Title
Review and Consideration of a Detailed Site Plan at Somerset Addition for a Townhouse Development on Approximately 20.362 Acres Being a Tract of Land Situated in the Seth M. Blair Survey, Abstract No. 72, in the City of Mansfield, Johnson County, Texas at 2401 S US 287; Impression Homes, Builder; MESA Design Group Developer; LJA Engineering, Engineer; and Hanover Services Group, Inc., Owner (DS#24-001)
Requested Action
To review and consider the Detailed Site Plan.
Recommendation:
The Hanover PD, Planned Development District (the “PD, Planned Development District”) for Somerset was purposefully conceived to deliver “a mixed-use community” that allows for “a range of single-family residential housing options, as well as townhouse and mixed-use commercial areas”. The PD, Planned Development District for Somerset allocates the uses of buildings and their lots through the Development Plan (EXHIBIT “C”). Allocation of land uses is further directed through districts; the site plan submitted for approval is located within the Townhouse / Mixed-use (“TH-MU”) District (i.e., a sub-district of the PD, Planned Development District for Somerset).
The TH-MU District allows townhouses, provided that such residential units are designed, constructed, and used in accordance with the provisions set forth in the Mansfield Zoning Ordinance. Although the rules and regulations in the PD, Planned Development District and the TH-MU District establish minimum standards for the use, the design, and the construction of townhouses, those same rules and regulations do not limit nor restrict the ability to innovate or to elevate urban design and other related site design considerations that are most appropriate for a site with high visibility from U.S. Highway 287.
Although the use of the property is appropriate --- there are opportunities to substantially improve upon the site layout and to introduce elevated urban design that reinvigorates the practices and the techniques that ...
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