Richland Park Apartments is set to add five new units after Richardson City Council unanimously approved a zoning change Feb. 9.
The details
The apartment complex, located at 951 Abrams Road, currently has 82 apartment units across four buildings, as well as a leasing and community building that houses the complex’s amenities.
The complex proposed adding five apartment units in underused areas in the leasing and community building, replacing a yoga room, maintenance storage room and portions of the clubhouse on the second, third and fourth floors.
The new apartments would be two studio units and three one-bedroom units.
Richardson’s City Plan Commission recommended approval of the zoning change in January.
What else
The complex originally proposed adding additional parking in order to meet minimum parking requirements. However, after the project architect said the current parking capacity would be enough to accommodate the new units, the City Plan Commission recommended reducing the parking requirement to keep the current number of spaces.
The complex also originally proposed adding either a second playground or an outdoor workout area in an open space to meet the minimum recreational amenities requirement, but the commission recommended allowing a reduction to that requirement so the open space could remain as is.
Council approved the rezoning with both of those changes.
