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Garland council adopts code amendment defining commercial drone delivery hubs with FAA-aligned thresholds
Summary
The Garland City Council unanimously approved a development-code amendment creating definitions, setbacks and placement rules for commercial drone delivery hubs, aligning weight thresholds with FAA guidance and reserving airborne operations to federal oversight.
The Garland City Council on April 1 approved an amendment to the Garland Development Code that defines and regulates commercial drone delivery hubs, creating separate rules for “large” and “small” hubs and setting land-use buffers tied to takeoff weight.
City planning staff said the amendment adds two uses — “commercial drone delivery hub, large” and “commercial drone delivery hub, small” — and a supplemental “drone staging area” definition to clarify how ground operations will be regulated. “For the large, it’s the takeoff weight of 55 55 pounds or over. For the small 1, it’s, under 55 pounds. And that threshold, 55 pounds, come, comes from Federal Aviation Administration, FAA,” staff said during the council…
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