Council approves 45‑unit townhome project at 1800 North Jupiter Road

The Garland City Council approved a planned development amendment allowing a 45‑unit townhome (single‑family attached) project at 1800 North Jupiter Road, finding the proposal consistent with the comprehensive plan’s compact‑neighborhood guidance.

Staff and the applicant said the property is zoned community retail but that the comprehensive plan supports infill residential in compact‑neighborhood areas. The applicant sought a limited deviation from the townhome lot‑depth standard—no more than five lots with a depth of 80 feet where 90 feet is standard—because of an irregular parcel shape. The plan commission recommended approval with the conditions that the product have rear‑entry garages and that no more than five lots have the reduced depth; staff recommended support.

Maxwell Fisher of Zone Dev, representing the applicant SRRAF, presented the concept plan and described amenity areas, guest parking and a preliminary landscape approach that keeps an existing greenbelt and adds masonry screening along the northern property line adjacent to the commercial development. He told the council the development would provide additional housing options consistent with the comp plan vision and preserve the southern greenbelt and trees.

Councilmember Dutton moved approval; Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Tim Luck seconded. The council voted unanimously to approve the planned development amendment and the requested deviation subject to the plan‑commission conditions: rear‑entry garages and no more than five lots with reduced depth.

Staff said 67 notice letters were mailed; it received several responses with most commenters deferring to the planning commission outcome. Construction‑level plans, landscaping and drainage will be reviewed during site plan and permitting, and the applicant must meet all townhome development standards aside from the approved depth deviation.