Highlands Village Council Considers Building Patio Homes – Cross Timbers Gazette | Southern Denton County | Flower Mound

Highland Village City Council will consider a proposed development of 25 new patio homes near Heritage Elementary School on Tuesday.

DJB Development is requesting a zoning change for a 4-acre parcel at 102 Barnett Boulevard from SF-40 to a planned development district. The concept plan calls for 25 homes in the proposed “Magnolia Village,” as well as preserving existing trees on the western edge of the property. According to the meeting agenda, the patio homes would have a minimum of 1,647 square feet and there would be a homeowners association and a masonry screen wall along Barnett Boulevard.

In July, Highland Village Planning and Zoning Commissioners voted 4-1 to recommend approval of the zoning change. The project was scheduled to go before the City Council in August, but the applicant requested a delay until Tuesday’s meeting. The city has received mixed feedback from nearby residents; more than half of the comments submitted prior to the P&Z meeting were positive, but since then, staff has received eight additional emails/letters of opposition.

Since the P&Z meeting, the applicant has requested that the ordinance be revised to require an 8-foot-high cedar fence to be built along the western property line instead of the 6-foot-high one in the P&Z-approved application, a change that is “consistent with requests made by the owners of the property adjacent to the western property line,” according to the meeting agenda. City staff also recommended adding language to expressly impose a one-story height requirement on lots on the western edge of the property, as contemplated in the concept plan.

This is not the first time a subdivision project has been submitted for approval on this property. In August 2022, a PDD for 60 townhouses was denied. In March 2023, a proposed PDD for 39 townhouses was denied.