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The North Richland Hills Planning and Zoning Commission met in a work session and regular meeting on December 11, 2025. The Commission approved a Special Use Permit (SUP) for a new event center and held a public hearing on potential text amendments to the zoning ordinance regarding rear yard open space requirements, which was continued to the January 2026 meeting.
2025 planning and zoning uh commission work session to order a quorum of the planning and zoning commission is present and the meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act of the Texas government code. And now staff will discuss items on tonight's work session agenda. Something that the Keep NRH Beautiful Commission does every year. If you are out and about on Saturday at any of our area Kroger or Walmart locations within the city of North Richland Hills, I shouldn't have said area, specifically within the city. Um come by and visit uh the mayors have a challenge. Uh they compete against each other with all the different cities in the area, raising money for Salvation Army, and uh the mayor and all of his helpers, including yours truly will be out and ringing the bell on Saturday morning. Visit me at hometown Kroger at 7 a.m. if you are interested in coming out in the cold. That's a really good cause and it's a fun challenge between the cities every year. I know Mayor McCarty would like to uh win that this year. This is really just a sampling of some of the different activities. Our library is just packed full of events and activities for kids and for the family throughout the holiday season, uh especially over the Christmas break. If you need something to do to get out of the house, this is uh just one of the events going on next week on the 16th. Um, the maker spot in our NRH library. If you haven't been there, it's a really cool place for lots of crafts and activities, but they're doing a Christmas miniature Christmas tree decoration uh event made making Christmas trees out of yarn for decorations at your house. Um like I said, they have something going on almost every day. Check out the website for more information. Another really exciting thing coming up on December the 20th. We have the Scott Hamilton, uh Olympic champion, uh cancer survivor coming out to uh host an event at NITEX called Skate to Eliminate Cancer. It's a 5K uh holiday ice show and a 5k on ice. So if ice skating sounds interesting to you, or just kind of watching an Olympic champion and an ice show, definitely something to put on your radar if you haven't already checked it out. All right, when we get into the um actually, I think we have recent council action first. Sorry, I think we just messed up your script, Aaron. I'm sorry about that, but we have the recent council action. Is that normally before the before the the current um cases on the agenda tonight? So only thing I have to update you on is just the one uh zoning change that came to you last month, went to council on Monday and was approved also unanimously by the city council. That was for the zoning change for about the one-acre lot at Woodman Park and Douglas Lane. That was just a divide, really just a zoning change to allow the plat to subdivide into two about half acre lots. So that was approved at council. And we haven't had any other other meetings yet. Okay, so the items on your agenda tonight. We do have one application for an SUP. Uh that is for uh an event center to be located at 7620 Northeast Loop 820, which is just kind of on the south side of 820, west of Boulevard 26, um, right next to the current home zone furniture property. This is an exhibit to show the location of that site. It's just for that one uh specific suite there that's highlighted in the picture. Apple is proposing a kind of a private uh event center wedding venue, that sort of thing.