Description
A city-initiated text amendment to the Gateway Overlay District waiver procedures, recommended to City Council with a change requiring masonry or siding instead of wood for dumpster enclosures.
Impact summary
Gives staff flexibility to approve creative site designs on infill lots along 423 and SH 121 without case-by-case council waivers.
Applicant
- Name
- City of The Colony Planning Department (staff-initiated)
At a glance
- Hearings
- 2
- Public comments
- 0
- Total mentions
- 2
Last vote · City Council
Last discussed Mar 17, 2026.
Meeting timeline (2)
City Council - Mar 17, 2026
A zoning text amendment adding three new minor waiver options in the Gateway Overlay District — reduced landscape buffers, alternative dumpster enclosures, and monument sign landscaping substitutions — adopted with the Planning and Zoning Commission's condition excluding wood board-on-board fencing.
Planning & Zoning Commission - Feb 24, 2026
A city-initiated text amendment to the Gateway Overlay District waiver procedures, recommended to City Council with a change requiring masonry or siding instead of wood for dumpster enclosures.
Related issues (1)
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