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McKinney council allows First Baptist warming station to open earlier, raises occupancy to 75 with precipitation trigger
Summary
The City Council approved a temporary-use modification allowing First Baptist Church’s emergency warming station to activate at a higher wind‑chill threshold, increase its occupant limit to 75 and use precipitation as an additional trigger.
The McKinney City Council on Jan. 21 approved a change to a temporary-use permit that lets First Baptist Church operate its emergency overnight warming station when forecast conditions show a wind chill of 39 degrees and raised the facility’s occupant limit from 40 to 75, adding precipitation as an activation trigger.
City planning staffer Suzanne (last name not specified in the record) told council that the Unified Development Code currently allows warming stations to activate when ambient temperature drops below 32 degrees. First Baptist requested replacing that ambient threshold with a forecasted wind chill of 39 degrees and increasing the allowed occupant load to 75 for its…
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