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Council approves Lenox innovation center with conditions after heavy neighborhood opposition
Summary
Council adopted an ordinance carving a 7.5-acre portion of the Lenox campus into a new planned development that allows a research laboratory and testing facility, grants several exceptions (including reduced parking and higher FAR for the carved parcel), and adds a requirement for minimum 6-inch-caliper trees along the northern property line.
The Richardson City Council voted unanimously to approve a planned-development amendment and adopt Ordinance No. 4535 to allow Lenox to establish an innovation and testing facility at 2140 Lake Park Boulevard, while attaching conditions intended to reduce neighborhood impacts.
City staff described the request as a carve-out of a 7.5-acre portion of the Lenox campus. The applicant proposes a new two-story-plus-single-story building of about 45,000 square feet that would include administrative space and a single-story testing area with environmental test chambers. Staff said the applicant requested five exceptions to the existing special conditions that govern the tract: to list research laboratories as a permitted use consistent with modern OM (office/technical)…
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