Council approves planned development for townhouses on North Joe Wilson Road despite setback concerns

The Cedar Hill City Council on June 23 adopted ordinance No. 2026-876, rezoning approximately 3.51 acres at 208 North Joe Wilson Road from SF-7 and SF-22 to a planned development district to allow attached single-family townhouses.

Council discussion included a formal objection from a council member who said the planned development’s setbacks could permit a two-story building to sit 5 feet from an adjacent property line. The council member said, “I’m going to be opposed to this. For the same reason I opposed the PD in that. I still think that there was an oversight by the council and that there is 1 building at the back of this development that the side of that building faces the neighborhood instead of the back of that building facing the neighborhood.” The concern focused on what that member described as an oversight in how building sides versus rears were treated in the PD standards.

Mayor Pro Tem Glover moved to adopt the ordinance; a second was recorded and the council adopted the ordinance after the secretary read the ordinance caption. The ordinance text, as read aloud at the meeting, described amendments to the zoning map and adoption of PD concept plans and development standards. The transcript does not record a roll-call vote tally by name; the council recorded the motion as adopted.

The ordinance establishes the PD concept plan and building elevations for the property in the James Evans survey, abstract no. 435, Cedar Hill, Dallas County. The council did not provide additional modifications to the setback provisions during the meeting and did not indicate further staff direction on design changes.

Next steps: the ordinance was adopted at the meeting and will be published as required; the transcript does not specify any follow-up tasks or an appeal timeline.