The top local stories this morning from the KERA Newsroom:
An opposition group in Plano says it has enough signatures to try to repeal a controversial growth and development plan called Plano Tomorrow.
The group, which calls itself Plano Future, delivered more than 4,000 signatures to the city secretary yesterday. They want voters to decide whether the Plano Tomorrow plan should pass, not the City Council.
However, the city attorney said state law prohibits zoning ordinances from going to a referendum vote. City spokesperson Steve Stoler says the city’s development plan provides the framework and policy for zoning.
The city will discuss the petition at its next council meeting Nov. 23.
Other stories this morning:
- DART is running its first hybrid streetcar in Dallas without the signature overhead cable from start-to-finish, and other cities want to replicate it.
- Entrepreneurs are excited about a new patent office that just opened in Dallas. Lauren Silverman reports on the patent demand in Texas.
- Veterans are being remembered today in ceremonies across the country. Though many people think of male soldiers in battle fatigues when it comes to World War II veterans, 150,000 were members of the Women’s Army Corps, or WACs. We’ll hear the story of Julie LaGrone of Fort Worth, who enlisted in 1942, this evening on All Things Considered.
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