5050 Hemphill Drive
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ZONING CASE Z-2025-10700327 (Council District 7): A request for a change in zoning from "R-5 MLOD-2 MLR-2 AHOD" Residential Single-Family Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 2 Airport Hazard Overlay District to "R-3 MLOD-2 MLR-2 AHOD" Single-Family Residential Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 2 Airport Hazard Overlay District on Lot 13, Block 17, NCB 11457, located at 5050 Hemphill Drive. Staff recommends Denial. (Joel Vela, Planning Coordinator, 210-207-0237, [email protected], Development Services Department)
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Pull staff denial findings for single-family zoning change
Applies if: Client is the applicant, an adjacent owner, or otherwise affected by 5050 Hemphill Drive
Why now: The request moves from R-5 to R-3 on Lot 13, Block 17, NCB 11457 while keeping the MLOD-2, MLR-2 and AHOD overlays, and staff recommended Denial against an 8-1 commission approval.
What to do: Obtain the staff report and the Zoning Commission minutes to learn which criteria staff cited for denial, and whether the overlay districts (military lighting and airport hazard) factored in. Frame any legal exposure as a question until the governing authority is identified in those documents.
Act before: After the next material record update
Request staff report explaining denial of single-family rezoning
Why now: Staff recommended Denial, yet the Zoning Commission carried approval 8 to 1 on 2026-09-01 with only Duewel opposed, and the case then went to City Council on 2026-10-01 where no outcome is recorded; it has appeared twice.
What to do: Obtain the Development Services staff report and ask Planning Coordinator Joel Vela why staff recommended denial of the downzoning while the Zoning Commission backed it. The gap between the two recommendations is the story, and the reasoning is not in the agenda text.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
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ZONING CASE Z-2025-10700327 (Council District 7): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "R-5 MLOD-2 MLR-2 AHOD" Residential Single-Family Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 2 Airport Hazard Overlay District to "R-3 MLOD-2 MLR-2 AHOD" Single-Family Residential Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 2 Airport Hazard Overlay District on Lot 13, Block 17, NCB 11457, located at 5050 Hemphill Drive. Staff recommends Denial. Zoning Commission recommends Approval.
ZONING CASE Z-2025-10700327 (Council District 7): A request for a change in zoning from "R-5 MLOD-2 MLR-2 AHOD" Residential Single-Family Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 2 Airport Hazard Overlay District to "R-3 MLOD-2 MLR-2 AHOD" Single-Family Residential Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 2 Airport Hazard Overlay District on Lot 13, Block 17, NCB 11457, located at 5050 Hemphill Drive. Staff recommends Denial. (Joel Vela, Planning Coordinator, 210-207-0237, [email protected], Development Services Department)
Vote: 8 for, 1 against, 2 absent
approval as presented
Heard out of agenda order under Individual Hearing, after the Combined Hearing items; staff recommended denial.