Item 7A - Corridor Report
Southlake Corridor Planning Committee Meeting Report
Meeting 57 – April 22, 2026
MEETING
LOCATION: 1400 Main St., Southlake, Texas 76092
City Council Chambers
IN
ATTENDANCE:
• City Council Members: Randy Robbins, Frances Scharli, Kathy Talley
• Planning & Zoning Commission Members: Daniel Kubiak, Michael
Springer, David Cunnigham
• City Staff: Dennis Killough, Jenny Crosby, Cyndi Cheng, Ryan Firestone
AGENDA
ITEMS:
1. Call to Order.
2. Administrative Comments.
3. Review, discuss, and make recommendations regarding a proposed subdivision of an
approximately 7.3-acre tract into four residential lots on property located at 1360 N. Carroll
Avenue.
4. Review, discuss, and make recommendations regarding a proposed subdivision of an
approximately 9.6-acre lot into eight residential lots on property located at 4000 N. White
Chapel Boulevard.
5. Review, discuss, and make recommendations regarding a proposed 2,600 SF sanctuary
addition to St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church on property located at 223 S. Pearson
Lane.
6. Adjournment.
MEETING
OVERVIEW:
On April 22, 2026, the Southlake Corridor Planning Committee held their
57th meeting. The Committee was sent a packet of materials prior to the
meeting that were to be discussed during the session. A meeting agenda
was posted, and the meeting time was advertised on the City’s website.
The following meeting report focuses on discussion points made during
the meeting by members of the Committee, public and City staff. This
report is neither verbatim nor does it represent official meeting minutes;
rather it serves to inform elected and appointed officials, City staff, and
the public of the issues and questions raised by the Committee, City staff,
and any attendees of the meeting. Interested parties are strongly
encouraged to follow development cases through the process. Please
visit CityofSouthlake.com/Planning for more information
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ITEM #3 DISCUSSION – Review, discuss, and make recommendations regarding a
proposed subdivision of an approximately 7.3-acre tract into four residential lots on
property located at 1360 N. Carroll Avenue.
Staff presentation: Ryan Firestone
• Future Land Use: Mixed-use with 100-Year Flood Plain
• Zoning: AG
• Summary: The applicant is proposing to subdivide an approximately 7.3-acre
tract into four residential lots with R-PUD zoning.
Questions for Staff and Applicant
Frances Scharli: What is that dotted line, that heavy dotted line represents?
Ryan Firestone: That's the barrier between the 100 year floodplain and the mixed-use.
Daniel Kubiak: So, it's both, I guess.
Ryan Firestone: So that western portion past that dotted line is all considered one
hundred-year floodplain and that front portion along North Carroll is where they'd
actually be able to build.
Daniel Kubiak: So, does that mean effectively, since that's the only buildable part, the
spirit of the land use plan was that this would be mixed-use?
Ryan Firestone: Correct.
Daniel Kubiak: Okay. Even though the back half is technically labeled low density, if you
can't build on it, isn’t it kind of be irrelevant, right?
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Ryan Firestone: That's correct.
Dennis Killough: And generally, where land use boundaries are considered, they're
somewhat of a paintbrush approach is what they're more intended to be and not
necessarily follow a track boundary in all cases. I think as the city's developed, it's
become more of that form that most of the land use is changing along a boundary. But
where a floodplain may be adjacent to it, it's envisioned whatever part of that floodplain
may be able to be developed would align with whatever the primary land use of the
adjoining property is it's developing. And when looking at the mixed-use land use
category, it's the broadest land use category that our land use plan contains, but it's
intended to provide as comprehensive a level of development that can be pieced
together. And where development has happened in small portions as time has moved
along, the mixed-use land use category should be compatible as it moves from
development patterns. If you've got residential on one proximity of it, it should be
transitional in its character from that residential to whatever type uses may be on the
other boundaries of it, whether that's more commercial, retail, office, whatever that
transition area might be. It would also permit the development itself to develop in mixed-
use type zoning classifications that once again, are compatible with its perimeter
boundaries that it's abutting.
