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McKinney’s Oct. 20 hearing concerns a 0.11-acre corner at Coleman Street. Staff support townhome zoning; the planning commission recommended denial 4–3.
Council awarded the construction contract Oct. 5, and the city says the job will take more than two years. Residents can hear the timeline and question the contractor Monday, Oct. 19, at City Hall.
The City of McKinney has released its planning passport for the period spanning October 8 through October 31.
The City of McKinney announced a drug take-back event scheduled for October 24, 2026.
Davis Rowlett Station, a 368-unit first phase of a planned mixed-use redevelopment of the Globe Life campus, asks McKinney planners on Oct. 13 to allow a metal fence and shrubs instead of a required masonry wall.
McKinney's planning commission on Oct. 13 will hold hearings on zoning three tracts totaling about 724 acres as light industrial, land the city can now annex under 2016 pre-annexation agreements.
Council on Monday approved a stopgap deal with Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1, which voters created last year and which now pays for McKinney firefighters to answer calls in unincorporated land around the city.
McKinney planners will consider a proposed minor vehicle repair use at Independence and Virginia parkways. The commission makes a recommendation before City Council takes final action.
McKinney planners are being asked to move consideration of Burger King, Popeyes and Taco Bueno proposals to Oct. 27 after a public-notice issue.
The sheriff's office says it is no longer coordinating or joining National Night Out events after commissioners voted 5-0 in August to eliminate its public information sergeant.
The John and Judy Gay Library will host an adult True Crime Book Club meeting on November 11, 2026, to discuss the book 'Yellow Bird.'
Both ordinances, adopted last October on split votes, expire Oct. 21 unless renewed; the extensions on Monday's consent agenda would keep them in force through Oct. 5, 2027.
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Water rates rose 9% and wastewater rates 11% on Oct. 1 under McKinney's new fiscal year schedule; the trash charge and drainage fee also went up.
The Tuesday morning program runs Oct. 6–27. The city guide lists a $50 member fee and $70 nonmember fee.
Commissioners may discuss and act on the item Monday afternoon in McKinney. The agenda does not establish adoption.
McKinney's transit board and City Council take up a one-year extension Monday that keeps Collin County Transit's $5 rides going after the current contract ends Dec. 31.
The Community Grants Advisory Commission recommends awards from $3,000 to $30,000, led by emergency water-bill help and security deposit aid, plus $20,000 for shelter transportation.
McKinney council will vote Monday on deals that would bring a coffee-and-bakery concession and an Enterprise rental car counter to the McKinney National Airport terminal ahead of its Nov. 11 opening.
Four county bond propositions on the Nov. 3 ballot would pay for justice facilities, road work, parks and a new elections and records center over six years.
McKinney would hire a contractor to replace 25 privately owned galvanized service lines under a voluntary program capped at $210,000, part of meeting federal lead rules.
