Tyler residents protest zoning amendment amid flooding and privacy concerns
Tyler residents protest zoning amendment amid flooding and privacy concerns
Publish Date: 2026-03-26 00:00:00
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TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – Tyler residents living near South Broadway, on Belmead Ln. and Glenhaven Dr., spoke out against a proposed zoning site plan amendment tied to an office development, citing concerns about flooding, privacy, traffic and building height. The Tyler City Council denied the amendment during its meeting Wednesday morning.
The request involved a zoning site plan amendment for an office development planned on Lots 20 and 20A of NCB 830, two lots totaling about 1.85 acres located northwest of the intersection of Alpine Drive and South Broadway Avenue at 2801 and 2835 South Broadway Avenue.
What was proposed
According to city documents, the applicant sought to revise the layout for an office project in the city’s Planned Office District (POD), which the Unified Development Code (UDC) describes as a district intended for office-type facilities serving developing residential communities and designed as a unified development under an approved site plan.
The amended site plan proposed:
- A 6,000-square-foot office building situated near South Broadway
- A maximum building height of up to 42 feet
- Building setbacks of 10 feet along Broadway, 75 feet from the west side rear, 130 feet from the south side, and 190 feet from the north side
- A 25-foot-wide Type “B” bufferyard adjacent to single-family zoning on the south and west
- Parking lot screening and landscaping to comply with UDC standards
City planning staff noted the site was rezoned from R-1A and R-MF to POD in 2019, with an earlier site plan approved with transitional design elements intended to limit impacts on neighboring residential properties, including locating parking farther from homes and providing larger buffering. Staff said the project was not developed due to a utility line, prompting the requested revision.
Neighbors’ concerns
Residents nearby raised concerns that changes from development could worsen existing drainage issues, affect privacy along the shared property line, add traffic, and…
