The Sherman Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday will hold a public hearing on rewriting the rules for Hickory Hill, a 143.7-acre planned development in the 3400 to 4000 blocks of West Lamberth Road.
The commission itself is listed as the applicant. According to the staff report, the amendment to Ordinance No. 6492 would pull the existing planned development document into one place, give each of its subdistricts a base zoning district and update the list of uses allowed in each. Staff wrote that it has no objection.
The meeting starts at 5 p.m. in the City Council chambers at 220 W. Mulberry St.
A short history
The city approved the planned development in May 2022, rezoning the land from single-family agricultural use, according to the staff report. A site plan and preliminary plat followed that summer, a final plat for a multifamily lot that October, a temporary permit for a concrete batch plant in January 2024 and a final plat for the Hickory Hill subdivision in June 2024.
What the rewrite lays out
The proposed standards split the land into three subdistricts:
- Residential, governed by the city's R-6 single-family rules for houses and its MF-30 multifamily rules for condos or apartments, with a cap of 300 single-family condo units or 300 apartments in their place.
- Mixed-use, using MF-30 rules for apartments and C-1 retail rules for businesses, with at least 3 acres set aside for nonresidential uses.
- Park, where an existing pond would be dedicated to the city as a public park. Commercial uses there would be capped at 2 acres, not counting parking and other park amenities.
The use chart lists townhomes, duplexes, accessory dwellings and independent senior living among the residential options. Coffee shops, bakeries, food truck lots, farmers markets, indoor entertainment and veterinary clinics would be allowed in the mixed-use area. Restaurants with patios, microbreweries tied to a sit-down restaurant and an amphitheater would need a specific use permit in the park area.
The document bans tattoo parlors, smoke shops, payday-style credit access businesses, sexually oriented businesses, marijuana and CBD stores, gas wells, auto sales and repair, unscreened outdoor storage and industrial uses anywhere in the development.
