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Planning commission approves variances for Houston Heights hotel and restaurant project

3789341 · June 12, 2025
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Summary

Commission granted variances from Chapter 28 and Chapter 42 to allow a 14-room hotel and restaurant with reduced building lines, after staff said the developer had engaged the neighborhood and staff found requirements met.

The Houston Planning Commission approved variances and the associated plat for a mixed hotel-and-restaurant project in the Heights after staff recommended granting exceptions to Chapter 28 and Chapter 42.

Planner Devin Bridal presented item 107, describing a vacant two-acre tract near North Shepherd Drive with frontage on multiple rights-of-way. Bridal said the applicant requested a 4-foot awning building line and a 10-foot building line for the structure along North Shepherd Drive, and asked for variances to locate a hotel in a residential area and to allow access from a two-lane residential street.…

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