Flower Mound staff briefs commission on state land‑use bills that could limit local zoning authority

Town planning staff told the Flower Mound Planning & Zoning Commission that several state bills under consideration would reduce municipal control over local land‑use rules if they become law.

Poornima, planning staff, summarized four bills the town is monitoring and said the town’s mayor pro tem and deputy mayor pro tem recently testified against some of the proposals. “This requires municipalities to allow mixed use and multi family developments on religious owned land, and prohibits city's ability to regulate any development in certain ways,” Poornima said of one bill she identified as Senate Bill 854. She also described measures she said would cap lot sizes, limit local regulation of accessory dwelling units and extend similar restrictions to nonresidential areas.

The presentation matters because, if enacted as described, the bills would…