Planning-Zoning commission recommends rezoning 13.71 acres for 10-home Maverick parcel

Benbrook Planning-Zoning Commission on Thursday recommended that city council rezone 13.71 acres on the city’s northwest edge from D (multifamily) to a BPD (one-family planned development), a change that would limit development to a maximum of 10 single-family lots tied to the adjacent Maverick master plan.

The recommendation, offered by Mr. Allison and seconded by Mr. Carver, passed unanimously and will go to the city council for final action. The applicant, PNB Capital Investments, said the change reduces potential density and aligns the site with the nearby Maverick community being built mostly in Fort Worth.

Ryan Burgess of PNB Capital Investments told the commission the parcel lies northwest of the intersection of Benbrook Highway and Hawkins Home Boulevard and that PNB, in partnership with Discovery Land Company, is developing the larger Maverick master plan to the west. “The 13 acres is a dramatic reduction in density from the currently zoned D to B, and even further reduced to a maximum of 10 lots,” Burgess said. He described private streets, gated access, wet detention ponds and homes with distinct architectural features similar to Maverick’s approved phases.

City staff described technical points in the record: the request includes amending the Benbrook Comprehensive Plan future land use map from medium-density residential to low-density residential; the draft plan limits the parcel to 10 lots; and the applicant proposes a minimum 25-foot landscape buffer yard adjacent to existing homes. Staff said the alternative private-street standards proposed to match Fort Worth’s approved construction are acceptable and that preliminary traffic-generation estimates have been reviewed by the city engineer.

Several nearby homeowners spoke during public comment, praising the change from multifamily to single-family but raising concerns about drainage, dust from construction, and long-term maintenance of the buffer area and landscaping. Steve Furrow, a neighborhood HOA board member, said the adjoining curtilage is currently maintained by residents and asked who would take responsibility going forward. William McCall, a resident on Hawkins Home Boulevard, asked whether the masonry fence and buffer would be located on the property line and where maintenance obligations would fall. The applicant responded that the buffer and fence would be provided and that maintenance would be handled by the new HOA.

On drainage, a staff representative said detailed engineering and detention requirements have not yet been finalized but that the city will require detention ponds and will review downstream impacts during the engineering phase. Burgess said a formal engineering design and coordination with Benbrook Water Authority and other agencies remain to be completed and that a construction start would be “months from now.”

Commission discussion repeatedly noted that the body’s action Thursday is a zoning recommendation; engineering, traffic studies and future plats will be reviewed later if and when the city council approves the rezoning. Commissioner comments emphasized that the rezoning would yield lower potential traffic generation than the existing multifamily zoning and that the commission’s vote does not itself resolve engineering or construction impacts.

The commission’s recommendation now advances to Benbrook City Council for final approval.