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Commission discusses creating mixed-use highway zone to regulate truck stops
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission reviewed draft language to create a mixed-use highway zoning district and a companion truck-stop ordinance requiring site plans, traffic impact and drainage studies, lighting controls, paved surfaces and engineered driveway permits; staff will revise the drafts and return for further review.
Texarkana planning staff presented a two-ordinance approach May 13 to regulate truck stops inside city limits: one ordinance to create a mixed-use highway zone and a second to set truck-stop-specific rules on definitions, setbacks, screening and operations.
Jamie, planning staff, said the mixed-use highway zone draws lot regulations from the C-3 standard and that the truck-stop ordinance would cover operational requirements. "We've defined truck stop and tractor trailer. We said they can only be located in the mixed-use highway…
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