Plan and Zoning Commission approves Huntington Park master-plan rezoning for 784-acre mixed-use development

The McKinney Plan and Zoning Commission voted 7-0 April 8 to approve rezoning for Huntington Park, a roughly 784-acre mixed-use master plan that would create single-family neighborhoods, brownstone-style attached units, a multifamily core with required ground-floor retail and expanded commercial zones along the planned 380 bypass.

City planning staff recommended approval and described zoning standards and timing triggers that would limit multifamily site-plan submittals until specified commercial acreage is built and either the 380 bypass is under construction or a large amount of single-family is platted west of Stonebridge Drive.

Caitlin Sheffield, chief planner (staff), told commissioners the plan breaks the property into pods: about 24 acres in one single-family district (HP 60), about 20 acres in another (HP 50), and roughly 44 acres in an HP 40-equivalent area. Brownstone-style units were described as about 22 acres with a maximum of 200 units across four pods. Sheffield said the central HP Urban multifamily area totals roughly 70 acres and — as presented by the applicant — includes a…