Planning Report
Z16-0019/Fire Station No. 4
City Council District 2
Planning & Zoning Commission
October 12, 2016
REQUEST:
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Hold a public hearing and consider making a recommendation to City Council regarding a request to rezone approximately 2.06 acres from a Neighborhood Residential 3 (NR-3) District to a Neighborhood Residential Mixed Use 12 (NRMU-12) District. The subject property is generally located at the northeast corner of East Sherman Drive and Kings Row. (Z16-0019, Fire Station No. 4, Mike Bell)
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OWNER:
City of Denton
APPLICANT:
Michael Thomas, MJ Thomas Engineering, LLC
BACKGROUND:
The City of Denton acquired the subject property in 2015 and plans to develop the site with a new fire station to replace the existing Fire Station No. 4, located directly across Kings Row to the south. Fire stations are classified as a "Community Service" use in the Denton Development Code (DDC), and are not permitted in the NR-3 District. To permit development of the fire station, the applicant is requesting to rezone the property to an NRMU-12 District with a Mixed Use Residential Protection Overlay to restrict all uses on the site to only those permitted within the NR-3 District, with the exception of Community Service.
Per Subchapter 35.5.2.4 of the DDC, a Mixed Use Residential Protection Overlay may be used where necessary to address the concerns of existing adjacent residential uses about the incompatibility of a proposed non-residential or multi-family mixed use. As part of the overlay, the applicant may consent to the imposition of increased setbacks, landscaping, screening or buffer requirements along the borders of such existing residential uses, or to the imposition of additional use or performance-based restrictions upon the proposed use.
In order to mitigate any concerns about the property being developed with multi-family, townhomes, or non-residential uses other than a fire station, the applicant is proposing an overlay to restrict all uses...
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