The Cross Timbers Business Park site application includes a zoning change from interim holding and agricultural district to planned development district No.188 with campus industrial and industrial district-2 uses, according to the April 11 Planning and Zoning Commission agenda item.
The Flower Mound Town Council will hear and tentatively vote on the development plan during its April 18 meeting.
Organized opposition
More than 200 people crowded the Flower Mound Town Council chambers during the planning and zoning meeting April 11. A majority of those in attendance wore white T-shirts showing their opposition to the business park and specifically warehouses. Many wore a round yellow sticker opposing warehouses as well.
Commissioner Robbie Cox made the motion to deny approval of the project because he does not see that it falls in line with the town’s Master Plan.
Cox said the project is not compatible with the surrounding neighborhoods. The Master Plan looks to protect the rural character of Flower Mound, guide growth in an orderly and responsive way and provide availability of appropriate services to residents.
Before the proposal made it to planning and zoning, the Argyle ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved a resolution opposing the Cross Timbers Business Park in Canyon Falls during an April 4 meeting.
The proposed plan
Brad Cooper, managing director of development for Crow Holdings Industrial, presented the plans for Cross Timbers Business Park during the meeting.
“What we are proposing is 100% compliant in the town’s Master Plan,” Cooper said.
Crows Holding Industrial submitted the application for about 263 acres of land located generally north of Cross Timbers Road and west of U.S. 377, according to the town of Flower Mound.
The conceptual site plan has been designated to meet the demand for Alliance Corridor submarket, which is predominantly for distribution warehouses, according to the application. Cross Timbers Business Park, according to the application, would establish a Class A business park to accommodate a variety of tenants including light and general industrial.
A traffic impact analysis was done on the site by the town. Additional roads are planned through the development and an additional stop light will be added onto Cross Timbers Road, Cooper said. Trucks will also be prohibited from exiting the development on the north side into the nearby residential area.
Since the summer 2021, the plan has been reduced by nearly 500,000 square feet, Cooper said.
Similar projects in Flower Mound
This development is not a first for Crow Holdings in Flower Mound. It recently developed a portion of the Lakeside Business District buildings, he said. The proposed development is similar to Lakeside warehouses in that it is near a school and residential homes, he said.
“This is going to be the nicest development in Texas for this type of use,” said Cooper, who was met with laughter from the crowd.
Town Planner Claire Barnes said the application requested changes including: additional height from 35-45 feet to a height up to 60 feet; 10 one-story buildings for a total conceptual building area of 3,270,140 square feet; and modifications to the compatibility buffer on the northwest quadrant to change the location of the masonry wall. Also, to address height and compatibility concerns, the applicant proposed increased building setbacks and landscape buffers along Cross Timbers Road and Denton Creek Boulevard.
The tenants for the development are unknown at this time, Cooper said.
About four people spoke in favor of the development including Flower Mound resident Patsy Mizeur.
Mizeur would like to see the development approved so the town can gain more commercial revenue, as the Lakeside Business District has warehouses and is thriving at a larger scale than what is proposed for the Cross Timbers Business Park.
“Don’t push aside the tax dollars that will come from this development,” she said.
More than 30 people, who live in the surrounding community including Flower Mound, Argyle and North Lake, spoke out against the proposed development during the meeting.
Flower Mound resident Stacie Bambauer said Argyle ISD—the local entity that had the most to gain financially from the project—opposed the development, and she believes the planning and zoning commission should not recommend the proposal to Town Council.
“This project is a dumpster fire,” she said. “Your residents, the people that you represent, don’t want this.”
