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Commission recommends CDO changes to regulate group homes, event centers and battery/data facilities
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted May 1 to recommend ordinance 2026-1526, a package of CDO amendments that add conditional/specific-use rules and new definitions for group homes/transitional living facilities, event centers, battery energy storage systems and data centers; residents raised safety and nuisance concerns about a nearby residential treatment center during public comment.
The Fulshear Planning and Zoning Commission voted on May 1 to recommend approval of ordinance 2026-1526, a coordinated development ordinance update that adds conditional and specific-use regulations for group homes and transitional living facilities, creates a separate specific-use category for event centers, and places stringent conditions on battery energy storage systems (BESS) and data centers.
Staff told the commission the package responds to uses that are increasingly appearing in the area and aims to balance residents’ concerns with compliance with state and federal law. Key proposed requirements for group homes include listing them as conditional uses in residential districts, requiring a conditional use permit and a certificate of occupancy, submission of the state license to the city, inspections and a Type B buffer yard (opaque fence/wall) along single-family property lines. The draft also proposes a…
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