A loophole in Fulshear’s development rules allowed a controversial section of Belmont Estates to move forward with development despite unanimous opposition from the Planning and Zoning Commission and nearby residents.
The dispute centered on whether developers can count drainage easements and detention ponds toward meeting the city’s 2-acre minimum lot requirement for estate residential lots. Because the ordinance never defines whether those two acres must be buildable land, council members said they lacked legal grounds to deny the plat, even as several described the gap as a “loophole.”
“We need to strengthen (zoning laws) up because I think this is a loophole,” Mayor Pro Tem Sarah B. Johnson said…