City Plan and Zoning commissioners will consider two zoning cases in northern Lake Highlands and Hamilton Park later this week.
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With District 10’s commissioner recently reappointed, the City Plan and Zoning Commission will meet this week on Sept. 18 at 9 a.m. Among zoning proposals currently on the agenda, applications for a former Stults Road church property and an office building near I-635 will be considered.
The first, filed by Parvez Malik, seeks to rezone a 1.01-acre property currently zoned for neighborhood office space as a mixed-used development. A two-story office building currently sits on the site, with a couple of moving companies listing 9241 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy as their address. According to the application case report, Malik says the property “suffers from a persistent high vacancy rate.” and would like to redevelop the property to include retail, medical offices and professional services.
If approved, the rezoning to a multi-family district will allow for a significantly wider array of uses, such as multi-family residential or light commercial development. City staff have recommended the application for approval, owing to compatibility with surrounding development and ForwardDallas 2.0
A Panda Express opened near the property earlier this year.
The second application, filed by Victor Toledo, seeks to rezone a 7.03-acre property on Stults Road, currently zoned for single-family residential development, as a townhouse district. Dallas County currently owns the property, which previously served as the home of Greater Cornerstone Baptist Church for decades before the congregation moved in 2022.
According to the case report, Toledo is seeking to build a single-family development with lot sizes smaller than those allowed under current zoning. His application also asks for consideration to be given to rezoning the property to a multi-family residential district if the initial request is denied.
City staff have found Toledo’s request to be inconsistent with guidelines laid out under ForwardDallas2.0 and existing development in the area, and have instead recommended the property be rezoned as a multi-family residential development.
Dallas County had previously attempted to convert the property into a Parkland Hospital clinic, but was forced to abandon the plan after neighborhood resistance, District 10 Commissioner Tipton Housewright said at an Aug. 28 CPC meeting, when the case was deferred until Sept. 18.
