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Texarkana council approves multiple rezonings, site plans and contracts
Summary
The council approved several ordinances and resolutions Feb. 9, 2026, including rezoning and specific-use permits at 1009 Blanton Street, a site plan for HealthCare Express, a rezoning at 3506 Moores Lane, right-of-way abandonments, budget amendments, and city audit and records contracts.
The Texarkana City Council on Feb. 9, 2026 approved a slate of ordinances and resolutions covering land use, budgeting and city contracts.
Key votes and outcomes: the council passed Ord. 2026-001 rezoning Lot 2, Block 3 West Beverly (1009 Blanton Street) from Single Family 2 to Single Family 3; it also passed Ord. 2026-002 granting Specific Use Permit SDash820 to allow a HUD-code manufactured home at the same address. Council approved Ord. 2026-003 amending PD-02-13 to allow the HealthCare Express site plan at 4302 Galleria Oaks Drive after a presentation by Vance Liles of MTG Engineers. The council approved Ord. 2026-005 rezoning an approximately 0.972-acre tract at 3506 Moores Lane from Agriculture to Planned Development General Retail, and Ord. 2026-015 closing and abandoning multiple right-of-way tracts in the Factory Heights addition.
On the consent agenda the council authorized Resolution 2026-018, ratifying a contract with Forvis Mazars LLP to perform the annual financial audit for Texarkana and Texarkana Water Utilities for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2025, not to exceed $178,500. The council also approved a one-time use of fund balance budget amendment (Order 2026-022) adding $4,402,568.58 for FY 2025–26 and an interlocal agreement amendment with Texarkana College for design and construction of the assembly line building (Ord. 2026-024) authorizing up to $2,952,286.15 for the college and $73,069.08 for Bill Patton; Resolution 2026-025 authorized contracting Cofile Technologies Incorporated to image vital statistics records for up to $304,945.85.
Most items were approved by motion and voice vote with no recorded roll-call tallies in the transcript; the mayor stated he would vote and the council recorded 'aye' on the ordinances. Where public hearings were required, hearings were opened and closed with no members of the public speaking on those items before the votes.
What happens next: approved rezoning and site-plan ordinances take effect as provided in the ordinance captions; contract work for audits and records imaging will proceed under the authorized budgets and procurement processes.
