Richardson's City Council will decide Monday, Oct. 12, how tall flagpoles can be and how many flags can fly across about 1,144 acres of the city's transit-oriented Collins/Arapaho TOD & Innovation District.
The public hearing on zoning file ZF 26-18 would amend and restate, in its entirety, the planned development code for land bounded by Campbell Road, Plano Road, Apollo Road, Central Expressway and Greenville Avenue. City planners told the City Plan Commission on Sept. 15 that folding everything into one document would make the code easier to administer and use.
The commission recommended approval 7-0, and nobody spoke during public comment.
What changes for flags
The district's code now sets no flagpole height limit and no cap on the number of flags, other than allowing one corporate flag when a U.S. or state flag of equal or larger size flies with it.
The rewrite brings the district in line with flag rules the council adopted citywide on April 13 and for the Main Street/Central Expressway code on July 27, according to the staff presentation:
- Height: up to 25 feet on single-family and townhome lots, 40 feet on apartment, commercial and mixed-use property.
- Size: 25 square feet for any flag on single-family and townhome lots and 40 square feet on other property, replacing size limits that applied only to corporate flags.
- Number: commercial or mixed-use lots over 10 acres with at least two street frontages could have six flagpoles and six flags, two of them corporate. Other lots could have three, with one corporate flag allowed on commercial, mixed-use, school, church, public building and apartment sites.
- Placement: poles would have to sit at least as far from every property line as they are tall and stay out of easements. Site plan approval would be required for poles at businesses, apartments and institutions, and a permit only for poles taller than 25 feet.
Three TxDOT agreements
The consent agenda includes advance funding agreements with the Texas Department of Transportation for three projects: