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Speed study results for Melissa and Fannin roads go to council Tuesday; three McKinney Street lots seek commercial zoning Nov. 5

An amended work session agenda adds the speed study and an East Takepoint facility update. Planners on Nov. 5 take up a downtown rezoning, an industrial site plan near SH 121 and a QuikTrip sign plan.

Dexter Lindgren· AI-assisted, edited by Jake Team

October 25, 20262 min read

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Results of a traffic speed study on Melissa Road and Fannin Road are now on the City Council's work session agenda for Tuesday, Oct. 27, added in an amended notice the city posted Oct. 21.

The amended 5:15 p.m. work session also lists an update on the East Takepoint facility and a discussion of council decision-making principles, described on the agenda as how those principles relate to the city's mission and vision and how they could be used in council governance and deliberation. The agenda does not include the study's findings or say what changes, if any, staff will propose.

Planning commission, Nov. 5

An agenda for the Planning and Zoning Commission's Thursday, Nov. 5, meeting is also on the city's website. Its posting notice is dated Oct. 29, so the items could still change before then. It lists five public hearings and recommendations that would go on to the council:

  • Rezoning about 2.68 acres at 2503, 2513 and 2533 McKinney Street, inside the Downtown Overlay District, from single-family residential to a planned development with general commercial zoning.
  • Changing planned development standards for about 1.34 acres at 122 W. Melissa Road, in the Commercial Corridor Overlay District.
  • Changing planned development standards for about 3.45 acres at 2138 Calhar Drive, Lots 2 and 5 of the Ice Cube Addition.
  • Changing standards in a planned development covering about 11.65 acres at 4520 County Road 1220.
  • Amending the sign coordination plan for QuikTrip.

On the consent agenda is a final engineering site plan for Melissa Industrial Lot 1, a 27.1-acre site about 351 feet east of Industrial Park Way and State Highway 121.

The posted agenda does not describe what is planned on the McKinney Street lots or what standards the other requests would change. The commission meets at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 3411 Barker Ave.

Tax bill notice

Both Oct. 27 council agendas end with a budget notice, printed "in accordance with House Bill 1522," that says the fiscal 2027 budget will raise $1,526,613 more in property tax revenue than last year, an 8.39% increase, with $1,579,802 coming from new property added to the roll.

At the unchanged rate of 0.454116 per $100, the notice estimates the city tax bill on a median homestead, now valued at $432,453 for tax purposes, at $1,963.84. That is $87.89 less than last year, when the median taxable homestead value was $451,807.

Sources

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Dexter Lindgren· AI-assisted, edited by Jake Team

Dexter Lindgren covers Melissa city hall, the council, and county government.

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