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Balcones Heights staff seeks direction on definitions for data centers and vape/cannabis/smoke shops
Summary
Staff proposed adding a definition for data centers to ease zoning placement and asked whether to separate or combine definitions for vape, smoke and cannabis-related businesses; commissioners asked for distance buffers (citing Brenham's 300-ft/1,000-ft model) and asked staff to bring comparative examples from San Antonio, Liberty Hill and Brenham.
At the March 17 Planning and Zoning meeting, the planner asked the commission for direction on amending Chapter 153, Article 1 to add or revise definitions for emerging and commercially sensitive uses, including data centers and various retail classes such as vape, smoke and cannabis-related businesses. "So we spoke out last month about data centers and having this included in our definitions just so we can make sure that once they start coming in...we have the ability to place them in specified…
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