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Commissioners uphold Lake Ray Roberts land-use plan, deny one rezoning and approve three estate rezonings
Summary
Denton County Commissioners on Sept. 9 denied a request to rezone a 122‑acre tract near Lake Ray Roberts to R‑3 and approved three separate R‑4 rezonings after public hearings and a unanimous PNZ recommendation to deny the R‑3 request.
Denton County Commissioners on Sept. 9 denied a request to rezone a 122-acre tract near Lake Ray Roberts from agricultural (AG) to R-3 (single‑family, 3‑acre minimum) and approved three separate, smaller rezoning requests from AG to R-4 (residential estate, 4‑acre minimum) for adjacent parcels after public hearings in the Lake Ray Roberts planning district.
The denial involved property identified in meeting materials as LRR06250016 (parcel R59656). Steven Belknap, county planning staff, summarized the case for item 4A and told the court the Planning & Zoning Commission (PNZ) had unanimously recommended denial because the requested R-3 zoning “does not conform to the intended land use” shown on the county’s adopted map. “That is the crux of the conversation,” Belknap said.
Property owners and nearby residents urged different outcomes. Phyllis Kirby Baron, whose family…
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