Planning Report
AESA16-0002/Ryan Meadows Phase 2
City Council District 4
Planning & Zoning Commission
October 26, 2016
REQUEST:
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Hold a public hearing and consider making a recommendation to City Council regarding a request for an Alternative Environmentally Sensitive Area for the Ryan Meadows Addition, Phase 2. The approximately 37.35 acre subject property is generally located on the south side of Ryan Road, approximately 2,000 feet east of Country Club Road. (AESA16-0002, Ryan Meadows Phase 2, Mike Bell)
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OWNER/APPLICANT:
DR Horton, Inc.
BACKGROUND:
Ryan Meadows is a proposed single-family subdivision located on a total of approximately 75 acres on the south side of Ryan Road, to the west and south of Wayne Stuart Ryan Elementary School. A Final Plat for Phase 1 of the development (FP14-0008) was approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission on August 5th, 2015. As part of the platting of Phase 2 (FP16-0010), the applicant is required to extend Creekdale Drive, a collector street with 65 feet of right-of-way, to the southern boundary of the property. The conceptual alignment of Creekdale Drive was established by the City of Denton Mobility Plan to serve as an east-west Collector Street running parallel to Ryan Road and Hickory Creek Road, between Teasley Lane (FM 2181) and the Kansas City Southern Railroad. Before intersecting with the railroad, the western portion of the alignment curves north to Ryan Road, bisecting the subject property.
The proposed Creekdale alignment, however, encroaches into Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) in the southern portion of Ryan Meadows. Encroachment into these areas, even for a street required by the City of Denton Mobility Plan, is not exempt from the ESA regulations in Subchapter 17 of the Denton Development Code (DDC) and requires approval of an Alternative ESA Plan by the City Council.
A field assessment conducted in 2014 confirmed the presence of the following ESA's on the southern portion of Ryan Mea...
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