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Commission approves revised Vista Verde master plan after developer, staff and TxDOT coordination
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Summary
The commission approved a revised master plan for the 339-lot Vista Verde subdivision after the developer said the plan was resubmitted to reflect new TxDOT information; the approval removed three specific staff/traffic comments by motion.
The Laredo Planning and Zoning Commission approved a revision to the Vista Verde Subdivision master plan, a proposed 339-lot residential development, after the developer and staff described recent coordination with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and resolved several staff comments.
Miguel Jimenez, civil engineer with Howden Engineering representing Rhodes Enterprise, told the commission the master plan was resubmitted after the applicant received new alignment and drainage information from TxDOT and adjusted phase locations. Jimenez said the resubmission also reduced lot counts and reconfigured phases so the developer could begin work away from an intersection pending final alignment with TxDOT. “We actually coordinated and got TxDOT to meet with the planning department, city staff,” Jimenez said. He added the design TxDOT had provided was at about 60% completion and that TxDOT had not committed full funding.
In discussion commissioners and staff focused on three staff comments the applicant asked to remove: planning comment number 3 (relating to thresholds for dead-end streets and dwelling-unit counts) and traffic comments 6 and 7 (related to providing a collector/loop and 60-foot rights-of-way at certain intersections). Jimenez said he had coordinated with fire and traffic departments and requested those items be stricken because the project would remain under critical thresholds and because the subdivision would not include a collector road in the proposed locations. Staff confirmed meetings had occurred with TxDOT but told the commission TxDOT’s design and funding were not yet final.
A motion to approve the master-plan revision “subject to staff comments, but removing, comment 3 from items in the staff list and removing 6 and 7 from the traffic comments” carried after a second and a voice vote. The commission recorded concurrence that the developer would return with revised plans as phases advance and that the developer would implement required roadway and drainage revisions consistent with subsequent approvals.
The record notes the applicant as Rhodes Enterprise, engineer Howden Engineering, and that the site’s current zoning is agricultural. Commission action was limited to the master-plan revision and did not commit city funding; staff comments and future traffic/fire approvals remain conditions for subsequent plats and construction permits.
