The town council approved to modify the zoning to planned development district, which would allow retail and commercial, offices and entertainment options. The motion was made by Council Member Adam Schiestel, and the allowances include but are not limited to feed stores, fire stations, florists, mailing and shipping services, offices and parks.
“The use of warehouses in this location, in my opinion, is not acceptable,” Schiestel said.
Hundreds of people attended the meeting. About 65 people spoke during the meeting and advocated for the project’s denial.
The Cross Timbers Business Park site application included a zoning change from interim holding and agricultural district to planned development district No. 188 with campus industrial and industrial district uses, according to the April 18 council agenda item.
Crows Holding Industrial, the company that filed the proposal, submitted the application for about 263 acres of land located north of Cross Timbers Road and west of U.S. 377, according to the town of Flower Mound.
Cross Timbers Business Park would have established a Class A business park to accommodate a variety of tenants, including light and general industrial, according to the application.
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 Flower Mound Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend denial of the Cross Timbers Business Park during an April 11 meeting. During that meeting, hundreds of residents crowded town hall.
“There are a lot of uses here that make sense,” Council Member Sandeep Sharma said during the April 18 town council meeting. “I don't think a warehouse makes sense.”
