Sprouts by Kenny Eliason for Unsplash
The rezoning application that could bring a Sprouts grocery store to the corner of Fort Worth Avenue and Hampton Road will likely not be voted on at tomorrow’s city council meeting.
Chad West, City Council Member for District 1, says he will request the case be pushed back to late March or, if the applicants can promise to meet an earlier deadline for a revised site plan, late February.
In a November neighborhood meeting about the rezoning application, David Preziosi of the Stevens Park Village Association represented West, and said the city hoped to have the matter settled by February 2023.
The delay is due to revisions being made to the site plan which reflect feedback that was received from a community survey at the end of 2022.
Following the survey, the land developers, Vista Property Co., were asked by city staff to design a Good Neighbor Agreement that reflected survey feedback.
However, West says legal representatives for the city advised him that enforcing an agreement can be a “gray” area, so now city staff and the developers are working to put ideas from the agreement into the rezoning PD.
In the survey, community members voiced concerns that shopping carts from the grocery store could be taken from the parking lot and left around the neighborhood. West says there will be language in the PD that requires geofencing for shopping carts to reflect this concern.
In the new site plan, neighbors can expect to see more changes that reflect community survey feedback.
West says developers are in the process of designing green space in front of the proposed restaurant on Fort Worth Avenue. The green space will be similar to the landscaping in front of CiboDivino at Sylvan Thirty.
