Plano South | July 2025

Making room From the cover

What’s happening

The gist

Prior to redevelopment, Collin Creek Mall was a fully commercial property. The almost 500 single-family homes set for the development at the corner of Alma Drive and 15th Street when it is finished is indicative of the pattern of downzoning to add housing options in Plano. In June, City Council approved an expansion of a townhome development at Haggard Farms, another mixed-use development set for the corner of Spring Creek Parkway and Windhaven Parkway, which will add to the project’s planned housing component. The city partnered with the developers at both projects to establish public improvement districts, which reallocate sales tax back to development costs. Plano Director of Special Projects Peter Braster said that PIDs “help bring down the cost to the developer so that they can construct homes.” Day added that city staff work with devel- opers to incorporate a housing element in

Single-family units 500 965 250

Mixed-use development

Multifamily units 2,300 47 700

The most common pattern for developing an area sees homes built first, with commercial development following after. More concisely, “retail follows rooftops,” Day said, and the development of Plano to this point was no different. “Plano residential development occurred largely from the 1960s through the year 2000,” Day said. “By the year 2000 our residential land started running out, and you started seeing higher density development start to occur. … The city does have 4% undeveloped land right now, so we’re at 1,863 acres as of January of this year.” Day said demand for more rooftops in Plano is still high. And with little room left for more housing, Plano is utilizing “downzoning” to include more residential development in places that used to be only commercial.

Collin Creek

Willow Bend Haggard Farms

SOURCE: CITY OF PLANO/COMMUNITY IMPACT

redevelopment projects. “What we’re trying to do is balance those competing interests of having it be a financially successful project that works both short-term and long-term for all parties,” she said. “We know there’s a great demand for more housing in this area. We also know there is a need to provide the infrastructure to support more housing—the com- mercial side helps support the residential side.”

Homes built in Plano

Build date

Another thing

2020 or later 1,488

-95.6% decrease

Enrollment by school year

2010-19 13,249

0 10K 20K 30K 40K 50K 60K

-14.9% decrease

19,440

2000-09

Plano ISD has had declining enrollment every school year since it peaked at 55,700 in 2012. As a result, the district shut down four cam- puses—Armstrong and Carpenter Middle Schools and Davis and Forman Elementary Schools—at the conclusion of the 2024-25 school year. District officials pointed at increased home prices and lower housing stock as one reason for PISD's decreasing student body.

34,187

1990-99

26,066

1980-89

16,561

1970-79

3,831

1960-69

0 10K 20K 30K 40K

SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS DATA/COMMUNITY IMPACT

SOURCE: PLANO ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT

NOTE: X-AXIS IS IN SCHOOL YEARS

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