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Council denies proposal to allow office‑warehouse at Brookside Boulevard development
Summary
Council voted to deny a rezoning amendment and conditional-use permit that would have allowed warehouse‑office uses in the general retail area of a mixed‑use planned development at 7040 Brookside Boulevard. Planning staff and the developer presented a design concept; opponents included the residential-builder who owns many adjacent lots.
The Temple City Council on July 17 denied an ordinance amendment that would have allowed “warehouse‑office” uses with a conditional‑use permit in a planned mixed‑use development at 7040 Brookside Boulevard.
Planner Brian/Chandler (staff) explained the request: the developer sought to amend a 2022 plan‑development ordinance to permit small “office‑warehouse” units (2,000–5,400 square feet) on about 10 acres in the northeast corner of a larger planned development. The submitted binding site design showed five retail storefront buildings (roughly 18,000 square feet) and 35 warehouse‑office units arranged with screened yards, 301 parking spaces, nearly 10% landscape coverage and a proposed realignment and upgrade of Leitner Lane to collector standards. The developer described the buildings as intended for contractors, local trades and related businesses.
Staff and the developer noted the warehouse‑office and general retail mix would generate similar traffic to retail alone under Institute of Transportation Engineers trip estimates, and the developer said the layout used design measures — building articulation, varied materials and xeriscaping — to reduce the appearance and scale of flex industrial buildings.
Opposition was recorded from the residential-builder who currently owns many of the roughly 290 adjacent house lots; that commenter said the change would make it harder to sell homes and urged denial. Planning and Zoning Commission had recommended approval of the amendment and CUP (6–0) at an earlier meeting, but because more than 20% of returned notices were in disagreement the council required a supermajority to adopt the change. After council discussion one council member moved to deny; the motion to deny passed on a 4–1 vote.
Speakers included the developer Tom Staub (who identified himself as CEO of the development company), the project architect Mark Lynn, planning staff, and the adjacent‑lots builder who spoke in opposition. The denial leaves the approved 2022 PD standards unchanged; retail remains the allowed use for the parcel unless the developer returns with a different, approvable amendment.
