The Arlington Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved a zoning change for the development of eight townhomes on roughly 0.954 acres of land at 300 W. Park Row Drive, south of West Park Row Drive and west of South Pecan.
The property currently is owned by Grace Lutheran Church, which is directly across from the site.
Fort Worth-based Housing Channel, a certified 501(c)(3) housing nonprofit organization with Community Housing Development Organizations status, has partnered with Grace Lutheran to develop the property. The church will be deeding the land to Housing Channel for the project.
The Housing Channel’s mission is to revitalize neighborhoods and increase the availability of quality, affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families.
The site is currently undeveloped but commissioners were told that from roughly 1956 to 1987, multiple structures with unknown uses were on the site.
“We’re a nonprofit with Arlington for 34 years, helping with mixed-income housing and the Arlington Homebuyer Assistance Program, which provides up to $20,000 for low- to moderate-income households to purchase a home. We also provide housing counseling and education to help create sustainable homeowners. Our business model includes development of single-family detached entities and to strengthen neighborhoods,” Housing Channel President Donna VanNess told the commission.
“As the community developer, we are in charge of developing the HOA rules and regulations, which expressly prohibit all forms of rental activity, including short-term rentals.”
Urban Planner Iván Gonzalez, president of Fort Worth-based Place Strategies, said that all the units will be owner-occupied.
“The request is going from office, commercial to residential, medium density to allow for the townhomes,” Gonzalez told the commission. “All the units will be for sale for working families, owner-occupied requirements for the townhomes, like Donna said, and act as a transition between the multifamily rental and commercial to the west and the church to the east.”
Gonzalez pointed out three things to commissioners: promoting land-use patterns that reflect a mix of integrated community uses, encouraging appropriate redevelopment and reinvestment that creates lasting value, and increasing the visual appeal within and around residential and commercial developments and along corridors.
VanNess said Housing Channel has a lot of experience with these types of developments and working with neighborhoods.
“We built 18 communities, 18 homes, and we gave them more of a traditional townhome look, and worked with the neighborhood, with the colors and the materials for that as well,” she said.
The project will go before the City Council on March 24.
Lance Murray is a freelance contributor covering business for the Arlington Report.
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