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Lewisville council approves charter-change ordinance for voter referendum, rezones two Franklin Road parcels and adopts budget amendment
Summary
The Town of Lewisville council on Thursday approved an ordinance to place a charter amendment on the November 2025 ballot that would create staggered four-year council terms if voters approve it, and took several land-use and budget actions.
The Town of Lewisville council on Thursday adopted several ordinances and resolutions that will affect elections, land use and the town budget.
By a 4-2 vote the council approved ordinance 2025-4 to amend the town charter to implement four-year staggered terms for council members contingent on voter approval during the November 2025 municipal election. The ordinance keeps the mayor's term at two years and sets implementation steps for future elections: at the 2027 election the three candidates with the highest vote totals would receive four-year terms and the next three highest would receive two-year terms; subsequent elections would then return to staggered four-year cycles beginning in 2029 and 2031 as specified in the ordinance.
The council also unanimously passed resolution 2025-007 calling the vote on the charter amendment a special election to be held at the November 2025 municipal election and approved the ballot language to present the measure to voters.
On land use, the council held two public hearings and approved both rezoning requests. The first rezoned 7505 Franklin Road (approximately 1.5 acres, tax PIN 5886144123) from a conditional pedestrian-business classification (a single-use storage and care use approved in 1997) back to RS-20 (residential single-family). Planning staff recommended approval based on consistency with the comprehensive plan and surrounding RS-20 zoning; the planning board had voted unanimously to recommend approval. Council member Melissa Hunt moved to approve and Jane Welch seconded; the motion carried unanimously.
The second rezoning involved roughly 7 acres at 7035 Franklin Road (principal parcel ID 5886530107 plus four adjacent parcels), where Temple Baptist Church requested a change from a mix of RS-20 and General Industrial zoning to IP (Institutional and Public) to reflect and simplify church-owned uses and holdings. Planning staff and the planning board recommended approval; the council approved the request with a unanimous vote (motion by Monty Long, second by Ivan Huffman). Town staff noted that portions of Lewisville lie in the Yadkin River watershed and that institutional uses in the watershed are subject to additional impervious-surface and stormwater-management requirements.
On finance, council adopted ordinance 2025-005 to amend the budget for snow and ice removal. Council received an accounting of the existing snow/ice budget (beginning budget approximately $75,000), recent contractor training expense (~$8,000), and the January snow event expense ($39,550), leaving about $27,450 remaining in the line item. Council approved a budget amendment to increase funding by $47,550; the motion carried unanimously (motion by Melissa Hunt, second by Monty Long).
Council also approved resolution 2025-008 to consolidate facility-use exemption requests and nonprofit funding applications under the Special Projects Review Committee and passed an ordinance amending Chapter 16 of the town code to reflect that change; both measures passed unanimously.
Consent items on the agenda (resolution 2025-006 covering the financial statements for the six months ended Dec. 30, 2024, approval of agenda-briefing minutes for Jan. 2, 2025, and approval of regular meeting minutes from Jan. 9, 2025) were adopted as part of the consent agenda without recorded opposition.
No public speakers testified during the two rezoning public hearings, and there were no other formal administrative directives recorded at the meeting.
