A. CA25-0001a Hold a public hearing and consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas, regarding a Comprehensive Plan amendment from the Agriculture Future Land Use designation to the Master Planned Community Future Land Use designation on approximately 2,499.35 acres generally located west and south of FM 2153, east of FM 2164, and north of Gribble Springs Road and Shepard Road in the City of Denton, Denton County, Texas; adopting an amendment to the City's official Future Land Use Map; providing for a penalty in the maximum amount of $2,000.00 for violations thereof; providing a severability clause and an effective date. The Planning and Zoning Commission voted (4-2) to recommend approval of the request. Motion for approval by Commissioner McDade and seconded by Commissioner Dyer. (CA25-0001a, Craver Ranch MPC, Mia Hines)
The 2040 Comprehensive Plan advocates "Conservation Development which retains rural character, protects open space and greenways, enhances development value, and provides greater land use pattern choices to landowners. While the Land Use Element does not seek to impede approved developments in outlying areas, it does support rational, staged development in the fringe and discourages approval of additional large scale planned developments".
This will reduce green space for wild animals, milkweed for monarch butterflies, timber loss, air quality loss, etc.
Property values to go down around the development due to addition of water treatment plant.
Roads are already overused and will not be able to accommodate this development.
No Guarantee for schools/fire/businesses right away.
Too far away from Denton, leapfrogging development that could happen more south.
There has not been a study done on a planned development this big.
This amendment does not represent the values of Dentonites nor the spirit of the Comprehensive Plan. I am concerned about the green space that will be lost, the burned to our infrastructure, and the cost to Denton. Additionally, Craver Ranch is so far beyond the city that I'm concerned its residents will take their business to Sanger rather than traveling to Denton to shop.
This amendment forces Denton to absorb a massive city-scale project in an area with none of the infrastructure needed to support it. Even P&Z was split—two opposed and one approved it only on “good faith.” The developer’s own phasing shows no functional fire, EMS, schools, or commercial services for at least a decade, leaving thousands in an isolated area the city will pay to cover in the interim. It also locks future councils into decades of costly commitments with no guaranteed tax benefits.
The 2040 Comprehensive Plan advocates "Conservation Development which retains rural character, protects open space and greenways, enhances development value, and provides greater land use pattern choices to landowners. While the Land Use Element does not seek to impede approved developments in outlying areas, it does support rational, staged development in the fringe and discourages approval of additional large scale planned developments".
This will reduce green space for wild animals, milkweed for monarch butterflies, timber loss, air quality loss, etc.
Property values to go down around the development due to addition of water treatment plant.
Roads are already overused and will not be able to accommodate this development.
No Guarantee for schools/fire/businesses right away.
Too far away from Denton, leapfrogging development that could happen more south.
There has not been a study done on a planned development this big.
This amendment does not represent the values of Dentonites nor the spirit of the Comprehensive Plan. I am concerned about the green space that will be lost, the burned to our infrastructure, and the cost to Denton. Additionally, Craver Ranch is so far beyond the city that I'm concerned its residents will take their business to Sanger rather than traveling to Denton to shop.
This amendment forces Denton to absorb a massive city-scale project in an area with none of the infrastructure needed to support it. Even P&Z was split—two opposed and one approved it only on “good faith.” The developer’s own phasing shows no functional fire, EMS, schools, or commercial services for at least a decade, leaving thousands in an isolated area the city will pay to cover in the interim. It also locks future councils into decades of costly commitments with no guaranteed tax benefits.