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Planning commission backs hotel rules requiring meeting space, forwards definition changes to City Council
Summary
The commission approved amendments to Chapter 39 to add supplementary use requirements for hotels (including meeting space) and to split hotel definitions into full-service and limited-service categories; both items will be forwarded to City Council for final action on Jan. 27.
The Palestine Planning and Zoning Commission on Jan. 2 voted to forward two related amendments to City Council: an amendment to Chapter 39 adding supplementary use requirements for hotels and a separate amendment revising hotel definitions to distinguish "limited-service" from "full-service" hotels.
Cassie Hamm, the city's tourism manager, told the commission the revisions are intended to require meeting space in future hotel developments. "The reason we're asking for these changes is to require any future properties that develop here in Palestine to provide meeting space with their hotel development," Hamm said, adding that the changes aim to meet a local…
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