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Terrell amends zoning and smoking code to allow cigar and hookah lounges with permits

5576123 · August 6, 2025
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Summary

Council approved zoning and building-code changes that create separate, limited-use permits for cigar and hookah lounges in select commercial and downtown districts and added ventilation and separation requirements to the city’s smoking regulations.

The Terrell City Council approved two related ordinance amendments to allow cigar lounges and hookah lounges in specified commercial and downtown districts with a one‑year specific-use permit and to add building and ventilation requirements to the city smoking regulations.

Assistant municipal-development director Raelynn Smith said staff and Planning and Zoning recommended the uses be allowed by Specific Use Permit (SUP) only,…

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