A request to put two long-empty buildings on Business Park Drive back to work returns to the Prosper Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday, Nov. 3, after the Town Council declined to accept the commission's first answer.
In September the commission recommended denying the rezoning on a 5-1 vote, with the chair absent. On Oct. 13 the council voted 7-0 to send the case back to planners for further consideration, according to the staff report for Tuesday's meeting.
The request
The 2-acre site sits on the west side of Business Park Drive about 1,095 feet south of First Street. It is zoned for agriculture and holds two vacant buildings totaling about 18,537 square feet, one of 11,297 square feet and one of 7,240. The applicant wants a planned development district that would let the existing buildings house commercial and light industrial tenants.
The proposed list of allowed uses includes offices, artisan workshops, cabinet and upholstery shops, office-warehouse and office-showroom space, indoor repair services, limited assembly and manufacturing, a health and fitness center, an indoor veterinary clinic and minor auto repair. An indoor gun range and a contractor's shop without outdoor storage would each need a specific use permit.
The buildings could stay as they are, but no additions or expansions would be allowed, only maintenance and repairs.
The road
The owner would dedicate about 30 feet of right-of-way for a future widening of Business Park Drive.
The conceptual plan calls for resurfacing the street with temporary asphalt until the full widening happens, and the proposed standards say that if the road has not been brought up to current town standards within 10 years, the owner would have to rebuild it to those standards at the owner's expense.
The plan also shows a 20-foot landscape buffer along the street, wider than the 15 feet the town normally requires, 51 parking spaces and a dry detention pond. A draft development agreement is now attached to the case.
