From
Monica Espinoza, Executive Assistant
Title
CPA201001 - Comprehensive Plan Amendment - 2601 Hines Avenue (City Council District 1). A request to change the Future Land use Map from Mixed use to Commercial, Retail, and Office. Located at 2601 Hines Avenue, legally described as Cox and Hines Located at 2601 Hines Avenue, legally described as Cox and Hines Subdivision, Lots 1-3, 4A, 5 A, 6-8, Block D, City of Grand Prairie, Tarrant County, Texas, zoned Commercial Office District, and generally located south of Hines Avenue and west of South Great Southwest Parkway.(On October 26, 2020, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of this request by a vote of 9-0).
Presenter
Savannah Ware, AICP, Chief City Planner
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
SUMMARY:
Comprehensive Plan Amendment to change the Future Land Use Map from Mixed Use to Commercial/Office/Retail. Located at 2601 Hines Avenue, legally described as Lots 1-3, 4A-5A, 6-8, Block D, L. Cox and C. Hines Resubdivision, City of Grand Prairie, Tarrant County, Texas, zoned Commercial Office District, and generally located south of Hines Avenue and west of South Great Southwest Parkway.
PURPOSE OF REQUEST:
The applicant is proposing to construct a commercial business with later phasing in retail/restaurants along the Great Southwest Parkway frontage. The request is for a change from Mixed Use to Commercial/Retail/Office on the Future Land Use Map (FLUM). The 2018 update to the Comprehensive Plan defines these categories as follows:
Commercial/Retail/Office (pg. 58 of the Comprehensive Plan):
Commercial uses are more intense than retail establishments, yet also provide goods and services for the public. Examples of commercial establishments would include hotels, automotive services, and big box retailers.
Retail
This land use type is intended to provide for a variety of restaurants, shops, grocery stores, and personal service establishments. Retail uses require high visibility locations and should be located in high-traffic areas such as along arterial roadways.
Office
Office areas provide for low- to medium-rise suburban-scale developments. Generally, permitted uses include corporate, professional, medical and financial offices as well as offices for individuals and non-profit organizations. These areas can also serve as a lower intensity transitional use to adjacent residential areas.
Mixed Use (pg. 58 of the Comprehensive Plan):
Areas with this land use designation are intended for an appropriately planned mixture of non-residential and residential uses. They are referred to as mixed-use because it is envisioned that these areas would be integrated developments of retail, public, office, and entertainment, with a residential component appropriately blended into larger scale buildings that would otherwise be used to support those uses independently. Mixed-use areas are intended to provide flexibility for the City and the development community in order to encourage innovative, unique, and
sustainable developments. Residential uses in mixed-use developments have begun to appeal to seniors or younger generations. Walkable connections to shopping and dining should be key components of the mixed-use areas. There are two types of mixed-use - vertical and horizontal. Vertical mixed-use (sometimes referred to as New Urbanism) incorporates multiple uses in one
building on different floors. For example, a building could have shops and dining on the first floor and residential and office on the remaining floors. Horizontal mixed-use is defined generally as different land uses on different lots in one area, and is not intended to be included with this description.
ANALYSIS:
The proposed change will bring consistency with the FLUM with the surrounding area and land uses. Staff sees Mixed Use unrealistic for the area since there is existing commercial to the east and the hospital district to the south. The intent of having Commercial/Retail/Office uses at this location is to provide a location for the applicant’s commercial business, attract other commercial businesses, offer possibilities of restaurant and retail uses along Great Southwest Parkway and diversify the tax base.
RECOMMENDATION:
The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval by a vote of 9-0.
Development Review Committee (DRC) recommends approval of the requested amendment to the FLUM.
Body
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS AMENDING THE 2018 FUTURE LAND USE MAP, A COMPONENT OF THE 2018 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, TO CHANGE THE CLASSIFICATION OF LOTS 1-3, 4A-5A, 6-8, BLOCK D, L. COX AND C. HINES RESUBDIVISION, CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS, FROM MIXED USE TO COMMERCIAL/RETAIL/OFFICE; AND MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, Section 1.11.5.1 of the Unified Development Code of the City of Grand Prairie, Texas stipulates that the Planning and Zoning Commission shall conduct a public hearing and make recommendations to the City Council on amendments to the Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, Notice was given of a public hearing on proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan to be held by the Planning and Zoning Commission of Grand Prairie, Texas, in the City Hall Plaza Building, at 6:30 P.M. on October 26, 2020, such Notice of the time and place of such hearing having been given at least ten (10) days prior to such hearing by publication in the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, a newspaper of general circulation in such municipality; and
WHEREAS, after consideration of said amendment, the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Grand Prairie, Texas voted 9 to 0 to recommend approval to the City Council of Grand Prairie, Texas, that said Comprehensive Plan should be approved since its provisions are in the public interest and will promote the health, safety and welfare of the community; and
WHEREAS, Notice was given of a further public hearing to be held by the City Council of the City of Grand Prairie, Texas, in the City Hall Plaza Building, at 6:30 P.M. on November 17, 2020, to consider the advisability of amending the Comprehensive Plan as recommended by the Planning and Zoning Commission, such Notice of the time and place of such hearing having been given at least fifteen (15) days prior to such hearing by publication in the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, a newspaper of general circulation in such municipality.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT the Future Land Use Map for 2018 Comprehensive Plan for the City of Grand Prairie be amended and revised and described as follows:
A. Change the Future Land Use classification from MIXED USE to COMMERCIAL/RETAIL/OFFICE on Property Delineated As Lot 1-3, 4A-5A, 6-8, Block D, L. Cox and C. Hines Resubdivision, City of Grand Prairie, Tarrant County, Texas, as depicted in Exhibit A - Location Map.
SECTION 2. THAT if any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such provisions and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof.
SECTION 3. THAT this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, THIS the 17TH OF NoVEMBER 2020.
orDINANCE NO. 10936-2020
CASE NO. cpa201001