The Planning and Zoning Commission will hold two public hearings Thursday on the Covey Creek subdivision, giving residents a chance to weigh in on how densely the roughly 237 acres east of Coffey Road and south of FM 428 can be built.
The commission meets at 6 p.m. Oct. 8 in the council chambers at 226 Countryside Drive. Its recommendations go to the City Council, which is scheduled on Oct. 22 to take up, in order, annexing the land, changing its future land use designation and zoning it.
Density is the first question
The city's comprehensive plan labels the property Rural Life, a category meant for fewer than four homes per acre. The developer's zoning would allow up to 1,100 single-family lots, which works out to about 4.6 homes per acre, so the first hearing is on reclassifying the land as Residential (Medium Density), which allows four to eight per acre.
Senior Planner Muzaib Riaz's staff report recommends approving both requests, noting the site sits just west of the Chaparral Ridge development, which already carries the medium-density label, and calling Covey Creek essentially a continuation of that neighborhood. The zoning recommendation is conditioned on the council approving the annexation and plan change first.
When the report was written, the city had received no responses to its public notices.
What the plan shows
The concept plan lays out 1,086 lots in three phases: 535 that are 40 feet wide and 552 that are 50 feet wide. Under the development agreement the city signed earlier this year with MM Covey Creek 165, LLC, 40-foot lots cannot make up more than half the total.
The draft ordinance also says the cap drops to 850 homes if the developer or an affiliate does not buy an adjoining tract referred to as the Mahard property.
