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Planning commission recommends one-acre PDD for McCarty Ranch with narrow exceptions
Summary
After hours of technical presentations and public comment, the Bulverde Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval of a Planned Development District (PDD) to allow about 233 one-acre homes on the McCarty Ranch site, imposing narrowly written exceptions for road geometry, limited drainage encroachments, and tree-survey requirements.
The Bulverde Planning & Zoning Commission on Sept. 16 recommended that the City Council approve a Planned Development District (PDD) for the Macquarie/McCarty Ranch property, endorsing one-acre single-family lots as the base zoning but granting carefully circumscribed exceptions developers said are necessary to build on the site.
Developer representatives told the commission they had revised an earlier, broader request after months of neighborhood input and engineering study. They said the plan now proposes about 233 single-family lots on roughly 329 acres, preserves large tracts of green space and riparian area where possible, and includes a suite of engineering studies—tree inventory, drainage modeling and a preliminary grading plan—aimed at limiting downstream flood impacts.
The commission’s recommendation follows a long technical presentation from the applicant and an…
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