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Hitchcock Planning and Zoning Commission approves two residential rezones at 8400 Center St. and 7727 Prairie St.
Summary
The commission unanimously approved rezoning requests for 8400 Center Street and 7727 Prairie Street to single-family residential, citing legacy zoning inconsistencies and aim to allow homes to be built; no public speakers attended the hearings.
The Hitchcock Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved two zone changes on the agenda during its November meeting, clearing the way for single-family homes at 8400 Center Street and 7727 Prairie Street.
Chairperson Karen Williams read the first application aloud as a request by Sharon Priest to change the zone “from general commercial to single family residential for property located at 8400 Center Street, Hitchcock, Texas, Galveston County” (Property ID 502630). No applicant or public speakers were present for either hearing. After a brief discussion in which a commissioner described the parcel as “in the middle of the neighborhood” and said the rezoning is “an attempt to…convert…back to single family residential to…build a house,” Commissioner Matt moved to approve the Sharon Priest request; Commissioner Anna Dellinger seconded the motion and the commission voted unanimously to approve it.
The commission then considered a similar request from Marco Gonzalez to rezone 7727 Prairie Street (Property ID 287931) from agricultural-residential to single-family residential. A commissioner characterized the parcel as a legacy lot that is “too small to be agricultural residential” and said prior subdivision likely left the zoning inconsistent with current lot size. A motion to approve that rezoning was made and seconded (recorded as seconded by Maryce) and the commission again approved the request unanimously.
Both approvals were described by commissioners as corrections to legacy or outdated zoning designations that did not reflect existing neighborhood patterns. Commissioners noted there is no known general commercial activity at the Center Street lots and that animals are currently on one of the parcels; the speaker said animals could remain under the proposed residential designation.
The commission announced additional procedural and community items before adjournment: the city will hold a Christmas vendor market and tree-lighting event on Saturday, Nov. 30, spanning City Hall and the EDC parking lot, and the commission discussed moving the December meeting to Tuesday, Dec. 10, so pending preliminary plats (including a section of KV Homes’ Sunset Grove) can be finalized in time for council review.
The meeting adjourned at 6:09 p.m.
