At the Jan. 6 Planning and Zoning work session, Troy Winn, senior planner in the Planning and Building Department, presented a group of proposed corrections to the Imagine Irving future land-use map adopted in 2017. Staff characterized most of the changes as corrections or clarifications rather than substantive policy shifts.

Key corrections staff proposed include: recognizing Gilbert and Good elementary schools and Kinkade early-childhood school as public/semi-public school sites on the future land-use map (instead of "traditional neighborhood"), reclassifying Zander Park Apartments and other multifamily/condominium sites to mid-density residential where mapping errors occurred, marking a compact-neighborhood area at Markland Street to align with RZL zoning, and carving out small single-family neighborhoods that had been incorrectly attributed to adjacent uses.

Staff also proposed reclassifying the Salvation Army site off Grauwiler and Britton to local commercial (rather than regional commercial) to better reflect neighborhood-serving retail, and fixing a TxDOT-acquired parcel on Shoaf to reflect a regional-commercial designation if it returns to private ownership. Winn told commissioners these changes are largely technical corrections to align the future land-use map with existing zoning and on-the-ground uses.

Why it matters: future land-use designations guide what zoning changes are considered appropriate and are used as the city evaluates rezoning requests. Staff said the city plans to bring the package back for the commission's recommendation at the next meeting and then to City Council for approval.

Commissioners thanked staff for the careful mapping work and asked whether the comprehensive plan is due for a full update; staff replied the city aims for periodic updates and said a larger rewrite is planned in a few years, while these corrections are an incremental cleanup.

No vote was recorded at the work session; staff will return with the proposed amendments for the commission's recommendation and then forward to council.