Planning Report
Z16-0012/McKinney Street Office
City Council District 1
Planning & Zoning Commission
August 10, 2016
REQUEST:
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Hold a public hearing and consider making a recommendation to City Council regarding a rezoning request from a Neighborhood Residential 4 (NR-4) District to a Neighborhood Residential Mixed Use (NRMU) District on an approximately 0.17 acre property located at 309 Hettie Street, in the City of Denton, Denton County, Texas. (Z16-0012, McKinney Street Office, Mike Bell)
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OWNER:
Roger Yale, AHYLC
APPLICANT:
Bill Hidell and Anthony Blaas, Hidell and Associates Architects
BACKGROUND:
The purpose of the request is to rezone a single-family lot within the College View Addition from an NR-4 District to an NRMU District to allow for a commercial development. The applicant intends to combine the site with three lots to the south along East McKinney Street (1317, 1403, & 1409 E McKinney St) already within an NRMU zoning district. When combined, the subject property would be the location of parking spaces and dumpsters serving the proposed development.
SITE DATA:
The subject property is platted as Lot 9, Block 10 of the College View Addition, a residential subdivision that dates back to the 1920's and was one of Denton's first traditional, single-family neighborhoods east of the railroad. The majority of lots in this neighborhood, including the subject property, range from 7,000 to 8,000 square feet and front north-south residential streets. This land use pattern remains largely intact today with the exception of a school, several churches, and the single-family lots that once fronted East McKinney Street.
The majority of the single-family lots along McKinney Street have transitioned to commercial uses over time as the east side of Denton grew rapidly in the late 20th-century and McKinney Street became a major connector from downtown to the new Denton County facilities and developments along Loop 288. This transition was recognized a...
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