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Commission forwards DeAndrea handbook amendment to council to allow indoor animal services and financial institutions
Summary
The Sparks Planning Commission voted to forward to the City Council a recommendation to amend the DeAndrea Development Standards Handbook to permit indoor animal services and to clarify that financial institutions and ATMs are allowed in the DeAndrea commercial land‑use designation.
The Sparks Planning Commission voted unanimously to forward to the City Council a recommendation to amend the DeAndrea Development Standards Handbook to allow indoor animal services and to clarify that financial institutions and automated teller machines are permitted in the DeAndrea commercial land‑use designation.
Planner Kobe Gallano told commissioners the amendment would apply only to the two commercial shopping centers within the 861‑acre DeAndrea plan development — DeAndrea Pointe and DeAndrea Marketplace — and would not expand the commercial acreage. The proposed handbook changes add definitions that limit animal services to indoor operations for domestic…
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