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Council revokes SUP for former chemical site, approves rezoning and adopts comprehensive plan updates
Summary
The council voted to revoke a Special Use Permit for the former chemical plant (now sold to Maverick Energy Park LLC), approved rezoning of a 19.99-acre site on County Road 58 to light commercial, and adopted updated comprehensive and major thoroughfare plans during the May 4 meeting.
The Manvel City Council on May 4 approved a series of land-use decisions that could reshape development along two corridors and cleared a longstanding special-use permit at a former chemical site.
After a public hearing and staff report, the council voted to revoke the specific use permit (SUP) previously tied to the HCS chemical plant on Highway 6 at the request of the new owner, Maverick Energy Park LLC. "They're going to be making good use of that and more of a storage and rail kind of a business," city staff told the council. The motion to revoke the SUP was made by Mayor Prom Lans and seconded by Councilman Rossy Knox; the motion passed 5-1.
A resident who lives across Highway 6, Heidi Zeamer, expressed neighborhood concerns: "We're always concerned about all the chemicals there... we're always concerned about that industrial site not getting a lot of chemicals that could catch fire, explode, etc.," she said. City staff and the new owner said the planned operations are transloading and storage rather than chemical manufacture and that prior process equipment is being decommissioned.
Council also moved forward a rezoning request for a 19.99-acre tract at 3404 County Road 58 from single-family residential to light commercial. Staff recommended approval citing the site's major thoroughfare frontage and adjacent commercial uses; the council approved the first reading unanimously and scheduled the second reading for the next meeting.
Separately, the council adopted the second and final readings of the updated Comprehensive Plan and Major Thoroughfare Plan, which incorporate council direction on alignments (for example, changes to Marqu/Markham and Delbella Boulevard shown in the plan). Planning staff said the next implementation steps will include ordinance and zoning-district updates to align code with the new plan.
What happens next: revocation of the SUP reverts the former chemical site to its underlying commercial zoning and allows the new owner to pursue rail-transload and warehouse uses consistent with that zoning. The rezoning and plan amendments will proceed to required second readings or code updates where noted by staff.
