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Proposition A lost by about 9,400 votes in unofficial returns. City leaders say the arena financing plan must be reassessed, and the Stars point to a legislative project finance zone.
Plano's council on Nov. 9 holds a hearing on splitting $72,743 in Justice Assistance Grant money with McKinney, Frisco and the sheriff, and considers giving Plano ISD a decommissioned ambulance.
Planners voted 7-0 to let a shopping center lease more space to shops and services. Staff backs part of the change but says the extra square footage runs against the comprehensive plan.
A Nov. 9 consent item would end a decades-old ground lease on 2.81 acres at K Avenue and 15th Place. The city would get a one-time payment but give up $67,678 a year in lease income.
The Planning & Zoning Commission holds a public hearing Monday on routine updates to two sections of the comprehensive plan. Staff says commissioners' questions about data centers will wait for next year's land use review.
Staff recommends ending the zoning impact table with no replacement. Commissioners who wanted an alternative will weigh a questionnaire that applicants would fill out in their own words.
Work on the courthouse expansion and a new garage started Oct. 30 on the building's west and north sides. The east elevated lot, with about 180 public spaces, closes Monday, Nov. 9, the county says.
Proposition A, labeled a tax increase, would allow car rental, parking, ticket, player and hotel taxes to pay for an arena near The Shops at Willow Bend. Fourteen of Plano's Election Day sites were not early-voting locations.
An ordinance on the Nov. 9 council agenda would bar parking on both sides of the residential loop from 8:25 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on school days after a neighbor reported students parking in front of homes.
Plano Fire-Rescue wants to keep Life Scan Wellness Centers, its exam provider since 2017. The City Council takes up the award Nov. 9; the fire department says the exams have caught cancer and heart problems early.
Planners voted 7-0 for the overhaul, which staff says strips out content-based rules after two U.S. Supreme Court rulings. It also limits lit signs facing homes and moves temporary-sign rules into the zoning code.
City staff recommend CORE Construction as construction manager for a 33,000-square-foot academy with an indoor tactical village, replacing the 21,904-square-foot building at 4921 14th St.
Of 45 Plano ISD students accepted to present at the Texas Junior Academy of Science in College Station, four won first place in their categories, and those winners are invited to a national conference in Chicago in February.
County check-in reports count 329,412 in-person early voters through Thursday plus 8,353 returned mail ballots, as Republicans and Democrats read the Texas early vote in opposite ways.
The volunteer-run group lost about 2,000 square feet at the mall as redevelopment nears and has stopped hunting for a new gallery, its president told Plano Magazine. North Texas Performing Arts is moving to West 15th Street.
Meadows Baptist Church is the applicant for a 13.3-acre subdivision north of Merriman Drive. The Nov. 2 agenda also has a gas station at Spring Creek and Parkwood and updates to two pillars of the comprehensive plan.
Families can hear about Academy High School at a 6:30 p.m. session tonight and about the Virtual Academy online Thursday. A districtwide academy webinar follows Nov. 4, and applications are due at 5 p.m. Nov. 10.
Victory Green Plano got more than $980,000 of its money from the Dallas Stars, campaign finance records show. The Stop the Stars Arena committee has spent about $5,800 against Proposition A.
Trustees take up the interlocal deal Friday, along with a one-year agreement to book arrests at the Collin County jail at $171.18 a day, a rate that has nearly tripled since 2022.
Daytime U.S. 75 work between LBJ and Plano Parkway runs through Friday, and a Wednesday overnight job closes three lanes of eastbound Bush Turnpike between Independence Parkway and Custer Road.
The marked SUVs replace aging patrol, traffic and neighborhood officer vehicles. The 5 p.m. preliminary session also lists an update on streambank erosion and a discussion of the Plano Aquatic Center.
