Frisco City Council approved rezoning the 251.2-acre development to line up with city ordinances April 4 after a unanimous recommendation from Frisco Planning and Zoning Commission members at the March 14 meeting.
“This one is straightforward,” Development Services Director John Lettelleir said. “What they're requesting to do is to remove the distance requirement for alcohol when the planned development request was approved.”
The area, referred to as Planned Development 244 in meeting documents, had previously been following a 2015 ordinance that prohibited the sale of alcohol due to the development’s proximity to churches, schools and hospitals.
The 2015 ordinance also prohibited breweries, brewpubs and wineries in the development, a standard shared by the rest of the city at the time before ordinances approved in 2018 and 2020 changed Frisco’s longstanding stance against brewing and selling alcohol in certain areas.
Frisco Station was not one of the areas included in the updated alcohol-friendly ruling and continued following the restrictions laid out in 2015.
“We're recommending that those [restrictions] be removed so they're treated equally as any other property throughout the city of Frisco,” Lettelleir said.
City Council’s April 4 approval to rezone gave the development access to the privileges in the updated ordinances, according to a city staff report presented at the meeting.
Located on the southwest corner of Dallas Parkway and John Hickman Parkway and adjacent to The Star, the Frisco Station area includes residential, commercial and hotel developments.
