Planning & Zoning Commission - workshop

Dallas County
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

The Planning and Zoning Commission work session reviewed several zoning cases, including proposals for two-family residential and commercial redevelopments, and discussed an amendment to the Unified Development Code regarding rooming houses. Staff promotions were announced, and commissioners provided feedback on a recent data center tour.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning & Zoning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning & Zoning Commission
Location
Irving, TX
Meeting Date
September 8, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

9 sections (from 10 segments)

23:12 – 23:26•Ricky Lightfoot

Jocelyn due to the aerial map and the notification map don't just create a supermajority situation Before last September the answer would have been yes but now because it creates an additional

28:23 – 28:39•Ricky Lightfoot

On the outside storage, it says up to 14 foot high. What are they planning on storing there? Let's see, I believe there were... Because that's five foot above the nine foot requirement. Because we're normally one foot under the fence.

29:00•Ricky Lightfoot

Depending upon the size of it and stuff like that.

29:28•Ricky Lightfoot

My thing is, is that if you stack it up that tall, I mean, you get a shingle company in there, for instance, says, oh, we can go 14 feet. You got six feet of shingles you're seeing everywhere, all the way across.

29:47•Ricky Lightfoot

That's on the backside, right? Yes. All the way around it.

32:02 – 32:36•Ricky Lightfoot

I can understand what she's saying as far as if you've got a big chiller unit. I mean, some of them things are eight, nine foot tall. You're bringing them on a four foot tall, four and a half foot tall trailer, you'd be 12 or 13 feet. But I think it should be more site-specific as far as the business goes and not just a blanket where... Because we had the issue with the pallet company behind Cost Plus, the same issue. I mean, they were in an industrial area, and they had the same issue as far as the height of the pallets.

33:05 – 33:31•Ricky Lightfoot

Yeah, I just think leaving it open. I'm glad to see something's being done with it. The thing's been vacant for a long time. So I just think the height and you see all the trees now. Everybody sees the growth. That's fine. But if you go down Maltby in the wintertime, them are all sticks. So you're going to see everything that's above that fence in the winter months because all them leaves fall and that's just pretty much all branches at that point.

34:26 – 34:56•Ricky Lightfoot

I mean, looking at it from a standpoint, I can understand it. Like if you had like a crane company or something like that, they're going to be, your equipment is going to be taller. Definitely. I just don't know about, I can understand equipment because equipment moves. but I can't really understand just outside just laid storage, you know, that height at all times. If something's there and it moves and it's in and out, I could agree to something like that. I just don't know about laid down storage.

35:26 – 35:43•Ricky Lightfoot

And going back to what Debbie said, that last one we did up there by the railroad tracks for the Irving countertop, I mean, they were having trusses and they were just going to stack trusses up and we still made them drop down below the fence level. far as I saw material, and they're moving it in and out consistently.

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