Arlington leaders gave a developer the green light Tuesday evening to build a controversial townhome development a few hundred feet from a gas drilling zone.
City Council members voted 6-3 to rezone just under 30 acres to residential and community commercial use with a specific use permit for gas operations. Council members Mauricio Galante, Nikki Hunter and Brittney Garcia-Dumas voted no in the second and last reading of the zoning change.
The rezoning for land located at 1120 Debbie Lane and 8380 Glenn Day Drive moves forward the multifamily and restaurant development known as Yardly Loretta Day. Led by Arizona-based construction company Taylor Morrison, the plan includes building 170 townhomes…