McKinney Council to Consider Multifamily, Industrial Rezonings at March Meeting

McKinney City Council took up two zoning requests Monday that would reshape land along County Road 161 and Woodlawn Road, continuing a stretch of rezoning activity that has moved dozens of acres through the city's planning pipeline over the past year.

The first request seeks multifamily zoning for more than 37 acres along County Road 161. The second would rezone roughly 11 acres at 2906 Woodlawn Road to allow light industrial uses. Neither the applicants nor project-level details such as unit counts or site plans were included in publicly available agenda materials for the March 17 meeting.

The Woodlawn Road proposal follows a pattern of industrial rezoning activity in McKinney. In 2023, the city adopted Ordinance 23-0974, which rezoned an approximately 18.78-acre property at 3200 North Central Expressway from a Planned Center District designation to a Planned Development District, specifically to modify development standards and allow light industrial uses. The ordinance stated that the City Council, after required public hearings before both the Planning and Zoning Commission and the full Council, was "of the opinion that the change in zoning district should be made."

The March 17 agenda items come roughly nine months after the Planning and Zoning Commission cleared two separate rezonings in a unanimous June 10, 2025 vote and forwarded them to City Council for final action in July 2025. One of those cases, numbered 4250028Z/250028Z, converted a PD/REC designation to C-1 commercial at the Alma and Wessex area. The other, case 250048Z, zoned about 88 acres to the R-6 single-family residential district on the west side of County Road 168, roughly 2,600 feet north of Coughlin Parkway.

Planner Jake Bennett presented the County Road 168 request at the June commission hearing. Sandra Lee, representing developer Highland Homes, described a concept plan contemplating roughly 300 lots with a minimum lot size of 6,000 square feet, about 15 percent open space, drainage areas, and on-site amenities. The plan anticipated a phase-one construction start at the end of 2025, with phase two to follow at least six months later. The property owner had also requested annexation into city limits, though that action was deferred to a separate Council meeting.

Commissioners pressed staff on whether the site could be served by existing water and sewer infrastructure. Staff responded that there is potential capacity depending on the timing of development, and noted there are differing sewer pressure planes in the area. The commission closed the public hearing and approved the R-6 zoning 7-0.

Full details on the two items before Council on March 17, including case numbers, applicant identities, and staff reports, are available in the Council agenda packet through the city's public records portal.