{"id":432159,"date":"2026-09-10T21:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432159\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:54:09","slug":"commission-approves-replat-for-land-near-east-plano-church-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432159\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission approves replat for land near east Plano church | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vacant land north of Plano East Church of Christ is now considered its own lot after a planning and zoning committee meeting Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>The approved zoning replat splits a 5-acre parcel of land near Merriman Drive and Ranch Estates Drive into two lots, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plano.gov\/planning-zoning-commission-agendas#docaccess-1faa7b2d152323e92251c1a7b66616db\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">city documents<\/a>. The southern lot is the current location of Plano East Church of Christ, while the northern lot was separated with plans for it to be sold, per city documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The planning and zoning committee also approved a variance that waives a requirement for the church to construct a sidewalk on the vacant lot. Development Review Planner Ana Sutter said a sidewalk along the vacant lot would have limited connectivity because the rest of Ranch Estates Drive does not have a continuous sidewalk system.<\/p>\n<p>Sutter said a new home is planned to be built on the vacant land.<\/p>\n<p>The background<\/p>\n<p>Plano East Church of Christ was first constructed in 1984, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planoeastchurch.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">website<\/a>. The congregation started with a group of close to 30 people before growing into its current location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vacant land north of Plano East Church of Christ is now considered its own lot after a planning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[150144,708,150145,150142,79501,160,150140,162,161,150143,150141,150146],"class_list":["post-432159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-churches-in-plano","tag-east-plano","tag-empty-land-in-plano","tag-merriman-drive","tag-planning-and-zoning","tag-plano","tag-plano-east-church-of-christ","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-ranch-estates-drive","tag-replat","tag-what-is-being-constructed-next-to-plano-east-church-of-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432159","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=432159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}