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Missouri City amends zoning: bans new smoke shops, tightens liquor-store locations and updates nonconforming-use rules

5899016 · October 6, 2025

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Summary

Council unanimously approved a package of zoning amendments including a prohibition on new smoke shops, restrictions on packaged-liquor store locations, alignment of nonconforming-use rules with state code and an amendment to PD-19 for a Plantation Creek development.

Missouri City Council unanimously approved multiple zoning code updates and a planned-development amendment after public hearings and staff presentations.

The council adopted an ordinance amending the city’s nonconforming-use rules to align with state code. The change separates requirements for nonconforming structures and nonconforming uses, clarifying when a structure or use loses its nonconforming status and establishing notice and compensation procedures when the city terminates a nonconforming use, City planner Jennifer Thomas Gomez told council.

Council also approved an ordinance that prohibits the establishment of any new smoke shops across the city’s commercial districts. Thomas Gomez said the city currently has about 21 existing smoke-shop-related uses (with one still in progress) and had maintained a moratorium while staff prepared the amendment.

Separately, the council restricted packaged-liquor stores to the LC-3 (regional commercial) district and removed them as a permitted use in LC-2 (local retail) districts; incidental alcohol sales at grocery or similar stores (LC-1) remain allowed. Thomas Gomez said the change follows guidance from the city’s comprehensive plan update and mirrors policies in some neighboring jurisdictions.

Council also approved an amendment to Planned Development District No. 19 (a 65.008-acre tract at the southwest corner of Plantation Ridge Drive and FM 1092) that included clarifying allowed LC-2 uses, prohibiting certain window signage in nonresidential areas, defining a new small “lounge” use (alcohol service in spaces up to 500 square feet) and establishing a 2 a.m. closing time for the district.

All the zoning items were recommended for approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission and passed on final readings without public speakers at the hearings.

Motions to approve the ordinances were made by Councilmember Clauser, Councilmember Riley and others; each vote was recorded as carried unanimously.