{"id":29665,"date":"2025-10-31T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/29665\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:23:11","slug":"council-approves-zoning-change-for-worship-center-parking-lot-applicant-proposes-signalized-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/29665\/","title":{"rendered":"Council approves zoning change for worship center parking lot, applicant proposes signalized crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council on Oct. 28 approved zone case 2993B, changing a parcel from Neighborhood Commercial to Auto Urban Commercial to allow the Worship Center to use a newly acquired property as a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Planning staff said the request conforms to the future land\u2011use plan and noted adjacent land uses are commercial to the west and single\u2011family to the south; staff received two letters in opposition citing noise and pedestrian safety. Mountaintop Engineering\u2019s representative said the property will be used for parking and that the applicant will coordinate with traffic engineering to install a city\u2011standard signal and beacon on 80th Street; the applicant said the city would assume maintenance of the signal if the city ultimately accepts it.<\/p>\n<p>Council members asked about the process to install and accept equipment in the public right\u2011of\u2011way; staff said any signal or beacon in the right\u2011of\u2011way would require separate encroachment or dedication and formal council acceptance. The council approved the rezoning after the public hearing and applicant presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City Council on Oct. 28 approved zone case 2993B, changing a parcel from Neighborhood Commercial to Auto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-29665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665","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=29665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}