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Irving council weighs 1,000-foot buffer for tobacco-focused retailers near schools and parks
Summary
City staff proposed a Unified Development Code amendment to prohibit retail stores whose revenue is mainly tobacco products within 1,000 feet of protected uses; council favored at minimum schools and considered adding public parks as protected uses, with existing tobacco retailers to be grandfathered as legal nonconforming uses.
Planning staff presented a proposed amendment to the Unified Development Code (UDC) that would create a new regulated use—"tobacco-related retail businesses"—and prohibit such stores within 1,000 feet of defined protected uses.
Under the draft, a tobacco-related retail business would be a retail site where 51 percent or more of sales revenues are from tobacco products. Staff said state statutes limit municipal authority to ban sales or…
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