D. CA25-0002 The City of Denton Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing and consider making a recommendation to City Council regarding a Comprehensive Plan amendment on approximately 34.5 acres from Rural Areas Future Land Use designation to Light Industrial Future Land Use designation, generally located south of US380 beginning 0.5 miles east of Geesling Road and extending approximately 0.5 miles east to North Trinity Road in the City of Denton, Denton County, Texas, and on approximately 22.5 acres from Low Residential Future Land Use designation to Community Mixed Use Future Land Use designation, generally located north and south of US380, beginning at North Trinity Road and extending approximately 0.4 miles east in the City of Denton, Denton County, Texas. (CA25-0002, US 380 Corridor FLUM Amendment, Erin Stanley)
This plan will continue the regrettable tradition of maintaining US 380 as a dangerous stroad by creating more allowances for strip malls along this road. Stroads are dangerous because they mix incompatible uses (in this case business access, pedestrian and bicycle traffic, lots of entering and exiting with fast vehicular traffic) on the same street. Please reconsider these development patterns, as they are also incompatible with Denton’s 2040 vision which encourages development in the core.
This plan will continue the regrettable tradition of maintaining US 380 as a dangerous stroad by creating more allowances for strip malls along this road. Stroads are dangerous because they mix incompatible uses (in this case business access, pedestrian and bicycle traffic, lots of entering and exiting with fast vehicular traffic) on the same street. Please reconsider these development patterns, as they are also incompatible with Denton’s 2040 vision which encourages development in the core.