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Planning commission backs rezoning to fold Pecan Valley land into resort, with unit cap
Summary
Hurricane City Planning Commission voted to recommend the rezoning of several parcels into the Pecan Valley Resort and to forward a preliminary site plan to city council, on the condition that the development agreement be amended so the total number of units for the overall resort is not increased.
Hurricane City Planning Commission voted Jan. 23 to recommend that City Council rezone several parcels near 5210 West 2250 South to Recreation Resort and to approve a related preliminary site plan, contingent on amending the development agreement so the resort’s overall authorized unit count does not increase.
The proposal, filed as ZC24-06 and PSP24-09, would add the parcels into the Pecan Valley Resort area to allow expanded parking, recreational amenities and infill townhouse construction. Chris Wyler is the applicant; Brandy Walker of Civil Science appeared for the applicant and described the request to commissioners.
Walker told commissioners the rezoned land would connect to existing Pecan Valley Resort phases and provide a “large parking area and additional pickleball court amenities,” and she said some units previously platted elsewhere in the resort were broadened and removed from other buildings, so the applicant was not seeking new overall density. City staff recommended that any approval be conditioned on an amendment to the development agreement that would add the subject property while keeping the resort’s total unit count unchanged.
Commissioners discussed farmland-adjacent uses and whether an agricultural protection overlay applied to neighboring orchards. Staff clarified the parcels adjoin existing resort development on three sides and that the nearby pistachio/pecan orchard did not, at present, carry an agricultural protection overlay.
A commissioner moved that the Planning Commission recommend approval of ZC24-06 and PSP24-09 to City Council, with the condition that the development agreement be amended to include the newly rezoned property and that the amendment not increase the current total number of permitted units for the overall resort; the motion included the standard subject-to-staff-and-JUC comments. A second was recorded and the motion carried on a unanimous voice vote of those present.
The commission’s recommendation resolves a code consistency issue noted in staff findings (the parcel’s size exceeds the 20-acre guideline for the designation) by folding the acreage into the already-planned resort rather than creating separate, differently zoned lots.
