Title
Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider/Discuss/Act on a Specific Use Permit to Allow for Telecommunications Tower Uses, Located on the North Side of Hidden Haven Drive and Approximately 640 Feet West of Independence Parkway, and Accompanying Ordinance
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: May 3, 2022
DEPARTMENT: Development Services - Planning Department
CONTACT: Jennifer Arnold, AICP, Director of Planning
Caitlyn Strickland, Planning Manager
Kaitlin Sheffield, Planner II
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION: Staff recommends approval of the proposed specific use permit request with the following special ordinance provision(s):
1. The property shall generally develop in accordance with the attached specific use permit exhibit and all applicable development requirements of the city.
APPLICATION SUBMITTAL DATE: March 21, 2022 (Original Application)
ITEM SUMMARY: A specific use permit is being proposed to allow a telecommunications tower use located on the north side of Hidden Haven Drive and approximately 640 feet west of Independence Parkway. Specifically, the telecommunications tower is proposed to be constructed as a 80-foot monopole with a 5-foot lightening rod.
In an associated item on tonight's agenda, the City of McKinney has requested to rezone the subject property from "PD" - Planned Development District to "PD" - Planned Development District with a "GC" - Government Complex District base zoning and a telecommunications tower by a Specific Use Permit request.
As such, contemporaneously with the rezoning request, a SUP is being requested for a telecommunications tower use. As part of the specific use permit request, an exhibit has been submitted, which details the telecommunications tower location, ingress/egress points, landscaping and screening.
A similar request was conside...
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