LEWISVILLE
Joe Marion has withdrawn a proposal to put a business park on property he owns next to his landscaping business on Lasley Road.
Marion, the owner of Joe's Landscaping, said he has no other plans for the property now that he has withdrawn the request.
He said he withdrew the request because state and local building requirements would have made the project too costly.
Marion estimated the building requirements would have added about $500,000 to the project.
"We just felt like, ‘Hey, it ain't worth it,'" he said.
He said he was surprised to find, for example, that he would have been required to install retaining ponds to capture storm-water runoff.
He said he thought he could use the ponds already on the land for the runoff. The new ponds would have cost thousands of dollars each to build, he said.
Marion had proposed rezoning the property from residential to business to put in a business park on 35 acres.
The proposal was scheduled to be heard by the Lewisville Planning Board on June 11, but that meeting was canceled, Town Planner Marty Myers said.
It was rescheduled for July 9, but by that time Marion had withdrawn the request.
Myers said the proposal had come during planning-board work sessions and that some board members had expressed concern about rezoning the area for business.
Had the board approved the proposal, it still would have required approval by the town council. The site plan called for 11 lots on two parcels of land on either side of the landscaping business.
Marion said he was hoping for small, service-oriented businesses to go in the buildings.
"We weren't trying to put a trucking company or manufacturing plant in there," he said.
Marion said that the park was part of a long-range planning process for the land.
"It was going to be several years down the road anyway," he said.
n Paul Garber can be reached at 727-7327 or at pgarber@wsjournal.com.
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