Planning commission forwards rezoning, approves final plat for Meridiana additions amid traffic, drainage questions

The Manvel Planning and Zoning Commission on May 27 voted to forward a recommendation to the City Council to rezone about 35.3 acres at 9825 South Masters from Open Single-Family Residential to a Planned Unit Development (PUD) for inclusion in the Meridiana PUD and approved a related final plat for Meridiana Section 32C with conditions.

Staff told the commission the rezoning request is intended to add acreage to the Meridiana PUD to allow a “garden home” residential product — detached single-family homes on narrower, 50-foot-wide lots that still meet the minimum 6,300-square-foot lot area required in the single-family residential district. Joe (Development Services staff) told commissioners the public hearing and action were required under the Texas Local Government Code and that “staff is recommending approval.”

Why it matters: the change would add land to an existing PUD and allow a different housing product that staff and the applicant say fits the previously approved Meridiana plan. Commissioners and nearby residents said the most immediate community impacts to watch are traffic on Masters Road and Cumulus Drive and drainage into…