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Commission approves rezoning for 7123 Gilboa Avenue after heated public comment
Summary
The Manvel Planning & Zoning Commission voted 6–1 to forward approval of a rezoning for a 2.066-acre tract at 7123 Gilboa Avenue from Light Commercial to Highway Mixed Use with State Highway 6 overlay, despite staff advising denial because the site does not meet the ordinance’s adjacency requirement to State Highway 6.
The Manvel Planning & Zoning Commission voted 6–1 Monday to recommend the City Council rezone a 2.066-acre tract at 7123 Gilboa Avenue from Light Commercial to Highway Mixed Use with the State Highway 6 overlay.
The change would allow limited residential occupancy of an existing house on the property and a small, low‑intensity plant‑tissue‑culture lab tied to a local nursery business, the applicant told the commission during a public hearing.
Staff told the commission the request is inconsistent with the text of the Highway Mixed Use district because the ordinance requires parcels to be directly adjacent to a state highway or Farm‑to‑Market road; the subject site is within 700 feet of State Highway 6 but not…
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