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Olive Branch planners review zoning draft to ban smoking near parks, impose stricter rules on data centers and cut monument sign heights
Summary
The Olive Branch Planning Commission discussed a 25‑page draft zoning text that would bar commercial smoking and vaping within 500 feet of city parks, make data centers conditional uses in industrial zones with setbacks and performance standards, and lower allowed monument sign heights; staff will return revisions after attorney review.
The Olive Branch Planning Commission spent the bulk of its meeting discussing a proposed overhaul of portions of the city zoning code that would create a 500‑foot buffer around city parks for commercial smoking and vaping, subject data centers to conditional‑use permitting in industrial districts, and lower maximum monument sign heights in several commercial districts.
Staff told the commission the smoking provision is intended to protect minors and park users. “This buffer prohibition … is intended to protect public parks,” staff said, adding the rule would not apply to private residences. Commissioners asked staff to clarify whether designated employee smoking shelters at industrial or commercial sites would be exempt; staff said the…
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