{"id":129613,"date":"2026-01-19T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129613\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:15:07","slug":"allen-approves-zoning-change-for-sharon-fellowship-church-of-north-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129613\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen approves zoning change for Sharon Fellowship Church of North Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharondallas.org\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPV7NdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFwQ0lia0plQmdlM1NJTXB6c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqMY9SKBYPwuqYu8o6ZHGBOb2LAEqg3Dh62WnYZh3Lh9bZzkclNkiRiUWc-q_aem_6uh0eQ-moZZE7Jm3JQQuXA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Fellowship Church of North Dallas<\/a> is moving ahead with plans for an Allen campus after Allen City Council approved a zoning amendment at a Jan. 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/actv.org\/internetchannel\/show\/4268?seekto=2183&amp;site=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The church will be located at 103 N. Fountain Gate Drive, Allen, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>The site is located within a planned development that is designated for shopping center uses, per city documents.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/library.municode.com\/tx\/allen\/codes\/land_development_code\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Allen Land Development Code<\/a> does not allow religious facilities in areas designated as shopping centers, so church representatives requested an amendment. This was presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission at a Dec. 16 meeting and was approved in a 5-1 vote, per city documents.<\/p>\n<p>There is an existing building at the site, which city documents indicate was previously a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapetite.com\/?utm_campaign=lpa_trademark&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=21861866294&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAD7N8gQjhj9L4vmpQmHhdLj5dgaRo&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAvaLLBhBFEiwAYCNTf7luO8sQC3FgTieeUDutSAHegmrdYqC99PaTaIMF-t02sMzWr9g8PBoCnnAQAvD_BwE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Petite Academy Daycare.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe applicant is not proposing to change the square footage of the building in any way,\u201d senior planner Matt Bechtlufft said.<\/p>\n<p>If church staff decide to change or remodel the space, they will need to present their request to the Technical Review Committee, Bechtlufft said.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note<\/p>\n<p>The church has an existing location in Mesquite at 940 Barnes Bridge Road, per its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharondallas.org\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPV7NdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFwQ0lia0plQmdlM1NJTXB6c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqMY9SKBYPwuqYu8o6ZHGBOb2LAEqg3Dh62WnYZh3Lh9bZzkclNkiRiUWc-q_aem_6uh0eQ-moZZE7Jm3JQQuXA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website.<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharon Fellowship Church of North Dallas is moving ahead with plans for an Allen campus after Allen City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[55589,55590,55595,51974,55591,55593,1604,102,104,103,55594,55596,55592],"class_list":["post-129613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-allen-city-council","tag-allen-news","tag-allen-planning-and-zoning-commission","tag-allen-texas","tag-churches-in-allen","tag-churches-near-mckinney","tag-community-impact","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-new-businesses-in-allen","tag-senior-planner-matt-bechtlufft","tag-sharon-fellowship-church-of-north-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129613","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=129613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}