Curtis Young: The mixed-use is the land use, part of its overlaid with floodplain. That
doesn't necessarily mean, by the way, Dan, low density. That just means floodplain. So,
and it hadn't been zoned yet, so it's still ag. We looked at it. We looked at what's around
it. It's across from the school. There's office buildings and a mosque to the south of it,
one house. And of course, the city, as you know, owns this property right here. Some of
which is in the floodplain, like the back of this property, some of which is not. Kirkwood
will eventually go through here like this. So one of our thoughts was that if the city wants
this to be—I don't know what your plans are for this—but if it ends up wanting to be
some open space, maybe even a park area, then perhaps a deal could be made for the
rear of this property to also be combined with the city's property there, rather than just
out there and back. So when doing the plan, we kind of left a leftover open space area
there that might work out for that. Now, because it's mixed-use, you may recall we were
here, those of you that were at the meeting some months ago, maybe even last year,
proposing a two-story office event center type here, which was basically this. It certainly
meets the land use and all that. However, in talking with many of the neighbors, they
were concerned. The two-story aspect, which was mentioned by you folks here, that
might be a concern. I think that was the main thing. Some of them were worried about
the event space use in this location. And I think there was some misinformation out
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there about who this actually was being developed for. There was not true, but had
some concerns. So after much consideration, because this is really what the owner
wanted to do, we decided to basically raise the white flag and just go to 1 acre lots. So
that's what this plan is here. This is a slightly updated version of the plan that shows the
darker yellow in front there is the area that's buildable between all the setbacks.
Footage is on there. And as you can see, even lot one has a pretty good building pad
for size. And then, the thought is that a certain percentage of the near floodplain would
be in these lots for them to utilize when it's not flooding. And then the open space or lot
5 over there, again, you can see where the city's property is. It goes all the way around
here. If that makes sense to combine with the city, that could possibly be done in the
future as well. So anyway, this is what we're here proposing and just wanted to see if
you had any thoughts.
Michael Springer: My first question would be, how are the driveways going to work?
Curtis Young: Well, what we're proposing here is based on the center here is that we
would have a shared driveway on this property line here and another shared driveway
on this property line here. So to space them out, that would mean those driveways
would be 150 feet apart and far enough from the conflicting driveways across the street.
Here's the driveway into the school. It would be about 97 feet away from that one. And
then this one would be a few 100 up to the next street up there.
Michael Springer: What I'm thinking about, though, is isn't the street going to take up
every bit of the side yard? Or in this case, it'd probably be the front yard because the
houses are going to have to go sideways on the property lengthwise. So it just seems
like to me that there's going to be nothing but driveways between two of the houses.
Curtis Young: Well, driveways to wherever the garage is. And then these are pretty
standard lot widths, just lot 4 has an extreme depth that's much bigger than it would
normally be for a lot this size.
Michael Springer: Well, I mean, I see the depth. That's not what I'm worried about. It's
the four so close together on the front side. It just seems like to me by the time you put
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a driveway in, you've taken up all the space between the two houses. That seems to be
kind of odd.
Curtis Young: It would just be the combined, it would just be the space to the driveways
and then to the garages and then beyond that it would be they could put a fence up or
whatever beyond that. I mean, we haven't laid out where the houses are, but it's your
standard.
Michael Springer: I mean, that's my first question. That's what I'm looking at. I'm going
like, it just seems like the driveways are going to be an interesting challenge.
Curtis Young: Well, we could have an individual driveway to each home like you
normally would, but there was some concern on staff on spacing. So we offer to do this.
David Cunningham: So the buildable width is 60 feet, is that right?
Curtis Young: Roughly, yes.
David Cunningham: So you can build a house on 60-foot width. It just means you're
going to use up more of the depth to make for a larger house. Is there any, other than to
have a one-acre lot, which I understand what you're showing here, is there any reason
to have these extra depths, i.e., if this piece that's open space were bigger, and were
going to be made a part of the rest of the park, and the lots that may not be actually one
acre, but they would essentially be the same lot, would that be something that the
applicant would be interested in doing? Do you follow what it might be?
Curtis Young: I think we'd at least want to the center of the creek or whatever that goes
through there or something like that. But yeah, I think we'd be basically okay with that.
But what the request from many of the neighbors were is that, can you make these an
anchor? So we did.
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Randy Robbins: Are they front-facing garages? Will they all face Carroll or are you
going to pull in and park sideways, you think?
Curtis Young: We can do the side-facing garages in a lot like that.
Randy Robbins: They would face the interior of each one, kind of? Yeah.
Daniel Kubiak: Curtis, I guess maybe going back to the driveway comment, because
that's where my head was kind of going on this, where I'm not sure if there's enough
room there or not, is one of our lessons learned along a Carroll or a Dove or any of
those is kind of the way we've designed some of those lots, like as an example, near
Carroll and Dove, where when you come off Carroll, let's say you have enough room
before any kind of fence or gate or anything for an Amazon truck to pull in, something
that just gets cars off the road. So like having that stacking depth in a driveway where
you can have at least where a truck can pull in and park, deliver a package before even
going in a gate or anything, having some stacking depth there. And then inside of the
property, you know, you've seen those houses, they'll have kind of circular drives or
somewhere where visitors can park, because you need somewhere to have that other
than having it happen out on the street, trying to push those houses back a little bit off
the street, having just wrought iron fences, not a bunch of big Berlin walls in front of
them or something like that, to kind of preserve the character of the northern side.
Curtis Young: These houses would face the street, so there wouldn't be any fences in
front of them.
Daniel Kubiak: Well, you'd be surprised, I mean, you'd be surprised at what we end up
seeing, so I'd want to put that in the ordinance.
Curtis Young: It's roughly 60 feet from the edge of the Carroll paving to the front setback
of this. So they were, for the Amazon truck or whatever, there'd be plenty of room for
them to get out of traffic on that.
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Daniel Kubiak: I guess that's what I want to see. And you know, it's lots I'm talking
about. I'm kind of near the roundabout, Dove, Carroll, off the road, enough stacking
depth. Driveways, and Dennis, what I'm talking about, kind of those attributes we built in
where we've noticed the house is just south of that. I have to dodge Amazon trucks
because they're literally built on top of the road, and that was kind of our bad. So I think
that, I'd love to see more detail on that, just to make sure, I mean, this rendering or site
plan is nice, but just does it really have all that depth to it that staff can describe on how
we want these lots that are right off main roads.
Curtis Young: Okay, we could do a little detail of blow up of one of those drives.
Kathy Talley: Yeah, and I think to your point, Dan, options, like I'm not a fan of the
shared driveways. I mean, we've got places around town where that's not the greatest
thing. And pardon? Right, so and I understand what you're trying to do relative to the
other driveways, but I feel like for four homes, that's not going to be traffic pouring in
and out all day long. So I think that kind of feeds into the let's get some room in the front
type situation. I realize lot one is challenging for all that, but I would just say, as you
know, bring options to council, including, I would say, including a driveway for each.
Just to see what they think.
Curtis Young: What does everyone else feel about the driveways?
David Cunningham: So is the red hatch area dedication?
Curtis Young: Yeah, the red hatch area would be dedicated because right now the
property goes to the center of the road. And that would be dedication. So the new right
of way would be, you know, those green circles are the buffer yard trees that are
required along there. But yeah, the hatched area would be the right-of-way dedication.
David Cunningham: Have you considered along that line instead of just a direct
driveway, internal private driveway slash street to feed the slip road?
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Curtis Young: Possibly. We didn't want to move because of the challenging depth on it,
especially lot one, we didn't want to do an additional right-of-way on that. But we could
consider maybe a private slip road with an entry at either end, kind of like we did up on
White Chapel in front of...
David Cunningham: Right. Well, it might be an interesting way to access these four lots
since they're more narrow. And if we can work that private driveway that's linear to the
four lots, it might be interesting to see what that looks like. It might not work. It's just a
question.
Curtis Young: Maybe there's a third option.
Frances Scharli: Curtis, you made mention of the fact that the area behind the floodplain
could be quote unquote usable. What did you mean by that?
Curtis Young: Well, you know, a lot of people here have the back part of their lots in the
floodplain and it's beautiful property. You know, you can utilize, even if it's just look out
on it, back part of my lots in the floodplain, and it's a great part of the lot with trees and
those kinds of things.
Frances Scharli: So, but you're not talking about,
Curtis Young: You wouldn't be able to build a structure in there or anything that would
impede the flow, but certainly it's a visual thing that if you own it, you control it. That kind
of thing. Or you could have a, you could walk down there and commune with nature or
whatever.
Frances Scharli: Okay. Just as long as we're not talking about a nice patio with fire pit
and all the things that's going to impede water back there.
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Curtis Young: I mean, you wouldn't be able to do anything that's above the existing
ground.
Frances Scharli: Okay. And another question I have, remind me or maybe staff can,
what is a typical side setback on properties. Dennis, I don't know if that's for you or.
Dennis Killough: Yeah. In our standard zoning districts for single family residential, the
smallest side yard is 15 feet. For the low density lots, it goes up to 20 feet. And then
agricultural lots, it goes up to 25 feet.
Curtis Young: You know, typically, 10% of the lot width is what the industry and a lot of
cities work with. So, for example, the 50-foot lots in Brumlow East had five-foot side
setbacks. The 60-foot lots had six-foot side setbacks. These are 75-foot lots with 7 1/2
foot setbacks. So they don't, you know, Southlake doesn't have a straight ordinance
addressing these size lots.
Daniel Kubiak: Curtis, I guess I'd say I'm probably not passionate either way about the
number of driveways. I guess I just, I'd still really like to see the detail of just, can you
really have the stacking depth on those driveways for a truck to pull in before any gate?
