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Commission hears hours-long debate on Cobb Farm West site plan over parking, open space and façade rules
Summary
Planning staff recommended denial of the Cobb Farm West preliminary site plan and open-space plan, citing a per-lot 7% open-space requirement, façade landscape deficiencies and concerns about an applicant-requested 1:200 inline parking ratio; the applicant offered replat and conditional measures but the commission moved to recommend denial.
The Frisco Planning and Zoning Commission on Dec. 9 took up a contested preliminary site plan and open-space plan for the Cobb Farm West office development and heard extended discussion on parking, pedestrian frontage and how open space must be provided on individual lots.
Staff recommended denial, telling commissioners that Plan Development 158 requires 7% open space on each lot and that Lot 4 currently shows about 2.1% open space. Jonathan (planning staff) said the application also does not meet zoning subsection 4.02.07’s façade landscape requirement — a 15-foot sidewalk with canopy shade trees — in one portion of a building, and that granting an inline 1:200 parking ratio risks parking shortages and related safety and circulation issues. “At the end of the…
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