The North Richland Hills City Council on Monday approved Ordinance No. 3905 to rezone two parcels at 7816 and 7900 Douglas Lane from agricultural and R-3 zoning to R-2 residential.

Planning staff said the rezoning will allow a replat to formalize a property exchange between the two owners so each resulting lot will be in a single zoning district. “In order for us to process the plat, we do need the entire property within each of those new platted lots to be the same zoning district,” Staff member Corey, planning staff, said.

Applicant Troy Valentine described the swap at the council podium: he would receive a strip of property adjacent to a driveway and trade a rear portion of his lot to the neighboring back parcel owned by Curtis West to create more usable front- and back-yard areas. The Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval, 7–0. No members of the public spoke at the hearing.

Outcome
Councilmember Rodriguez moved to approve Ordinance No. 3905; Councilman Blake seconded. The council voted 7–0 to adopt the rezoning, which enables the applicants to submit a replat and finalize their boundary adjustment.

Next steps
Staff will process the replat for the two lots and, if the plat meets code requirements, approve it administratively under the new R-2 zoning.