Frisco, TX Historic Preservation: Historic-Cultural Monuments (2026)

03(A) creates the HL Historic Landmark District to preserve and protect areas, places, buildings, structures, works of art, and other objects having significant historical, archaeological, or cultural interests and values, with qualifying tracts designated on the zoning map with the letters HL. 03(B), permitted uses on an HL-designated tract are those of the underlying base zoning district (for example, OTC uses apply to an HL tract zoned OTC), though the City Council may permit additional uses on Planning & Zoning Commission recommendation. 03(C) gives the Planning & Zoning Commission and City Council authority, when making an HL designation, to reduce, increase, or revise the height, yard, area, coverage, and other development standards that would otherwise apply, if necessary to preserve or protect the designated property.

03(E) protects ordinary maintenance: repair or in-kind replacement of an exterior architectural feature that does not change its design or material is expressly allowed and is not restricted by the HL designation. 03(F), Demolition by Neglect, bars any owner or interested party from letting an HL property fall into serious disrepair resulting in deterioration of an exterior architectural feature that the City Council or Chief Building Official judges detrimental to the historic district's or property's character, listing deteriorated walls, roofs, chimneys, stucco or mortar, ineffective waterproofing, and hazardous conditions as examples. 17 Historic Landmark Procedures, adopted under Ordinance 2021-07-47 (July 6, 2021).