Industrial park on County Road 1220 asks to allow batch plants, truck terminals and recycling, with lighter screening rules

The owner of an 11.6-acre business park on County Road 1220 wants to swap its current list of allowed uses for a much broader industrial menu, and the Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on the request Thursday.

The applicant, Tynas Texas LP, is seeking an amendment to the planned development ordinance that covers BizPark Melissa at 4520 County Road 1220, adopted as Ordinance 17-13. Its proposal in the meeting packet says the change would replace what it calls a restrictive use list with a broad menu of industrial and business-park activities, while keeping everything already allowed.

Homes of any kind would remain off the table.

What could go there

The draft lists general and light manufacturing, machine shops, research labs and medical device assembly; permanent and temporary concrete or asphalt batching plants; construction material testing; solar generation; recycling centers and collection points; beverage production and food packaging; warehouses and distribution centers; contractor yards and outside storage; truck terminals, truck and bus repair, fleet maintenance and heavy truck sales; new and used car, RV and powersports sales; a school district bus yard; gyms and indoor amusement; veterinary kennels and a pet crematory; and commercial antennas.

Restaurants, public self-service car washes, hospitals, patient clinics and nursing homes would be barred.

Looser site standards

Buildings could rise 35 feet, but silos, tanks, conveyors, cranes, stacks and dust collectors could reach 75 feet without counting as buildings. Landscaping would be required only along street frontage and street-facing walls, with no master landscape plan.

Outdoor storage and equipment yards would need chain-link fencing no shorter than 8 feet, with privacy slats only where it faces BizPark Way, and no masonry walls or landscape screens elsewhere. Yards could stay lit overnight, and metal buildings would be allowed.

The draft says every use must still meet the city's performance standards on smoke, dust, odor, noise, vibration and glare, and that it waives no environmental, air or fire permit.

The notice list for the hearing names three neighboring owners, including the North Texas Municipal Water District. The packet posted with the agenda includes the applicant's draft but no staff recommendation.

The commission's vote is a recommendation; the City Council makes the final decision. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 3411 Barker Ave. The same agenda includes a QuikTrip sign plan change and planned development amendments for sites on West Melissa Road and Calhar Drive.

Sources

cityofmelissa.com