requests.
Mission — The Mission City Council on July 28 denied a townhouse rezoning near Meadow Creek after residents objected that the proposed change would increase density, tabled three industrial rezoning items at the applicant’s request, and approved several other rezoning and conditional‑use requests.
The council unanimously denied a rezoning request to convert two western tracts of a three‑tract site from single‑family to R1T (townhouse) zoning after staff reported a petition opposing the change and the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended denial. Planning staff said the petition represented 28.45% of properties within 200 feet (a figure staff used to trigger the super‑majority requirement), and one speaker on Zoom said 59% of property owners adjacent to the site opposed the rezoning.
“I would also like to point out that during the planning and zoning, one of the reasons why this was denied was because the minimum requirement for an R1T is only 2,000 square feet or only 25 feet wide,” said Karen Pruitt, who spoke online in opposition. Pruitt said many nearby lots are larger and that adding 14 new units would change neighborhood character.
Earlier in the meeting staff presented three rezoning items (Items 6–8) proposing agricultural-to-industrial zoning along East Military Highway; the applicant asked to table all three, and council voted unanimously to table the items and re-notice the public hearing.
On other land‑use matters the council: - Approved a rezoning (Item 9) from agricultural to office and single‑family residential (Ordinance No. 5676) to reflect an existing house and proposed lot split; the vote was unanimous. - Approved a conditional‑use permit for an in‑home daycare (conditions applied) and for a neighborhood commercial health‑insurance office and other home‑occupation renewals, all by unanimous votes. - Approved a conditional‑use permit for an event center (Florence Events) to allow on‑site alcohol consumption for one year, adding a council condition requiring security personnel at events where alcohol is present; the motion passed unanimously.
The nut graf: Council members said they weighed Planning & Zoning recommendations and petitions from neighbors before voting. For the denied townhouse rezoning, commissioners cited neighborhood opposition and Planning staff’s recommendation. For the tabling request, staff and council followed standard procedure to re‑notice the public hearing so the applicant can appear.
City planners noted that some lot sizes proposed in the rezoning averaged about 3,800–3,824 square feet for the tracks at issue, while lots in the surrounding area average larger sizes; staff provided those figures during the presentation and noted the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended denial based on community opposition.
The decisions preserve the existing R1 density in the disputed neighborhood and delay consideration of industrial zoning along East Military Highway until the applicant returns.
