The Sugar Land Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday recommended City Council approve a conditional use permit (CUP) for Logos Preparatory Academy to establish an elementary, middle and high school at 800 and 802 Brook Street. The recommendation passed 6‑1.

Staff described the proposed Phase 1 campus as a three‑story, roughly 60,000‑square‑foot academic building, a one‑story 9,000‑square‑foot cafeteria with outdoor pavilion, a multipurpose playfield, surface parking and renovation of an existing gym on the Faith Lutheran Church property. Staff said the Phase 1 site totals about 23.2 acres split across the two parcels being purchased and that the CUP application includes shared‑parking agreements with Faith Lutheran and the Bridge to meet parking requirements.

"The maximum number of students on‑site at any time is 596," Jessica, a planning staff member, told the commission and noted a correction to the staff report: an earlier figure of 536 in the report did not match the circulation and traffic analysis peak volumes.

Commissioners questioned traffic and queuing. Robert Wilson, assistant city engineer, said the traffic analysis calculated a maximum queue length of "about a thousand feet" and that the proposed circulation plan provides roughly 1,600 feet of total queuing space. Jason Bond, traffic engineering manager, told commissioners the city reviewed the traffic analysis and that the plan, including the shared circulation with Faith Lutheran, is sufficient "to ensure the queuing would not spill out onto Brook Street" under the study conditions.

Members also asked how evening or weekend uses and events would affect parking and circulation. Rick Goldsby, chairman of Logos Prep’s board, said weekend field users have been dwindling and that the school would discuss shared use with existing weekend users; he said the school would consider making fields available when it does not conflict with school activities.

Commissioners raised operational concerns: how students who drive will access parking, whether staff or volunteers will be needed to manage carline, and how shared parking will be coordinated so queuing does not impede Brook Street. Staff indicated the CUP would limit this approval to Phase 1 and that any future phases would require a CUP amendment.

Vice Chairman Landin moved to recommend approval to City Council with three conditions: that development match the attached site plan and circulation plan, that the maximum number of students on site at any time be 596, and that the site plan include a north arrow. Commissioner Brown seconded. The motion passed 6‑1.

No public speakers registered at the meeting; commissioners asked staff to monitor operational traffic impacts post‑approval and indicated the city could revisit mitigation options if queuing or spillover onto Brook Street materializes.