Plano approves 50-home rezoning near Plano East Senior High School
A 50-home neighborhood is headed to Los Rios Boulevard, directly across from Plano East, after Plano council backed it unanimously.
A new 50-home subdivision is set to rise across from Plano East Senior High School, bringing more cars, more front-loaded driveways and a denser residential edge to one of east Plano’s most watched corridors.
Plano City Council unanimously approved the rezoning April 27 for 14.1 acres along Los Rios Boulevard, changing the land from estate development to planned development for single-family homes. The site sits north of Meadows Baptist Church and west of Plano East, putting the project squarely inside a school-area corridor where drop-off lines, church traffic and neighborhood streets already overlap.
The plan calls for 50 single-family homes on 7,000-square-foot lots, with larger 9,000-square-foot lots at the ends of blocks. Each home will have a three-car garage, and the design includes a 20-foot landscape buffer along the western boundary, an 8-foot metal fence and one tree planted every 30 feet. For nearby property owners, those features are the main visual shield between the new homes and the existing corridor.
The city’s approval came after months of review. The proposal was first tabled by the Plano Planning and Zoning Commission in November 2025, then returned in March 2026 after additional discussion with the developer, the property owner and nearby residents. The commission asked that the single-family rezoning be converted into a planned development, and the case was presented again April 2 before going to council.
Mayor John Muns said support from the neighborhood stood out. “The support that the neighbors have for this, we quite frankly don’t see that a lot, so it’s refreshing,” he said. Community Impact reported that multiple residents and council members backed the zoning change, citing the project’s proximity to the high school and the scale of the lots.
The rezoning also reflects the squeeze on buildable land in Plano. Christina Day, the city’s planning director, said in July 2025 that only 4% of Plano’s land remained undeveloped, pushing the city toward more creative ways to meet demand for single-family housing. That pressure has come as Plano’s housing market has cooled, with Zillow placing the city’s average home value at $498,989 as of March 31, down 5.3% from a year earlier, and Redfin putting the March median sale price at $490,000, down 10.9%.
The tract also sits on the edge of a larger east Plano landscape. Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve, Plano’s largest park, extends to Los Rios Boulevard, underscoring how the corridor is becoming a tightly managed mix of homes, schools, church activity and city green space.
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