The June 16 Planning & Zoning agenda has a single substantive item: a Specific Use Permit (SUP) for a new multi-tenant electronic message sign at The District at Willow Park. The Commission will hold a public hearing (Item 1) and then vote (Item 3) on a request to allow a digital pylon sign whose message changes every 8 to 10 seconds, advertising live bands and other events. The District is the Wilks Development restaurant-and-entertainment district along the Interstate 20 frontage.
The remainder is brief: approval of the April 21, 2026 Planning & Zoning minutes (Item 2), and an executive session that appears on the agenda but names no specific matter or statutory citation. Several lines of the agenda's standard language still refer to the “City Council” rather than the Commission — a carryover from the council template worth noting but not substantive.
The Commission will consider a Specific Use Permit to allow a new multi-tenant pylon sign with an electronic, “informative digital message” component for The District at Willow Park. Per the agenda, the digital message at the top of the sign would change every 8 to 10 seconds to advertise live bands and other events. The request covers an approximately 1.29-acre tract, legally described as Lot 8R1, Block B of the Crown Pointe Addition — the commercial area along the Interstate 20 frontage where The District sits.
The District at Willow Park is the open-air restaurant, retail, and entertainment development built by Fort Worth-based Wilks Development as part of its Willow Park North project. It includes a 2,000-capacity amphitheater with a concert-grade stage and hosts live music and outdoor events, which is the activity the proposed sign would advertise.
In Willow Park, an electronic or digital message sign is not permitted by right; it requires a Specific Use Permit granted after a public hearing, under Sections 14.13.001–14.13.004 of the city code. The city has handled this kind of request before: it recently processed a comparable SUP to convert Trinity Christian Academy's existing pole sign to an electronic digital message sign, using the same “informative digital message” language that appears here.
Planning & Zoning holds the public hearing (Item 1) and then votes (Item 3). A specific use permit is a zoning action, and under standard Texas zoning procedure the City Council grants it after receiving the Commission's recommendation. A favorable vote here would forward the request to Council for its own public hearing and a final decision; the Commission's action on June 16 is a step in that process rather than the last word.
Digital message signs on highway frontage commonly raise questions about brightness, the minimum hold time between message changes (here, the stated 8-to-10-second interval), and driver distraction. The Specific Use Permit is the mechanism through which the city can attach conditions on those points. The agenda itself does not include the sign's height, total area, or brightness; those specifications are in the application materials in the full packet.
The Commission will consider approval of the minutes from its April 21, 2026 meeting. This is the official record of that meeting and approval is ministerial.
The agenda includes an executive session section under Texas Government Code Chapter 551, followed by a reconvene-into-open-session line, but it does not list any specific matter or cite a particular subsection for the closed discussion. As posted, there is no stated topic to preview. If the Commission does convene in closed session, any action taken afterward must occur in open session.
The executive session and public-comment sections of this agenda state that “the City Council” will recess into closed session and that speakers must address “the City Council.” This is a Planning & Zoning Commission meeting; the references appear to be carried over from the council agenda template and do not reflect a separate council action.
