A 9.6-acre commercial strip on South Teasley Lane could make room for an oil-change or tire shop under a zoning change that Denton's Planning and Zoning Commission takes up Wednesday, Oct. 21. City planners are recommending approval.
The request from Denton West Joint Venture covers the land on the west side of Teasley Lane, also known as FM 2181, between Hunters Creek Road and East Ryan Road. It would add "Automotive Repair Shop, Minor" to the uses allowed on one undeveloped lot, labeled Lot 2D, near the Ryan Road end of the site.
The other lots in the district would keep their current limits.
Under the city code, minor auto repair covers work such as oil and lube service, tire changes and replacement, tune-ups, brake repair, detailing, paintless dent repair, window tinting, vehicle wraps and audio installation, according to the agenda information sheet.
What changed since 2023
The council created the zoning district in April 2023 to allow commercial uses common on busy arterial roads, with extra buffers, screening and a list of banned uses because neighborhoods sit nearby. Minor auto repair was on that banned list.
Planning and Zoning had first recommended denial of that 2023 rezoning on a 4-2 vote, then agreed 6-1 to reconsider it, and the council approved it 6-0.
Since then, two lots closest to Hunters Creek Road have been built out with drive-through restaurants, and a third has approved plans for a multi-tenant commercial building. A 3-acre lot north of Hunters Creek Road was pulled out of the district in May 2025 and rezoned for a new fire station.
Staff say the lot in question sits about 600 feet south of Hunters Creek Road, next to an existing fuel station and about 700 feet north of an existing minor auto repair business. Nelson Elementary, across Teasley Lane, is set back about 650 feet from the site.
The lot has only 85 feet of frontage on Ryan Road, which staff say points any development toward Teasley.
A second change was added by staff. City rules require that a business's driveway access cross only land zoned for that use, and the shop's customers would have to drive across neighboring lots where auto repair stays banned. The amendment would let every permitted use share the cross-access drives already built between the lots.
