Flower Mound council approves Eden Ranch conservation development with conditions after hourslong hearing

The Flower Mound Town Council approved a package of land‑use actions for the Eden Ranch conservation development late Wednesday night after a multi‑hour public hearing in which neighbors, conservation advocates and the developer debated the project’s design and exceptions to the town’s standards.

The council voted 4–1 to approve a thoroughfare plan amendment that removes an east‑west collector through the site and redesignates a portion of Shiloh Road as an urban minor arterial (L3). The council later approved the project’s planned‑development zoning (L4) and a parks recommendation (L6) by the same 4–1 margin, and it approved a modified tree‑removal request (L5) with five specific specimen trees denied for removal and the remainder allowed under conditions.

Developer Tyler Radbourne and his wife Julia described Eden Ranch as a conservation‑first neighborhood that preserves open space, restores orchards and provides family‑oriented amenities. Randy (McAdams), the project consultant, presented a concept with 167 lots — roughly 72 one‑acre lots, 86 three‑quarter‑acre lots and nine agricultural lots — and an open‑space network that the applicant says will protect slope and tree resources while allowing limited grazing, orchards and community agricultural facilities. The applicant…