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Council approves Boulder/Texas rezoning after developer concessions to adjacent church
Summary
The council approved a rezoning and tentative map for a 28-acre Boulder/Texas site after the developer agreed to increased rear setbacks, an eight-foot decorative wall, a prohibition on balconies for lots adjacent to the church, and landscape buffering to address privacy concerns.
The Henderson City Council approved a zone change, waivers and a tentative map for a 28‑acre development at Boulder and Texas that will convert a previously approved higher‑density RH36 site to neighborhood mixed‑use with single‑family and townhome lots.
Staff described a package of concessions the applicant agreed to after meeting with the adjacent church’s representatives: for the eight lots immediately adjacent to the church parcel, the developer agreed to a minimum rear setback of 14.5 feet (with some lots up to 19 feet), to prohibit balconies on those lots, to construct an eight‑foot decorative block wall on the residential side (with retaining walls potentially increasing apparent height on the church side), and to install two 24‑inch box evergreen trees in each rear yard prior to the issuance of certificates of occupancy.
Tom Amick, representing the applicant (Lennar), said the project downzones the site from the previously approved RH36 multifamily zoning and reduces potential density from 749 units to 348 units with for‑sale housing replacing prior rental proposals. “We’re going from RH36 to MN…so that that goes from 749 approved total units to the 348 that we are asking for now,” Amick said.
Priyesh/Price Joseph (speaker 8), representing St. Mother Teresa Catholic Church, had asked earlier for a continuance and raised procedural due‑process concerns tied to a March 11 staff report revision; staff and the applicant described additional exhibits and memorialized the proposed buffering and disclosure commitments. City legal staff cautioned that certain homeowner disclosure conditions are not typically a regulatory requirement but that the applicant may provide disclosures voluntarily.
Councilmembers described the concessions as a fair compromise compared with previously approved higher‑density proposals, and a motion to approve with the conditions described passed on a voice vote; the recorder announced all members voted in favor.
