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Owner of Honeylocust Farms seeks zoning route to allow events in light industrial areas
Summary
Owner Ron Hawkins asked Rockwall City Council to direct staff to draft a Unified Development Code text amendment allowing banquet/event facilities by specific use permit in light industrial districts; staff explained the three-step process and council indicated general support but took no formal action.
Ron Hawkins, owner of Land Art (also known as Honeylocust Farms), asked the Rockwall City Council on Jan. 5 to consider a path that would allow his property's event uses to comply with the city's Unified Development Code.
City planning staff (Ryan, speaker 12) told council the property is zoned agricultural and contains a legally nonconforming nursery; the current zoning does not allow banquet facilities in the light industrial district. Staff recommended initiating…
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