Council approves specific-use permit for office-warehouse distribution center near SH 121
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The council approved a specific-use permit (SUP25-0003) for a 16.2-acre office‑warehouse distribution development on the north side of State Highway 121, with site and landscape conditions to screen the facility from the adjacent hike‑and‑bike trail.
The Frisco City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to direct staff to prepare an ordinance for a specific‑use permit allowing an office‑warehouse distribution center on a 16.2‑acre site on the north side of State Highway 121, west of Custer Road (SUP25‑0003).
Staff and the applicant, Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, described design changes made since the project’s previous denial. The primary changes include interior orientation of bay doors so loading faces inward, enhanced landscape islands and a living screen along the northern property line, and additional open space above the ordinance minimum to better screen trucks from the adjacent hike‑and‑bike trail and creek corridor.
Planning staff said the applicant is providing roughly two acres of open space where the ordinance minimum would have been about 1.6 acres, and that the development will include a double row of evergreen screening along the northern parcel edge with plantings required to be a minimum 8 feet tall at installation. Building façades include brick and stone veneer and a higher‑finish appearance facing SH‑121.
No members of the public spoke in opposition during the public hearing. The planning and zoning commission recommended approval along with the enhanced landscape and screening measures. Council voted 6-0 to approve the SUP and direct staff to prepare the ordinance incorporating the exhibits and conditions presented.
Council emphasized that the site exhibits and landscape plans will be incorporated into the ordinance so subsequent owners must comply with the documented standards.