Rezoning of agricultural land in Flower Mound

[linux_is_cool]

FYI, The Town of Flower Mound is holding a public hearing on January 19th at 6:00pm at the Flower Mound Town Hall.

This meeting is being held to discuss the rezoning of the property located north of Kirkpatrick, west of Timbercreek (Z 01-11 - Hawthorne). This is the agricultural land located just west of Prairie Trail Elementary. They plan to rezone this to Single-Family use. This is our last chance to keep this from happening. As a resident that backs up to this land, I personally don't want to see this happen for multiple reasons. So I am asking anyone else that doesn't want to see this happen to show up to the meeting and address your concerns, not that it will do any good.

[Uther]

So it's OK for you to live in high-density land, but if a farmer wants to convert his land you will complain? What do you think your land was before they built single-family residences on it?

[JKTex]

What kind of agricultural use would you like to see? Or do you just want the owner to keep it as open non-producing field and keep footing the bill. There' not much there, just yours and 1000's of other houses sitting on the rest of it so it's agricultural use is eliminated.

If you don't like what's going to be done with it, your HOA should have bought it and made it common area. I other words, if you don't own it, don't complain when the owner wants to use it. It's not a surprise....or shouldn't be.

The town can keep chemical plants from being built on it, but beyond that.......it's a slippery slope we all stepped on. Build baby build!

ADDED:
I think you're right in, "...whatever good it'll do". It's already cleared P&Z an there doesn't seem to be anything to stop it and no obvious opposition to it, even at P&Z. Were you at the P&Z meeting?

For anyone that's interested, I dug the minutes up from December. I was surprised the owner wasn't a developer, but a resident that's been on the land for 35 years. I feel for the few folks that are left having watched the gross amount of development trap them in. At least, I'm guessing they'll walk away with full pockets.... Looks like your HOA also provided a letter of support for it as well. Guess they didn't want to buy it.

http://www.flower-mound.com/agenda/PZar ... -12-11.pdf

It's item 11 and 12 for the Council meeting on Thursday.

[Pipeline]

JK and Uther,
So many times I look for reasons to "rag" you two, have fun doing it, yet 99.999% of the time, I feel we are cut from the same cloth.
Buy it or deal with it. Doesn't pay to grow weeds.
Where you been Linux?

[linux_is_cool]

Argh! See what happens when you post something for somebody without reading it. I was in a hurry, copy and pasted it. I also back up to this land, and personally don't care one way or another what they do with it, if it goes through then I can finally get rid of the rodent/snake/skunk problem. Now I do like looking out of the upstairs window and watching the goats and other animals. I also see the occasional hawk dive down and come out with a snake or rat. I don't look forward to the construction, but once its done, I will have no complaints. excuse any grammar or spelling mistakes as this was written with the voice to text application on my android