Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Making Written and Evidentiary Findings Relative to the Denial of a Request from Skyway Towers, LLC, to Change the Zoning on Approximately 5.3 Acres of Land from PD - Planned Development District for RS-84 Single-Family Residential Uses to PD - Planned Development District Uses with a Base Zoning of C-1 - Neighborhood Commercial District Uses Plus a Telecommunications Tower to Allow a Telecommunications Tower at the Southeast Corner of Virginia Parkway and Dogwood Trail having a street address of 2705 Virginia Parkway, McKinney, Texas; and Providing for an Effective Date
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Direction for Strategic and Economic Growth
(1C: Provide a strong city economy by facilitating a balance between industrial, commercial, residential and open space)
MEETING DATE: July 7, 2020
DEPARTMENT: Development Services - Planning Department
City Attorney's Office
CONTACT: Jennifer Arnold, AICP, Director of Planning
Kaitlin Gibbon, Planner I
Mark S. Houser, City Attorney
Alan D. Lathrom, Assistant City Attorney
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Staff recommends approval of the proposed Resolution making written and evidentiary findings relative to the City Council's denial of a request from Skyway Towers, LLC, to change the zoning on approximately 5.3 acres of land from PD - Planned Development District for RS-84 Single Family Residential Uses to PD - Planned Development District Uses with a base zoning of C-1 - Neighborhood Commercial District uses plus a telecommunications tower.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* The City Council, after a public hearing and consideration of all of the evidence provided, denied a zoning change request regarding a change in zoning that would have permitted the construction and operation of a cell tower during its meeting on June 16, 2020. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, requires a local government, when dealing with cell towers and telecommunications carriers to provide any such provider w...
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