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Commissioners direct staff to study broader rezoning options for 7.8-acre city parcel at Jupiter and Los Rios
Summary
Plano commissioners discussed potential rezoning of a 7.8-acre city-owned tract at the northeast corner of Jupiter Road and Los Rios Boulevard and directed staff to return with a broader briefing that could include adjacent city-owned parcels and context from the zoning rewrite and master plans.
Plano Planning and Zoning commissioners on June 2 held an extended discussion and gave staff direction on potential rezoning of a 7.8-acre city-owned property at the northeast corner of Jupiter Road and Los Rios Boulevard, instructing staff to return with a broader, more holistic analysis before a public hearing is called.
Staff said the property — acquired by the city in February 2023 — is currently zoned PD 12 MF-1 and is mapped by the city’s future land use plan as "neighborhood," which planning staff and several commissioners said is generally intended for single-family development. Staff recounted past zoning actions: a 2016 PD approval to allow 22 single-family detached homes under modified standards that were never built, and a 2022 rezoning to PD 12 MF-1 proposing multifamily development that also did not proceed.
Commissioners expressed differing views but a common preference for avoiding future PDs where feasible. Multiple commissioners said the city’s zoning rewrite committee is pursuing removal of PD districts in favor of straight zoning, and recommended considering a straight single-family zone — for example SF-7 — rather than reinstating a PD. Commissioners also discussed site constraints cited by staff, including floodplain, cul-de-sac geometry, infrastructure extension across the floodplain and the potential financial infeasibility those conditions caused for previous developers.
Several commissioners urged staff to analyze whether adjacent city-owned parcels south of Los Rios Boulevard — four parcels staff said are currently intended for parkland but not required to be parkland — should be included in any rezoning effort so the area could be planned holistically rather than piecemeal. Commissioners asked staff to present the broader zoning map, the comprehensive plan context, the parks master plan and any relevant elements of the Envision Oak Point effort when the item returns.
Commissioners did not vote on a zoning change at the meeting. Instead, the commission directed staff to prepare a broader briefing that (1) evaluates including additional city-owned parcels in a city-initiated rezoning, (2) shows surrounding zoning and the comprehensive-plan context at a larger scale, and (3) returns after the commission’s upcoming zoning rewrite briefing so commissioners can consider the rewrite’s implications before calling a public hearing.
