Allen zoning fee rejects gasoline station off Alma Drive after neighbors object

Following the objections of lots of of group members, Allen’s planning and zoning fee rejected a developer’s plans for a Murphy USA gasoline station on the intersection of Alternate Parkway and Alma Drive in a 5-1 vote on Tuesday evening.

Residents from Twin Creeks and Glendover Park got here to the fee’s assembly to oppose the gasoline station and spoke throughout public remark for over an hour. About 500 group members additionally objected to the gasoline station in a web-based petition.

Neighborhood residents stated they didn’t need the gasoline station within the neighborhood due to its proximity to 2 preschools and different space gasoline stations inside a brief driving distance. They stated they have been additionally anxious about property values lowering, environmental and public well being, and intercourse trafficking at gasoline stations.

A dentistry workplace and a Dutch Bros Espresso have been additionally pitched as a part of the denied improvement bid.

If the applicant petitions, the gasoline station might nonetheless go earlier than the Metropolis Council and be authorised with a supermajority vote, workers members stated.