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Council OKs zoning change to allow Texas Star pharmaceutical operations after public hearing
Summary
Allen City Council adopted an ordinance amending Planned Development (PD) No. 58 to add pharmaceutical-related uses and other light manufacturing and retail flexibilities for a vacant shopping-center building; the applicant, Texas Star, plans a reported $37 million investment.
Allen City Council voted unanimously April 13 to amend the development regulations for Planned Development No. 58 (base zoning: shopping center) to allow a defined pharmaceutical manufacturing use and other related uses at a vacant building east of Central Expressway and north of Exchange Parkway.
The change adds a definition for a pharmaceutical manufacturing use and allows offices, light manufacturing (capped at 50 percent of a building's floor area for that use), retail sales, and laboratories limited to biosafety level 1. The applicant and staff told the council no exterior site improvements were proposed as part of this…
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