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Cluster development zoning 1 home per 0.7 acres of land

Flower Mound adjusts district housing options

The decision to remove the cluster develop- ment option came after a series of pub- lic feedback and outcry. The town held a series of pub- lic hearings

CLUSTER DEVELOPMENTS Cluster developments allow developers to have more houses per acre than other types of development options within the Cross Timbers Conservation Development District. The Flower Mound Town Council removed cluster developments as an option for future developments.

Cross Timbers Conservation District

Agricultural zoning 1 home per 2 acres of land

BY SAMANTHA DOUTY

regarding the district earlier this year. During these hearings, a major- ity in attendance said they were not pleased with cluster developments. The change will have no impact on previously approved cluster develop- ments that are in the process of con- struction, Murphy said. “What we heard from residents is, as some people felt, all of those developments weren’t always meet- ing their expectations when it came to actual conservation of natural resources,” she said.

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Flower Mound Town Council removed cluster developments from the land use and zoning of the Cross Timbers Conservation Development District in November. This will aect the types of developments that can move into the district in the future. The change means developers can no longer use the cluster develop- ment zoning option when looking at the Cross Timbers Conservation Development District. Instead they can use the other development options, which includes conserva- tion developments and agricultural developments. A cluster development allowed for more homes in a given development than the other development option, which meant there were more homes

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on a given piece of land. “It did allow an increase in den- sity. It allowed a [maximum] density of one unit per 1.6 acres looking at an overall density for the development, as opposed to the one unit per 2 acres, which is more typical of the district,” said Lexin Murphy, Flower Mound planning services director. The Cross Timbers Conser- vation Development District is

predominately residential. “[Cluster development zoning] really didn’t have specic standards called out for it. The only reference to it was in the town’s master plan,” Murphy said. “Because it was in the master plan, it didn’t require a mas- ter plan amendment to [use cluster developments], but it didn’t have real specic standards that you would see in our ordinances.”

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