Olive Branch approves rezoning for Bristow Oaks with 75% brick requirement

The Olive Branch Board of Aldermen on a unanimous vote approved rezoning roughly 38.89 acres at the southeast corner of Pleasant Hill Road and State Line Road from AR (agricultural residential) to an R-3 planned residential district and approved the associated project text and preliminary development plan for Bristow Oaks.

The planning staff recommended approval after the Planning Commission found a change in the character of the area and a public need for additional housing. The board’s action included a requirement that 75% of exterior wall surfaces on houses be brick and that the remaining 25% not be wood siding.

City planning presenter Song outlined the site’s history and the proposal’s details, saying the parcel originally was part of a 48.69-acre rezoning in 2005 and that 10 acres subsequently were sold to a church and later used for a power substation. Song said the developer’s revised plan reduces…