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Staff to present plan development to allow funeral home at 310 Southwest Third Street
Summary
Planning staff introduced ZON25060021, a plan-development amendment to allow a funeral home use at an existing church at 310 Southwest Third Street; staff said day-to-day mortuary operations would remain at the applicant’s Irving location and recommended approval. No formal action was taken during the briefing.
Item ZON25060021 was presented at the Planning and Zoning Commission staff briefing as a plan-development request to permit a funeral home at 310 Southwest Third Street.
Staff said the property is currently zoned MF-1 (multifamily) and the applicant proposes to retain MF-1 as the base zoning while adding a funeral home as an approved use through a plan development. "This is item number 2, zoning case, ZON25060021," a staff member said during the briefing. The staff presentation said the applicant would convert an existing church on the site into a funeral home with limited interior improvements for staging, visitation and travel services. "All intensive day-to-day operations including removals, embalming, and transportation services will be conducted at the applicant’s existing location which is in Irving," the presenter said.
Staff told commissioners the change is being processed as a plan development rather than a full rezoning to avoid opening the site to a broader set of more intensive uses. The presenter said notices were mailed to nearby properties (the presenter recalled the number as about 51) and that no responses had been returned. Development review staff recommended approval of the plan development as presented.
Commissioners asked clarifying questions about public outreach; one commissioner noted that at an earlier hearing one homeowner had appeared in opposition and asked whether neighbors had been contacted beyond that single attendee. The presenter replied that, to their knowledge, only that one homeowner had attended earlier hearings. No formal motion or vote occurred during the staff briefing; staff indicated the item will return for consideration during the regular meeting where final action may be taken.
The staff presentation emphasized that the site would not host intensive mortuary operations, which would remain at the applicant’s Irving facility. Commissioners and staff also discussed that processing the change as a plan development limits other uses that a full rezoning could allow.
The staff briefing concluded with the item left for the regular meeting; the briefing record shows staff recommendation for approval but no formal commission vote was taken at this session.
