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Consider public testimony regarding, and an Ordinance Approving an Amendment to the Comprehensive Plan 2030 to modify the Future Land Use Map to allow mixed-use development on 1.02 acres located at 3751 Fischer Cove. (First Reading)*
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The applicant, Trine Engineering, PLLC, is requesting to amend the FLUM (Future Land Use Map) of the Round Rock 2030 Comprehensive Plan for 1.02 acres from Residential to the Mixed Use land designation. The Round Rock 2030 Comprehensive Plan encourages mixed-use development in locations that are compatible with surrounding areas and supported by employment and transportation infrastructure. The mixed-use land use designation is designed for general use rather than being location specific. The designation provides relief to allow the development of infill lots that are constrained by suburban commercial development standards. A rezoning request for the MU-R (Mixed-Use - Redevelopment and Small Lot) district is under consideration as a separate agenda item to support this proposal.
The Comprehensive Plan designation of Mixed-Use allows for mixed-use developments with the following location criteria:
-This land must be located so that mixed-use is compatible with surrounding area and is supported by employment and transportation infrastructure. Designation of an area for mixed-use generally requires the area to have certain characteristics which support this combination of uses.
-Redevelopment mixed-use (MU-R) should be located along commercial collector or arterial roadways where the desired development or redevelopment cannot be accommodated with existing commercial district standards.
With its location along Red Bud Lane in an area with a mixture of commercial and large lot single-family uses, the subject tract meets the location criteria above.
Since this tract does not qualify for the commercial land use designation that accommodates the proposed use of indoor entertainment, the mixed-use designation provides ...
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