And then inside of the gate, how can you have enough driveway room to have at least a
few extra cars or visitors? I mean, it kind of reminds me a little bit of conceptually the
several houses that are along Dove just to the east of Carroll, if you know what I mean,
on the northern side of the road where they almost share kind of a driveway. And I don't
know, it just... Yeah, just, I don't know. I just want to see something that makes you feel
like you really have enough room to do the criteria we want along Carroll. I guess
Curtis Young: Okay, I've heard three options.
Daniel Kubiak: One of those lots is kind of really jammed against, lot one's really
jammed against there, and do you have enough room to really adequately park it,
driveway, off the road? That's all. I mean, overall, it's nice to get kind of a down zoning
effectively from a mixed-use track to something that really effectively won't generate
much traffic at all. It's just, can you really fit it?
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Curtis Young: Yeah, I mean, with this use as opposed to what they purchased the
property for, obviously finances are tight, so they don't want to do a lot of infrastructure.
But perhaps a private drive would be something that in concert with the homeowners
could be built. But I've heard three options on the driveways. I'll try and bring more
detailed descriptions, diagrams to the P&Z meeting of each of those options.
Daniel Kubiak: Yeah, I think you're getting the same themes though, right? I mean, just
in terms of trying to make sure nothing's impeded on Carroll.
Michael Springer: Why don't we just get rid of lot 1 altogether and go on from there?
Curtis Young: Because it's a valuable lot.
Michael Springer: I know it is. Charge more for the property. If people want to live there,
they'll pay for it.
Curtis Young: There's nothing wrong with lot one.
Michael Springer: No, it's not lot one in particular by itself, but you just got everything
jammed in there so tight. If you got rid of lot one, you'd have room to spread those out a
little bit and get some real driveways in there and some space. I mean, I know one thing
I wouldn't want to have my neighbor driving right beside my bedroom window to get
around to their garage if I was in, if I lived in one of those two lots that shared a
driveway.
Curtis Young: Lot one's actually a great lot because north of there you really can't build
anything because the floodplain gets smaller.
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Michael Springer: So basically get rid of four then.
Curtis Young: Basically on open space. Yeah.
Daniel Kubiak: So, OK, any other comments on this item?
Frances Scharli: I kind of like Mike's suggestion.
Randy Robbins: You knew that was coming, right? You knew it was coming, right?
Daniel Kubiak: You ever seen this movie before?
Randy Robbins: Yeah, I take lots out. That's what we're supposed to say. I think the
thing that we forget, the thing that's great about it is it's not our job to figure out whether
you can build on lot one. I mean, that's their job. If they can build a house and sell it on
lot one, great. As long as, for me, as long as we, I'm struggling with visualizing these
shared drives, so I would like to see a little more conceptualization of what that actually
looks like so I can get an idea about it. But it's not my job to figure out whether you can
build and sell a house on that. It's just not. I mean, you got 4 one-acre lots. You can
build four houses on there. And we're okay with how the traffic flow works for these
houses into these shared drives. That's all, that's the only thing we got to look at.
Daniel Kubiak: I think that's well said. I think that's what we're trying to get at is can you
just maybe go one level deeper in detail and show the layout and just how—literally
almost put a car on there so we can visualize, okay, cars can fit.
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Staff Presentation
1360 N. Carroll Avenue
Item 3
F. Throop No.
1511 Addition
Harborchase of
Southlake
Whispering Dell
Estates Addition
Carillon Phase
5C
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Future Land Use
100-Year
Flood Plain
Mixed Use Public/Semi-
Public
Mixed Use
Low Density
Residential
Zoning
C3
SF-1A
ECZ
CS
AG
S-P-1
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Street View from N. Carroll Avenue (Facing West )
Street View from N. Carroll Avenue (Looking Northwest)
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Proposed Site Plan
Tree Conservation Plan
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Existing Drainage Plan
Preliminary Drainage & Grading Plan
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Preliminary Utility Plan
Existing 8” Sewer LineExisting 12” Sewer Line
Proposed 12” Water Line
Legend
Proposed 8” Sewer Line
Summary
Summary of Proposal:
The applicant is proposing a subdivision of an approximately 7.3-acre tract into
four residential lots with “R-PUD”Residential Planned Unit Development Zoning.
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Applicant Presentation
Questions?
Applicant Presentation
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Presentation to the City
1360 N Carroll
Southlake
1360 N Carroll
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1360 N Carroll
Land Use
Mixed Use
1360 N Carroll
Existing Zoning
Zoning: AG
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1360 N Carroll
Site
N CarrollRdWhispering Ln
Highland St
7.286 ac.
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1360 N Carroll
Residential Concept Plan
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