{"id":114964,"date":"2026-01-08T02:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114964\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:35:14","slug":"proposed-multifamily-clear-creek-village-draws-concerns-from-friendswood-homeowners-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114964\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed multifamily Clear Creek Village draws concerns from Friendswood homeowners, businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeveral residents attended the Jan. 5 Friendswood City Council meeting <\/a>to oppose a zoning request for roughly 29 acres of land located on the 4700 block of FM 2351. The request is to change the zoning designation from retail and industrial to mixed-use in order to build a mixed-use development with 391 residential units.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, City Council chose to postpone voting on the proposed mixed-use rezoning, citing further analysis needed on noise, traffic impacts and land-use compatibility.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

The Clear Creek Village Planned Unit Development is a mixed-use development comprising commercial, multifamily residential, shared green space and on-site detention, according to city documents. The development will include a proposed 391 residential units, which was a point of contention for nearby residents.<\/p>\n

The Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend approving the development at its Dec. 11 meeting.<\/p>\n

In order to consider the proposed zoning change, the city would need to change how the land is designated in the city\u2019s Future Land Use Map<\/a>, approved in 2021.<\/p>\n

The future land use map guides the city in making future development decisions, such as zoning ordinances, and it currently designates the land for industrial and retail use.<\/p>\n

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Public input<\/p>\n

Nick Deutch, owner of Garage Ultimate<\/a>, a garage condo storage facility that sits adjacent to the subject property, said changing the area\u2019s zoning would create problems with noise and traffic and ultimately undermine confidence in the city’s adherence to zoning plans that new businesses make decisions based upon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re being asked to usurp that whole process … usurp the 2021 process, when this council said that property should be industrial,\u201d Deutch said.<\/p>\n

Phil Raddison, a Friendswood resident, said as someone who lives in the neighborhood along Blackhawk Boulevard, he was worried about the increased traffic and drainage risks the large development could create. He also expressed concerns about the potential for an increase in service calls to the police department, citing recurring incidents in nearby apartment complexes.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just read your police report every Monday,\u201d Raddison said. \u201c… What\u2019s the amount of police this one\u2019s going to take too? We have, and we love our police, but do we want to add another area like this that will affect them?\u201d<\/p>\n

Another point of view<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Boutte, the project manager with Houston-based EHRA Engineering, who is the applicant for the zoning change, said the proposal was a compromise that, while allowing for residential development, would still deliver commercial and open space.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an area of transition,\u201d Boutte said. \u201cIt\u2019s not developed as a lot of industrial on all of our adjacent sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing concerns about the impact on traffic, Boutte said the developer would perform a traffic analysis and said it was possible that, because the development is mixed-use\u2014including commercial and residential development\u2014some multifamily residents could work in the commercial sections of the development, mitigating traffic impact.<\/p>\n

The local impact<\/p>\n

Council member Joseph Matranga noted the differences between industrial noise allowances and residential noise limits, noting that industrial areas can operate at 70 decibels while residential areas require a lower threshold.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know 70 to 58 [decibels] doesn’t sound like a big deal, but as noise levels go, that’s a pretty big deal,\u201d Matranga said. \u201c… 70 [decibels] is something like a running vacuum cleaner, and 58 is more like a quiet conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boutte said he was not aware of whether a study had been conducted to identify the barriers that would need to be addressed to ensure residential noise levels could be maintained in the development, but he would discuss looking into it with the developer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several residents attended the Jan. 5 Friendswood City Council meeting to oppose a zoning request for roughly 29…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27300,50591,50592,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-114964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-friendswood-business","tag-friendswood-city-council","tag-friendswood-government","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}