Colony Commerce Center PD-31

The applicant presented the 72-acre, six-building warehouse/office campus, touting a $175 million investment, ~$800,000 annual tax revenue, strong market demand, and agreed to screen all dumpsters, not just along Plano Parkway.

The Billingsley Company, which owns land on all four sides, opposed the warehouses, saying they would destroy the value of its 65-acre ranch house tract and put an industrial look at the front door to Nebraska Furniture Mart.

An engineer for the Billingsley Company warned the site is technically challenging, with five acres of detention draining toward Austin Ranch and the Boathouse, and said they will 'watch them like hawks.'

The applicant's engineer with Kimley-Horn explained the detention is sized at 15 acre-feet and that extensive grading, drainage and traffic work has already been done ahead of the zoning case.