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McAllen commission approves rezoning, contracts and routine items including $110,500 hydrologic study
Summary
Without public opposition, the commission approved multiple planning and zoning items (rezonings, conditional use permits, subdivision variances), awarded a $110,500 contract to Half and Associates for a hydrologic study for a new municipal golf course, renewed a Pepsi pouring rights agreement, approved a roadway abandonment and an airport budget amendment, and confirmed advisory-board appointments; the meeting recessed to executive session with no subsequent action.
The McAllen City Commission approved a series of routine planning, procurement and administrative items, including rezonings, conditional-use permits, subdivision variances and multiple contract awards.
Planning staff presented a set of zoning items forwarded from the Planning & Zoning Commission. The items included rezoning at 1141 North 10th (M2 to R2), rezoning at 2315 South Macall (C3L to R3A), a conditional use permit for a church at 2100 Fur Avenue and a conditional use permit for a welding shop at 601 East Bowmont. The commission asked for public comment; no one spoke against the items and a motion to approve each item carried.
Staff recommended and the commission approved a professional-services contract to Half and Associates for hydrologic and hydraulic analysis tied to the city’s new municipal golf course project; the recommended contract amount is $110,500.
The commission also approved continuing the city’s pouring-rights relationship with Pepsi after a solicitation produced a favorable offer, and approved abandonment of a 40-foot county right-of-way adjacent to 1300 Military Highway so the right-of-way can be shifted north and incorporated into a military-industrial park subdivision.
A budget amendment to reimburse the airport fund from the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) fund for an eligible safety management system study was approved. (The meeting transcript records the amendment as for fiscal year "2526"; clerks later confirmed this refers to fiscal year 2025–26.)
Mario Delgado presented an annual update to the transit department’s Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan required by the Federal Transit Administration; the commission approved the update.
The commission approved variances for Imperial Estates Phase 2 (8600 North 29th) and for the Woodland subdivision (601 South Taylor) after staff and planning commission recommendations that constraints and neighboring development make the requested collector connections impracticable.
Nominations to advisory boards were approved as presented: Eric Olin (Parks & Recreation board), Marta Quer Munoz (Friends of Kinta), Briea Castillo (Convention Center board), Sandy Towell (McAllen Library board) and Leslie Wilson (Friends of Kinta).
An item previously tabled regarding a 1/4-mile collector alignment was taken off the table; staff reported mailed notifications to adjacent property owners produced no response and recommended a plan that shifts a collector and takes 30 feet rather than 60; the commission approved the action. The commission recessed into executive session later in the meeting and returned with no action on executive-session items before adjourning.
Where the transcript records brief motions and votes, roll-call tallies are not recorded; the minutes record outcomes as "motion carries."
