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Restaurants added to approved uses in Service Station Zoning Districts
By Kenny Green, kgreen@acnpapers.com
The Mesquite City Council passed a zoning text amendment Monday, Feb. 6, to allow restaurants to be developed on tracts of land that are currently zoned for service stations.
"[This will] include restaurants on the same parcel where there are service stations," said Richard Gertson, director of community development. "This can either take place in a single building, where the parcel is not large enough, or the restaurant can be a separate building on the same parcel."
The zoning text amendment was presented to the council as the result of a planned development presented to the planning and zoning department. The company, FireBrand Properties, wants to develop a Burger King restaurant at the intersection of U.S. 80 and Beltline Road, where there is currently a 7-Eleven convenience store and a Shell gas station located.
"This will allow them to [develop] without a rezoning or re-platting of the property," Gertson said.
If the property were to have been rezoned, an existing pole sign would have to be removed and the developer did not want to have to do that, according to a staff report presented to council.
Councilman Stan Pickett asked Gertson if the council should take a look at making changes to the old zoning district.
Gertson said that Service Station Zoning Districts are really old within the city and will become obsolete when the city switches to a new unified development code.
"In a few months the unified code will make them a thing of the past," Gertson said.
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