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Prosper commission grants Chick‑fil‑A drive‑thru special use permit 7‑0, requiring enhanced landscaping to screen lanes
Summary
After staff recommended denial, the Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved a specific‑use permit for a drive‑thru Chick‑fil‑A at Frontier Retail Center (Zone‑24‑0021), making approval contingent on enhanced landscape screening and maintenance requirements and forwarding the item to Town Council on March 25.
The Prosper Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously (7‑0) to approve a specific‑use permit (SUP) allowing a drive‑through restaurant — a proposed Chick‑fil‑A — at the Frontier Retail Center (Revised Block A, Lots 1 and 2; 2.8 acres), despite staff's recommendation to deny the SUP for noncompliance with a 2024 zoning amendment that generally prohibits drive‑through stacking between a building and an adjacent right‑of‑way.
Staff had recommended denial because the submitted layout places drive‑through stacking lanes between the building and North Dallas Parkway; a town amendment adopted Jan. 9, 2024, includes a provision discouraging that configuration. The applicant sought an SUP to allow the alternative layout. The commission approved the SUP with a specific condition that the enhanced landscaping and…
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