AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Department of Development Services
ACM: Jon Fortune
DATE: September 20, 2016
SUBJECT
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Hold a public hearing and consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas, regarding a rezoning request of approximately 80.49 acres of land from a Neighborhood Residential 2 (NR-2) District and a Neighborhood Residential Mixed Use (NRMU) District to a Community Mixed Use General (CM-G) District, and an initial zoning of approximately 1.67 acres of land from Rural Residential (RD-5X) District to a Community Mixed Use General (CM-G) District, generally located on the east side of Teasley Lane, approximately 825 feet south of Montecito Drive. The Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval (5-0). (Z16-0010)
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BACKGROUND
The subject property is comprised of three parcels of land. The approximately 76.9-acre parcel (Parcel 1) where the existing John H Guyer High School is sited is zoned NR-2 District. The approximately 1.3-acre tract (Parcel 2) was rezoned in 2008 from NR-2 District to NRMU District. The remaining approximately 3.9-acre tract (Parcel 3) has a split zoning. A 2.23 acre portion of the parcel located along Teasley Lane is zoned NR-2 District, and the remaining 1.67 acres was annexed in 2013 and is in a RD-5X District. In order to facilitate additions to the existing high school, the applicant is seeking to establish a unified designation of CM-G district for all three parcels. According to the project narrative, the applicant intends to replat the three parcels into one lot under the new zoning designation to facilitate further development for the existing school. All three parcels are under the ownership of Denton ISD.
Texas case law generally prohibits enforcement of zoning restrictions upon the location of any public school, so despite the high school use not being reflected as a permitted use in NR-2 District and RD-5X, the use by Denton ISD is allowed by right. The high school is, howeve...
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