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NEW NUMBER 6 The new Fire Station No. 6 will be built at 6801 Canyon Falls Road.
Each of the seven Flower Mound fire stations is responsible for an area of town, with construction of an eighth station also planned. The newest station, Station 7, was built in 2021.
officials will go into the design phase with those needs in mind. They’ll ensure the bay space is large enough to house the projected needed tools and equipment. Lastly, the dorm and living space will need to be larger than the current station to accommodate future and existing personnel. “In terms of aesthetics, we will do our best to make sure we match the beauty of surrounding neighbor- hoods,” Henley said about the new station. “We’re going to put great detail in that. However, I’m also very, very budget conscious. We’ll do it as financially efficiently as we can and make sure it is aesthetically pleasing to the neighborhood.” Town Manager James Childers said funding discussions and the design process have not started. In the past, the city has funded fire stations through selling bonds. He also noted that calls for fire-related emergencies have increased since 2015. “This would be the most likely funding approach for Station No. 6, but it’s still way too early to say that definitively,” he said in an email. Looking ahead Henley said when he became chief about two years ago, he performed a needs assessment to see where the department was functioning and he thought the Flower Mound Fire Department needed a strategic out- look for five to 10 years. He communi- cated his views to Childers. “With the needs analysis, we look at where are our stations, where is the future growth and what do we need to plan in terms of deployment analysis and those things,” Henley said. He said Station No. 6 was especially concerning because of its temporary nature and a need existed there to provide adequate service. The fire department has an Insur- ance Services Organization rating of
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BUILDING BIGGER The new station will be large enough to accommodate new vehicles, equipment and personnel.
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are relocated, Demmitt said. The new station is still a few years from going online. She added that when existing Fire Station No. 6 opened on Stonecrest Road in 2017—the population of the town then was 71,850, and it is now 80,000—it was always meant to reduce emergency response times in the Canyon Falls area as the town con- tinued to search for land adequate for a permanent fire station. As areas grow, the town needs to continue to provide fire suppres- sion services efficiently, Henley and Flower Mound Deputy Fire Chief Brandon Barth said. The new Station No. 6 will be designed so that fire personnel can make use of space to plan for future growth and equipment needs. Four to six people per shift will work out of the new Station No. 6 when it goes online. The building’s design will be user-friendly and prac- tical but will take comfort into consid- eration, Henley said. The new No. 6 will be larger than the temporary fire station in order to maximize town facility needs, so
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The current Station No. 6 will be a public works facility once the new Station No. 6 opens.
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Mound Ranch is around 20,000, Dem- mitt said. The existing town population is approximately 80,000 with an esti- mated buildout of 110,000. Of the remaining 30,000 people to join the town, 20,000 will be within Flower Mound Ranch and a majority of the remaining 10,000 people are antic- ipated to also be in the west side of town, based on estimates. The existing Fire Station No. 6 at Stonecrest Road will be transformed into a west-side operations and public works facility once station operations
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determine a build-out population, said Melissa Demmitt, Flower Mound’s communications director. The estimated population to the west of Whites Branch Creek is approximately 4,000. Though an exact number cannot be provided at this time, the upcoming Flower Mound Ranch housing development can build up to 9,000 units, split across single-family residential, mul- tifamily units and senior living, and the estimated population for Flower
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