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Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider/Discuss/Act on the Request by the City of McKinney to Amend Appendix B (Urban Design Standards for the Regional Employment Center) of Chapter 146, Including Section B-1 (Map of Regional Employment Center Overlay Zones) and Section B-2 (Regional Employment Center - Overlay Urban Design Standards), of the Zoning Regulations
Summary
MEETING DATE: April 22, 2014
DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT: Brandon Opiela, Planning Manager
APPROVAL PROCESS: The recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission will be forwarded to the City Council for final action at the May 20, 2014 meeting.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the proposed amendments to Appendix B (Urban Design Standards for the Regional Employment Center) of Chapter 146 of the Code of Ordinances.
ITEM SUMMARY: Staff is proposing a series of amendments to Appendix B (Urban Design Standards for the Regional Employment Center) of the Zoning Ordinance, which corresponds with rezoning requests made within the "REC" - Regional Employment Center Overlay District since 2010. The "REC" - Regional Employment Center Overlay District (approximately 4,500 acres) was originally adopted by the City Council in 2001 and has not been significantly modified or amended since 2003.
The proposed amendments represent Staff's effort to modify existing regulations (which have led to frequent rezoning requests and often considered contrary to current market and development trends) to be more reflective of the development climate without modifying existing property rights. At the request of the City Council, Staff has analyzed all rezoning requests submitted since 2010 for properties within the REC and provided a chart showing each requested modification to the requirements of the REC.
Through this analysis, Staff identified a total of 15 requested modifications to the REC standards spanning 12 development projects. In the attached chart, thes...
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