Two vacant buildings on Business Park Drive, south of First Street, are at the center of a zoning request the Prosper Town Council will hear on Tuesday, Oct. 13, with the town's staff and its Planning & Zoning Commission on opposite sides.
The owner, Crossland Texas Industrial LLC, wants to rezone the roughly 2-acre property at 490 Business Park Drive from Agriculture to a Planned Development so the buildings, which the applicant's letter says were built in 2009, can house commercial and light industrial businesses. The two buildings total about 18,537 square feet: 11,297 in one and 7,240 in the other.
What would be allowed
The proposed list of uses includes offices, an artisan's workshop, auto parts sales, minor auto repair, cabinet and upholstery shops, office/showroom and office/warehouse space, limited assembly and manufacturing, research and development, and an indoor veterinarian clinic or kennel. Some uses, including an indoor gun range, a contractor's shop and major auto repair, would need a separate specific use permit.
The buildings could stay as they are, with maintenance and repairs allowed but no additions. The owner would dedicate about 30 feet of right-of-way so Business Park Drive can be widened later.
Under the development standards, the street could be resurfaced with temporary asphalt at first, and if it has not been brought up to current standards within 10 years, the owner would have to rebuild it at its own expense.
The plan also adds a 20-foot landscape buffer along the street, wider than the 15 feet the code requires, and more parking-lot landscaping than required, according to the staff memo. A dry detention pond would sit next to the smaller building.
