{"id":391075,"date":"2026-07-29T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391075\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:55:08","slug":"41-townhomes-coming-soon-to-nearly-6-acre-site-in-allen-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391075\/","title":{"rendered":"41 townhomes coming soon to nearly 6-acre site in Allen | Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new townhome community is coming soon to Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Allen City Council members unanimously approved a zoning change for just under 6 acres of land<\/a> near Allen Drive, which allows for the development of a 41-townhome community, at a July 28 meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n

The gist<\/p>\n

Located east of Central Expressway and southwest of Allen Drive, the site\u2019s previous zoning allowed for shopping center uses, Senior Planner Kim Yockey said.<\/p>\n

The concept plan<\/a> for the development includes:<\/p>\n

41 townhomesA 5,000-square-foot dog parkAround 1.5 acres of open space with benchesA masonry wall and landscapingPublic parallel parking spaces along Allen DriveA 10-foot-wide trail that will connect to existing infrastructure<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

Following resident concerns, city staff realigned a driveway access along Allen Drive to allow more visibility, Community Development Director Haley Angel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis normally would have been handled further along in the development process when we start to review those engineer drawings but we decided to go ahead and take a look at it early to make sure we are proposing what is most feasible,\u201d Angel said.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s code doesn\u2019t require staff to complete a traffic analysis until a road hits a threshold of 1,000 trips per day, Director of Engineering Chris Flanigan said. The neighborhood access along Allen Drive \u201cfalls well below that threshold,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went ahead and took the extra step of counting cars out there and fully evaluating what the impact would be,\u201d Flanigan said.<\/p>\n

How we got here<\/p>\n

The Allen Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the change at its July 7 meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n

The site\u2019s unique shape makes it \u201cnot conducive to commercial uses,\u201d and having townhomes in this location would align with two of the city\u2019s comprehensive plan goals to diversify housing stock, Yockey said. In addition, the site has limited access to the frontage road along US 75, Angel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the overall shape and complicated aspects of this property, we think that it is feasible that a townhome development could still meet that overall intent of the comprehensive plan,\u201d Angel said.<\/p>\n

What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n

Mayor Chris Schulmeister said this decision aligns with the city\u2019s 2045 Comprehensive Plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that was first and foremost was about housing and varying housing alternatives and this does just that,\u201d Schulmeister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new townhome community is coming soon to Allen. Allen City Council members unanimously approved a zoning change…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55589,55590,1604,63279,137794,137795,160,162,161,137793],"class_list":["post-391075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen-city-council","tag-allen-news","tag-community-impact","tag-downtown-allen","tag-homes-for-rent-allen","tag-multifamily-housing-in-allen","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-townhomes-near-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391075","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=391075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}