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Council approves Market Street, nursing facility
By Chris Roark, croark@starlocalnews.com
The Flower Mound Town Council on Monday approved a site plan for a grocery store-anchored retail center, which will include Market Street, at The River Walk at Central Park.
The site plan also includes three retail buildings, which is expected to include restaurants, though the tenants have not been identified yet.
The retail center represents the last component of the first phase of The River Walk, a mixed-use development located north of FM 1171 and east of FM 2499.
“This has been a long time coming,” said Councilman Steve Dixon. “And we look forward to it.”
Plans for Market Street include a 55,000-square-foot facility at the northeast intersection of FM 1171 and FM 2499.
Market Street representative Warren Creason said the store will feature hot entrees, a custom salad board, fresh sushi, gourmet coffee, a large fruit and meat selection and other groceries.
The store will be smaller than many of its other locations, such as the one in Coppell. Because of that, the Flower Mound location won’t have a cooking school.
The store will also not have a fuel center.
Creason said the store could open by the fall of 2013, and he said three months before the opening, the store will host a mass hire event. The store is expected to employ about 200 people.
Skilled nursing facility
The council approved rezoning request, tree removal permit and a site plan for a Cantex Continuing Care Center, a one-story, 64,179-square-foot skilled nursing/congregate care facility west of Long Prairie Road and north of Windsor Drive.
Cantex, which has facilities across the state, is expected to feature 104 units and 112 beds in its Flower Mound location. Ninety-six of its rooms will be private rooms. Amenities include an electric bed, a TV and a kitchen area in each room. The facility will also include large discipline-specific rehabilitation areas. Eleven of its rooms will have access to the patio.
“This is very significant for the person who has a traumatic change of condition and wants only two to three weeks of care, doesn’t want to live in an institution setting but wants to live in a place they think of as home,” said Robin Underhill, Cantex CEO.
The facility will add on to an expanding medical corridor as it will be located across the street from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, north of the Caddis medical office complex and south of a future the Rosewood Assisted Living Center.
Officials said the center will bring $12 million into the community, as well as 100 new jobs. The project is expected to be complete in 2014.
Parker Tract development
A new residential development will soon be joining the Bakers Branch Estates subdivision off Flower Mound Road, though it took a compromise between residents and the developers to make it happen.
The council approved a rezoning request and a development plan for a 70.5-acre subdivision, which will be located south of Flower Mound Road and on the east and west sides of Garden Ridge Road.
Residents in the Bakers Branch Estates, located west of the western portion of the project, were concerned because there had been a proposal to connect the two neighborhoods with a road to provide a secondary entrance point to each subdivision.
“People are going to use the opposite development to race through the other development to get to Garden Ridge or Gerault,” said David Robison, a resident of Bakers Branch Estates.
After a lengthy discussion, the developer agreed to keep the road as part of the plan but with lockable bollards to separate the neighborhoods. That way, emergency vehicles can still get through when needed.
The project is expected to feature 142 single-family lots, and the homebuilder will be Toll Bros.
Terracina
The council also approved a rezoning request and a development plan for the Terracina residential subdivision, located north of FM 407 and west of Chinn Chapel Road.
The plan had been approved in late 2010 but had featured an open area in the middle of the development for a proposed gas well. Because of setback regulations, that limited the development’s lot total to 138 at the time.
However, the gas lease expired in February, prompting the developer to request approval to add 29 more lots.
Each lot is expected to be a minimum of 15,000 square feet. The project will also include two ponds, two 3-foot-wide internal trails and one 6-foot-wide trail.
Budget
Residents and the council took another look at the proposed town budget Monday for the 2012-13 fiscal year.
Among the features of the budget include the total tax rate remaining unchanged at $0.44 per $100 valuation, marking the 21st year the rate has decreased or stayed the same.
The rate is also the fourth-lowest among Flower Mound’s comparing cities.
Other components include about $572,000 in decision packages from the general fund, including $29,000 for a new animal services vehicle. However, council members urged that money to be used for a fire inspector.
“This goes to help ongoing inspections of our existing buildings, and it helps with our new buildings,” said Mayor Pro Tem Kendra Stephenson. “So this is very important.”
The Special Revenue Fund decision package includes using $100,000 to fund a study for a new town hall and senior center. The Special Revenue Fund, which contains money from 16 sources, is projected to be about $14 million.
Development committee update
Si Simonson, chairman of the Development Process Review Committee, briefed the council on some of the committee’s proposed recommendations.
The committee will likely recommend eliminating large information packets council members and planning and zoning commission members must go through and instead provide an executive summary.
Another recommendation is to provide a double notice for P&Z and council meetings so that an item, once approved by the commission, can go to the council for a vote the following week. This would cut back on the process by two to three weeks, Simonson said.
Other recommendations is to eliminate the P&Z requirement to review proposed subdivision changes and to amend the procedure that mandates site plans and planned developments go to the council for qualified economic development projects and planned developments. Simonson said a lot of times, the council sees site plans and concept plans that are nearly identical. He said eliminating this repetitive step would save time for the council and the town staff.
The committee will present a full list of recommendations in the coming weeks.
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