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Commission approves reduced loading setback for Custer Frontier Marketplace with screening requirements
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a design exception to reduce the required residential adjacency buffer for loading from 200 feet to 60 feet for the Custer Frontier Marketplace, subject to masonry walls, plantings, recessed docks and other mitigation; vote was 7‑0.
The City of McKinney Planning and Zoning Commission on Sept. 9 approved a design exception for the Custer Frontier Marketplace (agenda item 250033SP2) that reduces the required residential‑adjacency loading buffer from 200 feet to 60 feet, subject to multiple site‑mitigation measures.
Stuart Starry, planner for the City of McKinney, described the request and staff recommendation: the applicant sought to reduce the 200‑foot buffer to 60 feet and proposed mitigation including a 6‑foot masonry wall atop an existing retaining wall (creating an approximately 13‑foot screening device at the tallest point), evergreen shrubs planted every 3 feet, an increased tree ratio (one canopy tree per 30 linear feet), an 8‑foot masonry wing wall adjacent to the loading area and recessed docks in lieu of exposed loading areas. "Given the applicant's comprehensive mitigation efforts and the support of the adjacent property owner, staff believes that the reduction in setback distance will have minimal impact on the adjacent properties and the request meets the applicable design exception criteria," Starry said.
Developer representative David Palmer said the property is part of a larger development the partnership obtained PD approval for months earlier and that meeting the full 200‑foot setback would make the grocery‑anchored shopping center difficult to site. Palmer described additional separation measures and landscape buffering, saying the combined separations bring the effective distance between the loading area and the nearest single‑family lot to about 89 feet and that the proposed eastern red cedar plantings "grow very well in this climate and ... will be up to 30, 40 feet in no time." He also confirmed trucks would use the recessed docks and that turning radii were provided on the site plan.
No members of the public spoke on the item. Commissioner James moved to close the public hearing and approve the design exception; Commissioner Deidre seconded. The commission voted 7‑0; staff recorded the item as a final decision.
Staff also noted it had received a letter of support from the owner of the adjacent (preliminarily platted, undeveloped) lot; that landowner's name was not provided on the record. The approval includes the mitigation measures described by staff and applicant; no amendments were offered during the hearing.
