League Citys City Council on Jan. 14 approved Ordinance No. 2024-53 to rezone roughly 1.7 acres and grant a special-use permit to allow a battery energy storage station, authorizing a strategic partnership agreement tied to the site.

The rezoning affects a parcel mapped as 23-00007 located on the east side of Caroline Street near Farm-to-Market Road 646. Council recorded a 5-4 vote in favor of the ordinance on the item presented as old business.

The matter had reached the council after the Planning and Zoning Commission on Feb. 19, 2024 "failed to recommend approval 0-7" with one member absent, according to the meeting record. The council had already approved a first reading of Ordinance No. 2024-53 subject to conditions before taking the subsequent vote to approve the rezoning, special-use permit, and strategic partnership agreement.

Stella Best was identified on the agenda as the operator to run the proposed battery energy storage station at the site. The council did not record mover/second for the motion in the public transcript.

The councils action authorizes the rezoning from CG (General Commercial) to PS (Public/Semi-Public) and issues the special-use permit necessary for the battery energy storage facility to locate at the specified property. The transcript does not record details of any required conditions in the ordinance text beyond the references on the agenda.

Mayor Joyner and councilmembers participated in the vote; individual vote names were not read into the record in the portion of the transcript covering the motion. The transcript indicates the Planning and Zoning Commissions previous negative recommendation and notes the councils earlier first-reading approval of the ordinance with conditions.

No additional procedural or implementation dates for the strategic partnership agreement or facility construction were specified in the record provided.

The council later moved to executive session on other matters and reconvened without taking further public action related to this ordinance.

Additional contextual details from the meeting record: the affected parcel size is described in the record as "approximately 1.7 acres" and the map identifier shown is "map-23-00007." The Planning and Zoning Commissions action on Feb. 19, 2024 is reported in the transcript as "failed to recommend approval 0-7 with 1 member absent." The agenda lists the ordinance number as 2024-53.