{"id":368641,"date":"2026-07-10T20:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368641\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:12:15","slug":"allen-officials-propose-amending-land-code-to-comply-with-legislative-changes-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368641\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen officials propose amending land code to comply with legislative changes | Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Allen Land Development Code<\/a> could see changes related to manufactured homes and mobile food establishments.<\/p>\n

In a 6-0 vote, the Allen Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of an update to the city’s land development code to comply with two legislative bills at a July 7 meeting.<\/p>\n

The specifics<\/p>\n

Two of the proposed code amendments are related to legislative changes, and the third is to correct a minor error, Senior Planner Nabiha Ahmed said.<\/p>\n

The first change is proposed to comply with Senate Bill 785<\/a> which was passed by the 89th Texas Legislature in 2025. The change would allow manufactured homes compliant with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development<\/a>‘s code to be developed on land zoned for agriculture and open space uses without a special use permit, per city documents.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cStaff feels that this is the most suitable district to satisfy this bill,\u201d Ahmed said.<\/p>\n

City officials are also proposing changes to comply with House Bill 2844<\/a>, which determines how municipalities can and cannot regulate mobile food establishments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city cannot issue any health permits for mobile food trucks, as well as doing any inspections,\u201d Ahmed said. \u201cEverything will be done by the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, the city can no longer require any distance requirement between a restaurant and a mobile food establishment, per city documents.<\/p>\n

The city can:<\/p>\n

Regulate land use permissions, such as not allowing a food truck in a fire lane or easementDetermine location by zoning districtRequire mobile food trucks to hold a state-issued permitThe final proposed change to the code is to correct minor errors in Allen’s Downtown District Ordinance, such as text modifications and updating photos, according to city documents.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next<\/p>\n

These updates to the city’s land code will go before Allen City Council for final action at a July 28 meeting, commission Chair Dan Metevier said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Allen Land Development Code could see changes related to manufactured homes and mobile food establishments. In a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55589,67218,130614,121817,55595,121818,130611,130613,130612,160,162,161,130610],"class_list":["post-368641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen-city-council","tag-allen-development-news","tag-allen-land-code-update","tag-allen-land-development-code","tag-allen-planning-and-zoning-commission","tag-allen-zoning-changes","tag-house-bill-2844","tag-manufactured-homes-allen","tag-mobile-food-truck-regulations-texas","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-texas-senate-bill-785"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}