Colleyville City Council Passes Amendment To Control Density
The Colleyville City Council has amended its Destination Colleyville plan to keep residential density under control into the future, according to Community Impact News.
A total of 80 amendments were added to the document, with the most notable change being to the classification of density in the city. The limit of 1.8 dwellings per acre remains in place, but will now be assessed using net density, rather than gross density — thus removing features such as roads and parks from calculations. The effect will be to slightly decrease the permissible density for each parcel, with the aim of controlling the scale of tear-down redevelopment.
Council member Mike Taylor, who expressed doubt the amendments would make a meaningful difference, said, “There are no apartments in Colleyville, and there will never be any.”
Other amendments included removing any language pertaining to "transitional" neighborhoods, removing private parks from any accounting of public park space, and specific language for the preservation of existing neighborhood character.
