{"id":201895,"date":"2026-03-12T20:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/201895\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:44:14","slug":"city-adopts-master-plan-rezones-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/201895\/","title":{"rendered":"City adopts Master Plan, rezones neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a rare joint meeting, the Murphy City Council and Planning &amp; Zoning (P&amp;Z) Commission adopted a zoning Master Plan for the city and rezoned a residential neighborhood for commercial use.<br \/>The comprehensive plan updated a document last drafted in 2008.<br \/>Also at the Tuesday, March 10, meeting, council and P&amp;Z each heard public comments before rezoning a 3.2-acre tract on the southeast corner of North Murphy Road and Betsy Lane from townhomes to neighborhood services, allowing light commercial and retail development.<br \/>Assistant City Manager Jared Mayfield said the new zoning reversed zoning in place since November 2021 and was in compliance with the new comprehensive plan.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, stay informed and support your local community newspaper, subscribe to the<a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Murphy-Monitor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Murphy Monitor.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a rare joint meeting, the Murphy City Council and Planning &amp; Zoning (P&amp;Z) Commission adopted a zoning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-201895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201895","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=201895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}