A 46-acre development on South Highway 75 that would be anchored by a hotel and convention center goes to the Sherman City Council for a public hearing Monday, with a vote on the zoning possible the same evening.
The Ridge at Stone Creek needs the council to rezone 46.432 acres in the 2400 block of South Highway 75 into a planned development district. Under Ordinance No. 6972, the land, now split between multifamily and retail zoning within the Blalock Commercial and Sam Rayburn overlay districts, would become a planned development built on those same two base districts.
SSCGC Holdings LLC owns the property, and Land Value Partners LLC is the applicant.
The council agenda lists the introduction and public hearing on the ordinance, followed by a separate item to close the hearing and consider adopting it. The meeting starts at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, in the council chambers at City Hall, 220 W. Mulberry St.
What the plan allows
The planning staff report prepared for the Planning and Zoning Commission's Sept. 22 meeting describes a mixed-use project anchored by a hotel and convention center, with commercial and residential uses around them. Staff said it had no objection.
KXII reported this week that the commission approved the project, which the station said includes a 40,000-square-foot convention center, a 250-room hotel, retail shops and about 500 homes near the Stone Creek Golf Club.
City communications manager Nate Strauch told KXII the convention space would be "on a scale really that we don't have anywhere in the community right now."
The development standards filed with the request divide the site at Gaba Drive:
- East of Gaba Drive, a commercial and mixed-use area would allow a conference or convention center, a hotel up to 100 feet tall, restaurants with outdoor dining, a food hall and structured parking. Apartments would be allowed there only above ground-floor businesses, in buildings no taller than 85 feet, with no more than 210 homes in that area.
- West of Gaba Drive, a residential area would allow apartments, apartments for people 55 and older, townhomes and single-family homes built for rent, which could reach an overall density of 30 homes per acre.
