During the Oct. 21 meeting, council voted 5-1 to pass the second reading for a zoning change and development site plan for Trademark Southlake at White Chapel Boulevard and SH 114.
Council members Randy Williamson, Chuck Taggart, Austin Reynolds, Kathy Talley and Mayor Shawn McCaskill voted in favor of the development and zoning change from an agriculture district to an employment center zoning district.
Frances Scharli was the lone no vote, and Randy Robbins was absent from the meeting.
The first reading during the Oct. 7 meeting, with a 6-1 vote, with Scharli voting against it then as well.
The details
The development plans call for a mix of restaurants, office space, a grocery store and 37 single-family residential lots in a subdivision called Willow Meadows.
There are five different lots on the retail side of the development. Lot 1 will either be a hotel or entertainment venue; Lot 2 is for retail or restaurant uses; Lot 3 is for office or restaurant uses; and lots 4 and 5 are for single-family houses.
Terry Montesi, Trademark Property Company CEO and founder, said his Fort Worth-based business is currently involved in 16 other private partnerships across the United States
Montesi said the development would be anchored by a national organic grocer, which has expressed interest in his company coming to Southlake, but he did not state the name.
The specifics
Commercial buildings will have to be a minimum of 16 feet with a maximum height of 65 feet, with the exception of a hotel.
Plans for a potential hotel or entertainment venue were approved with a stipulation that the hotel could be no more than 84 feet in height. The hotel, which would have a table-service restaurant within or attached, has to be within 1,100 feet of the northern boundary of SH 114 and no closer than 300 feet from East Kirkwood Boulevard.
A gas station was removed as a possible use in the development after being discussed in the first reading.
Another change was to mirror the delivery times allowed to the planned grocery store to the standards required at Central Market, with no tractor-trailer deliveries in the overnight hours.
The background
According to city documents, the original plan presented in March 2024 had 65 townhomes and 18 single-family houses.
The housing approved would range from a minimum of 10,000 square feet for 25 houses or a minimum of 12,000 square feet for 12 houses.
There were some stipulations attached to housing during the second reading. In lots 2 to 14, only seven of the houses can have front-facing garages. Lots 15 to 22 all have side-facing garages.
In addition, no more than two front home elevations shall be similar and have to be separated by at least four homes on the same street, according to city documents.
The developer worked with Lambert Homes for secondary/shared access for the residential portion near the Southlake company’s new headquarters on White Chapel Boulevard.
What else?
To address traffic calming in the retail development, Trademark provided enhanced paving at pedestrian crossings near Promenades A&B. In that same area, parallel parking will be added and golf cart parking.
One more thing
The name Shivers has a long history in Southlake, according to the city website.
In 2021, the city named a park in the Metairie subdivision the John R. and Ora Graham Shivers Park, located near White Chapel and Dove Road. The name honored John, or J.R., Shivers, who was one of the three founding trustees for Carroll School District No. 99 in 1919, according to the Southlake Historical Society website.
The couple lived in a log house and farmed 100 acres that straddled White Chapel Boulevard to Shady Oaks Drive, north of SH 114, according to the city website
