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Planning commission backs expansion of Hamby electric substation with concrete screening

Planning and Zoning Commission, City of Mesquite · June 9, 2025
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Summary

The Mesquite Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval (7-0) of a zoning and comprehensive-plan amendment to allow Encore Electric to expand the Hamby substation at Gross Road. Staff recommended approval but commissioners raised questions about tree mitigation and drainage.

The Mesquite Planning and Zoning Commission on June 9 recommended that City Council approve an application to rezone and amend the comprehensive plan to allow an expansion of the Hamby electric substation at Gross Road.

Staff planner Tiara Clark told commissioners the roughly 2.3-acre property is currently split-zoned and that staff recommends changing its future land-use designation to "utilities" and rezoning it to PD Light Commercial to permit the substation expansion. "Staff recommends approval of the zoning change to PD Light Commercial along with the comprehensive plan amendment,"…

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